Monthly archives: July, 2023

End legacy considerations in college admissions

The meeting hall for a student club.

An interesting study recently came out:

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to…



Practice your talk

“I know I’m over time, I just have one more thing I want to tell you about, I think, …”

I practice my talks and try to nail the timing. I use the presenter display in…



The Cousa objective, an ultra long working distance, large field-of-view air objective for multiphoton imaging

We just updated the preprint for the Cousa objective. It’s a big update.

Back in November 2020, we announced a design for a 20 mm working distance objective optimized for…



Distilled simplicity for scientific publishing

Scientific publishing is essentially a solved problem.

Research dissemination is almost free. For hundreds of years, humankind relied on printed material and postage or shipping to share their work. That hasn’t been…



Restlessness

This post will probably mean more to me than it means to any of you dear readers. But maybe someone will recognize a bit of themselves in it. Or maybe I’m underestimating how…



New camera: 316 MPixel, 58.6 square cm

That’s not a typo. 58.6 square centimeters of detector area. It’s the Big Sky camera by Sphere Entertainment Co. I want to know more about that lens on the front too.

Maybe an upgrade for the next version of the ExA-SPIM?