Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@social.cleverlibre.org
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
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The K2: Open-source simultaneous triple-color TIRF microscope for live-cell and single-molecule imaging
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.19.521031v1
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#Twitter suspends #Mastodon account, prevents sharing links: Our statement
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/
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My last two Washington Post stories on Elon Musk before Twitter suspended me and other journalists discussed his flirtation with QAnon and the public data about his private jet:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/14/qanon-musk-revival-twitter/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/14/elonjet-twitter-suspension-jack-sweeney-talks/
@brembs whatever he needed to tell himself to be able to sleep at night 😉
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@brembs I remember one of the Mendeley founders telling me how they would change the Elsevier culture. It was already kind of funny back then.
@MattHodges I have to admit that I increasingly see this as a Christmas gift from Elmo.
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Thinking back to the summer heatwave in the UK when everyone was “Our houses aren’t built for the heat, they’re designed to keep warm in winter”, and now everyone is “Our houses aren’t built for this cold”. Maybe time to admit that the UK has just been building homes for 100 years that are shit at *everything* aside from extracting rent from the poor.
@albertcardona @Polypompholyx Having lived in the US (-20°C in winter, 40°C in summer) , UK (-5° to 30°) and Germany (-15° to 35°), it never ceases to amaze me that the country with the smallest temperature range over the year struggles the most to accommodate even that small range.
@charlottekl @Polypompholyx Utilising the sunlight for heating in winter but keeping it out in summer is surprisingly straightforward as well. Either by shading the higher standing sun (low tech) or by coating the windows to reflect the IR light at certain angles (higher tech, but I first saw this in windows installed in 1981).
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@jesswade I cannot look at the "now" picture without thinking "Purkinje Cell". 🫢
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A reminder of why we are trying to make a new and improved science community here on Mastodon.
Generally that may be true in some countries (Germany for example differs there), but the president of the USA swears an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend" the constitution. Breaking that oath would be perjury, no?
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"We're living through a cost of lying crisis"
From the current Private Eye
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a 2-gram 3-photon microscope! featuring tiny little silicon photomultipliers, and syncing photon counting to the room light flicker
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A postdoc position is available with Kazoo Kitamura at the University of Yamanashi in Japan. I can 100% say that it would be great to work with Kazuo, he would be a great postdoc advisor.
http://nphys-lab.yamanashi.ac.jp/hiring/
@giorgiogilestro @MatteoCarandini Another point to consider is that the underlying (design)philosophy of Mastodon is different. "Increasing visibility" does not appear to be a core aim. Twitter et al. need it as a central part of their business model, as it is the best way to draw people in. Mastodon isn't a business and doesn't have that need.
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This seems like a step improvement in 2-photon microscopy
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.06.515343v1
Spencer has a nice thread on it on Twitter (I don't think he's on Mastodon yet?): https://mobile.twitter.com/Labrigger/status/1589471340356333568
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Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
