Coming home from the excellent #LabsOfTheFuture conference in #Amsterdam. Had great fun presenting this year, and the content of the other talks was excellent. Heading back to the @rosfrankinst.bsky.social very much inspired.

And we're off again for another year of scintillating, surprising and superb chats. Teachers, get your students involved: imascientist.org.uk/signup/t/ Scientists, Mathematicians, Engineers, get yourself involved: imascientist.org.uk/signup/c/

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 (1/x 🧵)

Very much enjoyed a brief camping holiday to #Llangollen, we did a lot of excellent touristy things, and I very much enjoyed finding an old favourite from my last visit to #Wales for the Eisteddfod.

@markbasham.bsky.social, science director for AI, and @mdarrow.bsky.social, head of data strategy for cryoimaging at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, wrote about this topic for @resprofnews.bsky.social. Read the news story and op-ed here - www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...

Exciting work from the Franklin, @ox.ac.uk, and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social has led to a new method for imaging small proteins (<50 kDa) using cryoEM. By using bifunctional, bispecific nanobody scaffolds, the team have successfully solved the smallest protein structure to date (14 kDa).

Really enjoyed watching the #ScienceScribbler livestream on Twitch (www.twitch.tv/sciencescrib...), talking about one of the other @zooniverse.bsky.social projects that we share a campus with, the #CloudCatcher project. youtu.be/qjQiSALVOK8?...

📢We're hiring a Research Software Engineer! Join the Franklin to support our research in native mass spectrometry and to help build 3D protein atlases of the mouse brain. Bring your skills, grow your scientific independence, and contribute to ground-breaking biomedical research. zurl.co/EBTOP

This is a really exciting role working with me around some really exciting technologies and scientific data. Please feel free to get in touch if you would like more info.

Last week we welcomed visitors to the Franklin as part of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Public Access Day! Families helped us to create a people powered network to learn about Artificial Intelligence and how machines make decisions. @markbasham.bsky.social

We are developing a set of recommendations for AI-engaged projects on the Zooniverse. This includes a series of workshops and surveys to gather input from our community and experts in communications and ethics. Zooniverse participants have an opportunity to get involved! tinyurl.com/aipublicrese...

Long overdue,but this is a huge relief and great news for computational research in the UK! www.ft.com/content/b1e9...

This is exciting! www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/News/La... @instruct-eric.bsky.social @fragment-screen.bsky.social @ukri.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

Thanks to everyone who has filled this in already - if you haven't, and you work in #volumeEM, please help us by filling in this survey about all-things data (analysis, processing, storage, transfer and anything else to do with data!)

📢 We're Hiring: Laboratory Technician We're looking for a detail-oriented Laboratory Technician to join our team! If you have a background in science, enjoy hands-on work, and are passionate about precision, we'd love to hear from you. For further details, and to apply: zurl.co/gwyEE

Up bright and early to see the beautiful sunrise this morning on my way to the 'NXCT at Manchester' lab launch event. Looking forward to catching up with some old colleagues and seeing all the exciting science they have been up to.

It was a pleasure to host the @embo.org practical course: Transposable Elements in the Era of Data Science last week. We welcomed participants from around the world for a week of hands-on experience in the computational analysis of transposable elements. Thank you to all of those who joined us.

📣 We're hiring a Post Doctoral Researcher in X-Ray Microscopy! Be a part of a multidisciplinary team combining ultrafast lasers, soft X-Rays, and coherent diffractive imaging in a cutting edge laser lab. For further details and to apply: zurl.co/l0WPY

📻Catch Cara Griffiths talking to about new results boosting wheat yield using the T6P biostimulant developed by Rothamsted, @ox.ac.uk & @rosfrankinst.bsky.social on BBCR4 Farming Today this morning. First item in the programme... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Applications are still open for our Post Doctoral Researcher in Quantitative Imaging Biology! If you are interested in exploring how epithelial cells self-organise using cutting edge tools like super-resolution STED, FLIM, FRET and FCS, please apply here: zurl.co/iIctt

The boys and I stayed up late last night to watch @mcchampionship.com for the first time, and it was really great! We were backing team #CyanCoyotes and watched #GTWScar for the first half, and @smallishbeans.bsky.social for the second half. With #AntFrost and @falsesymmetry.bsky.social

Great wrap-up for the #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 with some upcoming exciting things around sustainable EM, tomography data standards and the next heterogeneity challenge! All interesting, but the first two really peak my interest! Thanks @ccpem.bsky.social for an amazing conference!

Lovely talk from @alisterburt.bsky.social at #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 about the really cool #OpenSource work that #TeamTomo have been upto as well as other exciting things! #Warp4Penguins

Last day of #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 and really looking forward to the talks and posters today.

Another excellent talk highlighting how the #emdb, #EMPIAR and broader team @ebi.embl.org is making some great improvements around data management especially how it can be accessed in more machine friendly ways. Loving the focus on simplicity which seems to be a key driver. #CCPEMSpringSymposium25

Realy like the integrations with instrumentation and automation that @diamondlightsource.bsky.social is doing at #eBIC which they have highlighted at the #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 some lovely use of modern tech stacks #Kubernetes #Grafana

Lovely to hear about all of the exciting work that @ccpem.bsky.social have been up to over the last year at the #CCPEMSpringSymposium25 Especially the tomography pipeline work :⁠-⁠) #TeamTomo

On my way to the @ccpem.bsky.social Spring Symposium. Really looking forward to catching up with the community and seeing what's new in the field! #NeedAGoodTag

We've released a suite of tools profet, EMPIARreader and CAKED. If you want python tools to fetch protein structures, lazy load EMPIAR data and integrate into ML workflows take a look... arxiv.org/abs/2503.13329

📣 Thank you to everyone who has already submitted their proposals to RSECon25. To give you all a little more time and take some pressure off the Easter break we will be extending the submissions deadline to the 2nd May (at midnight 🕛 ). rsecon25.society-rse.org/call-for-sub... #rsecon25 #rse

BioCOP - the UK’s first multimodular optical microscope - has entered its testing phase. The microscope allows super-resolved imaging of live cells in their native environments. The team will be focussing on immunology and host-pathogen interactions. Read more here - www.rfi.ac.uk/latest/bioco...

📣 We're hiring a Senior Scientist in Electron Ptychography! Join our team to lead innovative research in electron ptychography and push the boundaries of high-resolution imaging. For further details and to apply: zurl.co/c0hzE

The @rosfrankinst.bsky.social is currently looking for a 50% secondment in AI to work with me and everyone at the Franklin. Please pass on the info to others who might be interested, and please do get in touch if you would like any more information. www.rfi.ac.uk/latest/call-...

The @rosfrankinst.bsky.social is currently looking for a 50% secondment in AI to work with me and everyone at the Franklin. Please pass on the info to others who might be interested, and please do get in touch if you would like any more information. www.rfi.ac.uk/latest/call-...

Researchers at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, The Alan Turing Institute, and STFC Scientific Computing have developed a new machine learning model that will improve the detection of proteins in 3D images, such as those obtained by cryo-electron tomography. Read the full update here: zurl.co/1Z0PZ

👥 If you have written software, code or scripts for research purposes and are from an underrepresented group in research software, we would like to hear from you! Find out how to get involved in our inclusive RSE study at www.software.ac.uk/news/partici...

Last week, we launched our new science strategy at our Innovation Forum! Huge thanks to our speakers & panellists for sharing insights on turning ideas into impact. Read our summary here - www.rfi.ac.uk/latest/frank... #Innovation #ScienceStrategy

Some more context on our involvement @ox.ac.uk and @zooniverse.bsky.social in yesterday's @esa.int Euclid data release - it's so cool that citizen science results from volunteers around the world were so prominent: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...

📣 We're Hiring! We're looking for an Assistant Facilities Manager to join our team and play a key role in keeping our research facilities running smoothly! For more details, and to apply: zurl.co/NAyFr

If you are not able to join the festival, but want some activities to try at home, we have some new resources available on our website. Take a look here: www.rfi.ac.uk/discover-lea...

📢 We’re excited to unveil our refreshed science strategy today at the Royal Institution! This blueprint will guide our research toward groundbreaking discoveries and real-world solutions. Stay tuned for more. #ScienceForward #InnovationForum

Just looking at the new @rosfrankinst.bsky.social website, and found this amazing activity! #EdibleCell #Scicomm www.rfi.ac.uk/discover-lea...

Dr Liang Wu and his team investigate the function of enzymes in heparan sulfate production – long, complex chains of sugar molecules found in every cell of the body. In this latest science update, Liang reflects on how new imaging techniques are helping in this area. Read more here - zurl.co/aB4ks

Published in @naturecomms.bsky.social, Franklin researchers describe a high-throughput methodology for cryo focused ion beam lamella preparation. This technique enabled a high-resolution structure (4.0 Å) of an E. coli ribosome using sub volume averaging. Read the full article here: zurl.co/WhpcB

Have you attended a RSE Conference in the past? The RSECon25 organising committee is seeking testimonials on your experience and would appreciate if you've five minutes to complete this short survey. https://forms.gle/xuhEu6k7gwG9PV3w8 #rsesoc #rsecon25 #rsecon

Just seeing this article, is anyone else suspicious of them getting 1337 seconds? #leetspeak Nuclear fusion: WEST machine beats the world record for plasma duration phys.org/news/2025-02...

1) We have an exciting job opportunity in correlative bioimaging at B24 at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social applying cryo soft x-ray microscopy (cryoSXT) and super-resolution 3D structured illumination fluorescence Microscopy (CryoSIM)

While I’m plugging things: free tickets for my next @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture, about the remarkable @esa.int mission Gaia, are now online. They will sell out, so grab them now if you can join me in London: gres.hm/biggest-cosm...

1) Registration for the Biological CryoImaging (BCI) Science Group annual user meeting is now open! The BCI science group is made up of the UK's national cryoEM centre - eBIC and B24 our cryo soft x-ray tomography microscope w- see here: www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/...

Thanks once again to the Society of Research Software Engineers #RSESoc for running their excellent careers site, where our role and others are advertised. search.app/bSaecKJT72bu...