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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Just a reminder - don't pull the ladder up behind you. We all got help and support along the way from someone. Thank you for listening! @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I am SO incredibly excited to announce the launch of a global list of Inspiring Black Scientists. You can use this list to nominate and connect with researchers. Please share and join us in highlighting these outstanding scientists for #BlackHistoryMonth and beyond! www.wiley.com/en-us/resear...

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Just a reminder - please and thank you truly are magic words.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

While the technical program at SPIE #PhotonicsWest was outstanding as always, what stood out most was the sense of global community. The numerous in-person interactions were a powerful reminder of why conferences matter. 🧪💡 #collaboration #networking #support #teamwork #PhotonicsWest2026

Pictures of the resilient and collaborative photonics community at Photonics West 2026

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Excited to be back at SPIE Photonics West with my fabulous team!! Looking forward to the great week ahead filled with photonics, networking, and fun! #PhotonicsWest #SPIEPW #TeamWork #Photonics #ConferenceVibes #Innovation 💡

Picture of PI and team members at SPIE Photonics West

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Interested in applying AI to therapeutic development? Check out this position!! emila.applytojob.com/apply/l7mNkT... @chemjobber.bsky.social 🧪

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

New paper alert! 🎉 We present NC-PCA, a noise-aware PCA method that boosts FLIM analysis, reduces uncertainty 5.5×, & keeps far more data than thresholding/filtering-only approaches. 🧪💡 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Denoising of fluorescence lifetime imaging data via principal component analysis - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Denoising of fluorescence lifetime imaging data via principal component analysis

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Low-photon FLIM data is messy. So we built NC-PCA, a denoising approach that preserves signal structure while stripping away noise & validated on synthetic data, dyes, & >800 colorectal cancer organoids. Proud of this team! Paper link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪💡@academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Denoising of fluorescence lifetime imaging data via principal component analysis - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Denoising of fluorescence lifetime imaging data via principal component analysis

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Excited to share our team’s work on improving FLIM metabolic imaging. NC-PCA selectively removes shot noise without filters or training. The result? Clearer phasors, higher accuracy, & better biological insights. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @springernature.com @academic-chatter.bsky.social 💡🧪

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Denoising of fluorescence lifetime imaging data via principal component analysis - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Denoising of fluorescence lifetime imaging data via principal component analysis

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Breaking news: I’ve uncovered a new law of academic publishing!! The moment I board a plane, a manuscript decision arrives for my team. At this point, the fastest way to speed up our publications might just be more travel. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Congratulations to Lexie Scholtz who just defended her PhD in BME! She's headed off on Monday to KLA to be an applications and packaging engineer!! @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Image of the entire research lab celebrating Lexie Scholtz's defense

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I can't stop thinking about this. It was so amazing to see people working together - literally or just by being patient when their commute was put on hold - to save a little life. It was truly heartwarming.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

If you're the person who just stopped all traffic on the CA10 to try to catch a tiny gray kitten or the guy who crawled under your Prius to pull the little guy out of your wheel well after he got scared... Thank you for making the world a better place.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Someone warmed up a cinnamon roll for breakfast in the microwave, and now the entire floor smells like cinnamon deliciousness.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Are you an undergrad passionate about cutting-edge biotechnology research & looking to make a difference in healthcare? We're hiring a 1yr intern! Possible efforts: 🔹 Designing & building optical imaging systems 🔹 Developing image analysis algorithms 🔹 Performing data acquisition & analysis

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Made some St. Patrick's Day treats for the team! Mini-chocolate torts (shaped like four leaf clovers) and orange sugar cookies (with green clovers painted on in sparkly dust). May everyone have a little luck today! 🍀 @academic-chatter.bsky.social 🧪

St. Patrick's Day themed chocolate torte and sugar cookies.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Congratulations to Kylie Trettner who just defended her PhD in Chemical Engineering! We wish her all the best as she embarks on an exciting new journey as a scientific analyst in the VC world. 🧪💡 @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Kylie Trettner immediately after completing her PhD defense!

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Enhanced fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy denoising via principal component analysis by Andrea M Armani and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fig. 1: Phasor analysis workflows for FLIM data. After image acquisition on a FLIM system, the data
is analyzed using different approaches. (a) Filtered phasor analysis method (FPA) includes image selection based on
total counts, dynamic thresholding, and application of a selective smoothing filter. (b) Thresholded phasor analysis
(TPA) only involves the application of an adaptive threshold. (c) Noise-corrected Principal Component Analysis (NC-
PCA) begins with a Poisson noise normalization, then application of PCA, and subsequent thresholding and phasor
transformation

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My favorite: I buy some particles from a company, & I need to know the composition for some modeling. I politely reach out & ask, only to be told it's a "trade secret". I'll see your trade secret and raise you a TEM with EDX. 😏😂 #chemsky 🧪

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Valentine's exchange, lab style. 💡🧪💕

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SPIE @spie.org · 12/02/2025

Contribute to the 2025 #SPIE Global Optics & Photonics Salary Report and be entered to win a trip to an SPIE event! This report is the longest-running and largest salary survey in optics and #photonics, and the community's responses are why! Take the survey here: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8033768/b...

Abstract image with black lines and circles and a red background. There is a black box with white text inside. Text reads: Share your salary information and be entered to win a travel package to an SPIE conference of your choice!

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Rachel Won @rachelpcwon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Meeting up #WomeninOptics #PhotonicsWest @spie.org Sile NIC Chormaic, Clara Saraceno, Giulia Tagliabue, @rachelgrange.bsky.social, Andrea Redondo-Blanco, @drarmani.bsky.social, @astchalyan.bsky.social and Sona Hosseini 💃🎉🎊🥳💃

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Having an amazing time at #PhotonicsWest! Watched an incredible series of talks on #quantum optics behaviors and devices and caught up with friends at a WiO event! @spie.org 🧪💡 @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Sile, Jess, and Andrea at Photonics West

Rachel Grange and Andrea Armani at Photonics west

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Best part of conferences - catching up with former team members who are now rockstars!! 🌟 @academic-chatter.bsky.social @spie.org 🧪💡

Imran Cheema and Andrea Armani at Photonics West

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Just put the finishing touches on my slides for Photonics West BIOS!! Hope to see everyone there next week (or weekend) in San Fran! 💡 @spie.org @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Celebrating the achievements of 2024 and Yasaman Moradi's last group meeting. After finishing her PhD, she is heading off to FujiFilm. @academic-chatter.bsky.social #lifegoals 🎉💡🧪

Celebratory cake highlighting 2024 achievements!

Yasaman Moradi doing the honors and cutting the 2024 cake

Photo of Yasaman Moradi's last team meeting at EMI

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/01/2025

Features of Adulthood xkcd.com/3034

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

In addition to tracking who has served on panels, it would be great if NIH (& others) tracked who had been asked. I just received my 4th request in 2 months. Also, this epitomizes the service aspect of academia. The last time I had NIH funding was in the 2010's. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Team bonding before the holiday break filled with creativity and laughter! (Playing with clay) 🧪 #academicsky #teambonding

Team bonding activity - making things from clay.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Congratulations to #USC PhD student and group member Yasaman Moradi who just successfully defended her PhD in chemical engineering!! 🧪 #academicsky #PhDdone #engineering

Yasaman Moradi and Andrea Armani (her PhD advisor) right after Yasaman's successful PhD thesis defense on Dec 10, 2024.

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No Context Gillian Anderson @contextgillian.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully. #gilliana #scully #womeninstem

Gillian Anderson's character Dana Scully literally changed the world.
The "Scully Effect" refers to the influence Gillian Anderson's portrayal of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files had on encouraging women to pursue careers in science, medicine, law enforcement, and similar fields. As a rational, competent, and science-driven character, Scully broke gender stereotypes around women in STEM.
A 2018 study by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media revealed that many women were inspired by her character to follow these career paths. It highlights the significant role of media representation in shaping professional aspirations and empowering

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

First attempt at gingerbread and sugar cookies made over the weekend went well (as judged by my work colleagues). 🎉 🎄 #homemade #cookies

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hi to all of my new followers and new Blueskiers(?)! Great to see everyone making the journey! #cats #Academicsky

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Mike Stucka @mikestucka.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Glad it all worked out! I'm in love with a golden down the street. Your daughter might look into the Baking Notification Project. www.bonappetit.com/story/baking...

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Had a wonderful time last night joining Nee, Sev, and Meredith on a panel celebrating NOVA's new 3-part engineering series "Building Stuff"! The third episode airs next Wednesday, & all episodes are available for free at: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/se... #STEM 🧪 #Academicsky @pbs.org.web.brid.gy #NOVA

Image of panelists discussing engineering and new NOVA series

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I feel really bad for a student today. Last spring, a journal decided reject/resubmit on a MS. 2 reviewers asked for more experiments & some dets. Everything was totally fair & did improve quality. We did them, added the dets, resubmitted. The editor sent out to review to 2 NEW reviewers. -- and --

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We have written before that "no age is the right age to be a woman leader." It is also true that "no look is the right look for a woman leader." See our new Fast Company article on lookism bias against women. www.fastcompany.com/91229638/loo...

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'Lookism' is alive and well and getting worse. Here's why your appearance is judged more than performance

Research of nearly 1,000 leaders found myriad cases of lookism showing women’s appearance at work is “never quite right.”

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Rachel Grange @rachelgrange.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The founders of the Photonic Online Meeting #POM since 2019 are reunited on 🦋 @mickeykats.bsky.social @drarmani.bsky.social @riccard0.bsky.social @sylvaingigan.bsky.social @oradr.bsky.social and last but not least @igordownunder.bsky.social 💡Hello everyone! 📍https://photonicsonlinemeetup.org/

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The #JWST ornament giveaway is still going strong! 😎 My goal is to hit 250 reposts before it closes tomorrow :) 🔭🧪🐡#bsnm

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My feed is filled with science and cats and funny quips. 🎉

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We have a living tree topper this year. Maybe we'll just skip the ornaments. #cat #cats 🐱

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This amazing FREE series - which explores rockets, implantable devices, submarines, & more - is streaming now! What an incredible resource to inspire students to pursue #STEM! 🧪 Here's a "behind the scenes" photo of the filming. @learnscience.org @opnmagazine.bsky.social #engineering #SciComm

Picture of scientist filming a segment for NOVA on engineering.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

So, I haven't seen any of the video and maybe I was completely cut... But the first episode is tonight! The topics are amazing! 💡🧪 www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/se...

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Building Stuff

Humans are the most innovative species on Earth. See how engineers are supercharging our abilities, reaching beyond our horizons, and altering our environment.

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Prof. Andrea Armani @drarmani.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Better late than never, my team dressed up for Halloween - complete with plans! #halloween2024 🎃

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