I went to a super bloom in Joshua tree as a postdoc, great memories!! Getting up early and driving with my friends, listening to CDs and eating Japanese eggs sandwiches my friend Taka made for breakfast as the sun came up while on the road.
Dunno, if someone constantly submits articles to a journal and never accepts review invites, it seems like they aren't doing their share. Esp for society journals.
We noticed something interesting (and frustrating) this winter because we had a number of cold spells here in Florida - when humidity drops, the food in our cages loses moisture and therefore weight, artificially increasing our food consumption measures. Curious if anyone else has noticed this?
True about recommending acceptance.
I do think that interacting positively or negatively with editors can influence a later decision about whether to send something out for review or not.
They are human after all.
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Is anyone looking for a highly talented research assistant?
One of my students, Duy Manh Nguyen, will be graduating in May'26 with a dual degree in Biological Chemistry & Statistics and 6+ years of research experience (wet lab, genomics, clinical).
His dream is to pursue an MD/PhD.
Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
1/n
Does anyone have experience overwintering baby lemon trees inside? I have questions
Classic!
Wow. I'm sorry that's happened to you and your colleagues.
This has not happened to me.
Although I did have one student suggest that I was using the student assignments to come up with ideas for my research.
I legit laughed in his face.
Since I moved to @mrclmb.bsky.social I’ve been trying to answer this: Why are some mammals active at night and others in the day? Today our answer is out @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
If you’re interested in circadian biology, evolution or how timing shapes physiology, take a look
A calendar labeled march with some funky cute birds on it.
For my March calendar, I picked a dark blue background and some birds pictures I bought on Etsy.
A set of three mini calendars. January has all but one day crossed out and a green foil star. February has all days crossed out and a gold foil star. March has one day crossed out and no stars.
Write every day, February mission accomplished!
Managed to write* at least 30 minutes every workday. Mostly on a pair of manuscripts, one in revision, one to go out this month.
*write in my definition includes making figures
Seattle is the first city in the nation to test a new type of bike lane barrier made from recycled tires!
Reminds me of the old rate my professor entries. Male profs who are terrible teachers were invariably described as 'He's clearly a brilliant scientist but he's a terrible lecturer.'
At least based on publications and grant success, these guys were invariably not brilliant scientists either.
Logo for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). It shows a the letter UDN is different colors that overlap to form the analogous colors.
Today is #RareDiseaseDay & we are celebrating by highlighting the invaluable work of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN)! Formed in 2020, it aims to solve the most challenging medical mysteries using advanced technologies. In this thread, we will highlight their use of the #zebrafish model. 1/5 🧪
UCLA had a faculty club which was an upscale dining option on campus only available to faculty and their guests. But that’s basically, we’re in Westwood LA, dining options for visitors are either college grub or LA overpriced slop.
Faculty clubs are absolutely not lactation rooms.
I’ve only been to the ’women’s’ faculty club at Berkeley which is what you ate probably thinking about. It’s been an event space since 1995 when I started grad school and probably before.
I think I recall a ‘faculty’ lounge as a door that you could only get into from inside the women’s restrooms at my undergrad and postdoc institutions that I peeped into. They had a couch and a counter and a sink. I realize now they were lactation rooms before they had a name for it.
Not for long if you read the papers.
You can always revert to an old version of chimera.
I initially thought this string of posts about fact depletion was political.
An office thermostat set at 70 reading 78.
Another round of damn, I'm feeling feverish, am I getting sick?
Nope, my office is trying to kill me.
damnit.
I’m so behind the times I’ve got to replace innovative and transformative with cutting edge.
Congrats @lizconibear.bsky.social!!
Gorgeous work as always!
Dziurdzik, Sridhar, Conibear et al. identify a conserved adaptor that recruits BLTP2-like proteins to ER–plasma membrane contacts by binding helical projections on their lipid transfer channel to maintain #lipid homeostasis. rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#MembraneContactSites #ER_literature
I use a combo of ImageJ and illustrator normally for my figures so I'm not sure of where to start with photoshop.
A screen grab of a photoshop image with blue green and red panels and then a layers menu with file names of micrograph images
🧪Science Photoshop question.
I have some Photoshop files from a collaborator, and I would like to change the color scheme of micrographs. Is there a simple way to do this without the source image files?
The micrographs are embedded as layers.
Business profs.
