Science named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about last year's #BOTY on #WorldEnvironmentDay: https://scim.ag/4pbMoAv

Smartphone-based super resolution🔬 Microscopes are generally costly equipment, limiting availability in remote areas Can we make a high-quality microscope cheaply? This paper makes that vision more real tinyurl.com/defxwzjf With a cost below 350 euros, it delivers single-molecule sensitivity

Microscopy building day 7-9 First images and final checks We finally have a working microscope 🔬 After installing the camera, we tackled hardware software communications using @micro-manager.bsky.social Then we performed usual checks: 1) fluorescent marker 2) scale bar 3) bead solution (PSF)

We have a new review out! In this Microscopy & Microanalysis piece, Louisa Mezache and I survey some of the latest commercially available microscope technologies: Nikon NSPARC, Re-scan Gaia, CSR Biotech MI-SIM, refinements to STED, SMLM from Bruker and Abbelight… Check it out with free access:

Advancing Super-Resolution Microscopy: Recent Innovations in Commercial Instruments

Abstract. Super-resolution microscopy techniques have accelerated scientific progress, enabling researchers to explore cellular structures and dynamics wit

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A universal AI-powered pipeline enables precise 3D analysis of cell morphology and topology within organoid structures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I never imagined I would see something like this happen to federally funded research in the US. I am heartbroken for all the researchers whose grants have been terminated and devastated for all the patients whose current (and future) treatments are being impacted 🧪 💔

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Current situation at Harvard Medical School for NIH grants view.u.hms.harvard.edu?qs=3ed8c01b9...

How we analyze porous network @rochalab.bsky.social 🔬🧪 1) Adaptive thresholding 2)Distance map calculation 3)Watershed transformation 4)Quantification 5)3D rendering Code : github.com/BorisLouis/S... Paper: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #Microscopy #Optics #SciComm #ImageProcessing

An interesting article from Microscopy and Analysis (by Wiley Analytical science)🧪🔬 Useful checklist if you are looking to build a new optical system or currently improving one ! analyticalscience.wiley.com/content/arti...

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

🧙‍♂️𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 🔬 🧪 Meet our latest creation @hofkenslab.bsky.social and @rochalab.bsky.social labs: A fully custom upright microscope built entirely from scratch, with no microscope body and no commercial frame. #Optics #SciComm #Microscopy

𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮 🔦⚔️ On this Star Wars Day, I revisited Hacksmith Entertainment Ltd. impressive attempt at creating a real-life lightsaber. If you are into starwars and science, you will probably have seen it ! youtube.com/clip/UgkxTLb...

This looks awesome! A new open source optical design software! 😱 Has anyone used it? Is it good? 😁 optiland.readthedocs.io/en/latest/in...

Having both high resolution structural information 🔬and functional information 🧪 (in this case, tension) is very challenging, very cool work! #Microscopy #optics

Isaac Li@isaacli.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out our recent progress using 🧬 PAINT kinetics to decode molecular tension in super-resolution force imaging! 🔬 Great team effort from Seongho, Adam, Irving, and Kevin! 👏 #DNA-PAINT #tension #integrin #superresolution #adhesion doi.org/10.1002/advs...

🔬Interested in imaging in energy science ?🔬 Chemical & Biomedical Imaging, a new journal from @acs.org, invited us for a special issue on 🔬𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 ☀️ ⚡ 🧪 And we made the cover ! 🎊 Thanks to @alexeychizhik.bsky.social for the amazing design #Microscopy #Optics #SciComm

This week on the Nature Podcast: In the face of massive upheaval, what is the long-term outlook for science in the US and beyond? https://go.nature.com/4k0pdH6

The dismantling of US science: can it survive Trump 2.0?

Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 30 April 2025

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𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 @spie.org 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 + 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐬 🔬 🧪 I’ve been invited to give a talk in San Diego (US) in August this year! 🔬 If you are attending, I would love to connect arxiv.org/abs/2503.23839 #Microscopy #Optics #SciComm

🔧 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 – 𝐃𝐚𝐲 #𝟐 🔬🧪 ✅ First, we used the reference laser to project a perfect vertical line through the center of the objective holder. We marked a target on the ceiling for future alignments, an easy trick to save time later #Optics #Microscopy #SciComm

🔧 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 🔬 🧪 How do you ensure the optics are aligned straight when building a microscope? For lasers, I often use diaphragms, but again, how do you ensure they are at the exact same height and lateral position? #Optics #Microscopy #SciComm

Harvard scientist Dr. Donald Ingber, who works where medicine and engineering meet, saw federal funding for some of his projects frozen this week as his university clashed with the administration of US President Donald Trump reut.rs/4jkmrfY

Science caught in crossfire of Trump's fight with universities

Scientists see long-term negative impacts on a tradition of partnerships between the government and university researchers dating back to World War Two.

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Interesting for those willing to learn how to build microscopes 🧪🔬 #Microscopy #Optics

Nature Protocols@natprot.nature.com · last yr.

Today we share our Collection on protocols describing how to build and operate a broad variety of microscopy setups. Let us know which one is your favourite microscope? 🧪 🔬

🔬 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬 – 𝐃𝐚𝐲 #𝟏 🔬 Exciting times in @rochalab.bsky.social and @hofkenslab.bsky.social Lab !🧪We're restarting to build microscopes, and I decided to guide two PhD students (Steven Huysecom and Toon Van Roy) through the process. #Microscopy #optics #SciComm #sts

First invited talk... and I missed my flight 😅✈️ What a wild 72h from 🇧🇪 to 🇸🇬! Grateful to the organizers who reshuffled things so I could still speak — and even more shocked (and honored!) to get a prize for young speakers. 🔬🧪 Academia is a rollercoaster😅 Singapore, you were stunning 🌿💚

🔬Unveiling charge carrier fate in Solar cell materials with CLIM2.0🔬🧪 Published in ACS Chemical & Biomedical Imaging (@pubs.acs.org,@acs.org) 💡Read more: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Collaboration: Tokyo tech & KU Leuven (@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social) #Perovskites #SolarCells #imaging #optics

Looking for a high-throughput characterization tool for your thin films (perovskite, polymer)? We developed a luminescence-based method! Guide to the page pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @hofkenslab.bsky.social @borislouis.bsky.social #MSCActions #Perovskite #ThinFilms #Materials #imaging

Unveiling the Local Fate of Charge Carriers in Halide Perovskite Thin Films via Correlation Clustering Imaging

As the field of metal halide perovskites matures, a range of compositionally different perovskite films has found a place in efficient optoelectronic devices. These films feature variable local struct...

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Amazing week at Göttingen University in Prof. @joergenderlein.bsky.social Lab with Toon & @sudiptaseth.bsky.social ! 🔬 We performed high-res imaging of optoelectronic materials & collected 200GB+ of data! Thanks to Oleksii Nevskyi & @nradmacher.bsky.social for their help we’ll be back! 🚀

🔬Transforming local intensity fluctuations in solar cells into information with CLIM🔬 Borrowing principles of AI and super-resolution optical microscopy, 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌 provide structural and functional information in photo-active materials. Read more here: doi.org/10.1002/adma... 🧐 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤?

Scientists say "good science takes time"—it took us almost 4 years, in fact! Introducing CLIM: A gateway to explore the inner workings of solar cells & delve into local photophysics. @hofkenslab.bsky.social @vaynzof.bsky.social @borislouis.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In Operando Locally‐Resolved Photophysics in Perovskite Solar Cells by Correlation Clustering Imaging

Correlation clustering imaging (CLIM) exploits local intensity fluctuations observed by fluorescence microscopy in metal-halide perovskite films and their solar cells to generate novel contrasts unco...

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The Correlation Clustering Imaging (CLIM) method developed with @sudiptaseth.bsky.social @hofkenslab.bsky.social, Scheblykin lab, had two milestones last week: 1) Science and innovation award (KU leuven) 2) Accepted in Advanced materials You can read about it here, meanwhile: doi.org/10.26434/che...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Altmetric@altmetric.com · 2y ago

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

🔬 Nanoparticles flocking like birds! Core-shell nanoparticles (200 nm gold, 100 nm silica) swarm under laser irradiation, mimicking flocking birds! 🐦 Rotate them by changing light polarization. Learn more in our latest paper @acspublications.bsky.social : pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...