Andrew Weems

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An old image of a salivary gland chromosome from Drosophila melanogaster, with lines across different segments indicating contact points.

The original circos plot? From the 1947-1948 Carnegie Yearbook, the page prior to McClintock's Mutable Loci in Maize paper.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Opinion | As the Texas Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent

Move fast, break things.

(whispering into my phone during the job talk) grok is that true?

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UT Austin professor says Trump's policies could disrupt scientific research and hurt the economy The Trump administration directed federal health officials to pause external communications last week, which prompted the National Institutes of Health to cancel meetings used to determine which resea...

Disruptions to the NIH impact more than just science; they will hit all Americans in our wallets. I spoke yesterday with Becky Fogel from @kutnews.bsky.social about the important role NIH-funded research plays in the economy. 🧵 1/n

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An office window decorated to look like cell biology themed stained glass, featuring the art of David Goodsell

Goodsell stained glass window in the office is done! Stoked about how it came out. Shoutout to wallpaperforwindows.com for their excellent printing job, and of course to the man, the legend, David Goodsell

A dividing budding yeast cell in steel, bronze, and silver, with apatite gemstones for the chromosomes. The sculpture rests in my hand, a physical cutaway view with many cellular structures visible.

Closeup of the sculpture, centered on the spindle pole body, a tiny structure looking like a stack of pancakes from the side, embedded in the long curved nuclear membrane, tethering the spindle (a splayed bundle of silver branches each terminating in a jewel chromosome). The spindle structure is polished silver, lodged in the polished bronze of the membranes and surrounded by bronze endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, and other structures.

A favorite commission this year, a dividing cell with an extra detail. Colleagues of a retiring researcher commissioned me to add the specific structure she worked on—the spindle pole body—to the sculpture. Here it is close up, in sterling silver embedded in the bronze nuclear membrane. 🔬#SciArt

Classics are classics for a reason! Are y'all trying out the new 2024 ruleset yet? I picked up the new Player's Handbook and it looks pretty good

Trying this out for #fluorescencefriday. 🧪 AktPH through an isosurface mesh of the plasma membrane. From this lattice lightsheet collaboration with @minesbioimaging.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The Boy from Jurassic Park’s College Application Essay Claws scrabbled at the door, each scratch a shock of fear to my heart. Inside the kitchen, my sister and I hid behind a stainless steel table, slic...

"The adult traits I acquired surviving dinosaurs will make me an enthusiastic and passionate member of a college community, whether I brave a Friday night dance or experiment in a new discipline, such as figure drawing."

I can sense both sides of your argument

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The People love amphipathic helices

🔬 Are you eager to dive into the world of light microscopy & learn from top-notch microscopists about its essential techniques for life science applications? If that sounds exciting, don’t miss out on this free, in-depth iBiology series! 👉 www.ibiology.org/online-biolo...

You can! I keenly feel the lack of your art on this platform... Please beautify my feed!!

Happy to see you here Reto!!

Intricate shape of a dendritic cell, guardians of the immune system.

Susanna Clarke Wrote a Hit Novel Set in a Magical Realm. Then She Disappeared. Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.

Writers are human and their work is worth waiting for.

(Gift article)

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We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed

We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed

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Tbh, my low level of sophistication in the area leads me to just mentally file all these things as "anime"

I'm like a dad that calls a PS5 "The Nintendo"

speaking both as your brother and ex-roommate, that actually sounds pretty close to the target...

I'm digging Bluesky so far... but the "Discover" algorithm seems SO resolutely confident that I'm here to consume sapphic furry anime content... any advice on training this thing? Can I get a "thanks but no thanks" button??