We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis. Institut Pasteur, Image Analysis Hub - 2026

Dear all Below is an announcement for a permanent position as a Research Engineer in the Institut Pasteur, Paris. There is a flyer attached at the bottom. We are looking ideally for a Bioimage An...

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very cool!!

Johannes Soltwedel@jo-soltwedel.bsky.social · last wk.

Just released the napari-clusters-plotter 0.11.0 github.com/BiAPoL/napar..., a little passion-project of mine for interactive exploration of datasets and attached features in @napari.org Two cool things to take note of 👇

We have a lab website! cellmig.org Now fully hosted on GitHub. If you check it out, let me know what you think!

Cell Migration Lab – We study cell migration in health and disease

The Cell Migration Lab in Turku studies cell migration, cancer–vascular interactions and filopodia using microscopy and quantitative image analysis.

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Loic @loicaroyer.bsky.social calls me the fish wizard but he's defintely the imaging wizard 🪄🔮🧙‍♂️ Great thread with tons of eye candy 👇

Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪@loicaroyer.bsky.social · 3w ago

What if any dataset, any size, any number of dimensions, opened in a browser tab from a link? 🔬🧪💻 Luxar is out today: write it in Python, share it as a link, explore it in any browser. Open source. 🧵 @biohub.org Preprint: doi.org/10.5281/zen... Code: github.com/royerlab/luxar

🚨 New preprint from the lab! 🚨 Transcriptomic profiling identifies cellular and molecular transitions during Merkel cell regeneration www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Transcriptomic profiling identifies cellular and molecular transitions during Merkel cell regeneration

Skin exhibits a remarkable capacity for regeneration, which requires the coordinated reconstitution of diverse cell types and structures. Merkel cells are mechanosensory cells that detect gentle touch...

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Very soon, members of the @gdrimabio.bsky.social will fly to Burundi with this suitcase full of microscopes 🔬 + 🩷 --> ✈️ --> 🇧🇮

The Guardian has a great free article on Maps and World projections with beautiful visuals showing how Mercator distorts the world and the need for an equal earth map. (following up on a subject mentioned a few weeks ago for the cartography aficionados :)) www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias

Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display

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🔬🧪 We're hiring postdocs&engineers at Institut de la Vision in AMAZING Paris 🇫🇷!! Join a dynamic team working at the nexus of retina developmental biology, spatial omics & advanced imaging Ambitious science in a supportive & young inclusive team 🚀 DM me for more info & please share 🙏 #academicsky

Great Opportunity for our interuniversity course on advanced microscopy. Please register before the 14th of September www.flandersbioimaging.org/icalm26

Interesting article (in French) on how the Mercator projection misrepresents the world, and the African Union's push to adopt equal earth projection instead. I like the cartography topic, very relevant in Dev Bio, where we want to project a 3D embryo onto a flat map. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

La France abandonne la projection cartographique dite « de Mercator » et demande une représentation du monde plus équitable

Dans le cadre d’un mouvement porté par l’Union africaine, Paris a annoncé, vendredi, abandonner l’utilisation de ce planisphère. Pour respecter la réalité, la place de la France sera désormais plus pe...

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Very cool 🧪

Gaëlle Letort@gaellel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm happy to present our new tool, EpiCure, a napari plugin to ease correction of segmentation and tracking of epithelia movies, developed in @devstempasteur.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 Choanoflagellates reorganize their global cytoskeletal architecture within seconds to explore confined microspaces. This is the main PhD work of the amazing @maitefreired.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A tread 🧵⬇️

Rapid repurposing of microvillar content drives a flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest relative of animals

Animal cells extensively remodel their cytoskeleton during differentiation and can notably switch between two major motility modes: flagellum-based swimming and actin-based crawling. We previously sho...

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Excited to share this fantastic collaboration with the teams of @mhverlhac.bsky.social and @bokelab.bsky.social, where we identify and characterise the Zollo body — a transient RNP compartment that drives oocyte and follicle growth! 🥚🔬 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Do you work with microscopy images and segment to quantify or track? Do you study cell biology? development? Gather round! Let me tell you about FOCUS-3D, a segmentation algorithm that is fast, accurate and can be used on any model. We used it here to study zebrafish development. 🧪 (thread)

FOCUS‑3D: Robust, generalizable volumetric cell segmentation for three‑dimensional fluorescence microscopy

Understanding how cells establish spatial organization within tissues is a fundamental question in life sciences. While modern three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy captures large-volume tissue ar...

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Great to see this one out. Congrats to the @hernanggarcia.bsky.social lab and everyone involved. Happy to have played a small part 🧪

@hernanggarcia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

MS2 in zebrafish @cp-cellsystems.bsky.social! Eck, Moretti and Schlomann, in collaboration with our friends in the of @loicaroyer.bsky.social and Oates labs, discovered that smooth protein oscillations in the segmentation clock are the result of transcriptional pulses: tinyurl.com/hwbf525m

Watching an #eclipse is very special! From Spain and thanks to my dear friend Baptiste for the amazing pictures 🧪🔭

Amazing! Great work congrats 🧪 🔬

Alfred Millett-Sikking@amsikking.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ultrafast 3D imaging just got faster! Introducing: "Instant dual-view Snouty (iDV-Snouty) light-sheet microscopy" -> Double the data rate of a Snouty microscope by adding a 2nd view! Use the extra view for a variety of imaging modes! Article here: amsikking.github.io/idv-snouty_l...

I found a Loic in Paris! Always great to catch up with my friend and mentor @loicaroyer.bsky.social, after 2hours of conversations I'm back in the lab full of motivation and fresh thoughts.

📣 Tracking cells through time – including divisions – is a core problem in live-imaging microscopy. We built HOCT, an edge-centric Transformer that hits state-of-the-art on the Cell Tracking Challenge without a pretrained image encoder. Work led by @jookuma.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2607.11754 🧪🔬💻

1/ 🧬🧪 New preprint! Do you actually need a biology-specific foundation model to predict how cells respond to perturbations? Surprising answer: a general-purpose tabular model - never trained on a single cell - matches or beats the specialists. 🧵 📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.28.735106 @biohub

Great teaming up with MadScientist the for the 2nd place at the trivia 🐟. Thanks to @yorc-ezs-izfs.bsky.social for organising a fun night! #EZM2026

MwahahahahahadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Found Merlin @merlinlange.bsky.social , played some trivia 🐟🧪

🌟 Meet the Scientific Committee: @merlinlange.bsky.social 🌟 Merlin Lange is a member of the Scientific Committee of #EZM2026, and we are thrilled to have them join us in Vienna! Stay tuned to meet the outstanding scientists of EZM2026! 🐟🧬

📢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.

Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - FocalPlane

Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - News

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Silvia Fre lab@frelab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Week-end reading? Check out our new review on development and regeneration of glandular epithelia! With two fantastic co-authors: @robinjournot.bsky.social and @candice-merle.bsky.social ! 🤗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🧬 🧪Our RNA velocity benchmark is out in PLOS Comp Biol We tested 5 methods on mouse & zebrafish data. They often disagree (just 1/100 driver genes shared 😬). A hypothesis tool, not ground truth. Open access 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... Led by the brilliant Sarah Ancheta (not on bsky)

1/11 Excited to share my postdoc work from @schierlab.bsky.social and Rainer Friedrich! 🐟👃 How does the brain decide whether an odor is good or bad? In larval zebrafish, we find that odor preference is reflected in spatially cohesive neuronal domains of the olfactory bulb. 🧵

Accepted 🥳 "We thank reviewer 2 for the constructive suggestions, which helped strengthen the manuscript" 🥶

Merlin Lange@merlinlange.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Me after 2days answering the reviewer 2’s, 34 pages, of “minor comments” (true story)

Excited to share my first PhD project: LabConstrictor 📒🐍 Have you ever created a Jupyter notebook with all your love 🫶, only for others to be unable to install it 🥲? LabConstrictor, comes to solve this! Check out how it works in the preprint 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2603.107... or follow this thread ⬇️

Great work from my ex-colleague and friend @manu-leo.bsky.social Manu and his team are at the forefront of large-scale cell biology! Always publishing beautiful stories and resources for the community. 🧪👇

Manu Leonetti@manu-leo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📣 new preprint multimodal atlas. Imaging + scRNA, 57M cells. 🧬🔬 Cells are complex dynamical systems — but most ways we measure them destroy them. We asked: how does live imaging compare to scRNA-seq, the field’s gold std? The answer surprised us 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Fantastic opportunity in a great environment with a super mentor

Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪@loicaroyer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Want to build some of the most advanced light-sheet microscopes in the world to watch life assemble itself cell by cell? The Royer Lab @ Biohub is hiring an Optical Engineer (Advanced Light Sheet Microscopy). 🧪🔬💻🔧 #Hardware + #Python + Advanced #Optics job-boards.greenhouse.io/biohub/jobs/...