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I just really love shapes. I love it when things are shapes. And I love it even more when shapes are things (Molecular model printer @3dmoleculardesigns.bsky.social‬‬, former rodent botherer, perennial cell enjoyer)

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · Jul 15

Cerebellar sunset

The same picture as in the first two posts, but with different color backgrounds added to make its top half orange-yellow and its bottom half blue. Here is the description of the first picture:

A hand holding a backlit circular lithophane in a Petri dish. The lithophane shows a cerebellar section from figure 2 of chapter 6 of Ramon y Cajal's Recuerdos de mi Vida. The bottom half(ish) of the lithophane is striped horizontally with parallel fibers; a blue background has been added there to make the parallel fibers look more like waves.

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · Jun 3

Ok guys, what's the latest on #3dprinter pointillism, please don't make me google, I'm tired

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 1d

#TubulinTuesday!

Meng-meng Fu @mengmengfu.bsky.social · 2d

We used live-cell imaging with plus-end binding protein EB3 to determine microtubule polarity in astrocytes for the first time. They are ~88% plus-ends out.

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 2d

I want to go swimming. I want to forget everything I've ever learned about microbiology and go swimming.

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TrickyC (he/him) @trickyc66.bsky.social · 4d

like how they can kick you out of an all you can eat restaurant if they don't find "sufficient artistic merit" in your life sized mashed potato and French fry sculpture

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Irina Bezsonova @irinabezsonova.bsky.social · 7d

Week 1 of first drafts :)

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ASAB Education Committee @asabeducation.bsky.social · Sep 12

Reminder! The deadline for our infographic competition is the 18th of October. The last day of #biologyweek You can find out more information here www.asab.org/education-news There are three age categories: 7-10 years old, 11-14 years old and 15-21 years old.

This 2025 competition is for young people to design a poster that contains images and information about the animal behaviour of one, or multiple species of non-human animals.

You can draw, paint, sketch or digitally create artwork that captures, describes and explains the behaviour of animals. There are no restrictions on the type of drawing, painting or poster that you create, it must include information on the behaviour of the animals you are highlighting. The winning infographic in each category will be published in our scientific journal Animal Behaviour.

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 11d

(If you're still at a loss for murkiness, may I suggest searching for 'unknown' or 'uncharacterized'! Fits conceptually and lets you draw whatever looks coolest :-P )

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 12d

Something about Harpers Bizarre's music sounds deeply disturbing to me, for reasons I don't care to investigate

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 14d

Looking at #20 and wondering how many PDB entries have fascinating tales of rivalry behind them...

Irina Bezsonova @irinabezsonova.bsky.social · 19d

It’s almost October!
I plant to participate in inktober challenge again this year. One protein drawing a day for 31 days. I would LOVE your suggestions!
Check out the prompt list and nominate a pdb of a protein for me to draw that could be a good fit for any of these prompts.
Wish me luck!

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 14d

*Nice!*

FABPs and their ilk have always reminded me of woven textures (and waffle fries, but anyway)...maybe 2LFO, 1BWY, 1JBH, 1MX8, 6I9F, that sort of thing?

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 15d

#TubulinTuesday!

clairesnaylor.bsky.social @clairesnaylor.bsky.social · 20d

🚨 Webinar Alert! - Revolutionizing Structural Biology
On Oct 1 Dr. Nick Ariotti (U. Queensland) will share how his team imaged microtubules in lysate at 7.1 Å with a cryoTEM and NO traditional purification steps.

Register here: ter.li/66bytl

#structuralbiology #proteinmicroscopy #cryoEM #cryoET

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 15d

....that was some weird shit

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 21d

👀 #3DThursday: Cross your eyes to see this super res pollen dataset in 3D! Good old fashioned stereo pairs in #syGlass bringing science to life. 🌿✨

🔬: Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2
🥼: Nat Prunet, @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core: tarheels.live/biologymicro...
🎬: syGlass.io

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 21d

I'm super looking forward to this

Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 23d

Giving a webinar on #BlueSoup this Friday, in case anyone wants to pop in during their lunch!

A promotional flyer for a webinar in the CSU Bioinformatics Webinar Series. On the left side, it shows the date and time: “26 Sep | 12 PM PST.” It includes instructions to join via Zoom with Meeting ID: 886 2442 3158 and a QR code above. On the right, there is a photo of Dr. Elinne Becket, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University San Marcos, sitting outdoors with plants and trees in the background. Below, the title of the talk is displayed: “The Soup that Blue up Twitter.” The description explains that Dr. Becket will discuss the shared curiosity of science, open science, and a story from February 2023 when leftover beef soup prepared by her mom turned bright blue. Scientists and people on Twitter collaborated to investigate, leading to a global effort among microbiologists and chemists. At the bottom, there are links to learn more about upcoming webinars at www.informatics.sdsu.edu and Dr. Becket’s website: https://elinneb.wixsite.com/becketlab

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 21d

Hoo boy, that is blurry, okey dokey

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 21d

I see the news, it seems Shakespearean,
I post a doodle of a virion

A diagram showing the carbon backbone of a phage, shown as a cross-section. Its protein shell is light purple, and its nucleic innards are light orange. (PDB ID 7LHD; https://www.rcsb.org/structure/7LHD)

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 22d

#TubulinTuesday!

Cytoskeleton Journal @cytoskeljournal.bsky.social · 27d

We have a fantastic #FREE Access #Review #article in #CYTOSKELETON for you!!! KIF14 as a Dual #Microtubule / F-#Actin Binding Protein Contributing to #Cytokinesis. Check it out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 22d

#TubulinTuesday!

Simone Reber @simonereber.bsky.social · 23d

Wonderful collaboration with the labs of @carolynmoores1.bsky.social & Gregory Voth @uchichemistry.bsky.social 🤩 Still amazed how well the in vitro structure fits into the in vivo structure!  Congrats to Mamata Bangera et al.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#microtubules #Malaria

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 22d

#TubulinTuesday!

abberior @abberior.rocks · 27d

3 color confocal image of a #Drosophila 🪰embryo stained for chitin (🟦STAR RED), tubulin (🟥STAR ORANGE), and DNA (🟩PicoGreen)

#fluorescencefriday

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 22d

No that's my emotional support bile

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 23d

I'd love to watch an awards ceremony for sermon vagueness

Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 23d

Rooooooosh Hashanah, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain!

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Cynipid @cynipid.bsky.social · 24d

I completed a little embroidered chrysomelid. It turned out so cute! I created a tortoise beetle design that I will try out later.

Fall always makes me want to do fiber arts. I still have a new king-sized quilt in the works so there's hefty competition for my creative energy this year.

An embroidery hoop with a black piece of fabric that has a beetle embroidered with patterns in silver, black, and various shades of teal.

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Blue Eyed Grass @blueeyedgrass.bsky.social · 25d

Just cause I was thinking about it recently, here is one of my all time favorite scientist profiles. Joan Ruderman interviewing Yoshio Masui when he won the Lasker (along with Nurse and Hartwell) for his work on maturation promoting factor in xenopus oocytes. laskerfoundation.org/winners/key-...

Key regulators of the cell division cycle - Lasker Foundation

Lee Hartwell, Yoshio Masui, Paul Nurse

laskerfoundation.org

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Leah @hoxinsocks.bsky.social · 25d

This rocks!!