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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 2h

Reposting this spectacular octopus sent to our #NESM team from the @mblscience.bsky.social for #WorldOctopusDay!

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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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 6d

🍺 It’s Oktoberfest, so let's look inside beer foam! Non-destructive imaging like this is key for food science and helps us understand how structure and stability affect things like aroma and taste.

🔬: TESCAN DynaTOM #microCT
🥼: Wesley De Boever
🎬: syGlass.io

#Oktoberfest #3DThursday #Microscopy

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 9d

@dancingwithatoms.bsky.social

Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 13d

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 13d

👀 #3DThursday: Cross your eyes to see this super res pollen dataset in 3D! Good old fashioned stereo pairs in #syGlass bringing science to life. 🌿✨

🔬: Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2
🥼: Nat Prunet, @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core: tarheels.live/biologymicro...
🎬: syGlass.io

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 20d

Non-destructive testing for #3DThursday!🥽 Apple Vision Pro vs MetaQuest in a microCT.

🔬: Lumafield @lumafield.bsky.social microCT
🎬: syGlass.io, loading two projects at once

3D imaging like this is used to validate design, catch flaws, and build smarter devices.

#MicroCT #syGlass #VR #SciComm

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks! I remember seeing this one out of Cambridge this spring, a very interesting animal model — www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/arch...

Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · 27d

🦐 High-res microCT of #Parhyale hawaiensis for #3DThursday! A powerful crustacean model for studying limb development, regeneration, and evo-devo.

🥼: Nipam Patel & Andrew Gillis, 2017
🏛️: University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk
🎬: syGlass.io

#Parhyale #MicroCT #DevBio #EvoDevo #ModelOrganisms #syGlass

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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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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Sep 4

I can also make you a few anaglyph renderings and send them over if you have access to some old school red-cyan glasses. These structures really pop in that kind of 3D, and we’ve put 200 people into the paper glasses at events — always fun!

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Sep 4

He sent me so many and I had a really hard time picking favorites … thank goodness for data sharing. 🌸

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Sep 4

Pollen diversity #3DThursday!🌼🌾 Thanks to Nat Prunet's careful microscopy, we see ridges, spikes & pores that reveal how plants spread & survive.
🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM 980, Airyscan 2
🥼: @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0 #syGlass

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Aug 28

Chicken balancing for #3DThursday!🐔 These utricle hair cells sense gravity & straight-line motion. We segmented them with #CellposeSAM in #syGlass.

🥼: Stefan Heller Group
🏛️: Stanford @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0, out now!

#Neuroanatomy #Microscopy #3DVisualization #SciComm

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Aug 25

Love the high school programs that @mblscience.bsky.social runs, and it's so fun to be able to get the students into their data.

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

Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Aug 21

syGlass2.4.0 is out for #3Dthursday! Auto tracking tool for 4D data, integration with cellpose-SAM for improvements on our auto-segmentation, and a transfer function visualization!

www.syglass.io/blog/syglass...
#syGlass

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Aug 14

4D bread baking inside a microCT for #3DThursday?!🍞

🔬: TESCAN DynaTOM
🏛️: TESCAN, thanks to Marijn Boone for the data!
🎬: syGlass.io

Total scan time: 22m8s
Time for 1 scan: 10 seconds
Total scans: 124 volumes

#4DImaging #MicroCT #DynamicImaging #FoodScience #syGlass #VRVisualization #ScientificVR

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Aug 7

Organoids for #3DThursday! This is a tiny, lab-grown 3D model of a lung, meant to mimic the structure and function of real tissues.

🔬: #mesoSPIM #Lightsheet
🧫: Lung Organoid
🥼: Hei Ming Lai
🏛️: Illumos Ltd, www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🎬: syGlass.io

#SciComm #TissueEngineering #Organoid #syGlass

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Jul 31

Automated Segmentation by Cellpose-SAM using syGlass for #3DThursday! This took about 30 minutes to run on one of the gaming laptops. Crazy.

🔬: Synchrotron #MicroCT
🥼: Keith Cheng, MD, PhD, @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
📝: #CellposeSAM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🥽: syGlass.io v2.4.0 -- out soon!

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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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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thanks so much for sharing it with us over at NESM — it’s so nice to get a variety of modalities and see the diversity of research in New England.

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Jul 17

I love this for #3DThursday -- Zebrafish, but make it four and layer them!

🥼: Arnim Jenett
🏛️: TEFOR tefor.net/en/
🔬: #Lightsheet
🎬: syGlass in colorblind mode, #syGlass

Check it out for yourself with their resource "The Larval Standard Brain":
zebrafish.tefor.net#/home?_k=fz1...

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Jul 10

A #microscopy mystery for #3DThursday!🌾 What is this? 🔍 Things that I know: it is a #plant, it was imaged on a Lumafield #microCT, and the color is a LUT (look up table) that I applied in #syGlass and has nothing to do with the organism (microCT comes in as grayscale). Help! #SciComm

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Jul 3

Happy 4th for #3DThursday! 🎉 Do I occasionally forget and then remember ecstatically that we have a confetti cannon in the syGlass room? Yes, yes, I do ...

#syGlass #VRScience #Microscopy #SciComm

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Jun 26

All data points are valuable in their own way …

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Brandy A Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social · Jun 26

Finally plants for #3DThursday!🌽 A maize root tip, imaged using #microCT, from the Topp Roots Lab.

🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Versa 520 XRM
🥼: Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social
🏛️: Danforth Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social
📝: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
🎬: syGlass.io #syGlass

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