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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today is the 120th birthday of Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, the greatest composer of the 20th century (in my personal view, of course). 🎂💐🎹 His 24 Preludes for piano op. 32 alone are divine music. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_...

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Reminds me of another never realized pompous architectural monument of some German leader „… for the enjoyment of the German people…“

Image shows the never realized „Halle des Volkes“ (Hall of the people) designed by Albert Speer for Adolf Hitler.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The Society tolerates an outspoken and active fascist in her ranks. This has nothing to do with openness or tolerance. Or, as another much more decent former member of your society once formulated:

LESS WELL KNOWN IS THE PARADOX OF TOLERANCE:
UNLIMITED TOLERANCE
MUST LEAD TO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TOLERANCE.
IF WE EXTEND UNLIMITED TOLERANCE EVEN TO THOSE WHO ARE INTOLERANT, IF WE ARE NOT PREPARED TO DEFEND A TOLERANT SOCIETY AGAINST THE ONSLAUGHT OF THE INTOLERANT, THEN THE TOLERANT WILL BE DESTROYED, AND TOLERANCE WITH THEM.
KARL POPPER
THE OPEN SOCIETY AND ITS ENEMIES (1945)

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

And now: Helge is giving his plenary lecture 👍

Helge Ewers giving his plenary lecture at the GEF25 conference

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Il est défendu de tuer; tout meurtrier est puni, à moins qu'il n'ait tué en grande compagnie, et au son des trompettes. Voltaire, "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie" 1771

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Any similarities are totally accidental.

An election poster from the 1930ies: „Workers, vote for the front soldier Hitler“

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Not sure whether to scream or to laugh.

On display at Mar-a-Lago: A golden Mount Rushmore monument with Trump head in it.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I keep thinking about a 1937 photo of beachgoers at Berlin’s Wannsee—happy people enjoying themselves while, all around them, Jews were already being persecuted, and WW II just two years away. In 1942, not far from that very beach, the Endlösung (the total extermination of all Jews) was decided.

Happy beach goers at Berlin Wannsee in 1937.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

On my Lufthansa flight from the Biophysical Society Meeting in L.A. to Frankfurt, the flight screen still shows “Gulf of Mexico” 🤓. Let’s hope Lufthansa doesn’t get banned from the U.S. by an executive order!

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you’re interested in fluorescence lifetime imaging, be sure to check out PhasorPy, a powerful Python package developed by Leonel Malacrida (@malacridalab.bsky.social) and colleagues. Learn more at www.phasorpy.org.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Leonel Malacrida (@malacridalab.bsky.social) just highlighted the upcoming Gregorio Weber Meeting in his plenary talk—this time in the stunning city of Genoa. A must-attend event for anyone interested in fluorescence (and not just because I’ll be giving a talk there! 😀).

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Excellent talk by Chia-Lung Hsieh from Academia Sinica (www.iams.sinica.edu.tw/en/?link=mem...) on his innovative Coherent Brightfield (COBRI) Microscopy technique and its groundbreaking applications in studying chromatin structure and dynamics.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I was absolutely blown away by Luke Lavis's (@rhodamine110.bsky.social) breathtaking presentation on his monumental work in developing a vast array of new fluorescent dyes for super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. He is truly a hero of our community!

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Captivating talk by Sandrine Levèque-Fort (@slfort.bsky.social) on her groundbreaking concept, ModLock. This innovative approach leverages temporal modulation of excitation patterns to extract super-resolved spatial information in fluorescence microscopy. An absolutely fascinating concept!

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of attending an outstanding plenary talk by Ulrich Schwarz (@ulrichschwarz.bsky.social) on cellular motion. His research is truly groundbreaking and fundamental—be sure to check out his publications and explore more at www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~biophys/.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

On my way to L.A. for the Annual BPS meeting. Fantastic winterly landscape of the North of Scotland below. You can meet me in person at the "Meet the Editors" session on Monday before noon.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

German Google Maps is still undecided—whether to fully comply with the American Führer or to risk its business prospects in Germany. Let’s call it Schrödinger’s Gulf.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Shoutout to @alexeychizhik.bsky.social for producing a spectacular (back) cover image for the Advanced Materials issue in which our paper advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... will appear.

Visualization T4 bacteriophages sitting on an albumin-covered glass slide and being probed with a laser beam that is focused through an objective onto them. The image of ruler is shown, indicating that the bacteriophages can be used for calibrating the resolution and performance of super-resolution microscopes.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Really cool video about AI in science on YouTube by Cool Worlds Lab: youtube.com/watch?v=vnl9...

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Stefan Zweig „Die Welt von gestern“ (World of yesterday)

Book title page of: Stefan Zweig „Die Welt von gestern“

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

My lovely husband Horst in front of the the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya museum (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum) in Mumbai. The museum hosts an impressive collection of Asian art going back thousand of years. Highly recommended!

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

During the just ended OWLS-17 (fluorescenceindia.org/workshop/owl...), I was thrilled by a new way of correlation analysis of FRET data presented by my ingenious friend Hagen Hofmann from the Weizmann Institute (www.weizmann.ac.il/CSB/Hofmann/...), see bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

My friend Manoj Kumbhakar giving a fantastic lecture about single-molecule spectroscopy at the final session of OWLS-17 (fluorescenceindia.org/workshop/owl...). Check out his work: scholar.google.co.in/citations?us...

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Going out for dinner with my closest friend Manoj and his family in Mumbai.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

During the just finished FCS 16 workshop (fluorescenceindia.org/workshop/fcs...), Bidyut Sarkar (snu.edu.in/faculty/bidy...) from Shiv Nadar University gave an excellent overview on Fluorescence Lifetime Correlation Spectroscopy.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

With my close friend and colleague Oleg Krichevsky (scholar.google.com/citations?us...) from Ben-Gurion University at the end of a fantastic OWLS 🦉 conference (fluorescenceindia.org/workshop/owl...) in Mumbai, where he gave a fascinating talk about cell signaling. Check out his work!

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Saw it in August Sep 1: The line were the Warsaw ghetto wall was running into which the German nazis herded 350000 Jews together who where then murdered either in the ghetto or later in concentration camps. On the same day, East Germany made the NS party AfD strongest party in a local Parlament.

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The grave of Joseph Fourier, the inventor of the immensely important Fourier transform, which is now integrated into every computer processor, at Père Lachaise Cemetery. The bust must be very recent—in past years, when I visited his grave, the niche was empty.

I am standing next to the grave of Fourier on Père Lachaise cemetery

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Jörg Enderlein @joergenderlein.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today is LGBTQIA+ in STEM day, more important to remember as ever.

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