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TJ Porri
@tjporri.bsky.social
· Nov 19
An intro! I’m TJ. I help people to do science. Currently, I do that by taking X-ray images and non-clinical CT scans of whatever they want to see inside of. Animals, plants, computer parts, fossils, and food are all fair game.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about flow cytometry, here is your chance! Both in person and remote options available Aug. 27. events.cornell.edu/event/introd...
Introduction to Flow Cytometry - Biotechnology Resource Center Seminar Series
events.cornell.edu
August 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about flow cytometry, here is your chance! Both in person and remote options available Aug. 27. events.cornell.edu/event/introd...
Doesn’t everyone start their day by saying “hooray, my snake penises have arrived!”?
June 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Doesn’t everyone start their day by saying “hooray, my snake penises have arrived!”?
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For #MicroscopyMonday, a 100M year-old 🦟 in amber! Lots of familiar #NESM faces up in Acadia for the #LSFM25 at the MDI @mdibiolab.bsky.social !
🔬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM
🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection
🥼&🎥: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social
@lsfm-na.bsky.social
🔬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM
🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection
🥼&🎥: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social
@lsfm-na.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
For #MicroscopyMonday, a 100M year-old 🦟 in amber! Lots of familiar #NESM faces up in Acadia for the #LSFM25 at the MDI @mdibiolab.bsky.social !
🔬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM
🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection
🥼&🎥: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social
@lsfm-na.bsky.social
🔬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM
🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection
🥼&🎥: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social
@lsfm-na.bsky.social
Pareidolia fun at work: The researcher and I saw two different faces in this slice of tomato. Either it’s a cyclops with two eyebrows, or it has a funny shaped nose.
June 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Pareidolia fun at work: The researcher and I saw two different faces in this slice of tomato. Either it’s a cyclops with two eyebrows, or it has a funny shaped nose.
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We love a goofy, bucktoothed, and smiling parrotfish in Coral City 😁🏳️⚧️🦜🐟 #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #bucktooth #goofy #smile #protogynoushermaphrodite #supermale #terminalphase #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
June 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We love a goofy, bucktoothed, and smiling parrotfish in Coral City 😁🏳️⚧️🦜🐟 #stripedparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #bucktooth #goofy #smile #protogynoushermaphrodite #supermale #terminalphase #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
The Cornell Chronicle has been absolutely killing it lately sharing stories of research funding that has been rescinded without notice. Pediatric heart pumps, tick borne disease tests, military nutrition, and cybersecurity projects. What is next?
news.cornell.edu/categories/r...
news.cornell.edu/categories/r...
Research at risk | Cornell Chronicle
news.cornell.edu
June 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The Cornell Chronicle has been absolutely killing it lately sharing stories of research funding that has been rescinded without notice. Pediatric heart pumps, tick borne disease tests, military nutrition, and cybersecurity projects. What is next?
news.cornell.edu/categories/r...
news.cornell.edu/categories/r...
My department is hosting a seminar on "Advancing multiomics for biomarker discovery: From cell-free RNA transcriptomics to spatial profiling" on Wednesday. In Ithaca and want to learn more? Sign up here: takarabio.com/register-3
June 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
My department is hosting a seminar on "Advancing multiomics for biomarker discovery: From cell-free RNA transcriptomics to spatial profiling" on Wednesday. In Ithaca and want to learn more? Sign up here: takarabio.com/register-3
I’m sitting outside, eating my lunch and listening to American Prometheus, which is chock full of little anecdotes about people whose names are attached to units or equations I’ve used. To wit, a very peripheral name got mentioned and I’m literally facing a building with that name on it.
May 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’m sitting outside, eating my lunch and listening to American Prometheus, which is chock full of little anecdotes about people whose names are attached to units or equations I’ve used. To wit, a very peripheral name got mentioned and I’m literally facing a building with that name on it.
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If National snail day is not sufficient for your snail curiosity, don't worry we will have many more snails in our mollusk exhibit at PRI's Museum of the Earth, opening next week #NationalSnailDay 🐌🦑
Teaser for the Marine snail diversity case, arranged by feeding ecology. 1 side is all predators
Teaser for the Marine snail diversity case, arranged by feeding ecology. 1 side is all predators
May 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If National snail day is not sufficient for your snail curiosity, don't worry we will have many more snails in our mollusk exhibit at PRI's Museum of the Earth, opening next week #NationalSnailDay 🐌🦑
Teaser for the Marine snail diversity case, arranged by feeding ecology. 1 side is all predators
Teaser for the Marine snail diversity case, arranged by feeding ecology. 1 side is all predators
This has always been my explanation of why I’m not a professor. If I want 3 full time jobs, y’all better pay me for three full time jobs.
IMHO one reason being a professor is stressful (and professors are constantly late and absent-minded) is that it's not just one job, it's three or four jobs in a trenchcoat.
Plowed away the past few days catching up on research stuff and now I'm even more behind on email and admin 😢
It never ends
Plowed away the past few days catching up on research stuff and now I'm even more behind on email and admin 😢
It never ends
May 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This has always been my explanation of why I’m not a professor. If I want 3 full time jobs, y’all better pay me for three full time jobs.
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Several studies in our lab involve chemically cleared brains. Finally took the time to have a photo shoot, so I can show in presentations. The cleared brain shines brightly ✨ under natural light.
May 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Several studies in our lab involve chemically cleared brains. Finally took the time to have a photo shoot, so I can show in presentations. The cleared brain shines brightly ✨ under natural light.
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Alcian blue staining of cartilage in a two-headed zebrafish embryo. Credit to @jakeleyhr.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
May 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Alcian blue staining of cartilage in a two-headed zebrafish embryo. Credit to @jakeleyhr.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
On the topic of “tactile representations of CT scans”, this makes me think LOTS of thoughts:
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May 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On the topic of “tactile representations of CT scans”, this makes me think LOTS of thoughts:
www.amazon.com/iCubeSmart-E...
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And that's a wrap on our NoCTURN 2025 meeting at the @amnh.org 🎉🎉 I'm brimming with pride at all the things we've been able to achieve! Just the most marvelous community (who knows how to have a good time). Look at all the things we did (much more still to come 😉): nocturnetwork.org
May 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
And that's a wrap on our NoCTURN 2025 meeting at the @amnh.org 🎉🎉 I'm brimming with pride at all the things we've been able to achieve! Just the most marvelous community (who knows how to have a good time). Look at all the things we did (much more still to come 😉): nocturnetwork.org
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All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.
May 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
All 4 of my NIH research grants are terminated. These were grants on MDR-TB treatment & strategies for supporting adolescents living w/ HIV. This is a massive waste of resources. I am heartbroken for my Harvard team, my partners in Peru, the next generation of scientists & our country. Shame.
It’s time for the @nocturnetwork.bsky.social meeting! Thanks to @palaeonomad.bsky.social for distributing these adorable mementos of our unofficial mascot.
May 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It’s time for the @nocturnetwork.bsky.social meeting! Thanks to @palaeonomad.bsky.social for distributing these adorable mementos of our unofficial mascot.
A great workshop with @jaimiagray.bsky.social on using Slicer. I’ve been hoping to start supporting this software for our users, and this was a good kick to get me going!
May 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A great workshop with @jaimiagray.bsky.social on using Slicer. I’ve been hoping to start supporting this software for our users, and this was a good kick to get me going!
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OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
Several years ago, I planted asparagus, to uninspiring results. Gave up on the vegetable garden. Yesterday, this. You never know what effort will someday bear fruit.
May 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Several years ago, I planted asparagus, to uninspiring results. Gave up on the vegetable garden. Yesterday, this. You never know what effort will someday bear fruit.
Hey, not every CT scan I share needs to be deadly serious…
Day 11 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils, hoping he saves the Paleontological Research Institution
Habemus cochleās!
"Hat" is a CT section of modern Mitra mitra, John is H. sapiens, fossil is Amphiscapha subrugosus PRI 70111
#wehavesnails #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth
Habemus cochleās!
"Hat" is a CT section of modern Mitra mitra, John is H. sapiens, fossil is Amphiscapha subrugosus PRI 70111
#wehavesnails #savePRI #MuseumoftheEarth
May 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Hey, not every CT scan I share needs to be deadly serious…
About to attempt to turn digital CT data into a real world object. Step one: make many cubes.
May 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
About to attempt to turn digital CT data into a real world object. Step one: make many cubes.
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We microCT-scanned the young black bear cub we shared here last week. Undergrad Grace Vance's dissection was perfect so it's worth sharing here & eventually on MorphoSource. We had scanned the adult male skull years ago so for fun I recreated a digital version of the photo I had posted.🐻
May 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
We microCT-scanned the young black bear cub we shared here last week. Undergrad Grace Vance's dissection was perfect so it's worth sharing here & eventually on MorphoSource. We had scanned the adult male skull years ago so for fun I recreated a digital version of the photo I had posted.🐻