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Juliet Coates @julietccoates.bsky.social · 2h

Ours flower much later into winter!

Spiky Blooms of yellow witch hazel Hamermelis x intermedia blooming in early Feb 2025 against a backdrop of dark green foliage and brown soil

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 2h

In the eastern deciduous forest, keep your eyes open in the next few weeks for the dramatic flowering of witch-hazel, Hamamelis virginiana. It is the only native tree that flowers in late fall or early winter. Read about it at Our Trees, and go look for it in your woods in a couple of weeks.

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)

One of our most charming small trees is witch-hazel, Hamamelis virginiana. It is founnd in rich forest understories, especially near bottoms. You may know witch-hazel for the medicinal use of a distil...

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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 3h

This is profoundly sad. We lost a true pioneer in the field of psychiatry

Sincere condolences to his family friends and collaborators

Owen Muir, M.D., DFAACAP (he/him) @owenmuir.bsky.social · 1d

A eulogy for my friend Nolan Williams.

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Owen Muir, M.D., DFAACAP (he/him) @owenmuir.bsky.social · 1d

A eulogy for my friend Nolan Williams.

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Chris Phillips @drartanalytics.bsky.social · 1d

Do yourself a favour and make the most of @bsky.app by clicking on the hashtag #FluorescenceFriday

Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT.

#SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

Rainbow shading of a confocal micrograph of a developing mouse neural tube. The protein actin is stained and colored in rainbow to indicate depth in the section.

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 2d

Super excited about this ongoing spatial transcriptomics study in locus coeruleus of human 🧠. Expression of norepinephrine neurons - TH🔴, DBH🟢 and SLC6A2🟡 overlaid on post-Xenium H&E stain, allowing correlation of neuromelanin content (brown pigment) w/ gene expression #FluorescenceFriday 🔬🧪

mRNA expression using in situ sequencing (Xenium) on a tissue section at level of human locus coeruleus shows expression of marker genes for norepinephrine-producing neurons (TH in red, DBH in green, and SLC6A2 in yellow. Expression of markers is overlaid on the H&E histology staining, which shows cell bodies (purple) and neuromelanin (brown)

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 1d

This is a section of postmortem tissue from an adult human brain donor. The area we are studying (locus coeruleus) is in the brainstem, and those neurons that accumulate the pigment (neuromelanin) are the first to accumulate Alzheimer's disease pathology and are highly susceptible to degeneration

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Jess Holz @jessholz.bsky.social · 1d

For #fluorescencefriday I just thought these neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus were pretty. #sciart #microscopy #confocal

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feña Palominos @fishfena.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 🚨 Science alert on a #FluorescenceFriday; check my latest paper published in @genetics-gsa.bsky.social where I integrated comparative tissue-specific transcriptomics and speciation genomics to discover two novel craniofacial genes behind pupfish extreme jaw development! tinyurl.com/craniofacial...

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Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · 2d

🐟 Talk about jaw-dropping evolution! 😮 Bahamian pupfishes show huge craniofacial diversity with tiny genetic tweaks. 🎏 Here’s C. desquamator, where 🟠 atp8a1 Is expressed just the jaw muscles (🩷tpm3b)🔬image from @fishfena.bsky.social
#FluorescenceFriday #EvoDevo

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Anna Schreiber 🧠🧬 @annaschreiber.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #FluorescenceFriday !
iPSC-derived sensorimotor organoid with some neurons and microglia 🧠TUJ1 🟢, IBA1 🔴 and DAPI 🔵

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks - we are really excited about this 💙

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Anna La Torre @latorrelab.bsky.social · 2d

It's #FluorescenceFriday!

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Rachael Ott @rachaelott.bsky.social · 2d

For #FluorescenceFriday, α-spectrin (red) and lipid droplets (green) are shown in adipocytes 🔬 #Microscopy #CellBiology

α-spectrin (red), lipid droplets (green), and nuclei (blue) are shown in adipocytes. Scale bar is 20 μm.

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 2d

Viral trigger in Alzheimer’s disease is the real scary spooky #FluorescenceFriday.
Amyloid-β🟣 is an antimicrobial peptide that can be produced to trap pathogens in the brain. But it also induces an extensive neuroinflammatory response, as shown here with 🟠astrocytes. #NeuroCovid

Confocal microscopy photo showing astrocytes and amyloid-B

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 2d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Mick Craig @mickcraig.bsky.social · 2d

Are we still doing #FluorescenceFriday? #NeuroSkyence

Ventral hippocampal pyramidal cells transduced with rabies (cyan), helper proteins (magenta), or both. Part of a monosynaptic circuit tracing experiment

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 2d

MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 2d

Super excited about this ongoing spatial transcriptomics study in locus coeruleus of human 🧠. Expression of norepinephrine neurons - TH🔴, DBH🟢 and SLC6A2🟡 overlaid on post-Xenium H&E stain, allowing correlation of neuromelanin content (brown pigment) w/ gene expression #FluorescenceFriday 🔬🧪

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 2d

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT.

#SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 3d

#FluorescenceFriday
Watch to the end! Immune cells in the retina remain flat until damage is detected. Cells change their shape and dive deep in response to damage (pink cell)
@cvsuor.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social
@flaumeye.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/articles/98662

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OneNeuro Initiative @oneneurojhu.org · 2d

The winner of OneNeuro's September #FotoFriday #FluorescenceFriday contest is "The Cochlear Constellation," submitted by Yassine Balhi in Amanda Lauer's lab at @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social.

View the complete gallery here: www.oneneurojhu.org/art/

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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 2d

Assistant Professor opening in behavioral neuroscience at the University of Albany (SUNY). Join an outstanding department in one of the nation's greatest university systems.

#neurojobs

albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 4d

I’m extremely honored to be a recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award!

Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social on receiving the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, celebrating “scientists with outstanding records of creativity.” His lab will explore how the sense of touch can help build relationships. 🫶🧠💡

See zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/zuckerman-in...

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