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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I was just at a small library museum in the Alsace Region of France yesterday where they have an exhibit about the German occupation during WWII. There was an active effort especially to indoctrinate the children. That was one of the display cases at the exhibit (with translation).

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The right wing AFD doubled their overall numbers from 10%last time to 20%this time. The US support (shown in blue below) is strongest in the former East Germany. The line below is quite striking, following along the path of the former iron curtain.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

The states of the former East Germany all went for the AFD (in blue)

Map of German states showing the striking division between east and west. East is blue, the color of the right wing extremist AFD

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Unfortunately, the right-wing extremist AFD Party (in blue) doubled their numbers. What is striking (but not surprising) is the distribution, basically following along the line of the old iron curtain, with former East German states going for the AFD.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Today's cover of Der Spiegel: "Betrayed: First Zelensky and then us? The radical turning away of the U.S. from its allies"

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In spite of the chaos, life itself remains beautiful. Happy #FluorescenceFriday 🧪 Confocal image of 1d old zebra fish embryo eye. Nuclei labelled in magenta (H2B-RFP) and epithelial tight junctions in green (GFP w/ claudin-b promoter). Image courtesy of @f-dit.bdky.social

Round close up of fish eye showing nuclei labelled in magenta. Upper half of eye shows a fine network marking cellular junctions in green.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Another long week is behind us. Thankfully, that means it is time once again for #FluorescenceFriday 🧪 STED super resolution confocal image of control cells stained for alpha tubulin, showing details of filaments circling the "black holes" of the nuclei.

Very thin tubulin filaments shown in magenta circling nuclei of two neighboring cells

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's been a rough week for a lot of us. Therefore, what better time for a nice image for #FuorescenceFriday Super resolution STED confocal image with nuclear pores in red and golgi complex in green. Actin fibers visible in blue. Pixel size is 20 nm. Image taken by my colleague @f-dit.bsky.social

Close up image of cell nucleus and golgi body. . Nuclear pores in red, golgi in green, actin filaments in blue

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I believe that they would have quite a bit to say about all of this if they were able

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Fluorescence image of a cell taken using a confocal microscope and 63xoil objective. Blue: nucleus, magenta: mitochondria, green: actin filaments. #FluorescenceFriday 🧪

Microscope image of a cell showing nucleus, mitochondria and actin filaments.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

As 2024 comes to a close, I just wanted to say that I have enjoyed my time here on Bluesky. Wishing you all a good 2025.

Sunset with hills and trees in silhouette

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Went up in the hills to get some sun and was rewarded by a cloudless sky.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Standard fluorescence microscopes are typically limited to 5-8 colors. Multiplexed microscopy allows combining many more markers on a single sample. One area of research where it is very helpful is immuno oncology, to identify immune cells which are active in tumor cell killing. #FluorescenceFriday🧪

Microscope image of tissue section. Different cell types are shown in different colors.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In Germany, in the Rhine Valley.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Felt like we were living in a cloud all week. Took the chance today to catch some sun up above all the fog. 🙂

Hills and vimeyards peaking out above a layer of clouds.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Dendritic cells are antigen presenting cells, capable of activating lymphocytes during the immune response. This is a dendritic cell, displaying its beautiful, spiky dendrites. The cell has taken up test antigen(green dots). The nucleus is labelled in blue. Happy #FluorescenceFriday 🧪

Cell with protrusions. Spots inside of cell and nucleus.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Dendritic cell showing spiky dendrites. Dots within the cell show it has taken up antigen.

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Digital PCR droplets after amplification of a control sample (in this case sequences to detect the BRAF V600E oncogenic mutation). Green droplets contain wild type DNA, orange droplets the mutant sequence, and yellow droplets contain both wild type and mutant sequences. 🧪 #FluorescenceFriday

Microscope image of digital PCR droplets. Droplets appear as spheres of different colors -green-orange-yellow- none

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MarinDE @marinde.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A reminder that above the dark, gray clouds the sun is still shining.

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