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Martin Jones
@martinjones.bsky.social
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Ex-physicist in a biology institute, working on image analysis and building new hardware at the Francis Crick Institute

ORCID: 0000-0003-0994-5652
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Oh, he's also been really instrumental in our @etchacell.bsky.social project
Professor Brian Cox holding a 3D printed nucleus, created by volunteers via a citizen science project called Etch a Cell. Next to him are two of the researchers that worked on the project, one female, one male.
May 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Gif of Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation TV show sitting in a chair on a TV set, with a caption saying "any dog under 50 pounds is a cat, and cats are pointless"
December 30, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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@makaefer.bsky.social taking a momentary break from posting on @cbias.bsky.social to ask a question to the panel at #CBIAS2024
Side-on view of the front row of an auditorium, with someone asking a question via a large foam covered throwable microphone
November 26, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Since everyone else is doing it

From scholargoggler.com
Colourful word cloud on a black background - prominent words including "electron", "microscopy", "segmentation" and other mostly bioimage analysis related terms
November 22, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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One good thing about cold-emailing from random journals is they occasionally remind you of some fun stuff you'd forgotten about. I made an #UpGoer5 post about our @etchacell.bsky.social #CitizenScience and #BioImageAnalysis from only the ten-hundred most common words
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A screengrab from an email saying: "Dear Dr Martin Jones, I trust this letter finds you well. The Journal of <redacted> is writing to express its interest in your paper, "Making new ways of understanding very small building-blocks of life using picture-taking-boxes with a very large make-bigger-power". We were impressed by the originality of your research and its relevance to the field covered by our journal. We would, thus, like to invite you to submit your paper for publication in our journal, subject to it not having been previously published elsewhere. Submission Process: Please forward your manuscript as an attachment to this email or submit via the journal’s official page by 20th March, 2024. We look forward to your response with interest. Thank you for your time and consideration. Regards, <redacted> Editorial Manager"
March 5, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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The HPC team at @thecrick.bsky.social is hiring! Trainee and Full HPC engineer roles (3 in total), deadline 5th November

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Screengrab from the Crick Institute's "Scientific Computing" webpage, showing an engineer at a console surrounded by several racks of high performance computing hardware and newtorks
October 31, 2023 at 10:52 AM
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Busy train journey immediately made better by dog being everyone's friend and gently rolling a tennis ball to people to play
Brown dog with curly fur lying on the floor on a train, in amongst lots of passengers feet and bags, with a tennis ball in front of it Brown dog with curly fur lying on the floor on a train, in amongst lots of passengers feet and bags, with a tennis ball in front of it
October 19, 2023 at 7:10 AM
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We got Harry (right in both pictures) from RSPCA in 2011 and Alfie (left) from Dogs Trust in 2020
Two dogs sat in long grass, a brindle coloured greyhound/malinois cross lurcher on the left and a grey whippet lurcher on the right Two dogs standing side by side in a kitchen, a brindle coloured greyhound/malinois cross lurcher on the left and a grey whippet lurcher on the right
September 20, 2023 at 7:11 AM