Please RT! The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109 @uciphyssci.bsky.social

#CallForSubmission# We’re excited to announce the Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) Workshop, happening in person at CVPR 2026 in Denver (June 3–4). 👉 Poster & spotlight submissions are now open (#deadline#: May 1). 🔗here: lnkd.in/g6jEAmPa 🌐 More info on our website: bit.ly/2026CCD

🔍November in Focus! This month, we thank our seminar speakers👏 - Fei Xia, PhD (UCI) @feixia.bsky.social - Emily Baum, PhD (UCI) @emilybaum.bsky.social Looking forward to what's ahead for CNCM! 🎉

The 14th Computational Cameras and Displays (CCD) Workshop is happening next week at #CVPR2025 @cvprconference.bsky.social From holographic displays and aberrations to self-sustaining cameras and seeing never-before-seen colors! See you there! More info: kristinamonakhova.com/ccd2025/

Cluster hire at UC Irvine. #engineering #bio #medicine

Register and join us in Annual NeuroTech conference of SBMT in Los Angeles between Feb 27-Mar 2! We also include a 4-day neurophotonics session this year! www.worldbrainmapping.org/annual-congr... #NeuroTech #Photonics #Neuroscience #Neurology

Another starter pack of fine fine folks - New PIs! We're all figuring it out together! Please do (self-)nominate go.bsky.app/KJXNgfZ

Received a signed gift from Caroline Boudoux in FiO. 🥰#Optica

I am in FiO in Denver this week. If you are around, DM me! #photonics #optica

Hot off the press... Machine Learning in Three Easy Lessons (with jax, from scratch, with examples that are useful for physicists): https://florianmarquardt.github.io/MachineLearningThreeEasyLessons/intro.html I am using this as lecture material next week in Trieste. Feedback welcome! 😀

New paper out! "Ten simple rules for scientific code review" journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol..., in which I detailed how to use *code review* in academic research in a didactic, effective, and enjoyable manner.

Thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the University of California, Irvine as an Assistant Professor in EECS in 2025! The Xia Lab will be focusing on developing smart optical systems and computational tools to better image, sense, and process biomedical information probed by light. www.xia-lab.com

Federer’s speech is so touching. As a tennis fan of him, I can deeply relate to every single story he told.

We need to dispense with the fiction that journals urgently need our proofs back in 48 hours or whatever. It is ~never true (nothing happens if you submit in, say, 5 days) and is unnecessary stressful to junior folks 🧪

A 95% confidence interval could be a) 1.96 * the standard error b) 1.96 * the standard error of means c) 95% inner quantile of bootstrapped means d) 95% inner quantile of bootstrapped subject means e) 1.96 * the standard deviation f) 95% inner quantile of values g) 95% of damn near anything #stats

Human brain representations of internally generated outcomes of approximate calculation revealed by ultra-high-field brain imaging www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

The talks from #MiFoBio2023 are available on Youtube! Check them all here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLikZKI8NN-wmpg5-Mo-6Ph8ikvdPvKKYb @GDR_ImaBio

At ZEISS in Oberkochen, we have a stunning collection of old microscopes 🔬 in a place called Schatzkammer / treasury at the Carl Zeiss Museum of Optics / Microscopy - Although the origin of some of the 🔬 is unknown, they represent an essential part of tool development history & craftsmanship ❤️😀

Celebrating women engineers poster, available at this link 🙂 #ITeachPhysics #WomenInSTEM education.theiet.org/media/akwjwz...

Aspen School for Physics

My Greek Physics Alphabet. Credit to James Kennedy #ITeachPhysics

Our department is making little intro videos with faculty and students. Here's mine (though something seems to be wrong with the link card..): www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFMk...

When I first started at MIT, Peter shared everything with me, copies of his grants, lab budget, much advice, etc. I used to have regular dinners with Peter. I learned to always let Peter choose the wine. If not, he would complain about the wine. :)

Best Paper awards lack transparency, inclusivity, and support for Open Science https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.11.571170v1

Registrations are now open for the "Image Science" Gordon Research Conference (and accompanying Gordon research seminar) in June 2024 grc.org/image-scienc... *Apply now!* amazing program and opportunity to interact with peers and top-notch speakers in a beautiful environment!

Still have some Bluesky at Cornell

Working my way through applications to our faculty opening. In a way, it’s even more depressing than grant applications: so far, they range from good to outstanding. Many are deserving but only 1 will get the job.

Thrilled to see this paper out in 𝘈𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, & 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴, led by @brileekennedy.bsky.social and with Vanessa Bowden and @tgro.bsky.social ! "Memory benefits when actively, rather than passively, viewing images" rdcu.be/dsnqO #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Very interesting study on EMBL Phd and post-doc career outcome over the last 24 years. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Interesting

Really nice work from our collaborators out today www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Calling all Bioimage Analysts! Join us for an exciting series of talks by experts in bioimage analysis at our hybrid event, the “Minisymposium: Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis”, taking place on December 1st from 9AM to 3PM. Sign up now! Venue: ONLINE and Broad Institute Cambridge MA 🧪#SciSky

Register by Nov 10th for a guaranteed spot! 💡

Photonics Online Meetup (POM23) is a little over a wk away! Don't forget to register (for free!) to join on Gathertown for live streaming, posters, & more. Optica student chapters: apply for funding to support a Hub! #OpenAccess #free #SciSky #Acadsky photonicsonlinemeetup.org/registration/ 🧪 💡

By the way, with Luigi we wrote a Perspective on Harmonic Generation at the Nanoscale. pubs.aip.org/aip/jap/arti...

Great news. I can't imagine a higher ROI investment to advance scientific research. Kudos to the NSF and the Simons Foundation for seeing the enormous value of what the arXiv provides us all.

Nice view from Allen Institute.

It’s finally official: I am incredibly honored and humbled to receive the Optica Foundation Challenge Award. I gratefully thank all the people who mentored me, worked with me, & discussed with me. It is you who have inspired me and helped me grow. www.optica.org/foundation/o... @optica.bsky.social

OK, I believe I have created a Photonics feed. Please go to feeds, search for Photonics, and add it to your feeds Msg me to get added, so your posts can show up there. To post to the feed, you have to use the word "photonics" or "optics", or just use the💡emoji

It feels great to send out acceptance emails to authors, especially young authors. 😄