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Happy #FluorescenceFriday !🌈 Today, sperm cells & developing gametes (Dapi, 🟢🟡🟠🔴) and testis muscles (Phalloidin (🔵🟢) in/on a #Drosophila non-melanogaster (guess the species and you’re the 🐐) #cellbio #devbio #science #sciart #microscopy Scope: Zeiss Airyscan 980❤️@zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

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Our featured image for this week is a histological section of female (above) and male (below) gonads at an advanced maturation stage of the simultaneous hermaphroditic scallop Nodipecten subnodosus. Read more about Rosa Salgado García’s research here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/06/06/f...

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A career in academia is a funny journey (especially for that vague species, "applied mathematicians"). So I thought it'd be fun to share some things I do now, that seven-years-ago Malcolm starting his PhD in applied maths would not have expected to be doing. I'll try do one a day until I forget!

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We are moving slower than a sea slug in the latest edition of #GuessThatISH 🫩 Take a guess! We double-dare you 🤭

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Imaging 4 All - @globalbioimaging.bsky.social have launched their 2nd call for applications. Researchers from low- and middle-income countries can apply to receive support to visit imaging facilities & attend training courses. Deadline: 15 August 2025 focalplane.biologists.com/2025/05/20/i...

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Had a wonderful week of great science & meeting some amazing people at @embo.org #EMBOcellpolarity25! 🤩 Thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to present my #postdoc work 🐟 & to @focalplane.bsky.social for the #microscopy prize 😃 Here’s to many more long evenings at the 🔬 😆

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Looking for fluorescent reporters for your favorite tissue/organ? Check out the zTrap Gene Trap & Enhancer Database (ztrap.nig.ac.jp/ztrap/) from the Kawakami Lab at NIG! Travel grants are available for shelf-screen (Email Sensei Koichi for more info) 😎 Contact details: ztrap.nig.ac.jp/members.html

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🗣️ "Hey FBI, explain how it works!" Today, we’re diving into Single Molecule Localization Microscopy (SMLM). 💡 Did you know? #SMLM is available on several France-BioImaging platforms! Watch the video to learn more and find out where you can access it!

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🌟 #MeetOurDataSteward: #1: Ksenia Krooß #DataSteward at NFDI4Bioimage & Center for Advanced Imaging (CAi) at HHU Düsseldorf! Ksenia can help you with microscopy, #DataManagement, #Metadata (#OMERO), and data submission. 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/about-us/data-stewardship-team/krooss/

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We've just released another set of peer reviewer trees. Each digital tree represents a real-life tree in Great Knott Wood that is being protected, thanks to the important work of our peer reviewers. forest.biologists.com/landscape/ #Forest #Sustainability #Trees #Plants #Nature #Biodiversity

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Great opportunity for technology savvy students to gain experience in a stimulating & interdisciplinary research environment. Come join us @embl.org - our group also offers internship projects in advanced microscopy!

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Delighted to be at #ELMI2025 at @embl.org this week! Stop by our booth in Helix A, to talk about open access to #imaging facilities, image data services, #EVOLVEproject opportunities, #FAIRdata & much more! Hope to see you there! @events.embl.org @globalbioimaging.bsky.social

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[EVENT] Don't miss the first Smart #Microscopy Days on YouTube! 🔬 📅 June 16th & 17th ▶️ Hosted on RTmfm’s channel Organised by the @ibdm.bsky.social (Marseille FBI's node) and #RTmfm, these days aim to raise awareness and provide training on intelligent #imaging acquisition tools! #LightMicroscopy

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Keen about High Performance Computing & #imageanalysis? Search for #75 at #ELMI2025 this evening @sebastianmunck.bsky.social‬ @makaefer.bsky.social

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🔬💡A serendipitous discovery while troubleshooting an imaging issue led Yamini @yamini.bsky.social down a project studying mechanically induced morphogenesis in Hydra Check out this new 'behind the paper story' ⬇️

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The next @bioimagingna.bsky.social and Canada BioImaging STED user group focusses on STED and MINFLUX with a presentation from Zach Marin @zacsimile.bsky.social (Max Perutz Labs, University of Vienna @maxperutzlabs.bsky.social). 12 June at 12pm ET focalplane.biologists.com/2025/05/28/s...

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Seeing is indeed believing!🧐🤩 Congratulations to our postdoc @tushnakapoor.bsky.social on winning the 'Best Microscopy-based Discovery' prize 🔬,sponsored by @focalplane.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social,for her talk at the @embo.org Workshop #EMBOcellpolarity25! 🐟👏🥳

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BOOM💥Martina was on fire at the recent #Biologists100 meeting on Liverpool, sharing her research on cell cycle oscillations. #proudPI

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Still time to apply to join us as an intern this summer, working across the three community sites of @biologists.bsky.social 👇

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TODAY Wed 4 June 15:00 BST (UTC+1) Development presents... webinar, celebrating the winners of the @bsdb.bsky.social postdoc poster prize from the Biologists @ 100 conference. We'll hear from @giuliapaci.bsky.social and @shifaant.bsky.social Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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It was great talking to @giuliapaci.bsky.social about her work and #preprints at #biologists100 earlier this year. And exciting that she is again talking (more science and less preprints) today for the Development presents… seminar thenode.biologists.com/development-...

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Check out Ben Cox’s Workshop report from UC Berkeley’s Advanced Imaging Methods Workshop #AIM2025. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/05/29/w... Ben was supported by one of our Training Grants with @jcellsci.bsky.social. Our next application deadline is Friday 6 June: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

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Reminder: the GloBIAS 2025 symposium is happening Oct 26-31 in Kobe, Japan, and, on top of many other cool bioimage analysis events, several members of the napari core team will be leading a napari hackathon. https://www.globias.org/activities/bioimage-analysis-conference-2025-in-kobe

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50 Years of Cell Biology: German Society for Cell Biology Meeting, October 26 – 29, 2025 | Heidelberg, Germany Early bird registration deadline: June 15, 2025

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The @viennabiocenter.bsky.social PostDoc Program call is now open! We have 16 fully-funded positions for scientists with a PhD in biology, chemistry, physics, bioinformatics etc. Apply here: training.vbc.ac.at/post-docs/vi... #VBCPostDoc

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🚨 We’re hiring TWO new colleagues! 🧠 Structured Metadata Expert – Design data models, standards & annotations for #OMEZarr 🌐 Web Developer / Prototyper – Build interactive tools & demos for the community Both fully remote. Both open science. 🔗 gerbi-gmb.de/resources/ca... #RSE #OpenScience

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Need help with bioimage analysis? Contact the UK Euro-BioImaging Node to see how we can help! www.eurobioimaging-access.eu/nodes/uk-node

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🔬𝐔𝐊 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨-𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 £𝟏.𝟖𝐌 from @ukri.org This will: -Democratise access to cutting-edge biological and biomedical imaging -Support 200+ researchers yearly -Boost open science Thanks to BBSRC and MRC for this major upgrade! 🚀 Congrats to the entire UK Node team 👏 Link in replies⬇️

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🫀Job alert 🧬 come and be our colleague! Join a BBSRC-funded consortium aiming to understand how the human heart develops - you will be contributing multimodal single cell & spatial transcriptomics data using zebrafish and human cardiac organoids as models. Learn more: www.heartdevelopment.org (1/4)

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🚨 Our second article in the “Resolution in Super-Resolution Microscopy” series is now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social! 🧬✨ journals.biologists.com/jcs/article-... 🔍 We’d love to hear your thoughts—comments and feedback are most welcome! cc @lschermelleh.bsky.social

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See you later at our #NFDITalk with #NFDI4BIOIMAGE. 📣

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This Wed 4 June 15:00 BST Register to attend our next Development presents... webinar, celebrating the winners of the @bsdb.bsky.social‬ postdoc poster prize from the Biologists @ 100 conference. We'll hear from @giuliapaci.bsky.social‬ and @shifaant.bsky.social‬ us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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🛠️ Job Alert: Project Coordinator (50-100%, fully remote) We're seeking a dynamic and proactive professional who's passionate about science, communication and community building to join and strengthen our management office team. Apply by 30 June 2025! Full posting: gerbi-gmb.de/resources/ca...

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It's finally here! Great start of the summer. We got our latest preprint from @chemamd.bsky.social in @qmulsbbs.bsky.social @qmulse.bsky.social, showing evidence of developmental system drift in the specification of dorsoventral (belly vs back) axis in annelids 🪱🪱🪱 #DevBio #EvoDevo

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In our Biologists @ 100 interviews, Margarida Araújo discovered more about Keith DeLuca’s research on new tools for investigating dynamic phosphorylation in mitotic processes in the DeLuca lab at CSU. Keith was enjoying the breadth of biology represented at #Biologists100.

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Our latest preprint list is now up on FocalPlane! In this list, we focus on recent advances in bioimage analysis. Let us know if there are any other preprints that we should add to our list.

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In our Biologists @ 100 interviews, Margarida Araújo discovered more about Martina Boiardi’s research on the impact of cytoskeletal dynamics on cell cycle oscillations in the Gelens lab @lendertgelens.bsky.social and Lammertyn lab. #Biologists100

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In our Biologists @ 100 interviews, Margarida Araújo discovered more about Ning Sze (Nancy) Hui’s research on the role of the Hippo pathway in cellular responses to mechanical stimuli in the @gram-lab.bsky.social. #Biologists100

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The culmination of years of hard work by Anna Maria Reuss & Co: aDISCO - a protocol for clearing & antibody-staining human formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue! With lots of @mesospim.bsky.social #lightsheet #Microscopy @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social & many more! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Just for info, chemical fixation and labeling pre-expansion works good in my hands. 4x expansion with a 0.95NA x25 water objective. #ProExM #celldivision #tubulin

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📊 What does AI-ready data actually look like? Time to find out! Head over to @bioimagearchive.bsky.social’s gallery — it’s like an art museum for high-quality training data and metadata. Perfect for your next model! www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-arc...

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Apply for a funded place at our Workshop 'New Technologies for Studying and Reprogramming Development'. biologists.com/workshops/no... Application deadline extended to Friday 6 June. #Workshop #Research #Collaboration #Biology

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Calling all core facilities 'Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025: Town Hall virtual Forum' 16th June. A joint @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social & MSA meeting that welcomes all. See - rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social @ctlslifescience.bsky.social

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The thread may have been broken and fused back together but at least the links are working now! For an alternative layout, check out our Node post 🔗: thenode.biologists.com/daniodigest-... Enjoy! #RockOn 🧪

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🧠 AI4Life wouldn’t be the same without the amazing BioImage.IO community partners! Now showcasing real-world tools from our partners: DeepIcy, @biapyx.bsky.social, SpotMAX and QuPath. Huge thanks to our collaborators!

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#MeetOurDataStewards 👨‍💻 @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social helps you manage #bioimaging data. Starting next month, we'll feature an expert from our Data Steward team with tips and projects each month. You can find an overview of our Data Stewards here: nfdi4bioimage.de/about-us/data-stewardship-team/

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[𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧] 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗜𝗠𝗗𝗥𝗔 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝘆𝗼𝗻 ! FBI Rhône-Alpin Node is organizing a focused on #ImageAnalysis and #microscopy techniques! 🔬 📌 P𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 ➡️ Keynotes from experts ➡️ User Case ➡️ Workshops ...and more! ⚠️ 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱

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In our Biologists @ 100 interviews, Margarida Araújo discovered more about Emily Glover’s research on intercellular mitochondrial transfer in the Collinson lab. Emily’s conference highlight was the welcoming atmosphere for ECRs. #Biologists100

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In a series of short interviews, our FocalPlane conference reporter Margarida Araújo learnt more about the research of some of the scientists at #Biologists100 and discovered their conference highlights.

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