Peter Carlton
@carltonlab.org
From Seattle USA, now in Hieidaira, Japan. Researching meiosis @ Kyoto University. he/him. シアトル生まれ、比叡平（滋賀県大津市）に住む。京都大学・生命科学研究科の准教授。研究テーマは線虫の減数分裂
Orcid: 0000-0002-5320-6024
HP: https://www.carltonlab.org
Orcid: 0000-0002-5320-6024
HP: https://www.carltonlab.org
My daughter keeps practicing "Sur le Pont d'Avignon" on the piano and each time I think of
December 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
My daughter keeps practicing "Sur le Pont d'Avignon" on the piano and each time I think of
YES, just like a good friend said about toddlers once, If you're not training them, they're training you.
My major problem with autocomplete is that the model will almost invariably suggest something different, often subtly, than what I intend.
If I am lazy and hit tab. Whether I notice or not, that is the model training ME. And that is, to me, unacceptable.
If I am lazy and hit tab. Whether I notice or not, that is the model training ME. And that is, to me, unacceptable.
December 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
YES, just like a good friend said about toddlers once, If you're not training them, they're training you.
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My major problem with autocomplete is that the model will almost invariably suggest something different, often subtly, than what I intend.
If I am lazy and hit tab. Whether I notice or not, that is the model training ME. And that is, to me, unacceptable.
If I am lazy and hit tab. Whether I notice or not, that is the model training ME. And that is, to me, unacceptable.
December 21, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My major problem with autocomplete is that the model will almost invariably suggest something different, often subtly, than what I intend.
If I am lazy and hit tab. Whether I notice or not, that is the model training ME. And that is, to me, unacceptable.
If I am lazy and hit tab. Whether I notice or not, that is the model training ME. And that is, to me, unacceptable.
Is anyone else having Alphafold server jobs fail a lot lately ("stuck in PENDING for over 24 hours" or other error) and seeing the message "Current estimated wait time for new jobs submitted is up to 6 hours" on the submission page? Wondering if it's just me or a general issue.
December 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Is anyone else having Alphafold server jobs fail a lot lately ("stuck in PENDING for over 24 hours" or other error) and seeing the message "Current estimated wait time for new jobs submitted is up to 6 hours" on the submission page? Wondering if it's just me or a general issue.
Long spider! Longer than you think!
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Long spider! Longer than you think!
Hey #tibetan scholars,
I came across དུའང་ just now, transliterated as "du'ang", which has fairly unsettled me… can anyone explain what it means (loanword? exceptional case?)་…my studies have not prepared me for this syllable!
I came across དུའང་ just now, transliterated as "du'ang", which has fairly unsettled me… can anyone explain what it means (loanword? exceptional case?)་…my studies have not prepared me for this syllable!
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Hey #tibetan scholars,
I came across དུའང་ just now, transliterated as "du'ang", which has fairly unsettled me… can anyone explain what it means (loanword? exceptional case?)་…my studies have not prepared me for this syllable!
I came across དུའང་ just now, transliterated as "du'ang", which has fairly unsettled me… can anyone explain what it means (loanword? exceptional case?)་…my studies have not prepared me for this syllable!
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Chromosome Dynamics 2026 @ Awaji Japan www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/labs/fukagaw...
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Chromosome Dynamics 2026 @ Awaji Japan www.fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp/labs/fukagaw...
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Know the difference.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Know the difference.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
zooming in on some nictating dauers of an unknown (likely Auanema) species
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
zooming in on some nictating dauers of an unknown (likely Auanema) species
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New preprint! We unexpectedly discovered that some Caenorhabditis species delete parts of their somatic genome early in development, which fragments their chromosomes and eliminates key germline genes. Multiple lines of evidence suggest this bizarre process was present in the ancestors of C. elegans
October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
New preprint! We unexpectedly discovered that some Caenorhabditis species delete parts of their somatic genome early in development, which fragments their chromosomes and eliminates key germline genes. Multiple lines of evidence suggest this bizarre process was present in the ancestors of C. elegans
Dauer larvae of an unidentified, Auanema-like nematode found with a dead beetle (they're nictating on its foreleg making a ghoulish phantom hand)
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Dauer larvae of an unidentified, Auanema-like nematode found with a dead beetle (they're nictating on its foreleg making a ghoulish phantom hand)
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Janelia is hosting a course on DL for bioimage analysis www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis
Topics The following will be covered extensively during lectures, exercises, and project work: Image denoising and restoration (fully supervised and self-supervised) Image translation (e.g.,
www.janelia.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Janelia is hosting a course on DL for bioimage analysis www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
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Team led by Tomoya Kitajima designed protein-based artificial #kinetochores to act as decoys to reduce bipolar microtubule pulling forces on chromosomes in aged mouse #oocytes, preventing premature #ChromosomeSegregation during meiosis I & II.
In @natcellbio.nature.com
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doi.org/10.1038/s415...
In @natcellbio.nature.com
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doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Designing protein-based artificial kinetochores as decoys to prevent meiotic errors in oocytes - Nature Cell Biology
Zhou et al. design protein-based artificial kinetochore constructs as decoys to prevent premature chromosomal separation in aged oocytes. These constructs compete with chromosomal kinetochores, reduci...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Team led by Tomoya Kitajima designed protein-based artificial #kinetochores to act as decoys to reduce bipolar microtubule pulling forces on chromosomes in aged mouse #oocytes, preventing premature #ChromosomeSegregation during meiosis I & II.
In @natcellbio.nature.com
👇
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
In @natcellbio.nature.com
👇
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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I'd only dabbled with napari, but needed to use it for a paper we're writing. This is a quick post about getting started: from installation to a folder full of thousands of processed images, with gotchas along the way.
quantixed.org/2025/11/04/a...
quantixed.org/2025/11/04/a...
Adventures in Code VII: getting started with napari – quantixed
quantixed.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I'd only dabbled with napari, but needed to use it for a paper we're writing. This is a quick post about getting started: from installation to a folder full of thousands of processed images, with gotchas along the way.
quantixed.org/2025/11/04/a...
quantixed.org/2025/11/04/a...
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If you're not living in the US and you're doing science related things please wave, my feed is suffocating and I need news from the rest of the world
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
If you're not living in the US and you're doing science related things please wave, my feed is suffocating and I need news from the rest of the world
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What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.
October 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
What a gem from @dudinlab.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social in Cell! Expansion microscopy atlas of >200 eukaryotes comparing cytoskeletal architectures revealing structures not seen before. Stunning visualisation! Exactly the kind of transformative cell biology we need.
Zohran Mamdani looked at a clock and said he knew it was 6pm, and in fact it was 6pm, but he didn't _know_ that; he merely had a justified true belief that it was 6pm, since in fact the clock had stopped that morning at 6am.
October 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Zohran Mamdani looked at a clock and said he knew it was 6pm, and in fact it was 6pm, but he didn't _know_ that; he merely had a justified true belief that it was 6pm, since in fact the clock had stopped that morning at 6am.
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It was such an honor for me to work with awesome colleagues Needhi Bhalla and JoAnn Trejo on this important piece 👇
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It was such an honor for me to work with awesome colleagues Needhi Bhalla and JoAnn Trejo on this important piece 👇
I ran down to Kyoto from the hills yesterday and was rewarded with the sight of a Chestnut Tiger · Parantica sita · アサギマダラ floating through the KU campus
October 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I ran down to Kyoto from the hills yesterday and was rewarded with the sight of a Chestnut Tiger · Parantica sita · アサギマダラ floating through the KU campus
Life was not that different in 1666
October 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Life was not that different in 1666
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The Skagit River is my new favorite river. It's a beautiful, diverse, glacial watershed. All 5 North American salmon species, steelhead, coastal cutthroat, bull trout, & dolly varden are all native & extant. It's an salmonid paradise that aptly means "place of sanctuary" in native Lushootseed. 🐟
October 5, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The Skagit River is my new favorite river. It's a beautiful, diverse, glacial watershed. All 5 North American salmon species, steelhead, coastal cutthroat, bull trout, & dolly varden are all native & extant. It's an salmonid paradise that aptly means "place of sanctuary" in native Lushootseed. 🐟
Took a late afternoon hike through the woods down to Kyoto with the kids today — I couldn't manage to focus well but there was absolutely a persistent, full-color rainbow streaking through this (ジョロウグモ) spiderweb! About 3 in the afternoon with the sun already getting low.
October 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Took a late afternoon hike through the woods down to Kyoto with the kids today — I couldn't manage to focus well but there was absolutely a persistent, full-color rainbow streaking through this (ジョロウグモ) spiderweb! About 3 in the afternoon with the sun already getting low.
Watching the game this way is no less suspenseful
October 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Watching the game this way is no less suspenseful