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Kris Kubow @kriskubow.bsky.social · 2d

#GBIxBINA2025 Great talk by David Budtz Pedersen of Aalborg University about changing how research impacts are assessed - moving beyond relying only on pubs and grants and seeing the value of micro impacts like collaborations, open data, and infrastructure development. @bioimagingna.bsky.social

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Kris Kubow @kriskubow.bsky.social · 2d

Almost to #GBIxBINA2025 ! Just need to make it through the taxi queue

Kris Kubow @kriskubow.bsky.social · 22d

We have excellent research facilities including cell culture (BSL1/2), a light microscopy core, a genomics, core, and vivarium! www.jmu.edu/biology/inde...

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Kris Kubow @kriskubow.bsky.social · 22d

We're hiring!
Tenure-track Asst. Prof. in Cell/Molec Biology or Genetics!
JMU is an R2, primarily undergrad university with faculty who are passionate about research and student mentoring/teaching. Feel free to DM with questions!
jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/tenure-...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Biology or Genetics - Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States

Working Title: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Biology or Genetics State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-Time FLSA Status...

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 28d

#Microscopycommunity- Exciting news! The NSF-funded Imaging-PHD (Persistent Hardware Descriptors) will make microscopy data more reproducible & shareable by standardizing how hardware info is captured. Thrilled to get started with our amazing multi-institutional team! 🔬

NSF Award: buff.ly/sXWcZLW

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Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · Aug 7

I got this in my head and I couldn't focus on work until it existed.

Microscopy image file alignment chart, based on how I feel if you give me an image to analyze:

D&D style alignment chart for microscopy images.

Lawful good: .ome.tiff
Lawful neutral: .png
Lawful evil: .jpg
Neutral Good: .tiff
Neutral: .pdf
Neutral Evil: .mrxs
Chaotic Good: .h5
Chaotic Neutral: .ppt
Chaortic Evil: .jpg.avi.tiff

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · May 25

If you have a current fourth grader, log on to everykidoutdoors.gov with your student, complete an activity, then download and print your pass voucher. Redeem the printed voucher for the pass at thousands of federal public land sites throughout the country 2/n

Every Kid Outdoors

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · May 26

Happy #MicroscopyMonday!

#microscopycommunity - join @bioimagingna.bsky.social May 28, to hear Fredric Bonnet of @MDIBL_LMF speak on “Maine Microscopy: Democratizing Microscopy Education for Local Scientists” as part of the BINA EoE Virtual Group

Learn more and register here: buff.ly/F3rZzx7

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Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment @theglasgowcemi.bsky.social · May 16

A chat with Prof. Viola Vogel (Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich), whose pioneering work in mechanobiology has been key to show that proteins act as mechano-chemical switches which can be exploited in the treatment of various diseases.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Making progress in mechanobiology (with Prof Viola Vogel)

Podcast Episode · The CeMi Podcast · 20/03/2025 · 23m

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Kris Kubow @kriskubow.bsky.social · May 9

Looking forward to this meeting! Global Bioimaging, Canada Bioimaging and Bioimaging North America all together in one place! Virtual option available

BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · May 9

#HappyFluorescenceFriday

#microscopycommunity, it’s here! Registration for the GBIxBINA2025 meeting in Montreal, Canada is now open! Join @bioimagingna.bsky.social and @globalbioimaging.bsky.social for a week on the future of microscopy and advanced tech

GBIxBINA Registration: buff.ly/SHteplt

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · May 2

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · May 1

BIG NEWS - for the first time ever, we're running a Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp. Learn #bioimageanalysis from awesome folks, and gain familiarity with some new tools as well as how to pick the right tool in the first place. Aug 4th-8th - apply here (soon!) forms.gle/d2fCXsrWHVP8...

Ad for the Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp at the Broad Institute.

Where & When
Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge MA (in-person only)
Monday–Friday, August 4–8, 20259:00 AM – 5:00 PM

About the Bootcamp
Learn core bioimage analysis skills using open-source tools for light
microscopy in this hands-on, in-person course. The Bootcamp
covers annotation, segmentation, and deep learning fundamentals.

Fee: $600 (Academic/Non-Profit) | $1000 (Industry/For-Profit)
For more information email ImagingAdmin@broadinstitute.org

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Nihil Dev @nihildev.bsky.social · Apr 21

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.

www.ourhealthroi.com

Our Health ROI

Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Apr 10

Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.

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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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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · Mar 3

#MicroscopyMonday!

#microscopycommunity, join us on March 11 to hear from 4 amazing @bioimagingna.bsky.social members about their experiences as Imaging Scientists in facilities across Canada, Mexico and the US.

It is free and online, so please join by registering buff.ly/IsB2eiw

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Kris Kubow @kriskubow.bsky.social · Feb 17

I don't think I've ever heard of a core facility that didn't have IT issues! Check-out this informal discussion about the challenges (and small victories) in dealing with your institutional information technology department

BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · Feb 17

#MicroscopyMonday!

#microscopycommunity, join us for “Networking a core: Concerns and obstacles when collaborating with IS&T” as part of the @bioimagingna.bsky.social EoE Virtual Group meeting on Feb 26 at 1pm ET lead by Jason Hill - free and online!

Register here https://buff.ly/419xemo

Image of Jason Hill smiling on a black background with white text indicating BINA’s virtual Group EoE will be Wed Feb 26 at 1pm ET and registration is needed via BINA’s activity page

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · Feb 8

Since I have way more non-academic followers than I ever would have imagined: a short explainer.

TL;DR: Substantially cutting indirect costs will either mean raising tuition and fees, or laying off a bunch of mid- and low-salary staff and students.

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Kris Kubow @kriskubow.bsky.social · Feb 5

We're hiring!
"Lecturer, Introductory Microbiology, Human Physiology, and/or Human Anatomy (Two Positions)"
jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/lecture...

Lecturer, Introductory Microbiology, Human Physiology, and/or Human Anatomy (Two Positions) - Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States

Working Title: Lecturer, Introductory Microbiology, Human Physiology, and/or Human Anatomy (Two Positions) State Role Title: N/A Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty Position Status: Full-T...

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · Jan 20

Maybe its a good time for a little Executive Order (EO) primer, a few wee tools for sorting wheat from chaff so it seems like less of a deluge. Item 1. EOs have to comply with the Constitution & laws, including acts of Congress. Any that don't will face long court battles before anything changes. /1

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jan 20

Once inaugurated, President Trump plans to sharply redirect federal policy on immigration, the federal work force, energy and the environment, the economy and trade, gender issues and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Follow live updates on his executive orders.

Trump Plans to Sign ‘Close to 100’ Executive Orders: Follow Live

Once inaugurated, President Trump plans to sharply redirect federal policy on immigration, the federal work force, energy and the environment, the economy and trade, gender issues and diversity, equit...

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Jennifer Waters @jencwaters.bsky.social · Jan 13

Hey PIs, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available.
meetings.cshl.edu/coursesinten...

Courses Intent to Apply Form

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · Jan 13

#CellMigration meets #SciArt

Naomi Wee (naomiwee.com) did this great movie to explain how amoeboid migration works (also mesenchymal & cancer migration)

Wanna know what happens if this leukocyte chooses the wrong path? Watch this !

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPwn... @focalplane.bsky.social #SciSky

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · Jan 9

Warming up for the upcoming #GRCCellMigration

For me the best video to explain adhesion-dependent #CellMigration by Felix Donghwi Son

More in the website felixvis.artstation.com #sciart #scicomm #ScienceSky #SciSky #cytoskeleton #FocalAdhesion

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · Dec 16

New Year, new job? Delighted to announce two early-career-level (post-BA/BS or MA) positions in my lab, and an open call for computational postdocs at the Broad!

First, an image analysis associate - work on high content screens for all kinds of cells and dimensionalities! See more at link (1/4)

Image analysis associate job description

Image Analysis Associate Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA Impact the discovery of new disease therapies in the Cimini laboratory at the Imaging Platform Join our vibrant, world-clas...

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Kris Kubow @kriskubow.bsky.social · Dec 16

I got a "square egg maker" in a recent gift exchange. It was apparently found among an old aunt's belongings; the branding on the box looks like it's many decades old. Actually works really well! But low-throughput. So no making a hard-boiled egg igloo (eggloo?)

Photo of a cube-shaped hard-boiled egg on a plate with the "square egg maker" device in the background.

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