Shereen Chew

And I mentally crashed about 8 hours later and fell asleep on the sofa after trying to write a last minute proposal and put together a presentation within a week

07.05.2025 21:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I did my thesis proposal meeting yesterday!

07.05.2025 21:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm in a lecture about eye development and it truly is a beautiful organ. Hope to work with it again in the future

07.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alie (which is me) on a stage at a mic, in front of a tall red curtain

Alie ol’ Dadward cheesin on a red carpet holding a chrome, heart-shaped trophy award. I’m wearing a black skirt, black shirt and striped tights with old ratty combat boots

A graphic that says iHeart Podcast Awards winner! Best Science Podcast: Ologies with Alie ward

Best Science: Hidden Brain StarTalk Radio Stuff To Blow Your Mind Ologies with Alie Ward - WINNER Science Vs

Hey we won Best Science pod at the iHeart Awards among some fierce competition. Thanks to everyone who listens & thank you to our small but mighty team.

If you want to convert someone to an Ologite, but don’t know where to start, ologies.com is like a menu of topics.

Science matters. Like, A LOT.

11.03.2025 18:08 — 👍 679    🔁 48    💬 53    📌 32

This week’s Ologies episode is about protest art. The tl;dr is make stuff.

www.alieward.com/ologies/wond...

And @sarahmackattack.bsky.social is doing a free Zoom on the same topic in Monday 3/3:

lu.ma/53ks8h33

02.03.2025 21:53 — 👍 224    🔁 36    💬 2    📌 0

How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress

In times of revolution, many things change. If we are able to rebuild our research bodies, one thing we would Iike to see change is for-profit scientific journals.

Scientific publications should be open access if government-funded and journals should at minimum be non-profit.

💙 Aaron Swartz

02.03.2025 22:23 — 👍 988    🔁 103    💬 26    📌 6

Immunofluorescence image of sliced midbrain organoids. Bright green dots represent midbrain cells. Red represents actin (cell bodies). Mottled lighter green is likely background from the gel that houses the organoid.

It's not the prettiest IF images I've ever made, but it's a start for my project.

Also if anyone has tips on reducing background from matrigel, much appreciated!

Green - tyrosine hydroxylase
Red - actin

18.02.2025 22:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Academia is gazing wistfully at a growing pile of unread books and neglected Chrome tabs while procrastinating on a grant progress report by doomscrolling

12.02.2025 08:25 — 👍 53    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 1

The trick, my friends, is to go on living your life, full of love and passion, as powerfully as you are able.

03.12.2024 03:09 — 👍 959    🔁 175    💬 24    📌 11

An iPad being magnetically held to a metal cabinet.

Hate calculating media recipes for the hundredth time? Stick your tablet onto biocabinet and hope that it didn't fall down

24.01.2025 22:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also I want to 'sneakily' make retina organoids on top of the midbrain and intestine and liver organoids I've been making

24.01.2025 22:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I guess the only major update I have is that I have somehow weaned myself off coffee and have become unable to drink it unless I want to climb on walls at 2 am with my brain going way too fast.

24.01.2025 22:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi again! Been a minute. Not sure what to really post since I'm still lost in my PhD research and it's been 2 years 🫠

Is the sky still blue?

24.01.2025 22:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0