This 2012 electron microscope video is from James Tyrwhitt-Drake, a scientist at University of Victoria’s Advanced Microscopy Facility. In order, you're looking at: An amphipod (~5 mm = 5000 microns) A diatom (50 microns) A bacteria (1 micron). Life at every scale! (📷: James Tyrwhitt-Drake)

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Not sure how many smell/taste/interception scientists are here but for those that are, #AChemS2026 is starting soon. The day's travel brought me here, and that's alright for now

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A projection atlas of excitatory and inhibitory inputs to the preBötzinger Complex: substrates for multimodal breathing control www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

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“Security agencies staffed by dumb thugs are typically inept at identifying genuine subversive threats.” Extraordinary piece

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Growing up, we had many assigned books at different levels of schooling. But I don’t ever remember being assigned a science focused book. Now more than ever that needs to be changed and Carl Sagan’s Demon-Haunted World should be assigned in middle or high schools. 🧪

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