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beckybart.bsky.social @beckybart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley currently has two open Assistant Professor positions (aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 & aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522). Interested individuals are welcome to apply to one or both searches.

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lovely morning at Love Field:

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Lonestar taking off from Love Field:

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Mathematician Joan S. Birman, at the young age of 99 years, solved the Burau theorem* for n=4: arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283 Congratulations! * Mathematical Mapping of braid groups, which was also a topic of her PhD work!

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

CyberCab (golden ones) at our local Tesla boneyard.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Vintage Learjet 35A at Love Field this morning. Love the wingtip tanks. @bwjones.bsky.social

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Congrats to the maybe last four Fields Medalists*! www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/07/23/2... *Before Claude takes over….

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Cyclospora outbreak is getting out of hand. #Worldcup

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Nice views of clouds, and a heavy rain front:

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

After Taco Bell taking heroic action to curb the spread of cyclospora, this title becomes even more prestigious:

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Taco Bell takes more action than CDC to curb cyclospora outbreak: www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

independent.co.uk

Taco Bell removes menu items as Cyclospora cases surge

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Benefit of building high NA oblique plane microscopes: You get used to tight tolerances. cc @tanner-fadero.bsky.social

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Saw this little guy on way to work. V-tails are nonsense from an aero-design perspective, but looks kinda cool on this Cirrus Jet. cc @bwjones.bsky.social

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Julie Pfeiffer @jkpfeiff.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Faculty search announcement 2026: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Microbiology at UT Southwestern in Dallas. We seek candidates working in microbial pathogenesis (broadly defined). Come join our community! (1/5) www.utsouthwestern.edu/departments/...

Department members sit at a very long table in the hallway eating a pre-Thanksgiving potluck feast.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I said it before, I say it again: get an MMR titer at your next physical. You want antibodies when measles virus comes your way. I got mine, and I still have immunity.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Cool Myosin zipper! Imaged on our omniOPM system. #FlourescenceFriday

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Saw a Cybercab out of my Waymo ride. #Singularity

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I think we have some work to do…

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Ali Shaib @alishaib.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hello #world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy. A small gel would grow to the size of an Olympic swimming pool, while amino-acid-scale distances become visible with ordinary light microscopy. Led by Helena Hu from @eboyden3.bsky.social's lab, in collab with us. Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

An internal model from OpenAI disproves a conjecture by Paul Erdös, and eminent mathematicians confirmed the correctness: cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085... Can any math adjacent folks on bluesky chime in on this? Watershed moment, or low hanging fruit for AI?

cdn.openai.com

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UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Prof Jonathan Taylor of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social is leading a £4m new project with colleagues from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @sheffielduni.bsky.social to create detailed 3D images of the mechanical forces inside a living, beating heart. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

A beam of laser light through a chamber of water is used to measure the forces in the beating heart. Image credit: Daniel Olesker

(l-r) Prof Jonathan Taylor, Dr Emily Noël, Dr Antoine Sanchez, Dr Daniel Olesker, Dr Dan Stedman, Dr Stone Elworthy, Prof Julien Vermot

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Of all the books banned in Utah, „Mein Kampf“ is not one…

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We got multiple times the feedback that oblique plane microscopes are too complex. So how about a detection train with only two photographic lenses? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

biorxiv.org

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If you’re waiting for dichroic mirrors, I have bad news for you:

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Cleaning microscope optics can be tedious. But compare it to this job😳:

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

22 pilots or just keep incrementing: pilots = pilots++

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Hi optics folks We have a couple of fixed output CW laser. Is there something easier for power modulation than Acousto-optical filters? 10-100kHz modulation rate would be enough. Single mode fiber coupling is also fine. Electro optics, Mems fiber switch? @tanner-fadero.bsky.social

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Back from @aqlm.bsky.social . Adequate sunset view on the way back.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Magnetically controlled luminescence. Andrew York strikes again!

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

UT Southwestern is quite a food desert, so I take today’s buffet: Very mildly spiced Chicken Vindaloo and not a number bread.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Dramatic cloud formation 😳!

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Somebody had a good start into the week😳. UT Southwestern Medical Center, North campus.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

On the plus side, both the AI model and the human got to hallucinate a bit.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

What do you call a young mathematician interested in properties of geometric objects? Topo Chico / Chica #math

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David Teis @teislab.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We offer a PostDoc position for a fully funded project on lipid-encoded #lipidtime protein quality-control checkpoints at the Golgi: great collaborators, excellent working & living conditions & benchspace with a view ;) Please share and repost!

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

As a remote focus fan this makes me happy. Our little girls also like the Crazy Frog.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Superb job opening: Head PSI Center for Photon Science (CPS) I visited the synchrotron at PSI some 15 years ago. Top research center.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

#FOM2026 SciLife satellite meeting for those who had not had enough microscopy already. Top microscope development by the bright STARSS in Ilaria‘s lab🤩.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

#FOM2026 The Alexander(a) twin problem in holography.

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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

For many labs this also means firing yourself… The US soft money academia model requires that you provide grant funding to pay your own salary and „rent“ for lab and office space.

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Philip Ruthig @philipruthig.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Be my colleague! :)

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