vartak.bioimaging.tech
Group Leader - Bioimaging: intravital imaging , Raman, CARS, correlation spectroscopy, cell biology and signaling, and always with imaging. Views personal.
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I dread this because as a scientist, Libreoffice extremely limited in certain aspects - Calc is limited to 1024 columns. Impress does not handle videos as seamlessly as Powerpoint, and none of these have good cloud-collaboration and storage. Also, the UI is broken on MacOS.
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I would strongly recommend Python/Matplotlib instead of subjecting students to the horror that is R syntax. And ggplot2 it is even worse.
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In Germany, if they know they have always called me Dr. It’s even on my government issued ID card!
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This is partly a fudge of the English language, where ‘Doctor’ has come to mean a physician. In most other languages, a physician is a physician, while a Doctor is strictly an academic title for somebody who has a Ph.D (including in medicine) as per the Latin roots of the term.
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If Orion comes to Linux, it will justify a Lifetime Orion+ purchase for me instantly, since most of my computers are Linux
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What a moron. This is the kind of person who stands under a dam and says the dam is unnecessary because in 10 years they have never seen the water come down that valley.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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It would really help if you asked people on the other side of world how they see this, not just the West. You might be surprised and gain a different perspective.
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Translation: Ukraine has effectively lost and is now becoming an inconvenient burden/liability. Cut your losses.
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This is very bad journalism with that banner picture implying all automated vehicles are trying to run people over. Objectively, the reality is quite different.
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I liked it too. I think there are a bunch of ideas floating around only because they are seem to tally with the 'benevolent mother nature' concept ...esp. when it comes to plants.
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Counld it be that these are unconventionally placed anterior and posterior flagella? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stramen...
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I did read. And it is basically a TL version of ‘Use more N’. I think everyone in this business knows that more N is good, but often not practicable esp. since NGS data are primarily exploratory and for hypothesis generation. And let’s not even start about replicates in patient cohorts.
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Again, highly subjective - the line between interpretation, opinion and exaggeration is difficult to demarcate.
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Equally, you are making a point about subjective writing style, which is not necessary or relevant in scientific critique. In the end, the data is what it is.
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It turns out it's the link you posted - it has a tracker ( please don't do that, its not cool ) that redirects specifically to Amazon US. And Amazon US it not allowed to sell books in Europe, I think. Manually searching it on Amazon Germany allowed me to buy it.
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Amazon Germany
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Not for me then.
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Such a shame it’s not available on Kindle yet. I would have liked to gift this to someone.
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I personally have grave doubts on whether such publications make any impact on real world grant committees. This publication states what is obvious to every academic scientist. Yet, the system continues to follow the same old standards and methods of publication and evaluation.
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I think the value of number 3 is deeply under-estimated in biology. Other disciplines such as physics and math recognise that conjecture is better than a hypothesis, and crucial for advance.
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I was wondering what a 4c12 antibody is. A Google search leads to a wide results ranging from anti-DR3 to KIF21 to VAP-A to FUT2 and BCR/ABL. What am I missing?
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I honestly don't understand - you are using your Macbook as a server to host a website for your blog?
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No?
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Even more ironic, that is how a document is stored even in Word - XML metadata with plain text content. This is no less stupid than having the jumbled characters on a QWERTY keyboard.
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Academia being academia has been the slowest to adapt to more straightforward writing forms such as Markdown, where you provide the content and metadata and the reader renders it as they see fit. Ironically, LateX existed long before the web and had solved this problem.
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The basic issue with word processors is that besides word processing, they also blend anachronistic models of paper and print - models that are no longer required eg: A4 size is meaningless on a web page on a screen.
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Your photos made me realise how much of the 1980s-1990s feel of the world in photographs comes down to the quality and nature of film in analog cameras.
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I don’t need a purpose to be motivated. Curiosity is motivation enough. As a side product, society may benefit in the future from what I do.
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To be clear, I am not saying it doesn’t qualify. It just came across to me like calling sunlight ‘electricity-free illumination’.
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And now again, we are trying to get label-free while preserving the same segmentation capabilities as the labelled versions using either different ways of generating the contrast or using machine learning etc. of course this is subjective and semantic and has nothing to do with the science.
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It’s historical. Brightfield was the first and it was originally label free anyway. Then came the labels - first chromophores and then fluorophores which segmented structures that could not be distinguished in brightfield.
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This is cool but it’s a little cringe to call good old brightfield imaging ‘label-free' even if technically correct. Label free typically is used to refer to photoacoustic, Raman-based, optical coherence…unconventional ways of generating contrast.
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This is way too much complication for a simple format conversation. Handbrake will work on any platform and do it.