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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 06/09/2026

I'm also quite proud of my (non-AI) logo 😀. Vizslas are a famous hunting dog from Hungary known for their almost supernatural ability to follow animal tracks under the toughest circumstances...exactly the sidekick you want!

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 06/09/2026

Even with all the advancements in automated cell tracking getting us to 90%+ accuracy...that's still a lot of broken tracks over long movies! Our brains are pretty good at this so I made Vizsla 🐕, a little @napari.org plugin, to help you fix your tracks manually. 👉 pypi.org/project/napa...

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 16/08/2026

I've struggled to get nice, pixel-perfect borderless animations out of Napari for presentations, but I recently hacked up a nice script for it. I'm pretty happy with the results! More info 👇 tamasnagy.com/blog/2026/na...

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 21/07/2026

Interesting work that shows that frontier models are basically not improving in reliability despite them appearing to do better on benchmarks. Reliability is key to trust. Hard to imagine LLMs being trusted with critical operations until this is solved, *if* it can be. arxiv.org/pdf/2602.16666

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 30/05/2026

Got to play around with Holotomographic imaging of muscle cells yesterday via the @uclastemcell.bsky.social imaging core and the results are pretty spectacular 🤩 You can see everything from mitochrondria to lamellipodia to macropinocytosis…with no labels!

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 22/10/2025

I had a great time presenting at the LLHF Annual Meeting. Lots of good feedback and lots to do!

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 15/10/2025

Move over mScarlets, Crimson 🌶️ is the winner! It's the first red FP that I've found that properly trafficks to the membrane in primary myoblasts.

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 04/09/2025

With some new sorbothane feet from @thorlabs.bsky.social, the Rando lab’s @cephlainc.bsky.social Squid+ is rapidly approaching its final form. We wrapped a cheap 3D printer enclosure off of Amazon with some matte black vinyl and it’s working great as a darkbox.

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 27/08/2025

This is a CMOS camera cooled to -20C. I tried summing 60x1s exposures but that’s significantly worse than one long exposure

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 27/08/2025

Hey #microscopy 🧪 folks. Have you all noticed similar dark current patterns with cameras where you have a nonlinear response to exposure time? 100ms and 1s exposures are extremely quiet but once I do a 60s exposure, certain pixels just get super bright.

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 30/07/2025

Dug up an old movie of neutrophils solving a maze…it’s still so satisfying!

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 02/07/2025

These are myoblasts expressing H2B-Nanoluc with 30s exposures imaged every 1 minute. Some of my first bioluminescence movies!

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 02/07/2025

The hype is real. The Quest series are crazy sensitive🔬✨

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 02/04/2025

Testing this awesome tiny light meter from them. Seems to work well with Python!

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 02/04/2025

Might be able to officially call ourselves a microscopy lab now according to the @tanner-fadero.bsky.social definition 😆

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 22/03/2025

I begrudgingly admit that actin is pretty cool 🤩 🎥 Primary mouse myotubes labeled with Lifeact-mScarlet-I3 (cyan) and H2B-mStayGreen (red). #FluorescenceFriday

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 07/02/2025

A cut like this is devastating to the future of American science and competitiveness. NSF funds so many projects that turn into companies and jobs for Americans.

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 19/01/2025

Had an amazing time at the Directed Cell Migration GRS/GRC. Sally Horne-Badovinac, @robinsall.bsky.social and Rebecca Jones were awesome as co-chairs and made the whole organizing process so much easier. I met so many old friends and made so many more new ones! 😊

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 08/01/2025

We’re in for a wild night here in Los Angeles. These Santa Ana winds are no joke.

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 18/12/2024

Pretty cool to see @elife.bsky.social highlighting my PhD work at ASCB this year 🤗 (Spotted by Annisa Dea!)

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 17/12/2024

Fun story from the Fletcher lab showing that surface crowding is a major impediment to cell-cell fusion and myoblasts reduce their surface crowding to improve fusion! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 04/12/2024

Excited to be standing in for the great @ivyxiong.bsky.social for December’s Dynamics Club! We’ll be hosting Laurent Jutras-Dubé who’ll be discussing a physics-inspired approach to studying embryogenesis. It’ll be in-person at UCLA’s Boyer Hall and also on Zoom so please tune in!

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 19/11/2024

I agree with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social's great synthesis here, it's a super exciting time for physical biology! We are in the process of transitioning from simply cataloguing the parts to actually understanding how they interact to produce the high-level behaviors we see.

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 15/11/2024

To fuse or not to fuse? 🤔 Myoblasts (muscle cells) have to choose! Fusion leads functional muscle but some need to stick around for future regeneration needs. #FluorescenceFriday

Phallodin and DAPI staining of myoblasts fusing into myotubes. Imaged at 20x.

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 12/11/2024

Hi new followers! For #MicroscopyMonday here's a fun movie I took recently of mitochrondria in a migrating mouse myoblast. (Check the alt text for imaging details)

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 08/11/2024

For this #FluorescenceFriday, here's one of my favorite recent acquisitions. Biology is always more spectacular when it's alive! This is a mouse myotube expressing mStayGold-CAAX imaged at 20x on a Cephla Squid widefield.

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 07/11/2024

Phallodin (an actin stain, in green) is always a crowd pleaser!

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 06/11/2024

Fighting climate change is a long term challenge and it's important to support key orgs for the coming fight.

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 19/10/2024

Great talk today by @rosalielawrence.bsky.social on her background and her future lab plans 🎉

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 15/10/2024

ICYMI, we extended the deadline to apply for the Directed Cell Migration GRC/GRS to October 31st (unfortunately the website still has the old date on it). Please keep submitting abstracts! 🧫🏃

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Tamas Nagy @tamasnagy.com · 29/11/2023

Are you interested in the biophysical underpinnings of fundamental cellular processes like polarity, cytokinesis, motility, etc?🤓 Come join us at our subgroup session at ASCB in Boston this Saturday. Qin Ni put something in here for everyone!

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