Caroline Doherty
@mouthpipette.bsky.social
Postdoc in the Laird Lab studying germ cell growth dynamics at UCSF. PhD with the Shvartsman and Gavis labs at Princeton. She/her. Uffda.
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Even with all the advancements in automated cell tracking getting us to 90%+ accuracy...that's still a lot of broken tracks over long movies!
Our brains are pretty good at this so I made Vizsla 🐕, a little @napari.org plugin, to help you fix your tracks manually.
👉 pypi.org/project/napa...
Our brains are pretty good at this so I made Vizsla 🐕, a little @napari.org plugin, to help you fix your tracks manually.
👉 pypi.org/project/napa...
September 6, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Even with all the advancements in automated cell tracking getting us to 90%+ accuracy...that's still a lot of broken tracks over long movies!
Our brains are pretty good at this so I made Vizsla 🐕, a little @napari.org plugin, to help you fix your tracks manually.
👉 pypi.org/project/napa...
Our brains are pretty good at this so I made Vizsla 🐕, a little @napari.org plugin, to help you fix your tracks manually.
👉 pypi.org/project/napa...
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the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking
July 17, 2026 at 3:20 PM
the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking
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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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Meanwhile, in our little corner of the Twin Cities...
January 24, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Meanwhile, in our little corner of the Twin Cities...
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ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
January 21, 2026 at 11:14 PM
ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 2:47 AM
one of the best things about this whole nightmare has been watching a whole bunch of folks who have clearly never been seriously political in their lives standing up and going, no, absolutely the fuck not, we’re not letting this happen
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went to go read the bovino comments, ended up reading about more
violent idiocy
violent idiocy
January 20, 2026 at 10:06 PM
went to go read the bovino comments, ended up reading about more
violent idiocy
violent idiocy
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this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
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Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
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I’ve seen a lot of awful things in the past few days but this is the first time I’m letting myself feel it, because you’re right, the people of Minneapolis are fucking extraordinary and wonderful.
They’re inspiring the whole world right now. Thank you all so much
They’re inspiring the whole world right now. Thank you all so much
There’s reports that there will be 1,000 more agents coming to our city. We need that same surge in residents out patrolling our streets. Even if you can’t patrol, come work from a coffee shop on one of cultural corridors so you can be there to show up for our neighbors.
January 13, 2026 at 5:02 AM
I’ve seen a lot of awful things in the past few days but this is the first time I’m letting myself feel it, because you’re right, the people of Minneapolis are fucking extraordinary and wonderful.
They’re inspiring the whole world right now. Thank you all so much
They’re inspiring the whole world right now. Thank you all so much
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ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens
January 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens
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The #devbio project that encompassed the majority of my postdoc is finally out! Huge thanks to my coauthors and our collaborators without whom this work would not have been possible, and my adviser Eszter Posfai who let me play with a light sheet microscope and some colorful mice :)
Thrilled to share our work using live imaging to understand how Epiblast (future embryo proper) and Primitive Endoderm (future extraembryonic tissues) cell fates segregate in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Gargantuan effort led by amazing @rpkimyip.bsky.social, David Denberg and Denis Faerberg!
August 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The #devbio project that encompassed the majority of my postdoc is finally out! Huge thanks to my coauthors and our collaborators without whom this work would not have been possible, and my adviser Eszter Posfai who let me play with a light sheet microscope and some colorful mice :)
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Thrilled to share our work using live imaging to understand how Epiblast (future embryo proper) and Primitive Endoderm (future extraembryonic tissues) cell fates segregate in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Gargantuan effort led by amazing @rpkimyip.bsky.social, David Denberg and Denis Faerberg!
August 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thrilled to share our work using live imaging to understand how Epiblast (future embryo proper) and Primitive Endoderm (future extraembryonic tissues) cell fates segregate in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Gargantuan effort led by amazing @rpkimyip.bsky.social, David Denberg and Denis Faerberg!
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WAVE complex forms linear arrays at negative membrane curvature to instruct #lamellipodia formation, say Muziyue Wu, Orion Weiner @oweinerlab.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton #Migration #Motility #Actin
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton #Migration #Motility #Actin
July 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
WAVE complex forms linear arrays at negative membrane curvature to instruct #lamellipodia formation, say Muziyue Wu, Orion Weiner @oweinerlab.bsky.social and colleagues: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton #Migration #Motility #Actin
#Biophysics #Cytoskeleton #Migration #Motility #Actin
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We’re hiring! Our lab at WashU has an opening for a Senior/Staff Scientist position. If you're passionate about ovarian physiology, oocyte quality, and excited to contribute to a dynamic and growing team, we’d love to hear from you! Reach out to me directly for more information.
July 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
We’re hiring! Our lab at WashU has an opening for a Senior/Staff Scientist position. If you're passionate about ovarian physiology, oocyte quality, and excited to contribute to a dynamic and growing team, we’d love to hear from you! Reach out to me directly for more information.
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Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune
June 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune
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Check out our latest blog post giving an overview on the 2025 Annual Symposium, held early this month in Chicago:
www.jccfund.org/blog/2025-an...
www.jccfund.org/blog/2025-an...
2025 Annual Symposium Overview - Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research community reconvened from May 7th – 9th in Chicago for the 2025 Annual Symposium. In this blog we’ll give an overview for the entire Symposium...
www.jccfund.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Check out our latest blog post giving an overview on the 2025 Annual Symposium, held early this month in Chicago:
www.jccfund.org/blog/2025-an...
www.jccfund.org/blog/2025-an...
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Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
www.npr.org
May 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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#DBfeature #Oocyte
Single-cell and bulk transcriptional profiling of mouse ovaries reveals novel genes and pathways associated with DNA damage response in oocytes
by Monique Mills, Ewelina Bolcun-Filas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Single-cell and bulk transcriptional profiling of mouse ovaries reveals novel genes and pathways associated with DNA damage response in oocytes
by Monique Mills, Ewelina Bolcun-Filas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#DBfeature #Oocyte
Single-cell and bulk transcriptional profiling of mouse ovaries reveals novel genes and pathways associated with DNA damage response in oocytes
by Monique Mills, Ewelina Bolcun-Filas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Single-cell and bulk transcriptional profiling of mouse ovaries reveals novel genes and pathways associated with DNA damage response in oocytes
by Monique Mills, Ewelina Bolcun-Filas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Trump administration this week eliminated funding for Harvard research projects across a host of areas, from the origins of breast cancer and the impact of nutrition on fertility to antibiotic resistance.
Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research
The Trump administration is following through on threats to terminate $2.7 billion dollars in federal grants and other funding at Harvard University, punishment for alleged antisemitism on campus. One...
www.wbur.org
May 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Trump administration this week eliminated funding for Harvard research projects across a host of areas, from the origins of breast cancer and the impact of nutrition on fertility to antibiotic resistance.
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Our universities are so good that our adversaries send their children to be educated here. We’re dismantling that unbelievable strategic advantage, hurting our own children and our own health in the process.
Shutting down medical research — not just within NIH, but everywhere that’s funded by NIH — will have long-term effects on medicine & short-term effects on state, higher education & hospital budgets. This affects all of us, not just researchers.
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research!
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
January 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Our universities are so good that our adversaries send their children to be educated here. We’re dismantling that unbelievable strategic advantage, hurting our own children and our own health in the process.