In January, a worker at cannabis giant Trulieve’s indoor grow facility in Holyoke was grinding marijuana & putting it into joints when she said she couldn’t breath. OSHA alleges that she then died from cannabis-dust inhalation. My latest The Shoestring: theshoestring.org/2022/10/03/as-…

For night 5 of #31NightsOfHalloween #MicrosCreepy, here is a flock of Naegleria amoebae eating their way through a lawn of bacteria. Movie taken in collab. w/ Andrew Kennard

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For night 6 of #31NightsOfHalloween #MicrosCreepy here is a ghostly amoeba! Microchannels by @4DCell, imaged using internal reflection microscopy. LUT: Devon (Scientific color LUTs by Fabio Crameri and GEC)

Yet another reminder that no one makes use of LUTs like Katrina Velle #microsCreepy

For night 8 of #31NightsofHalloween #MicrosCreepy, here are some flashy contractile vacuoles! Imaged using Interference Reflection Microscopy (IRM)

Hey everyone, we're getting close to some of our deadlines for the monthly fundraiser but we seem to be at risk of falling short. If we could get a boost today you'd be helping our program greatly! We need at least $246, our Venmo is Free Meal Program University District and CA $redactedindividual

Fantastic work from the Dominguez lab UPenn Dept of Biochem & Biophys describing a method for purifying actins from mammalian cells free from the endogenous actin, opens the door to more mechanistic studies of individual actin isoforms. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Hey everybody! We served 20 costco pizzas and drinks yesterdqy! Can anyone help us out with our daily goal of $246?? Venmo @freefoodud or CA $redactedindividual to help!

Excited to share the fruit of my labor of my PhD and my first original paper: Synchronization in collectively moving inanimate and living active matter: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Here is the story: (1/12)

Weird when people in seminars aggressively ask “Why should I care?” I dunno buddy it’s a big universe and we’re both gonna die.

We will be reviewing applications next week; it's not too late! APPLY! Happy to answer questions if you have them!

Absolutely stunning presentation. Beautiful cell biology on Naegleria from Katrina Velle and Lillian Fritz-Laylin lab! Thank you for joining us for the reincarnation of Boston Area Parasitology (BAPS).

My contribution to #MicrosCreepy! A z-stack of a sporangium looking spooky with cobweb-like membrane architecture (white) dividing the spherical sporangium (orange) in 3D as zoospores develop.

Our paper is on biorxiv! We changed the ploidy of #xenopus embryos and showed that an increase in #ploidy causes a decrease in metabolic rate. This is due to #cellsize increase and lower energetic cost of plasma membrane maintenance. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/2

So twisted...🌀🐈‍⬛👻

Katrina Velle @DeepSeaDrifter I was mistaken! I actually made a script back in grad school to find the first instance of a tag. The earliest #MicroscopyMonday it could find goes to @Dr_geauxMAB way back in 2013 x.com/search?q=%23Mi…!

Was just thinking about Jason Lindner Big Band "Live at the Jazz Gallery" and how much it brightens my day every time I listen. Would love to time travel back to this concert! youtube.com/watch?v=RA5e2j…

I'm a bit late to the party, but T. Swift's Lavender Haze is such a strong opener! The slick, muffled, swelling background instrumental caught my attention. It creatively uses a lowpass filter for musical/storytelling effect, so I just had to dig in a little more! 1/5

FWIW I've also started a profile on Mastodon: I don't think new ownership here is taking things in a good direction. Also excited for less corporate dreck, and the opportunity for something new (and maybe fun again?) Join me! mstdn.social/@askennard