Dr. Allyson Sgro

My office orchid bloomed for the first time in years to celebrate today. Happy Thanksgiving!

I also love how tea often tastes like coffee because they mix up the water and coffee tanks so even when this time they filled with water, you still have a hint of the stale coffee from before.

Scientific Computing Associate - Data-Driven Equation Discovery Primary Work Address: 19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA, 20147 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is a pio...

We are looking for a scientific computing associate interested in data-driven equation discovery here at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. This is an alternative to a postdoc that you can use to move into academic or software jobs. Please spread the word!

hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Curious about or committed to collective behavior? Please register and submit your abstract ASAP! We are hoping to have a big crowd in Heidelberg in February.

Happy halloween to all my biologists who have ever cultivated an organism by feeding it another organism's blood

Happy Halloween @hhmijanelia.bsky.social!

Clearly my science is still stuck in the 2010s. Thanking my AT rich Dictyostelium genes for this problem.

The tunnel from the Main Terminal to Terminal A/B at IAD is one of my favorite finds of the year. Quiet ad free walk time.

Oh wow, congratulations to you and them!

Oh wow, delayed pop!

Popovers in oven, one popped less and is less browned.

Crystal clear experimental outcome!

Person in an inflatable axolotl costume at a No Kings protest.

Even axolotls agree: no kings!

#nokings

Picture of cat with No Kings sign.

Caturday meets No Kings day.

Very excited to be co-organizing this meeting. Hope to see you there!

Love America and want to see us be great again? Remember, here we have no kings!

See you Saturday.

Security at ZRH was not amused by all the cheese I stuffed inside the large cratered moon vase I have been carrying across Europe.

One more flight until the moon, cheese, and I are all home!

Poster Image with a woman yelling into a megaphone.; Title reads: Fight for Science. Bubbles read: 3:00pm, Rally, Oct 17th.; Subtitle reads: Health and Science for the People!; A pin emoji with text: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC; a Virtual Call emoji with text: Join us virtually at: bit.ly/4mXwrfY ; bottom corner has QR code and a logo for Stand Up For Science

FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏
⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025
📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC!
RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️

📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l

We’re two weeks away from the largest day of peaceful protest in American history. No matter where you live, there’s probably a No Kings Day event happening near you to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Become a Theory Fellow @hhmijanelia.bsky.social

🧪 Work alongside experimentalists to test and refine theories
🎯 Receive mentorship from leading computational scientists
🔁 Contribute to Janelia’s cross-disciplinary research environment

Apply by Nov. 3 @ https://janelia.link/theoryfellowprogram

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Oooh, let me know how it is!

They changed this to be one or the other (apply or first or second year). Super uncool to change the rules this close to a deadline or not do a multi-year phaseout.

I think there was an inequity a few years ago in that it depended on if you’d been a “full time” grad student for a year or not, and how programs treated summer was the real issue. Some places could apply only their first and some also the second year.

Wow. Just. Wow. Deeply impressed.

Or it has been n days since we discovered something really awesome about slime molds that makes you rethink everything you knew about what cells do?

I am on hold with the IRS and the representative has “picked up” so I’m out of the queue but isn’t responding. Lost 30 minutes in line.

After three hours waiting last night to find out I was routed to the wrong department.

Government efficiency.

Also, because we are not living in a great timeline, had to get vaccinated while on a trip to IL on my way to the airport.

Fellow Virginians, remember the stakes in our next general election. Early voting starts soon on September 19!

I noticed SpikeVax on the syringe and was told they were reserving mNexSpike for over 65 and the immunocompromised. Asking for the swap and explaining I’m immunosuppressed was easy, but I did still have to ask.

PSA for others who are also immunosuppressed and interested in trying mNexSpike: flagging you are immunosuppressed and getting a confirmation saying you’re scheduled for mNexSpike is insufficient to guarantee that’s what’s in the syringe. Check and ask for what you want!

The Hamilton pipette pens feel way better in the hand and make better hair sticks than the Eppendorf pens. Unfortunately, when you turn the dial to change the amount, the numbers move in the opposite direction and it’s very disconcerting after years of other pipettes.