Found this bird proteinmaxxing; he kept dropping it because it was too heavy 😆

Very excited for Yuxin's (@yl774.bsky.social) new preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Yuxin rebuilt the 3D-TrIm high-speed tracking microscope to improve its' 3D imaging. He was able to follow single virus particles and watch them interact with 3D cellular environments for over an hour! 1/2

It’s been so wild to see companies April Fools jokes literally being the best idea they’ve had in ever because the other 364 days of the year they’re constrained to incremental ideas designed to optimize shareholder value that the one day they’re allowed to be creative they generate actual value.

One of the strangest highlights of #ASBMB: While catching up with @yl774.bsky.social on the beach, we saw a random dude with the most beautiful and chill 🐱 in his backpack. Apparently he and his backpack cat have traveled all over the world together. Seemed like a super fun dude and let us pet the 🐈

So much fun to see all the Leading Edge members at ASBMB. an honor to know such amazing women in science! @phosphotig.bsky.social @meghnag27.bsky.social @ceej64.bsky.social

Here at National Harbor for #ASBMB to spread the good word about our adaptive optics method for fluorescence microscopy. Come see me and my images Tuesday AM at 9:40!

Sometimes I want to add top off buffer or inspect things in the dark so I got this very cool, super bright light from LED2Work that has a flexarm, fully articulated head that locks in place, and has the strongest magnetic base I have ever seen. 1/3 cc @retof.bsky.social

I sometimes wonder if we grieve our unlived lives in parallel universes.

Went to the sushi buffet to celebrate hard work paying off over the last few months and got this cookie. It is completely true: My journey into science hasn’t ever been easy, but pursuing worthy challenges has never failed to pay off in multiples.

At #PhotonicsWest #BIOS today (Monday)? I am giving a talk at 2:00 pm in Moscone South 307 on our work developing a rapid and robust technique for Adaptive Optics in Light-Sheet microscopy

We are thrilled to announce the 2025 Leading Edge Fellows! 40 outstanding postdoctoral fellows doing pioneering research in a wide range of biological and biomedical disciplines. Learn more about these exceptional scientists: www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows

Excited to announce the release of a preprint I have been working in collaboration with Magdalena C. Schneider on to improve phase diversity-based wavefront sensing using deep learning. arxiv.org/abs/2504.14157

From @yepicurus on instagram

Freewheeling discussion about the current moment with two great editors and three brilliant people. @chronicle.com @amnauncensored.bsky.social Enjoyed this. www.chronicle.com/article/ther...

Something that has become really clear to me is that we really need more movies, TV series, and documentaries which romanticize and glorify scientific struggle. We have so many medical and cop dramas, we need a "Law and Order" or "ER" for science so people finally understand and appreciate our work.

Last night, I went to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for the first time in almost 8 months and today, everything is going right ...Coincidence? 🤔😂

Me in 2008, a community college student watching House: “I don’t know what to do with my life, I would be a great doctor”. Me in 2025, a postdoc watching The Pitt: I am so glad I did not become that type of Doctor I am not cut out for any of this nonsense .

The recent discussion on X with @mbeisen.bsky.social about how grad students are selected made me reflect on my own journey. I often wonder about who it was that made the life-changing decision to approve my grad school app, and what it was about me that pushed them over the edge. 1/ #AcademicSky

For part 3 of my intro to Blue Sky I want to highlight 2 of my science-adjacent articles. Some of the greatest gains I have made as a scientist have been a result of intentionally developing mental toughness and self-leadership capacity through activities outside the lab.

Optical measurement via the Measure app is by far the most slept-on iphone function

This is part 2/4 of my Bluesky intro to my work as a microscopist! You've never seen a virus move like this before: 3D-TrIm (3D Tracking and Imaging) is a revolutionary way to track the motion of viruses and other freely diffusing nanoparticles at high speed over large (>10+ µm) axial ranges

A few weeks ago I noticed my main data hard drive - all my photos, music, documents, code, etc. began acting very sluggishly. Here are some lessons from almost losing much of my most important data and a reminder to maintain protocols for frequency and actions for your data backup plan.

Welcome to everyone following me 👋. I think a great way to start off is to share some of my work. Today I start with 3D-FASTR: A faster alternative to conventional point-scan and random access volumetric imaging approaches. opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext....

Finally made the jump now that this seems like the place to be. If we haven't met before I am a postdoc microscopist 👋. I talk about microscopy, and some of my other passions such as self-improvement through developing mental toughness, following your purpose and continuous integrated learning.