To my EE students today: You are accountable for truth. Your success will depend on your ability to discern truth. Podcasters don’t have to build things that work. You do. Hype and BS aren’t shippable. You will break problems down into simpler pieces— the fundamentals—and then build back up. 1/2

well what do you know mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

130 nm multicolor resolution @ 12.5 fps. Zero compromise. Stop choosing between speed and phototoxicity. liveDRIM delivers super-resolution for thick, live samples in real-time. Watch the 2-min demo and full specs here: 👉 inscoper.com/livedrim #Microscopy #LiveCellImaging #Inscoper #SuperResolution

We are finally online 🥳 What a fantastic adventure with @rrsims, the @emilianilab.bsky.social and all co-authors from IdV Paris #TwoPhoton #Voltagers #Holography #Rhodopsins

Build hands-on skills in optical & electrophysiological methods at the TENSS 2026 course & advance your skills in modern systems #neuroscience 🔗 Apply by 1 Mar: https://ibro.org/training-opportunity/perc4_romania/#neuroscience #IBROinAsiaPacific #IBROinUSCanada #IBROinAfrica #IBROinLatAm #IBROinEurope #training

Applications are open for the most fun neuroscience summer school on this planet. 9/10 attendees end up with a fresh perspective on their work and being able to do previously impossible experiments. Apply & spread the word!

Calling all microscopy enthusiasts! I have been working with Gail McConnell to coordinate the life-science section of the 21st International Microscopy Congress taking place in Liverpool, UK this September. We have some great symposia lined up! Registration and abstracts 👉 www.imc21.org.uk

🔬🧠 Releasing the 1.0 version of #Suite2p and THE PAPER w/ @marius10p.bsky.social! Now with GPU acceleration. Want to use Suite2p but don’t have 100,000 neuron recordings? We show you how to get those with a standard 2p microscope #neuroscience #imaging #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

iGluSnFR4 is now available @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Glutamate indicators with increased sensitivity and tailored deactivation rates 🧪

Registration will soon open for the European Adaptive Optics Summer School, which will be held at the Centre for Advanced Instrumentation, Durham University, UK 13th – 17th July 2026. We are now inviting scholarship applications. For more details visit: sites.google.com/view/europea...

PS I simplistically liken mask protection from airborne pathogens like umbrella protection from rain. To me it’s physics. The umbrella will protect you from rain IF a) you use it in the rain, b) it has no holes, and c) it’s “right sized” so rain can’t come in from sides etc. Too simplistic but..

In @elife.bsky.social: A high-resolution, easy-to-build light-sheet microscope for subcellular imaging doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Today, I would like to honor the memory of Roger Y. Tsien, born on February 1, 1952. His legacy lives with all who use his technologies, including calcium sensors, fluorescent proteins, the acetoxymethyl (AM) ester, & many more! #FluorescenceFriday www.nature.com/articles/nme...

RA job alert. We are looking for a fearless experimentalist to join our experiments on cortical neuromodulators during visually guided learning, lead by @michael-lynn.bsky.social . Opportunity to learn 2p imaging, design and conduct experiments. RT plz. Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Curious how @rappopto.bsky.social can boost your biological research? Missed the webinar? Good news! You can still catch the 20-minute talk by @martinbrill.bsky.social on the @eurobioimaging.bsky.social #TechExchange YouTube channel 👇 ▶️ Watch here: youtu.be/pdRdvnvvh7I?...

Join us in Amsterdam for a FEBS advanced course on "Functional Imaging of cellular dynamics" from 31st of May - 6th of June 2026 Info: microscopy2026.febsevents.org

„Lifestyle-Teilzeit", das sagt ausgerechnet eine Partei, in der viele Abgeordnete ihr Mandat selbst nur in Teilzeit ausüben, weil sie nebenbei als Aufsichtsräte, Berater oder Teilhaber kassieren. Jetzt wollen sie, dass Teilzeitkräfte ihre Gründe rechtfertigen. Vielleicht fangen wir mal andersrum an.

Two weeks ago I started: - 🇳🇴 Vivaldi > Chrome 🇺🇸 - 🇨🇭 ProtonMail > Gmail 🇺🇸 - 🇨🇭 ProtonDrive > Dropbox 🇺🇸 - 🇬🇧 Anytime Player > American Podcast apps 🇺🇸 - 🇫🇷 Deezer > Spotify (basically 🇺🇸) - 🇬🇧 CityMapper > Google Maps 🇺🇸 It was easy. Most have a "import all settings and pick up where you left off" function

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?

Re-upping: if you want to learn microscopy and image analysis - REALLY learn them, in an intense and hands on way - this is a really great place to do it. Applications close Jan 30 meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

Curious how @rappopto.bsky.social can support your biological research? Learn about advanced photomanipulation techniques in a webinar hosted by @eurobioimaging.bsky.social January 23, 2026 14:00–14:30 CET by @martinbrill.bsky.social Register here: www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/event...

We were intending to enjoy good views of the Orion nebula and Jupiter with the Jovian moons. And then this happened. #Northernlights are a rare sight in #heidelberg. And tonight they were just popping. Until the fog pulled in.

We Are hiring!! 👨‍💻👩‍💻 CALM's new Data and Systems Steward Role is live 🎉https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Data-and-Systems-Steward_R2551 closing date 8th Feb!

Apply for the Postdoc Programme of the Health & Life Science Alliance in Heidelberg and Mannheim. Do an interinstitutional, interdisciplinary between 2 of 7 partner institutes, including EMBL, the University, DKFZ. www.health-life-sciences.de/postdocs/ Deadline: 31 March

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

🚨🚨🚨 Deadline for applications to the Strathclyde Optical Microscopy Course @unistrathclyde.bsky.social extended to 30 January 2026! Details on how to apply are below 🔬 #microscope #ECRchat #Glasgow

PIs & Group Leaders, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available! Applications due Friday 1/30. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

Strange isn't it... the people who actually live in London overwhelmingly think it's safe.... almost like everyone else is falling for a lie

A new version of our 2p mesoscope paper is up on biorxiv: Yang et al, Ultra-wide-field, deep, adaptive two-photon microscopy. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Lu, Schultz, Kozlov, Astrocytes and neurons exhibit partially shared but distinct composite receptive fields for natural stimuli Now published in J Neurophys journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Now out: Longitudinal three-photon imaging for tracking amyloid plaques and vascular degeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease Eline Stas, Mengke Yang, Simon Schultz, Mary Ann Go J Biomed Optics www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/jou...

Ascona meetings on neural circuits are amazing conferences in a beautiful setting in Switzerland spanning all scales from genetics and micro-circuit cracking to high level cognition. Check asconacircuits.org for the 2026 program and register soon, as it typically reaches capacity very quickly 🧠🧪

Registration for the Ascona 2026 Meeting is now open. Go to asconacircuits.org to submit your abstract and register for the meeting! We are looking forward to seeing you in Switzerland this September! Ascona Meeting Organizers

Our paper “Label-free nonlinear microscopy probes cellular metabolism and myelin dynamics in live tissue” is published in @commsbio.nature.com, thanks to an exciting collaboration between @laboptbio.bsky.social and @institutducerveau.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Agreed. Multiplexed imaging could help constrain the possible dynamics occurring during synaptic integration. There are interesting tradeoffs with these complementary reporters: calcium, voltage, glutamate.

Ein Kanzler oder eine Kanzlerin, das wäre jetzt was!

A rare book recommendation, for no particular reason: Overthrow, by Stephen Kinder A well researched and very readable book that might put recent events into a better historical context. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthr...

Den Talk "Blackbox Palantir" von Constanze Kurz und mir auf dem #39c3 verpasst? 🙁 Hier könnt ihr ihn nochmal ansehen und insbesondere mehr zu den Gefahren durch polizeiliche Datenanalysen und unseren Klagen dazu bei @freiheitsrechte.org erfahren 💡: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-black...

I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet

The hot new trend with boat owners is barnacles, look how many people have adopted them.

Gleich gehts weiter beim #39c3: GFF-Juristin Franziska Görlitz und Constanze Kurz vom @ccc.de sprechen ab 20.30 Uhr darüber, wer in Deutschland Palantir nutzt (bzw. nutzen will) und wie es mit den rechtlichen Voraussetzungen dafür aussieht. Den Stream zum Talk findet ihr hier:

I mask in large groups and when people ask me why (and btw that BARELY happens), I smile big enough to crinkle my eyes (so it shows), and say: "I say this with love of course, but I just don't trust you whores."

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

And to help, give up a minute a week to contribute to flusurvey.net

Glutamate is the primary molecule that neurons use to communicate with each other. Previously, scientists have mostly recorded when neurons fire output signals, but now with a new glutamate indicator, they can record the many inputs that causes cells to fire. 🧵 #neuroskyence

Four years ago, the red-light–activated channelrhodopsin #Chrimson restored basic vision in a blind patient. Here, we uncover its #multicolor_photoreactions and show implications for optogenetic applications. Many interesting details and a wonderful team🥳! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

If a key part of your job is getting information right and ferreting out falsehoods and untrustworthy sources, and the tool that’s supposed to help you do that keeps throwing you obvious errors, than yeah, you’re probably not going to *trust* it and may end up deciding it’s not all that useful.

This has been precisely my experience. I experimented a lot with ChatGPT for research-related work, summarizing, discovery, etc. The more I knew about a topic, the more errors and misleading assertions I saw in the bot’s outputs.

I keep having exactly this conversation with AI proponents: “I need it to be accurate.” “How accurate?” “100%” “Uh. How about 85%? Good enough?” “No, 100%.” “Well, we can’t do that because [reason of the week].” “Okay, talk to me when you can, then.”