@retof.bsky.social
Optical imaging, interested in STEM topics. First generation graduate from ETH Zürich Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Ahh, forgot “beard”.
03.08.2025 15:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ahh, common, quite short word for:
Barbarian’s hairdresser’s Barbara’s Rhubarb-bar-beer.
Step by step construction:
youtu.be/gG62zay3kck?...
Just leaving this here, a legitimate 🇩🇪 word:
03.08.2025 14:22 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
What submitting a grant proposal currently feels like…
31.07.2025 00:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This elevator is symbolic for funding applications this year😞.
30.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ahh, EAA in Oshkosh🤩!
26.07.2025 02:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Holy crap, we were do young.
But Gaudenz takes the cake in looking young!
Happy Pi day to those who like to arrange units by order of magnitude.
22.07.2025 19:45 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0My salary is 50% covered by institute, 50% needs to come from grants.
Yes, not that uncommon.
It is hard to understate what universal genius Gaudenz is, and this went way beyond our department.
That neither US nor academia could retain him will be something I will ponder for a bit…
Yup, leaving traditional academia was somewhat a shock.
19.07.2025 00:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, super sad here!
19.07.2025 00:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0He is leaving end of this month for Roche’s Institute of Human Biology in Basel.
18.07.2025 23:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
18.07.2025 21:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Computer vision, cancer cell biology and 3D microscopy.
18.07.2025 21:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Computer vision, cancer cell biology and 3D microscopy.
18.07.2025 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All good things come to an end😢.
Big thank you to Gaudenz Danuser for his leadership and vision he brought to UT Southwestern!
He went Mach 1.25 in free fall.
18.07.2025 00:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“I am going home now.”
RIP, Felix Baumgartner 1969 – 2025
youtu.be/FHtvDA0W34I?...
Need to check, but I may have already reached my grant submission quota this year…
17.07.2025 17:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Current mood:
15.07.2025 18:41 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I really hope more hybrid conferences will be offered again.
Good luck at the conference!
Hard to capture on video, but the wind farm keeps going and going.
12.07.2025 14:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The second largest wind power installation in the US is in the TX panhandle.
I have driven through it several times.
At night, the anti-collision lights stretch all out to the horizon.
Also coming up: Request for information on AI, July 15th:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
And AI for cancer treatment and care by end of July:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I can offer a few more ducklings:
09.07.2025 21:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NIH cap on publication charges announced for 2026. Cap not specified yet.
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
