The elfish Scientist
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#QuantumMaterials #CondensedMatterPhysics #Biophysics #Epigenetics #SciArt #Scicomm
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Your face when reviewer #3 requests you to add even more experiments to your paper #AcademicSky #SciComm #PhDlife 💁🏼♀️
Just a #wicked #AFM performed by our own Elfaba #WickedForGood. Can you identify any #Glinda pink nanoparticles? #ElfontheShelf #ElfIdeas #ScoutElfReturnWeek #SciArt #SciComm #AtomicForceMicroscopy 💚🩷🔬
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Just a #wicked #AFM performed by our own Elfaba #WickedForGood. Can you identify any #Glinda pink nanoparticles? #ElfontheShelf #ElfIdeas #ScoutElfReturnWeek #SciArt #SciComm #AtomicForceMicroscopy 💚🩷🔬
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Know the difference.
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Know the difference.
It's almost Elfstranger season! Meanwhile, at the upside-down lab we have created this elfish #demogorgon glowing design by depositing genetically engineered E. coli onto black agar plates #OpentronsArt #SciArt #StrangerThings5 #ScoutElfReturnWeek
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It's almost Elfstranger season! Meanwhile, at the upside-down lab we have created this elfish #demogorgon glowing design by depositing genetically engineered E. coli onto black agar plates #OpentronsArt #SciArt #StrangerThings5 #ScoutElfReturnWeek
Happy birthday to Nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus!🎂 elf-reading #CarbonQueen by Maia Weinstock @MIT #MillieDay #STEM #Sheros #scicomm 👵🏼⚛📖 11/11
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Happy birthday to Nanoscience pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus!🎂 elf-reading #CarbonQueen by Maia Weinstock @MIT #MillieDay #STEM #Sheros #scicomm 👵🏼⚛📖 11/11
Wonderful today's keynote lecture by @ceesdekker.bsky.social I wonder if nanopore in the future could not just discriminate between single amino-acid subtitutions but also between L and D- amino acids. Have your lab considered to build a synthetic mirror cell? #NGBS_2025 🔬🦠🪞
September 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Wonderful today's keynote lecture by @ceesdekker.bsky.social I wonder if nanopore in the future could not just discriminate between single amino-acid subtitutions but also between L and D- amino acids. Have your lab considered to build a synthetic mirror cell? #NGBS_2025 🔬🦠🪞
This is really cool! The 1st book written in DNA 📖🧬 #SciLife #SciComm #AcademicSky
Link here: press.asimov.com/books.
Link here: press.asimov.com/books.
January 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is really cool! The 1st book written in DNA 📖🧬 #SciLife #SciComm #AcademicSky
Link here: press.asimov.com/books.
Link here: press.asimov.com/books.
Your face when reviewer #3 requests you to add even more experiments to your paper #AcademicSky #SciComm #PhDlife 💁🏼♀️
January 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Your face when reviewer #3 requests you to add even more experiments to your paper #AcademicSky #SciComm #PhDlife 💁🏼♀️
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It’s the final #MicroscopyMonday of the year—grateful to peer into the unknown, twiddle knobs myself, make discoveries, and call it a job. Here’s to pushing boundaries in 2025! First up a time lapse of the enhancer nucleosome probe I designed. Look at those dynamics 🤩 #cellbio #scicomm #science
December 30, 2024 at 4:04 PM
It’s the final #MicroscopyMonday of the year—grateful to peer into the unknown, twiddle knobs myself, make discoveries, and call it a job. Here’s to pushing boundaries in 2025! First up a time lapse of the enhancer nucleosome probe I designed. Look at those dynamics 🤩 #cellbio #scicomm #science
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for...
Anyone else found that their newest lab tech really isn't pulling their weight?
#ElfOnTheShelf #Chemistry #Teaching #Laboratory @unisouthampton.bsky.social #iTeachChem #AcademicSky
#ElfOnTheShelf #Chemistry #Teaching #Laboratory @unisouthampton.bsky.social #iTeachChem #AcademicSky
December 26, 2024 at 7:30 AM
You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for...
Greetings to my fellow elfChemists! Hilarious way to use magnetic stirrers 🧲🎣 #SciComm ##PhDlife #AcademicSky
Our Elf on the Shelf has gone fishing…lab-style! 🎣🧲 Reeling in magnetic stirrers one by one - though he better be careful! Chemists are very protective of their stirrers. 🧪😂 #ElfInTheLab #MagneticCatch #HolidayMischief #elfonashelf #christmas #elfontheshelf #elvesbehavingbadly
December 26, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Greetings to my fellow elfChemists! Hilarious way to use magnetic stirrers 🧲🎣 #SciComm ##PhDlife #AcademicSky
I might not be the #elfontheshelf but I'm the #elfontheFlask #holidaygreetings #Xmasinthelab #PhDlife #Scicomm #AcademicSky 👨🔬
December 23, 2024 at 12:15 AM
I might not be the #elfontheshelf but I'm the #elfontheFlask #holidaygreetings #Xmasinthelab #PhDlife #Scicomm #AcademicSky 👨🔬
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A new Science and Retraction Watch investigation finds AI-generated commentary articles flood the literature with poor-quality publications and casts doubt on metrics of scholarly output and impact. scim.ag/4gJmD6O
Shoddy commentaries—a quick and dirty route to higher impact numbers—are on the rise
AI-generated content floods literature with poor-quality publications, casts doubt on metrics, Science and Retraction Watch investigation finds
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December 18, 2024 at 7:57 PM
A new Science and Retraction Watch investigation finds AI-generated commentary articles flood the literature with poor-quality publications and casts doubt on metrics of scholarly output and impact. scim.ag/4gJmD6O
Good one! It has become almost impossible to keep up with all the scientific literature #AcademicSky ##SciComm
Dear Science*,
If you wanted me to read all your papers, you should have published fewer papers.
Please do better (worse) in 2025.
Sincerely, thank you.
(*the field not the journal)
If you wanted me to read all your papers, you should have published fewer papers.
Please do better (worse) in 2025.
Sincerely, thank you.
(*the field not the journal)
December 19, 2024 at 3:35 AM
Good one! It has become almost impossible to keep up with all the scientific literature #AcademicSky ##SciComm
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Want to 3D print a pipette holder for Gilson and Eppendorf pipettes? New design by #IanKercher. www.printables.com/model/109822...
December 16, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Want to 3D print a pipette holder for Gilson and Eppendorf pipettes? New design by #IanKercher. www.printables.com/model/109822...
Obsessing over these cozy #parafilm blankets from the Julia Laskin lab @lablaskin.bsky.social ! Definitely on my #Xmas wish list (borrowing their group pic from X)
December 14, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Obsessing over these cozy #parafilm blankets from the Julia Laskin lab @lablaskin.bsky.social ! Definitely on my #Xmas wish list (borrowing their group pic from X)
POV - Now that Altmetric mentions in 🦋 are being considered, the elfish scientist will be like:
Follow me, follow me ( it is hard to recover our X followers)
Don't miss the Starter pack 👇
Join us- Nominate yourself or reply here!
#AcademicSky #SciComm #PhDlife #Altmetrics #elfontheshelf
Follow me, follow me ( it is hard to recover our X followers)
Don't miss the Starter pack 👇
Join us- Nominate yourself or reply here!
#AcademicSky #SciComm #PhDlife #Altmetrics #elfontheshelf
December 14, 2024 at 10:07 PM
POV - Now that Altmetric mentions in 🦋 are being considered, the elfish scientist will be like:
Follow me, follow me ( it is hard to recover our X followers)
Don't miss the Starter pack 👇
Join us- Nominate yourself or reply here!
#AcademicSky #SciComm #PhDlife #Altmetrics #elfontheshelf
Follow me, follow me ( it is hard to recover our X followers)
Don't miss the Starter pack 👇
Join us- Nominate yourself or reply here!
#AcademicSky #SciComm #PhDlife #Altmetrics #elfontheshelf
Mirror mirror on the wall: Which paper should I read today? Adamala et al. 2024 #SyntheticBiology #Mirrorlife #MirrorBacteria #Biosecurity #mirrorSky🦠🪞🦠
I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report:
Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036
December 13, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Mirror mirror on the wall: Which paper should I read today? Adamala et al. 2024 #SyntheticBiology #Mirrorlife #MirrorBacteria #Biosecurity #mirrorSky🦠🪞🦠
This is genius! 💚🩷 #acapellascience #definingGravity #WickedPhysics #Scicomm #PhDlife youtu.be/yTQyFzTl5GA
Defining Gravity (ft. Physics Girl & MALINDA) | A Capella Science
YouTube video by acapellascience
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November 29, 2024 at 4:38 AM
This is genius! 💚🩷 #acapellascience #definingGravity #WickedPhysics #Scicomm #PhDlife youtu.be/yTQyFzTl5GA
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🧪How do protein condensates age?
Check out this video abstract about the paper by Ryota Takaki and colleagues at MPI-PKS, @mpicbg.bsky.social and @poldresden.bsky.social!👇
youtu.be/1xbzxK3tv5g?...
Check out this video abstract about the paper by Ryota Takaki and colleagues at MPI-PKS, @mpicbg.bsky.social and @poldresden.bsky.social!👇
youtu.be/1xbzxK3tv5g?...
How Protein Condensates Age
YouTube video by MPIPKS
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November 26, 2024 at 10:20 AM
🧪How do protein condensates age?
Check out this video abstract about the paper by Ryota Takaki and colleagues at MPI-PKS, @mpicbg.bsky.social and @poldresden.bsky.social!👇
youtu.be/1xbzxK3tv5g?...
Check out this video abstract about the paper by Ryota Takaki and colleagues at MPI-PKS, @mpicbg.bsky.social and @poldresden.bsky.social!👇
youtu.be/1xbzxK3tv5g?...
Protein structures are the new cool alphabet! #typography #SciArt
November 27, 2024 at 5:08 AM
Protein structures are the new cool alphabet! #typography #SciArt
Cheeshen! It's crazy! Now I have 3 accounts X,🐘 &🦋 just to keep in touch with the #SciTwitter 🐦 community
November 24, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Cheeshen! It's crazy! Now I have 3 accounts X,🐘 &🦋 just to keep in touch with the #SciTwitter 🐦 community
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🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 PM
🎨 In case anyone need…
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏!
Check it out 👇
bioart.niaid.nih.gov
Amazing #SciArt
Time for an new intro under these skies 🔵
I’m a molecular biologist (currently postdoc-ing at EMBL) & also a science illustrator - taking your scientific discoveries and turning them into unconventional, colourful and creative illustrations! ✨ #sciart #scicomm
more at www.munafomarzia.com
I’m a molecular biologist (currently postdoc-ing at EMBL) & also a science illustrator - taking your scientific discoveries and turning them into unconventional, colourful and creative illustrations! ✨ #sciart #scicomm
more at www.munafomarzia.com
November 24, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Amazing #SciArt