🎄✨Microscopy Mystery Christmas Edition - Answer Electrochemically grown silver dendrites Just like ice crystals, these are crystals formed when silver solidifies very quickly from a solution, for example, during electrolysis Watch out for the next Microscopy Mystery in the new year! #academicsky

...and nothing prepares you for the thesis writing stage at the bottom 😅 #memesky #academicsky

🎄 ✨ Microscopy Mistery Monday- Christmas Edition ✨🎄 Behind today's Microscopy Quiz lies a beautiful structure. Its shape can be seen everywhere at the moment, but what is it? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

New paper out in NatureComm: We built synthetic immune cells that self-assemble with cancer cells into hybrid tumoroids, enabling bottom-up reconstruction of the tumor immune microenvironment. rdcu.be/eUmRM @leibnizinm.bsky.social

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #10 – Answer! ✨ 🦎 Gecko foot!! Gecko feet stick using van der Waals forces — the same weak forces that let DUST cling to surfaces! Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #9 – Answer! ✨ 📄 Paper fibers! Paper is made of tiny interlocking cellulose fibers — the same natural polymer that gives plants their strength. ✨ Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Microscopy Mystery Monday #10 🔬🕵️ Can you guess what this textured surface belongs to? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Added the finishing touches to my presentation for today's #F25MRS SB03 session at 13:45 (room H105) The Engineered Living Materials talks in this symposium have been really inspiring and I'm most looking forward to the therapeutic living materials sessions today! @materials-mrs.bsky.social

We are one step closer to realise living materials for ocular use! We investigated cytocompatibility of these devices during extended contact lens wear time. Check it out! 🧪 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @leibnizinm.bsky.social

New Materials is what we do, so you can be sure to find us at the @materials-mrs.bsky.social Fall Meeting #F25MRS! Find talks from Tobias, @wilfriedweber.bsky.social, and @shrikrishnans.bsky.social over the next few days - eppro01.ativ.me/web/planner.... #academicsky

All set for the engineered living materials session at the MRS fall meeting in Boston! #F25MRS Thanks to @annaduraj.bsky.social for the invite 😁

Microscopy Mystery Monday #9 🔬🕵️ Looks fibrous and tangled — can you guess what this is? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An Engineered Living Material with pro-angiogenic activity inducible by near-infrared light https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.688407v1

p < 0.05 gives feelings of power, joy, validity, vitality, rebirth, and so much more! Ironically, this graph has no distribution to perform such statistical analysis on 😅 #lablaughs #memesky #academicsky

What do Nobel Laureates look for in PhD and Post-doc candidates? What's needed to win a #NobelPrize? What do Nobel prize winners think about #AI? Find out from Anna, Mingren, and Delvina, who share insights and anecdotes from this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting - youtu.be/mP6y6Yj3zFE?...

Microscopy Mystery Monday #8 🔬🕵️ Under the microscope, nature’s designs can look almost engineered — can you guess what this one is? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #7 – Answer! ✨ 🐝 Bee stinger! Fun fact: The bee stinger’s barbed design inspired microneedles for painless drug delivery! 💉✨ Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

It's so exciting to start a new research lab until you realize that science is expensive and your budget ran out after installing the benches 😅 Any junior PIs out there who can relate? #memesky #lablaughs #academicsky

Microscopy Mystery Monday #7 🔬🕵️ Looks like something you wouldn’t want to step on… what could it be? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #6 – Answer! ✨ 🦋 Insect wing membrane! Fun fact: Insect wings have vein networks that give them strength, flexibility, and airflow regulation during flight! 🦋✨ Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Microscopy Mystery Monday #6 🔬🕵️ Magnified mystery — can you guess what’s in the picture? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #5 – Answer! ✨ Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells (HUVECs) HUVECs are a key model for studying how blood vessels grow and interact with materials! 🩸✨ Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Happy Halloween from the Ghosts in our lab! 🎃 The lab has claimed many a scientists' soul and on Halloween, they come out to play 👻👻👻 #Halloween #Ghostphotoshoot #academicsky #memesky

Science is hard. Often the success rate of anything we try is only 10%, not unlike some of the toughest games out there! But it's all worth it, since every little success gets us closer to the next level (of knowledge and technology) #LabLaughs #memesky #academicsky

Microscopy Mystery Monday #5 🔬🕵️ Under the lens: what’s in the picture? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

Microneedles + conductive ink = sturdier on-skin sensing INM co-authors show a fenestrated shell that protects the sensing layer for transdermal pH readout. Out now in Advanced Functional Materials - doi.org/10.1002/adfm... @nicovoelcker.bsky.social @wiley.com #academicsky

A PhD is an amazing opportunity but it's also really tough, especially in the final years. If you're planning to start one or have started one, be prepared for an emotional roller coaster. Anyone out here with a doctorate who hasn't experienced this? #LabLaughs #memesky #academicsky

We recently discovered that our engineered lactobacilli are far more obedient when confined in a gel - doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... If you want the highlights of the story, check out the LinkedIN post image. @marcblanch.bsky.social @varunsays.bsky.social @leibnizinm.bsky.social

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #4 – Answer! ✨ A gel made of Gold Nanowires! Ultrathin gold nanowires form a pale, conductive gel ⚡️—for flexible electronics, microsensors, and electrocatalysis. Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #Microscopy #academicsky #MMM

This seems like a hypothetical scenario but has anyone experienced this? As scientists, we're trained to question everything, especially completely absurd occurrences 😅 #LabLaughs #memsky #academicsky

Microscopy Mystery Monday #4 🔬🕵️ This structure isn’t what it seems… what could it be? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #MicroscopyMystery #academicsky #STEM #MMM

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #3 – Answer! ✨ 💇 It’s a hair strand 💡Did you know? A single human hair can hold up to 100 grams — roughly the weight of a small apple 🍎! Stay tuned for the next Microscopy Mystery Monday! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #Microscopy #academicsky #MMM

Today's German Unity Day celebrations had us showcase work from two ends of the materials science spectrum - bio-gels and batteries. And it was all in DIY mode - Make your own Vegan Caviar and button batteries. We even had an astronaut try them out! #tde25 #tagderdeutscheneinhiet #stem #mint

Probiotic drinks, DNA candy, Agar Art, Bio-art keychains, "Materials with Life" stickers, and funny post-cards! That's how we reached out to the public about our science on the German Unity Day #tde25 Check out my LinkedIN post if you're curious how it worked - www.linkedin.com/posts/shrikr...

Link to publication 👇🏼 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The final major work of my PhD is finally out! In this work, we generated genetic switches that exerted enhanced performance upon bacterial encapsulation within materials, leading to switchable protein release from ELMs! Link in the comments🧬🧬 @varunsays.bsky.social 👏🏻 @shrikrishnans.bsky.social 👏🏻

We've got a real treat for tomorrow, literally! - Probiotic drinks, DNA candy, Bacterial paintings and Bio-art keychains! #tagderdeutscheneinheit #tde25 #academicsky

The Paris Summit of Synthetic Biology Centers, organized by @riceuniversity.bsky.social brought together global leaders of SynBio centers, biofoundries, and consortia to work out how to combine forces, grow expertise, fund discovery, and ensure ethical progress. A productive 2 days in Paris!

Any PhDs relate to this? A PhD can be rough, but it usually works out in the end, especially if you've friends in the lab. #lablaughs #memesky #academicsky

Microscopy Mystery Monday #3 🔬🕵️ Under the lens: what’s in the picture? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #Microscopy #academicsky #STEM

My final presentation this Hamburg trip was at the NextGen Materials conference @dgm-ev.bsky.social It was a great experience discussing my work on Remote Controlled Living Therapeutic Materials with the innovative materials scientists at the event! #academicsky #healthsky

The SPP2494 on Productive Biofilm Systems kicked-off in style! In the 1st part I had fun sharing the vision of our collaborative project on getting algae and lactobacilli to work together But the 2nd part was even more fun with a tour of Hamburg, a boat ride on the Elbe and tapas dinner 😁

The INM team joined thousands of runners and Nordic walkers at the Cross Against Cancer event in Homburg! It's a beautiful initiative to promote good health in more than one way! Neither rain nor mud through the woods could dampen the excitement of our participants 🏃‍♀️🏃 #fitnesssky #cancer

Meeting with this community is always so delightful and inspiring! I enjoyed presenting our project, ContainELMs, on a novel biocontainment systems in engineered living materials, along with my PhD student, Victoria Pinto, and our collaborators from KIT, Meike Koenig & Robin Wilhelm! #academicsky

✨ Microscopy Mystery Monday #1 – Answer! ✨ These are the stinging hairs of a nettle leaf! They work like tiny glass needles, snapping on touch and injecting chemicals that give you that classic nettle sting. Ouch! Stay tuned for the next mystery! 🔬👀 #MicroscopyMystery #Microscopy #academicsky

Microscopy Mystery #2 🔬🕵️ Which world are we zooming into here? (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #Microscopy #academicsky #STEM

To Homburg & Hamburg in a day! Morning - Homburg - 5k run in the @leibnizinm.bsky.social team for the Cross Against Cancer Next 10h - travelling 650k to Hamburg for a week of scientific events - SPP meetings and NextGen Materials conference Play hard Work hard 😁

A PhD doesn't have to be a prolonged mental health challenge. It should be exciting, inspiring, educational, rewarding, and even fun. And a supervisor who's got your back goes a long way toward this! This is what we try to foster at INM. #lablaughs #memesky #academicsky

Microscopy Mystery #1 🔬🕵️ Biology pop quiz: what’s in the picture?​ (👉 Like the comment with your answer to vote!) #Microscopy #academicsky #STEM