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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 16h

Final planning with some of the organisers!

Helena de la Torre is one of our local organisers. Helena studied at University of Glasgow before returning to Universidad Técnica de Ambato in Ecuador.
Discover more about Helena's career: focalplane.biologists.com/2023/07/18/a...
#BiologistsWorkshops

Picture of four people with laptops sitting around a round table with a window to a green space.

View from a window with plants in the foreground and steep mountains rising up behind.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 20h

Baños welcomed us with sunny skies!

One of our Ecuadorian organisers @mariodelr.bsky.social has been a key driving force behind this Workshop.
#BiologistsWorkshops
Learn more about Mario’s career path: focalplane.biologists.com/2023/08/22/a...

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Turku BioImaging @turkubioimaging.bsky.social · 1d

🚀Join Helsinki BioImaging as an Image Analysis Specialist🖥️to support cross-disciplinary image analysis projects. If you love coding and are interested in working at the crossroads of computer science and biology, apply by 🗓️ November 15, 2025⤵️
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
#jobopening

Image Analysis Specialist/Engineer/Coordinator, Helsinki Bioimaging

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Audrey Ferrand @ferrandlab.bsky.social · 1d

🔬 Postdoctoral Opportunity in Biomedical Research. #Organoids & #Organs-on-Chip for #IBD and #Personalized #Medicine at #i2mc in #Toulouse, #France at the crossroads of #stem cell biology, #microphysiological systems, and translational medicine.

👉 Apply before Nov. 1rst at [email protected]

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 1d

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Early career group leaders

We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

www.crick.ac.uk

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This is a maximum intensity projection of depth shaded actin (🌈) in a section from an E9.5 🐭 neural tube (NT). 🔬 by postdoc @christinaadaly.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 🧪 Image shows the floor plate and lumen of the developing NT.

#SciArt #DevBio #DevNeuro

Rainbow shading of a confocal micrograph of a developing mouse neural tube. The protein actin is stained and colored in rainbow to indicate depth in the section.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 1d

Our #FeaturedImage this #FluorescenceFriday was acquired by Aswathy G Krishnan and shows a neural rosette of a cerebral organoid derived from hiPSCs.
In this post, we learn more about the image and Aswathy’s research: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/10/f...

Featured image with Aswathy G Krishnan - FocalPlane

Featured image with Aswathy G Krishnan - News

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 1d

Along with co-organiser @marianadeniz.bsky.social, Constadina (Dina) shared a fantastic interview series on FocalPlane highlighting @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social funded researchers that are passionate about expanding global access to microscopy.

focalplane.biologists.com/2024/01/24/t...

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 1d

After 20 hours of travelling, some dinner with Constadina Arvanitis @camatnu.bsky.social, & a few hours of sleep, we'll be heading to Banos soon!

We were planning to share a picture of the view as we descended into Quito but unfortunately a thick layer of cloud had other ideas.
#BiologistsWorkshops

a blue sky with a lot of clouds moving in it

Alt: a blue sky with a lot of clouds moving in it

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 2d

Sunrise over Spain, next stop Quito!
One of our Workshop organisers @marianadeniz.bsky.social was featured as one of our #100Biologists earlier this year. Mariana is the author of our Latin American Microscopists interview series.
#BiologistsWorkshops
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 2d

It was an early morning POD for the @biologists.bsky.social team heading to Ecuador for our Workshop on ‘Democratising Microscopy in Latin America’. Follow along with us at #BiologistsWorkshops
You can read more about our @biologists.bsky.social Workshops here: www.biologists.com/workshops/

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Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu @bulutkarslioglu.bsky.social · 3d

Our PhD call is open, take a look! (we are not recruiting this round)

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics @molgen.mpg.de · 3d

🚨 Please share! We are seeking motivated PhD students who wish to work at the intersection of molecular life sciences and computational sciences.
#IMPRS #IMPRSBAC @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @maxplanck.de
Check out our projects and apply by Jan 7th, 2026!
www.molgen.mpg.de/IMPRSPhDproj...

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Prakash Lab at Stanford @prakashlab.bsky.social · 4d

Life knows how to keep going - even if it’s freezing -15 degrees C 🥶 outside. AGU just covered our discovery of ultra resistant ice diatoms gliding into a world record! 🧪🔬Enjoy the story here:

eos.org/articles/ice...

Ice Diatoms Glide at Record-Low Temperatures - Eos

New observations reveal how microscopic organisms move through polar ice and illustrate how they may have evolved to thrive in extreme environments.

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 3d

We hear from the Africa Microscopy Initiative about the inaugural PEER call with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social, which saw four refurbished and serviceable research-grade microscopes awarded to research institutes in Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon & Ethiopia.
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/10/07/a...

Africa Microscopy Initiative redistributes research-grade light microscopes to four African institutions - FocalPlane

Africa Microscopy Initiative redistributes research-grade light microscopes to four African institutions - News

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 4d

Hey microscopists! On behalf of @ausbias.org I'd like to invite you to fill in our inaugural survey of how you perform and interface with bioimage analysis in your work! Help shape our society, and help us understand how we can best serve the wider microscopy community! ausbias.org/survey-2025/

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Garcia-Mata Lab @rhopower.bsky.social · 4d

Huge thanks to the incredibly talented Center for Visual Arts students for transforming microscopy images into incredible works of art for Toledo CellulART! Science meets art in the most inspiring way. 🔬❤️🎨 www.toledocellulart.org #SciArt #Microscopy

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 4d

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

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ppbioimaging.bsky.social @ppbioimaging.bsky.social · 3d

🏆 The PPBI Image Contest celebrates the art of science!

🎉 Congratulations to Carina Mónico (CCMAR) for her winning image!

A huge thank-you to everyone who took part.

#PPBI #Microscopy #BioImaging #ScienceArt

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 4d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 3d

Just a reminder about our faculty search at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Applications due Oct. 15. @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social

Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · Aug 27

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 5d

New addition to my thoughts on 🧪 mentoring. Give trainees a seat at the table. Are you going to a conference where you will speak about their work? Encourage them to attend. Are you going to a meeting to discuss their project with a collaborator or editor? Invite them and ask for their input.

Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · Nov 18

Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n

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Viv Goosens @candiedgoose.bsky.social · 5d

Looking forward to an exciting day and the exchange of ideas around Global Bioimaging #GBIxBINA 2025

globalbioimaging.org/exchange-of-...

Exchange of Experience 2025 | Global BioImaging

Applications closed on 7 March 2025 The Program Committee for the EoE2025: Claire Brown (McGill University, Canada) Clara Prats (University of Copenhagen, Denm…

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Cristina Pujades @cristinapujades.bsky.social · 5d

We are hiring ! Interested in understanding how neuronal cell diversity arises? Come and join us @upf.edu for a #PhD #FPI fellowship

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 5d

Hello #molecularbiology #cellbiology #CRISPR people! My student did CRISPRi with transient transfection & sees target knockdown, but 1) the plasmid has no fluorescent marker and 2) the cells refuse to die with antibiotics.
How would you quantify/estimate transfection efficiency?

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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 5d

Fully-funded 4-year PhD Opportunities available at the @crick.ac.uk , including a project in our lab on human #embryomodels Feel free to share with anyone interested, and apply through the online portal before 5th November! 👏

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Moris Lab | Investigating human trunk development using stem cell-based embryo models

www.crick.ac.uk

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