Great interview with Eve Marder www.thetransmitter.org/wp-content/u...
Today I expected something to take longer and be harder than I expected, yet was still surprised when it did. Very strange, these brains of ours.
Large pine weevil, Hylobius abietis. Here you can see part of the weevil’s compound eye. You can see that the hair usually has two or three fine tips. And of course, on the left, the mysterious hole between the eyes of these and many other species of weevils.🤷🏻♂️
It's interesting how when I'm feeling irritable so many more things are irritating. 🤔
Hullo bluesky ppl! A reminder that we have a very exciting, fully funded interdisciplinary PhD position for entry in 2024, in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of London - come and study cool biophysics of ciliated parasites of snails! www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
The new resin seems very interesting: "In order to improve radiation resistance we turned to resins previously developed for nuclear reactors". The FIB-SEM of material made using it looks quite nice (Fig 5). Wonder how it would do in high-dose TEM. ht @darbly.bsky.social
3D-Imaging of synapses in neuronal tissues with synchrotron X-ray ptychography https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.16.567403v1
Wiring diagrams of neural circuits are of central importance in delineating mechanisms of computatio
