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Stephen Holtz
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Neuroscience and biophysics of touch and hearing @ Harvard medical school in the Wilson lab.

Ephys, optics, 2P Ca++/live imaging, biophysical models, Bayesian stats, EM, and Drosophila tools.
Devastating freeze at Harvard
March 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
March 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Stay strong everyone. Penguins were my first biology love. I feel privileged as a basic science researcher, and hope the many kinds of value we bring to the country is recognized and defended.
February 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
pampleopolitan: smooth, slightly grapefruit-ified cosmopolitan, because sometimes you just need a pink cocktail.

1.5 oz vodka
1 oz cranberry juice
0.75 oz orange liqueur
0.5 oz grapefruit liqueur
0.5 oz lime juice
0.5 oz simple syrup
December 29, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Was thinking this wouldn’t start until January
December 13, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Had a final look for a vibe check--and oh that felt nice
December 1, 2024 at 4:07 PM
And bake :) happy thanksgiving everyone! (The one on the right was made with chorizo 🌶️)
November 28, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Step 5: mix it all together in a comically large bowl, and put it back in the Dutch oven.
November 28, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Step 4: make liquid for the stuffing with a dry sherry deglaze, butter and rich vegetable stock (reduced an amount I can never keep track of).
November 28, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Step 3: make the rest of the filling by softening onions, adding celery, garlic, pine nuts, diced dates, thyme, chile de arbol, and deribbed lacinato kale. Massaging and/or cooking it a bit makes the texture nicer at the end.
November 28, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Step two: brown some Italian sausage meat, or, the light life sausage if you want to be vegetarian (but pat it together into balls with oil unless you want to be scraping for days)
November 28, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Step one of sourdough stuffing: torn and toasted with evoo
November 28, 2024 at 12:21 AM
That is a fantastic idea. My aunt gave me this book one year. The premise is basically just that what you actually have is an underused panini press
November 27, 2024 at 9:33 PM
“Large boulder the size of small boulder” has been echoing in my head
November 27, 2024 at 6:53 PM
I love little rugged pieces of hardware.

We share a fiber laser with internal power modulation between two rigs, and had a digital switch for gating which microscope could send analog commands... but this doesn't blip/flip when the computer turns off. And it looks cool.
November 22, 2024 at 8:25 PM