Adriano Aguzzi

I know a guy who painted bromophenol blue onto his Gilsons to find out who was constantly "stealing" them. The culprit was caught blue-handed😂 and a fistfight almost ensued. The painter is now a very famous scientist and will possibly read this (I won't out him though).

Asimov Press @AsimovPress

The micropipette—that ubiquitous tool found in laboratories around the world—was invented by a 32-year-old German postdoc in 1957 after a particularly productive two-day tantrum. That first device, made by Heinrich Schnitger, had “all the essential features of the modern https://t.co/ryfhlrGznl

Brallo di Pregola, Italian Appennines https://t.co/tAD65b3p4s

Dopo un'intera mattina spesa futilmente all'ufficio anagrafe del comune di pavia senza alcun risultato, é difficile non sviluppare sentimenti di comprensione per Elon M e la sua motosega antigovernativa. https://t.co/JolMzHJP2d

This deserves to be urgently pinned onto every door of my institute, particularly in our seminar room.

Simona Cristea @simocristea

when intelligence is free, attention becomes the most important resource

Per chiedere la carta d'identità in comune di Pavia é necessario un appuntamento online. Il link indica che appuntamenti non sono possibili in nessuna sede e ti rimanda alla casella iniziale. (in fondo é meglio che "Vai direttamente in prigione senza passare dal via"). https://t.co/E8LZOCX9Ge

Isn't it amazing that (1) high-affinity α-tau antibodies exist in 5% of everybody, (2) they increase with age and (3) correlate with a nephrometabolic syndrome which to my knowledge was never described before. Bad news for α-τ immunotherapy methinks. https://t.co/PibN2v9WZ6

The vilification of international students is a depressing, ignorant and callous development. Most of them have backgrounds that wouldn't be considered "privileged" by US standards. I was one myself, and I've trained dozens of them.

I may be paranoid, but for CRISPR-transactivation screens I always check the chromosomal location of the hits. The VPR transactivator is dynamite; if multiple hits are just few kilobases apart (PRNP vs PRND), they may be spuriously coactivated false-positives. https://t.co/bHUvKvjjZj

There is no such thing as bad weather. Only inappropriate attire. https://t.co/keISPtkBc6

At some point in life, being still able to do this twice daily, before dawn + at sunset, without any e-motor, come hell or high water, becomes more important than getting the next ERC grant. https://t.co/F33CIz2XHB

These magnetic beads were found in the lab of Plinius the Elder in Pompei perfectly preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. https://t.co/zpyW79UL3f

Two papers, three dimensions! Anna Maria Reuss describes a generic technique for 3D-histology of human archival paraffin blocks, and Francesca Catto shows breathtaking videos of mouse brains with Alzheimer's. https://t.co/CC7KxtIF3Y https://t.co/qL7nnTFC2G https://t.co/TucHDesLfB