Tim Davison ᯅ

Check it out! I'm proud to unveil CellWalk 2 for Apple Vision Pro. Bring beautiful and immersive biology learning into your space. @cellwalk.bsky.social 🧬🦠🍎 #science #applevisionpro #visionos #apple #wwdc25

developer.apple.comCellWalk: The beauty of biology on visionOS - Discover - Apple DeveloperCreated for students and casual science lovers alike, the 2025 Apple Design Award finalist provides up-close images of life’s molecular masterworks, which are rendered in full color and accompanied by...

24 June

Apple shared CellWalk's story today, which began with David Goodsell's The Machinery of Life. Grateful to the people at Apple who worked on this :) developer.apple.com/news/?id=7qd...

15 June

We're still so touched to float with amazing apps during the WWDC Keynote, and to be in the Platform State of the Union and the visionOS 27 Session. Yay CellWalk!! Thank you to the kind people at Apple and to the whole developer community for the best WWDC yet.

open.spotify.comExploring CellWalk - Tim Davison

17 May

Had a great time on the What the Tech podcast back at my old computer science department! We got into app development, science, education, and AI. Thanks for having me Enisha and Hareem. Check out their other interviews, so well done. open.spotify.com/episode/3zAu...

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Gregory

@dreamwieber.bsky.social

20 Apr

Vibecoding with Claude Code ✨

Yay! I can't wait to meet so many amazing developers in June, especially the visionOS community 😀

WIP: Trying to do something more interesting with the disordered regions of synaptophysin (green) in the syp-vamp2 complex of this synaptic vesicle. I have this bug at the moment, a little nightmarish, but cool looking. Flailing tentacles...

4 Mar

The first image is the broken experiment, the second image is the disordered prediction from AlphaFold. It's disordered, so we have flexibility with what we do with the tails I'll probably just run a little coarse-grained simulation when you get close.. they'll be a flailing blur.

WIP: modelled the synaptophysin-VAMP2 complex for our synaptic vesicle. This complex is involved in vesicle fusion. SYP forms a hexamer with 12 copies of VAMP2, a key part of the fusion machinery.

The synaptophysin disordered regions have misleading C6 symmetry from the AlphaFold prediction, so I'll do something with those too. Almost there. I need to double check principal axes and offsets, tweak some things, add a membrane.

nature.comArchitecture of the Synaptophysin/Synaptobrevin Complex: Structural Evidence for an Entropic Clustering Function at the Synapse - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Architecture of the Synaptophysin/Synaptobrevin Complex: Structural Evidence for an Entropic Clustering Function at the Synapse

Based on this article: www.nature.com/articles/sre...

WIP: modelled the synaptophysin-VAMP2 complex for our synaptic vesicle. This complex is involved in vesicle fusion. SYP forms a hexamer with 12 copies of VAMP2, a key part of the fusion machinery.

For the VAMP2 cytoplasmic SNARE domains I did some randomized rigid body transforms, and took a bit of license to spread out the dangly bits (disorganized regions from the AlphaFold prediction).

Lazy morning building a synaptic vesicle from scratch. Super WIP and not correct. Much to do. But it has the coolest guys imho: - Amber: Vesicular glutamate transporter (VGluT) - Red: V-ATPase No membrane. Need VAMP complex, etc. #screenshotsunday

Glutamate charging works like this: The ATPase uses ATP to create a proton gradient, and VGluT uses the gradient to exchange glutamate (from outside) with protons (from inside). It's really quite cool how they work together.

No membrane. Need VAMP complex, etc. Principal axis for many proteins isn't set yet, nor transmembrane offset.

Andrew Willmott@andrewwillmott.bsky.social

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

24 Nov 2025

WIP: Updated CellWalk's editor for macOS. I love how liquid glass adapts to the scene's colour palette. We're looking at an HIV model the folks at Scripps Research (this is just our dev tool)

l.threads.coml.threads.com

24 Nov 2025

HIV model: Johnson et al. (2014) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

youtube.comCell Walk on Apple Vision Pro M5YouTube video by dreamwieber

16 Nov 2025

@dreamwieber.bsky.social just released a beautiful video exploring my app CellWalk on the M5 Apple Vision Pro. Totally made my day. Thanks for the support Gregory! :)

Gregory@dreamwieber.bsky.social

My NEW video is on Cell Walk for Apple Vision – one of my favorite apps! It brings you inside the microscopic world 🤯 It's one of the first apps to take advantage of the new M5 chip – let's check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4fm...

30 Oct 2025

I just updated CellWalk for the M5 Apple Vision Pro! This app really pushes the GPU (entire cells with billions of atoms) and it's a great way to test the M5. CellWalk on M5 increases resolution and detail 1.5x over M2! Huge. It's super sharp and detailed. Apple Intelligence is also way faster.

30 Oct 2025

I don't have an M5, so I was conservative with the parameters I just shipped. We can push it way up once I have one. Please share your experience and I'll vicariously 😁

24 Oct 2025

I quietly released new features for Apple Vision Pro in the last update: Widgets and on-device AI explanations powered by Apple Intelligence. I don't have an M5 yet, has anyone tried CellWalk on the M5 Apple Vision Pro?! How is it? more resolution (it should get more by default)?!

CellWalk is featured in Apple's new article on Apple Intelligence and Foundation Models. It's a really fun new way to learn about concepts and terms in the app, and I really enjoyed building it.

Oh! and a Liquid Glass redesign:

sciencedirect.comBuilding Structural Models of a Whole Mycoplasma CellBuilding structural models of entire cells has been a long-standing cross-discipline challenge for the research community, as it requires an unprecede…

The clips feature the incredible scientific work of @martinamaritan.bsky.social and @ludovicautin.bsky.social et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

CellWalk is featured in Apple's new article on Apple Intelligence and Foundation Models. It's a really fun new way to learn about concepts and terms in the app, and I really enjoyed building it.

www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

apple.comApple’s Foundation Models framework unlocks new intelligent app experiencesDevelopers around the world are able to bring even more intelligent experiences into their apps by tapping into Apple’s Foundation Models framework.

Concept chains: Tap and dive deep into unfamiliar terms and concepts. It's pretty cool.. because now everything in the app is interactive, from the visuals to the text itself.

4 Sept 2025

Getting ready for my talk tomorrow on "Thoughtful Spatial Design" at KWDC25 tomorrow! Hanging out at Fritz Coffee in Gangnam, Seoul. I love this location, nostalgic vibe.

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Clockwork

@watchclockwork.com

2 July 2025

🦠 NEW VIDEO 🦠 The molecular biology of how Mycobacterium Tuberculosis evades the immune system so well. Starting with this simulation of a full outer envelope of m.TB--let's explore how the deadliest & most persistent human pathogen completely hacks our immune response. #molecularbiology

The video and app display two incredible models: "Model of the presynaptic bouton" by B. Rammner, K. Ozvoldik, & E. Krieger / YASARA Biosciences. Sourced from PetWorld. License CC BY-SA 4.0.

19 June 2025

"Synaptic gap" by L. Alves da Silva, K. Ozvoldik, & E. Krieger / YASARA Biosciences. Sourced from PetWorld. License CC BY-SA 4.0.

ucalgary.caUCalgary alum’s app earns recognition from AppleTim Davison’s CellWalk provides interactive lessons for biology learners

18 June 2025

Check it out! The @ucalgary.bsky.social where I did my PhD just published an article about my app, @cellwalk.bsky.social being a Finalist in the 2025 Apple Design Awards. Super cool. www.ucalgary.ca/news/ucalgar... #wwdc25

apps.apple.com/us/app/cellw... CellWalk 2 expands beyond Apple Vision Pro later this year, bringing new content to the app on iPhone and iPad.

apps.apple.com‎CellWalk‎CellWalk is an educational experience that lets you zoom to the molecular level of a bacterial cell, unveiling the incredible molecular machines and processes that power life. It's interactive and im...

And a huge shout-out to the incredible scientists behind the bacterial cell model: @martinamaritan.bsky.social and @ludovicautin.bsky.social

Seamlessly zoom from a cell down to the atoms within DNA, enabled by groundbreaking technology optimized for billions of atoms on Apple Vision Pro. Enjoy a stunning, free exploration of a bacterial cell. Go deeper with our new Pro lessons – exploring HIV or the molecular machines behind thought.

CellWalk is a finalist in the 2025 Apple Design Awards. The future of biology education is interactive, immersive, and spatial. Try CellWalk 2 today on Apple Vision Pro.

Ahh!! My app CellWalk is a finalist in this year's Apple Design Awards. What?! 😮 I'm beyond excited. Thank you Apple for the honor, and a huge thank you to the incredible people there. #wwdc25 @cellwalk.bsky.social

It features incredible scientific models, especially the beautiful Mycoplasma by @martinamaritan.bsky.social and @ludovicautin.bsky.social. Amazing guys, the folks at Apple love it.

From writing scientific papers years ago, to publishing an app on the App Store to inspire the next generation of biologists. What a journey... I have more news to share.. ;)

16 May 2025

I need to store a fair amount of data alongside my Git repository hosted on GitHub. I've been pricing things out: GitHub LFS: $70/TB LFS Cloudflare R2 + Webworker proxy: $15/TB LFS Backblaze B2 + Cloudflare Webwork: $6/TB I went with Cloudflare R2 for Git LFS and GitHub for the repo!

github.comGitHub - milkey-mouse/git-lfs-s3-proxy: Store Git LFS files on any service with an S3 APIStore Git LFS files on any service with an S3 API. Contribute to milkey-mouse/git-lfs-s3-proxy development by creating an account on GitHub.

16 May 2025

github.com/milkey-mouse... It took about 20 minutes to setup: - cache all the Git LFS data (git lfs fetch --all) - Setup a static Cloudflare Webwork LFS proxy - Create an R2 bucket - Create a .lfsconfig file in the repo pointing at the proxy - finally `git lfs push --all origin`

@martinamaritan.bsky.social

16 May 2025

Haha, it only costs me $0.60/month right now!! amazing. I was storing huge zip archives for each point release of CellWalk on Google Drive, lol. GitHub's LFS pricing is just too much... but this is so cheap. Now I can properly version all CW data!

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Martina Maritan

28 Mar 2025

OpenAI’s new GPT-4o image generator is kind of mind-blowing, especially compared to what was state-of-the-art just days ago. Someone had to try the Ghibli trend on some crazy biology visuals, right? Here's my beloved whole cell model in Studio Ghibli, graffiti, cubism, abstract, and pop art style ✨