Nice thing about having a thermal camera on your phone is that you can quantify your suffering during a heat wave.
You can also check if your insulation measures are working and how much worse it could get which is nice I guess.

Fair enough, it's not their fault, it was literally a red day at Geneva airport.
(If anyone knows why some flights could take off though I'm curious).
But then they start rebooking us *on the same flight 24h later*. So like for KLM, wtf, can't you do better? (spoiler: they can)

As I just visited CERN I have to oppose this statement.
But EMBO is a very good second ^^
And I say it as a biologist who regularly interacts with EMBO.
(Also personally I choose Geneva over Heidelberg any day 😍)

Update (kind of daily, yesterday I had to kill firefox remotely because it froze everything so not screenshot).
For this one I kept other processes active: notice how it is a problem only with the nature.com tabs
(www.nature.com/articles/nme... and www.nature.com/articles/s41... today)

And then you remember it's gonna trigger a massive US recession with consequences for many other countries and billions of people and you get sad again.

Hey @nature.com could you fix you javascript please?
An paper tab left open overnight blows out to over 1Gb of RAM and that's just messed up.

In case you missed the tariff drama, it turns out they likely asked an LLM to provide tariff rates for a "bilateral trade balance of zero" and ignored half of the formula (epsilon*psi assumed to be 1) and the major assumption "assuming exchange rate effects are small enough to be ignored"

TIL
Google docs has a project management interface.
It looks a bit more finicky and less powerful than dedicated options like Monday or Notion but looks great for quick and dirty management for a short project where you have to involve many people as the access is easier.

Picture taken by our irreplaceable microscopy specialist (one of the many reasons we need overheads) @renebuschow.bsky.social who made the noble sacrifice not to appear on the group picture.

Never thought I'd miss the time f**ing Mike Pence was VP.
What the hell did the USA elect?
How can you let this administration do what it does?
If the Americans don't do something soon the whole world is in big trouble.

Our leaders in Europe suck but at least we haven't elected Hitler 2025.

This week I got a harsh reminder of my ivory tower when I wanted to share my excitement over an igv track.
I even had to explain the central dogma of biology... and then why it's not so simple for this specific case.
So for my fellow biologists, TUBB CRISPR KO non sense mediated decay from RNAseq.

TIL that if you don't resuspend your siRNA-lipofectamine mix then the siRNA settle at the bottom you don't get liposomes.

Don't be like me, take those extra pipetting steps that will save you experiment (so much for saving pipette tips).

I heard there was some rant going on about base vs tidyverse so here's my take to make everyone agree on something.

Do doctors use thermal cameras sometimes to detect injuries sometimes? Because my finger tip is currently inflammated (frostnip) and that's what a FLIR picture looks like. You can probably guess which finger is guilty.

Mon beau sapin 🎵

Je n'avais pas de melon en stock.

Those are drills right? Are the Germans looking for shale gas in front of the Bundestag?

Having a tight deadline apparently makes me turn corpo really fast 😅