Dr. Brittany J. Carr

And frogs!

Have fun!

A close up image of a Xenopus frog.

Toured the National Xenopus Resource @mblscience.bsky.social today, and I'm pleased to report that the #Xenopus genus definitely comprises 100% charming little weirdos 🐸

And today: Dave Zenisek and more ribbons!
@mblscience.bsky.social Visual Neuro course

Same to you!

We're in the same boat at U of A. Alberta labor board complaint for bad faith negotiating and everything. Grateful I can write for next year, but I need to get on it.

Glad you made it safely.

So sorry for the loss of your dad. He sounds like he was an incredible person.

The simple retina and optic lobe of a bobtail squid eye and brain. Orange = wheat germ agglutinin, magenta = Hoechst nuclear stain, cyan = tubulin

Had the fun and privilege of imaging the eye from a bobtail squid. None of my vertebrate markers worked (as expected), but got some nice images nonetheless :) 🦑🧪

Van Itallie et al. present a deep analysis of changes of ∼15,000 proteins and ∼11,500 phospho-sites at 11 developmental time points in Xenopus laevis embryos. Published in Developmental Biology. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #xenopus #frogs

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Hi all, we got a grant for a cool project that will follow up of our paper published a few months ago (see below). We will explore how light acts as a morphogen to instruct PCP. If you are looking for a postdoc position and interested in this topic, please reach out!

Sam has this, and I end up covering it with a jacket all the time when I drive his car because it reflects the sun and blinds you. Super obnoxious.

Vancouver is enough of an excuse. Go see the old growth forests and ocean and eat excellent Cantonese food 😋

Potentially! I have done a podcast episode before a long time ago. I will check yours out.

How Better Models of Macular Degeneration Could Help Prevent Vision Loss Most experimental models that researchers use to study macular degeneration fall short. BrightFocus Macular Degeneration Research grant recipient Dr. Brittany Carr aims to change that.

Thank you to the the @brightfocus.bsky.social for featuring my research on retinal deposits and their potential association with AMD. 🐸🧪 @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social

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This is incredible!

She is so precious

My first night in Edmonton was very similar. At least I had a queen air mattress to sleep on though 😂

How many Canadian monies for the trailer? (I 100% cannot afford it, but I can dream)

Concentrate on making your little part of the world as good as it can be, instead of despairing about being unable to change the entire thing.

Ah yes. The ancient texts.

YAAAAAAAASSSSSS I look forward to excellent science (and maybe some collabs!) 🥳🥳🥳

An image of two white cassette tapes. One says, "Power. How to get it". The other says, "Turning Marginal Employees Into Productive Employees".

An image of cassette tapes. They are titled, "Getting to Yes", "You can if you think you can", "Coping with difficult people", and "Intuitive Memory Guide".

Some banger cassettes from the free garbage pile today. #management #science 🧪

Having to sit at a cryostat by resting my leg on the lower shelf of a table is peak ergonomics (/s obvs). Long legs are a blessing and a curse, but mostly a curse when it comes to cryosectioning😅
🧪 #microscopy

I was wondering why she was missing her head lol

That's some molt

An image of frog embryos with severely swollen bellies due to edema. We don't know why this is happening and are asking for advice to correct it.

We are experiencing severe edema in developing tadpoles before 1 week old. I haven't dealt with this before, and was wondering if anyone had suggestions? We tried 0.1x MMR & tadpole ringer + bicarb, but no difference. It's also seemingly random, since we've also had completely healthy batches🧪🐸

Academia is fun because what other job do you get to be a writer, editor, project manager, accountant, HR, and general contractor all at the same time 🥰

AI, peer review and the human activity of science When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .