Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊
@bethcimini.bsky.social
She/her. I turn pictures into numbers so others can turn them into medicine. Also I yell about politics a lot. See the fantastic things my team does at https://ciminilab.github.io/WeMakeStuff . Views my own, awesome science from my amazing team.
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊
@bethcimini.bsky.social
· Nov 12
The highs of the conference yesterday and advising people on Twitter this morning have made me a bit reflective - I want to share some stuff I've never put online before, in case it helps others out.
In grad school, by any measure of academic success, I was a complete failure.
In grad school, by any measure of academic success, I was a complete failure.
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@lycasworks.bsky.social developed quantitative expansion (qExM) to estimate endogenous protein quantities in situ. His ExM protocols offer epitope preservation and accessibility so that standard Western Blot antibodies can be used. Also, check out the cristae, supercomplexes, specialized mitos 🤩
🔬🚨New preprint alert! 🚨🔬
We developed quantitative expansion microscopy (qExM) - a method to accurately count proteins in situ by combining expansion microscopy's improved labeling with statistical estimators borrowed from ecology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#SuperResolution #CellBiology
We developed quantitative expansion microscopy (qExM) - a method to accurately count proteins in situ by combining expansion microscopy's improved labeling with statistical estimators borrowed from ecology
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#SuperResolution #CellBiology
www.biorxiv.org
January 20, 2026 at 4:48 PM
@lycasworks.bsky.social developed quantitative expansion (qExM) to estimate endogenous protein quantities in situ. His ExM protocols offer epitope preservation and accessibility so that standard Western Blot antibodies can be used. Also, check out the cristae, supercomplexes, specialized mitos 🤩
Ep 23 - So what actually IS CellPainting anyway? You may have heard of it if you're say, a fan of the @drannecarpenter.bsky.social - @shantanu-singh.cc lab (and who isn't????), but what, you know, is it? Let @erinweisbart.bsky.social break it down for you!
youtu.be/9-d6DoHtgUY
youtu.be/9-d6DoHtgUY
January 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Ep 23 - So what actually IS CellPainting anyway? You may have heard of it if you're say, a fan of the @drannecarpenter.bsky.social - @shantanu-singh.cc lab (and who isn't????), but what, you know, is it? Let @erinweisbart.bsky.social break it down for you!
youtu.be/9-d6DoHtgUY
youtu.be/9-d6DoHtgUY
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We’re hiring!
@jcellsci.bsky.social is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves #cellbiology and wants to stay connected with the field. A great chance to work for an organisation that believes in helping the community!
Details below👇
@jcellsci.bsky.social is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves #cellbiology and wants to stay connected with the field. A great chance to work for an organisation that believes in helping the community!
Details below👇
Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social is recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Reviews Editor. An exciting opportunity for a talented scientific editor to make a contribution to an important journal in the field of #cellbiology. Deadline 2 Feb.
More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
More at: www.biologists.com/about-us/wor...
Work for us
Working for us We’re always looking for talented and motivated people to work as part of our close-knit team. Roles range from editorial to production, marketing to event co-ordination, HR to accounts...
www.biologists.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:13 AM
We’re hiring!
@jcellsci.bsky.social is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves #cellbiology and wants to stay connected with the field. A great chance to work for an organisation that believes in helping the community!
Details below👇
@jcellsci.bsky.social is looking for a Reviews Editor to join the team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who loves #cellbiology and wants to stay connected with the field. A great chance to work for an organisation that believes in helping the community!
Details below👇
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Emotional - Uri Manor @manorlaboratory.bsky.social was so wonderfully open & an inspiration to listen on #TheMicroscopists
Uri talks about growing up with hearing loss & a winding path through baseball-music-restaurant work led him to physics & then biology - pls share
Stream bit.ly/microscopist...
Uri talks about growing up with hearing loss & a winding path through baseball-music-restaurant work led him to physics & then biology - pls share
Stream bit.ly/microscopist...
The Microscopists | Uri Manor (UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences)
In this episode of The Microscopists, Uri Manor, Assistant Professor of UCSD, opens up about growing up with profound hearing loss and how, despite wanting nothing to do with becoming a scientist, ...
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January 9, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Emotional - Uri Manor @manorlaboratory.bsky.social was so wonderfully open & an inspiration to listen on #TheMicroscopists
Uri talks about growing up with hearing loss & a winding path through baseball-music-restaurant work led him to physics & then biology - pls share
Stream bit.ly/microscopist...
Uri talks about growing up with hearing loss & a winding path through baseball-music-restaurant work led him to physics & then biology - pls share
Stream bit.ly/microscopist...
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Are you microscopy-curious? Or already obsessed?
We are hosting a zoom info session for AQLM on Monday Jan 12 (info below). Come ask me anything!
@mblscience.bsky.social
We are hosting a zoom info session for AQLM on Monday Jan 12 (info below). Come ask me anything!
@mblscience.bsky.social
Considering attending AQLM 2026? Join us January 12th at 2:30pm EST to ask the directors and a few former students any questions you have about the course! Registration is required via Google form to get the Zoom link.
forms.gle/gJedFnzfJhqd...
forms.gle/gJedFnzfJhqd...
January 8, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Are you microscopy-curious? Or already obsessed?
We are hosting a zoom info session for AQLM on Monday Jan 12 (info below). Come ask me anything!
@mblscience.bsky.social
We are hosting a zoom info session for AQLM on Monday Jan 12 (info below). Come ask me anything!
@mblscience.bsky.social
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Everything feels anxious. Like I shouldn't be in the lab, I should be prepping for the apocalypse. But here I am, trying to do science like everything is ok.
a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .
ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Everything feels anxious. Like I shouldn't be in the lab, I should be prepping for the apocalypse. But here I am, trying to do science like everything is ok.
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Cannot overstate how radical Kennedy’s takeover of public health has been. He gutted the nation’s vaccine panel, restocked it with anti-vaxxers and allies, then bypassed it entirely to slash a third of recommended childhood vaccines himself.
CDC staff ‘blindsided’ as child vaccine schedule unilaterally overhauled
The Trump administration took unprecedented steps to recommend fewer vaccines for children without extensive consultations with career scientists.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Cannot overstate how radical Kennedy’s takeover of public health has been. He gutted the nation’s vaccine panel, restocked it with anti-vaxxers and allies, then bypassed it entirely to slash a third of recommended childhood vaccines himself.
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Kind of flew under the radar, BUT we released napari-omero 0.6 recently 🥳 @openmicroscopy.org
You can now down-/upload ROIs from and to OMERO inside @napari.org 🤩Bringing the power of napari for annotation to the management of OMERO :)
Thanks @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social and other maintainers!
You can now down-/upload ROIs from and to OMERO inside @napari.org 🤩Bringing the power of napari for annotation to the management of OMERO :)
Thanks @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social and other maintainers!
January 7, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Kind of flew under the radar, BUT we released napari-omero 0.6 recently 🥳 @openmicroscopy.org
You can now down-/upload ROIs from and to OMERO inside @napari.org 🤩Bringing the power of napari for annotation to the management of OMERO :)
Thanks @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social and other maintainers!
You can now down-/upload ROIs from and to OMERO inside @napari.org 🤩Bringing the power of napari for annotation to the management of OMERO :)
Thanks @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social and other maintainers!
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It's important to remember that Donald Trump lies constantly, but this is Donald Trump declaring that he has used the United States military to extort Venezuela into giving him $1.7-2.7 billion for his personal use.
January 7, 2026 at 12:15 AM
It's important to remember that Donald Trump lies constantly, but this is Donald Trump declaring that he has used the United States military to extort Venezuela into giving him $1.7-2.7 billion for his personal use.
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Early-bird deadline to join @jcellsci.bsky.social at their meeting on Imaging Cell Dynamics in Spain in May is Friday 16 January. Apply to attend at:
biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
#JCSimaging
biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
#JCSimaging
January 6, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Early-bird deadline to join @jcellsci.bsky.social at their meeting on Imaging Cell Dynamics in Spain in May is Friday 16 January. Apply to attend at:
biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
#JCSimaging
biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
#JCSimaging
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The number of ways this is unconstitutional lunacy
is…a lot
is…a lot
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
The number of ways this is unconstitutional lunacy
is…a lot
is…a lot
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🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)!
An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools.
🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026
An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools.
🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026
Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.
meetings.cshl.edu
January 6, 2026 at 7:18 PM
🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)!
An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools.
🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026
An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools.
🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026
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The fact that he not only got away with it but got re-elected is a stunning indictment of our government, media, educational system, and society.
The newspaper headlines. It's insane that he got away with this unpunished.
January 6, 2026 at 2:48 PM
The fact that he not only got away with it but got re-elected is a stunning indictment of our government, media, educational system, and society.
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The fact that there is no one who has instantly shut this down is one of the biggest indictments of the entire AI industry, Elon Musk, and our current government that we’ve seen yet.
When I was a girl, if someone had made an explicit image of me, I would have been scarred for life. Musk, however, mocked "the situation by sharing an array of Grok-generated images, including one depicting himself in a bikini, punctuated by laughing-crying emojis."
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/i...
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/i...
Elon Musk's X faces probes in Europe, India, Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children
Regulators in Europe, India and Malaysia are scrutinizing X after exploitative images created with the Grok chatbot went viral on Elon Musk's social network.
www.cnbc.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The fact that there is no one who has instantly shut this down is one of the biggest indictments of the entire AI industry, Elon Musk, and our current government that we’ve seen yet.
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"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that
Hannity: Did you at any point offered to give him the Nobel peace prize?
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
Machado: It hasn’t happened yet. We want to give it to him. Share it with him.
January 6, 2026 at 5:54 AM
"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that
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Issue 24 is complete
Marking the end of @biologists.bsky.social 100-year anniversary celebrations, our cover features members of the JCS community, including some researchers from our ‘First Person’ & ‘Cell Scientists to Watch’ interviews.
Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Marking the end of @biologists.bsky.social 100-year anniversary celebrations, our cover features members of the JCS community, including some researchers from our ‘First Person’ & ‘Cell Scientists to Watch’ interviews.
Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
January 6, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Issue 24 is complete
Marking the end of @biologists.bsky.social 100-year anniversary celebrations, our cover features members of the JCS community, including some researchers from our ‘First Person’ & ‘Cell Scientists to Watch’ interviews.
Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Marking the end of @biologists.bsky.social 100-year anniversary celebrations, our cover features members of the JCS community, including some researchers from our ‘First Person’ & ‘Cell Scientists to Watch’ interviews.
Explore our ToC: journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
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If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.
January 5, 2026 at 11:14 PM
If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.
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Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/
January 5, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/
Ep 22 - while we all love CellProfiler (right??), we know that often the challenging part is handling the "bookkeeping" to get your data into it in the first place. @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I do a quick overview, and then point to great longer-form materials. Welcome to AE/DB 2026!
January 5, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Ep 22 - while we all love CellProfiler (right??), we know that often the challenging part is handling the "bookkeeping" to get your data into it in the first place. @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I do a quick overview, and then point to great longer-form materials. Welcome to AE/DB 2026!
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🙌 The Image Data Community Days are back! Join us for 5 online days packed with lectures, hands-on workshops & networking sessions from 🗓️ April 13-17.
✅ Mark your calendars
✅ Fill in our “Collection of Interest” form
Learn more 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/our-events/i...
✅ Mark your calendars
✅ Fill in our “Collection of Interest” form
Learn more 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/our-events/i...
January 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM
🙌 The Image Data Community Days are back! Join us for 5 online days packed with lectures, hands-on workshops & networking sessions from 🗓️ April 13-17.
✅ Mark your calendars
✅ Fill in our “Collection of Interest” form
Learn more 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/our-events/i...
✅ Mark your calendars
✅ Fill in our “Collection of Interest” form
Learn more 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/our-events/i...
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Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.
WELKER: Mr. Secretary, are you running Venezuela right now?
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.
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*2026
living through 2025 and having to wake up, go to work, handle responsibilities etc feels like this
January 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
*2026
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The president of Venezuela must be held legally accountable for his crimes, which the Supreme Court forbids to happen for the president of the US, who recently pardoned the president of Honduras for similar crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 12:11 PM
The president of Venezuela must be held legally accountable for his crimes, which the Supreme Court forbids to happen for the president of the US, who recently pardoned the president of Honduras for similar crimes.
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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.