Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
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Multiphoton imaging through 20 mm of air with the new Cousa objective.
This is a new type of objective: ultra long working distance, huge field-of-view, optimized for two-photon imaging.
And it fits on standard microscopes neuroscientists use for in vivo imaging (e.g., from Bruker, Thorlabs, Neurolabware, INSS, CoSys, etc.)!
The Cousa provides excellent data and even three-photon imaging over a huge field-of-view!
The paper has data from marmosets, tree shrews, both young and adult ferrets, intact pig eye, the first in vivo calcium imaging from mouse cochlear hair cells (!), beautiful input mapping / dendritic spine imaging, and more!
The paper was published just now: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-02098-1 It's open access. The Cousa objective can be purchased from a company that is being spun out of the lab: https://pacificoptica.com
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Live stream of a watering hole in a Namibian desert.
This might be the best thing.
https://www.youtube.com/live/ydYDqZQpim8?si=ewwBhA0eIBn8cCq4
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COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.
This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.
During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.
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The 2023 Lifetime Fundraiser brings you rare usernames and 11 chances to win Proton’s most exclusive account!
We’ve received hundreds of community-nominations for organizations that advance privacy, freedom, and human rights around the world.
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Hungary’s Victor Orbán is trying to blackmail the EU into paying him EUR 30 billion to end his block on Ukraine aid.
I have an alternative solution: Hungary joins Russia, Ukraine joins the EU — everybody gets to live in their dream society.
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Yes, but... the search engine is all wrong: https://proton.me/blog/alternative-search-engines
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Those trying to justify absurd Rwanda Bill overriding our courts & laws in the name of “Parliamentary sovereignty” are wrong. Parliament can only be sovereign *within a functioning legal & constitutional system* where courts can interpret law - which this Bill totally undermines.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1734579736196620745#m
[2023-12-12 14:23 UTC]
@brembs
I have long taken to judging companies and other organisations for their continued use of X.
If I want to be seen as an ethically acting organisation and support scientific development, then I simply can’t see that being compatible with the use that platform.
And yes, I practice what I preach. I run social media accounts for two scientific instrumentation companies and we have stopped using X.
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Call it what it is: a war on British multinational families.
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/the-price-they-put-on-love?r=ga1yo&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
@eamonfitzpatrick@mastodon.ie
My experience has massively improved since I installed “consent-o-matic”. Preset what level I want to consent to once, and the browser plug-in takes care of things on the majority of websites.
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Happy to announce our new preprint on fast and light efficient volumetric voltage imaging with FLIPR microscopy – led by the outstanding @UrsLucasBoehm
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.28.568783
@mick
The problem apparently is that returning the marbles to their rightful owners might cause other people to demand their stolen property back. 🤷
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Am I missing something with the #ElginMarbles? Some British aristocrat stole some sculptures a couple of hundred years ago and Greece, quite reasonably, wants them back. What is the issue?? Seems like a no-brainer. It's never too late to atone for a shameful colonial past.
@Shrigglepuss
Thank God for @protonmail…
Who do have options for businesses as well.
There are of course multiple other alternatives that treat you like a customer and not as the product.
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For all patch clampers out there Check out this beautiful preprint on reliable synaptic event detection. It works really well, with basically zero false positives! The project was led by Igor Delvendahl and Philipp O'Neill, and I also made a (small) contribution: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.02.565316v1
Am I the only one having an acute flashback to mesomery in chemistry?
Sorry..
Off-topic, I know. But…it took me a longer time than I will publicly admit to realise this wasn’t benzene.
The East German Stasi would be envious.
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As part of a new report on digital advertising as a security threat published today by @johnnyryan and me (https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Europes-hidden-security-crisis.pdf), and previously unreported:
We reveal 'Patternz', a global mass surveillance system that harvests digital advertising data on behalf of 'national security agencies'.
Patternz is operated by a company based in Israel and/or Singapore. It claims to collect data about 5 billion users from 87 ad exchanges and SSPs via 6 data centers around the world.
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@SWolff No question then on where you will be having post-poster celebrations (less than five minutes walk from the convention center).
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.
Joined Nov 2022
