Andy Stone
@andystoneimaging.bsky.social
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Light Microscopy Facility Manager @ Brandeis University. President, New England Society for Microscopy. Formerly University of York and Boston Children's Hospital. Can be found looking through binoculars, a camera or a microscope.
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Come join us at Brandeis for the NESM Fall symposium! Some exciting speakers and workshops to be announced soon. Also looking for vendors and research abstract submissions!
nesmicroscopy.bsky.social
A #NESM Save the Date for #MicroscopyMonday! We're happy to announce our in-person Fall Symposium will be held at Brandeis University @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social November 6th & 7th. We're looking for #poster and oral presentations and #abstract submission opens soon!
www.nesmicroscopy.org
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michelleitano.bsky.social
Calling all core facilities 🎉- Timely 'Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025: A Town Hall virtual Forum' 16th June.
A joint @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social and @msa-microscopy.bsky.social meeting that welcomes all.

See - www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025: A Town Hall Webinar
www.rms.org.uk
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For #MicroscopyMonday, a 100M year-old 🦟 in amber! Lots of familiar #NESM faces up in Acadia for the #LSFM25 at the MDI @mdibiolab.bsky.social !

🔬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM
🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection
🥼&🎥: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social

@lsfm-na.bsky.social
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For #MicroscopyMonday: 3D reconstructions of lamprey reticulospinal synapses
🐉: Petromyzon marinus
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, @mblscience.bsky.social
🔬: JEOL JEM-200CX, MBL’s Central Microscopy Facility
📄: doi.org/10.1091/mbc....

#Neurodegeneration #ElectronMicroscopy #MBL #Microscopy #Parkinsons #NESM
Side-by-side TEM images and 3D reconstructions of lamprey synapses. Control shows dense synaptic vesicles and organized structure; high pS129 alpha-synuclein shows dispersed vesicles and disrupted architecture.
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"Rising from Chaos" #MicroscopyMonday: an active system of microtubules, kinesin motors and actin filaments.

🔬: Resonant Scanning Nikon AX-R Confocal
🥼: Quang Tran of the Fraden Lab, MRSEC, @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social
🏛️: www.brandeis.edu/science/reso...
📩: [email protected]
andystoneimaging.bsky.social
I've weened myself down to 3 a day...
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Underway with the @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social Spring Symposium - Not too late to register and join us on the Zoom www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-spring-... we have some amazing work still to come as well as our career panel, the tour the core and vendor presentation! #microscopy
2025 Spring Symposium | New England Society
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andystoneimaging.bsky.social
Excited to have @katrinavelle.bsky.social as our second keynote speaker. You all should check out the Velle Lab website for some beautiful sci-art posters! Also, join us at the virtual Spring Symposium - It's FREE and open to all! shorturl.at/zse9P
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We also confirmed our final keynote speaker @katrinavelle.bsky.social and we are really excited to see and learn all about the "brain eating amoeba"! Our careers in microscopy panel is also taking shape @bioimagingna.bsky.social #microscopy
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Just over 24 hours until the abstract deadline for the @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social Spring Symposium which is taking place virtually on April 25th. shorturl.at/040Hh If you have a topic that our community would enjoy please submit an abstract! Shares appreciated!
2025 Spring Symposium | New England Society
www.nesmicroscopy.org
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For #MicroscopyMonday, the 1st place winner of UMaine's 2025 “Imaging Your Research"!

👑: Aulacoseira pusilla, a diatom from a pond in Maine!
🔬: Zeiss NVision 40 FIB/SEM
🥼: Leonardo Villacís
🏛️: umaine.edu/core/electron-microscopy-laboratory
📩: [email protected]

#NESM #SciComm #SciArt
In the center of this grayscale image is a microscopic organism that looks like a crown. The base of the image details the settings on the electron microscope that the image was taken on.
andystoneimaging.bsky.social
Submit an abstract to be considered for a short talk at our Virtual Spring Symposium! Please also share to help us reach as many microscopists as possible! Membership is also free for 2025 #NESMicroscopy
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📣 Call for Abstracts 📣 for the Spring Symposium: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-spring-...

📍 Virtual - all are invited to attend and submit an abstract, even if you're outside of the NE area!
📆 Friday, April 25th
🕐 9AM - 4PM EST
💲 Free

#NESM #SciComm #SciArt #ShareYourScience #Microscopy
2025 Spring Symposium | New England Society
www.nesmicroscopy.org
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For #MicroscopyMonday: Sea Lamprey spinal cord!

🐉: Petromyzon marinus. Axons injected to visualize presynaptic actin.
🔬: Leica Stellaris 8, 40x oil obj. Max z-projection, heat map for fluorescence.
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, MBL. Johannes Tromm, DZNE.

#NESM #SciComm #SciArt

www.mbl.edu/research/res...
This image shows long purple columns on a black background with pink and orange spots shining along them.
andystoneimaging.bsky.social
This year's spring symposium is virtual! Come and join us if you're enthusiastic about imaging and see some great science. Learn about new ways to image or apply imaging technologies. We also want to hear about your research or technology so please submit an abstract! Sharing is greatly appreciated
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📣 Registration is now open for our virtual Spring Symposium, April 25th! This is a great opportunity to get submit an abstract and have a chance of being selected to give a talk. Join us!

www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-spring-...

#NESM #Microscopy #STEM #SciComm #TalkingScience
2025 Spring Symposium | New England Society
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sciencedoodles.bsky.social
Excited teach & help w/BoBiAC! This course is perfect for grad students & postdocs using fluorescence microscopy to learn how to use python to process & analyze image data! Best part: it's beginner friendly - no python experience required! More info & apply: iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025/...
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💻 Announcing the Boston Bioimage Analysis Course — BoBiAC!
Join us this July at Harvard Medical School in Boston for a 6-day deep dive into bioimage analysis with Python, hosted by the IAC and CITE.
Apply by May 16th, 2025!
andystoneimaging.bsky.social
NESM is a great local society and we are hoping to engage more with our fellow New England microscopists and the global imaging community at large! Please share your images with us so that we can spread the microscopy love!
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🌱 #MicroscopyMonday! 🌱

This award-winning image, "A Sparkling Spot", Keunjung Heo, PhD (Woolf Lab), looks like a flower but is actually a motor neuron spot culture! 🌸
🔬: Leica SP8 Confocal at Boston Children's Hospital CIC.

Got an amazing image? 📩 [email protected] to be featured!✨#NESM
"A Sparkling Spot", Keunjung Heo, PhD (Woolf Lab), looks like a flower but is actually a motor neuron spot culture! The image is green in the center, with red wisps radiating out in all directions.
andystoneimaging.bsky.social
This is awesome Heather! That's thousands of hours across probably a lot of diverse instruments! Without dedicated centers for training how could the same breadth of techniques be offered efficiently?! Over 2 sessions per working day while having to do another job? Love this data
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bioimagingna.bsky.social
Happy #Fluorescence Friday!

#microscopy community, mark your calendar and join us for Valeria Piazza’s presentation as part of @bioimagingna.bsky.social's Career Speaker series on Feb 6, free & online!
Register here www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/caree...
A photo of Valeria Piazza smiling along with text about the BINA's Career Speaker Series on Feb 6th where she will be presenting via zoom at 12pm central time - registration is required on the BINA activity page for this series