Looking like a genius move for @Co_Biologists to launch their Mastodon instance this week.

#JustSaying #TwitterRIP

Happy belated #FluorescenceFriday. Here is another video of a curious macrophage (in magenta) that went underneath an ectodermal cell (arrow) and split its nucleus in half to get through. The nucleus is also extremely plastic and it can deform significantly without rupturing!

RT @J_Cell_Sci
We are delighted to announce that the joint winners of our 2022 paper prize are Kathleen Scheffler, Federica Giannini and Tom Lemonnier from the @BinyamMogessie lab, for their paper entitled ‘The prophase oocyte nucleus is a homeostatic G-actin buffer’
https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/135/6/jcs259807/274813/The-prophase-oocyte-nucleus-is-a-homeostatic-G

RT @AdamShellard
Roberto (@mayor_lab) & I wrote a review about some emerging themes related to how stiffness infuences morphogenesis.

Thanks very much to the @BiochemSoc for the invitation! #BiochemSocTrans

You can read it here - https://portlandpress.com/biochemsoctrans/article/doi/10.1042/BST20220826/232986/Sculpting-with-stiffness-rigidity-as-a-regulator

RT @eriksahailab
Opportunity to join our team & @thecrick to work on the tumour microenvironment funded by @ERC_Research Applicants with diverse backgrounds encouraged. Please RT.
https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Senior-Laboratory-Research-Scientist_R1128-2

So I just started watching The Last of Us and the fungus is Cordyceps. I didn't realise it's the same one that turns caterpillars into roots. We called those "Đông trùng hạ thảo" in Vietnamese, đông=winter, trùng=bug, hạ=summer, thảo=plant and used in traditional med 😱

Do you ever miss that feeling when you're younger and you fell asleep watching TV, and then the next morning, you just magically woke up in bed? I remember I was confused AF and wouldn't believe it was my dad who carried me to bed.

Now I'm just imaging one position at a time atm but this is very tidiest. Different positions have different z-stacks but when I use the Tiles setup, the software keeps applying the same z-stack to all positions, which is very annoying, despite I've specified for each position.

This might be a stupid question but is there really no way I can set up different z-stacks at multiple positions and then just image all in one go with Zen Blue @zeiss_micro? I can do that with Leica software but I could not figure out this with Zen Blue. Any idea?

It kinda reminds me of those fiber optic light toy:

I was looking through my old data from my PhD and came across this COS-7 cell with a rather interesting distribution of endosomes. They seem to localise just at the cell's lamella. Also, it is super bright. Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

You can't tell me this isn't likely an example of incomplete dominance?? 😱

10/10 So you can call me Anh here bc it's short and easy, but someone from Vietnam may call me Hoang Anh. I understand your confusion so I tried to make it easier for everyone (hence the "aka" in my name and signature). But I hope you learn something new about our culture :)

9/10 And things get even more complicated with important documents like passports and ID cards because correct name order is a must for us. And to explain to people all of the above, plus the composite name stuff is just too much, and likely won't be accepted for reason.

8/10 If I use Anh Hoang Le, then people would be able to refer to me by my preferred name, Anh✅. But in Vietnamese, this's wrong bc my name is now Anh Hoang❌. If I use Hoang Anh Le, then this would be in line with my correct name, Hoang Anh✅, but people would call me Hoang❌

7/10 Now, when I move here, things get a little bit complicated with the name order. I had to reorganise my name to fit document standards. When they ask for my first name and surname, is it Anh Hoang Le or Hoang Anh Le or Le Hoang Anh?

6/10 This is true for any other "Anh"-based names too. So eg Nguyen Phuong Anh, technically their first name would be Phuong Anh, not Anh. So if your fellow Vietnamese colleague has one of these names, you can ask them what they would prefer to be called as :)

5/10 ...he/him/brother. So in Vietnam, nobody calls me Anh because I wouldn't know who or what are they referring to. So technically, someone has to use both my middle name and first name, Hoang Anh, to refer to me. However, to make it easy for my international friends, Anh is ok

4/10 My name is Le Hoang Anh. According to the rule above, my first name is Anh, my surname is Le and Hoang is my middle name, right? Well, not quite. So my name belongs to a group called composite names. The first name on its own does NOT make sense. Anh in Vietnamese means...

1/10 A short 🧵 on the difference between Vietnamese and most Western names. This thread is because many of my colleagues still struggle to know what my actual name is and why it's often confusing, and rightfully so (reasons to follow). So here's a quick explanation: