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Joseph Mastron

@ohyeahlasers.bsky.social

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Strategic Sourcing Manager, Energy and Technology Solutions for Material Handling. PhD in Chemistry, former laser applications scientist. I live in data and edge cases.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Me: Can I get a Dr. House? Mom: We have a Dr. House at home The Dr. House at home: (It me, I sprained my ankle)

A picture of me at my poster with a cane (due to my sprained ankle), vigorously explaining our development project of fully automated femtosecond fiber delivery for mini2p

An alternate angle of me at my poster with a cane (due to my sprained ankle), describing our polarization maintaining hollow-core fiber development

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Happy Birthday!

A large, pink Peony flower with many layered petals, appearing as if a pretty ball of crumpled silk. There are several more unopened buds, showing the contrast between the compact spheres of the buds and the large, almost fluffy, size the flowers achieve when open. All are contrasted against a proverbial forest of Peony leaves and green foliage.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Alas, the last sentence of the abstract "The results suggest that limited access to publications may limit some scientific research from achieving its full impact." is perfectly juxtaposed with the "access this article" paywall.

A screenshot of the article "The Sci-Hub effect on papers' citations" showing an abstract that concludes "The results suggest that limited access to publications may limit some scientific research from achieving its full impact." Immediately beneath this is the site's indication that the full article is paywalled.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Here are mine in western NY:

Two blooming red lilies, with a number of unopened buds

Three blooming white lilies with 4 unopened buds

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A few thousand people out here in Henrietta, NY for the "un-parade" by my estimation.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Okay, no cheating, just a great camera roll.

Joseph standing on the bridgeway to the Queen Mary, a giant ocean liner (big boat) docked at Long Beach. The Queen Mary is visible in the background and one of three massive smokestacks is visible, implying the gargantuan size of the ship. Big boat.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

In the infamous style of the antipiracy ad, "you wouldn't steal a car", but it has been edited to read "you wouldn't steal a font" to highlight the satire of the whole thing.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

@americanair.bsky.social, please fix your aainflight certificates because chrome blocks your wifi by default when the certificate doesn't match! In case anyone else in a similar bind finds this, visiting the www.wifionboard.com site redirects you the the correct AA inflight page.

"Connection is not secure. The identity of this website isn't verified" error screen indicating the server's certificate doesn't match the URL

Site certificate with many inflight websites listed. AA's isn't on there.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

ChatGPT's new image generation algorithm is terrifying. Unrelated, here's my 100% original character that is definitely legally distinct from the source material:

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Anyway, here's the millet patch birds inadvertently planted below my bird feeder and my yield when I harvested ~1/3 of it to hopefully let the rest go to seed. No alt text because it's as described: a patch of millet, 2x2 ft, growing about 1.5 ft high, stages of growth, and a few bunches of grain.

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Wow, it went by so fast that it feels like Photonics West was only yesterday! My colleague shared some nice snapshots of my talk, "Two-Color Laser System and Fiber Delivery for 2-Photon Microscopy and FLIM" and I would be remiss if I didn't post them here.

Joseph at the SPIE podium, showing a slide with a variety of 2-photon microscopy images collected by exciting with a TOPTICA laser in a variety of commercial microscopes. The slide says "Thanks! Visit our booth" with contact info.

Joseph at the SPIE podium, giving a description of the slide "TOPTICA at a glance" giving an overview of TOPTICA's worldwide presence in the US, Germany, France, Japan, China, and distributers worldwide.

Joseph at the SPIE podium, introducing myself and my talk "Two-color Laser System and Fiber Delivery for 2-Photon Microscopy and FLIM"

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Joseph Mastron @ohyeahlasers.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

So apparently when you search for bluesky in the @googlesearch.bsky.social play store, you get a targeted ad for propaganda. Not cool.

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