Currently grading the exams of our grand tour of math lecture (combinatorics, complex number, linear algebra, Transforms, ODEs and PDEs). Very happy to see that the students did exceptionally well! Damn skippy, someone even solved the i^i spicy question.

Schrödinger chocolate: delicious and inedible at the same time😳😅.

Honored to lecture at AQLM. Yes, I was a student in the class of 2007, a fantastic course!

Banning water condensation behind turbofan engines, peak 2025…😞 www.postandcourier.com/politics/sou...

I am currently reading Innumeracy. We were warned about the dangers of a society incapable of doing basic math 37 years ago. How I wish elected officials, anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists would read that book😞.

255h of James Webb space telescope deep field images stitched together. It starts out with a field about 1.5x the size of the full moon. Click the '+' button to zoom in. Most of the dots are galaxies. cosmos2025.iap.fr/fitsmap/?ra=...

Born on this day, 1906, Grace Brewster Hopper. -Created one of the first compiler. -Created COBOL, still in use in databases today! -Coined the term debugging. -Served in the U.S. Navy, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral. 🫡

Structured illumination dress! The angles are slightly off, and the phase angles are missing, but I’m digging it .

I won the FIFA Fields medal for my geometric derivation of the offside rule. #math #Worldcup

Did not find what I was looking for, so tried my luck once more at the harmonic stair case. (empty Thorlabs boxes)

Rayleigh scattering goes Brrrr! Sunset in DFW seen from UT Southwestern Medical Center.

TIL where the U.S. tipping culture has its origin😞. www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping...

Can report the students are wicked smart😎. Also learned a lot of new things that I have missed on my first Analysis rodeo ~20 years ago. You indeed understand something when you can teach it!

Study section that was cancelled due to shutdown is rescheduled for early January next year. Two days will be compressed to one day. That will be superintense. I have 7 applications to present, will try my best to stay sharp🫡

Potentially big news. I am dreading a post-antibiotic world, so this sounds awesome!

Felix Zhou's u-Segment3D is out: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It leverages 2D cell segmentations from orthoviews to generate a ‘consensus’ 3D segmentation. It does a great job on segmenting densely packed samples, and we have used the algorithm in many applications.

“Lights all askew in the heavens” Theory of general relativity confirmed by measuring gravitational lensing during the 1919 solar eclipse. Nov. 9 1919 NYT full article timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

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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