It is cold, wet and muddy but on this old path there is no car! Enjoying my cargo bike sliding ride to the shop in between two writing sessions: 3 articles, 2 books and one course coming up! I am unsure if I really left Academia!

Granville. November.

Cold evening in Granville watching the lighthouse. At least there is still light.

Autumn is here! Chestnuts, hazelnuts, sloes, apples, pumpkins, bad news, hawthorn berries, pears and walk through ancient paths!

Women in Health...I missed this one but the infographics are mind boggling and the concept of funding-to-lethality ratio an eye opener! Please share and use it for your own research! www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

In the serie "Fake microscope" here is a LEGO mutated AI kind of scope worth posting! @henriqueslab.bsky.social posted similar things in the past but with AI we do have a payload! NB: the objective turret!!

So people thinks 3D printing based on imaging data is so nice. Here are 2 links to refresh your historical data: The Robot sculptor (1957) using a related projection system very similar to Optical Projection Tomography. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ1E... Have a nice week-end you nerds!

#lish25 I miss you guys but I did align... The trees. I count on you for a 50 Tb. @paveltomancak.bsky.social @cuencam15.bsky.social @bundschuhst.bsky.social

Bye bye #lish25... Time to cry for 12 hours in trains... Will miss you all even @paveltomancak.bsky.social Keep up the good work! @bundschuhst.bsky.social @cuencam15.bsky.social

@merlinlange.bsky.social I am sitting with Loic Royer at MPI CBG in Dresden... Welcome to France!

What? where? nobody tell me anything ;)

Well, an apple a day keeps the doctor away but one likor a day keeps the organizer??? Made it to Dresden.. The 5th EMBO Practical course Light Sheet Microscopy can starts!

Getting ready for my train ride to the 5th EMBO course on Light Sheet MIcroscopy at @mpi-cbg.de with @paveltomancak.bsky.social, Sebastian Bundschuh, @olafselchow.bsky.social and @cuencam15.bsky.social. Got gluten free food, a book to read (biology of course), a book to show (Blaschka!)...

On Monday next week the amazing 5th EMBO Practical course Light Sheet Microscopy will take place so some peace and quiet before the storm! @paveltomancak.bsky.social

On the 28th the exhibition "Bleu Profond" I was involved with will open. You can order the catalogue and read my part on transparency and Blaschka models. So if you pass by Deauville, France have a look! lesfranciscaines.fr/fr/programma...

If you are looking for me, I am there now! www.davincilabs.eu/fr/

Sometimes a new beginning in life doesn't look like much!

Step 256: In @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. It was a blast! Too many steps were too good to be posted.... About to be alone on a tiny plane to Boston!

Step 8: In @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Well day one done worth a sunset!

Step @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Went to collect some samples... Here is a pink tunic ate!

Step 5: On my way to @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Arrived, slept and enjoying the Acadia Channel!

Step 4 : On my way to @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. I flew tired on Cape air and a nice old couple gave a ride to Bar Harbor... Great hospitality! m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-wL...

Step 3 : On my way to @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Made it over the pond. Boston here I am!

Step 2 : On my way to @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Queueing and sterile halls is next at Charles de Gaulle Airport !

On my way to @lsfm-na.bsky.social 2025 at @mdibiolab.bsky.social‬ organized by @glaevsky.bsky.social. Could not swim to it this year so start from Mt St Michel. See you in a bit...

Something tell me tomorrow is the 8th of May...

#legoptical Episode 5: First simple builds! Once you have a Brick Arch 1x2x1 part, you can a Binocular part and then you have a simple 2 parts scope. Add one more and bing another scope. The combination Brick Arch + Binocular allows you to easily add plates, platform and grow it bigger!

#legoptical Episode 4: The perfect part. To make simple microscopes in LEGO for small labs you need a Brick Arch 1x2x1 part. It looks like a microscope body, comes in many colors and will allow us to build several ones in the coming weeks. Get a few and be ready to build!

Registration prices are going down but quality will be the same!

#legoptical Episode 3: An italian twist. In 1997, Franco Quercioli and his colleagues published in SPIE an article entitled: “Play optics with Lego” introducing for the first tie the use of LEGO bricks in setting up an optical instrument! opg.optica.org/ao/abstract....

And join a community, ready to share, to help and to support you... Already 5th course in Europe and 4th in the US ( @lsfm-na.bsky.social )...

#legoptical Episode 2: Star wars Legopticals. LEGO used a lot of so called optical parts in their Star Wars set for Luke, Leia, and the Dark sides guys!

Yes the 5th EMBO Practical course Light Sheet Microscopy is happening back in Dresden. Please recommend, attend and share wisely. I will be there so be square! meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm

#bikecommute record... Willow branches for a tunnel nearly 3m50..and raspberry, quince tree, cherry tree, mirabelle plum tree, thyme... After wine biking here is planting biking... It was hard even with the electrical helper!

#bikecommute #Granville a sunny lunch break! Enjoy!

A new serie! I started it before the storm on the other messy network...Let's revive it. #legoptical Episode 1: the One and only lens! In LEGO, the term optics is not really used. The company produced several optical instruments: glasses, magnifying glasses, binoculars, space binoculars but...

Just finished the #microscopefoot serie. What's next? A few options... "the origin of DIY microscopy" "microscopy paintings" bluesky editions "funky designs" or "so many lenses" Let me know...

The #microscopefoot serie: Last episode: "The big bad base" With the evolution of the technology, the base became bigger stuffed with light path, filters, buttons and follow the design of the time as well as the color moving away from the black to the grey and now the white...Next serie coming soon!

Another sunny #bikecommute #Granville... You can see the Chausey Islands in the distance... I love those lunch breaks?

Today #Granville bike commute and lunch break... And you can see my open water swimming ground with sea pool included. Breathe!

Today sunny #Granville commute in between the different Carnival parades and I got a long "pigeon line" spring is coming!

The #microscopefoot serie: Episode 12: "The light is in the base" Lighting the sample was usually a separate apparatus that was then slowly integrated in the base creating new type of base of various shapes but bulkier. From candles and water filled jars to carbon arc lamp so many possibilities...

The #microscopefoot serie: Episode 11: "The ring base" Some inventors went beyond the circular base and created the unique ring base. Behold, the Universal Microscope by R & J Beck of London, 1867. Yes, the same guys who did the triangular base. No limits ! And it has a square cross section tube.

We need you! So you like ligth sheet microscopy, you like big datasets... We want more to join this flamboyance like @amsikking.bsky.social. Share! go.bsky.app/4ApetrV

Yes, go for it!

The #microscopefoot serie: Episode 10: "The triangle foot" You bet you can have a triangle foot. Very unusual and limited to 2 manufactures : R & J Beck and J Parkes & Son between 1865 and 1900. I want to thank Joao Inacio Silva and his amazing website www.antiquemicroscopes.co.uk

The #microscopefoot serie: Episode 9: "The reliable horseshoe" Yes, a horse is a reliable companion on four horseshoes, very stable. It allows you to tilt the scope at an angle, very useful to catch the light in the mirror and you can work while seated. For example, Alex Nikov. Some examples..

The #microscopefoot serie: Episode 8: "Three points for stability - Part III" And yes, tripod microscopes do exist and can twist and turn in crazy directions even horizontal and in the XXth century were used as control microscopes.

The #microscopefoot serie: Episode 7: "Three points for stability - Part II" After the decorative "Culpepper" microscope, microscopy became a need and companies develop more tripod like systems such as the "claw" base, a central pillar and 3 "digits" like birds but syndactyl, zygodactyl? New words!

The Sunday Displeasure of having kids... Archery regional championship... An entire day starting TOO early... Send COFFEE!