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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 10h

We hear from the Africa Microscopy Initiative about the inaugural PEER call with @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social, which saw four refurbished and serviceable research-grade microscopes awarded to research institutes in Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon & Ethiopia.
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Africa Microscopy Initiative redistributes research-grade light microscopes to four African institutions - FocalPlane

Africa Microscopy Initiative redistributes research-grade light microscopes to four African institutions - News

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 1d

Hey microscopists! On behalf of @ausbias.org I'd like to invite you to fill in our inaugural survey of how you perform and interface with bioimage analysis in your work! Help shape our society, and help us understand how we can best serve the wider microscopy community! ausbias.org/survey-2025/

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Garcia-Mata Lab @rhopower.bsky.social · 1d

Huge thanks to the incredibly talented Center for Visual Arts students for transforming microscopy images into incredible works of art for Toledo CellulART! Science meets art in the most inspiring way. 🔬❤️🎨 www.toledocellulart.org #SciArt #Microscopy

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Steven Cook @dumpyunc.bsky.social · 1d

Our group at the Allen Institute is recruiting a technician and postdoc to work on light microscopy-based connectomics. Please DM me or share with anyone you think may be interested in this NIH BRAIN CONNECTS funded project.

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ppbioimaging.bsky.social @ppbioimaging.bsky.social · 14h

🏆 The PPBI Image Contest celebrates the art of science!

🎉 Congratulations to Carina Mónico (CCMAR) for her winning image!

A huge thank-you to everyone who took part.

#PPBI #Microscopy #BioImaging #ScienceArt

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 1d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

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Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · 14h

Just a reminder about our faculty search at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. Applications due Oct. 15. @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social

Soni Lacefield @lacefieldlab.bsky.social · Aug 27

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438
@dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio

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Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 2d

New addition to my thoughts on 🧪 mentoring. Give trainees a seat at the table. Are you going to a conference where you will speak about their work? Encourage them to attend. Are you going to a meeting to discuss their project with a collaborator or editor? Invite them and ask for their input.

Stacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · Nov 18

Mentoring is the most important thing most of us can do. Here is a 🧵about what I've learned as a PI running an academic research lab. I hope some of the advice is helpful to those who are just starting their labs and to folks hitting the academic job market in search of an independent position 🧪 1/n

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Viv Goosens @candiedgoose.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to an exciting day and the exchange of ideas around Global Bioimaging #GBIxBINA 2025

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Exchange of Experience 2025 | Global BioImaging

Applications closed on 7 March 2025 The Program Committee for the EoE2025: Claire Brown (McGill University, Canada) Clara Prats (University of Copenhagen, Denm…

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Cristina Pujades @cristinapujades.bsky.social · 2d

We are hiring ! Interested in understanding how neuronal cell diversity arises? Come and join us @upf.edu for a #PhD #FPI fellowship

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #molecularbiology #cellbiology #CRISPR people! My student did CRISPRi with transient transfection & sees target knockdown, but 1) the plasmid has no fluorescent marker and 2) the cells refuse to die with antibiotics.
How would you quantify/estimate transfection efficiency?

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Naomi Moris @nmoris.bsky.social · 2d

Fully-funded 4-year PhD Opportunities available at the @crick.ac.uk , including a project in our lab on human #embryomodels Feel free to share with anyone interested, and apply through the online portal before 5th November! 👏

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Moris Lab | Investigating human trunk development using stem cell-based embryo models

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Alexis Barr @alexisbarr.bsky.social · 20d

@mariasecrier.bsky.social & I are looking for an enthusiastic & excellent data scientist for a 4-year postdoc to understand cell cycle dysregulation in cancer.

Deadline 15th October. Get in touch if you have any questions.

Please repost!

More details:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Description

Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

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SEBD @sebioldev.bsky.social · 2d

We are very pleased to announce our joint meeting with the German @gfeev.bsky.social and the Dutch Developmental Biology Societies, which will take place in Potsdam from the 10-13th of March 2026. Registration is now open! www.uni-potsdam.de/en/gfe-meeti...

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India BioImaging @indiabioimaging.bsky.social · 5d

India BioImaging Newsletter – October Edition is Here!
We are excited to launch the second issue of the IBI Newsletter for 2025 - shorturl.at/H2E1c
This edition brings together stories and updates from across the imaging community—bridging labs, institutions, and researchers worldwide.

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UCL BioImage Interest Group @biig-ucl.bsky.social · 5d

Next BIIG seminar is 12-1pm on Friday 10th October 🔬😄:

- Anna Bajur (Imperial College London): “Quantifying cellular forces, one molecule at a time”
- Virginia Silio (UCL): “Euro-BioImaging: From Access to Analysis”

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GdR ImaBio @gdrimabio.bsky.social · 5d

🔬For 22 years, we have been organizing #Mifobio "Functional Microscopy for Biology" the @cnrs.fr thematic school.

🎓 Courses, Seminars, Round Tables, Workshops. The overall theme concerns #biological_imaging in its most interdisciplinary aspects.

👉 Program: imabio-cnrs.fr

#GDRImaBio #Mifobio2025

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GdR ImaBio @gdrimabio.bsky.social · 3d

#Mifobio2025

Focus on the module 4 :
👉 Multi-scale imaging of biological systems

We are delighted to welcome Professor Timo BETZ
@uni-goettingen.de

Lecture - “Flow, Force & Form : Multimodal 3-D Microscopy for Living-Tissue Mechanics

👉 imabio-cnrs.fr/mifobio-2025/

#GDRImaBio #microscopy

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GdR ImaBio @gdrimabio.bsky.social · 3d

#Mifobio2025

Focus on the module 4 :
👉 Multi-scale imaging of biological systems

We are delighted to welcome @merlinlange.bsky.social
Institut de la Vision Paris

Lecture : “Building a Multimodal Atlas of Vertebrate Development”

👉 imabio-cnrs.fr/mifobio-2025/

#GDRImaBio #microscopy

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GdR ImaBio @gdrimabio.bsky.social · 3d

#Mifobio2025
Focus on the module 4 :
👉 Multi-scale imaging of biological systems

We are delighted to welcome Anne BEGHIN @mbisg.bsky.social

Lecture - “Breaking scale: Image Analysis–Based AI to Streamline multilevels 3D quantitative Imaging and Tackle the vEM Challenge”

#GDRimabio

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GdR ImaBio @gdrimabio.bsky.social · 3d

#Mifobio2025
Focus on the module 4 :
👉 Multi-scale imaging of biological systems

We are delighted to welcome David LABONTE
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @jungeakademie.bsky.social

Lecture : “photogrammetry, synthetic data, and high-throughput automatic data extraction in insects”

#GDRimabio

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 4d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Janelia FlyEM @janelia-flyem.bsky.social · 3d

We're very proud to be releasing the complete male fly CNS connectome!

It's the product of a huge team effort here at Janelia in partnership with the Cambridge Fly Connectomics group (@jefferis.bsky.social and colleagues), plus invaluable collaborators.

More soon...
www.janelia.org/project-team...

Male CNS Connectome

A team of researchers has unveiled the complete connectome of a male fruit fly central nervous system —a seamless map of all the neurons in the brain and nerve cord of a single male fruit fly and the ...

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Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 4d

I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager!
I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Postdoc position in regenerative biology on "Tracking the cellular origins regeneration" in the @michalis_averof lab in Lyon, France. Fantastic lab, great institute, nice city!
https://www.averof-lab.org/pages/tracman

#postdoc

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