📢 Superhappy to announce that I've been awarded a 2.5M€ @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for the project "KALEIDOSCOPE - metasurface-based brain observatories" 🥳🔬 🧠 🐟🥳 📢. The grant will support starting my lab ( voigt-lab.org ) at @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Starting Grants 2026: Examples of projects

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awarding of 421 Starting Grants to outstanding early-career researchers across Europe, as part of the Horizon Europe programme. To illustrate the ...

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Tomorrow, August 31 at 4 pm CEST, the XENON Collaboration will host a live presentation about new findings from the XENONnT experiment. You can learn more at agenda.infn.it/event/53372/. Please note that registration is required for the event!

Interested in image analysis and a service role in a dynamic and growing facility? Come and joy our image analysis team! Feel free to reach out for any questions or doubts. ista.ac.at/en/job/?titl...

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🚨 Now out in @aaas.org Science Advances 🚨: aDISCO: a protocol for clearing & antibody-staining human formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue by Anna Maria Reuss! 🧠🔬#lightsheet #Microscopy @mesospim.bsky.social @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Microscopy Nodes 3.1 is out for Blender 5.2! 🎉 This has cool new features for conditional masking, working with even larger data (regional upscaling), and data manipulation! Watch the new youtube tutorials that explain the features: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

New features in the latest #mesoSPIM - control release: - group tiles and channels the way you like. Adjust acquisition parameters for many tiles at once. - record timelapse, eg for light-sheet imaging of live organisms (embryos and plants). Because why not? 1/2

At the next #NGFFCafe, Marvin Albert (ETH Zurich) will present 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄-𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿, a Python package for scalable stitching/alignment/fusion of multi-view, tiled & multimodal image acquisitions. Join us! 🗓️ Thursday, July 30 🕚️ 11 am CEST 📍 Online Register⤵️ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🚨 New Preprint! 🚨: A new method for quantifying #tissue #clearing and a next-get #lightsheet #Microscope - the #mesoSPIM ultra by Marko Pende, @jcregg.bsky.social, @murawalalab.bsky.social @mdibl.org & many more! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Github: github.com/mesoSPIM/mes...

Looking forward to #FENS2026 next week in Barcelona! I will present a poster on effects of locus coeruleus and arousal on astrocytes and neurons in hippocampus: PS06-09PM-201 PhD student Shinjini Ghosh will present a poster on a Theremin-based auditory virtual environment for mice: PS04-08PM-568

Want to learn about converting data into OME-Zarr and the design choices behind different tools built for it? Join the Open Bioimaging Practices Meeting tomorrow: Tuesday, June 30th 2026, 4pm CEST. Learn more about the event here: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up... (1/3 🧵)

Open Bioimaging Practices Meetup June 30th 2026

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Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]

See my original blog post on the situation, featuring @sholtodavid.bsky.social's initial observation of something being afoot: reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 450 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

We present: Index-agnostic oblique plane light sheet microscopy of centimetre-scale cleared tissues at subcellular resolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hello #world, meet 1,000× Expansion Microscopy. A small gel would grow to the size of an Olympic swimming pool, while amino-acid-scale distances become visible with ordinary light microscopy. Led by Helena Hu from @eboyden3.bsky.social's lab, in collab with us. Story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨New Lab Alert!🚨 Superhappy to announce that I will start my lab combining photonics & neuroscience at the Max Planck Center for Physics & Medicine in Erlangen & @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social in January 2027! Reach out if you're interested in internships, BSc, MSc & PhD & postdoc projects!

It's out! Happy to present ITEC, a semi supervised algorithm with an extremely low error rate that can track cells in files of any size (think Terabytes!). We used it in many organisms, including zebrafish, to study how organs form and linked it to gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... +🧪

The 35th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony held in Boston in September 2025 will be the last in the United States—at least for now. This year, the beloved spoof on science Nobel Prizes will take place in Zürich, kicking off a potentially permanent change to European-hosted ceremonies. https://scim.ag/4siO2lS

After 35 years, Ig Nobel ceremony to leave the U.S.

Finances and Trump policies underlaid the decision to move the satirical science event to Switzerland

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SeeDB-Live is a tissue-clearing approach for live tissue slices or brains, improving image quality while having minimal effects on electrophysiological properties of neurons. @imailab.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Isotonic and minimally invasive optical clearing media for live cell imaging ex vivo and in vivo - Nature Methods

SeeDB-Live is a tissue-clearing approach for live samples such as tissue slices or the in vivo brain. It improves image quality while having minimal effects on electrophysiological properties of neuro...

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How do fish localize sound without interaural cues? @johve.bsky.social et al. found a behavioral algorithm for directional hearing that predicts behavior from a pressure/motion phase comparison and accounts for how this relationship varies with distance. www.cell.com/current-biol...

An algorithm underlying directional hearing in fish

Veith et al. show how a fish—Danionella cerebrum—can reliably startle away from sound. It uses the relative phase between particle motion and pressure to infer the direction of sound. This sensorimoto...

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Myself and @immunoah.bsky.social are looking to hire a postdoctoral scientist to build a next-generation high-throughput high-resolution light sheet microscope for imaging entire cleared organs/tissues and to further develop live & fixed tissue clearing methods. www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Interested in instrument development & optical microscopy? Join @immunoah.bsky.social & @jamesdmanton.bsky.social developing high-throughput light sheet microscopy to image entire tissues & progressing tissue clearing methods www.nature.com/naturecareer... Closes 07 APR #PostdocJobs #neuroimmunology

Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks to AI, the comprehensive #mesoSPIM-control documentation is finally here 🎇 mesospim.github.io/mesoSPIM-con...

Looking for a PhD position at the intersection of AI, imaging, and gene therapy? Apply for this position in my lab: tinyurl.com/2a2v6tvx Part of sfb1690.uni-goettingen.de to study hearing, vision, and more. Plus, you can create pretty pictures as the one below :).

Writers for the Superman, Star Trek, and Mission Impossible franchises all dreamed up the idea of storing libraries of data in glass. Now, Microsoft researchers say they are bringing this vision closer to reality. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4cZ9aJd

If your imaging system has poorly characterized constant distortions leading to chromatic aberration, shoddy stitching, or false measurements (the answer is likely yes), you may want to give this tool a try. Native installers for Linux, Mac, Win under Releases github.com/saalfeldlab/...

GitHub - saalfeldlab/lens-correct: Correcting lens-distortion in confocal stacks

Correcting lens-distortion in confocal stacks. Contribute to saalfeldlab/lens-correct development by creating an account on GitHub.

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In @elife.bsky.social: A high-resolution, easy-to-build light-sheet microscope for subcellular imaging doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

A high-resolution, easy-to-build light-sheet microscope for subcellular imaging

An accessible light-sheet microscope delivers subcellular-resolution, multicolor volumetric, and live-cell imaging, lowering barriers to state-of-the-art performance.

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We have two funded postdoctoral positions available. Topics encompass: -Next gen light-sheet fluorescence microscopy instrumentation -Structured illumination microscopy and other approaches to extend the resolution limit. -Nonlinear microscopy combined with adaptive optics / phase conjugation

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