Dr. Brittany J. Carr

@drbjcarr

Assistant Prof @UAlberta. Genetically-modified frogs 🐸, retinal development & degeneration, imaging. She/Her. Views are my own. Canadian 🇨🇦

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Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· 1d

Saw some wild turkeys from the chair lift. It was a beautiful ride.

A pair of legs on a chair life above a green wooded ravine.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· 16d

It's been a while since I've taken my camera out. I accidentally chose some story board setting instead of sport mode. Behold, pride pelican! #birding

A photo of a pelican flying overhead. The sky is colored rainbow gradients instead of a normal blue sky.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· 18d

I love jasmine plants sometimes because even though you can barely underwater them and they might decide to up and die, you can also abuse them a fair bit: rip out their roots and cut them way back and they're like "yeah, I'll grow back and flower. No problem".

A sad cut down jasmine plant. There are only green sticks and no leaves left.

The same jasmine plant 2 week later with new growth and flowers.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· 26d

I'm trying a new coping mechanism where whenever my job upsets me or I get frustrated, I go to go to the gym and lift weights. The way things are going, I fully expect to look like this in about a year #science

John Cena (a very muscular man) dressed in a pink and purple frilly dress with a large bow in the front near the neck. He is also wearing a long blonde wig with yellow and pink flowers in his hair, and a small white cross-body handbag.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· 29d

This Norfolk pine has been with me since Dec 2020. I just repotted it and sat it next to its original pot for comparison. Hoping for many more years with it 💚🌲

A small pine tree decorated with paper ornaments and fairy lights. It's sitting in a little white pig pot with orange and black accents. The pig pot is wearing a santa hat.

A large pine tree in a white ceramic pot decorated with a wooden medallion with a pufferfish on it. It is sat next to the same small white piggy pot from the previous photo, which is now barely visible because it is so much smaller than the tree. There is a flatscreen tv and a small crocheted plant sitting on the tv stand next to the tree.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Jul 13

There's a guy in Southern AB who raised a bison and rides it around like a horse (not my photo).

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Jul 5

Walkies. We're so lucky to live here. 🌲

Two people walking through a green forest surrounded by large trees.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Jun 23

Yup. There's a lot of water in the river valley. There's an outlet/spillway in here somewhere.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Jun 15

Lovely micrograph of oil red o and toluidine blue staining in the liver, from one of the summer students in my lab.

A microscope image of liver cells labeled with a nuclei stain (blue) and a lipid stain (red). The green cells are red blood cells. The black spots are stain particulates.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Jun 10

Plein air watercolor kit is a success! It's fun to see the differences between the reference/outdoors spot and the painting.

A watercolor painting of a beaver pond surrounded by green grass, trees, and bushes. There is a blue lake and a beaver lodge in the pond.

A photo of the beaver pond that was the inspiration for the watercolor painting.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Jun 7

Oh, I ran into so many of these while out today. Didn't know what they were.

A large clump of black catepillars on a branch.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Jun 2

Currently at this part of the manuscript discussion writing process.

An image of a crazed man smoking a cigarette and pointing at a wall filled with paper and strings attached them to show possible connections.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· May 30

A quick sketch of some Scottish mountains from a youtube livestream to test my fully assembled plein air kit. I think its ready to go on walks with me. #sketchbook #urbansketching

A watercolour painting of a large green and grey mountain with some rustic, broken down fence posts in the foreground.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· May 28

Set my balcony up all nice today, and then I drew it. I guess this sketchbook page could be called "views from home".

A page from a sketchbook with two paintings made from watercolor. The top painting is a tv surrounded by plants. The bottom painting is a view of a balcony surrounded by a large tree with white flowers. There are hanging lights, some flowers hanging from the railings, and a small table with a candle on it.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· May 19

Found an old toy that I inherited from my grandpa. We used to call it a hologram maker. 🧪

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· May 7

Kids bridge jumping.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· May 4

I feel like I should explain more. TIL Pakistan has a culture of elaborately decorating their transport trucks, called Jingle Trucks. I looked up some images after I received this as a gift and she explained it to me and they are really artistically beautiful and incredible looking vehicles. E.g.,

A Pakistani "Jingle Truck", which is elaborately decorated with paint, tassels, and many other types of ornamentation.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· May 4

Grad student returned from a visit home and gifted me this truck. A perfect home for the frog.

An image of a stuffed frog hanging over the back of a black transport truck. The truck is elaborately decorated with neon pink, yellow, and orange filigree, metal bells, and rhinstones. There is a label on the truck that says "Brittany".

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Apr 28

Tadpole gut contents. I just think it looks neat.

An image of a piece of gut tissue showing cell nuclei in grey, cell membranes in orange, and autofluorescent gut stuff in orange and blue.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Apr 24

What a beautiful spring day 🌱 Unfortunately I just missed filming the snow tornado.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Apr 17

Happy to have attended the Fighting Blindness Canada Inherited Retinal Degeneration (IRD) Coffee Chat. Here, we engaged with patients with IRD, and I got to connect with them and speak about the basic science research processes, and what types of basic science are exciting for this field 🧪👀

Three people standing and smiling at the camera. There is a man with red hair and glasses wearing a white collared shirt and blue pants on the left. A woman with red hair wearing sunglasses on her head, and a dark blue shirt and black pants in the middle, and a woman with black hair wearing an orange flowery shirt and brown pants on the right.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Apr 16

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #HeadShots, any head shot will do. Here is a chinstrap penguin from Antarctica.

A black and white penguin with a golden eye.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Apr 4

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SmallBirdsInFlight Some swallows from a trip to Panama.

Two small swallows in the bottom right corner of the image. One is flying upside down and the other is sitting on a stump.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Apr 2

I like this image. That is all. 🐸🧪🔬 Muller glia (green) and their cytoskeleton (purple). And a couple of red blood cells have made an appearance.

An image of Muller Glia cells (green) co-localizing with a cytoskeletal marker (purple). There are two red blood cells hiding on the bottom of the image. In frogs, red blood cells have nuclei.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Apr 1

@alan678.bsky.social #BirdoftheDay theme is snacks. Here is a heron enjoying a giant fish. Maybe more of a meal than a snack.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Mar 29

Checked a bucket list item off today! I've always wanted to swim in the pirate ship pool at the West Edmonton Mall and today I did it. There are all sprts of cool things down there to see, including a wreck of the old submarines from the 80s-90s. 🤿

An image of a person waving. They are far away in a large pool in front of a rocky wall, a pirate ship, and a wooden bridge. The pool is inside of a mall.

An image of a person diving under the water and swimming through a narrow channel. They have a black wet suit and fins and bright blue scuba tank. They are surrounded by blue water and have a rocky wall on one side and a pirate ship on the other.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Mar 25

In today's episode of we accidentally broke biology, an eye in one of our tadpoles grew inverted, normally the blue/yellow bits point outwards/downwards. It was just one eye in a cohort, so its most likely just a random occurrence, but it will be neat to see if we can replicate it. 🧪🐸

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Mar 17

Looking through old photos and found this beauty. Frog rods, labelled with GFP under a XOP promoter (inner segment, orange) and wheat germ agglutinin (outer segments, cyan). I love how you can see the holes where the mitochondria are packed near the top of the inner segment (the ellipsoid zone). 🧪🐸

Frog photoreceptors showing a blue outer segment and a bright orange inner segment. Near the top of the orange inner segment is an area with small holes, where mitochondria are packed in very tightly to support the metabolic needs of outer segment synthesis. This area is called the ellipsoid.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Mar 13

Fish nails! 💅🎣

Fingernails painted to look like trout. They have yellow eyes, red gills, and black spots. The background is a pinky-blue-green color. The fish look more blue-green.

Fingernails painted to look like trout. They have yellow eyes, red gills, and black spots. The background is a pinky-blue-green color. The fish look golden-pink.

Dr. Brittany J. Carr@drbjcarr· Mar 11

I made this to demonstrate that for data visualization it's not only the color scheme, but the colors chosen for each channel, that matter. Here is the same image of rods and cones represented in RGB and simulated color blindness, showing how small changes can make a huge difference in what you see.