Stacey Ogden 🦔

This one never gets old! My favorite Far Side 🤓

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a 3D render of a confocal image of an NIH3T3 cell expressing a membrane marker 🟢 showing long filopodia called cytonemes. Cytonemes reach toward neighboring cells to exchange information. Actin is ⚪ and nuclei are 🟠. 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social.

NC friends: I just called NC Senators Tillis and Budd--you should too

I got the same email - it's hard enough responding to human reviewers. The LAST thing I want is to learn about is what a robot thinks of our preprint. Hard pass.

Grad student Christina at the bench

Miriam running during a past marathon

Shout out to Ogden lab members grad student Christina Wang and lab manager Miriam Dillard Stroud as they run the @stjuderesearch.bsky.social half marathon today! Both have reached Hero status for their fundraising for the kids of St. Jude! 💪🏼🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️

I love everything about this - somebody needs to do a set for Memphis including a rat with a chicken bone 😆

Development's Pathway to Independence Programme Our grants support and encourage the sharing of knowledge throughout the community by facilitating international collaboration, event attendance and the organisation of scientific meetings, conference...

Applications are open for @dev-journal.bsky.social 2026 Pathway to Independence (PI) programme, supporting postdocs applying for group leader positions:

Mentoring
Profile raising
Leadership training
Network building

Spread the word...

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“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.”

Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it.

Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

This is the kind of news reporting I want to see right now 😆

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

Ha! Perfect! 🦔

You dont have to be in the profession of science to contribute to science. You can do publishable research as a hobbyist too.

Exploring the living world, with whatever means you have, without any sifting for grander purpose or ulterior motives, is such a unique high. There is so much beauty and so many stories to tell around the proverbial campfire, and so many people are missing out.

Gotta fix this.

Just in time for Thanksgiving 😂

In a short time, we’ll have fake AI scientists fabricating fake AI results reviewed by fake AI reviewers. This data will then be text-mined by AI and ultimately delivered to mindless AI consumers.

Horrifying.

I really hope there is some sort of information embedded in these AI generated "data" image files that journals will be able to use to identify this type of fabrication. 🧪

I suspect zero chance a reviewer would identify this as being fake.

Equally lame.

Most boring real life adult thing one must occasionally do...

Look for the "best deal" on tires.

So lame.

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Our lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow. The position is intentionally broad, as we are looking for outstanding researchers from diverse scientific backgrounds to advance our understanding of cilia and ciliopathies: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526

Admire this historic picture of Saturn, captured by Voyager 2 in 1981. The giant planet fills nearly the whole view, with north tipped toward the top-right corner. A pale band crosses the middle; along its bottom edge there’s a greenish oval (it would look brown in ordinary light). Just above and left of it is a brighter yellowish patch, and between them some small clouds stand out. Higher up, against the black sky, you can see two moons: bigger Dione on the right and smaller, icy Enceladus on the left.

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I was browsing through NASA’s Photojournal archive when I found this historic image of Saturn, taken by Voyager 2 on Aug. 11, 1981.

The spacecraft was about 14.7 million kilometres away when the picture was captured.

Image credit: NASA/JPL

➡️ science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

🔭 🧪 #histsci

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Ten days left to apply to be a @crick.ac.uk Early Career Group Leader

Closing date 27th November

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Lucky you 😉😁

Same

I need a program that auto saves all the drink recipes you post 😋

Lots of folks dislike how early it gets dark during this time of year.

Hot take: I love it because my office has a west facing window and golden hour looks gorgeous from my desk 🤩

It's just what I need to recharge for the last couple/few hours of the day 🌇

HUGE congratulations to Miriam Dillard-Stroud for being recognized as a @stjuderesearch.bsky.social Living Our Values Ambassador! Miriam is a GREAT collaborator to everyone in the St. Jude community! This is a very well-deserved honor! 🥳🤩🙌

Congratulations, Steffen!

At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.

I'm so happy for you @pgtimmune.bsky.social! I am also very sad about how much I'm going to miss you here at SJ! I'm crying and clapping at the same time! 😭 👏 🧪

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