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After a long journey, Segment Anything for Microscopy is now published in Nature Methods! We significantly improve SAM for interactive and automatic segmentation in light and electron microscopy and build a user-friendly tool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Happy #FluorescenceFriday! We're so excited to be co-hosting #GBIxBINA2025 with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social, in beautiful Montreal on Oct 6-10, 2025! 🍁 Need Financial Assistance? 📅Apply by March 5, 2025! Details & application links @ www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/gbixb...

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Happy #Fluorescence Friday! #microscopy community, mark your calendar and join us for Valeria Piazza’s presentation as part of @bioimagingna.bsky.social's Career Speaker series on Feb 6, free & online! Register here www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/caree...

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Registration is OPEN for the 2025 QuPath Training Course on Feb 24-25 and an Advanced Users Meeting on Feb 26 at @lji.org . The year, the focus will be on Multiplex Immunofluorescence analysis. Hosted by Zbigniew Mikulski, @iamichaelnelson.bsky.social , and myself.

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I cannot imagine not wearing a mask on an airplane in perpetuity.

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Cassava Sciences $SAVA and its Alzheimer’s drug are done. The damage lingers While many investors lost money, the bigger tragedy involves patients www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/c...

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Happy #FluorescenceFriday ! It's the end of the week, so have a good coffee or tea, look in the mirror and give yourself a smile. Even if you're not in the mood, maybe you can trick your brain for a bit... At least, you have a smile from me :)

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I feel the science-to-nonsense ratio is much better on this site: Enjoy these jittery mitochondria sifting through axons of patient-derived motor neurons thanks to the pkMito probe from @spirochrome.com #neuroscience #science #microscopy #bioimaging #mitochondria

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Made a starter pack for microscopy and image analysis - please (self-)nominate additions! go.bsky.app/Nwa91pC

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Consult your friendly, neighborhood bioimage analyst before your next experiment! This paper discusses all that we do for scientific research, how we can do more, and how we can convince admins and grant agencies to fund us better.

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Neat position at HHMI in Chevy Chase MD: "Open Science Strategy Program Coordinator" pay range $75-120k, PhD required hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...

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1/New court filing from David Sabatini (dkt#213) includes a letter from HHS, saying a debarment is being considered. It says generally debarments are for three years or less.

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If you’re seeing pictures of the eclipse “taken with JWST,” JWST doesn’t take pictures of the sun and also is a million miles away from Earth and not in the path of totality 🔭🧪

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We kind of his the eclipse jackpot, the cloud made it so much more dramatic.

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fake solar eclipse streams from fake SpaceX channels featuring a fake AI-generated Elon Musk speech filled YouTube today why? to dupe the hundreds of thousands of viewers into falling for a crypto scam of course mashable.com/article/fake...

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Super exciting news from @gatesfoundation.bsky.social BMGF Open Access policy will: End the foundation’s support for individual article publishing fees & Require preprints and advocate their review Huge step towards changing the system

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Internship at the Broad on-site in Cambridge MA! - develop methods to interpret microscopy images - apply deep learning - work at the interface of computer science and biology - ~6 months starting June 2024 - BS/masters/PhD student or recent grad, w USA work permission broad.io/CSInternship

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Cursive Letters xkcd.com/2912

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Monday Mood

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I've lived in Wisconsin for 9 years, and this is the first time that we will have state legislative maps that are not horribly gerrymandered. Forward! www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

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Sphere Tastiness xkcd.com/2893

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BBC: No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland who were given their first dose at age 12-13 years buff.ly/3vKpLNo HPV vaccine stops women in Scotland from getting cervical cancer 🩺🛟#Episky

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‘Scuse me fellas but I’ll be busy fighting the homosexual agenda on a floating island inhabited entirely by virile white men, fashioning a new world for ourselves alone, free of any feminine decadence, our rippling forearms and muscled backs sweaty and gleaming shirtless beneath the tropical sun.

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#academicsky #philsky

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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know. old guy takes long hit on the bong “Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”

submitted 406 days ago • 67 comments

that's not a tweet its a CVS receipt

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Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal media: should shoplifters be executed?

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Gorsuch 'borrows', with examples cited as 'sloppy', and definitely keeps his job, while Claudine Gay 'plagiarizes' and is forced out. The differential treatment of Gorsuch compared to Gay, and the ultimate consequences, are so ridiculously obvious. www.politico.com/story/2017/0...

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Vent Reznor

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Dogs can’t interpret images generated by computerized axial tomography But cats can

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🎵 Take a look, it's my right hook 🎵

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The tax office wants to take away my Australian Business Number if I don't use it. Anyone want some freelance blender animation done for a graphical abstract or something?

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Look sometimes you just need to lock yourself in the lab to get shit done without other people bothering you

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is there a way to install 45-degree mirror (beam splitter) into SM1 Thorlabs tube? Something like:

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😱📣 BlueSky-ers: WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! 🙏 All of you who ever liked a lecture of mine... All of you who liked one of the courses I teach in... All of you I work(ed) with in one way or another... All of you who see my desperation! 😜 PLEASE re-post! 🙏 careers.humantechnopole.it/o/postdoc-in...

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3 articles, Oct 30 Women remain underrepresented in academia www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Toxic workplaces are main reason women leave academic jobs www.nature.com/articles/d41... Women faculty feel pushed from academia by poor workplace climate www.science.org/content/arti... #WomenInStem

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New and improved! The Journal of Neuroscience has relaunched its Journal Club - student authors are now supported by mentors. I know from personal experience that this is a fun and valuable opportunity to get into scientific publishing early on. Read more about it here: bit.ly/NoFeeMentore....

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