My brain entertaining me this morning

This is what they took from us (ok, I still have the album, but !) #nusrat #ustadnusratfatehalikhan

by Jove, I think that's all of them… 30+ more genomes on the way sometime soon, I do hope, but for now here are 54 Caenorhabditis SPO-11s

Probably too many nuclei are generated in total, but the eggs/apoptosis numbers look good. Here is some simple stem cell lineage tracing - I wonder if this picture is correct, that after a few days all the meiotic cells in a gonad arm descend from a single progenitor?

Messing around with C. elegans gonad arm simulation, with a goal in mind to reproduce things like RAD-51 focus distribution through the germline

The vast array of Unicode glyphs should get more attention in command line tools; this is one good use I've found for the box-drawing characters:

Per fess argent and vert, a gypsy moth larva rampant guardant, armed and langued gules

Slack webhooks for phenix refinement of alphafold structures, with a unique personality (IYKYK)

Experimenting with pulling N nearest neighbors (128 here) to a protein of interest in embedding space closer together in 2D UMAP space —the red human dot that approaches SYP-1 is SIX6OS1. The UMAP puts it quite far away to begin with, presumably under the influence of its nearest human neighbors

You had to go and nerdsnipe me… Now I know you aren't going to add up any of these 4,324 columns of RANDOM integers

I've done it again, the computer equivalent of running a gel the wrong way

Circos-style contact maps in ChimeraX: cxtoolshed.rbvi.ucsf.edu/apps/chimera...

I started a loop counting to 1 trillion (兆) in my terminal last week since my 5yo just learned a bunch of words for higher numbers … it's been fun checking it every morning. It should finish sometime this month!

I was thrilled finding one of these ↓ in a lab closing giveaway, since it got me through the early 2000s and is still my favorite.

That's the thing about this sequence, no matter how many you add it's still not "complete"! I chose X and O since it shows self-similarity if you highlight X or O

It was only -16° up on 八甲田山 田茂萢岳 (Mt Tamoyachi I guess) but the flying shards of ice made it seem more like North Neptune

In the Hakkōda mountains in Aomori today, 4m of snow

Ready for the Kansai/Nagoya area worm meeting @ Umeda

My daughter keeps practicing "Sur le Pont d'Avignon" on the piano and each time I think of

Somehow I can still see these three Fates in Fourier space

Long spider! Longer than you think!

too soon?

zooming in on some nictating dauers of an unknown (likely Auanema) species

Dauer larvae of an unidentified, Auanema-like nematode found with a dead beetle (they're nictating on its foreleg making a ghoulish phantom hand)

This weekend I examined some nematodes I found in a dead beetle in my yard — from the zigzag pattern of intestine cells I think it might be an Auanema (famous for having 3 sexual morphs: males, females, and hermaphrodites) species, but will have to check the sequence to know for sure:

I knew it was the season (they migrate up from the Okinawa islands around now), and had it in the back of my mind I might see one, but it was just a weekend trail run to the lab to do some worm maintenance, so very fortunate… I think I manage to see one of these once every 2-3 years

I ran down to Kyoto from the hills yesterday and was rewarded with the sight of a Chestnut Tiger · Parantica sita · アサギマダラ floating through the KU campus

Life was not that different in 1666

I struggle with Fiji's non-user-friendliness a lot. For 2 images, the "Pairwise Stitching" tool might be the most straightforward. The only controllable parameter is "check peaks". The ImageJ wiki link is: imagej.net/imagej-wiki-... It worked on two cropped regions here (one rotated and blurred)