Andrew Kennard @askennard@qoto.org

Addgene is stopping all activity on Twitter/X

https://blog.addgene.org/addgene-is-stopping-use-of-x

In December I asked for suggestions of papers for a course I teach. Thank you to those who responded.

Here is the full list for anyone interested. It's a selection of twenty or so cool papers in biology from last year. I'll find out this afternoon which one(s) the students have picked for their coursework!

https://quantixed.org/2024/01/08/papers-for-md9a8-2024-edition/

The right is using asymmetrical shame warfare against the left. Trump has taught Republicans to never be ashamed of anything they’ve done, no matter how heinous or indefensible their actions. Democrats, OTOH, still have consciences. So Republicans can hound somebody like Claudine Gay out of her job, knowing that the same attack will not work against their own. They will repeat this playbook as long as it keeps working.

Preprint claxon! Very happy to present a story in a very cool population of neurons that #zebrafish have in the spinal cord: the Rohon-Beard neurons (TLDR: They don’t die!) #DevBio #PhDChat #PostdocLife #Neuroscience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.19.572352v1

Game-changing idea: #Target/ #Walmart/ #Amazon should adjust their wedding/baby registries to be able to load 3rd-party registry lists.

Example: Newlyweds moving in together? You probably will do a bad job building your own registry, and so start with one you find on a blog/etc. This way you'll be sure to register for things like furniture sliders that you probably wouldn't think of ahead of time.

how to make supported lipid bilayers to study acto-myosin dynamics...now in motion pictures 😀
https://www.jove.com/v/63968

FYI

My first first-author preprint is out on the BioArchive! It's about my development work for cryo electron tomography in napari, my plugin `blik` and the surrounding libraries: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.05.570263v1

If you want to know how the #COP28 UN Climate Change Conference is going, this post says it all...

In 2022 and 2023 we published articles highlighting different opinions on the collection of whole animal specimens for #museums: https://plos.io/3jV8I1Z and https://plos.io/3NSTx9x

Now, the debate continues... https://plos.io/3uqI3m5 and https://plos.io/47wYlJ2

Fantastic MattersMicrobial podcast with Mark O. Martin and @vscooper discussing the “EvolvingSTEM” curriculum. Students evolve Pseudomonas fluorescens by transferring beads each day, witnessing visible divergence of plated colonies over the course of a week.

Podcast: https://youtu.be/p8tdy_xg-ng?si=HItc50yKHRkjOpaG
EvovlingSTEM: https://evolvingstem.org/how-it-works/

Happy Caturday!!

May you find a fuzzy shelf right next to the hot air vent on a chilly Caturday.

#Caturday

Firefox is officially and directly fucking with Google and I am here for it!

I drew this in 2020, posted it on the birdsite, and it went viral (at least by my standards!), earning me 250 new followers.

It shows how much battery various stars would have left if they had battery indicators like phones do. #MastoArt

Fantastic new resource for #microbiology and #protist enthusiasts from @pjkeelinglab

This #PLOSBiology Essay has freely available technical diagrams, thumbnails and an illustrated tree to highlight the diversity of microbial life.

https://plos.io/47r5ev8

Openly available #illustrations as tools to describe #eukaryotic #microbial #diversity

Beautiful and extremely useful #open #resource from Yana Eglit and @pjkeelinglab depicting eukaryotic microbes in exquisite detail.

Aren’t they lovely? Which is your favorite?
@PLOSBiology
#LoveMicrobiology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002395

I am actively recruiting students for my lab at UMass Dartmouth!

Are you interested in a project on actin, amoebae, cell migration, and/or pathogenesis? Send me an email & apply to the Integrative Biology PhD program by Jan 15!

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More info: https://katrinavelle.wixsite.com/science

@soliman I'm not a big fan of CC-BY-ND (attribution, no derivatives) licenses, but that's one of the options when you submit a paper to biorxiv. As I understand it, if you submit with an ND license, then @biorxivpreprint must ask for your permission to create those summaries.

And as it's data linked to your name, there's a possibility it falls under the right to rectification/erasure of GDPR for people who log in from the EU.