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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · 3d

For #MicroscopyMonday: “Seeing Every Photon”—a hands-on workshop with Evident Scientific on the FLUOVIEW FV4000 confocal! At the Fall symposium Nov 6-7, learn to capture consistent, quantitative images with SilVIR™ detectors and performance monitoring. #NESM #ConfocalMicroscopy

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · 10d

Excited to welcome MIT’s Julian P. Klein as a keynote at the #NESM Fall Symposium! 🔬 His work uses electron beams to target atoms in 2D materials — here’s a teaser image from his research in quantum engineering.

#MicroscopyMonday #ElectronMicroscopy #QuantumMaterials #Nanotechnology #MIT #SciComm

Stylized graphic of an electron beam, shown as a purple cone with a red bullseye tip, aimed precisely at a single atom in a hexagonal lattice of atoms. The background is a faint atomic-resolution microscopy image, highlighting the idea of targeting individual atoms in atomically thin materials

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · 17d

📣Announcing the Fall Symposium Workshops for #MicroscopyMonday!🎫 Registration is now open here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Hitachi Gemini FE SEM
🥼: Benjamin Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
📝: Feig et al, lnkd.in/ea5M7aET

#NESM #SciComm

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · 24d

Announcing one of our Keynote Speakers, Elizabeth Engle, for #MicroscopyMonday! Please join us in November at Brandeis!

🔬: 3i Light Sheet
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital
🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility
🎬: syGlass.io

#NESM #LightSheetMicroscopy #3DImaging #TissueClearing

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Sep 8

Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Sep 2

🕷️ A winter tick’s lethal grasp for a late #MicroscopyMonday, captured in stunning SEM by Monica Miles, winner of 3rd place in UMaine’s 2025 Imaging Your Research Contest.

Tiny structures, huge impact on Maine’s moose calves.

#Microscopy #Ecology #Moose #SEM #NESM @umaine.bsky.social

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Aug 25

It's #MicroscopyMonday! Today we have a very special confocal dataset that HIGH SCHOOL students were able to label and image themselves at the MBL.

🐟: #Zebrafish
🔬: Nipam Patel, High School Science Discovery Programs
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io

#NESM #Confocal #SciComm #ScienceEd

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GeWilli @gewilli.bsky.social · Aug 20

Dedicated seed pod of Wild Carrot/Queen Anne's Lace/Daucus carota

📷 (Ok maybe 🔬) Hitachi 2700 SEM

More of the #SciArt side.
(I'll be giving a talk about it all in November at the @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social fall meeting, not this plant as much but related)

Scanning Electron Microscope image of a Daucus carota seed pod.

Black line on the bottom of 667 μm long for scale.

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Aug 18

Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM

⚗️: Tungsten oxide crystals
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social , Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social , Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 8um

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Aug 4

Announcing our first Fall Symposium speaker for #MicroscopyMonday! Geoff Williams, Brown. #NESM

🌾: Lily of the Valley
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 4mm

Black and white scanning electron micrograph of a Lily of the Valley flower showing three anthers, each with a textured, folded surface. The anthers are suspended above a cellular platform-like base, revealing intricate tissue structure and fine surface detail at high magnification.

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jul 24

Are there any other #NESM members heading to Microscopy and Microanalysis in Salt Lake City next week? A few of our board members will be there, would love to meet some fellow microscopists! @brandy-syglass.bsky.social #MM2025

Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Jul 24

A medley of modalities for #3DThursday! 🔬: #SBSEM, #Lightsheet, #ExM, & #MicroCT! Come see me at M&M in Salt Lake City. mm2025.eventscribe.net/index.asp

🥼: George Spirou (SEM), Elizabeth Engle (Lightsheet), Ksena Longrin (ExM), Lumafield (microCT)

#VirtualReality #syGlass #MM2025

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jul 21

🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social‬, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM

#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jul 14

@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social has a new lightsheet for #MicroscopyMonday !💡New England microscopy cores - do you have a system you want advertised? Send us an image! #NESM
🧠: TdTomato Mouse Brain
🔬: #LifeCanvas SmartSPIM, 1.6x obj
🥼: @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: Brandeis LMCF (RRID:SCR_02589)

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jul 7

For #MicroscopyMonday, we have "The Many Layers of a Squid": Pictured here is a cross-section of the optic lobe from Doryteuthis pealei, the longfin inshore squid. #NESM

🔬: Zeiss @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Axioscope
📸: Sony DSC-s70
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, Alan Kuzirian
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jun 30

#MicroscopyMonday! Time-lapse fluorescence imaging🧫 live human blood vessel cells expressing GFP fusion protein. #NESM

🔬: @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social Stellaris 8 FALCON
🥼: Sung Hoon Lee, Andre Levchenko
🏛️: Yale West Campus Imaging Core
📝: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lIAk8YyDf...
🏋️: Joerg Nikolaus

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jun 23

#MicroscopyMonday! Vero cells (🟩: intermediate filaments 🟪: nuclear pores), on conventional confocal and STED microscope. #NESM

🔬: ‪Abberior Line 3D STED @abberior.rocks
🥼: Andy Stone @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social Light Microscopy Core Facility (RRID:SCR_02589)

Split image comparing confocal and STED microscopy of a cell. The left half (labeled "Confocal") shows a blurrier image with magenta and green signals—magenta representing nuclear pore complexes in the nucleus, and green showing the vimentin cytoskeleton. The right half (labeled "STED") displays the same structures with much sharper definition and finer detail, highlighting the improved resolution of STED microscopy.

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jun 16

Still of a LIVE sea urchin larvae for #MicroscopyMondy from our #NESM trip to the MIT Museum!

🔬: Bruker's TruLive3D @brukercorporation.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD #UCSD
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · Jun 2

🥣 #MicroscopyMonday at #NESM! Nano Cheerios (FeO) imaged with a Schottky field emission #SEM (FE-SEM). These rings highlight the clarity and contrast achievable with a high-brightness electron beam.

🔬 JEOL JSM-IT800SHL, www.jeolusa.com/PRODUCTS/Sca...
🥼 Jennifer Misuraca
🏛️ @jeoleurope.bsky.social

Low magnification SEM image showing multiple donut-shaped iron oxide (FeO) nanostructures scattered across the field. These ring-like structures appear as bright, well-defined circles with dark centers against a uniform grey background, illustrating the impressive clarity and contrast of the Schottky field emission SEM (JEOL JSM-IT800SHL).

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · May 26

Microscopist on vacation: "wait, can I take an image with a phone and binoculars' lens?" ... yes, apparently you can ... 🔭

Not quite #MicroscopyMonday ... #NESM

🔬: Celestron phase coated 8x42 129m, FOV 7.4°, iPhone detector
🐦: Scarlet Tanager
🥼: @brandy-syglass.bsky.social
🏛️: West Marlboro, VT

A male scarlet tanager sitting on the top of a pine tree looking at a nutty woman taking a cell phone photo of him through a pair of binoculars.

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · May 19

#MicroscopyMonday: tissue cleared 🐭lung using light sheet microscopy (#LSFM)!

🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LIGHTSHEET 7, 5x mag
🥼: Sidrah Ahmed & Carla Kim, PI at BCH
🏛️: @bostonchildrens.bsky.social research.childrenshospital.org/resources/co...
🎬: syglass.io

#Microscopy #TissueClearing #NESM

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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · May 12

@jeolusa.bsky.social , @jeoleurope.bsky.social

New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · May 12

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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New England Society for Microscopy @nesmicroscopy.bsky.social · May 5

It's #MicroscopyMonday!🔬🌈 An incredible mouse embryo, cleared and imaged on a @the.3i.social LightSheet. #NESM

🔬: @edwardlachica3.bsky.social
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, @harvardmed.bsky.social, @bostonchildrens.bsky.social
🏛️: micron.hms.harvard.edu/tissue-clear...
📩: [email protected]

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