Collecting recent-ish papers for a Cell Bio 101 course I'm teaching this fall. Ideally microscopy-driven breakthroughs that are also experimentally elegant and well written. Any favourites I should check out? 🔬
FocalPlane
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FocalPlane is a community site for anyone with an interest in microscopy. Hosted by Journal of Cell Science (@jcellsci.bsky.social) and The Company of Biologists (@biologists.bsky.social). https://focalplane.biologists.com/
🌱🎥The recordings from the second webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging are now available. Check out the presentations from Laura Bacete @laurabacete.bsky.social and Sven Truckenbrodt @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/08/05/f...
FocalPlane features… Laura Bacete and Sven Truckenbrodt - FocalPlane
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📣 #JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a position as Head of the Life Imaging Center (LIC) – the core facility for light microscopy. ❗ Application Deadline: 6 September, 2026 🔗 kurzlinks.de/2126 #Biology #LightMicroscopy #Imaging
PLEASE SHARE! New job openings in my lab @zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social. We have a broad interest into the mechanistic basis of how molecular complexes are rewired during cellular development in plants and during invasion by pathogens. 🌱🍄🔬 See details below 👇 #PlantSciJobs
Booking is OPEN for Frontiers in BioImaging 2026! Sessions will span technical developments in light and electron microscopy, advances in image analysis and data interpretation, and biological applications across scales. Register now: https://ow.ly/ZN3950Zuj9j
Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Fellows! ASCB is proud to recognize 15 scientists whose careers have advanced cell biology through outstanding research, leadership, mentorship & service. Meet the 2026 Fellows: https://www.ascb.org/society-news/fifteen-visionary-scientists-named-2026-ascb-fellows/
With most 1st-year PhD students starting graduate programs this month, it seemed like a good time to address the most important dilemma faced by many incoming PhD students—how to choose rotation labs. Although perhaps obvious to those with experience, many of the key factors are often overlooked.
Choosing rotations and a dissertation lab - Help, I'm a Scientist!
By David Fay Choosing a lab in which to carry out your PhD is admittedly one of the more important decisions you’ll make in your early scientific career. But it’s important to have some perspective. F...
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We have a postdoc position available in the lab and would like to spread the word. Please apply if you are interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Associate (Fixed Term)
We seek a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the laboratory of Professor Kathy Niakan. We are based in the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (LCTR), in the Department of Physi...
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#AQLM Series🧵: Microscopy Mistakes -- oh, FRAP! What happens after a #fluorescent molecule is bleached with a laser? In FRAP #microscopy, the recovery itself is the measurement. 🔬 📸 @3i Intelligent Imaging Innovations on the Marianas platform; 63× objective and a Photometrics Prime 95B camera. (1/7)
Don't miss out! Register and submit your abstract now until 30 September for the EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum #EYSF2026 taking place in Dubrovnik, #Croatia, 28–30 October 2026! 🧪 https://event.fourwaves.com/eysf #LifeSciences #EarlyCareerResearchers
We're hiring 4 postdocs at @unibo.it to study nervous system evolution. Seeking expertise in single-cell genomics, molecular or developmental biology in ctenophores, cnidarians, echinoderms, flies or human stem cells. 2+2 yrs contract. Deadline: 26 Aug. Please share! bandi.unibo.it/s/apos7/proc...
Procedura di valutazione comparativa per titoli e colloquio per il conferimento di n. 4 contratti di ricerca presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali - SSD BIOS-04/A - GSD...
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I will be opening my research group at the Max Delbrück Center later this year to unravel the principles governing the unique context sensing capacity of the liver www.mdc-berlin.de/schwayer and am looking for enthusiastic PhD applicants.
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The mammalian liver possesses a regenerative capacity that is unmatched by any other organ. Following injury, liver epithelial cells can proliferate or even change their identity, enabling the organ t...
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Our featured image on #MicroscopyMonday was acquired by Saheli Roy. “Since the fly reproductive system depicted in this image has structural similarity with other macro objects like artichokes & unbloomed lotus flowers, I titled the image, Flowers from a fever dream, or a fly’s bursting ovaries?”
Featured image with Saheli Roy - FocalPlane
Featured image with Saheli Roy - News
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📢🚨 FAIRyfying Microscopy Data does not need to feel sisyphean. Talk to your local Data Steward or image analyst. They are fountains of knowledge zenodo.org/records/2085.... Also, please see our latest public data set on the Bioimage Archive: www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/b... Publication out soon 🎉
How do tissues safely remove cells? Join me, @marija-matejcic.bsky.social in this perspective on the past, present and future of epithelial cell extrusion 🧵 0/16
And if video isn't your thing, he's also given us a great blog-post writeup which is now live on our website! ausbias.org/blog/2026/07...
From cell segmentation to ancient scrolls, and back again
Over the summer I worked on a Kaggle competition run by the Vesuvius Challenge, using tools designed for cell segmentation on 2000-year-old papyrus. I finished in the top 9%, 113th of 1391 teams. It w...
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In a talk out of left field for us, this Month's AusBIAS meeting was @pradeepr.bsky.social taking us back to Ancient Rome to investigate whether image anlaysis can help read scrolls that haven't been read for nearly two thousand years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPtS...
AusBIAS July 2026 - Pradeep Rajasekhar
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as usual super interesting, my little darling among super interesting papers : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
LiFT: Live foci tracking for quantitative analysis of DNA damage dynamics
Quantitative analysis of radiation induced DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) and their repair is essential for understanding and eventually contributing to improving radiation-based cancer therapies. Us...
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · last wk.ICYMI: Our preprint list covering the latest research in bioimage analysis is now up on FocalPlane. Let us know if you have any recommendations! focalplane.biologists.com/2026/07/24/m...
ICYMI: Our preprint list covering the latest research in bioimage analysis is now up on FocalPlane. Let us know if you have any recommendations! focalplane.biologists.com/2026/07/24/m...
Microscopy preprints: bioimage analysis - FocalPlane
Microscopy preprints: bioimage analysis - News
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Recently we were trying to change the colour of superfolder GFP and accidentally engineered a great probe for expansion microscopy! Read about it in our first micropublication - lnkd.in/eCxYcCJZ
Do you want to learn more about OME-Zarr viewers, where they stand today and what's being developed at the moment? On August 24th at 4pm CEST, we will hear about 3 different OME-Zarr viewers and user stories for each. www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up... (1/5 🧵)
Open Bioimaging Practices Meetup August 2026
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This isn’t getting enough attention: @amjeve.uk is pairing each talk at #2026SDB with Pokémon that highlight the topic! So creative and fun 🤩 #scicomm
Alex Eve@amjeve.uk · 2w agoGareth also asks about the evolutionary origin of teeth, studying tooth-clad head clubs (tenaculum) in chimaeras: ghost sharks, fossil evidence and elephant sharks, which are distantly related to sharks. This #2026SDB talk's #PokemonPartner is Gibble the Land Shark Pokemon.
Our Executive Editor, @amjeve.uk, and Community Manager for @the-node.bsky.social, @andreamurillo.bsky.social, are in Las Vegas now for #2026SDB. Drop by @biologists.bsky.social booth #20 to speak to them and pick up your freebies. Sign up for news for one of our coasters or a charging adapter.
🤩🤩🤩It was a pleasure & a lot of fun, as always, to work with @jcellsci.bsky.social on this - congratulations on a fantastic issue all about the #nucleus 😎😎😎
Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · 2w agoWe spoke to Kate @katemiro.bsky.social about her ‘random walk’ into cellular biophysics, how AI might uncover links between nuclear morphodynamics and cell fate hiding in plain sight, and fishing for crayfish as a child growing up in Kazakhstan. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
We are sponsoring Cell Death UK 2026 🗓️ 2 October 2026 📍Edinburgh Register new: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cell-death...
🚨🚨Final reminder for abstract submission deadline next Tuesday (28th)! Please RT 🙏
Jonny Nixon-Abell@abelljonny.bsky.social · 7mo ago‼️🚨Hi all! The next Bioc Soc Membrane Contact Site Meeting will be in Chepstow, UK 28-30th Sept 2026. Fantastic speakers with talk slots still available. Sign up & abstract submission now open - limited spaces so register early! Hope to see you all there. Please share + RT 🙏
🔬 Great article about the 2nd edition of "Intro to Image Analysis with Python for Life Scientists" run simultaneously across 4 sites (Sweden, Portugal, UK, Czechia) via @eurobioimaging.bsky.social EVOLVE project. 120+ applicants, 28 countries, 98% rated it 4-5⭐️ Link below👇
Our NIH funded PREP postbaccalaurate program just got renewed! PREP is fully funded postbac program for recent graduates interested in pursuing a PhD in biomedical research. Applications are open for a start date of this Fall. prep.ku.edu/apply
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New JCS snapshot - A ULK1–MTFR1L feedback loop links mitochondrial fission, mitophagy and apoptosis @riccardobabic.bsky.social, Leon Lucya & Christoph Reiter present the key findings from their JCS paper with Claudine Kraft & team @kraftlabfr.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Looking forward to the #2026SDB Satellite Symposium, 'Decoding the Human Embryo: Dissecting Developmental Processes in Our Species'. If you're interested in human development, register for @dev-journal.bsky.social and HDBI's meeting #HumanDev26. But be quick – registration closes tomorrow!
DEVHDBI2026: Human Development: Stem Cells, Models, Embryos
For 2026, the journal has teamed up with the Wellcome-funded consortium the Human Developmental Biology Initiative (HDBI) to co-organise this event.
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