DJW @quokka@scicomm.xyz
An Aussie scientist in London.
Jack of all trades (master of none): biol/biochem, the μscopes; SMLM & analysis. Silicon Whisperer.
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Cheese > Flash drive
Forgot the link for that hecking #syntheticbiology news: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-faster-cheaper-dna.html
Enzymatic synthetic DNA would be safer to produce on small scales, so might be amenable to lab manufacture in a way that DNA never was with toxic, anoxic organic chemistry. Ultimately I'd love to see DNA printing become the new 3D printing: Farmers, hack thy own crops dammit
This is fascinating: How NASA's early images of the moon were much better than we realised: http://www.worldofindie.co.uk/?p=682
Welcome @balong!
540m-year-old #bug #tracks are #oldest #footprints ever discovered | #Science | The Guardian
Oh no! Too much solar power! What ever shall we do?
Everyone was relieved to be told that the fluid dripping from a pipe in the ceiling was only raw sewerage and not something worse from #TheLabUpstairs
When your university doesn't do research data storage (or backups or archives)...
Over many long years I've honed my skills at applying tiny (yet detailed and legible) writing to the sides of cryovials. Over and over again, like a miscreant writing lines for detention in school.
However, I think there's a threshold for how many other tubes you encounter along the way which were labelled simply "CELLS" or some other inky enigma, after which you go and buy the lab a label printer.
Here's a test... isn't it beautiful?
I thought this awful packing went out of style years ago. I've lost forty minutes, a pair of scissors, and a small amount of blood trying to get this open.
Does anyone have full-text access to https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814156-4.00015-X ?
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Welcome @man_in_space!
Some quokkas for @Gargron ... thanks for your help on Discourse!
Helloooo there fancy #sCMOS camera!
https://scicomm.xyz/media/Q_49RYu02wGjYtfcXPI
Hrm. So media attachment works from Mastalab... But not my browser...
Any #mastoadmins know where to begin troubleshooting the "Oops! An unexpected error occurred" error when trying to attach media to a toot?
Server doesn't seem to be struggling under load, isn't out of storage space, and permissions haven't changed.
I saw five hands and two feet playing the grand organ at the Royal Albert Hall and it was quite something.
@rik welcome!
