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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · 6d

The inside of an SP8! Bringing it's 633 nm laser back to life from SP5 parts!

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Virginie Uhlmann @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social · Aug 25

Once is an exception, twice is a trend, thrice is a tradition!

Save the date for our now-traditional annual OME-NGFF extravaganza in Zurich!

Whether you’ve just heard about OME-NGFF and are curious to learn more or if you are working with it every day, there is something for everyone this year!

Joel Lüthi @joelluethi.bsky.social · Aug 25

We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉

📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025

📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...

#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr

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Visual of segmented human induced pluripotent stem cells with the key workshop dates: Symposium on November 10-11, Hackathon on November 12-14th in Zurich Switzerland

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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · Aug 26

The #CBIAS2025 abstract deadline is this Sunday, August 31st. Submit your #BioImageAnalysis work, whether it’s a new tool or a biological discovery. #EarlyCareerResearchers, this is for you! Short and flash talk slots are up for grabs.

www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025 Poster

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Aug 23

La Vuelta is LIVE here in Bluesky 🤩

#cycling #LaVuelta25 #protour

La Vuelta @lavuelta.bsky.social · Aug 23

🏁 - 85 km | Stage 1️⃣ - Etapa 1️⃣

🔥The peloton accelerates and swallows up most of the breakaway - Hugo de la Calle is the last man standing

⚔️ El pelotón acelera y sólo sobrevive en la fuga el debutante Hugo de la Calle (Burgos Burpellet BH)

#LaVuelta25 #VueltaLIVE

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OME @openmicroscopy.org · Aug 6

New Imaging Mass Cytometry data in the Image Data Resource (IDR, idr.openmicroscopy.org).

IDR: Image Data Resource

idr.openmicroscopy.org

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David Gaboriau @dgaboriau.bsky.social · Aug 4

Microscopy facility post in Norwich, UK
🔬🔬🔬

Christine Faulkner @pdchristine.bsky.social · Jul 19

VACANCY

Optical Microscopy Specialist

Come work alongside the plant and microbial scientists at JIC and help us explore the biological frontier at the tissue, cell and subcellular scale!

John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · Jul 15

VACANCY - We’re seeking an Optical Microscopy Support Specialist to join our Bioimaging Platform, to help train users on light microscopes, collaborate on imaging projects and provide technical support.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/op...

Closing date - 11 August 2025
Contract - Full time, indefinite

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jul 27

Wout Van Aert is King! 👑 💪🏻🤩

#tdf25 #cycling

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jul 27

Yesterday's stage would have been perfect for Blanka. Neither Lotte Kopecky nor Lorena Wiebes had the legs... Why Team SD Worx - Protime does't change tactics for the day? Why not risk a plan that has a chance? #cycling #TDFfemmes

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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · Jul 25

I might be biased …,bc #microtubules ….but wow 🤩

Society for Developmental Biology @socdevbio.bsky.social · Jul 25

🐌💫 Snail embryos never looked so fabulous!
Tubulin (white), phospho-histone H3 (pink), and F-Actin (cyan) light up this early stage like a cytoskeletal disco ball.
Image from Clemens Cabernard & Adam von Barnau Sythoff 🪩🧬 #FluorescenceFriday

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Ryan Lister @ryanlister.bsky.social · Jul 16

We're hiring! Need a microscopy wizard to help build the world’s first synthetic plant chromosome! Bring your lights, lasers, & lens-craft to characterise new artificial chromosomes. Join our ARIA-funded project at UWA in Perth & ‪@plants4space.bsky.social‬. Apply: bit.ly/3GKSRSA

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jul 12

Congrats Fena! Well deserved!👏

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jul 8

The mindset of zero-sum thinking.

Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · Jul 7

"To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset." My piece in @theeconomistevents.bsky.social this week on how zero-sum thinking arises and why it matters so much for policy and politics. Based on our research at the Social Economics Lab. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva

Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

www.economist.com

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jul 5

Et c'est parti! 😍

ammattipyöräily @ammattipyoraily.bsky.social · Jul 3

🇫🇷 TOUR DE FRANCE (5/7-27/7) | #TDF2025

Will post some stats and informative(?) pics regarding Tour de France on Friday. Stay tuned.

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jul 5

Yes, that is so sad! ...and in her national team, she does not have a strong team who can effectively help her. She fights alone in the front with no team mates.
Her cyclocross performance shows how strong and capable she is to win medals.
She must be given a chance, else a wasted talent indeed.

cyclingbottle.bsky.social @cyclingbottle.bsky.social · Jul 4

Blanka Vas is one of the most badly used riders in cycling.

When she rides for her nation at international championships 🌈🎖️ she sprints for the medals against the best in the World.

But in her team, she's a domestique for 90+ % of the races.

A waste of talent.

#cycling #cyclingbluesky

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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · Jun 28

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jun 29

For accuracy: The Hungarian government banned Pride. Not Hungary. 🙂

Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jun 29

I really like Gov. Tim Walz. I hope he runs for President. I believe he would be an excellent coach in empathy and humility for the entire world. One who could bring back humanity and peace.

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · Jun 29

Goodbye, my friend.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Trump administration just established a precedent that they can pick and choose who leads higher Ed institutions. An authoritarian government deepens its reach into higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Mathew Kiang @mathewkiang.com · Jun 25

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions

Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

ki.se

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jun 24

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs

They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

www.motherjones.com

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · Jun 24

Broad's Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium coming soon! Nov 7, 2025. Another great lineup.

In person (Cambridge MA) and online options

Register by July 4 for a discount

www.broadinstitute.org/machine-lear...

Speakers

Speakers at the 2025 Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium: Tom Miller Iambic Therapeutics Ava Amini Microsoft Research Project Ex Vivo Francesca Grisoni Eindhoven University of Technology Ore...

www.broadinstitute.org

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jun 23

Very proud to have helped the Lycée Français de Barcelone choose teaching microscopes (Motic). Today, I visited to demonstrate how to take for the microscopes, clean objectives, and learn about the microscopy teaching activities they run. It's great to find out that my French isn't that rusty! 🤩

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Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jun 9

De most még szabad előjönni, hiába mondták neked... (Lovasi András)
Polgári ellenállás, Június 10-én, este 18-tól a Kossuth téren!

Nem tudok ott lenni, de támogattam a kivetítést és a hangosítást!

Nadia Halidi @nadiahalidi.bsky.social · Jun 6

Inverting is nice, anything but green and red to be more inclusive. Think of #colorblind readers! 🥺

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