Enviable discipline in the @kevin-dean.bsky.social lab: While Kevin is far away discussing the future of microscopy, his lab meeting is carried out independently. I snapped the first slide for illustration of the seriousness of the business discussed (suppl. Figure 2: zoom-in).

I did not expect that: Large Language Models are invertible: arxiv.org/abs/2510.15511

Sunrise on Jeju island.

Morning dawns at the Seongsan Ilchulbong Volcano.

Not sure why they put so many Swiss flags on that hike, but the view was good.

Endocardium, cells lining the heart chambers, in the beating heart of a two-day-old transgenic #zebrafish. Credit to @anjaliesch.bsky.social & Nikon Small World Competition. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

A lot of pumpkins at work!

The #mesoSPIM community just celebrated 10 years of open-source light-sheet microscopy in Zürich! For #3DThursday, we're honoring Martina Schaettin & Fabian Voigt’s iconic 3D chick embryo dataset — a luminous benchmark for open science and shared discovery. #Microscopy #Lightsheet #syGlass

This semester I am teaching in a course called Mathematical Foundations of Quantitative Biology. It involves combinatorics, distributions, calculus (ODEs and PDEs), linear algebra and Fourier Series and Transforms. Taught on blackboard with chalk. Actually quite excited to do some #math .

Thrilled to announce the launch of my lab @cri-utsw.bsky.social at UTSW this January! We will explore how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, focusing on membrane mechanics to reveal how tension and signaling work together to shape cell behavior.

I have now received an official NIH email that the study section tomorrow is off😞.

Running a soft-money funded lab in 2025, visualized (minus belay rope): www.youtube.com/shorts/L2V80...

Looking forward to visiting Emory Cell Biology dept tomorrow! @basselllab.bsky.social @angalus.bsky.social @katzlab.bsky.social

I have a study section scheduled this week. Any chance it will take place? SRO has not replied for days. Submitted 7 critiques on time nevertheless. Déjà vu from this spring, when study sections got cancelled on short notice.

Dallas in the morning.

Boeing 777 sporting the mask of Zorro…

Expansion microscopy is getting out of hand. 4X and 10X expanded wine barrels😳! #SeeingIsBelieving #EMBL

DNA model with four base pairs, or ~2,6 kD. #RookieNumbers

Retro Pacific Southwest Airlines livery on an AA Airbus 320.

We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Meet Andres Bodén! In an interview with @virsicas.bsky.social, he explains how managing the Microscopy Innovation Centre at King's allows him to balance tech development with user projects — to shape the future of microscopy & broaden its impact. 🔬 More⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-an...

Ahh, North Texas is just beautiful in Fall. Soaking in the views from the Lewisville Landfill.

12 years at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and I still occasionally get lost on its campus. This time I ended up at the unintentional Halloween portal.

Happy to share the inaugural paper from the lab. We describe a molecular mechanism for the activation of outer dynein arm motors that power the vital motion of cilia. Open access link below: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here's a cool animated summary

Famous writer Roald Dahl on the death of his eldest daughter Olivia. Somehow this breaks me every time I read it.

Awesome news! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Belated Happy Zond 5 day! 57 years ago, the first earthlings (two tortoises!) circumnavigated the moon aboard the Zond 5 spacecraft: nasa.gov/history/50-y... The re-entry was rather rough, so humans would not have survived it. The tortoises stayed alive.

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💥OUR LAB IS HIRING!!💥 We are hiring a research assistant/lab manager to assist with managing our axolotl colony and enabling some kick-ass science! Looking for high levels of organization, collaboration, problem solving and curiosity. Application link: tinyurl.com/3tpvphpm #SciJob #JobAlert

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Come and work with us 5-year position available for a University Researcher in Bioimaging 1.11.2025-31.12.2030 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

Today’s work, aside from meetings.

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Now accepting applications for our 2026 Cancer Biology & Cancer Engineering programs. Do you want to conduct cancer research & develop cutting edge technology that will help understand, diagnose and treat cancer? Then come and apply to our PhD programs. bit.ly/3WUiuo1

Don't miss the upcoming Australia-hosted Expansion Microscopy User Group Meeting (18 Sep, 5pm-6pm AEST / 8am-9am BST). Great forum for researchers to share knowledge and enable rapid uptake of new techniques. Book: rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @garvaninstitute.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social

Cloud formation seen on doggo walk:

Happy Skynet day for those who celebrate. Just one more data center, and AGI is here…😅

Thrilled to see interest in this preprint! This work was a major part of my PhD, my hope is that single-molecule flow cytometry can be useful to the community in exploring new applications and discoveries. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We have all been there: Too many conference calls while you’re busy at work…

Starship 10 made it to orbit! Congrats to @spacex.extwitter.link !

Nice clouds this evening!

For #FluorescenceFriday mitochondria in HeLa cell imaged via the shear-warp transform. Had to wrap my head around it again…🤕

Pan-ASLM system for large scale expansion microscopy from the Bewersdorf lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Say what now? www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-uni...

We are today kicking off the two-week @embo.org practical course on #Lightsheet # Microscopy at @mpi-cbg.de in #Dresden. This is the fifth iteration of the course. Hashtag #LISH2025 meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... With @dudinlab.bsky.social @embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social

My workplace has its own funky vibe.

Maybe one of the biggest gambles of the 21st century. Current US policy further locks these trends in place. Graphic from @nytimes.com

Terence Tao, youngest ever participant of the Math Olympiad, Field Medal Winner 2006, author of over 300 papers, and considered the greatest living mathematician, lost his NSF funding: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568... 😞

Just leaving this here, a legitimate 🇩🇪 word: