Interesting, it works in German too.
While it was called “Preussen”, this orginated from the name Prussen.
And people from Russia are called Russen in 🇩🇪 .
😳
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Optical imaging, interested in STEM topics. First generation graduate from ETH Zürich Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Interesting, it works in German too.
While it was called “Preussen”, this orginated from the name Prussen.
And people from Russia are called Russen in 🇩🇪 .
😳
That car does not even remotely look transform limited!
16.02.2026 00:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That thing is only worth a fiber laser, not a Ti:Sapph😳!
15.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People who know cars, is this this one?
I googled Corvette looking like Ferrari and it came up, but morphology is not full match:
www.mygalleriachevrolet.com/inventory/1G...
I think those were the only decent FROG measurements I have ever gotten.
Long time ago, but I still remember that it was quite finicky.
It is quite a stark contrast, isn’t it? If you can afford such a car, you could also get nice coffee😅.
My girls like to go there on Sunday mornings, as it is the only coffee shop we can walk to.
People pull up in all kinds of cars, including Cybertrucks and other monstrosities.
Ohh, I went to flex my 8 fs laser pulses after compression (bottom row).
Well, it was @spie.org Photonics West, not our local coffee shop😅.
Neither can that dude; our streets have so many potholes and random bumps, this must be a pain to drive it…
15.02.2026 14:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Saw this car this morning at Starbucks.
My guess it cost more than a Ti:Sapph laser.
Still prefer an ultrafast laser over a sports car😀.
cc @bwjones.bsky.social
Definitely similar coolness!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=06Sh...
Yeah, quite amazing.
He beat Odermatt who is in his prime. By a second in first run; and then almost slipped in second run, but kept it together.
One giant leap into history.
Congratulations to Lucas Pinheiro Braathen!
#Olympics
Aha, just as I worked on doing the new formatting…
I guess it’s still better to get it done anyways.
Congratulations, and it is only mid February.
You are off to a good start!
Be kind like Dedekind…
13.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kokomo Murase just landed a backside triple cork 9π !
That is rad(ians)!
youtube.com/shorts/76oof...
Third gold medal for Franjo von Allmen, wow!
He is only the third guy ever to win three olympic gold medals in skiing.
In terms of Swiss history, he has now surpassed Wilhelm Tell and Leonhard Euler.
Hopp Schwizz!
www.reuters.com/sports/alpin...
Cc @ceej64.bsky.social
Somewhat frustrating when watching the Olympics and knowing folks stop at 4π solid angle on their microscopes (2.7 steradians more realistically).
#Olympics
Congrats to Kokomo Murase who did a 8π rotation jump to win the Snowboard big air event at the Olympics.
Also a big win for using radians over degrees!
www.olympics.com/en/milano-co...
📢Job alert📢
@uniheidelberg.bsky.social has an opening for a full W3-position on “Modeling of Biological Processes” 😀👍 Here is the call
tinyurl.com/3w9e9dtf
and application deadline is March 15. The group would be located at the beautiful #BioQuant center right in the middle of Neuenheimer Feld.
Also perfect Valentine’s gift for optics folks!
06.02.2026 15:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This made me happy this morning:
USB powered laser diode with decent beam profile.
On demand collimated beams of different sizes.
Little ups while most things look pretty bleak.
In @elife.bsky.social: A high-resolution, easy-to-build light-sheet microscope for subcellular imaging doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
05.02.2026 22:53 — 👍 46 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 0Better in the Optica than on this one😳:
www.theguardian.com/world/2015/j...
And it is not Optics Express😅!
04.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Cell, Nature and Science may have high impact factors, but @optica.org has its own aircraft😎.
cc @ceej64.bsky.social
Unrelated, I remember Lufthansa once doing go arounds a gogo at FRA with multiple crews on board a “heavy”.
Have to ask my buddy who flies for LH if that is still a thing.
What does flight radar say on the 747?
Maybe practice / certification for crew?
Integrated in an imaging system with a 60X NA 1.49 lens.
Pretty clean rotation near optical axis.
PhD position in my lab!
28.01.2026 17:25 — 👍 38 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 0