New upload over on my YouTube channel! This one comes is timelapse over 80mins of the white blood cells of a mouse attacking a parasite via University of California San Francisco. There’s more detail in this article.
And the beginning of a new playlist, too. Your immune system is pretty cool.
I wish I could say that I had put together this gif myself using our simulated blood powder, but I was pointed towards it on Twitter this weekend. It’s going to make a great prac in your classroom, though. Let me know if you need a blood powder top up. One sachet makes a litre so it lasts for ages.
9 Feb 2016
Dave comes armed with over 10 years experience in school labs, most recently at St Augustines College in Cairns. He will be available to run PD sessions for you on any of the workshops we have ready to go at Dissection Connection and Rockhoundz.
Because he’s superhuman Dave will be holding down his full time job at St Augustines and presenting workshops for us outside of his usual work hours. Just like Clark Kent 🙂
So, if you’re in professional development distress then send up the bat signal and Dave will come to your rescue. He’ll be like a neuron transmitting vital information between a distal section and the core of the Vivi-beast. At the moment we have workshops prepared on plucks, hearts, piglets, toads, heads, eyes, reproduction, microfossils and geology experiments.
Let’s hear it for Dave, everyone! Just have a Squeal to Miss Vivi or a Howl to the Hound and we’ll put you in touch.
And if you think you’ve got what it takes to be a Science Superhero in your area then show us the colour of your cape.
This morning I got up to find the nerds had united : #scientistherdnames was trending on Twitter.
Who thinks this stuff up? People much cleverer and wittier than me.
Many, many funny and smart tweets like these were flying around.
A menagerie of zoologists #scientistherdnames
— Kimberly Moynahan (@Kim_Moynahan) February 4, 2016
An avalanche of geologists. #scientistherdnames— Anthony J. Martin (@Ichnologist) February 4, 2016
A murder of pathologists #scientistherdnames
— Bill Barendse (@billbarendse) February 4, 2016
But for my money this guy wins the internet today:
A godsend of lab support staff#ScientistHerdNames
— Martin Stoermer (@MartinStoermer) February 4, 2016
Amen to that! Happy Friday, Vivsters!
5 Feb 2016
