Amidst all the drama at the EPA, we’re still trying to do science.

Buying reagents has been prohibitively difficult, but on the bright side, we finally got some new supplies today! That we ordered on April 30….

Most of this is focusing fluid for our flow cytometer, nothing costly or unusual

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Not pictured: the small shout and large flinch when this spider—inevitably—jumped on me.

#jumpingspider #macrophotography 🧪

Whenever I move somewhere new, for some reason, people love to tell me about how bad their allergy season is.

I do think North Carolina takes the cake though. Footprints and tire tracks in pollen is a whole new level.

This weekend I went out in search of some fun things to look at on my microscope and found some flowers that I thought would be cute.

And they are cute, but even better, they were COVERED in aphids. Probably not great for the plants, but a very fun surprise for me.

#microscopemondays #microscopy 🧪

The wildflowers around my apartment are quickly becoming my favorite microscope muses

🧪 #microscopemondays #microscopy

This week I had been planning to attend the @sotoxicology.bsky.social annual meeting for the first time. However, DOGE had other plans.

But the science-sharing must go on! So here is my poster plus a thread with some details of what I’ve been doing.

#2025SOT

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The flowers have started blooming in North Carolina, including this teeny one I’ve seen popping up all over the place.

🧪 #microscopemondays #microscopy

Pine needles are much prettier than I realized

#MicroscopyMonday #microscopemondays #sciart #microscopy 🧪

Dandelions: basically tiny, fancy bouquets if you zoom in enough.

#MicroscopyMonday
#MicroscopeMondays

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Made some signs tonight to get ready to #standupforscience

🧪 @standupforscience.bsky.social

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The underside of this little fungus looks like a mini coral, which apparently means it’s toothed?

Found growing on a log in North Carolina.

I’m not sure what it is—any mycologists out there recognize it?

#Fungi #Mycology #Nature #MicroWorld #microscopemondays

When you definitely should have thrown out the bouquet last week… but the fungi got a head start on decomposition.

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#MicroscopeMondays
#MicroscopyMonday

Some worm wiggles for your Monday morning

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A little ciliate from a stream near my house.

If you look closely you can see the cilia beating along its body so that it can swim

#microscopemondays #microscopymonday 🧪

The sphagnum moss from our Venus fly trap has some (very brief) Dune-style worm riding by a little mite

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Today I looked at a leaf I grabbed off of one of the plants in my apartment

I know there are microscopes out there in the world with much better resolution, but this little thing does a pretty good job

I asked for a microscope for Christmas so why not share some of what I’ve been looking at? 🧪

Suggestions for future things to image are very welcome

#microscopemondays

Hello, little friend.

#invertebrates #macrophotography

Excited to see my PhD research featured on the cover of Current Biology - and it's an extra bonus to see it paired with a photo I took. These little frogs have been a central part of my life for the past six years, so it’s great to see them get some cover time.

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