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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Having a great time at the Bay Area Light Sources joint Users’ meeting and pairing up with colleagues for a workshop on beamline simulations

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In the past few weeks, I got to observe a few people on the verge of addiction to AI: spending tokens on agents and anxiously wait for the answer as if they were slot machines — and never knowing when to stop. Scary slop machines

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I can't wait to be at @spie.org #SPIEOpticsPhotonics next week! I'll be joining the @als.lbl.gov Photon Science Development group to talk about synchrotrons! x-rays! metrology! adaptive optics! digital twins! diffraction!

Program of the talks at SPIE OP2026 for the ALS photon science division

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The ghosts of Bertrand Russell and Kurt Godel are talking at night openai.com/index/ten-ad...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Angine D’Orbite Occulaire open.spotify.com/album/6OxEdo...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And that happens in conjunction with large tech companies reaching « maturity »(no exponential growth anymore.) I found this piece by @doctorow.pluralistic.net quite illuminating www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We bring a new twist on the Young's famous double slits with @als.lbl.gov X-rays and @berkeleylab.lbl.gov magnets Magnetically modified double-slit-based x-ray interferometry S Atkar et al. Physical Review Research 8, 023092 (2026) doi.org/10.1103/5njk... Summary: als.lbl.gov/x-ray-magnet...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Bay Area Wiknic 2026 13 June 2026 – 1300PST Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco, CA @wikipedia.org #wiknic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:B...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Truly wonderful talk by @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov when she talked bout bio-orthogonal chemistry — how to create a chemistry inside the body without it interacting with the body — and provided her best advice to early career scientists: don’t listen to advice

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

When you see it you can’t unsee it. The should have called it Victor instead of Claude

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

New paper on Fourier ptychography for EUV lithography by Chaoying Gu, in collaboration with Laura Waller. In this paper, Chaoying uses a technique called Fourier ptychography to improve the resolution of a state of the art imaging system (down to 60 nm!) at the @als.lbl.gov doi.org/10.1117/1.JM...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is a cat check point. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone #ProofOfCat

Picture from Türkiye in may 2026 with many cats

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It occurred to me that nurturing a knowledge sharing in a research group is what will set us apart from AI — LLMs thrive on what has been published and reported, this is not experience: things we’ve tried and didn’t work, captured institutionally but not shared widely.

Scientists installing a camera on a beamline endstation

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif No Star Wars Star Trek Harry Potter Marvel Lord of the Rings

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Apple turnover makes me hungry — cooked to perfection

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

The Bay Area is about to enter its Annoying Season: omg its too hot we gonna melt

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Happy international woman’s day #IWD It seems things were getting better in science — at least up until a year ago. Efforts such as @spie.org workshops and book of portrait do make a difference. Here’s a former student of mine who shared her experience www.optics.arizona.edu/news/another...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Another lovely #bouquetstoarts at @deyoungmuseum.bsky.social this year — always a good opportunity to revisit the permanent collection from a fresh angle #art #flowers

A floral composition with geometric features in front of of a painting

A floral composition in a dark room with murals from Teotihuacan and intricate shadows

A floral composition in front of a portrait painting

A floral composition in front of a tribal painting, with red walls

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I have a fond memory of mygale.org, a free web hosting platform in France in the mid 90s, a bit like Geocities. I published my first website there at around 12yo, using Microsoft publisher, with lyrics hand typed to impress a love interest (we didn’t call it nerdmaxxing then)

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

New paper in the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation where my @als.lbl.gov SULI student Chuzida expands the Wigner transform formalism developed by @boazhsan.bsky.social to x-ray beamsplitters for Fourier-Transform spectroscopy #science #MathSky #physics #AcademicSky doi.org/10.1107/S1600577525011452

Screenshots of a scientific article, with maths equations, picture of a scientific instrument and graphs

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Day 2 of the Accelerate UX workshop with a panel on lab UX and a fun hackathon to control beamlines with blueskyproject.io People are still discussing the best framework to build a user interface – but all agree: @berkeleylab.lbl.gov has the #bestviewfromalab! indico.physics.lbl.gov/event/3289/

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Excellent day 1 for the workshop on user interfaces and user experience at scientific user facilities/particle accelerators hosted by Seij De Leon and Tiffany Tran at the @als.lbl.gov, with participants from all over the world. indico.physics.lbl.gov/event/3289/

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Random shot from the @als.lbl.gov where we’re installing a novel photon energy sensor on beamline 6.3.1 while the sun is setting over @berkeleylab.lbl.gov

Two scientists looking at synchrotron instrumentation

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The main topics where AI should accelerate research and where the US dept of energy wants to direct resources — worth a read! www.energy.gov/documents/ge...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Interesting talk by Eno Reyes on software development agents at the AI Agent workshop at @berkeleylab.lbl.gov with an emphasis on the importance of environment (ontology of data etc.) and the critical importance of evaluation loops in coding tools indico.physics.lbl.gov/event/3209/o...

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Every year the optical candy shop opens during @spie.org #photonicswest in San Francisco 🍭 😍 🌉🌉 Always a great occasion to meet old friends and let new generations of scientists shine and salivate before the display of optical technology — which often runs our daily lives in the background

Display from a laser casing manufacturer

Structured lasers, showing a grid, a bullseye and lines of various colors

3D printed representation of the first zernike polynomials, used in optical aberration theory

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

There are just so many magayachts the coastline of the #StBarts seems double

Hundreds of mega yacht anchoring in St barts harbor on Dec 31, 2025 seen from St Martin

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Spending the holidays on the island of St Martin where I grew up— I see trillions of dollars through the window, ready to partake on New Year’s Eve #taxtherich

Picture of St Barts from St Martin’s Orient Bay on Dec 31, 2025

Map of vessels in st barts on Dec 31, 2025

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Antoine İşlegen-Wojdyla @antonymous.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

For Halloween, Zoom is even more cursed

Screenshot of the Zoom software update for the 6.6.6 version, a few days before October 31st, 2025

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