Low-photon FLIM data is messy. So we built NC-PCA, a denoising approach that preserves signal structure while stripping away noise & validated on synthetic data, dyes, & >800 colorectal cancer organoids. Proud of this team! Paper link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪💡@academic-chatter.bsky.social

Excited to share our team’s work on improving FLIM metabolic imaging. NC-PCA selectively removes shot noise without filters or training. The result? Clearer phasors, higher accuracy, & better biological insights. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com @academic-chatter.bsky.social 💡🧪

Breaking news: I’ve uncovered a new law of academic publishing!! The moment I board a plane, a manuscript decision arrives for my team. At this point, the fastest way to speed up our publications might just be more travel. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Congratulations to Lexie Scholtz who just defended her PhD in BME! She's headed off on Monday to KLA to be an applications and packaging engineer!! @academic-chatter.bsky.social

I can't stop thinking about this. It was so amazing to see people working together - literally or just by being patient when their commute was put on hold - to save a little life. It was truly heartwarming.

If you're the person who just stopped all traffic on the CA10 to try to catch a tiny gray kitten or the guy who crawled under your Prius to pull the little guy out of your wheel well after he got scared... Thank you for making the world a better place.

Someone warmed up a cinnamon roll for breakfast in the microwave, and now the entire floor smells like cinnamon deliciousness.

Never thought I'd use my engineering/physics skills like this! 😂 But if you love Squid Games and science/engineering, this @netflix.com Tudum video might be for you! Link: www.netflix.com/tudum/videos... 🧪💡 #squidgames #engineering #science

Never thought I'd use my engineering/physics skills like this! 😂 But if you love Squid Games and science/engineering, this @netflix.com Tudum video might be for you! Link: www.netflix.com/tudum/videos... 🧪💡 #squidgames #engineering #science

Are you an undergrad passionate about cutting-edge biotechnology research & looking to make a difference in healthcare? We're hiring a 1yr intern! Possible efforts: 🔹 Designing & building optical imaging systems 🔹 Developing image analysis algorithms 🔹 Performing data acquisition & analysis

Made some St. Patrick's Day treats for the team! Mini-chocolate torts (shaped like four leaf clovers) and orange sugar cookies (with green clovers painted on in sparkly dust). May everyone have a little luck today! 🍀 @academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪

Congratulations to Kylie Trettner who just defended her PhD in Chemical Engineering! We wish her all the best as she embarks on an exciting new journey as a scientific analyst in the VC world. 🧪💡 @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Enhanced fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy denoising via principal component analysis by Andrea M Armani and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My favorite: I buy some particles from a company, & I need to know the composition for some modeling. I politely reach out & ask, only to be told it's a "trade secret". I'll see your trade secret and raise you a TEM with EDX. 😏😂 #chemsky 🧪

www.laserfocusworld.com/podcasts/art... #photonics @jmurphoton.bsky.social @drarmani.bsky.social

Valentine's exchange, lab style. 💡🧪💕

Contribute to the 2025 #SPIE Global Optics & Photonics Salary Report and be entered to win a trip to an SPIE event! This report is the longest-running and largest salary survey in optics and #photonics, and the community's responses are why! Take the survey here: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8033768/b...

Meeting up #WomeninOptics #PhotonicsWest @spie.org Sile NIC Chormaic, Clara Saraceno, Giulia Tagliabue, @rachelgrange.bsky.social, Andrea Redondo-Blanco, @drarmani.bsky.social, @astchalyan.bsky.social and Sona Hosseini 💃🎉🎊🥳💃

Having an amazing time at #PhotonicsWest! Watched an incredible series of talks on #quantum optics behaviors and devices and caught up with friends at a WiO event! @spie.org 🧪💡 @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Best part of conferences - catching up with former team members who are now rockstars!! 🌟 @academic-chatter.bsky.social @spie.org 🧪💡

Just put the finishing touches on my slides for Photonics West BIOS!! Hope to see everyone there next week (or weekend) in San Fran! 💡 @spie.org @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Celebrating the achievements of 2024 and Yasaman Moradi's last group meeting. After finishing her PhD, she is heading off to FujiFilm. @academic-chatter.bsky.social #lifegoals 🎉💡🧪

My manuscript main text is currently 4756 words. Checking journal... The word limit is 3000. 😬 @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

Happy New Year!! 🎆

In addition to tracking who has served on panels, it would be great if NIH (& others) tracked who had been asked. I just received my 4th request in 2 months. Also, this epitomizes the service aspect of academia. The last time I had NIH funding was in the 2010's. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Team bonding before the holiday break filled with creativity and laughter! (Playing with clay) 🧪 #academicsky #teambonding

Congratulations to #USC PhD student and group member Yasaman Moradi who just successfully defended her PhD in chemical engineering!! 🧪 #academicsky #PhDdone #engineering

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully. #gilliana #scully #womeninstem

First attempt at gingerbread and sugar cookies made over the weekend went well (as judged by my work colleagues). 🎉 🎄 #homemade #cookies

Hi to all of my new followers and new Blueskiers(?)! Great to see everyone making the journey! #cats #Academicsky

Glad it all worked out! I'm in love with a golden down the street. Your daughter might look into the Baking Notification Project. www.bonappetit.com/story/baking...

Had a wonderful time last night joining Nee, Sev, and Meredith on a panel celebrating NOVA's new 3-part engineering series "Building Stuff"! The third episode airs next Wednesday, & all episodes are available for free at: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/se... #STEM 🧪 #Academicsky @pbs.org.web.brid.gy #NOVA

I feel really bad for a student today. Last spring, a journal decided reject/resubmit on a MS. 2 reviewers asked for more experiments & some dets. Everything was totally fair & did improve quality. We did them, added the dets, resubmitted. The editor sent out to review to 2 NEW reviewers. -- and --

We have written before that "no age is the right age to be a woman leader." It is also true that "no look is the right look for a woman leader." See our new Fast Company article on lookism bias against women. www.fastcompany.com/91229638/loo...

The founders of the Photonic Online Meeting #POM since 2019 are reunited on 🦋 @mickeykats.bsky.social @drarmani.bsky.social @riccard0.bsky.social @sylvaingigan.bsky.social @oradr.bsky.social and last but not least @igordownunder.bsky.social 💡Hello everyone! 📍https://photonicsonlinemeetup.org/

The #JWST ornament giveaway is still going strong! 😎 My goal is to hit 250 reposts before it closes tomorrow :) 🔭🧪🐡#bsnm

My feed is filled with science and cats and funny quips. 🎉

We have a living tree topper this year. Maybe we'll just skip the ornaments. #cat #cats 🐱

This amazing FREE series - which explores rockets, implantable devices, submarines, & more - is streaming now! What an incredible resource to inspire students to pursue #STEM! 🧪 Here's a "behind the scenes" photo of the filming. @learnscience.org @opnmagazine.bsky.social #engineering #SciComm

So, I haven't seen any of the video and maybe I was completely cut... But the first episode is tonight! The topics are amazing! 💡🧪 www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/se...

Better late than never, my team dressed up for Halloween - complete with plans! #halloween2024 🎃

Voting is a privilege and a responsibility. Remember to carefully consider all candidates & propositions. You are asked to vote on many topics & positions beyond the President. #IVoted  #Vote

Just dropped my ballot off! Make sure your voice and opinions are heard. #IVoted  #vote  #IVotedEarly

Celebrating 18 years together! #anniversary #celebrating #datenight

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #463,654!

Are you passionate about solving complex technical challenges and building instruments? We're looking for a dynamic Systems Integration Engineer to join our team at EIT in Los Angeles! Link: eit.applytojob.com/apply/YcErV6... @academic-chatter.bsky.social #JobOpening💡🧪

After several (numerous) failures this weekend, I'm proud to say that I was able to make canneles (or caneles)! (I forgot to take pictures of the end result - and they are all gone...) #homemade #baking #pastry

After many people quietly asked "are you on a call?", I've decided to just own my behavior. (Maybe "muttering" is a better word. 😂) #writing @academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪💡