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Benjamin Ambrose

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Single-molecule Biophysicist at London Institute of Medical Sciences ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿ”ฌโœจ My research interests are all things single-molecule fluorescence and nucleic acids. Other hobbies: archery, chess, sci-fi

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Life involves significantly more squiggly lines when there are more colours

03.06.2025 17:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Life is better with more colours!

02.06.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰ Have a good one Tim!

19.05.2025 21:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

can I add a flourophore to light it up a bit

29.04.2025 09:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

stock trajectory is invariant under Lorentz transformation

17.02.2025 10:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Lenny with a pinhole projection of the sun approaching the Drinking Time line

Lenny 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
criminal sponge stealing feline

criminal 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Developing Imaging Solutions to Study the Dynamics of Human Condensin I at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Developing Imaging Solutions to Study the Dynamics of Human Condensin I at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

Please 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...

16.12.2024 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Google AI overview result explaining that anhydrous water is water that is free of water

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hopefully no bananas

05.12.2024 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Whenever 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mix 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...
(1/n)

27.11.2024 13:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 365    ๐Ÿ” 103    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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 โ€˜echoโ€™ bows inside

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 โ€˜echoโ€™ bows inside

A regular visible-light pic of a rainbow

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

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 โ€˜outsideโ€™ the visible light rainbow, and the ultraviolet bow โ€˜insideโ€™

A composite of the three preceding photos, showing that the infrared bow is โ€˜outsideโ€™ the visible light rainbow, and the ultraviolet bow โ€˜insideโ€™

Thereโ€™s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: hereโ€™s 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.

๐Ÿงช #photography

21.11.2024 10:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2022    ๐Ÿ” 656    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72    ๐Ÿ“Œ 58

Beeps definitely sounds better than skeeps ๐Ÿ˜

No snow in London yet!

19.11.2024 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The simple optical setup (an infinite optical breadboard with hundreds of optical components placed randomly upon it)

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thanks for making this Izzy!

17.11.2024 20:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The starter packs are good but when do we get booster packs

17.11.2024 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
two fuzzy creatures

two 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

First 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 109    ๐Ÿ” 61    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 66    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

This may explain why I have 20 new follows this morning! Thanks Johannes!

13.11.2024 09:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am always maximally suspicious when I see people fit Gaussians to diffusion coefficients plotted in linear space!

24.10.2024 11:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scale-dependent hierarchical resolution: applications to atomic resolution and model validation in c... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

๐Ÿšจ Preprint news!! ๐Ÿšจ 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... ๐Ÿงต(1/6)

20.10.2023 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No

08.09.2023 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The world isn't ready for Kubrick wonka anyway

20.08.2023 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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If you put a ring on the floor a cat will get in it

12.08.2023 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This was very useful although it occasionally finds completely the wrong person.

10.08.2023 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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