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Nicole F. Wong
@strontiumpup.bsky.social
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Patcher of neurons

ORCID: 0000-0002-1596-8669
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Our resident artist hard-at-work drawing dinosaurs for @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social
Grad student Rommy Sierra showing off her “lab-o-saurus” comics. First panel: dinosaur dressed in proper PPEs, holding a beaker with mysterious liquids, with a thought bubble that says “gee, I hope this doesn’t cause an explosion that leads us to extinction…” panel 2: dinosaur with short arms at a laptop with a thought bubble that says “I can’t actually reach my computer. Panel 3: dinosaur presenting research on “why we should care about comets” with two dinosaurs in the audience saying “I don’t think this benefits us financially”. Panel 4: dinosaur claws ripped through gloves, following panel shows a dinosaur wearing ripped gloves that says “I hate when this happens… PPE is important”
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Thanks @mpfneuro.bsky.social for inviting me out! Had a blast spending the day talking about neuronal cilia!
Title screen “ Homeostatic maintenance of neocortical excitation-inhibition balance by ciliary neuropeptidergic signaling”
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Mr. Bumblebee doing the hard work so I don’t have to
Eastern Bumblebee pollenating a lime tree flower.
October 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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RIP, you served the culture rig honorable
Broken pipe connector from air table
September 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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6 months later, just like riding a bike.
Successful L2/3 neuron patch recording.
September 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Legos for adults
Two postdocs building an adjustable 4 post open frame server rack
June 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Totally worth getting up at 5 to avoid the crowds
Arashiyama bamboo forest with no people
May 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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I fixed the Koehler illumination of the teaching scope at the musée d'histoire des sciences in Geneva. Nice to know my skills can be applicable outside the lab.
Teaching microscope at musée d'histoire des sciences in Geneva
May 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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This view never gets old!
Mountains of les diablerets, Switzerland
May 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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I finally figured out what I should use my Thor labs snack box for!
Thor Labs snack box that says “I reused this lab snacks box for Nicole’s hopes + dreams” An empty lab snacks box, absent of any hopes or dreams.
March 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Hulk’d straight through my gloves
Hand wearing blue glove with a giant gash through the back of hand
March 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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I’m not sure why anyone buys an industrial pump when a fish pump does just as well. Just as powerful at a fraction of the price.
A fish pump attached to a collection canister
March 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Our lab’s squash team is ready to take on any other lab who dares to challenge us!
Two postdocs with our best intimidating looks, and a third just standing there holding a squash racket.
February 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Well actually those cells aren’t ours…. but I think our synapses still look plenty cool!
Auditory nerve fibers (labeled in magenta, blue, and gold) forming endbulb of Held synapses in the anterior ventral cochlear nucleus.
February 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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It’s moments like this that will get me through the next 4 years
Tweet from Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female. All embryos begin by developing female sex organs, with male sex organs only replacing them at around 6 weeks of gestation. From THE WHITE HOUSE website: (d) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (e) "Male" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell. COURIER
January 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Silly geese, shouldn’t y’all be south by now?
A gaggle of geese on a brisk mid-January day.
January 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Nothing like a winning mahjong hand to cap the night 🀄️🀄️🀄️
A winning Mahjong hand featuring north, north, 2 sticks, 3 sticks, 4 sticks, 5 sticks, 5 sticks, 5 sticks, 6 sticks, 7 sticks, 8 sticks, window, window, window, 2 flowers, and 4 flowers
December 28, 2024 at 3:23 AM
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My 2024 neuroscience wrapped is finally here!

#neuroskyence
Text: 2024 neuroscience wrapped Image Image: cartoon silhouette of a brain Text: top techniques performed. 1. Confocal imaging 2. Electrophysiology 3.neonatal culture dissociation 4. AAV stereotaxic surgeries Image: cartoon pipette Text: you patched 78 neurons this year. That’s down 52% from last year. Images: cartoon image of neuron with a triangle patch pipette. Text: you logged over 5280 minutes on the confocal microscope Image: silhouette of a microscope.
December 12, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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She ready! @andreag.bsky.social
Andrea Guerrero before her defense
December 10, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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My grandparents are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary this year. 🤯

I don’t think I’d have any chance of hitting a 70 year wedding anniversary, even if I were married tomorrow, which I’m not.
A picture of the OPs grandparents from the 1950s.
November 26, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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Here goes nothing! 🤞🏻😬🤞🏻
November 5, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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While my cousin was crossing the finish line of the NYC marathon, I was at target buying hand soap.
NYC marathon with various runners crossing the finish line. I’m genetically related to one of these runners.
November 3, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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Leeet’s goooooooo METS!!!!!!!
October 10, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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Looks at all my gourds!
A small pumpkin, a smaller pumpkin, and a daisy gourd.
September 30, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Oh, is that what we’re calling them now?
An alpaca standing in front of a sign that says “DO NOT FEED THE MINI HORSES”
September 28, 2024 at 7:51 PM