Sara McArdle
@saramcardle.bsky.social
Staff Scientist at the La Jolla Institute Microscopy and Histology Facility. I love cat videos and microscopy images and I believe that Matlab is better than Python :)
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Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)
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California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
October 30, 2025 at 6:49 PM
California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections.
Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.
Took my daughter to one of the San Diego No Kings rallies, because even she knows that you have to stand up and say No to bullies.
October 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Took my daughter to one of the San Diego No Kings rallies, because even she knows that you have to stand up and say No to bullies.
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Wouldn’t it be cool if this photo of Obama receiving his Noble Peace Prize went viral today? 🔄
October 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Wouldn’t it be cool if this photo of Obama receiving his Noble Peace Prize went viral today? 🔄
I'm thrilled to share that our work studying microglia morphological changes in early Alzheimer's in mice is up!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Unmasking Early Microglial Remodeling in an Alzheimer's Disease Mouse Model
Early neuroimmune remodeling is a critical yet understudied component of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. To investigate microglial contributions to AD development prior to overt plaque depositi...
www.biorxiv.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm thrilled to share that our work studying microglia morphological changes in early Alzheimer's in mice is up!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
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September 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Happy Fluorescence Friday!
Rainbow Z projection of lymph node follicular dendritic cells.
Rainbow Z projection of lymph node follicular dendritic cells.
September 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Happy Fluorescence Friday!
Rainbow Z projection of lymph node follicular dendritic cells.
Rainbow Z projection of lymph node follicular dendritic cells.
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Who say what now?!! BLUEY THE MOVIE?!! #bluey #myChildWillBeTooOldButIllStillGo
www.bluey.tv/blog/date-an...
www.bluey.tv/blog/date-an...
two cartoon animals hugging each other with the word seduff on the bottom right
ALT: two cartoon animals hugging each other with the word seduff on the bottom right
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September 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Who say what now?!! BLUEY THE MOVIE?!! #bluey #myChildWillBeTooOldButIllStillGo
www.bluey.tv/blog/date-an...
www.bluey.tv/blog/date-an...
I got this in my head and I couldn't focus on work until it existed.
Microscopy image file alignment chart, based on how I feel if you give me an image to analyze:
Microscopy image file alignment chart, based on how I feel if you give me an image to analyze:
August 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I got this in my head and I couldn't focus on work until it existed.
Microscopy image file alignment chart, based on how I feel if you give me an image to analyze:
Microscopy image file alignment chart, based on how I feel if you give me an image to analyze:
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Ready to automate your #microscopy #imageanalysis tasks? Applications are now open for our next "Introduction to Image Analysis" training course, in London at the @crick.ac.uk on October 27th-28th, 2025! 🔬💻
More info ⬇️
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/int...
More info ⬇️
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/int...
Introduction to image analysis
www.crick.ac.uk
August 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Ready to automate your #microscopy #imageanalysis tasks? Applications are now open for our next "Introduction to Image Analysis" training course, in London at the @crick.ac.uk on October 27th-28th, 2025! 🔬💻
More info ⬇️
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/int...
More info ⬇️
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/int...
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It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA.
The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US.
We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.
The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US.
We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.
June 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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It's not that we might lose our jobs. It's that all of it will disappear or mutate beyond recognition. I worry we're not talking or thinking enough about this deeper sadness hiding behind our immediate anxieties and it's this heaviness that has us all at a breaking point.
May 15, 2025 at 2:35 AM
It's not that we might lose our jobs. It's that all of it will disappear or mutate beyond recognition. I worry we're not talking or thinking enough about this deeper sadness hiding behind our immediate anxieties and it's this heaviness that has us all at a breaking point.
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Cleansing the timeline with video from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
May 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Cleansing the timeline with video from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
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🚀 Tired of manual image analysis or scared of scripting?
Our self-paced “ImageJ Macro Scripting for Automatic Image Analysis” course makes automation easy—no coding experience needed!
Start from scratch & build pro-level macros.
www.biovoxxel.de/individual-w...
#ImageJ #MacroScripting
Our self-paced “ImageJ Macro Scripting for Automatic Image Analysis” course makes automation easy—no coding experience needed!
Start from scratch & build pro-level macros.
www.biovoxxel.de/individual-w...
#ImageJ #MacroScripting
April 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🚀 Tired of manual image analysis or scared of scripting?
Our self-paced “ImageJ Macro Scripting for Automatic Image Analysis” course makes automation easy—no coding experience needed!
Start from scratch & build pro-level macros.
www.biovoxxel.de/individual-w...
#ImageJ #MacroScripting
Our self-paced “ImageJ Macro Scripting for Automatic Image Analysis” course makes automation easy—no coding experience needed!
Start from scratch & build pro-level macros.
www.biovoxxel.de/individual-w...
#ImageJ #MacroScripting
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Bioimaging and bioimage analysis friends, some help if you have 2-3 mins; for a paper, we're trying to estimate the number of biologists trained in open source software or tools in the last ~5 years. (1/2) #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bioimaging and bioimage analysis friends, some help if you have 2-3 mins; for a paper, we're trying to estimate the number of biologists trained in open source software or tools in the last ~5 years. (1/2) #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis
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WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
April 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.
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Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.
April 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.
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If you train people in ImageJ, Fiji, whatever, even if it isn't your day job, please let us know, and please share this post! Thanks a ton, we really appreciate it. (2/2) forms.gle/C8dUpg8qZkbD... #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis
Open Source Bioimage Analysis Training Survey
We are attempting for a publication to estimate the number of biologists who have attended a tutorial or training course in open source bioimage analysis (especially user friendly tools, but anything ...
forms.gle
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If you train people in ImageJ, Fiji, whatever, even if it isn't your day job, please let us know, and please share this post! Thanks a ton, we really appreciate it. (2/2) forms.gle/C8dUpg8qZkbD... #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis
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We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
Everyone knows about the time Sen Cory Booker literally rescued a woman from a burning building, right? And helped a freezing dog and shoveled snow for disabled constituents? There's a reason we called him Super Mayor!
April 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Everyone knows about the time Sen Cory Booker literally rescued a woman from a burning building, right? And helped a freezing dog and shoveled snow for disabled constituents? There's a reason we called him Super Mayor!
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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The actions by Columbia University- first asking police to come violently end student protest, and now allowing students to be illegally arrested and threatened with deportation for exercising their first amendment rights- make me embarrassed to be an alum.
SWC condemns the ICE/DHS raids on Columbia's campus. We call on President Armstrong to protect international students from immigration enforcement and reinstate Columbia as a sanctuary campus.
Statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Statement: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
![On Saturday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian recent Columbia graduate and lead negotiator for last spring’s Gaza solidarity encampment. Khalil held a green card at the time of his arrest and remains in detention as thousands petition for his immediate release. We are also aware of multiple reports of ICE agents accessing or attempting to access Columbia campus buildings on Friday and Saturday, including undergraduate dorms.
The presence of immigration enforcement agents in Columbia Housing buildings coincides with Columbia’s publication of a new protocol which reverses the school’s sanctuary campus status and states that “exigent circumstances may allow [ICE] access to University buildings or people without a warrant.” Columbia has abandoned its nearly decade-long commitment to being a sanctuary campus. This development also closely follows the Department of Justice’s announcement on the same day that it plans to cancel $400 million of grants and contracts with Columbia in retaliation for students protesting Columbia’s investments in Israel.
By allowing ICE on campus, Columbia is surrendering to the Trump administration’s assault on universities across the country and sacrificing international students to protect its finances. We call on faculty, staff, postdocs, students, and all other workers at Columbia University to stand against the administration’s cooperation with the Trump administration.
Student Workers of Columbia (UAW Local 2710), whose unit includes many international student workers, demands that President Armstrong reinstate Columbia as a sanctuary campus; refuse to provide information to immigration authorities investigating Columbia affiliates; order Public Safety and private contractors to cease surveillance of Columbia affiliates; destroy all existing records of such surveillance; conduct “know your rights” trainings;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qq4uw7ij66zuq77swvhuaufm/bafkreigzc5tnqdd6baxyddimac332lroicvehs5dp6oylnkyfk7vbnjk2y@jpeg)
March 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The actions by Columbia University- first asking police to come violently end student protest, and now allowing students to be illegally arrested and threatened with deportation for exercising their first amendment rights- make me embarrassed to be an alum.