Dr Michelle @Drosmel@qoto.org

Dang-what a difference buffer makes! Left is a 'complex' purified with my standard buffer for purifications, right is a buffer someone else uses, total protein stain here.

Wow wow wow.

Edit: solved, thank you! (See follow-up)

My 23 yo nephew Eric will be studying industrial engineering in Delft (NL) from 1st February until end of June 2026. He is looking for a room or shared apartment to rent near town or university, an undertaking which appears to be quite difficult. He speaks fluent English & German, is learning Dutch, and is very neat and polite (or I'd have kicked his butt) and reliable. He's also quite a decent cook; just saying!

Boosts greatly appreciated.

Come be my colleague at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. We're hiring an assistant professor in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling. 🌊

Career Opportunities at the Un...

At the spacebar.

#DadJoke #DadJokes

Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission, is one of my heroes. She had to work twice as hard for everything, and did so much.

The Austrian government did not open the universities to women until 1901, when she was 23. They had only opened high schools to women in 1899, but luckily her father had hired a tutor to prepare her for the university before it opened, so she was ready to enter as soon as they let her in.

She decided to work on physics thanks in part to the enthralling lectures and friendly encouragement of Ludwig Boltzmann. After getting her doctorate in 1906, she went to Berlin to work with Max Planck. At first she found his lectures dry and a bit disappointing compared to Boltzmann's, but she soon saw his ideas were every bit as exciting, and came to respect him immensely.

In Berlin she also began collaborating with Otto Hahn, a young chemist who was working on radioactivity. Since women were not allowed in the chemistry institute - supposedly because their hair might catch fire - she had to perform her experiments in the basement for two years until this policy was ended. Even then, she did not receive any pay at all until 1911! But gradually her official status improved, and by 1926 she became the first woman physics professor in Germany.

Meitner was one of those rare physicists gifted both in theory and experiment; her physics expertise meshed well with the analytical chemistry skills of Hahn, and as a team they identified at least nine new radioisotopes. The most famous of these was the element protactinium, which they discovered and named in 1918. This was the long-sought "mother of actinium".

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I have two open positions in my lab at the Advanced Light Microscopy Unit Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG):

- Imaging Scientist (permanent position. Deadline 11th Nov.) https://recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs/position/imaging-scientists-advanced-light-microscopy-unit-almu

- Entry-Level Imaging Scientist (12 months fixed-term position. Deadline 18th Nov.) https://recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs/position/entry-level-imaging-scientist-advanced-light-microscopy-unit-almu

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out.

Boosts appreciated.

#getfedihired #fedihire #jobSearch #jobposting #Microscopy #Optics #ImageAnalysis

Mayor Doots would like to inform you that sometimes the best thing you can donate to a food bank is money, as they know what they need on a day-to-day basis and can respond accordingly.

Happy Dootsday!

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Dootsday #DootsToots #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #CatsOfPixelfed #Catstodon #Cats #Cat #LynxPointSiamese

October 27, 1930, birthday of American mathematician and computer programmer Gladys Mae West.
She created an accurate model of the Earth's shape, and her work on satellite geodesic modelling laid the foundations for GPS technology 🛰️🌐

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_West

🔎 Check out MetaGraph – a powerful search engine for DNA, RNA and protein sequences in large public repositories. This important milestone in computational genomics was published in Nature, by SIB scientists at ETH Zurich. https://www.sib.swiss/news/a-fast-accurate-sequence-search-engine

It's that time of the month... free #GameDev assets from Unreal Engine time!

Get 3 FREE #UnrealEngine assets on Fab from Oct 7th - 21st (can be exported to other engines like #GodotEngine we demo). Yours free forever once claimed.

https://gamefromscratch.com/unreal-engine-fab-october-2025-asset-giveaway-oct-7th-21st/

A sad day with the passing of John Gurdon - inspired and inspirational.
https://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/nobel-laureate-professor-sir-john-gurdon-dies-aged-92/

Less than a month left for early-career researchers to apply for a funded place at our Workshop on Revisiting Metabolic Fundamentals, organised by Lydia Finley and Wilhelm Palm.

Apply by 24 October.

https://biologists.com/workshops/april-2026/

#BiologistsWorkshops #Biology #Workshop #Metabolism #Enzymes #Organelles #Cells #Physiology #Development #Metabolites

OK #BlackMastodon, #MuseumTech, #DigitalHumanities and #BlackHistory enthusiasts - I've got a special ask!

I'm doing some research on ways of communicating trans-Atlantic histories of the African diaspora and would dearly love more feedback and thoughts.

Basically you'll be asked to compare two layouts for content from museum and archive collections -

If you're up for it, please start here: https://forms.gle/AUGUvyne6pyVLkS2A

And of course do share :)

I just have to post this #iceage masterpiece from time to time: A tiny (3.7 cm) but amazing figurine of a woolly mammoth carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago.

Found in the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian Jura, south-west Germany.

📷 me

#archaeology

Inside of a Leica SP8, on its way to be revived by SP5 parts.