julianstirling
@julianstirling.bsky.social
OpenFlexure Microscope Core Developer, Chief Executive of the Humanitarian Technology Trust, Waterwheel Volunteer, Parish Councillor, Cider Drinker
I have an email offering me the position as editor in chief of a scammy-non-journal.
Am I more important than when the same crowd used to ask me to publish?
Are they more desperate?
Am I more important than when the same crowd used to ask me to publish?
Are they more desperate?
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I have an email offering me the position as editor in chief of a scammy-non-journal.
Am I more important than when the same crowd used to ask me to publish?
Are they more desperate?
Am I more important than when the same crowd used to ask me to publish?
Are they more desperate?
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The OpenFlexure microscope was featured in this month's Raspberry Pi magazine. #OpenHardware #OpenSource #OpenScience
openflexure.discourse.group/t/we-are-in-...
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We are in the Raspberry Pi Magazine
OpenFlexure is featured in this month’s Raspberry Pi magazine thanks to Jo Hinchliffe! I think you need to buy a copy to read it, or wait until next month for it to be freely available. Jo also w...
openflexure.discourse.group
October 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The OpenFlexure microscope was featured in this month's Raspberry Pi magazine. #OpenHardware #OpenSource #OpenScience
openflexure.discourse.group/t/we-are-in-...
openflexure.discourse.group/t/we-are-in-...
Really excited by this. I have a graveyard of too-unreliable-to-use, too-nearly-working-to-throw-away printers.
A printer I can easily repair is a dream 😻
A printer I can easily repair is a dream 😻
I've always thought that the need for a fancy paper transport in printers was unnecessarily complicated and fault prone. Why not just have a roll and a guillotine?
Now, here comes:
www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...
Now, here comes:
www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...
Open Printer
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade
www.crowdsupply.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Really excited by this. I have a graveyard of too-unreliable-to-use, too-nearly-working-to-throw-away printers.
A printer I can easily repair is a dream 😻
A printer I can easily repair is a dream 😻
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Latest beautiful mothbox boards just arrived! Can't wait to test them! ( / Also terrified to test them)
September 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Latest beautiful mothbox boards just arrived! Can't wait to test them! ( / Also terrified to test them)
Today was the day I killed sponsored stories in my Firefox. I kept them as long as I could, I know Mozilla needs funds; but at some point there is too much dangerous non-scientific crap.
@mozilla.org sort yourselves out. I want you to have money, but only if you have a shred of integrity
@mozilla.org sort yourselves out. I want you to have money, but only if you have a shred of integrity
August 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Today was the day I killed sponsored stories in my Firefox. I kept them as long as I could, I know Mozilla needs funds; but at some point there is too much dangerous non-scientific crap.
@mozilla.org sort yourselves out. I want you to have money, but only if you have a shred of integrity
@mozilla.org sort yourselves out. I want you to have money, but only if you have a shred of integrity
The component library used by OpenFlexure to create diagrams is now online at Wikimedia.
This was never meant to be a closed resource, it just never found its way into the open in full. Or if it did, I couldn't find it today and had to search my own computer!
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mi...
This was never meant to be a closed resource, it just never found its way into the open in full. Or if it did, I couldn't find it today and had to search my own computer!
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mi...
August 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The component library used by OpenFlexure to create diagrams is now online at Wikimedia.
This was never meant to be a closed resource, it just never found its way into the open in full. Or if it did, I couldn't find it today and had to search my own computer!
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mi...
This was never meant to be a closed resource, it just never found its way into the open in full. Or if it did, I couldn't find it today and had to search my own computer!
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mi...
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My map of the Bristol Avon
June 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
My map of the Bristol Avon
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We need a "slow computing" movement, the digital equivalent of "slow food".
We need to code better, with human care and attention to details, with true understanding of technology, achieving better performance with fewer resources.
We can do more with less if we believe in it.
We need to code better, with human care and attention to details, with true understanding of technology, achieving better performance with fewer resources.
We can do more with less if we believe in it.
May 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
We need a "slow computing" movement, the digital equivalent of "slow food".
We need to code better, with human care and attention to details, with true understanding of technology, achieving better performance with fewer resources.
We can do more with less if we believe in it.
We need to code better, with human care and attention to details, with true understanding of technology, achieving better performance with fewer resources.
We can do more with less if we believe in it.
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Congratulations to the Biomanufacturing Group at ICGEB for winning a best exhibit prize at Maker Faire Trieste yesterday! 🏆 Their award-winning exhibit featured a number of OpenFlexure Microscopes, and aimed at help make biology accessible to everyone. 🔬
May 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Congratulations to the Biomanufacturing Group at ICGEB for winning a best exhibit prize at Maker Faire Trieste yesterday! 🏆 Their award-winning exhibit featured a number of OpenFlexure Microscopes, and aimed at help make biology accessible to everyone. 🔬
Took my OpenFlexure Microscope to a demo today. I decided to walk. It's nice to have a project portable enough you can carry it 4km along the Bath Skyline.
#Portability #Microscopy #Bath
@openflexure.bsky.social
#Portability #Microscopy #Bath
@openflexure.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Took my OpenFlexure Microscope to a demo today. I decided to walk. It's nice to have a project portable enough you can carry it 4km along the Bath Skyline.
#Portability #Microscopy #Bath
@openflexure.bsky.social
#Portability #Microscopy #Bath
@openflexure.bsky.social
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Today is the launch day for the Humanitarian Technology Trust* - a charity devoted to advancing open-source humanitarian technology through local manufacturing.
Please take a look at httrust.org
Please also repost.
And, if you can, please donate - link above.
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* I'm chair of the trustees.
Please take a look at httrust.org
Please also repost.
And, if you can, please donate - link above.
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* I'm chair of the trustees.
May 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today is the launch day for the Humanitarian Technology Trust* - a charity devoted to advancing open-source humanitarian technology through local manufacturing.
Please take a look at httrust.org
Please also repost.
And, if you can, please donate - link above.
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* I'm chair of the trustees.
Please take a look at httrust.org
Please also repost.
And, if you can, please donate - link above.
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* I'm chair of the trustees.
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Chief Executive at the Humanitarian Technology Trust!
The Trust is a new UK Charity supporting open-source technologies that benefit humanity. Our first project the OpenFlexure Microscope.
Find out more at httrust.org
@openflexure.bsky.social
The Trust is a new UK Charity supporting open-source technologies that benefit humanity. Our first project the OpenFlexure Microscope.
Find out more at httrust.org
@openflexure.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Chief Executive at the Humanitarian Technology Trust!
The Trust is a new UK Charity supporting open-source technologies that benefit humanity. Our first project the OpenFlexure Microscope.
Find out more at httrust.org
@openflexure.bsky.social
The Trust is a new UK Charity supporting open-source technologies that benefit humanity. Our first project the OpenFlexure Microscope.
Find out more at httrust.org
@openflexure.bsky.social
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Designing for 3D Printing by Rahix is a master class guide! Comprehensive, well written and illustrated, it's essential reading for anyone designing mechanical parts.
blog.rahix.de/design-for-3...
blog.rahix.de/design-for-3...
Design for 3D-Printing - Rahix' Blog
Deep dive into mechanical design that is optimized for 3d-printing.
blog.rahix.de
May 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Designing for 3D Printing by Rahix is a master class guide! Comprehensive, well written and illustrated, it's essential reading for anyone designing mechanical parts.
blog.rahix.de/design-for-3...
blog.rahix.de/design-for-3...
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April 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I believe there are great uses of computer vision, but I worry they will be in the minority.
March 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I believe there are great uses of computer vision, but I worry they will be in the minority.
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The best feeling for open source creators! A thing you designed appears somewhere and you didn't have to make it!!
These are some of the most exciting parts in any open source science hardware creator's job!
-People write to you to show you they independently made the thing you shared!
-People show you the cool remixes of your hardware (check out Michael Bunsen and Carter Urnes alternate mothbox box!)
-People write to you to show you they independently made the thing you shared!
-People show you the cool remixes of your hardware (check out Michael Bunsen and Carter Urnes alternate mothbox box!)
March 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The best feeling for open source creators! A thing you designed appears somewhere and you didn't have to make it!!
I have made this for the next time someone asks me to use a "normal" word processor, because it is "easier for everyone".
It's easier for you, not me.
I believe in the concept of "The person doing the bulk of the writing picks the tooling".
It's easier for you, not me.
I believe in the concept of "The person doing the bulk of the writing picks the tooling".
March 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have made this for the next time someone asks me to use a "normal" word processor, because it is "easier for everyone".
It's easier for you, not me.
I believe in the concept of "The person doing the bulk of the writing picks the tooling".
It's easier for you, not me.
I believe in the concept of "The person doing the bulk of the writing picks the tooling".
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OpenFlexure microscope and high-resolution upgrade kit now back in stock! labcrafter.co.uk/collections/...
OpenFlexure Microscope
Open tools for open science
labcrafter.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
OpenFlexure microscope and high-resolution upgrade kit now back in stock! labcrafter.co.uk/collections/...
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Fulbright went and told all their fellows they need to scrub any mentions of climate change or things that aren't white men or else "their grants could get canceled and they won't get paid if they don't comply"
But then they just indefinitely paused everyone's payments regardless. Pitiful
But then they just indefinitely paused everyone's payments regardless. Pitiful
March 4, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Fulbright went and told all their fellows they need to scrub any mentions of climate change or things that aren't white men or else "their grants could get canceled and they won't get paid if they don't comply"
But then they just indefinitely paused everyone's payments regardless. Pitiful
But then they just indefinitely paused everyone's payments regardless. Pitiful
Funding cuts affect people and specific cool projects. If anyone has funding leads, mothbox is a super cool project run by some of the best people.
We make a really cool open source tool called the Mothbox that's really taking off and starting to get used in lots of research!
But the USA's attacks on science means grants we applied to were cancelled and our Fulbright student is likely getting her funding cut.
Anyone wanna fund Mothbox?
But the USA's attacks on science means grants we applied to were cancelled and our Fulbright student is likely getting her funding cut.
Anyone wanna fund Mothbox?
March 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Funding cuts affect people and specific cool projects. If anyone has funding leads, mothbox is a super cool project run by some of the best people.
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‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
From loyalty cards, to restaurant meal deals or simply parking your car – it is harder and harder to get by without signing up to a multitude of apps
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners
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One thing people in the UK are very bad at understanding is the real global reach of agencies like USAID and institutions like UNESCO. For all their faults these organisations really matter—which is why people write about them.
February 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
One thing people in the UK are very bad at understanding is the real global reach of agencies like USAID and institutions like UNESCO. For all their faults these organisations really matter—which is why people write about them.
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Ogres are like OpenFlexure Microscopes—they have layers! And today, you can see them being printed live at FOSDEM by our friends at Prusa Research! 🔬✨
Come say hi to us in Hall H, see the magic happen, and let’s celebrate open-source collaboration at its best! 🚀
#FOSDEM2025 #OpenSource #3DPrinting
Come say hi to us in Hall H, see the magic happen, and let’s celebrate open-source collaboration at its best! 🚀
#FOSDEM2025 #OpenSource #3DPrinting
February 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ogres are like OpenFlexure Microscopes—they have layers! And today, you can see them being printed live at FOSDEM by our friends at Prusa Research! 🔬✨
Come say hi to us in Hall H, see the magic happen, and let’s celebrate open-source collaboration at its best! 🚀
#FOSDEM2025 #OpenSource #3DPrinting
Come say hi to us in Hall H, see the magic happen, and let’s celebrate open-source collaboration at its best! 🚀
#FOSDEM2025 #OpenSource #3DPrinting