Single Molecule Biophysicist currently in London. he/him
Joined November 2017
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Ben Ambrose retweeted
8 May 2024
Internet friends, I’m thrilled to share our work out today in @Nature! We've developed a label-free, single-molecule method using high-finesse microcavities, enabling us to profile molecules in solution. 1/10 nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Ben Ambrose retweeted
29 Apr 2024
say it with me: we want haptic feedback. we want tactile switches and dials. we dont want stupid touch screens that glitch, provide zero feedback, and force you to look at them. technology is stupid. modern engineers are stupid. can someone help silicon valley
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26 Apr 2024
If my next paper has a picture of a weird little guy in it this is why btw
26 Apr 2024
The Codex Gigas is the largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript in the world, at a length of 92 cm. The manuscript was created in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia, now a region in the modern-day Czech Republic.
The story is that a monk procrastinated his task of copying the Bible. So on the final night the Devil came to him and said, “I will grant you the ability to finish this text if you include a picture of me.”
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25 Feb 2024
Most important development to happen in science this decade is the move away from beige plastic clamshell boxes where the magic happens and towards black powder coated aluminium boxes where the magic happens
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7 Feb 2024
Just had to do a two factor authentication to sign into outlook on my phone so that I could do the two factor authentication to sign into outlook on my laptop
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16 Jan 2024
US border agent: So you've never been to america before? are you sure?
Me: that's correct
BA: Why?
Me: ???
BA: Why haven't you been to america?
15 Jan 2024
US border agent: What are you doing in Boston?
Me: I'm working on my PhD
BA: Wow, you work!? But you are on a student visa. That is illegal! Please go to the special inspections room over there...
#reallyhappened
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Ben Ambrose retweeted
15 Dec 2023
Single-molecule 3D reconstruction for structural proteomics--check out our latest work just published in JACS @J_A_C_S! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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11 Dec 2023
Fun that the code on screen in the last doctor who episode is just someone trying and failing to install a bunch of stuff
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11 Dec 2023
Can't think of anything more terrifying than the end of the world hanging off of having to set up a working python environment
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6 Dec 2023
I don't ever want to buy a piece of tech made by a company who proudly talk about it as being part of their "ecosystem". Get out of here with that nonsense
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6 Dec 2023
How on earth did marketers manage to convince us that "this thing will not work properly with the other things you own" is something that they can brag about as a positive feature
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3 Dec 2023
My controversial pedagogy take is that whilst memorisation isn't as important as people used to think, the current characterisation of it as being totally pointless is an overcorrection in the wrong direction
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3 Dec 2023
Nobody actually thinks kids should be able to recite the periodic table, but getting kids to memorise basic info as a means of priming them to absorb more complex info has been a tried and tested method among teachers for literally thousands of years. Probably not a coincidence
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Ben Ambrose retweeted
25 Oct 2023
As you know, these are difficult days in Israel, but the Scientific work has to continue. What started as an open discussion over Twitter/X has matured into a review of
#PIFE
doi.org/10.1088/2050-6120/ac…
Enjoy the read
17 Oct 2021
Nice implementation of UIFE (originally PIFE). Should we start referring to it as photo-isomerization induced fluorescence enhancement (PIFE) in general?
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🚨(2nd) Preprint news!! 🚨 The collaboration with @ckinzthompson on a novel definition of resolution and how it can be used to calculate the local atomic resolution and map-to-model correspondence in cryoEM structures is finally on bioRxiv!!!! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🧵(1/6)
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