@histotx.bsky.social
I teach clinical and anatomic pathology lab sciences. Scientist, not a physician. I teach all the cool lab diagnosis stuff from medical TV shows that physicians wish they did. Veteran. 3rd-generation Mexican-American. I try to listen more than I speak.
I've already come up with a protargol alternative using gelatin and expired silver nitrate. I wonder if I could modify this to make a neural stain. 🤔
It's TRUE!!
One of these days I will shoot film once again! Nice to know there's a less-toxic way to develop it, and it gives you results with a nice vintage vibe to boot!
One of these days I will shoot film once again! Nice to know there's a less-toxic way to develop it, and it gives you results with a nice vintage vibe to boot!
August 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I've already come up with a protargol alternative using gelatin and expired silver nitrate. I wonder if I could modify this to make a neural stain. 🤔
Freida Carson had a degree in home economics from a women's college in Texas. The skills she learned allowed her to revolutionize cancer diagnostics and literally write the book on laboratory techniques in cancer research and diagnosis. Every pathologist and oncologist alive owes something to her.
my similar boomer opinion is that i think “home economics” or whatever the equivalent is ought to be mandatory for students in middle and high school.
boomer opinion i have is that there are way more young adults out there who legit don’t know how to take care of themselves in very basic ways than we’d probably be comfortable with knowing
July 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Freida Carson had a degree in home economics from a women's college in Texas. The skills she learned allowed her to revolutionize cancer diagnostics and literally write the book on laboratory techniques in cancer research and diagnosis. Every pathologist and oncologist alive owes something to her.
I live in Central Texas, and have for a long time. First, flooding isn't unusual. The ground is clay. Rain doesn't soak in like it does in other places. We build for it. July flooding is unusual. Second, people do die in floods, mostly because they drive through floodwater. This is different. 1/2
July 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I live in Central Texas, and have for a long time. First, flooding isn't unusual. The ground is clay. Rain doesn't soak in like it does in other places. We build for it. July flooding is unusual. Second, people do die in floods, mostly because they drive through floodwater. This is different. 1/2
It is insane. And it's where I live. If I know my mayor, she won't let this stand. I'm just like him. Germany. Ft. Lewis. My parents are citizens. Just like him. I'm a 15-year Army veteran, drill sergeant, and professor. My mother is Mexican. Deport me. It'll be fun to use all the legal insurance.
This. Is. Insane.
Read this, please.
Read this, please.
Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base.
This man has no citizenship now.
This man has no citizenship now.
June 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
It is insane. And it's where I live. If I know my mayor, she won't let this stand. I'm just like him. Germany. Ft. Lewis. My parents are citizens. Just like him. I'm a 15-year Army veteran, drill sergeant, and professor. My mother is Mexican. Deport me. It'll be fun to use all the legal insurance.
"Benign" is a beautiful word to anyone that ever had a biopsy. It's a beautiful sight for us too. This stain was done by students learning to do special stains for pathology diagnosis.
June 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"Benign" is a beautiful word to anyone that ever had a biopsy. It's a beautiful sight for us too. This stain was done by students learning to do special stains for pathology diagnosis.
I do in fact have my own biopsy lab. However, I still can't diagnose prostate cancer because that requires 12 yrs of education to read the slides properly. I teach how to turn a biopsy into data. Pathologists read the data. The idea that one person can diagnose this without a whole hospital is 🤪
May 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I do in fact have my own biopsy lab. However, I still can't diagnose prostate cancer because that requires 12 yrs of education to read the slides properly. I teach how to turn a biopsy into data. Pathologists read the data. The idea that one person can diagnose this without a whole hospital is 🤪
I just had the most surreal experience. Veterans will understand, and I'll explain for non-veterans.
I just got a call saying my CIF turn-in was never completed 10 years ago, and I need to fix it. We all joked about it, but it actually happened. 1/3
I just got a call saying my CIF turn-in was never completed 10 years ago, and I need to fix it. We all joked about it, but it actually happened. 1/3
March 20, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I just had the most surreal experience. Veterans will understand, and I'll explain for non-veterans.
I just got a call saying my CIF turn-in was never completed 10 years ago, and I need to fix it. We all joked about it, but it actually happened. 1/3
I just got a call saying my CIF turn-in was never completed 10 years ago, and I need to fix it. We all joked about it, but it actually happened. 1/3
When I took over as director of my lab, I put up disposal instructions over every sink. I asked the chem chair to review it just in case. He had a couple of recommendations, but said it looked good.
6 minutes later, he knocked on my door and asked "Did I see picric acid on the list? Can I see it?"
6 minutes later, he knocked on my door and asked "Did I see picric acid on the list? Can I see it?"
We were in organic chemistry lab when a police officer walked through and said "get out".
Then a fireman walked through the same way and said, "he's not kidding. Get out of the building.".
We left.
The entire building was shut down over a gallon sized bottle of picric acid that had crystalized.
Then a fireman walked through the same way and said, "he's not kidding. Get out of the building.".
We left.
The entire building was shut down over a gallon sized bottle of picric acid that had crystalized.
As an undergrad lab tech, I was assigned to do a chemical inventory, long overdue, for my biochemistry PI.
And that's when I found a vial of picric acid from the 1970's and got to meet the university's bomb squad.
Let's talk about picric acid & why it sends shivers down the spines of chemists.
And that's when I found a vial of picric acid from the 1970's and got to meet the university's bomb squad.
Let's talk about picric acid & why it sends shivers down the spines of chemists.
March 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
When I took over as director of my lab, I put up disposal instructions over every sink. I asked the chem chair to review it just in case. He had a couple of recommendations, but said it looked good.
6 minutes later, he knocked on my door and asked "Did I see picric acid on the list? Can I see it?"
6 minutes later, he knocked on my door and asked "Did I see picric acid on the list? Can I see it?"
The point was so obvious, I have a profile picture of myself grilling while wearing cargo shorts, and I know nothing about that show was about Drake.
Public Enemy would have been more subtle.
Public Enemy would have been more subtle.
"Of course he performed 'Not Like Us.'" Here's our music critic's review of Kendrick Lamar's headline performance at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show.
Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: The Peak of All Rap Battles?
The first rapper to headline the N.F.L.’s biggest stage solo made his Drake diss “Not Like Us” the centerpiece of his set at the expense of a larger statement.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The point was so obvious, I have a profile picture of myself grilling while wearing cargo shorts, and I know nothing about that show was about Drake.
Public Enemy would have been more subtle.
Public Enemy would have been more subtle.