Dear sales reps, I'm more likely to buy from you if you don't insist on calling me for a quote. I don't want to schedule zoom calls with you about your dumb microscope when you could just email me a number. Talking in person won't give me an extra 20K to waste

3D printed microscope designed by OpenFlexure! This was my first test print (which went horribly) and already works great. Makes a nice ~$100 alternative to the 15k I would have had to spend on a motorized stage just to look at more macrophages each day.

First test run inside the incubator for a couple hours. I think the weird ridge is stray filament I didn't clean out and I think vibrations are shifting the stage, but overall looks good!

Printed scopes now have motorized xyz axes and can be controlled remotely while in the incubator. Just need a stronger power supply for all the steppers.

A while ago I trained a bag of words to predict if a scientific article came from nature/science/cell based on title alone. It was about 85% accurate. I had it classify the titles of my AI generated papers and it thinks ~60% are good enough for NSC. So proud of my prolific robot.

Strong inverse correlation between the use of convalescent plasma and mortality for hospitalized patients in the USA. If causal, and preprint argues for causality, this implies many lives saved by plasma. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

So far it's mostly been husks and a couple dead adults but I spotted this guy on the way to work.

The main message in this paper is that Cryptococcus neoformans releases proteins inside macrophages that modify host cell function. Getting this story out took almost a decade and was the work of many. Carolina Coelho Quigly Dragotakes Daniel Smith Marcio L. Rodrigues

Updated the bot a little bit so now the image preview includes the whole paper since it wasn't clear to start with that the bot makes a full paper, not just an abstract. Will next try adding figure AI and better cohesion between sections.

Who you calling Pinhead?

Long wait but worth it for this coffee raccoon #ASMicrobe