Holly Moeller

Me: "OK I gotta go back to the lab."
Colleagues: "Of course she does, it's Holly."
Not my fault the denaturation incubation is perfectly timed for a 1-cocktail break. #figaday 4.264/n #year4 #overlyhonestmethods

A flat, colorful poster that reads "Avert Catastrophe! Home is where your cat should be" (Originally from 2021!)

Just me trying to schedule a meeting with 7 of my closest colleagues 🙃😭😅. For the grad students in the audience, this is why we gotta schedule your committee meetings months in advance. #figaday 4.263/n #year4

Excellent! Fortuitously, one of our lab techs is enamored w/ the one on the left (highly relevant to his recent paper submission), so I'm sure that will find a good home too.

Emmanuel Damas died in ICE custody after ICE failed to treat a tooth issue that turned into pneumonia.

ICE didn't even keep his family updated.

The Trump admin's cruelty knows no bounds.

I'm pressing with Senator Markey and Rep. Pressley to hold ICE accountable.

A photo of Doc Brown from Back to the Future holding jumper cables labelled "Deranged Activist" with a grant of NIH funding curves below it.

My weekly update on NIH funding

This includes awards made through 2/27/26

Warning: This thread contains data compiled by a known deranged_activist™. Do not read while operating heavy machinery.

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Meanwhile in Canada... 🇨🇦🍁🥌🤝

Fun visit from Allison Shaw chatting about mutualisms (between people, as well as between organisms). Grateful to be part of a generous and thoughtful community of theoreticians. #figaday 4.262/n #year4

I realized when I posted it that I flipped the phylogeny left-right but forgot the flip the micrographs. 😭 Ahh well, I'm sure we'll get another crack at the revision.

Last couple concepts before the midterm #figaday 4.261/n #year4

When the reviewers say Fig 1 should have some new data so you insert gratuitous UExM. #figaday 4.260/n #year4

Third paper acceptance of the year (pending a couple cosmetic changes) to former technician AG Camara, now a Ph.D. student in New Zealand! AG polished (a.k.a., did massive additional data collection) and wrote up a study of how #Ochromonas traits affect their predation risk. Forthcoming in MEPS!

Third paper acceptance of the year (pending a couple cosmetic changes) to former technician AG Camara, now a Ph.D. student in New Zealand! AG polished (a.k.a., did massive additional data collection) and wrote up a study of how #Ochromonas traits affect their predation risk. Forthcoming in MEPS!

Now threading these... [from a couple weeks ago] Second paper acceptance of the year to #wundergrad Amelie L'Etoile-Goga! Her lovely quantification of #Mesodinium grazing preferences is coming out soon in The Journal of Phycology.

Ceiba tree study, Isla Barro Colorado. Pencil on paper.
2007 by Debby Cotter Kaspari.

Ughhh this is one that I have never solved. I just wind up entering the entire file path ☠️

Mine is probably trying to set the y-axis minimum to 0 on a log-scale plot 🙃

For a lighthearted moment... Today in Coding Help Hours, someone misspoke and referred to a "mandatory code error." Which led to a series of jokes about "the seven mandatory code errors you must defeat to pass this class."

So tell us: What do you consider a "mandatory code error" in R?

Postdoc worked for three weeks and wound up changing two boxes in this figure. #figaday 4.259/n #year4

Unavailable for in-person meetings today, sorry not sorry. #MeetCapone

All the tiny revisions getting ready for resubmission. #figaday 4.258/n #year4

The water was near immaculate at high tides this week. Who’s been tuning in? Let’s stay blue in 2026 #barracuda #ooobarracuda #teeth #chomp #coralcitycamera

Yeah, just showing each channel in the composite individually :)

A selection of Thursday night's images, processed and assembled. Non-specificity in the PS-II antibody is super annoying but at least one gets the idea... #figaday 4.257/n #year4

Well by the time I finished up trophic cascades we only got halfway through this lecture, but the students are basically at the point that they can create the models themselves which is awesome. Once again probably gonna sneak in another seminar course for them in Spring... #figaday 4.256/n #year4

My vote is for this one - I’ve had it framed in anticipation! It’s my birthday present from one of the authors’ dad.

Oh I *love* this!!!

Four hours of sleep later... (actually this photo is from Tuesday but we are indeed dawn patrolling again today 🏐) #figaday #metadata