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🍁 Bryan Heit, PhD 🍁
@bryanheit.bsky.social
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Canadian immunologist who looks at host-pathogen interactions, cardiovascular disease & how they intersect. Also a big 🔬, 🔭 & 3D printing nerd. I ❤️ 🧀,🐝, 🍺 & 🐐.

Same username on threads. He/him.

www.phagocytes.ca
www.micrographiauwo.ca
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We had a great fall crash course on fluorescence microscopy. Thank you to all our participants and instructors.
Group photo of our participants and instructors.
November 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Day 1 of the Fall Crash Course on Fluorescence Microscopy is nearly done. We've had a great start, lots of questions, and are ramping up for tomorrow! #microscopy #fluorescence
Josh, showing that not all fluorescent proteins are created equal. Thank you to the Microscopical Society of Canada for sponsoring this year's course. www.msc-smc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Registration closes Friday at noon! Are you in South-Western Ontario and interested in fluorescence microscopy? If so, we are offering a 2-day course on designing, implementing and analysing microscopy experiments. Visit our website for more information: micrographiauwo.ca/cc2025/ #microscopy
Poster advertising the fall crash course on fluorescence microscopy. Text reads: This immersive two-day course will give participants a solid foundation in fluorescence microscopy, including core principles of experimental design, sample preparation, and analysis. Through hands-on activities and expert instruction, trainees will acquire the skills needed to design and execute quantitative microscopy-based experiments across diverse sample types and imaging platforms. Designed for both novice and experienced microscopists, the course emphasizes common techniques and instruments—ensuring easy translation to real-world projects. Whether you're just starting out or looking to sharpen your expertise, this course offers a practical and transferable approach to mastering microscopy. Limited free registration are available for MSC student members or those part of MSC student chapters, and travel scholarships are available for students >100 km from Western University.
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Are you in South-Western Ontario and interested in fluorescence microscopy? If so, check out our upcoming 2-day course on planning, designing, implementing and analysing quantitative microscopy experiments. Visit our website for more information: micrographiauwo.ca/cc2025/ #microscopy #fluorescence
Poster advertising the fall crash course on fluorescence microscopy. Text reads: This immersive two-day course will give participants a solid foundation in fluorescence microscopy, including core principles of experimental design, sample preparation, and analysis. Through hands-on activities and expert instruction, trainees will acquire the skills needed to design and execute quantitative microscopy-based experiments across diverse sample types and imaging platforms. Designed for both novice and experienced microscopists, the course emphasizes common techniques and instruments—ensuring easy translation to real-world projects. Whether you're just starting out or looking to sharpen your expertise, this course offers a practical and transferable approach to mastering microscopy. Limited free registration are available for MSC student members or those part of MSC student chapters, and travel scholarships are available for students >100 km from Western University.
October 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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✅ Mullet
✅ Skates
✅ Padding
✅ Uniform (slightly big)
✅ New stick

Time for some 🏒

(also, it's 33°C today for some reason)
Three kids in yellow uniforms, two in white, playing hockey
October 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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#Micorscopy community, does anyone know where I can order this type of bottle from? Or even what the proper name is for them?
Small amber glass vial with lid with a glass applicator rod.
October 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Score! 🍄
A good sized puffball mushroom I found in the pasture.
September 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Time to get this long weekend started!
Beer, fire, music
August 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Also, my parents bought by 10y/o the best drinking game ever
A semi-safe axe-throwing game.
July 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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I'm two days into my holiday. Made a new (turtle) friend, saw a big boat, and saved my soul by drinking some beer.
A snapping turtle A large blue boat going under the Bluewater bridge between Sarnia Canada and Port Huron USA. A stein of (very good) homebrewed German lager, in front of a wood-fired pizza oven. The stein says in German (poorly translated by me): Those who drink beer sleep well, Those who sleep well commit no sins, Those who commit no sins go to heaven.
July 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The algorithm provides (though a waterbear, not a panda bear)
Screen shot showing the OP with the next post showing a photo of a tardigrade 3d printed using glow in the dark filament. The tardigrade is wearing a brimmed hat and sunglasses.
July 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Me: trying to enjoy a cup of coffee and a book on a Sunday morning.

My #cat:
A black cat, staring at me with full-on crazy eyes, digging in the crack between the couch cushions, with his butt up in the air. Miraculously, his tail is covering his rectum (which is 100% an exception to how this has played out so far).
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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We had a great #garlic harvest this year!
A large amount of hardneck garlic with the greens still attached, arrayed in a metal rack for drying
July 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Coffee, a novel, and a bit of shade - pretty much a perfect interlude for today's brewday (brew kettles in the back).
An outdoor patio set with a cup of coffee and a couple of eReaders on the table. In the background is a patio umbrella and an electric brewing rig
June 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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The backyard pizza oven is one of my favorite things. But today may not have been the right day to cook in front of an open fire. #pizza #heatwave
A caramelized onion and chevre pizza in a wood-fired oven Weather forecast. Currently feels like 46C (~115F). Slice of caramelized onions and chevre pizza next to a slice of pesto, onion, and bell pepper pizza (with fresh basil)
June 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Not a bad way to end the week. #prost
Sitting on a deck next to a pond, slightly cloudy skies above. I'm holding a glass of cider.
June 21, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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These spider babies are getting more use out of our outdoor dinette set then we are 🕷️🕸️
June 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Day 2 of this great meeting.
Welcome slide to the 2025 Microscopy Society of Canada.
June 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Some homebrewing fun - opening a sour beer that I carbonated a little more than is normal. #homebrewing #sourbeer
May 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I have seen things 👀

...I have seen...my optometrist.
My eyes, highly dilated, thanks to the drop used by my optometrist.
May 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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LOL, you appear to be involved in vet work. "Healthcare" 😂
Healthcare is going to the dogs.
May 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Never swim without a lifeguard present.
Baby ducks swimming in a corner tub, with a black cat standing on the edge, watching them.
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Babies are growing up fast!
May 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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No, you can't come into the duck run.
A brown goat (Jerry) and a speckled goat (Link) trying to force their heads through a tiny duck door.
May 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Attention all @westernu.bsky.social microscopists. We're offering a 3-afternoon series on the main computational approaches needed for analyzing micrographs. Deconvolution, segmentation, and colocalization will be explored in-depth, alongside hands-on tutorials. Session are FREE but space is limited
Micrographia@Western is excited to announce our next educational series, the Spring Computational Microscopy Sessions! These afternoon tutorials, running May 6, 7, and 8, will teach you three core skills needed to perform the majority of image analysis tasks – deconvolution, segmentation, and colocalization. Each session is a stand-alone session, so you can pick and choose which sessions you attend. All three sessions are free, but space is limited, so you must sign up for each session you wish to attend. There are no prerequisites for these sessions, but to get the most out of them you will need to bring a laptop to each session, and you will need to install some free software prior to the sessions. A short description of each day’s module, and signup links, can be found at https://micrographiauwo.ca/scms2025/
April 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM