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Occasional notes on physics, imaging and doing research.

  • Oct 2025
    Networking on the Network: a guide to professional skills for PhD students

    Phil Agre's classic essay on how researchers build and use a professional network, reproduced with attribution.

  • Aug 2024
    Implementing MATLAB's psf2otf in Python: why and how

    A drop-in NumPy equivalent of MATLAB's psf2otf — and why the padding and circular shift matter for deconvolution.

  • May 2024
    Why are there moving lights at the bottom of swimming pools?

    The bright, shifting network on the floor of a pool is the Transport of Intensity effect — and the same physics lets us weigh the inside of living cells.

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