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Microscopy Memes πŸ”¬ @MicroscopyMemes

Memes about #microscopy image processing/analysis (especially in the context of core facilities and labs)

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Why do my cells look blurry?
Meme: Guy pouring oversized oil container onto salad Text on guy: Person on the scope before you text on salad: 20x objective

ALT Meme: Guy pouring oversized oil container onto salad Text on guy: Person on the scope before you text on salad: 20x objective

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Testing oil objectives with spring-loaded nose cones
cinesthetic.
@TheCinesthetic
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New programmers adding comments
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Bring a bucket and a mop for this #NanoPyx
Ricardo Henriques@HenriquesLab
15 Aug 2023
πŸš¨πŸ”¬πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»πŸ€–Thrilled to share our newest preprint introducing #NanoPyx! - a new bioimage analysis framework capable of 10x speedup through our custom #LiquidEngine #MachineLearning! The brainchild of @Bruno_MSaraiva @inesmcunha @Antonio_DBrito et al (1/9) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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me (lactose intolerant): Do you have almond milk? Technician making blocking buffer: what
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Biosafety officers looking at this thread

ALT Jean Valjean from Les Miserables staring through a window looking distressed

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Most people don't pay attention to acquisition order on #confocal #microscopes. Frequently, nuclear stains like DAPI are the first channel. Instead, let the labelling inform you. For example: Channel 1: Desmoglein 1 Channel 2: Plakophilin 2 Channel 33342: Hoechst 33342
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When your large microscopy data finally uploaded to the data repository and you click on a different section before saving

ALT Dong Nguyen from "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" slowly closes laptop before the camera cuts to it being thrown out of a window

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Thanks Pfizer

ALT live-cell fluorescence microscopy but the hardware autofocus stops working intermittently

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When I'm checking alignment of the STED scope and Jerry asks what I'm imaging

ALT Clip from Seinfeld where Kenny Bania says "That's gold, Jerry! Gold!"
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When someone says "statistics" in response to "What are you looking to get out of these images?"

ALT Scene from The Notebook as Ryan Gosling's character repeatedly asks "What do you want" to Rachel McAdams' character
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Surely this'll convince sCMOS manufacturers to do something.
Meme: Sad Wolverine left out of party Top: two people kissing with text "(s)CMOS correction algorithms" and "most (s)CMOS cameras) Bottom: a more zoomed out shot with a frowning Wolverine with text: "cameras with manufacturer dark current correction that can't be turned off"

ALT Meme: Sad Wolverine left out of party Top: two people kissing with text "(s)CMOS correction algorithms" and "most (s)CMOS cameras) Bottom: a more zoomed out shot with a frowning Wolverine with text: "cameras with manufacturer dark current correction that can't be turned off"
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What do you do after justifying aims? #grantwriting
Screenshot of Microsoft Word document with title "Grant Proposal" and repeated text "AIMS" that has been justified

ALT Screenshot of Microsoft Word document with title "Grant Proposal" and repeated text "AIMS" that has been justified
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When you interrupt someone mouth pipetting

ALT Gif of man drinking Pepsi from a can labeled "science"
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Me to my cells as I optimize live-cell imaging conditions

ALT Gif from Shrek of Lord Farquaad saying: "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make"

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When deciding which objective to purchase, save time by buying one which has already been scratched.
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How #STED microscopy works
Will Smith hitting Chris Rock Chris Rock: Excited fluorophores Will Smith: Depletion laser

ALT Will Smith hitting Chris Rock Chris Rock: Excited fluorophores Will Smith: Depletion laser

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Actual footage of the fast moving diffraction-limited object that I want to FRAP.

ALT Spiderman successfully dodging lightning bolts

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Every paper on modifying fluorophores be like
Fluorophores: Meme: "We were bad, but now we're good"

ALT Fluorophores: Meme: "We were bad, but now we're good"

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First day working in an advanced light microscopy core facility
Me:*lowers laser power to prevent photobleaching* User trying to FRAP: Unsettled Tom meme

ALT Me:*lowers laser power to prevent photobleaching* User trying to FRAP: Unsettled Tom meme

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When you use a macro to apply scalebars

ALT Person quickly stamping pages
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