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Megan Harwig 🔬 @mcharwig.bsky.social · 2d

Come work with us at MCW! This position is in the Translational Metabolomics-Preclinical Imaging Shared Resource. This position involves imaging mice, rats and other small animal models with multimodal imaging.

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Research Scientist I

Medical College of Wisconsin - Research Scientist I - Milwaukee WI 53201

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Sarah Cohen @cohenlaboratory.bsky.social · Jul 12

It has been a dream come true to lead a rotation in the @mblscience.bsky.social Physiology course - thanks to the amazing Directors @gladfelterlab.bsky.social and @brangwynnelab.bsky.social, course staff, TAs, and students!

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · May 29

If you work in #VolumeEM, please fill in our survey to help us build a Collaborative Computational Project for volumeEM!

Survey link: forms.office.com/e/eMAJGCKUnc

we're aiming to identify the needs of the community in order to build a roadmap for all-things data-related in #vEM

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Bio-protocol @bio-protocol.bsky.social · May 31

The recording of our recent webinar, "Next-generation expansion microscopy: 20× magnification in one step" by @shiweiw.bsky.social, is now available! You can access it at: bio-protocol.org/webinar/deta...

#Webinar #LifeSciences

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xipeng1.bsky.social @xipeng1.bsky.social · May 16

Our groundbreaking Dark Sectioning technique is now published in Nature Methods! 🎉 It supercharges existing imaging systems:
🔬 Widefield → Confocal
🔬 Single-photon → Multiphoton
🔬 2D-SIM → 3D-SIM
Now integrated in Airy PolarSIM and #FlexSIM!
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Microscopy #Fluorescence

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SCIENMAG @scienmag.bsky.social · May 29

Revolutionizing High-Speed Dynamic Fluorescence Imaging with Deep Learning-Enhanced Denoising Techniques

Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking advancement in the field of fluorescence microscopy, designed to resolve one of the most significant challenges facing scientists: image degradation…

Revolutionizing High-Speed Dynamic Fluorescence Imaging with Deep Learning-Enhanced Denoising Techniques

Researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking advancement in the field of fluorescence microscopy, designed to resolve one of the most significant challenges facing scientists: image degradation due to noise in dynamic in vivo imaging. This innovative method, recently published in the journal PhotoniX, presents a self-supervised deep learning approach known as Temporal-gradient empowered Denoising (TeD). The newly developed technique stands to revolutionize the way researchers capture and analyze high-speed biological processes, which are often severely obscured by noise.

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BioTechniques @biotechniques.bsky.social · May 27

⭐ The 2025 BioTechniques Image Competition is now open! 🔬

You have until 17 June to submit up to ten scientific images or illustrations that you’ve taken or created during your research.

Prizes, rules and how to enter >>> www.biotechniques.com/life-science... 🧪

#imaging #microscopy

BioTechniques Image Competition 2025

Submit your scientific images to the BioTechniques Scientific Image Competition 2025! Enter now for the chance to win a US$200 gift card.

www.biotechniques.com

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Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ) @csbj.org · May 27

🤖 How resilient are deep learning models to real-world imperfections in microscopy?

🔗 Practical guidelines for cell segmentation models under optical aberrations in microscopy, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.cs...

📚 CSBJ Quantum Biology and Biophotonics: www.csbj.org/qbio

#CellSegmentation #Microscopy

Practical guidelines for cell segmentation models under optical aberrations in microscopy. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2024.09.002

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · May 21

Today is the deadline to apply! Come hang out with our team in Boston and learn to think about bioimage analysis and how to use many fun open source tools!

Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · May 1

BIG NEWS - for the first time ever, we're running a Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp. Learn #bioimageanalysis from awesome folks, and gain familiarity with some new tools as well as how to pick the right tool in the first place. Aug 4th-8th - apply here (soon!) forms.gle/d2fCXsrWHVP8...

Ad for the Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp at the Broad Institute.

Where & When
Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge MA (in-person only)
Monday–Friday, August 4–8, 20259:00 AM – 5:00 PM

About the Bootcamp
Learn core bioimage analysis skills using open-source tools for light
microscopy in this hands-on, in-person course. The Bootcamp
covers annotation, segmentation, and deep learning fundamentals.

Fee: $600 (Academic/Non-Profit) | $1000 (Industry/For-Profit)
For more information email ImagingAdmin@broadinstitute.org

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · May 21

Did you know that Bioimage Archive has a specific database for people to share AI-ready imaging datasets? I did not until @yanlanmao.bsky.social told me! Please deposit! If people regularly submitted, it would have a huge collective impact on bioimage analysis. www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-arc...

BioImageArchive < The European Bioinformatics Institute < EMBL-EBI

The BioImageArchive – a free, publicly available online resource which stores and distributes biological images

www.ebi.ac.uk

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NFDI4BIOIMAGE @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social · May 20

Efficient, standards-based #bioimaging data management is essential for research and reuse. Join the presentation about “A Journey to #FAIR Bioimage Data,” a contribution to
@ebi.embl.org's STANDFLOW project webinar series.

🗓️ July 2, 2025 | 02:30–03:30 pm

👉 Register: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Nikon Microscope Solutions @healthcare.nikon.com · May 19

📄 A recent review article covers the latest in next-generation #Fluorophores and site-specific labeling strategies for different types of biomolecules, including info on their application in areas such as #SuperResolution #Microscopy: bit.ly/3Fhbeh9

#Fluorescence

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · May 19

A suite of bridged rhodamine dyes for fluorescence microscopy, named BriDyes, offers excellent brightness, photostability, solubility, cell permeability, and resistance to photoblueing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Structural Biology @actacrystd.iucr.org · May 20

Carlos Oscar S. Sorzano et al.: Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens ... ##IUCrhttps://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2059798325004449

Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens

The focused issue on Image-processing methods for electron microscopy of biological specimens is introduced. The virtual issue is available at https://journals.iucr.org/special_issues/2025/imageprocessing.

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Mapping Ignorance @mappingignorance.org · May 15

By democratizing bioimage analysis, BiaPy is paving the way for faster, more inclusive scientific breakthroughs, bringing us closer to understanding the building blocks of life.

https://mappingignorance.org/2025/05/15/biapy-analising-bioimages-made-easy/

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brunosbiologs.bsky.social @brunosbiologs.bsky.social · May 15

Ever wonder which microscopes power today’s life science breakthroughs? 🧬🔬 I put together a quick guide—from brightfield to holography.
Check it out 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/seeing...

#Microscopy #LifeSciences #Biotech #SpatialBiology #ImagingScience #SciComm

Seeing Is Believing: The Microscopes Powering Modern Life Sciences

As someone who works closely with life science researchers and imaging technologies, I often get a surprisingly common question: "You sell microscopes? Like for high school labs? Or on Amazon? Or for ...

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Alessandro Esposito 👨‍🔬🔬🧬👨‍👩‍👧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @aesposito1975.bsky.social · May 11

Good morning! Today we publish three new #MicroscoPills about #confocal #microscopy.

E03 - What is it and why is it useful in #biology
E04 - Confocal microscopy history and evolution
E05 - The role of the confocal #pinhole

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#science

MicroscoPills: your bite-sized dose of microscopy concepts

Podcast · Dr Alessandro Esposito · Unlock the tiny world with short episodes on microscopy and its application to biology and biomedical research. Discover how these tools visualise life at the molecu...

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voigtvision.bsky.social @voigtvision.bsky.social · May 8

Thanks to expansion microscopy, clever labeling, and modern segmentation approaches, doing connectomics with #light #microscopy has become feasible - huge congratulations Mojtaba & the Danzl lab at @istaresearch.bsky.social !
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Light-microscopy-based connectomic reconstruction of mammalian brain tissue - Nature

A technique called LICONN (light-microscopy-based connectomics) allows mapping of brain tissue at synapse level and simultaneous measurement of molecular information, thus enabling quantification of c...

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · May 5

FREE Help with Bioimage Analysis!

GloBIAS @globias.bsky.social · Apr 28

Second round of hashtag#GloBIAS Free Help (previously Call4Help) is happening in May. You can register for the sessions on our webpage: www.globias.org/activities/g...
Registration deadline is 7. May 2025.

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EMBO @embo.org · May 6

Deadline extended to 19 May! 🧪 Learn about light sheet #microscopy, sample preparation, data processing and #ImageAnalysis. Apply now for EMBO Practical Course on Light sheet microscopy in Dresden, Germany, 11–22 August

meetings.embo.org/event/25-lsm
#EMBOlsm #imaging #EMBOevents

Light sheet microscopy

Light sheet microscopy is a technology that enables near-isotropic imaging of large biological specimens over time. It opens new avenues to study biological processes with unprecedented imaging speed…

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Perrine Paul-Gilloteaux @perrinegil.bsky.social · May 5

You can now apply until the 4th of June !!
#EMBOBioImage www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · May 1

BIG NEWS - for the first time ever, we're running a Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp. Learn #bioimageanalysis from awesome folks, and gain familiarity with some new tools as well as how to pick the right tool in the first place. Aug 4th-8th - apply here (soon!) forms.gle/d2fCXsrWHVP8...

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Megan Harwig 🔬 @mcharwig.bsky.social · May 3

"I’ve heard a lot of panic in the community as if the support that the federal government has for science has ended and that science is no longer the priority. One of the reasons I was delighted to be able to come here was to assure people that is not true" #NIH
www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

Trump's NIH director takes questions at Medical College of Wisconsin amid broad research cuts

President Trump's new NIH director took questions from Medical College of Wisconsin researchers, including one whose research grant had been canceled.

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Ishier Raote @ishier.bsky.social · Apr 16

On April 19, 1898, Camillo Golgi described what we now know as the #Golgi apparatus - a structure so pretty and unusual it took over fifty years for the scientific community to agree it wasn’t just an artefact.
April 19 is #GolgiDay! Mark your calendars to honour the best organelle.

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Nature @nature.com · Apr 13

If you want to understand how cells function, you have to work out what proteins interact with — and where

https://go.nature.com/3RgNXOZ

Where do proteins go in cells? Next-generation methods map the molecules’ hidden lives

Nature - Spatial proteomics is helping biologists to uncover how cells work by mapping where proteins operate.

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