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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 7d

Had a great visit to KCL for my second Euro-BioImaging Node interview — and really nice to meet Andreas! The MIC renovation looks fantastic. Hope the interview shines a bit more light on all the brilliant technical work happening across the Nodes!

eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 7d

Meet Andres Bodén! In an interview with @virsicas.bsky.social, he explains how managing the Microscopy Innovation Centre at King's allows him to balance tech development with user projects — to shape the future of microscopy & broaden its impact. 🔬
More⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-an...

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · 9d

The advert for the second (wetlab) postdoc is now live www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 15d

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones.

If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 19d

#HappyFluorescenceFriday!

#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!

Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

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Siân Culley @superresolusian.bsky.social · 9d

BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...

Bioimage Analysis Specialist | King's College London

www.kcl.ac.uk

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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 12d

It's TODAY! Join us at 13:00 CEST for an exciting talk by Virginia Silio, our Scientific Ambassador, on "From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging and Analysis." @virsicas.bsky.social
All are welcome!
Register🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 16d

I’m speaking at the Euro-BioImaging Virtual Pub! I’ll share my journey into microscopy support, introduce UCL’s Light Microscopy facility, and show how we help researchers from planning to analysis — plus reproducible workflows & community building.

www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...

From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging and Analysis

Please join us for the Virtual Pub on September 26, 2025 at 13:00 CEST. We welcome Virginia Silio, University College London (one of Euro-BioImaging’s Scientific Ambassadors!), for a talk entitled…

www.eurobioimaging.eu

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 29d

It’s out! It was a pleasure to talk to Rob, and learn how amazing Octopus is!

eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 29d

Our Scientific Ambassador @virsicas.bsky.social interviewed Robert Lees, an expert in multiphoton & light sheet microscopy at the 🐙 Octopus facility, part of Euro-BioImaging’s UK Node @bioimaginguk.bsky.social.
🔬Learn more about his role in the full interview🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/meet-ro...

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UCL BioImage Interest Group @biig-ucl.bsky.social · Sep 8

BIIG seminars are back! 🎉

12-1pm on 12th September:
- Kaixiang Shuai (LMCB, UCL): Creating the first Drosophila imaginal wing disc atlas
- Aikta Sharma (UCL Mechanical Engineering): Predicting Osteoarthritis in the Tibial Epiphysis with Synchrotron X-ray CT and Digital Volume Correlation

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Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social · Aug 14

Courtney @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social has written a lovely piece on this wonderful community initiative we’ve been running for 5 years at UCL - have a read! And follow @biig-ucl.bsky.social !

FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢New post on FocalPlane - Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group

Courtney Lancaster @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social‬ reflects on the success of the BioImage Interest Group at UCL, offering a template for other communities.

Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group - FocalPlane

Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group -

focalplane.biologists.com

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · Jul 25

Do you even work in microscopy if your camera roll isn’t 50% laser bed glamour shots? #fluorescencefriday #kindof

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · Jul 18

I’m a bit biased but I love how it looks! #uclccmd

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · Jul 15

How I feel after the Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship, workshops, keynotes, talks, networking… #ucldigifest

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · Jul 10

great idea, loved those books as a kid

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · Jul 10

The video Pairing time-lapse super-resolution microscopy with deep learning to track chromosome dynamics is now available on YouTube from the Virtual Pub Euro-BioImaging.
Definitely worth watching—microscopy, analysis, and nice chromosome segregation (I know I’m a bit biased).
lnkd.in/e--RRckJ

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · Jul 1

- A postdoc to work on cancer extravasation (4-year project).
- A postdoc help in completing Filopodia-related lab projects (2-year).
- Multiple Marie Curie postdoc positions that will open in the fall.
- We will open a 5-year position to cover my teaching (70% research and 30% teaching).

Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · Jun 23

Are you looking for a postdoc?
I will be looking for 2-4 people after the summer to join the lab !!
Do not hesitate to reach out and disseminate !!

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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · Jul 2

#EuroBioImaging, represented by @jojobischof.bsky.social, is delighted to be at #mmc2025 this week with UK Node colleagues, Scientific Ambassador, Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social & more! Great place to catch up on the state-of-the-art in microscopy, imaging & cytometry.🔬

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · Jul 4

Really enjoyed the talk from @zuninoale.bsky.social — super insightful! Fingers crossed that Nikon release the raw SPAD data

Royal Microscopical Society Early Career Researchers @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social · Jun 30

Alessandro Zunino now describes contributions to the Image Scanning Microscope (s^2-ISM) for super-res 3D sectioning much like SIM, and FLIM-capable but with a small confocal photodiode array!

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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · Jun 27

Delighted to share this article from @ucl.ac.uk‬ highlighting Virginia Silio, @virsicas.bsky.social‬, one of our 2025 Scientific Ambassadors!
www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/...

Dr Virginia Silió of the UCL CDB has been selected to be Euro-BioImaging Ambassador 2025

A UCL Research Technician, specialising in confocal imaging, has been selected to be Euro-BioImaging Ambassador for the 25/26 academic year. Virginia Silió works in UCL's Centre for Molecular & Cell D...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · Jun 11

I sympathise, microscopy world is crazy about acronyms

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · Jun 4

congrats @giuliapaci.bsky.social !

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · Jun 2

Cyril Andrieu, Bren Hunyi Lee & Anna Franz find that cell deformations generated by stochastic actomyosin waves drive random-walk swimming migration in Drosophila adipocytes.
Highlight: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
#OpenAccess

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · May 30

Very good news!!

BioImagingUK @bioimaginguk.bsky.social · May 30

🔬𝐔𝐊 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨-𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 £𝟏.𝟖𝐌 from @ukri.org

This will:
-Democratise access to cutting-edge biological and biomedical imaging
-Support 200+ researchers yearly
-Boost open science

Thanks to BBSRC and MRC for this major upgrade! 🚀

Congrats to the entire UK Node team 👏

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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · May 23

Learn it. Know it. Live it.

Robin the boy wonder says "ChatGPT says" while batman slaps him violently and says "no".

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · May 9

I have bigger FOV, I’ll let you l know!

Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · May 9

Not sure how clear my data is, but it doesn't work. I will go to image.sc when I have time (sorry!)

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