Sebastian Samwald (Basti) he/him

@samwalds.bsky.social

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Fascinated by what I can "squeeze" out of plant cells under microscopes spiced up with synthetic biology. 🔬 PhDone 🌱 at JIC (UK), now a postdoc at the MPIPZ (Cologne, Germany). Sometimes too sarcastic. 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 he/him https://linktr.ee/samwalds

A tree full of ripe orange cherry plums
Freshly baked cinnamon buns
An ice cream/ice lolly held up against the background of a German train station.
A yeast based dough that has risen well in a big metal bowl.
A gel electrophoresis picture. It shows DNA of different sizes.
Piles of binders with lots of paper on a floor.
Snow laden branches of bushes and a street lamp
A screenshot of a whatsapp chat. It says "tomorrow is lab cleaning day, very exciting!"
A colourful eel facts advent calendar attached to the glass bit of a laboratory door.
A screenshot from the Adobe Acrobat FAQ. It states that the AI Assistant does not automatically process documents opened in Acrobat. The user must select the AI Assistant or generative summary icon.
A screenshot of the preference settings in Adobe Acrobat, showing which boxes to untick so that the automatic AI gets turned off.
A black kitten playing around. In the background the lyrics to “I’m just a cat” from simonandtheastronouts are shown.
A massive paper Koolasuchus crafted out of paper.
A grumpy looking cat on the gras.
A photo of a lecture hall. A female professor is standing in front and is about to start a seminar talk.
A flan in very green and blue tones with some red speckles.
Forest strawberries on the ground mixed in with other plants.
A song bird being held in a white lab coat.
A photo taken in a garden. On a glass table are three egg holders. On them are eggs covered with hand-crochet egg warmers. They are pink bunnies looking grumpy and reminiscent of the masks worn by members of the punk band Pussy Riot.
Three Easter brioch
The top left corner of a research paper stapled. Underneath it is a brown envelope.
A photo of a print version of a science paper https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.ado8680
A partial phone screenshot. It shows a celebratory congratulations from the Duolingo language learning app, for completing a 365 days long streak.
A big flan on a plate. Both are placed on the black plate of an electric stove.
A snowy landscape there is a snow filled field in the foreground. And a thin line of trees and buildings on the horizont. On the left there is some more diffuse light visible.
A man in sweatpants on a narrow sofa. There are two cats on him. One on his stomach and one between his legs.
A plate full of Christmas cookies
A bunch of chocolates and a bottle of wine on a window sill
A tray baking cookies in the oven
A suitcase at a railway platform with a big tote bag on top. Most of the suitcase and bag are marked with blue, and about 1/3rd is marked with orange.
A screenshot from the language learning app Duolingo. Showing that I made 615 mistakes this year.
The arm of a person donating blood.
A partial screenshot of a PDF science paper. On the top right is a 'Check for updates' button that is actually a layer above the text and therefore partially covers the text.
A red ice bucket with a red rack in ice. There are two tiny labelled tubes in it.
A poster advertising the TSL and JIC rotation PhD programme It says: John Innes Foundation PhD Programme Plant and Microbial Science Genetics Cell Biology Microbiology Crop Science Data Science Plant Health Biological Cehmistry 13 November application deadline fully funded 4-year studentships UK and international applicants
A group photo of a bunch of scientists standing together with a green background
A fancy building in Oxford
A guy’s arm donating blood
A hedgehog at night on a path. Photo taken with a long exposure time, so it seems like there is more light
A group of flamingos in a zoo.
A bit of course gravel in the foreground. There are two adult Candada geese and three of their baby chicks in the middle. The background consists of greenery and further painted white buildings.
Asphalt on a street. There is a bit of a manhole cover visible in the corner. There is a slightly heart shaped pothole in the middle.
Two black backpacks lying on the floor. The right one looks older and battered. The left one is new and still in its box. Both are the same make, but the left one is a newer model.
A glass plate of decoratively arranged Christmas cookies.
A bunch of basil plants in a big Jogurt pot. There is a peanut on the soil.
A mountain cliff in the background. Trees and a meadow in the foreground.
A guy in a traditional Austrian Lederhose in a rustic decorated hallway
A mountain esk landscape. Everything is green and mountains are in the background. The sky has a few clouds and is otherwise clear.
A cycle path in the Netherlands. It is surrounded by waking paths and greenery. There is a train crossing the path. There is a tunnel underneath the train tracks.
A photo of a suitcase at a train station. It has the lower two thirds marked in red and the upper third in blue.
The three first gen Pokémon arranged in a triangle of who beats whom.