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kuba sędziński @kuba-sedzinski.bsky.social · 18h

We are looking for: PhD Student (starting as Research Assistant) and Postdoctoral Researcher in Stem Cell Biology and Mechanobiology. Please RT💕
🔗 About our lab: renew.science/principal_in...
🎓 PhD position: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
🧪 Postdoc position: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 17h

What if I dress up like a sanskrit Brahman and go to my work for coding AI stuff with the goal of shigratham karyam ( work faster, schnell arbeiten). Just have to refresh my memory of Sanskrit via German. Thanks, Oppenheimer movie! Tatah Sukham.

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 23h

Diy chessboard table.

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 1d

Let's call it a holiday with home office re-decoration and making a convertible table that doubles as a medivial looking handmade chess art.

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 2d

Reviews don’t do justice to this place. I either give 1⭐ or 5⭐ and you can’t buy my stars. This one’s a solid 5⭐! The only restaurant with a line in front of it, and for good reason. Find it at level -2 in Berlin Hauptbahnhof, right opposite McDonald’s.

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 2d

Am an inspiration to my daughter as I could dance like this as a kid of her age!!!

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 3d

Being the father of a pre-teen daughter is fun and easy. Integrate your quality time, and as a benefit, you learn how to play uno, meow card games & I know all the Harry Potter spells, in which universe would I have ever done that without her!

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 4d

Next I will start making my own sauces ... and soups, i dont as of yet know how to do them. All of it made with ingredients found in a German supermarket normal aisle not international food aisle. Ich bin stolz.

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jaimergp @rjai.me · 5d

We are hiring!

@quansight.com is looking for a Senior Engineer for Python/C/C++ Packaging 📦. If you have dabbled with @python.org wheels, @conda.org packages, and the like, get in touch!

You can apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io/quansight/jo...

Senior Engineer Python/C/C++ Packaging

Remote

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scipyconf.bsky.social @scipyconf.bsky.social · 5d

🚀 Exciting news! The SciPy 2025 Proceedings are officially published:
👉 proceedings.scipy.org/2025

Huge thanks to the Proceedings Committee, @curvenote.com, Jim Weiss, all the authors, and reviewers who made this happen. 🙌

Proceedings of SciPy 2025 - SciPy Proceedings

Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 6d

Best holidays ever, German movies mit gespenst und übersetzen (ghosts and translation). My German is so much better now.

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KapoorLabs @kapoorlabs.bsky.social · 13d

Our org also started with grant(s) from CZI that ran for two years and since then our business model is to tie up with end researchers who use these tools to tailor complete worflows that we get paid by them to create. Our dev costs are a part of their grants and we live happily ever after.

napari @napari.org · 13d

You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help:

napari.org/island-dispa...

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 13d

If I was them my business model would be to tie developers to the end users to create tailored workflow for them and get paid directly by them, who will include you in their ERC grants etc, for making biology oriented tools not just computer science algorithmic implementations as plugins.

napari @napari.org · 13d

You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help:

napari.org/island-dispa...

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 15d

My Apple, My Tree.

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 15d

Embrace our Hydra based workflows, step up from the terminals and get spoilt by so much user/end-user/developer friendliness!

Now open sourced github.com/kapoorlab/Co... along with a pre-print that made use of them: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔔 read all about it 🔔

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 16d

Next chapter: getting into QM. For particles whose wavelength corresponding to their wave nature is similar on spatial scale compared to their physical dimension, the motion equations describe the motion of their wave packets. If the wavelength is on a smaller scale, Newtonian equations do the job.

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 22d

What you can expect as chapters in my book written in three levels for high school, college and PhD students.

E.g. Making of a chapter: Explaning the birth of quantum mechanics

For high school students just text and mental pictures, for college students math formulas with links to details.

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 22d

Explaning the birth of quantum mechanics: A simple harmonic oscillator -> energy absorbed, dissipiated -> charged particle as oscillator -> radiation reaction force -> relate field energy to oscillator energy -> propose as classical model of atom -> using principle of maximizing entropy (1/n)

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napari @napari.org · 19d

napari 0.6.6 is out! 🚀

This is a bugfix release following up 0.6.5: if something in your napari workflow unexplicably broke, you might want to update ;) Also, with the new bundle you can now "open files with > napari"! Check out the full release notes on the website: napari.org/stable/relea...

napari: a fast, interactive viewer for multi-dimensional images in Python

view and explore 2D, 3D, and higher-dimensional arrays on a canvas;, overlay derived data such as points, polygons, segmentations, and more;, annotate and edit derived datasets, using standard data st...

napari.org

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 20d

Isn't writing your own book by hand just great, with a nice plume/fountain pen the words just flow on the paper. TBH I can say for sure this was one of the N notebooks from the end that she had after using so many 'Rough Work' notebooks or is it just me!

Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 20d

Kathleen Lonsdale's notebook used while determining the crystal structure is also rather wonderful - such elegant handwritten calculations.

Notebook of Kathleen Lonsdale for determining the crystal structure of benzene.

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 22d

What you can expect as chapters in my book written in three levels for high school, college and PhD students.

E.g. Making of a chapter: Explaning the birth of quantum mechanics

For high school students just text and mental pictures, for college students math formulas with links to details.

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 22d

Explaning the birth of quantum mechanics: A simple harmonic oscillator -> energy absorbed, dissipiated -> charged particle as oscillator -> radiation reaction force -> relate field energy to oscillator energy -> propose as classical model of atom -> using principle of maximizing entropy (1/n)

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 22d

-> distribution of the oscillators aka occupation of the energy levels of the atom -> consider energy as continuous variable -> Rayleigh Jeans law and BIG problem -> energy as discrete with proportional to frequency -> A mental picture of atom absorbing and emitting radiation classically -> QM (n/n)

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 22d

Explaning the birth of quantum mechanics: A simple harmonic oscillator -> energy absorbed, dissipiated -> charged particle as oscillator -> radiation reaction force -> relate field energy to oscillator energy -> propose as classical model of atom -> using principle of maximizing entropy (1/n)

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 23d

Finally successful, calibrating half an apple, one onion, three eggs, chillies, mozzarella and medium temperature pan with cooking oil, that's what it takes to make this omelette. This is what experimental physics is like, success at 4th attempt.

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 24d

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 24d

TGI Friday. So soothing n relaxing.

Varun Kapoor @kapoorlab.bsky.social · 25d

Our latest client is www.upo.es. They are part of our carousal we proudly display at kapoorlabs.org counting France, USA, Denmark, UK, Spain as reasearch organizations that paid us for Bio-Image analysis, that we delivered sucessfully, we are SO International. Rest of the world awaits us in 2026.🫡

The University

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