We'll be heading to Milwaukee next week to chat about #NESM! Board members Stephan Kraemer, from Harvard University's Center for Nanoscale Systems, and Brandy Freitas from syGlass will be there -- if you're going to M&M, come say "hi" in person. 😊 #MM2026 #Microscopy

This is a great example of work that microscopy companies from New England are innovating! @lifecanvastech.bsky.social #syglass

Brandy A Freitas@brandy-syglass.bsky.social · last mo.

🔬 For #3DThursday: a whole cleared mouse embryo imaged with DALISPIM from @lifecanvastech.bsky.social A theme from #FOM2026 + #ELMI2026 was that light microscopy innovation can come from rethinking imaging geometries, in this case an open-top inverted #lightsheet. 🎬: #syGlass v2.6.0

🔬 For #MicroscopyMonday, a live Philodina roseola rotifer captured with Polychromatic Polarization Microscopy by Michael Shribak & Irina Arkhipova at @mblscience.bsky.social PPM reveals fine anatomy in this tiny freshwater invertebrate. #Microscopy #Bioimaging #NESM #Evident

Bluesky: 🔬🪸 For #MicroscopyMonday: live Astrangia poculata (Northern Star Coral) imaged at MBL by Michael Shribak and Loretta Roberson. Captured in true color on an Olympus IX81 with Polychromatic Polarization Microscopy, revealing optical details that appear white under standard microscopy. #NESM

🌊🦠 Meet Leonardo Villacís, PhD student in Dr. Jasmine Saros’s lab and selected speaker from the #NESM Spring Symposium! His #SEM image of Aulacoseira subarctica, a spring-blooming diatom from northern Maine lakes, helps reveal how warming may be reorganizing aquatic ecosystems. @umaine.bsky.social

📣 #NESM Spring Symposium keynote (THIS FRIDAY!): Tirzah Abbott ☄️ SEM + NA-TKD to reveal nanoscale transformations in a shocked meteorite, multiple pathways of ringwoodite & wadsleyite under extreme conditions. Join us: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-... #Microscopy #SEM #PlanetaryScience

Core Tour for the #NESM Spring Symposium! 🔬 Join April 10 for a virtual visit to the SCOPE Lab at UMass Chan Med @umasschan.bsky.social with Christina Baer. 🐟Featuring MERFISH data, Schafer lab. @vizgen.bsky.social @scope-umasschan.bsky.social Register: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-...

Happy #3DThursday from Sweden! 🇸🇪 This Thy-1 mouse brain was the crowd favorite at Focus on Microscopy this year 🐭 🔬: Zeiss Lightsheet Z.1 🥼: Chih-Wei Logan Hsu @cwloganhsu.bsky.social 🏛️: Baylor College of Medicine 🎬: syGlass, v2.6.0 #FOM2026 #syGlass #Microscopy @scilifelab.se

⭐ Meet our first #NESM Spring Symposium Keynote: Zak Swartz! @zakswartz.bsky.social 📸: Live sea star oocyte 🟨 microtubules | 🟪 actin 🔬: Nikon / Yokogawa W1 spinning disk 🥼: Beverly Naigles 🌐: www.theswartzlab.org 🏛️: Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social #MicroscopyMonday

Tour of the Core for the #NESM Spring Symposium! 🔬 Join us April 10 for a virtual visit to the Microscopy Core Lab at UMass Lowell with Anna Maria Routsi. Featuring HR-TEM imaging from Sangmin Jeong (Ross Lab). Register: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-... #MicroscopyMonday #Microscopy #TEM

🦋 Butterfly wings form from invisible developmental boundaries long before their colors appear.🏆Congrats to Gabby Jerz, Poster Winner from the #NESM Fall Symposium and Lab Manager in the Patel Lab at the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social. 🔬 Zeiss LSM880 #MicroscopyMonday #Bioimaging #DevBio

📣 Announcing our #NESM Spring Symposium — April 10 (virtual & free!) We’re building an exciting lineup across the life & physical sciences. Interested in giving a talk? Submit your abstract by March 25 🗓️ Register: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2026-spring-... #Microscopy #Bioimaging

GORGEOUS data from Laura Smithson for #MicroscopyMonday! 🏆 Our #NESM Fall Symposium Poster Winner (Brown Univ., de Graffenried Lab) used customized #FIB-SEM to reconstruct the T. brucei cytoskeleton at 4 nm res — 9,000+ images & 660 GB. @brown.edu @aicjanelia.bsky.social #Microscopy #VolumeEM #EM

📢 Calling the #NESM community! We’re coming up on a year of sharing incredible microscopy data — and we want you to be part of it 🔬✨ Submit your work and we’ll feature it in future posts. 📩 Submit here: forms.gle/5bApb3RTVoA1... #Microscopy #ScienceCommunication #Imaging

For #MicroscopyMonday, meet Rylie Walsh — Imaging Specialist at @mblscience.bsky.social and longtime board member. Our Director of Biological Sciences, she is passionate about helping scientists design #microscopy experiments, and is excited by all things #VolumeEM! 🔬 @ryliewalsh.bsky.social #NESM

For #MicroscopyMonday, meet our #NESM President, Jaqulin! She studies how alpha-synuclein affects synapses in sea lamprey at @mblscience.bsky.social, and is passionate about microscopy education & outreach. 🔬: @jeolusa.bsky.social 120i TEM 🐍: Sea lamprey reticulospinal synapse 🥼: Jaqulin Wallace

The Allen Mouse Brain Atlas is a cornerstone of #neuroscience: a standardized, high-resolution map of brain anatomy built to keep experiments comparable across labs. 🧠 Here’s a 3D walk through its anatomical meshes in #syGlass! @alleninstitute.org #3DThursday #DataViz #VR

For today’s #MicroscopyMonday, meet our #NESM President-elect, Harry Cramer! The Assistant Director of Cellular Imaging Core at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harry brings deep expertise in multiphoton microscopy, training, and community-driven science. 🔬🧠 @bostonchildrens.bsky.social

Introducing #NESM Treasurer Jennifer Misuraca for #MicroscopyMonday! Jennifer is FESEM Product Manager at #JEOL USA, supporting applications, training, and demos. She joined the NESM board in 2016 and became Treasurer in 2024. 📸 SEM of bacteriophage on a JEOL FESEM, Joseph Stukey at Hope College

Happy Holidays from NESM!

Brandy A Freitas@brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎄 A canonical visualization dataset, revisited! This #CT Christmas tree (2001) became a classic for teaching & benchmarking volume rendering. I’ve brought it into #syGlass to explore how far #3Dvisualization has come — same data, new method. 🔬 #3DThursday Story: www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/page/xmas/

For #MicroscopyMonday, we’re excited to welcome Katie Shulenberger as NESM’s newest Director of Physical Sciences! 🎉 An Asst. Prof. of Chemistry at @brandeis.edu, Katie develops spectroscopic methods to study semiconductor nanomaterials and photophysics. #NESM #Spectroscopy #Nanomaterials

Another #MicroscopyMonday intro! Meet Emma Perry, the #NESM Clerk from UMaine @umaine.bsky.social . She manages electron & confocal microscopes at UMaine and studies Maine/NE USA tardigrade biogeography & taxonomy. 📸 Maine tardigrade: Viridiscus perviridis 🔬Amray 1820, CORE #ElectronMicroscopy Lab.

The New England Society for Microscopy is heartbroken by the tragic shooting at Brown University. Academic and research spaces should be safe places to learn, teach, and experiment. We mourn the victims, stand with the Brown community, and are deeply angered by this senseless act of violence.

Introducing another #NESM board member for #MicroscopyMonday — Ben Muller, Director of Physical Sciences! He works across surface metrology, microfluidics, thin films, and micro/nanofabrication. He just defended his PhD! 🎉 📸 SEM of modified EGaIn sphere contacts (Harvard CNS). #SEM #Nanotechnology

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Meet our new Director of Biological Sciences, Mark Scimone, a UNH professor whose work spans neuroscience, optics, and image analysis. He brings experience from Boston Children’s and PSI, plus a passion for microscopy education. #NESM #SEM 📸: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! This week we're spotlighting Brandy Freitas, our Director of Media and Outreach at #NESM.👏 @brandy-syglass.bsky.social Brandy is the Director of Data Science at #syGlass, and here is a video of #3Ddata from C Wolff the MBL @mblscience.bsky.social 🔬 #BioImaging #SciComm

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! 🧫 This week we're spotlighting Andy Stone, our immediate past-president at #NESM. 👏 @andystoneimaging.bsky.social Andy leads the Brandeis light microscopy core and is a powerhouse in the imaging community—from BINA to NESM and RMS. 🎥🔬 #LightSheet #BioImaging #STEM

This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a time lapse 3D printing of a mini microscope from the MakerLab at Brandeis University. 🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab #MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting

We're up in Gloucester today for the 10th Annual GMGI Science Forum! #NESM #GMGI

Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday from one of our upcoming keynote speakers! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy... 🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist 🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging 🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm