for convenience, I add figure 2 from the first publication here.

our 5th paper of 2026 is out: ONE microscopy www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Protein shapes, #sub-nanometer precision, conventional #fluorescence #microscopes, and now #ONEpy. 3 more papers in revision, more this year. We’re only getting started. #optical #structural #biology is becoming a field

Exciting new preprint from Ignacio Vega Vásquez, Sauer lab, my team and collaborators: #Mega-ExM. From just ~20 NPCs imaged with a 10× objective on a confocal, we reconstructed the 3D structure at ~33 Å. A step toward optical structural biology in intact cells. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#congratulations to Janna, Markus and the team! By combining 8× expansion with #dSTORM, we resolved the 8 nm spacing between neighboring tubulin molecules and revealed ~44 nm RIM/Munc13-1 rings in neurons. Thank you for letting us contribute a small part. story: rdcu.be/fwBYY #cool #imaging #tiny

Back in EMBL Heidelberg for a super-resolution lecture.

on 13 August, we welcome Prof. Dr. Liangyi Chen from PKU for an SFB 1286 seminar in #Göttingen. discussing #live-cell and cross-scale #imaging reveal #disease mechanisms, from #rare #disorders to #diabetes. 📍 Manfred Eigen Lecture Hall ☕ 13:00 Coffee and refreshments 🎤 13:30 Lecture 🍽️ 14:45 Lunch

calling it a day. manuscript submitted, portal survived, one episode of 'daemon of the shadow realm' earned

in this #review, we argue: #AI is becoming a new pillar of #LifeScience research. Beyond data analysis, AI is beginning to contribute to scientific reasoning, experimental design, molecular #discovery, and laboratory automation, reshaping how biological research is done. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

After nature picking up the swimming-pool analogy, preLights published the meme that became part of the paper 😅 prelights.biologists.com/highlights/t...

Expansion goes #quantum Our new #arXiv #preprint arxiv.org/abs/2606.22551, led by Dr. Milton Mondal, asks whether hybrid quantum neural networks can learn from expansion microscopy #protein #images. We identify a measurement-related bottleneck and introduce Quantum Measurement Temperature. #ExM #ai

The scientific community and two Editors-in-Chief are supporting Supplementary Figure 67 to be included in the manuscript. I'll pitch this idea with the other co-authores 😄 Wish me luck, haha Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Supplementary. Fig. 6-7

Hello #world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy. A small gel would grow to the size of an Olympic swimming pool, while amino-acid-scale distances become visible with ordinary light microscopy. Led by Helena Hu from @eboyden3.bsky.social's lab, in collab with us. Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Spent 9 days in #China. Came back with a renewed respect for green #tea and a growing collection of questionable tea experiments. 🍵 So far: the #ginseng ten treasures tea failed miserably, the #Longjing was a partial success, and the #SenchaSenpai was surprisingly excellent. #newskillunlocked.

Zeshi is an excellent scientist and a thoughtful collaborator. If you’re considering a #postdoc in #chemical #biology, this is a strong opportunity in a very solid group. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Your conventional light microscope can do more than you think. How far can it actually go? Join me today at 4:00 PM CET. Link: events.bitesizebio.com/democratizin... Webinar hosted by Hosted by: @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social

What if your confocal could see #proteins like never before? Next stop: molecular resolution with ONE microscopy. I’ll be sharing how we push standard fluorescence systems to the nanometer scale and what this means for structural biology and cell #biology. Link events.bitesizebio.com/democratizin...

#Rumor says #StrangerThings drops a surprise #Episode9 today. I can confirm one version aired. Ep 9: #ERC CoG Submission Ep 10: The Last Upload Ep 11: Consolidation Day Ep 12: TBA 🤞 No spoilers: Christmas skipped. January deleted. 47 tabs. version_final_v7.62_reallyfinal.pdf. No #Demogorgons harmed.

Last manuscript submission of 2025 🎉 First real stress test of hybrid #quantum #machine #learning on messy #biological #data. Some things broke. Some held. That’s the point. Closing 2025 strong 💥 #QML #HybridAI #QuantumComputing #LabLife #DefinitelyNotWorkingDuringHolidays

Antibody-free NHS-ester labeling #protocol enabling dense, uniform visualization of cytoskeletal structures. Optimized for #expansionmicroscopy, it minimizes linkage error, improves coverage, and provides an internal #nanoscale ruler for accurate #expansion-factor correction. bio-protocol.org/e5539

#Beijing 🇨🇳 where #history and modernity collide in the #best way. #Epic contrasts, beautiful #city, #kind people, #healthy #food and great #science

And the day capped with an elegant #tango #concert. Thank you my friend, Professor @piatkevich.bsky.social for the invitation and warm welcome. See you again soon.

2nd destination of #China #science tour: #WestlakeUniversity which stood out for how architecture, core facilities, & scale actually work. Centralized microscopy pipelines, unmatched instrument density, & unreal procurement economics. Strong PI discussions, BRILLIANT students, great #Hangzhou vibe.

#Labubus roam freely in #China 🇨🇳 & are known to cause jitter. At #NBIC, vibration is solved architecturally: the entire floor is isolated, not individual microscopes. Located in #Huairou #Science City, minutes from the HEPS #synchrotron, the building itself becomes the stabilizing instrument.

Visit to #Beijing #China 🇨🇳 #PekingUniversity, the National Biomedical Imaging Center (#NBIC), hosted by Professors Liangyi Chen, Zhixing Chen, and Peace Chen. Over 19 one-to-one technical discussions across imaging, cryo-EM/ET, chemistry, and AI. Heading next to #WestlakeUniversity in #Hangzhou.

A remarkable day for #Lebanon 🇱🇧🇻🇦 as the country welcomes His Holiness #Pope Leo XIV. As the late Pope John Paul II once said, ‘Lebanon is more than a country, it is a message.’ A message of #peace and #coexistence that still matters. I wish I could have been in Lebanon today.

It gets worse, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is going to teach them Al-jabr (algebra) 🙅🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♂️

One of the early women to ruin #science: Marie Curie. Two Nobels in, no regrets

Great few hours spent in #Soglio, #Switzerland 🇨🇭 what a place. Perched above Val Bregaglia, surrounded by #ancient chestnut trees planted by Protestant refugees, and facing #sunsets that set the #Sciora peaks on fire.

💻 Computer’s been updating for 25 minutes: perfect excuse to get some morning #exercise in. Sometimes #technology decides when it’s your turn to #reboot.