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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 5d

I spent 3 months angrily bashing that table, without knowing what was inside!

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 5d

Did you visit Carl Zeiss’s grave?

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · Sep 2

Wirshing, Lew et al. @mit.edu address how mothers partition growth equally among their buds in the multi-budding yeast Aureobasidium pullulans. Equal partitioning stems directly from effective equalization of #polarity sites. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Cytoskeleton #Development

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Aug 26

David Gaboriau @dgaboriau.bsky.social · Aug 26

Does the bass in the dance tent repel the mosquitoes?

bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Aug 26

Blood, sweat, and beers: investigating mosquito biting preferences amidst noise and intoxication in a cross-sectional cohort study at a large music festival https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.21.671470v1

Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Jul 29

Me and the #MycBio25 cohort had a great time today. Got to see an OpenScope in the wild @uctidm-mu.bsky.social and play for a whole day on an @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 - been 3 years since I’ve used a point scanner confocal on fungi

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Jul 27

This is so cool!

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Jul 21

What’s everyone’s open source code-free 3D visualisation tool for fluorescence microscopy? #Fiji

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Jul 8

Cool beans! Thrilling to see your lab grow Mike!

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Jul 7

Me and @caronjacobs.bsky.social are gearing up to deliver this workshop in a few weeks. Excited to discuss the almighty combo of pathogenic fungal cells and the fluorescence microscope!

Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Feb 18

🚨🍄🥼Delighted to share the registration page for our Mycology Bioimaging Workshop on "Imaging the Fungal Cell"
W/ pre-AMI Fundamentals workshop @caronjacobs.bsky.social

🗓️ July 28 - Aug 7 2025
🌍 @AMI_microscopy Cape Town, SA
🥼 Hands-on 🔬

Pls RT & Apply here:
sites.google.com/view/mycolog...

MBI

Dates: July 28 - August 1, 2025 Introduction to Principles of Microscopy August 4 - 7th, 2025 Advanced Imaging Approaches for Fungal Pathogens Location: University of Cape Town, South Africa Venue:...

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Jul 7

See my post on web-based deployment of Fiji for image analysis workshops forum.image.sc/t/running-ia...

Advice / input appreciated.

Running IA workshop using web-based Fiji deployment (ImJoy)

Hello, I am looking to give image analysis workshops in LMIC locations where deployment of Fiji software is quick and easy. I was thinking of making use of the browser-based IMJOY Fiji platform. Has...

forum.image.sc

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Jul 6

Best microscopy based workshop/conference swag?

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The LeibundGut-lab @lableibundgut.bsky.social · Jun 23

Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MRC Programme Grant to study the role of fungi in eczema together with @neil-gow.bsky.social, Helen Alexander and Carsten Flohr (both King's College London). 2 postdoc positions availble at jobs.exeter.ac.uk (Job References Q05626 and Q05627)

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · May 24

#COYR #ScottishCup25

Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · May 24

I was 3 when we last won the Scottish Cup, the same as my boy! Hope he doesn’t have to wait another 35 yrs!

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The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · May 23

Napoli are crowned Serie A champions.

Goals from Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku made sure of it on a dramatic final day

They finish just one point ahead of Inter to win the fourth league title in their history.

Napoli's Scottish midfielder #8 Scott McTominay (R) celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal during the Italian Serie A football match between Napoli and Empoli FC at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples on April 14, 2025. Napoli's Uruguayan defender #17 Mathias Olivera fights for the ball with Empoli's Italian forward #99 Sebastiano Esposito.

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · May 22

Great to have Lucian Duvenage from @mrccmm.bsky.social CapeTown ✈️ to do MYCOscopy w/ @balloulab.bsky.social in Emergomyces Africanus - an emerging fungal pathogen yeast that needs more Mycology bioimaging tools. Here are some Macropahges brimming with them (green yeast)

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · Apr 22

Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · May 22

Anyone got experience of using Trello w/ TEAMS? Seems like a very nice integration for project tasks / progress contained within MS Office

Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · May 15

Trying again.. any thoughts on below? #fluorescence

Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Feb 26

Mammalian systems, how stable are #fluorescent protein fusions in living mammalian cells?
It used to be that transfection of epithelial cells were ~20% successfull in a monolayer of cells, which to me was unacceptable. Has this changed?

Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Apr 7

Awsome Awsome idea!
We’ve got some fungal hyphae that have us stumped
Could play into a generic filamentous episode (neuron peeps likely have solutions)

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Apr 7

Cool/weird that ITV picked this up, usually home to some trashy stuff.

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · Apr 7

Delighted to announce that @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I have teamed up to create a new bioimage analysis video podcast called Ask Erin/Dear Beth - you can check it out at the link below! It will highlight common challenges in #bioimageanalysis, as well as our favorite solutions to them. (1/x)

Ask Erin, Dear Beth

On Ask Erin/Dear Beth, bioimage analysis experts Beth Cimini and Erin Weisbart, of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, answer your image analysis questions! Whether it’s ab...

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Apr 2

Is the new Lightfield from Zeiss, applicable to volumetric tissue imaging? or is the step sizes more akin to cell biology?

Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Mar 31

Congratulations F-BIAS, on this huge achievement! Looking forward to reading. With the right people you really can do a lot in 1hr! Kudos!

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Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · Mar 28

so cool

EMBL @embl.org · Mar 26

EMBL’s Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) has reached Malta, bringing its cutting-edge field equipment to support local scientists.
The Mobile Laboratories team will work with the University of Malta for one month, providing advanced technology, expertise, and training.
www.embl.org/news/connect...

The University of Malta hosts EMBL’s Advanced Mobile Laboratory for research and training | EMBL

EMBL’s Advanced Mobile Laboratory (AML) is stationed at the University of Malta for one month, to provide advanced technology, expertise and training to Malta’s scientific community.

www.embl.org

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