We are really looking forward to hosting our #IMC21 Science Slam pre-selection round! 📢When? 21st May 2026 at 5pm (BST) 📢Where? On Zoom!

📢Are you an Early Career Researcher hoping to attend #IMC21 ? Submit an abstract to be selected to represent the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social at #IMC21 and have £200 towards travel expenses to attend!

An opportunity to share your research in a creative way and be in with a chance of being selected to represent the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social at the #IMC21 Science Slam (plus a £200 travel grant for #IMC21 !). Or join us to watch the virtual pre-selection round! Register by the 30th April 2026 🔬

Hello Bluesky! Calling all Early Career Researchers working in microscopy/image analysis or cytometry, want to gain recognition for your work and a chance to win a £100 cash prize? Just under a month to apply to our 2026 Early Career Award...

📣 Applications are *open* for our Technical Specialist Job Shadowing scheme in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry. Spend up to 5 days at a UK core facility and learn about the technical job roles essential to their running 🔬😀 rms.org.uk/opportunitie... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

After 10 packed days of optical microscopy theory & practicals, #SOMC25 is over! 🌍 24 students from around the world 🧑‍🏫 19 internationally renowned lecturers 🧑‍🔧 16 supportive sponsors 🔬 14 hands-on advanced practical sessions 🏆 4 poster & image prizes 🪼 1 field trip to collect marine specimens

Great first week at #SOMC25, learning microscopy basics through lectures and practicals. We spent today collecting samples on the Isle of Cumbrae ready for week 2!

The Strathclyde Optical Micoscopy Course #SOMC25 kicked off today - 10 days of practical light microscopy training with 24 students from around the world! From fundamental & advanced lectures, to hands-on workshops with high end systems, & a field trip to the Isle of Cumbrae, it will be great! 🔬

Kamilla Laidlaw, Hatwan Nadir, Chris MacDonald @yorkyeast.bsky.social and team @biologyatyork.bsky.social discover that killer toxin K28 resistance in yeast relies on COG complex-mediated trafficking of Ktd1. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... Article: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

❗️Calling ECRs❗️We would love to hear what career support you would like us to provide. Please fill out the small survey below to let us know your thoughts ! Deadline : 29th August @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social forms.office.com/e/bKDQcZBQdr

Had a fun time learning how to build a Lego microscope at #mmc2025 !

Come and chat with our friendly infocus Magazine team at this afternoon's poster session #mmc2025! We're keen to hear your ideas for future articles and other content 💡👍 Why not be a contributor? 😃🔬 #RMSinfocus

The Early Career Committee yesterday at our Early Career Symposium 2025! Thank you to all of our speakers and attendees for making it such a great afternoon @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social #mmc2025uk

Congratulations and much acclaim to our RMS Early Career Award Winner: Niamh Burke at UCD @niamh-deburca.bsky.social for her work on microscopy with astounding social impact! (Second from left) #mmc2025uk

Massive congratulations to Niamh Burke @niamh-deburca.bsky.social on winning the 2025 @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Early Career Award, with her talk on the enderscope community project, co-developing accessible imaging tools with the public. 😀🙌🔬👍 @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

...And we're off! All packed and ready for #mmc2025 in Manchester next week 😀🔬🚛 We'll see you there - and if you haven't booked your ticket yet, there's still time! (Exhibition tickets are *FREE*) 👇 www.mmc-series.org.uk/general-info... @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

Looking for mentoring to forward your career or technique goals - please find out more on the link below to the RMS Mentoring Scheme! A great opportunity for early career researchers!! 👇🔬 urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Working with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social, we're very proud to launch our new #AcknowledgementGuidelines poster, helping #ImagingScientists get the credit they deserve for their research contributions! #CreditWhereItsDue @bioimaginguk.bsky.social Read more: rms.org.uk/resource/rms...

Journal of Microscopy special issue - call for papers from Early Career Researchers!! More information below 👇 🔬

Very proud of Jodie Malcolm highlighting the rapid progress made in our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded programme to lower barriers of advanced imaging and data analysis. #elmi2025 @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @africanbioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

‼️Programme finalised ‼️Check out the Early Career Symposium programme below 👇 🔬 #mmc2025UK

Nice to pop by the Edinburgh Super Resolution Imaging Consortium summer school today to talk about some of the imaging I have been doing and also cheekily plug our Early Career Symposium at mmc! @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...

On National Receptionists' Day we'd like to thank our IGC receptionists Suzanne Kelly and Lorah Milliken whose friendly faces are the first anyone sees on coming into the Institute and who provide a vital role in making sure the work of colleagues runs smoothly and visitors get to their meetings.

Great morning at the @uoe-igc.bsky.social away day, enjoyed hearing about what others in the institute are working on!🎉

📊 Help shape the future of BioImagingUK! Take our EDI survey to improve representation and inclusion in our network. Your input matters! Results will be presented June 30th at BioImagingUK meeting at mmc2025 shorturl.at/q8guN

💡 Creating and nurturing healthy workplace environments is crucial for the well-being and productivity of all employees. One effective framework that can help us in this endeavor is the Traffic Light Analogy... 😀 👉 ulrikeboehm.org/fostering-he...

The deadline for #mmc2025 abstract submissions is *TOMORROW* (28 Feb) Time to get busy and make sure you take your place at this great event for the #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry community! Abstract submissions: ow.ly/NxPZ50V7x2t @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

Last week to get your abstract submitted for our Early Career Symposium ! 🔬

RMS Early Career Award: Applications deadline has been *EXTENDED* to 28 February! This is a great opportunity to receive recognition for your work - and a chance to win a cash prize 😀 Find out more and enter: rms.org.uk/resource/202... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

📢Abstract submissions deadline for #mmc2025 is *tomorrow* (14 February). Don't miss the chance to present your work at Europe's largest #microscopy and #imaging event taking place this year! Abstract submissions: mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

🔊Some great opportunities from the Journal of Microscopy for Early Career Researchers (£200 prize for best paper!!)🔬 #earlycareer #microscopy #science

📢💥Deadline fast approaching!! Don’t forget to enter!! 📢💥

Pop our free-to-attend 2025 events in your diary now! elrig.org

With registration now open for #mmc2025, here's a little look back at some of the action from our last visit to #Manchester in 2023! We hope to welcome some first-time visitors later this year - as well as plenty of familiar faces! 😍🔬 mmc-series.org.uk #microscopy #imaging #FlowCytometry

Still time to apply ! Exciting opportunity for any Early Career researcher 🔬

Fully funded 4-year PhD (Oct 2025 entry). This PhD seeks to understand the fundamental principles of membrane remodelling in photosynthetic organisms. Open to international applications. Deadline 6th January. More details: tinyurl.com/mtvwu3h8

First bluesky post, had a great day at the 50th Scottish Microscopy Symposium. Cool plasmid cell neighbouring system developed by @cellysally.bsky.social lab and a fancy tote bag to add to my collection!