Moritz Negwer

@moritz_negwer@mstdn.science
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Neuroscientist by training, tinkerer by nature. Now scanning transparent mouse brains with light-sheet microscopes. Microscopy, clearing, data crunching, tinkering.

Working as postdoc at @radboudumc with Nael Nadif Kasri and Corette Wierenga, looking at neuron-distribution differences in mouse models of ASD.

Married, father of two. Toots in English, German, Dutch. Boosts a lot.

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You cough and sneeze. "Ah, another bug," runs the realization through your head. You put the napkin into the sequencer, plug its USB cord into your laptop, and start the awful Java application it came from. Fifteen minutes later, it beeps, trimphantly, and in the middle of the HAdV-A31 genome, you see a chunk of plaintext.
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Technische Frage zu #OpenSource KI-Modellen, die mir in meinen Workshops immer wieder begegnet:
👉 Da diese (wahrscheinlich) überwiegend lokal genutzt werden, wie können sie dann gut und kontinuierlich weiter entwickelt werden?
Eure Antwort?

Managing Temperatures for Ultrafast Benchy Printing

Commercial 3D printers keep getting faster and faster, but we can confidently say that none of them is nearly as fast as [Jan]’s Minuteman printer, so named for its goal …read more
#hacking #projects
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/08/managing-temperatures-for-ultrafast-benchy-printing/

Ein ausführliches Interview mit Fredi Otto und mir: was kommt beim Klima auf uns zu? Wie wird die Welt für unsere Kinder aussehen, wenn wir einfach so weitermachen wie bisher?

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/politik/klimawandel-klimakrise-hitzewelle-zukunft-e490745/

Hitze? „Das ist wahrscheinlich einer der kältesten Sommer deines Lebens“

Wenn der Planet brennt und Sturmfluten normal sind: Ein Blick ins Jahr 2100 mit zwei führenden Klimawissenschaftlern.

Süddeutsche Zeitung
The only gigwork app i actually want to see is being able to book someone else to come over and judge your living space at a fixed time and date to force you to make it nice or else face a series of voiced concern noises and sidelong comments
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2025/07/07/being-too-helpful-at-work-can-hurt-your-career-heres-how-to-say-no/
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

Forbes

«Javier Milei’s government’s punishing budget cuts have forced researchers to take up work as electricians, school teachers or Uber drivers»

It's the speedrun of the decline that researchers are seeing eg in France, where salaries for researchers have been decimated over the years, just within months instead 😞

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/argentinian-scientists-work-side-jobs-javier-milei

‘I don’t want my training to go to waste’: the Argentinian scientists working side jobs amid Milei’s sweeping cuts

Javier Milei’s government’s punishing budget cuts have forced researchers to take up work as electricians, school teachers or Uber drivers

The Guardian

100 years of June sea surface temperature anomalies updated through 2025. Note the long-term warming (climate change) and other patterns of variability (e.g., El Niño/La Niña). Our oceans are accumulating a lot of excess heat!

Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v5.html

This is my thesis
FUCK. OFF.
I DID NOT consent to this
I DO NOT want people reading this garbage instead of asking me a question.
#AcademiaEdu, you can get in the effing bin
https://www.academia.edu/ai_review/104785815
@Garwboy I got got, too.

#scientistsAgainstGenerativeAI #artistsAgainstGenerativeAI #writersAgainstGenAI #AI #genAI #noToAI #cancerResearch #PhDThesis #MyPhD

"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done." – Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

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