Annika Barber
@annikabarber.bsky.social
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Drosophila enthusiast. Assistant Professor of Mol Bio and Biochem at Rutgers U. Runner. Uses brain to think about brains. All around curious person.
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Certainly before my time, as I was 11 then. But I too am a firm believer that there is no bad weather for a run!
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Adding Jeff Goldblum to this compilation would have taken it from AI slop to art! 😂
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Even though they aren't visible, I'm somehow sure they have both eyes and fingers! 🙃
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Maybe they're all mutants... 😅
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MidAtlantic Scientific. They sell lab consumables and small equipment for mol bio.
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The more you look, the worse it gets. Look how many fingers the mammals have, as they drip cells into culture! 🧪
AI generated monkey and mouse with too many fingers drip cells into a petri dish
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After every scientific meeting, I spend a half day typing out, finding paper links, and commenting on my handwritten notes. It's not the most fun, but it helps me consolidate and retain information. Then I send nice emails to my favor presenters, which is more fun! #CSHLDros 🧪
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I really don't like how that worm is looking at me
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Holy AI, Batman! I’d hope MidSci would know better what organisms actually look like.
MidSci catalog showing horrific AI images of flies, worms, primates, and mice.
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One thing about Goose is that he sets strong personal boundaries about bedtime. He will put himself in bed about 10 pm and he is d. o. n. e. You can pet him, but he will not engage again til morning. A self care king. 🐶
A black a grey terrier sleeps tucked in under lavender sheets. One ear up, both paws out, head against, but not on, the pillow.
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I love how many scientists are also runners! I’ve run with different buddies every day of this conference. As someone who doesn’t drink and goes to bed early, a nice morning run is my favorite way to socialize. 🏃‍♀️
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Barber Lab representing at #CSHLDros! 🪰 4/5 of us have posters tonight.
Five people stand on the grass in front of a sunset. They somehow are all in shades of blue. They also are all in the Barber lab.
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It’s time for the fly party with my fly friends! #CSHLDros
A cartoon from smbc captioned “the life of a scientist sounds way more fun if you describe it like you’re a 6 year old.” The scientist in the cartoon is wearing glasses and a teal polo. Their speech bubble says “I like flies and me and my friends look at flies all the time and sometimes the flies are neat and we tell our other friends about it and our friends also like flies and sometimes we have fly parties and so no we know a lot about flies.” The original cartoon said rocks, Annika photoshopped in flies.
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I'm always looking for more well-researched, well-sourced science journalism on topics relevant to any aspect of gene regulation and cancer biology, so hit me up with your recommendations. I also accept comics! Like this one: xkcd.com/3056/
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Clearing out my bookmarks folder to prep readings I'll be using in my 300-level Gene Regulation class next semester! We cover a lot of primary "classic" literature in class, with recent accessible science journalism as assigned reading to see how gene regulation is relevant to today's issues. 🧵
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Ahhhhhh!!! I’ve been waiting so long for the wide release! (Extra special cool people have had access, so I’ve known it’s in the works). 🪰🧪
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We're very proud to be releasing the complete male fly CNS connectome!

It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators.

More soon...
www.janelia.org/project-team...
Male CNS Connectome
A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...
www.janelia.org
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Heading to #CSHLDros this week, which means it’s time to get an embroidery project cued up to keep my hands busy while I listen!
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A wooden embroidery hoop with cream colored Aida lies on a wooden surface. At left a spectrum of thread skeins in green, yellow and brown. On top of the unstitched fabric is a bitty pair of TSA-permissible scissors.
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Characteristic motor features of fly sleep! Tho of course it would be cuter if they curled up under a blankie.
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I am proud to share that our work of 4+ years has finally been published. We wondered if there are distinct behaviors that mark sleep in 🪰, where sleep has been defined as prolonged immobility.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
FlyVISTA, an integrated machine learning platform for deep phenotyping of sleep in Drosophila
A machine learning platform identifies and characterizes the dynamics of microbehaviors during fly sleep.
www.science.org