Life involves significantly more squiggly lines when there are more colours
03.06.2025 17:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@single-mole.bsky.social
Single-molecule Biophysicist at London Institute of Medical Sciences ๐งฌ๐ฌโจ My research interests are all things single-molecule fluorescence and nucleic acids. Other hobbies: archery, chess, sci-fi
Life involves significantly more squiggly lines when there are more colours
03.06.2025 17:29 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Life is better with more colours!
02.06.2025 14:50 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐ Have a good one Tim!
19.05.2025 21:46 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0can I add a flourophore to light it up a bit
29.04.2025 09:53 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0stock trajectory is invariant under Lorentz transformation
17.02.2025 10:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Lenny with a pinhole projection of the sun approaching the Drinking Time line
A thread on optical phenomena in The Simpsons
18.12.2024 16:30 โ ๐ 34 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0criminal sponge stealing feline
We have to keep our washing up sponges in prison under the sink or this one will steal them and hide them
18.12.2024 16:58 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Please share: Still plenty of time to apply for PhD projects in my lab using single-molecule methods to look at disordered regions and condensin complexes!
Contact me at e.cutts@sheffield.ac.uk
For details on how to apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Google AI overview result explaining that anhydrous water is water that is free of water
Artificial intelligence is going to revolutionise chemistry
13.12.2024 11:59 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0hopefully no bananas
05.12.2024 16:40 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Whenever I see people talking about how they want to see raw data I can't help but think that everyone means something different when they say raw
04.12.2024 10:43 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Mix two motors of opposite polarity with microtubules and they will partition space !
Microtubules will get organized in polar and active barriers, sorting the two motors in separated domains, leading to the emergence of a new type of patterns.
#morphogenesis
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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An infrared photo of a rainbow: a strange, ghostly-looking rainbow in a mostly black and white photo, with a faintly red outer edge and a cyan inner edge, and what look like a few even fainter โechoโ bows inside
A regular visible-light pic of a rainbow
An ultraviolet picture of a rainbow: a dark, foreboding landscape with a deep purple stripe emanating from it, and a grey stripe inside
A composite of the three preceding photos, showing that the infrared bow is โoutsideโ the visible light rainbow, and the ultraviolet bow โinsideโ
Thereโs more to rainbows than the human eye can see: hereโs how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet.
Photos:
1. Infrared
2. Visible (obviously)
3. Ultraviolet, and
4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end.
๐งช #photography
Beeps definitely sounds better than skeeps ๐
No snow in London yet!
The simple optical setup (an infinite optical breadboard with hundreds of optical components placed randomly upon it)
Manuscript: "Using a simple optical setup ... "
19.11.2024 08:57 โ ๐ 47 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 1Thanks for making this Izzy!
17.11.2024 20:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The starter packs are good but when do we get booster packs
17.11.2024 14:59 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0two fuzzy creatures
Lots of people following me this morning even though so far I have only posted a picture of my cat, so I am raising the stakes and posting TWO cats
13.11.2024 12:18 โ ๐ 25 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0First attempt in a (loosely defined) Single-Molecule Biophysics starter pack. Please share and (self-) nominate. go.bsky.app/CteFZM5
13.11.2024 08:23 โ ๐ 109 ๐ 61 ๐ฌ 66 ๐ 3This may explain why I have 20 new follows this morning! Thanks Johannes!
13.11.2024 09:00 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I am always maximally suspicious when I see people fit Gaussians to diffusion coefficients plotted in linear space!
24.10.2024 11:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0๐จ Preprint news!! ๐จ The collaboration with @ckinzthompson on a novel definition of resolution and how it can be used to calculate the local atomic resolution and map-to-model correspondence in cryoEM structures is finally on bioRxiv!!!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ๐งต(1/6)
20.10.2023 19:35 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0No
08.09.2023 09:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The world isn't ready for Kubrick wonka anyway
20.08.2023 21:07 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If you put a ring on the floor a cat will get in it
12.08.2023 20:13 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This was very useful although it occasionally finds completely the wrong person.
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