Year 5 are looking at air resistance in Science. We have planned an investigation and prepared our parachutes. Next week we will test them to see what the optimal material, parachute size and string length is. We are really excited!
#ywcps #year5 #science

Slowly filling in the colors of the rainbow. #figaday 5.075/n #year5

We're doing it again 🥹

First class of the first day of school. What an incredible honor.

#LetsActuallyTeachThemCalculus #figaday 5.074/n #year5

Year 5 have started learning to play keyboards with two hands and what the treble clef is for.
#ywcps #year5 #music

More ingestion data #figaday 5.073/n #year5

Will's been counting away, adding another line of data to his megaplot. #figaday 5.072/n #year5

We're still improving model accuracy, but it's so great to have an automated pipeline built by #wundergrad Jonatan that quickly annotates the volumes of dozens expanded cells. Nice to see reps hang together w/ some variation across strains when bacterial-volume normalized. #figaday 5.071/n #year5

We have the kickoff meeting for MEFCON tomorrow, and I am both incredibly excited and incredibly daunted to start this 5-year project. #figaday 5.070/n #year5

One week ago, we opened the doors to #MakerFaireOC 2026—and what a weekend it was!

Thank you to every sponsor, volunteer, maker, and guest who helped make Year 5 so special. Your creativity, energy, and support made this our best Maker Faire OC yet!

#MFOC2026 #Year5 #MakerCommunity #ThankYou

How many days have I been on this airplane? Is it time for another figure yet? #wundergrad Will's added another experimental treatment since I've been gone, and remains undaunted by the number of samples he still has to count to estimate ingestion rates. #figaday 5.069/n #year5

Comparing manual and automated approaches to annotating zstacks. #figaday 5.068/n #year5

Year 5 have had a great morning with Freddie from Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club raising our heart rate and working up a sweat playing games to improve our rugby skills. #Ywcps #year5 #pe #rugby

And another quick hack job for decision-making back home in the lab. #figaday 5.067/n #year5

Quick data check for collaborators. #figaday 5.066/n #year5

What a privilege to meet former lab members thriving in their new roles. #EastCoastTour #figaday 5.065/n #year5

A little throwback to two weeks ago, when super-postdoc Clarissa was isotopically labeling seedlings! #figaday 5.064/n #year5

Only one replicate's worth of data so far, so treat with caution, but maybe we are seeing starvation make a difference to ingestion! #figaday 5.063/n #year5

Finally an acceptable version of the figure. Plus home runs, and another seminar hosted by more friendly people. #figaday 5.062/n #year5

You'd better believe that this version was instantly rejected by the lab reviewers. #figaday 5.061/n #year5

This figure is necessary but *oh* so boring. (The goal is to illustrate both the range and the magnitude of the data for the eight strains -- the mean and, frankly, the feeding treatments aren't relevant or important.) Suggestions welcome! #figaday 5.060/n #year5