Total $ amount down by about the same.

I noticed NIH RePORTER now shows extramural awards by month. As expected, # awards down ~50% this FY. reporter.nih.gov

National Library of Medicine and 24 other accounts | 11511545 Apportionment file 11511545 (National Library of Medicine and 24 other accounts) retrieved from OMB public records

Yes, confirming reports that OMB has processed its full-year apportionment to NIH, giving the agency the ability to obligate funds from the spending bill signed into law on Feb 3!

From what I can tell, there are no footnotes that would indicate OMB is further delaying the process.

SRS844 lock-in amplifier

"Bro, you gotta lock in"
Me:

Dirigo: a future Python alternative to Scanimage? Over the last 20 years, many microscopes that are capable of resonant scanning two-photon microscopy have converged on using ScanImage, a powerful software package with many strengths but also two …

Thankful for this blog piece by @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social on the Dirigo project. Glad you liked the posts!
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Introducing Dirigo #5: Worker Products I’m writing a series of “bite-sized” posts about Dirigo, my modular image-acquisition framework for laser-scanning microscopy. Previous posts: [#1 Intro], [#2 Acquisition pipeline], [#3 Hardware inte...

🔬 New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series: Worker Products

Products are the way information is carried from node to node along the acquisition pipeline. TBH I'm pretty proud of this system 😀

Introductory post below 👇

Introducing Thorlabs' New VantagePro® Resonant Scanner System!

Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qiTwMZ

Ideal for high-speed imaging, this resonant scanner is designed to deflect a laser beam from its original trajectory and continuously scan it over a user-controlled scan angle.

We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues.
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Introducing Dirigo #4: Unit quantities I’m writing posts to introduce Dirigo, a flexible image acquisition framework targeting laser scanning applications. Previous posts: #1: Intro, #2: Acquisition pipeline composition, #3: Hardware inter...

🔬 🔬 New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series: Unit quantities

Why units matter (think 100 µm vs 100 mm 😬), parsing “400 um”/“8 kHz”/"125 MS/s", expressive types, and unit-checked math.

Dirigo achieves this with a light-weight Pint-inspired layer used everywhere units are relevant.

Introducing Dirigo – Post #3: Hardware extensibility & the Digitizer interface I’m writing weekly posts to introduce Dirigo, a flexible image acquisition framework for Python. In the last post, I introduced the reconfigurable acquisition pipeline. In this post, I’ll describe har...

🔬 New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series! (my project to build a flexible backend for sci. image acquisition)

This week: the Digitizer interface—how to abstract the main data-collection device in laser-scanning microscopy to support different cards through a single, oscilloscope-inspired API.

New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series!

In this one, I share a short video clip demo & walk through how Dirigo organizes image acquisition as a reconfigurable dataflow graph.

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Designing Dirigo: a flexible, extensible backend for scientific image acquisition Some time ago, on a certain social platform that has since been renamed, I asked for suggestions on laser scanning microscopy acquisition control software. I was looking for something in the spirit of...

Just posted Part 1 of a new series on "Dirigo", my design for a very flexible, extensible backend for scientific image acquisition.

I’ll be posting weekly to spark feedback and find collaborators.
This first post covers the intro & high-level design. 👇

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I see strides being made in open source electronics www.crowdsupply.com may be easier here because scalability (PCB fab, pick and place, etc). What would this look like for a microscope frame?

'Open source' is a great concept--but I think the bottleneck is fabrication. We need a low-cost partner building open designs at reasonable scale. Open source works so well for software because the 'fabrication' is simply computer execution (+/-compiling and distribution).

So much fun writing a K99 through this..

Do you think it's trolling you (which would be kinda brilliant) or is this really its best shot?

Don't sleep on Strava

GitHub - tweber225/atsbindings: Python bindings for AlazarTech API. Python bindings for AlazarTech API. Contribute to tweber225/atsbindings development by creating an account on GitHub.

I just made my Alazar digitizer Python bindings public. Provides API binding, a ton of enumerations with helper methods, and data parsing.
github.com/tweber225/at...