It was fantastic to chat with Aníbal about the @lisium-chile.bsky.social initiative and Aníbal’s journey to becoming a light-sheet specialist and project coordinator at Universidad Mayor, Chile.
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The next deadline for @jcellsci.bsky.social FocalPlane Training Grants is 20 February. These grants are open to early-career researchers in cell biology that require funding to attend a microscopy or bioimage analysis training course.
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇
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#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
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The next stop on our ‘Imaging with…’ series is at Unidad de Microscopía Avanzada, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Meet the team (including the microscopes), discover how you can access the facility and learn their pet peeve!
focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/15/i...
I was embarrassed by how many chrome tabs I had open so I started using edge for certain things. Of course now I'm embarrassed when I open either browser...
Fridays = preprints and #FluorescenceFriday.
I'm looking forward to brightening up a cold, rainy day!
January is the month for dreams!
And the only one I have tried is..... cucumber! Note for 2026 - must do better!
🔬🔦Imaging spotlight: Lock-in-SIM
Our latest imaging spotlight focusses on structured illumination microscopy, as Wenjie Liu & team present Lock-in-SIM.
Check out their post to discover how & why you should try it with your SIM workflow: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/08/i...
Sounds interesting, but I've not yet been more adventurous than mint in my mojito!
Indeed, there are still important goals, like testing whether it is really possible to enjoy drinking a cocktail with a pickled onion in it!
Congratulations!
I just read a book called "Why Mummy Drinks"...
Wow, what a fantastic line up of instructors! Don't miss this opportunity to learn from some of the best in the business ❤️🔬
The 2023 version of this meeting was fantastic and the 2026 programme promises to be just as brilliant! (I may also be thinking of chatting all thing microscopy in the Spanish sunshine while huddled inside in a cold and snowy Cambridge.)
Sign up by Friday 16 Jan for the early-bird discount ⤵️
🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)!
An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools.
🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026
Ok, so my 11 yo says he is going to work it out as well, but has informed me that he'll probably need a lot of machinery. He has to do some unfolding to get started, as apparently you can't do inventing in school uniform!
Amazing research and such a fantastic scicomm video.
I'd like to show it to my kids, but I'm afraid that it'll backfire and they'll use it to explain why all the clothes in their cupboards are unfolded despite the fact they were folded when they went in....
Thanks for catching that background slide, Chris!
And thanks for the shout to @the-node.bsky.social, @prelights.bsky.social & @focalplane.bsky.social, Jez.
I'm sad to miss the UK membrane trafficking meeting this year, but hope to see you both at @jcellsci.bsky.social imaging meeting next year!
* holders
^ coverslips
** knives
Love this story from @andreamurillo.bsky.social.
It was fun to think back to when @em-stp.bsky.social & @jemimaburden.bsky.social taught me EM and I got to play with gold*, sapphire^ and diamond**! I was so excited to get our paper published in JCS, & now I have the pleasure to be part of the team.
It's Hammer Time. Picture of MC Hammer dancing in a yellow jacket with black trousers which are very wide from hip to knee.
I'm later to the party, but
Now that's image stitching!
My fun discovery this Friday is this montage of 33 electron micrographs in published in @jcellsci.bsky.social in the 1960s. The original measured 3ft square!
Yes, this! Especially combined with having to heat seal the tubes!
That sounds like a perfect opportunity for a 10 year label-versary party next year!?
Hahaha, I used to do that with torn labels. Each time I'd wonder why I didn't make a fresh label rather than having to transfer 2 labels each time, especially when they were losing their stickiness, but I'd still keep doing it!
I'm looking forward to the lovely pictures from the exciting conference that's going on next week! #sharethejoy #jealous #fomo
Probably the coolest thing I learned at #ABRF was that there is a website called "core in a box" all about starting a core and management. Check it out!
www.hopkinsmedicine.org/research/res...
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#MicroscopyMonday!
Join @bioimagingna.bsky.social for a conversation with @clairebrown514.bsky.social as part of our Career Speaker series!
Learn More & Register here
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At the end of last year, I was lucky enough to chat with both Jennifer and Manu. Check out these interviews in @jcellsci.bsky.social to find out more about these extraordinary scientists!
