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Joachim Goedhart

I am a chemist from training, with a strong interest in biology. Our lab develops genetically encoded fluorescent probes and biosensors for quantitative functional imaging with the overarching goal to unravel (G-protein) signalling networks in time and space in cells and tissues. You can follow me on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/joachimgoedhart.bsky.social

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Painless Preprint Posting

Posted by , on 30 April 2025

One of my favourite uses of social media is sharing (and discovering) new preprints that seem relevant for my field. Rewardingly, posting preprints is usually well-received by followers. Since there ...

Protocols for data visualization

Posted by , on 27 October 2022

Scientists are familiar with protocols that describe in a step-by-step fashion how an experiment is performed. But they are usually less familiar with code or scripts for handling data. Yet, ...

Converting spreadsheets to tidy data - Part 2

Posted by , on 29 September 2020

The superplot was recently proposed as a data visualization strategy that improves the communication of experimental results (Lord et al, 2020). To simplify the visualization of data with a superplot, ...

Crafting plots for movies

Posted by , on 6 May 2020

In a previous blog I explained how animated plots can be made to illustrate the dynamics of data. Animated plots go nicely together with the movies from which the data ...

Dynamic display of data with animated plots

Posted by , on 27 April 2020

Data from time-lapse experiments is often displayed in a graph or plot, to visualize the dynamics of biological systems (Goedhart, 2020). Ironically, the perception of the dynamics is largely lost ...

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A follow-up of this post is available: https://thenode.biologists.com/converting-excellent-spreadsheets-part2
by Joachim Goedhart in Converting excellent spreadsheets to tidy data on September 29, 2020