Vera Marie Titze

Thank you Sylvain, hope you’re doing well!

“Ecophotonics”:Turning Nature’s Light Management Strategies into Sustainable Technology

Excited to be starting my group “Ecophotonics” with a Minerva FastTrack fellowship! Big thanks to @vignolinilab.bsky.social for your support! Also grateful to my PhD supervisor Malte Gather, and collaborators & students from marine biology to physics. 🧪👩🏼‍🔬💡https://www.mpikg.mpg.de/6920542/ecophotonics

Custom assembly of optical components containing multiple lenses that can be seen through wide slots in a lens tube. The system is illuminated with cyan light.

Slotted lens tubes are definitely the most satisfying little item I have recently gotten from @thorlabs.bsky.social 😏 useful for science but I can already see some cool scientific outreach / teaching… in that sense, happy international day of women & girls in science 🧪👩🏼‍🔬

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Did noticed this too but I thought maybe it was a natural career progression 😄

Is this why turnaround times seem to be really bad right now? I think my submission has been back from peer review since late November and now it seems stuck…?! Have been wondering if editors desks are just swamped with nonsense 🤔🧪

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Zumal ich mich persönlich nicht auf den Klärungsanspruch des deutschen Sexualstrafrechts verlassen würde. Sie z.B. policy paper des Deutschen Juristinnenbundes, wo die Rechtslage im Sex.strafrecht als defizitär und nicht mit zB der Istanbul-Konvention konform bezeichnet wird.

Researcher (postdoctoral level) in Bioimaging, 1.4.2026–31.08.2028

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They already discussed boycotting 1936 Olympics since there was known persecution of Jews already. 1940 and 1944 were cancelled rather than boycotted. But maybe we learned from history… well I keep hoping that but then I keep getting surprised by the news with another fascist horror story.

Germany hosted Olympics in 1936 and the US sent Jesse Owens…

One-story house with yellow facade and a small garden in the front, green and pink lit up sky behind it, taken at night.

Winterish pale leafless trees in the front and a well-defined green strip of aurora behind them. A single star can be seen on the night sky.

My phone camera is very bad so these are quite representative of the #northernlights I saw with my naked eye tonight in #potsdam

true, but should we then not focus more on the quality of the proposal, as long as the candidate has at least a reasonable publication record? This was for a postdoc fellowship where anyways your publication record is heavily shaped by the policy of your PhD supervisors lab.

I will defend the reviewer who said something like "quantity is limited yet appropriate for career stage and quality is exceptionally high" - yet the panel turned that into "publication record is limited" which was then basis for rejection while admitting the proposal was clear and thorough.

Sadly, last year my fellowship application was rejected for lack of quantity despite reviewers pointing out high scientific quality of both the proposal and my publications (incl a corresponding author one…). That was very frustrating. I hope that panels reevaluate their priorities esp nowadays 👩🏼‍🔬🧪

We were playing „Fairytale of New York“ by the Pogues yesterday and the lyrics on Ultimate Guitar were like „and then we sang a song; a rare old Mountain Dew“ which absolutely sent the only native speaker…

I also recently checked it out of curiosity about the grim #grok news and was appalled how many scientists seem to cling onto the good old #academicTwitter… 👎🏼🧪

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Framed photograph of a microscopic view of a colony of flavobacterium IR1, showing swirling and vibrant hues of red and green. In the background is a decorated Christmas tree and a houseplant.

First time grandpa gets a self-made xmas present since probably 2010… it’s my favourite photo from the lab in 2025, and led to a nice conversation with a 92yr old about structural color and market transfer of sustainable materials 🎄🎁👩🏼‍🔬🧪

Gifts wrapped in newspaper, using pieces with big pictures of animals or travel locations including a poppy field in the Uckermark and Edinburgh castle

Time for one of my favourite festive recycling traditions of wrapping gifts in curated newspaper cutouts! This year featuring @zeit.de and some locations on the travel bucket list 😊🎁

the napari logo (a two-lobed island) modified to look like a snowman, with Christmas (red/green) colors

We're a bit late in ringing in the giving season, but it is indeed upon us. Enjoy our special edition holiday logo ☃️ and, if you can spare a bit and appreciate napari, please donate to our development efforts! 🙏 CZI will match donations up to $75K.

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If you are a postdoc or postgraduate student at @mpici.bsky.social, mark 15.04.26 in your calendars for the 2nd edition of our institute symposium! Registration will open in January, we are super excited already 😊

Didn’t see the socks but really enjoyed the talk!

Interesting. On the other hand teaching how to use something responsibly might be better than excluding it from teaching altogether. They will use it anyways right? Be it drugs, abortion etc (not to imply these are all wrong) - it usually doesn’t make things more safe to just forbid.

How do I update this information in Google scholar? Like how do I tell it that I am corresponding author?

Interesting! I don’t know how I feel about it. In part, I like it because labs have quite different policies for authorship when it comes to early-career non-first author. So having the metrics be heavily influenced by these middle-authorships also does not seem fair.

Thank you! 😊

Screenshot of my new marathon personal best with a time of 3h08.

The dome of Utrecht with nice weather and some fall coloured trees

Busy week for me! Amsterdam Marathon Today after a day in Utrecht yesterday, #NANOP25 conference in Paris tomorrow! 😊 if you are there, let’s catch up! I promise I will change from rambling about marathon running to rambling about science!

@rohanblake.bsky.social they are peacock feathers!

I have used CAD before - many companies (like thorlabs) have stl files of their equipment you can download and just drop in… maybe the light rays are easier to add with something like Inkscape later on?