Gary Laevsky

12 systems will be there, Bruker x3!, 3i, Leica, ASI, MBF, LiT, LifeCanvas x2!, and Miltenyi! Amazing cutting-edge technology, accessible instructors, and Bar Harbor! Please re-bluesky (what do you call it here:))!

We are so excited to start day four with a wonderful talk from Kara Cerveny! #lsfm25 #science #microscopy #education @mdibiolab.bsky.social @kara-cerveny.bsky.social

Step @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Went to collect some samples... Here is a pink tunic ate!

Calm before the storm…

Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

The AQLM Queens of Super-res lead evening discussion. Dr. Gustavsson and Dr. Lidke help us figure out how to look REALLY close. #AQLM2025 @gustavssonlab.bsky.social @aqlm.bsky.social

MDI Bio Lab’s Light #Microscopy Facility (LMF) went from unknown to Top 5 in the US, in just five years. In this article, LMF Director Frederic Bonnet discusses how if #Maine loses @microscopy_in_maine due to federal funding cuts, it loses a key hub for #biomedical research. #standwithscience 🧪 🤝 🦞

I took my 8-year old niece to the office with me on “Workplace Visit Day." As we walked around the office, she got very upset and started crying, so l asked her what was wrong. As my coworkers gathered round, she sobbed loudly, "Uncle Greg, where are all the clowns you said you worked with?!"

OH SHIT HE'S DOING THE THING

Notice to flat-Earthers all around the globe: Please alert the authorities if tonight’s Total Lunar Eclipse looks like this:

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🧪☀️⬇️ Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!

In case you missed it, the proposed NIH research grant caps would mean a 27% reduction in expected funding for the MDI Bio Lab. These funds are essential for supporting ongoing grants that drive our research, training, and outreach programs. Today we #StandUpForScience2025! #standwithscience 🧪 🤝 👩‍🔬

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

Love seeing some amazing Lattice LightSheet movies resurface a decade later to remind us what can be done with this crazy gentle microscopy technique! Thanks Pablo for bumping this amazing one @pjsaez.bsky.social! www.intelligent-imaging.com/lattice

okay🧪🔬 nerds, I'm pissed. Emailed a CZI fellow, asking her if CZI will bend the knee. Her reply: chanzuckerberg.com/blog/refinin... I've copied the important part below (note the signatory) Please retweet or whatever to amplify. You are naive if you're not taking action. I hate this.

Basic research is a foundation of the scientific world. But what is it, exactly? #standwithscience #standupforscience2025 🧪 🤝 🧬 🐟🎸 🍎

Bring your own samples! Learn from some of the experts! Go shopping for a system (ALL major vendors will be there!). Go hiking in Acadia!

Hey nerds, Day 2 of the Tissue Clearing Workshop at #MiCrON. Tomorrow we'll see if we can resolve these growth cones imaged here with @the.3i.social lightsheet #microscope at 2x2x2 voxel resolution 🧪🔬.

The pages that are set to be revived include information for patients about HIV testing and HIV prevention medication, guidance on contraceptives and data on adolescent and youth mental health.

What keeps science running? It’s not just brilliant minds—it's also things like electricity and lab space! MDI Bio Lab's @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social talks to @mainepublic.org about how at-risk #NIH funding supports the infrastructure behind biomedical breakthroughs. #standwithscience 🧪🤝 🍎🧬

Join us at MDI Bio Lab (@mdibl-lmf.bsky.social) for an exciting 2025 lineup of #microscopy courses designed for researchers & professionals — May 16-23, June 1-7, and Aug 5-13! #microscopymonday #fluorescentproteins #lightsheet 🧪 🤝 🧬 🐟🎸 🍎 Learn more & enroll now! mdibl.org/education/co...

This sucks.

Don't forget to water your bear..🐻🚿😅

This one hour of day seven of the presidency.

2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.

Nerds and friends of nerds here is the link to your senators emails www.biologicaldiversity.org/action/toolb...

Nerds #NIH_Study_Section_Canceled has to get trending. HHS has banned external comms until Feb 1-ish. Probably/likely waiting for Bhattacharya & Kennedy to get confirmed. Their teams will decide what happens next IMO. HHS = NIH, FDA and the fucking CDC.

for those of you that don't know me personally, I'm the guy at the bar whose glass is half full of hallucinogens... but in this case, I'm fully sober when I tell you this Comms ban from #HHS is IMPORTANT. If you don't care about #NIH, you better care about the #FDA & the #CDC.

Does this mean NIH people cannot go to Photonics West? AIM? I am in shock. The ramifications ....

Oooookay…

anyone heard anything about #NSF? No "national science foundation" on @bsky.app anyone still have a twitter account that can poke #nsf?

I'm not saying I'm old... but when I was in school, we made ashtrays for our parents in art class.

This still isn’t big enough!!

Holy shit. All study sections shut down effective today! This is nuts!

It begins

@ritastrack.bsky.social how does this ban on NIH comms affect you and yours?

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

Deadline for applications to the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course 2025 has been extended to 31 January 2025. It's shaping up to be an exciting event! Details below and at www.centreforbiophotonics.com/somc25 🔬 #Microscopy #ECRChat #MicroSky

#microscopy Today at my small repair shop... It is going to be fun! Insect biology with plastic lenses...

#JOBSEARCH If you are looking for a good old experienced scientist for consulting, copy-editing and all kind of science related jobs. Microscopy, cell biology, harm reduction, blaschka models. Based in France as I am supporting my wife's career and it matters. Please re post, send any offer my way

Happy 84th birthday to Anthony Fauci