Smrithi Sunil
@_SmrithiSunil
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Microscopy. Neuroscience. Woodworking. PhD in Biomedical Engineering.
Madison, WI
Joined January 2011
Very excited for this!.
My book, "The Origins of Efficiency", is now officially available for preorder.
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RT @MariAngelesMoro: The vascular contribution to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia | Nature Reviews Neuroscience .
nature.com
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Growing evidence suggests that reduced cerebral blood flow contributes to cognitive decline in ageing and dementia. Attwell and colleagues discuss the underlying...
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A lesser-known type of model building in structural biology: 3D balsa wood models from 2D electron diffraction and microscopy data. This one from 1975 shows a single bacteriorhodopsin protein found in the purple membrane of Halobacterium salinarum.
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“all biographers are writing autobiographies. Even the fact that you choose to write about these certain people, it’s something that appeals to you or you may have been shaped by.” .I like this. I do feel I know something deeper about the writer based on the topics they choose.
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RT @eric_is_weird: "BBNs" have officially been given a government name: Frontier Research Contractors. The reason why: @ARIA_research has f….
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I'm excited to be part of this year's cohort!.
We’re thrilled to introduce our third cohort of 2025 Blog-Build Intensive Fellows!.
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This helps with my own decision making as well. “What would I tell my daughter if she were in my situation?”.
One of the strangest benefits of having kids is that it makes it much easier to figure out what advice to give people. You just ask "What would I tell my kids?".
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RT @NandanNilekani: Natural fibres have served India well – but climate extremes demand innovation in what we wear, especially for those wh….
indianexpress.com
Natural fibres have served India well – but climate extremes demand innovation in what we wear, especially for those who can’t escape the sun.
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I can’t unsee a GCaMP trace anytime I see one of these unemployment graphs.
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Interesting piece on the origin of the research university.
asteriskmag.com
Universities have existed for more than a thousand years — and for almost all of that time, they weren’t centers of research. What changed in 19th century Germany?
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RT @stevenstrogatz: My latest for @nytimes -- please repost so your followers can see this for free.
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A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.
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Multimodal microscope for imaging from molecules to organisms. Mosaic indeed.
The MOSAIC reconfigurable microscope by @Eric_Betzig et al is finally out! . MOSAIC integrates multiple advanced imaging techniques including light-sheet, label-free, super-resolution, and multi-photon, all equipped with adaptive optics:.
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Came across a map of Bangalore from 1911. The city has grown over 30x in size and 50x in population since then. The original layout of railway lines, roads, and neighborhoods remains surprisingly similar. Arrows added to help align the 1911 map with one from today.
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Amazing!.
I wrote a new piece on how much progress has been made in treating childhood leukemia. The answer is: quite a lot!. Before the 1970s, fewer than 10% of children diagnosed survived 5 years after diagnosis. Now most are cured and around 85% survive that long.
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Listened to this episode of CWT with Bruno Maçães while on a trip to Portugal a few years ago and it really stuck with me. I think about it more and more these days. Especially this thought.
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“main takeaway is that the ideas behind inventions are often in some sense “obvious,” or at least not so surprising or unexpected that many people won’t think of them.” Very interesting piece.
Some of the most famous and important inventions - the incandescent light, the car, the jet engine, the steam turbine - were independently invented by multiple inventors. This week on Construction Physics, I look at how common multiple invention is.
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