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Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk! Amazing talk, Infectious enthusiasm and a refreshing reminder of why we all should stay curious...

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#FocalPlaneCorrespondent @varsha-mahapatra.bsky.social blogs about her experience at #biologists100. Varsha’s highlights include Manu Prakash’s @prakashlab.bsky.social plenary lecture & the session on climate change with Jane Francis & Hans-Otto Pörtner. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/05/01/b...

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🔬🍻 We're hosting Pint of Science, a vibrant festival in Palo Alto! May 19-21 at Café Venetia, Scotty’s Bar & Sprout Café. Pick your favorite topics! ✨ Bioprinting: Organs like Westworld? 🤖 Brains in Virtual Worlds 🧬 Tiny Mighty Cells etc. 🔍 PLUS: Origami Microscopy wonders @prakashlab.bsky.social

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Adventures In Microscopy: Sweet-William 1/3 The first flower I put under the #Foldscope from my Mother’s Day bouquet was a Sweet-William. Enjoy! The pollen grains were sooooo tiny - it was hard to get a good picture of them! (340X+5X) #FearlessMicroscopy #STEAM #ScienceIsFun #EduSky

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Here's to helping 4H Ohio students participate in #FearlessMicroscopy!! #Foldscope #TeachBetter #MagnifyCuriosity #Equity #Access #ScienceIsFun #EduSky

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✨ Exciting news! Our new book “Microscope Mysteries” is here 🎉📘 Created in collaboration with 4-H Ohio and The Ohio State University, this hands-on guide invites youth to explore the hidden worlds revealed through a Foldscope 🔬 Get your copy now 👉 extensionpubs.osu.edu/microscope-mysteries #STEM

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Microscopes in space people - what else can I say. Awesome working with @adwol.bsky.social Don’t fly without one.

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Delighted that our paper is finally out at npj Microgravity! We built a microscope to work in 0g, on board a @esa.int parabolic flight - FlightScope - and imaged signal transduction in yeast. Supported by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social . doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Adventures in Microscopy: Lizard Skin Part 3! Observing the shed scales from a Carolina anole foot made me feel like I was studying a dragon! Tiny lizards can spark a powerful imagination when viewed under a Foldscope! #FearlessMicroscopy #ScienceIsFun #STEAM #MagnifyCuriosity #EduSky

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This is a great way to use Foldscopes and microscopy for a creative writing prompt! #Teachers - how do you encourage student #creativity with science tools?

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Federal research cuts impact local economies, and stall progress. Publish an opinion piece in your hometown paper on June 16th to SPREAD THE WORD about how scientific research contributes to the everyday health and wealth of the general public. #McClintockLetters blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...

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Just returned back to land after an incredible expedition with Alex/Hannah/Enrico from lab - again in California Currents - joint with Ann Dekas lab. We tested a new carbon sequestration idea & mapped inhabitants of deep dark ocean & more. Filled with magical (read science) experiences. Thread soon.

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Me when I see @prakashlab.bsky.social referenced in a Ze Frank True Facts episode

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(1/n) Excited to announce FrugalScience 2025 (www.frugalscience.org). In its 5th year - Frugal science is a global community of creators engaged in bringing affordable solutions to the world. Anyone around the world can sign up (for free): form here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Many school students get a chance to peer at miniature life through a microscope, but while growing up in a remote town @prakashlab.bsky.social wasn't able to. That didn't curb his curiosity. Now he makes frugal microscopes (some out paper!) to expand outreach. thebrilliant.com/2025/04/02/s...

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Call to arms by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social for biopharma to mobilize in support of the engines that power them - federally supported biomedical research and drug evaluation

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What an auspicious venue for an immersive biophysics of #cilia meeting... Which of course began with some obligatory foldscoping at the breakfast table @prakashlab.bsky.social @friedrich-group.bsky.social

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My favorite NPR story blog - “Goats and Soda” sent a writer and photographer to a rural school in India; an early adopter of Foldscope. A wonderful photo story of kids “reading nature”. In this current challenging climate - the kids show us the way with joy and wonder. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Fan girl moment to meet and network with @prakashlab.bsky.social who also kindly gifted a @teamfoldscope.bsky.social microscope, which I'm excited to use!! #biologists100

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Inspired by the talk of Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social at #biologists100, I decided to build the #foldscope on my way home. Amazing example of ways in which we can make science (+the joys of observing nature) more accessible. Time to join the microcosmos community! @teamfoldscope.bsky.social

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What do chicken retinas & Arctic brittle star communities have in common? Hyperuniformity—a hidden order in nature that balances chaos & structure for optimal function. Inspiring talk by @prakashlab.bsky.social at @biologists.bsky.social

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Incredible talk by Manu Prakash from the @prakashlab.bsky.social and founder of @teamfoldscope.bsky.social. "Don't underestimate how infectious wonder is!" @biologists.bsky.social #Biology100

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“Play and share” - inspiring and important words from Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social at this morning’s session #biologists100 @biologists.bsky.social

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Our final plenary session at #biologists100 is on emerging technologies with talks from Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social. You can read our interviews with Jennifer and Manu in JCS: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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Starstruck to meet Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social inventor of the amazing Foldscope @teamfoldscope.bsky.social He is full of inspiring ideas on how to share the wonder of the natural world with EVERYONE. So important. Maybe there are things we can all do to help #biologists100

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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

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Sad news… A giant in fluid mechanics and particulate flows cse.umn.edu/cems/news/me...

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This was a lot of fun to share a philosophical anchor to what we do and why we do it. Curious if it resonates with others in the community. See below for link:

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Our latest interview is with Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social. We discuss Manu’s career path and his scientific philosophy. Manu is one of our plenary speakers at #biologists100, where he’ll be speaking about emerging technologies. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

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One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

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We are speechless. 🌊 We lost so many from the #OceanAcidification #mCDR team and so many other #NOAA departments today.

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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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Here is a sign-on letter for individual scientists and other experts to speak out and protect NOAA. I signed it and I encourage you to sign it as well. secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-prote... 🌎🧪🦑🐠

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Climate change has never been clearer, and this is in part due to brilliant work by US climate scientists. Yet the Trump administration is trying to outlaw even the word 'climate'. The "leader of the free-world" is undermining that title in every possible way.

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Graduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...

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First “Ten Earth” Planktoscope network live stream - w/ Ethan Li in the lab where we are building continuous low-cost plankton monitoring. This is a test but enables us to continuously monitor fragile ecosystems at microbial resolution. Enjoy and tag what you see. m.youtube.com/watch?v=AGjg...

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With blatant attack on science and global development - we as scientists have a few choices. Either we crawl in a corner or we forge ahead & keep executing based on our value system. Don’t have time to be depressed - communities need us most urgently now! kingcenter.stanford.edu/events/stude...

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