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

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🌞🏃Early call for preprints as I've got the day off on Friday! Let us know what preprints we should be adding to the @focalplane.bsky.social preprint list. This week we're focussing on exciting research that uses microscopy to answer questions in biology. focalplane.biologists.com/tag/preprints/

I was so excited when @manuelthery.bsky.social agreed to write about this project for FocalPlane, but I didn't actually appreciate the scale it! The videos from the museum are incredible but the whole project is so much more. Check it out ⤵️

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · last mo.

Bringing together science & art, @manuelthery.bsky.social & the CytoMorpho lab describe their project on how cells adapt their shape to their environment using the Musée d’Orsay as their template! The full performance was presented over two nights at the museum earlier this year. #sciart #cellbio

I know for a fact that this list is 100% human-generated! For that reason, there are almost certainly some excellent research that I've missed.... Drop me a message if you have any suggestions that I should add to the list.

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · last mo.

📢Check out our latest preprint list on FocalPlane In this list, we focus on the latest tools and techniques in imaging, including sample prep, probes, hardware and software. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/06/26/m... Let us know if you've been reading a preprint that we should add to our list.

The 1% from QED has made for an interesting debate here! My initial thoughts - Highlighting research esp preprints is a good thing - Lists are good, rankings maybe not so much - What does a ranking even mean? - Can the LLM read the figures? Isn’t looking at the data how we evaluate research!?

Come for the beautiful images and stay for technical tips! Thanks to Benita Wolf for writing this fantastic highlight for FocalPlane on one of my favourite papers from 2026.

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · last mo.

🔬🔦In this Imaging spotlight, Benita Wolf and team share their research dissecting the human cytotoxic IS using cryo-ExM. They include their top tips for optimising cryo-ExM, or as they say “(Here are) A few things we learned the hard way that might save others time!” @centriolelab.bsky.social

10/10 no n̶o̶t̶e̶s̶ prompt

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

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It's #preprint list time on @focalplane.bsky.social. This week it's all about #bioimageanalysis. Drop me a message if you have any suggestions of preprints uploaded in the last 6 week.

You can't beat a webinar that not only includes fantastic science but also sheep herding videos, Aardman characters and the tardis!

Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈@anhhle2702.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Woah, the seminar premier really went out with a BANG🎆 because the talks were so interesting. The invited talk by Daniel Cohen was so cool. Using an electric field to promote wound healing in an epithelial layer, and the movies were marvellous 🤩 I love both the curiosity and the application side.

I'm really excited for the 2nd webinar in our new series & I recommend checking out the abstracts from Laura & Sven on FocalPlane! I may also be looking forward to hearing whether it will be @ajcellbio.bsky.social or @joemckenna.bsky.social that will take on the tricky pronunciation of Brillouin!

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Register now for the 2nd webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging, hosted by @ajcellbio.bsky.social & @joemckenna.bsky.social. In this webinar we’ll hear from @laurabacete.bsky.social on Brillouin microscopy & @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social on expansion microscopy. 🗓️16 July, 15:00 BST

It was fantastic to chat with Aníbal about the @lisium-chile.bsky.social initiative and Aníbal’s journey to becoming a light-sheet specialist and project coordinator at Universidad Mayor, Chile.

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our Community Manager @helenzsci.bsky.social chats with Aníbal Vargas Ríos @anvargasr.bsky.social about the LiSIUM initiative, which is democratising access to light-sheet microscopy in Chile and throughout Latin America. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/17/i...

The next deadline for @jcellsci.bsky.social FocalPlane Training Grants is 20 February. These grants are open to early-career researchers in cell biology that require funding to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis training course. www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮. If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index... #Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging @turkubioscience.bsky.social

Laboratory Engineer (Senior), in Advanced Imaging, 1.5.2026-31.12.2028

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The next stop on our ‘Imaging with…’ series is at Unidad de Microscopía Avanzada, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Meet the team (including the microscopes), discover how you can access the facility and learn their pet peeve! focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/15/i...

Imaging with… Unidad de Microscopía Avanzada, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UMA UC) - FocalPlane

Imaging with… Unidad de Microscopía Avanzada, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UMA UC) - News

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Fridays = preprints and #FluorescenceFriday. I'm looking forward to brightening up a cold, rainy day!

🔬🔦Imaging spotlight: Lock-in-SIM Our latest imaging spotlight focusses on structured illumination microscopy, as Wenjie Liu & team present Lock-in-SIM. Check out their post to discover how & why you should try it with your SIM workflow: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/08/i...

Imaging spotlight: Lock-in-SIM - FocalPlane

Imaging spotlight: Lock-in-SIM - Tools

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Wow, what a fantastic line up of instructors! Don't miss this opportunity to learn from some of the best in the business ❤️🔬

Jennifer Waters@jencwaters.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)! An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools. 🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026

The 2023 version of this meeting was fantastic and the 2026 programme promises to be just as brilliant! (I may also be thinking of chatting all thing microscopy in the Spanish sunshine while huddled inside in a cold and snowy Cambridge.) Sign up by Friday 16 Jan for the early-bird discount ⤵️

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Early-bird deadline to join @jcellsci.bsky.social at their meeting on Imaging Cell Dynamics in Spain in May is Friday 16 January. Apply to attend at: biologists.com/meetings/jcs... #JCSimaging

🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)! An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools. 🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026

Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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Amazing research and such a fantastic scicomm video. I'd like to show it to my kids, but I'm afraid that it'll backfire and they'll use it to explain why all the clothes in their cupboards are unfolded despite the fact they were folded when they went in....

Prakash Lab at Stanford@prakashlab.bsky.social · 8mo ago

(1/n) What if you never had to make your bed? What if your laundry could fold itself? Folding is everywhere around us - but did you know that folding flat sheets are at the ❤️ of diversity of shapes in the animal world - since 500 million years ago. Our latest work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudC...

Thanks for catching that background slide, Chris! And thanks for the shout to @the-node.bsky.social, @prelights.bsky.social & @focalplane.bsky.social, Jez. I'm sad to miss the UK membrane trafficking meeting this year, but hope to see you both at @jcellsci.bsky.social imaging meeting next year!

Chris MacDonald@yorkyeast.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Haven’t posted for a while but @jezcarlton.bsky.social opening up the annual UK membrane trafficking meeting #UKMT seems like an appropriate reason to post! Great line up - as ever - with organisers Jez and Chris Stefan introducing a poster session too 🤓

Love this story from @andreamurillo.bsky.social. It was fun to think back to when @em-stp.bsky.social & @jemimaburden.bsky.social taught me EM and I got to play with gold*, sapphire^ and diamond**! I was so excited to get our paper published in JCS, & now I have the pleasure to be part of the team.

The Company of Biologists@biologists.bsky.social · 8mo ago

As we reflect on the past 100 years, one thing becomes clear: the impact we have had on the communities we serve is only possible because of our inspiring and motivated staff. Read more about the people behind the Company here: bit.ly/44nyx2r

Now that's image stitching! My fun discovery this Friday is this montage of 33 electron micrographs in published in @jcellsci.bsky.social in the 1960s. The original measured 3ft square!

Probably the coolest thing I learned at #ABRF was that there is a website called "core in a box" all about starting a core and management. Check it out! www.hopkinsmedicine.org/research/res...

Core in a Box

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#MicroscopyMonday! Join @bioimagingna.bsky.social for a conversation with @clairebrown514.bsky.social as part of our Career Speaker series! Learn More & Register here buff.ly/9nB1qnC

At the end of last year, I was lucky enough to chat with both Jennifer and Manu. Check out these interviews in @jcellsci.bsky.social to find out more about these extraordinary scientists!

Journal of Cell Science@jcellsci.bsky.social · last yr.

Our final plenary session at #biologists100 is on emerging technologies with talks from Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Manu Prakash @prakashlab.bsky.social. You can read our interviews with Jennifer and Manu in JCS: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

We're turning 15 this year🥳The past and present Community Managers got together to chat about what it's like working at the Node, and what they've been doing since: @easternblot.bsky.social @catcvicente.bsky.social @aidanmaartens.bsky.social @helenzsci.bsky.social @joyceyu.bsky.social #biologists100

A conversation with the Node Community Managers, past and present - the Node

To mark the 15th birthday of the Node, the past and present Community Managers of the Node got together to chat about what it's like working at the Node, and how this job has influenced their subseque...

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I always get a little nervous when attending conferences and knowing what to expect helps. We give a few insights into what to expect at #biologists100 & do reach out if you have any qs about the meeting. Also, there's a possibility that I once went to the wrong door at the ACC, so we explain all!!

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · last yr.

Attending #biologists100 in Liverpool? We’ve put together a pre-conference recording together with @the-node.bsky.social and @prelights.bsky.social. And @jens-cells.bsky.social has published a general conference guide on the Node to help you prep! focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/17/b...

It's almost impossible to choose! We're excited to get the images back from the printers, along with something for another little project that our community sites are working on with our conference reporters 😉 for #biologists100.

Jen Annoh@jens-cells.bsky.social · last yr.

A very hard decision 🙈 but choosing a favourite will help them feature at #biologists100!!

@the-node.bsky.social #biologists100 reporter @jens-cells.bsky.social is putting together a conference survival guide. What are your top tips for getting the most out of your conference experience.

Jen Annoh@jens-cells.bsky.social · last yr.

🧪Getting ready for #biologists100; what’s the best way to prepare? 🤔 Conference Survival Guide Needed! 📝 If you could give ONE piece of advice to a first-time attendee, what would it be? Let’s help the newcomers thrive! ✨ #SciComm #ConferenceTips #AcademicLife #AcademicSky @the-node.bsky.social