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Vincent Hickl

@hicklvincent.bsky.social

Postdoc at Empa St. Gallen interested in bacterial self-organization.

Vincent Hickl @hicklvincent.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Strong agree. I also think it's good practice to include contact info and/or a qr code to your website or latest (relevant) publication

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Vincent Hickl @hicklvincent.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Speaking only for myself I'd say opportunity cost. HoS is interesting, but if I'm going to read academic papers I expect to benefit more (at least in the short term) from reading something closely related to my work. If I'm reading for fun, there's too many other things I also enjoy.

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Vincent Hickl @hicklvincent.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

That seems reasonable to me! I wonder if any (senior) academics likely to review applications would be put off by statements like that. Although it's hard to imagine why someone would prefer the generic "in prep."

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Vincent Hickl @hicklvincent.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What would you consider a good description? Presumably "under review" when applicable. "Submitted"? Any others?

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Vincent Hickl @hicklvincent.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We also present novel results on the self-organization of bacteria at surfaces. #activematter #biofilms

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Vincent Hickl @hicklvincent.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Excited to share our latest paper in PLOS Comp Bio, describing how accurate, multi-species segmentation models for bacteria can be created quickly and easily using image-to-image translation. 🧪⚛️ #biophysics #imageanalysis #microscopy #AI dx.doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Segmentation of dense and multi-species bacterial colonies using models trained on synthetic microscopy images

Author summary Bacteria organize themselves on surfaces in ways that influence the spread of infections, but studying these behaviors is difficult, especially when multiple species are involved or the...

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Vincent Hickl @hicklvincent.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Hi! I'm a biophysicist working on self-organization of bacteria. Would love to be added! ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-29...

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Vincent Hickl @hicklvincent.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Hey, very cool paper, thanks for sharing! Out of curiosity: do you know if this formation of distinct layers, especially driven by topological defects, has been observed in any other species of bacteria (or a different active system altogether) ?

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