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Reto Fiolka
@retof.bsky.social
Optical imaging, interested in STEM topics.
First generation graduate from ETH Zürich
Associate Professor at UT
Southwestern Medical Center
When the university claims they have precision machining in house.

The workshop:
January 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Dramatic sunset:
January 9, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Reposted by Reto Fiolka
mSumireF a Monomeric Violet Fluorescent Protein:
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
January 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
…Oz went on to say that there was "never really good" data to back up that men should only have two alcoholic beverages per day and women should only have one.

Alcohol is a known carcinogen, and plenty of other health issues are linked to alcoholism…

www.newsweek.com/alcohol-new-...
Trump admin official says alcohol drinking can be healthy sometimes
Dr. Oz told reporters that there are times when alcohol promotes a healthy environment.
www.newsweek.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Reposted by Reto Fiolka
Is improving your microscopy skills one of your 2026 resolutions? Should it be? Apply to an excellent course that will get you up to (light) speed! Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy at the MBL is accepting applications. @mblscience.bsky.social @aqlm.bsky.social
Applications are now open for AQLM 2026! Join us @mblscience.bsky.social April 29th-May 8th, 2026 for a comprehensive, hands-on light microscopy course with an amazing roster of faculty who are leading experts in their fields!
January 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
This will not last long…

Happy to take lifetime estimates.
January 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Good morning.
January 6, 2026 at 2:08 PM
The cryo cyclical multiplexing expansion microscopy (Cy-ExM) preprint from
@seweryn-galecki.bsky.social , @kevin-dean.bsky.social et al is online.

20 targets across an entire cell. Mr. Snouty also joined the fun.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
January 2, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Reposted by Reto Fiolka
20-plex volumetric super-resolution imaging of cellular ultrastructure. Preprint, led by @seweryn-galecki.bsky.social, dropping soon.
January 1, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Is this how it works?

#law
December 30, 2025 at 1:44 AM
How the morning walk with the dog felt this morning.

Yesterday was shorts and T-shirt weather.

#Dallas
December 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Petit déjeuner:
December 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A powerful duet for Christmas Eve:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpX...
Bing Crosby, David Bowie - Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy
YouTube video by BingCrosbyVEVO
m.youtube.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Currently grading the exams of our grand tour of math lecture (combinatorics, complex number, linear algebra, Transforms, ODEs and PDEs).

Very happy to see that the students did exceptionally well!

Damn skippy, someone even solved the i^i spicy question.
December 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Schrödinger chocolate: delicious and inedible at the same time😳😅.
December 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Honored to lecture at AQLM.

Yes, I was a student in the class of 2007, a fantastic course!
Day 7 of AQLM is #light sheet day! New AQLM faculty but former AQLM student, Dr. Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social will educate us on the vast landscape of #optical techniques used to generate a light sheet and why they are all useful.

Apply now to join us! bit.ly/49YQl7q
December 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Banning water condensation behind turbofan engines, peak 2025…😞

www.postandcourier.com/politics/sou...
Proposal to ban 'chemtrails' from SC skies advances in Statehouse
A South Carolina legislative subcommittee says it is moving forward with a proposal to ban “chemtrails” from the state’s airspace.
www.postandcourier.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I am currently reading Innumeracy.

We were warned about the dangers of a society incapable of doing basic math 37 years ago.

How I wish elected officials, anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists would read that book😞.
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
255h of James Webb space telescope deep field images stitched together.

It starts out with a field about 1.5x the size of the full moon. Click the '+' button to zoom in.

Most of the dots are galaxies.

cosmos2025.iap.fr/fitsmap/?ra=...
COSMOS-Web
cosmos2025.iap.fr
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Born on this day, 1906, Grace Brewster Hopper.

-Created one of the first compiler.

-Created COBOL, still in use in databases today!

-Coined the term debugging.

-Served in the U.S. Navy, reaching the rank of Rear Admiral.

🫡
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Structured illumination dress!

The angles are slightly off, and the phase angles are missing, but I’m digging it .
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I won the FIFA Fields medal for my geometric derivation of the offside rule.

#math #Worldcup
December 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Did not find what I was looking for, so tried my luck once more at the harmonic stair case.

(empty Thorlabs boxes)
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Rayleigh scattering goes Brrrr!

Sunset in DFW seen from UT Southwestern Medical Center.
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
TIL where the U.S. tipping culture has its origin😞.

www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping...
The disturbing history of tipping in the U.S.: "It's literally a slave wage"
The practice of tipping traces its roots to European aristocracy — and took on a new life in the U.S. after the Civil War.
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM