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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · 22d

Proud to be part of this vital dialogue on health research infrastructure, connecting Australian and European colleagues to strengthen global collaboration.
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Thanks to @emblaustralia.org, @eurobioimaging.bsky.social, @nifaustralia.bsky.social, and partners for fostering this important exchange.

eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 22d

#EuroBioImaging Directors are contributing to an important event happening this week in Prato, Italy, alongside our Australian colleagues from @micro-au.bsky.social @nifaustralia.bsky.social @emblaustralia.org & other partners from 🇦🇺& 🇪🇺 health #researchinfrastructures.
📸Photo courtesy of BBMRI ERIC

Euro-BioImaging Directors & Australian colleagues.

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Sep 10

Are you involved in imaging data? From clinical data to microscopy – this event is for you! We're bringing together researchers, policymakers and data stewards to develop shared recommendations for imaging data standards. Hybrid event, free attendance, registration required.

foundingGIDE @gideproject.bsky.social · May 21

📢 Registration is now OPEN for the foundingGIDE Community Event 2025 in Brisbane 🇦🇺

Join us Oct 17–18 for 1.5 days on imaging data!
Theme: Imaging Data Ecosystem: Towards Shared Solutions

Abstracts and registration: founding-gide.eurobioimaging.eu/community-ev...

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foundingGIDE @gideproject.bsky.social · Aug 25

The #foundingGIDE Community Event 2025 program is now live!

📌 Location: Brisbane, Australia & Online
📅 Deadline: 31st August
📃 Program: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@globalbioimaging.bsky.social @nifaustralia.bsky.social @micro-au.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

#imaging #bioimaging

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Aug 22

🔬 We're hiring! Adelaide Microscopy is seeking a CryoTEM Microscopist to support cutting-edge research in South Australia. Passionate about cryo-EM & single particle analysis? 🧪 Apply by 18 Sept: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
#STEMjobs

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Louise Cole @louisecole.bsky.social · Jul 8

We did it! What a fabulous learning opportunity to be part of UTS 2025 Research Translation Competition. So excited to see what's ahead for our Wonder Project! @aimi-uts.bsky.social @australianmms.bsky.social @micro-au.bsky.social Congrats to other teams & thx to competition organisers and judges.

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Shashi Gawai @shashigawai.bsky.social · Jun 19

Proud to support the global roll-out of the #AcknowledgementGuidelines poster, launched in partnership with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social & @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social . 🌍🔬‪

Too often, imaging scientists and facility staff go unacknowledged in publications -

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Jun 16

An RNA drug-delivery approach developed at UQ is showing how Australia’s national research infrastructure helps translate big ideas into tangible biomedical innovations.🧪 micro.org.au/news/ncris-t... #NCRISimpact @nifaustralia.bsky.social @anff.org.au @basemrna.bsky.social @sethcheetham.bsky.social

NCRIS Turbo-Charges New mRNA Drugs - Microscopy Australia

Therapeutics that use mRNA are a growing area of development and function by introducing the ‘’message” to make a therapeutic protein into the patient’s body, instead of the protein itself. This appro...

micro.org.au

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Australian Access Federation @aaf.edu.au · Jun 16

🗓 Upcoming Event: Australian Trust and Identity for National Research Infrastructure - Information Session | 18 June, 11am AEST #Online

Featuring guest speakers from @nifaustralia.bsky.social, @access-nri.bsky.social and @micro-au.bsky.social.

Register now > aaf.edu.au/project/trus...

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Jun 16

Join us for this webinar by Laurence Lejeune on how core research facilities have evolved into key drivers of innovation—and why it’s time to rethink how we measure their impact in research.
micro.org.au/events/webin...

@globalbioimaging.bsky.social 🧪 @australianmms.bsky.social

White text on a black background saying "From Backbone to breakthrough: recognising core facilities contributions, Webinar by Laurence Lejeune July 3rd 1-2pm AEST"

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Jun 13

Do you know an administration superstar? We're looking for the next member of our HQ team. This is a dynamic role based at the University of Sydney, working closely with our facilities across nine leading Australian universities.

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · May 26

A newly developed nanoscale #catalyst has the potential to be translated into a sustainable technology to produce green #hydrogen from just seawater and sunlight: empowering the hydrogen economy. micro.org.au/news/convert... @englishanu.bsky.social‬ #NCRISimpact #NetZero

Transmission electron microscope image showing atoms of crystalline copper at the heart of the catalytic nanoparticles surrounded by a halo of non-crystalline carbon–nitrogen–cobalt.

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · May 20

Researchers have discovered why #CriticalMinerals accumulate around the edge of continental cores. This info can be used to predict probable new locations for essential critical minerals. Supported by our ANU facility. @englishanu.bsky.social‬ #NCRISimpact #NetZero‬ micro.org.au/news/new-exp...

Michael Förster @mwforster.bsky.social · Jan 9

Check out our recent @Nature paper! We show how cratonic roots become enriched in metal sulfides by the interaction of carbonated silicate melts with the cratonic mantle. We show that carbonatite melts are reaction products, leaving sulfides behind. @petro-isra.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Sulfide-rich continental roots at cratonic margins formed by carbonated melts - Nature

Examination of the sulfur and copper contents of global cratonic peridotites combined with new high-pressure experiments shows that the migration of carbonated melts towards cratonic margins explains ...

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Apr 22

Based in Adelaide? This is a great opportunity to upskill in the design and fabrication of microfluidic/electronic, MEMS, optical and sensing chips – and it's free!

ANFF South Australia @anff-sa.com · Apr 22

📣 SAVE THE DATE 📅

ANFF-SA's Microengineering School: Tuesday 8th July to Friday 11th July 2025 at University of South Australia's Future Industries Institute, Mawson Lakes campus!

Registration open 1st May.
Program Details: lnkd.in/g4BHpid

#NCRIS #nanotech #engineering #microfabrication

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Paul McMillan @drpaulmcmillan.bsky.social · Apr 12

Save the Date! There are now only 298 days until the next Light Microscopy Australia symposium. This will be hosted at the University of Sydney from 3-5th Feb 2026. Follow this page and make sure that you renew your @australianmms.bsky.social membership to be kept up to date with symposium details!

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Apr 8

Fossilized fish up to 16 million years old found in Australia with last meal still intact! 🧪
More awesome research by Prof. Michael Frese and team featured by CNN (and riffed on by Stephen Colbert).
edition.cnn.com/2025/03/28/s...
Supported by our ANU facility #NCRISimpact

youtu.be/-SSrijr6Zzc?...

The Sound Of Science: Hangover Resistance | Squirrelbot | Treating Lower Back Pain

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Apr 3

Beautiful, great work @phrn.org.au team!

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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · Mar 27

This week, we're hosting the #EuroBioImaging All Hands Nodes Meeting at @embl.org Heidelberg! Yesterday we focused on #imaging technologies with Nodes & industry board partners. Today we explore international collaboration with @micro-au.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social & much more to come!

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Mar 26

Great opportunity to explore @ai4life.bsky.social's FAIR, open, community-driven repository of pre-trained AI models for image analysis, along with lessons learnt.
@ausbias.bsky.social @australianmms.bsky.social @nifaustralia.bsky.social

AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jan 28

🚨 Save the Date! 🚨
AI4Life & @globias.bsky.social are hosting a 4-part webinar series to showcase AI4Life services and lessons learned.

📅 When: Feb 13, Apr 10, Jun 12, Aug 14
🖥️ How: Online | 🎥 Recorded
🔗 Registration: bit.ly/registration...

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Mar 26

Keeping a world icon clean! This awesome research is supported by our ANU facility.
Read more: micro.org.au/news/cleanin...

Anna Paradowska @annaparadowska.bsky.social · Mar 26

This is a big cleaning job that we’re happy to be involved with! #SydneyHarbour is our best known heritage listed structure & we’re making sure is looking its iconic best! Watch🎥documenting our research journey m.youtube.com/watch?v=aFvj...
#ANU @sydney.edu.au @ansto.bsky.social #TfNSWAlerts

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · Mar 26

We'll be announcing the winners of the Node-FocalPlane image competition tomorrow. Be sure to get your vote in if you haven't already done so! If you are at #biologists100 you can vote via the app. If not, visit: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/03/11/v...

Vote for your favourite image - FocalPlane

Vote for your favourite image - News

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Australian Access Federation @aaf.edu.au · Mar 20

We have partnered with @micro-au.bsky.social to explore how richer reporting, impact tracking and usage data can be used to reveal impact. There are opportunities to explore a consistent approach to PIDs and ORCID implementation across Microscopy Australia's facilities.

Microscopy Australia - Australian Access Federation

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · Mar 12

If, hypothetically, a person were trying to set up a career panel series for bioimage analysis, what kinds of roles (or specific people) would you want to hear more about? Hypothetical nominations of all stripes welcome :) #bioimageanalysis

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Mar 9

We are so lucky to work with the amazing women of Sydney Microscopy and Microanalysis. From managing facilities to sharing expertise with researchers, this #InternationalWomensDay, we'd like to celebrate some of the unsung heroes of the research world: the professional staff that make it happen.

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Mar 4

🌟Explore our 2024 Research Highlights! 🌟
From needle-free insulin to converting CO2 to electricity, join us in celebrating these awesome Aussie discoveries enabled by open-access, Govt-funded research infrastructure – #NCRISimpact 🧪🔬
micro.org.au/news/explore...
@globalbioimaging.bsky.social

The cover of the book says "Microscopy Australia Research Highlights 2024", next to it, in a circle cut out, is a black and white scanning electron micrograph of a rapid antigen test being developed to test for tropical viruses. It looks like overlapping fibres with liquid suspended between them.

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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · Feb 27

Congratulations! 🎉