B. Duygu Özpolat

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Assistant Professor, Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis

www.ozpolatlab.org

Regeneration, stem cells, annelids, spiralians, germ cells.

Formerly a Hibbitt Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory

#ScienceArt #BlackLivesMatter (She/her)

Research#GermCells #germline #gametes #regeneration #invertebrates #annelids #StemCells
Stuff I like#WormWednesday #SciArt #Pottery
My Science Arthttps://www.instagram.com/biyolokum/
Do you like #ScienceFiction? Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is an amazing series of novellas. A bot that is designed to murder, but not doing enough murdering because it hacked into the module that controls it, so now it is free to watch all the human soap operas. The story is so witty, exciting, capturing, and I love this murderbot so much #Sci-fi #SciFi @marthawells (image credit: https://murderbot.fandom.com/wiki/Murderbot)
Murderbot

“I’m the security expert. You’re the humans who walk in the wrong place and get attacked by angry fauna. I have extracted living clients from situations that were less than nine percent survivable.” (Exit Strategy, Chapter 4) Murderbot is a rogue SecUnit, the protagonist and main narrator of The Murderbot Diaries series. Formerly owned by the company, it was bought and freed by Dr. Mensah and now resides at Preservation Station. Murderbot is a bot-human construct, specifically a SecUnit. Like al

Murderbot Wiki
Leaving Austin today, after yet another great #SICB2023 meeting! I love how wildly diverse this meeting is, in case you need a break from your research area, you may end up at a talk about hemipenes in snakes, elephant trunks being modeled via knitting, or applying #queer #feminist language and ideas to biological research. A crocheted vampire squid was sold for student travel funds. Had such a blast with everyone and it was so wonderful to be back in person.

I donated two #SciArt #pottery pieces for the Libbie Hyman Memorial Scholarship Auction at SICB 2023. My plates feature diatoms and invertebrates.

The auction will have science/invertebrate-themed books, artwork, hand-crafted items, and more, to support the Libbie Hyman Scholarship for students. All SICB members are invited to attend and bid. #SICB2023

Let's get #SciArt flowing into Mastodon!
What are some of your #SciArt (science-themed art) works you want to highlight? I will boost.

After trying many different media over the years (including drawing, embroidery etc) I found love in pottery. Now I make pottery pieces that highlight underappreciated organisms. Here are some examples of #worms, #jellyfish, #insects, #spiders etc. These are all boxes with lids!
#pottery #ceramics #HandBuiltPottery

Twitter is now showing this misleading message if you click on any mastodon link.

Now you also cannot post any mastodon links anymore.