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

Grateful for morning runs and friendly department seminars. #figaday 5.059/n #year5

Having a hard time iteratively picking up & putting down this one, partly because there are *so many* datasets. #figaday 5.058/n #year5

Colors are boring but does allow us to see the variability in expansion factor across the gels. #figaday 5.057/n #year5

Confirming that when you take two images of the same gel, the bacteria in it are the same size. #figaday 5.056/n #year5