Doesn’t everyone start their day by saying “hooray, my snake penises have arrived!”?
June 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Doesn’t everyone start their day by saying “hooray, my snake penises have arrived!”?
Pareidolia fun at work: The researcher and I saw two different faces in this slice of tomato. Either it’s a cyclops with two eyebrows, or it has a funny shaped nose.
June 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Pareidolia fun at work: The researcher and I saw two different faces in this slice of tomato. Either it’s a cyclops with two eyebrows, or it has a funny shaped nose.
I’m sitting outside, eating my lunch and listening to American Prometheus, which is chock full of little anecdotes about people whose names are attached to units or equations I’ve used. To wit, a very peripheral name got mentioned and I’m literally facing a building with that name on it.
May 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I’m sitting outside, eating my lunch and listening to American Prometheus, which is chock full of little anecdotes about people whose names are attached to units or equations I’ve used. To wit, a very peripheral name got mentioned and I’m literally facing a building with that name on it.
It’s time for the @nocturnetwork.bsky.social meeting! Thanks to @palaeonomad.bsky.social for distributing these adorable mementos of our unofficial mascot.
May 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It’s time for the @nocturnetwork.bsky.social meeting! Thanks to @palaeonomad.bsky.social for distributing these adorable mementos of our unofficial mascot.
A great workshop with @jaimiagray.bsky.social on using Slicer. I’ve been hoping to start supporting this software for our users, and this was a good kick to get me going!
May 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A great workshop with @jaimiagray.bsky.social on using Slicer. I’ve been hoping to start supporting this software for our users, and this was a good kick to get me going!
Several years ago, I planted asparagus, to uninspiring results. Gave up on the vegetable garden. Yesterday, this. You never know what effort will someday bear fruit.
May 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Several years ago, I planted asparagus, to uninspiring results. Gave up on the vegetable garden. Yesterday, this. You never know what effort will someday bear fruit.
Step four: this is real janky, but a satisfactory attempt for a two bit very low res slice. We will see if it can get to this week’s conference without breaking apart.
May 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Step four: this is real janky, but a satisfactory attempt for a two bit very low res slice. We will see if it can get to this week’s conference without breaking apart.
Step three: My Fair Isle knitting experience is coming in handy, figuring out the fewest pixels I need to give a reasonable sense of the thing I’m looking at.
May 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Step three: My Fair Isle knitting experience is coming in handy, figuring out the fewest pixels I need to give a reasonable sense of the thing I’m looking at.
Step two: need a few colors and levels of transparency.
May 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Step two: need a few colors and levels of transparency.
About to attempt to turn digital CT data into a real world object. Step one: make many cubes.
May 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
About to attempt to turn digital CT data into a real world object. Step one: make many cubes.
I am not mature enough to do this job, because this label made me laugh.
May 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I am not mature enough to do this job, because this label made me laugh.
A teen’s smoothie cup smells a LITTLE funky ONE TIME…
April 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A teen’s smoothie cup smells a LITTLE funky ONE TIME…
Had a very necessary hike with my teen today. It was good for both of us.
March 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Had a very necessary hike with my teen today. It was good for both of us.
Do you want to improve your microscopy image analysis skills? My department is offering a free virtual ImageJ seminar in April. Sign up here: cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Do you want to improve your microscopy image analysis skills? My department is offering a free virtual ImageJ seminar in April. Sign up here: cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
My cat does not want me to prepare to teach a karate class.
March 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My cat does not want me to prepare to teach a karate class.
Or maybe you just want to daydream about living in a series of cozy-yet-impractical places, in which case Houses with a Story by Seiji Yoshida is for you. I’m considering running an RPG where you roll to find out which house in this book an NPC lives in.
January 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Or maybe you just want to daydream about living in a series of cozy-yet-impractical places, in which case Houses with a Story by Seiji Yoshida is for you. I’m considering running an RPG where you roll to find out which house in this book an NPC lives in.
I’m making a thread of books I read in 2025, because this picture of my cat expresses how I feel about the world right now.
Let’s goooo
Let’s goooo
January 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I’m making a thread of books I read in 2025, because this picture of my cat expresses how I feel about the world right now.
Let’s goooo
Let’s goooo
The nice thing about not being an anatomist is that I just get to say “huh, neat thing” and screenshot it without worrying too much about why it looks like that.
January 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The nice thing about not being an anatomist is that I just get to say “huh, neat thing” and screenshot it without worrying too much about why it looks like that.
Psst, wanna see some CT scan slices of bones that look like flowers?
January 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Psst, wanna see some CT scan slices of bones that look like flowers?
Digitally dissecting the scan revealed that my curator friend got a two-for-one deal on scans this time around; the larger fish had just begun to have a snack when they got caught.
January 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Digitally dissecting the scan revealed that my curator friend got a two-for-one deal on scans this time around; the larger fish had just begun to have a snack when they got caught.
One of my longest-running projects involves doing a lot of scans of fish specimens for the curators at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates. I noticed something slightly odd happening in this guy's mouth.
January 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
One of my longest-running projects involves doing a lot of scans of fish specimens for the curators at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates. I noticed something slightly odd happening in this guy's mouth.