K. Skruber

Update: our #PeerReplication idea is now published in EMBO Reports: doi.org/10.1038/s443...

New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.

So incredibly cool to get the chance to be part of this project and so much fun watching these fast, dynamic cells move! Congrats to @hbrappap.bsky.social and @oliverio.bsky.social and everyone involved!

Wendy surrounded by synthesizer keyboards, computers, and audio gear, holding one of her siamese cats with another perched on an equipment rack

Wendy sitting in front of multiple computers with her keyboards visible to the side, holding one cat while another two cats and a parrot are on top of the monitors

a color image of Wendy sitting side-on to a computer or similar device, with all of her gear along the wall, and a cat and fluffy dog sitting on the carpet next to her looking up at her

closer in of the previous device she was sitting at that seems to have a roll printer built in, she's behind it with her hands on two synthesizer keyboards and one of her cats is on top of it batting at the fan exhaust in a series of images

For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends

trans men are also there for cis women taking t for perimenopausal and post menopausal symptoms as well. really underscoring the fact that all trans* medical treatment is still primarily for and majority used by cis people!

3 people who appear to be two parents and a child wait for a light on their bikes. They’re riding on Bryant - a sidewalk level protected bikeway

If you don’t frequently see families with kids traveling to destinations by bike, your bike network isn’t safe enough (&/or your zoning forces sprawl & car dependency).

Take a sneak peak at The Paradox of the Organism at Google books books.google.com/books?hl=sv&...

Don’t forget to pre-order!

hope silphium is next!

I wrote about how revoking access to medical care for trans people affects all of us in science. reskeets (are we calling them that?) appreciated. www.ascb.org/society-news...

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

We've got 35 sets of these posters left.

This project came from my evergreen frustration with our important messages getting trapped on social media algorithms.

Good stuff for posting on your local community bulletin board, classroom, office door, etc!

squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/scie...

Twelve species of human parasites make up half of the literature on microbial eukaryotes Although microbial eukaryotes comprise the majority of eukaryotic phylogenetic diversity and inhabit nearly all ecosystems globally, most research focuses on only a few species of human parasites. Her...

New lab pre-print up! "Twelve species of human parasites make up half the literature on microbial eukaryotes"
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We (led by UG Joanna Lepper and with @hbrappap.bsky.social) quantified all mentions of protist species in the scientific literature 🧵

#protistsonsky #microsky

Our study tracking the route actin monomers take from the cytoplasm into branched actin networks is now up on biorxiv! In it we learned that most actin is delivered into branched actin networks from polymerases on a membrane surface, not directly from the cytoplasm.

Building part of a microscope by aligning the laser using a series of mirrors on adjustable mounts

We built (part of) a microscope!

The Myth of Objective Data When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection.

The Myth of Objective Data, by Melanie Feinberg
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-... via @mitpress.bsky.social

Bluesky's topped 12 million users!

For any new joiners out there who are into SFF - welcome! There's a great community here.

And here's a thread of Starter Packs that might help you find your people:

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