Original posts written in a long format.
The Light-Sheet Image Analysis Workshop organized by LiSIUM took place last week at Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile. There were 24 participants from all over Latin America—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Uruguay! Marina Cuenca, Agustin Corbat, and I (the instructors) gave lectures and practicals ranging from the basics of digital images to advanced workflows […]
I would like to share with you a minimal set of principles that I’ve been using to organize my research papers. These principles aren’t new or revolutionary… in fact, they’re basic, even boring. However, they are the ones that stood out to me over the years as the most fundamental; the ones that nudge me […]
I’ve released a major update to EvoDevo Papers. The database now has all the papers posted since 2015 and a new search form for swiftly exploring the contents. Full archive In the previous update, I improved the website by creating separate pages for feeds, posts and individual papers to make the database contents accessible to […]
The other day I stumbled upon this passage in the Wikipedia page of Piseinotecus, a genus of beautiful nudibranch sea slugs: The name Piseinotecus comes from the Portuguese sentence “pisei no Teco” (I stepped onto Teco). Teco was the name of a dog of the zoologists Ernst Marcus and Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus. While they […]
The peer-reviewed version of our cephalic furrow paper is out 🎉 It was published back-to-back with another cephalic furrow study: Research mutualism This was a wonderful collaborative effort to understand the developmental role and evolutionary origins of this prominent but overlooked tissue fold of fly embryos. We were two teams working on a similar question, […]
I have several WordPress-based, legacy websites hosted in my subdomains. They won’t get any new posts or content updates, but I still want to keep them online. The problem is, running a full WP installation with dynamic PHP pages and SQL databases is too complex and costly for a retired website. As a solution, I […]
I took some time this weekend to experiment with just—a modern, make-inspired command runner. I’m interested in using it for managing the routine tasks of the Cifonauta database (a Django-based app), which are currently handled by Fabric. Fabric is a Python library for running shell commands locally or remotely via SSH. I use it for […]
Cifonauta 2.0 went live last week! It’s been almost two years of work since our project to modernize the image database was approved. Link: https://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br The site now has a responsive interface for mobile devices and a new administrative dashboard for users and curators of the database. Yes! We will gradually open up the database […]
In a recent email exchange, someone asked me what the colors in the video of mitotic waves mean and how did I get them. How the microscope technique results in the array of colors in the cells (purple to yellow and red). Could you briefly explain where the colors come from and how you visualised […]
Summary To add data from a ManyToManyField to a SearchVectorField, you can join the related values in a string and pass this string as a Value() expression to the SearchVector object: Cifonauta’s full-text search During the past year, we’ve been working on several updates for modernizing the Cifonauta database. The website now has a fully […]