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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 23h

Day 1 at #EESImaging 🤩 Exciting start to the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'Seeing is believing: imaging the molecular processes of life' – diving into cutting-edge imaging technologies 🔬✨

Looking forward to an inspiring few days of science, discussion, and discovery!

@embl.org @embo.org

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napari @napari.org · 7d

napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀

Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: napari.org/dev/release/...

Image depicting the napari viewer in grid mode with scale bars and color bars enabled

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · 13d

Yes! We are very excited to be able to offer this practical course again. Expanding the knowledge ;)

EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 13d

🔬 Apply for 'Ultrastructure expansion microscopy: from cells to tissue open' now!

🎯 Hands-on training in U-ExM for cells, tissue & cryo-sections. Learn how to apply it to your own samples and spread the technique in your lab.

📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 20 - 24 April 2026
👉 s.embl.org/uex26-01-bl

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Eugene Katrukha 🇺🇦 @ekatrukha.bsky.social · 15d

New release of #BigTrace plugin is out. Together with @aafkegros.bsky.social from Simone Köhler group we added a fully automatic tracing mode. + more macro functions and bug fixes github.com/ekatrukha/Bi...

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · Sep 3

Our new collection offers cell biologists practical, expert-driven guidance and best practices in the design, execution, and analysis of experiments, and the subsequent communication of their results to their peers. 👉 rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

#Reproducibility

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Hannah Heil @hannah-superres.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 New preprint on bioRxiv! 🚨
Smart microscopy🔬 is reshaping life sciences—but progress is slowed by fragmentation.
@lhinderling.bsky.social & the Smart Microsopy Working Group maps the field & proposes a path toward an open, interoperable future.
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doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · Jul 25

Yes! We are very excited to be able to offer again this EMBO Practical Course in 2026! Follow the link below for more info and to register your interest and stay tuned!

Paul & Virginie - Centriole Lab @centriolelab.bsky.social · Jul 21

🚨 New EMBO Practical Course!
Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue 🔬
📅 20–24 Apr 2026 | 📍 EMBL Heidelberg
Co-organised with @banterlegroup.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social

💡 Register your interest to get notified when registration opens:

🔗 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · May 26

Great piece, all to important: 'Learning how to both trust and question our best AI-based resources ... is one of the most important skills that our evolving educational systems will now need to install'

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

Extending Minds with Generative AI - Nature Communications

As human-AI collaborations become the norm, we should remind ourselves that it is our basic nature to build hybrid thinking systems – ones that fluidly incorporate non-biological resources. Recognizin...

www.nature.com

banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · May 19

EMBL Events @events.embl.org · May 19

🔦 Welcome to the EMBL Course 'Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques' happening this week!

Participants are getting a good mix of lectures on expansion microscopy and the image scanning microscope as well as hands-on practicals 🔬🥼

#EMBLFluorImaging

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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · May 19

🔦 Welcome to the EMBL Course 'Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques' happening this week!

Participants are getting a good mix of lectures on expansion microscopy and the image scanning microscope as well as hands-on practicals 🔬🥼

#EMBLFluorImaging

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · May 11

All too important, yet under-appreciated! More standardization in image-editing and presentation would go a long way to making clearer, more understandable and reproducible results.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing

Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.

www.nature.com

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · May 5

'Science is an investment' - long term and for all. Very glad to see extra funds towards scientific excellence!

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 5

"Science is an investment.

We will put forward a new 500 million package for 2025-2027 to support the best and the brightest researchers and scientists from Europe and around the world."

— President @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne 🇫🇷

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · Apr 10

Really fantastic to see this work and achievement! The level of detail revealed will be of massive use for better understanding the brain. And what beautiful, beautiful images!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Biggest brain map ever details huge number of neurons and their activity

3D reconstruction is the first to overlay neuronal activity on a large-scale map of brain cells.

www.nature.com

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · Mar 12

Very happy to see this positive outcome overtime!

What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

Study is based on 20,860 sketches drawn by children over 5 decades

www.science.org

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · Mar 7

Real congratulations to the team behind FLOW for this achievement! Great to see how Blender - a free and open source software we also use in the lab - can be used to create wonderful 3D images, and stories!

Blender @blender.org · Mar 3

Congratulations to @gintszilbalodis.bsky.social and the entire Flow film crew for the Academy Award win!

Flow is the manifestation of Blender’s mission, where a small independent team is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide.

Thank you for the shout out! 🧡 #b3d

banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · Feb 17

Very interesting - and important! - research from Nature Machine Intelligence on people's ability to trust the output of LLMs - it seems that longer answers already do the trick somewhat!

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

What large language models know and what people think they know - Nature Machine Intelligence

Understanding how people perceive and interpret uncertainty from large language models (LLMs) is crucial, as users often overestimate LLM accuracy, especially with default explanations. Steyvers et al...

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · Feb 14

Centrioles (round cyan doughnut in the left corner) are close to our hearts! Happy weekend everyone!

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · Feb 13

Very impressive work - congratulations! very much looking forwards to giving it a try!

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

Segment Anything for Microscopy - Nature Methods

Segment Anything for Microscopy (μSAM) builds on the vision foundation model Segment Anything for high-quality image segmentation over a wide range of imaging conditions including light and electron m...

www.nature.com

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banterlegroup.bsky.social @banterlegroup.bsky.social · Feb 3

Hello World! The Banterle lab is happy to be here!

Below is our newest pre-print on how to use Microscopy nodes to create stunning 3D images using Blender - check it out!

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Aafke Gros @aafkegros.bsky.social · Jan 15

Microscopy Nodes is now up on bioRxiv! 🚀

This is a Blender extension that seamlessly integrates and visualizes 3D microscopy data (TIF & @zarr.dev).

High-quality volume rendering for anyone, in both EM and fluorescence, regardless of computational expertise! 🔬

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

FIB-SEM dataset visualized with Microscopy Nodes, data from Mocaer et al 2023

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