when you and your friend @dnamystrom.bsky.social both win awards from @ascbiology.bsky.social MBoC you celebrate with hot pot and nails that match your shirt 😍💅

I’ll say that yesterday wasn’t necessarily the happiest birthday I’ve ever had, but I love the solidarity from my friends and @uaw4811.bsky.social

Thank you UAW and thank you to the person that captured this photo of my sign at the rally ❤️

I'm ready to stand up for science and make jokes at @mbeisen.bsky.social's expense at the same time with these buttons 😈

learning about biology at the San Diego zoo before #cellbio2024

missing a few people, but @wallaceucsf.bsky.social lab is best lab 🧬🔬

black glasses, CCC shirt, khakis, mtn dew (SO gross), joy for science... Where is Wallace?
@wallaceucsf.bsky.social

barney 🥰

watercolor shark!

New trend alert! You saw it here first!

Introducing: emotional support lab Lego!

SO CUTE! Hahaha

We also include example assignments to get students acquainted with their scopes. (1) Measuring the diameter of human hair and (2) determining the resolution of their scopes.

(8/n)

Here’s a diagram of the microscope build. In total, this will run you about $20-30 depending on where you sources parts from. SO CHEAP, much wow! Because of pandemic, this course has been taught in person and virtually.

(7/n)

We (and students from the course!) have developed a pipeline to capture and threshold images, find contours, and classify ‘objects’ by area. By objects, I mean some of my personal favorite weird protists (STENTOR!) among other cool organisms.

(6/n)

As an IRACDA postdoc at UCSF, I am very honored to have had the opportunity to co-teach this course alongside Drs. Ray Esquerra and Mark Chan. In the first couple of weeks students build a lensless holographic microscope and learn coding before their independent projects.

(5/n)

Before I get into the details, here’s a sneak peek of the lensless holographic microscope we describe. This my own personal microscope built in preparation for teaching this course. Scissors for scale.

(2/n)

Sometimes I just need to take a nice image of Stentor to feel better. Take a look at this macronucleus!

It’s wild to know that the transparent circle looking nodes are connected by thin strands that contain DNA and who knows what else…

While I love sharing science and Stentor, maybe my first post here should be a photo of Barney?