Wendy C. Salmon 🐟🔬🧫

Light Microscopy #ImagingScientist @unc_cbp. Enabling others to harness the power of light microscopy. Opinions and typoes my own. she/her

[Wendy C. Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @FishCsCells]

To help beat the stress of COVID quarantine, I'm going to start a thread with fun microscopy-related resources. One a day (from me) to keep things fresh. Please add! #SciTwitter #Microscopy

First up: The Light Microscopy Series from iBiology https://t.co/w2Jh3U72Vd

[Silvi Rouskin @silvirouskin]

At 15, I left all my family and friends and came to the US , ALONE, seeking a country where MERIT and HARD WORK mattered-not politics. For 30 years, I worked tirelessly, even doing reseach at MIT the day my mother died, knowing she’d want me to keep pushing forward. Today, my grants-and my students’-earned through fair competition, have been terminated for political reasons. The America that once rewarded merit now feels no different from the country I fled.

[Microscopy Society @MicroscopySoc]

WEBINAR ALERT! 🚨

Join the MSA Student Council and Elisabeth Bik to discuss research misconduct and how to report suspected concerns, plus how institutional leadership investigate allegations.

Register now! https://t.co/OMEAvdzVO6

[Sue J @SMpwrgr]

Posted this overnight and no views so trying again without any pesky trigger words that might be preventing it reaching those who need to hear this

Pls share

[Dr. Chrystal Ama Starbird PDB Depositer @drstarbird]

Nominations are open for the Index of Inspiring Black Scientists! Help us build a global, searchable resource of inspiring Black scholars in STEM. Eligibility: Self-identified Black scholars at any career stage!

Nominate here: https://t.co/pnR7zPbzmZ

[Wendy C. Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @FishCsCells]

UNC-CH has over 120 core facilities that contain an immense about of technology specific expertise. Many are open to researchers at other institutions!

[Anirban Maitra @Aiims1742]

Core facilities are truly one of the most undervalued assets in an academic institution. They are often treated as also rans, staffed by non tenured faculty with little leeway, and given an exceedingly short runway to become profitable.
In an age of shrinking lab sizes and astronomical maintenance contracts, cores will increasingly become the engines that fuel research. Institutions have to invest in core facilities in order to spur innovation and efficiency, and expect some will be a “loss leader” on revenues, with intangible returns on research productivity.
For those on the job market, getting to know the institutional core facilities and directors should be an indispensable part of the recruitment process. Talk one to one with some of the core directors. How institutions approach core facilities is a huge “tell” on institutional research ethos.

[Wendy C. Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @FishCsCells]

Sample prep and imaging!!

[Wendy C. Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @FishCsCells]

Science world:

My core has capacity available for TEM projects in our Tecnai T12!

EM specialist has broad experience, with specialization in lens (worked for Joe Costello). We have SerialEM for montage & some tomography. DMs open or send us an email.

https://t.co/6ZRqkclAxE

[Reto Fiolka @RetoPaul]

PetaKit is great; it deals efficiently with large data, and it is easy to use. I can highly recommend it if you need deskewing, rotation and/or deconvolution for your post-processing.

The repository is also not large, so it does not take much to clone it and try it out.

[Wendy C. Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @FishCsCells]

@RetoPaul 💯 Agree on melanoma being but adorable.

[Xenbase @Xenbase]

Due to certificate problems please use a browser other than Chrome, Edge, or other Chromium-based browsers to visit Xenbase. Examples include Firefox and Safari. We hope to be able to fix this issue soon. Thank you. #science #biology #devbio #xenopus #frogs

[Ahmed Abdelfattah @Abdelfattah_Lab]

Online now on biorxiv: our new voltage indicator engineered for red 2P optical recordings, 2Photron. Only possible thanks to great collaborators
@ERSchreiter,@DieudonneLab,@PodgorskiLab, and others!
https://t.co/eZTpJRcjuT

[Wallace Marshall @WallaceUcsf]

Single cells can learn without a nervous system, but how? In our new preprint, Deepa Rajan and I describe a simple model for habituation in Stentor cells, based on mechanoreceptor internalization and recycling, and test it with quantitative experiments.

https://t.co/R9bFjmtGp9

[Social Outcast @SocialOutcast82]

Mashed potatoes are just Irish guacamole.

[Wendy C. Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @FishCsCells]

@DeathCab4Callie I'm so sorry I'm not closer. I hope it starts resolving soon!

[Caitlin Gooch @theblackcowgirl]

Dear Parents/Guardians,

Put all the swimming stuff in one container now.

You do not want to be looking for it come next summer!!

I warned you. 🤣🤣

[Wendy C. Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @FishCsCells]

@Nouronal Sending lots of hugs. I'm sorry your brain is being a pain. Hang in there and keep thinking about the told, even if you can't use them yet.. You've made it through before.

[AQLM @AQLMMBL]

AQLM applications are due December 16th! Have questions about the course or the application process? We're hosting a webinar to tell you everything you want to know! 12/5 at 3pm EST. Register here: https://t.co/Sc6U9kmGu7

[suganya s @SuganSivaguru]

The 2024 biennial survey by @COBA_NIH , @BioimagingNA , @RoyalMicroSoc, and @GloBIAS_ is here to connect imaging users with image analysis.
Check this out for more details @focalplane_jcs
https://t.co/DnEUQ5oAlU