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Microphysiological systems, cell-substrate interactions. Postdoc at the Beebe Lab, UW Madison. Constantly thinking about the future of science! Photography and microscopy enthusiast 📸
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It seems easy to make fun of basic science – for example why would you want to study bacterial immune systems? But then you would have to admit that that’s exactly what led to the discovery of using CRISPR as an insanely good technology for genome engineering.

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

submitted 89 days ago • 539 comments

1/23 Big news for the #ObenaufLab! So excited to finally share our new study providing another puzzle piece, why immunotherapy fails in many tumors, now out in @Nature 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 91 days ago • 49 comments

The goal is not to have a zero risk project; those are generally not worth working on. People with a good relationship with risk are definitely not avoiding it. They are super honest about it and they basically make it their goal to slowly chip away at it. nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on? direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... A 🧵 1/n #AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

submitted 99 days ago • 48 comments

My one constructive criticism on BlueSky, as a community: we need to “like” less and “retweet” more. In the absence of an algorithm, that’s the way we find each other and reward good content.

submitted 94 days ago • 344 comments

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

submitted 96 days ago • 137 comments

🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov

submitted 95 days ago • 45 comments

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the skyline

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

We need to have a ‘code of conduct’ for reviewing manuscripts, like (1) if you say that something is not novel then provide the reference. (2) If you propose an experiment, state precisely to which claim it is crucial. (3) If you want to say something nasty then sign your name.

submitted 101 days ago • 12 comments

Too often we spend only two weeks choosing a problem and then many years trying solving it, but this limits our potential impact. A must read for PhD students: Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608651/

submitted 101 days ago • 6 comments

Hi everyone, I am a postdoc at UW-Madison developing microphysiological systems for predicting patient response to cancer therapies.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

wtf this is crazy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

On the side, please enjoy these stunning view of the northern lights from Wisconsin!

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

I had forgotten what it was like to go on social media and not instantly get pissed off, this is refreshing!

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