Rob Mullins (he/him)

You have a communal CO2 supply for tissue culture incubators? That sounds like it could be both really good and really bad.

scanning EM of red blood cells with thin spiderweb-like covering due to maybe fibrin?

Hang in there!
This is fibrin (maybe?) on red blood cells of human choroid, looks weird to me

That apartment tile looks exactly like your desktop image, even same scale!

A computer screen with a few windows open. A couple windows are of microscopy images, but another is of an apartment

Started using Fiji to estimate apartment sizes from Zillow images. Being a tall fella, you gotta prep for these things.

I am told this is "On Brand"

Tributes paid to pioneering eye researcher Professor Pete Coffey Tributes have been paid to one of the world’s top eye researchers, Professor Pete Coffey, who has sadly passed away after a long illness.

It’s incredibly hard to express what Professor Pete Coffey meant to so many of us. The Macular Society has written a beautiful tribute to Pete and I'm honoured to have contributed a few words.

Thank you, my friend, for so many happy days.

www.macularsociety.org/about/media/...

Screen capture of Jean-Baptiste EMMANUEL Zorg, industrialist billionaire villain who conspired to sell out humanity to the Ultimate Evil in the Luc Besson masterpiece, The Fifth Element.

They look like something that should be spying on Jean-Baptiste Zorg

Brains always travel in single file to conceal their numbers!

UTINNI!

Toy bantha with Tusken raider riding atop it

Very cool!
I thought for sure that image on the right was a bantha though

High altitude species have reduced olfactory receptor repertoires! The reduction has happened repeatedly throughout mammals.
Why?
We're not sure, but perhaps because there are fewer things to smell above the tree line!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lJxH3QW8S...

International Society for Eye Research @iser.bsky.social plz :)

Yep, just the comments of the three individual reviewers though, not a summary of discussion (since there's no group discussion to summarize)

Here is a cool post for #MicroscopyMonday.
Here's a 3D visualization from my recent project using #SP8 confocal #microscopy.
Red = DAPI nuclear staining
Green = Photoreceptor transduction via AAV serotypes with reporter/ #biosensor genes
This image shows successful targeting of photoreceptors.

It’s been a weird, unproductive week at the lab and I’m feeling a little down. So here are 10 cool facts about vision:

On Sunday I will cycle 50 km to raise money to support research to prevent blindness. If you can, please sponsor me! fightingblindness.akaraisin.com/ui/MOVEFORSI...

Awe-some! We are so delighted to have you here!

Now that it is official, I am pleased to announce that the Shyam lab will relocate to the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Iowa, effective August 2025. I cannot remember ever being this excited about a new chapter in my professional life!

For those using Notion. What are the pros and cons? Seems a lot of labs use Notion for lab and project management.

Great place!

Happy to share our collaborative work showing a switch in integrin signaling in young versus old primary human trabecular meshwork cells. a5 integrin expression is lost in old cells, while avb5 becomes activated. iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

These “inhibit the inhibitor” things in biochemistry always confuse me

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Ur example of the Archaeopteryx in the Berlin museum of Natural History

That's so great! Seeing the one in Berlin was kind of a religious experience for me; I had seen its likeness in Golden dinosaur books older than me since I was a little kid!

Vision science students/early-career faculty: Get yer
@iser.bsky.social travel awards for the 5th ISER/ @brightfocus.bsky.social Foundation Glaucoma Symposium (October 8-11th at the Emory Conference Center and Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA). iserbrightfocusglaucoma.org

Sign on office door that says Doing tech support for Mom, stay away

You know it's serious when I have to put this sign on the door

No Red Wigglers, the Cadillac of Worms? 😢

It was great fun to write this review together with @katrinfranke.bsky.social and @serenariccitelli.bsky.social on behavior-specific computations in the moose retina.