Super excited that our paper on microscopy training for research is now out! We present a backward-designed approach including assessments, and data about the training's effect on student proficiency and attitudes toward microscopy. 🔬🧪 #iTeachBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)

Ever wondered if analyzing your images by using intensity Z-projections impacts your data? Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis! buff.ly/KJ147tI #Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis

Do you want to learn more about 25+ bioimage analysis tools, 100% for free? Sign up to attend Halfway to I2K today! tinyurl.com/Halfway-to-I... Wishing you'd submitted a tool or workshop but missed the deadline? GREAT NEWS, we just extended one week! Submit by Friday - airtable.com/app2zpB8d82r...

Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

#GBIxBINA2025 Great talk by David Budtz Pedersen of Aalborg University about changing how research impacts are assessed - moving beyond relying only on pubs and grants and seeing the value of micro impacts like collaborations, open data, and infrastructure development. @bioimagingna.bsky.social

Almost to #GBIxBINA2025 ! Just need to make it through the taxi queue

We're hiring! Tenure-track Asst. Prof. in Cell/Molec Biology or Genetics! JMU is an R2, primarily undergrad university with faculty who are passionate about research and student mentoring/teaching. Feel free to DM with questions! jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/tenure-...

#Microscopycommunity- Exciting news! The NSF-funded Imaging-PHD (Persistent Hardware Descriptors) will make microscopy data more reproducible & shareable by standardizing how hardware info is captured. Thrilled to get started with our amazing multi-institutional team! 🔬 NSF Award: buff.ly/sXWcZLW

I got this in my head and I couldn't focus on work until it existed. Microscopy image file alignment chart, based on how I feel if you give me an image to analyze:

If you have a current fourth grader, log on to everykidoutdoors.gov with your student, complete an activity, then download and print your pass voucher. Redeem the printed voucher for the pass at thousands of federal public land sites throughout the country 2/n

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! #microscopycommunity - join @bioimagingna.bsky.social May 28, to hear Fredric Bonnet of @MDIBL_LMF speak on “Maine Microscopy: Democratizing Microscopy Education for Local Scientists” as part of the BINA EoE Virtual Group Learn more and register here: buff.ly/F3rZzx7

A chat with Prof. Viola Vogel (Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich), whose pioneering work in mechanobiology has been key to show that proteins act as mechano-chemical switches which can be exploited in the treatment of various diseases. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

Looking forward to this meeting! Global Bioimaging, Canada Bioimaging and Bioimaging North America all together in one place! Virtual option available

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

BIG NEWS - for the first time ever, we're running a Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp. Learn #bioimageanalysis from awesome folks, and gain familiarity with some new tools as well as how to pick the right tool in the first place. Aug 4th-8th - apply here (soon!) forms.gle/d2fCXsrWHVP8...

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

Your yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.

Delighted to announce that @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I have teamed up to create a new bioimage analysis video podcast called Ask Erin/Dear Beth - you can check it out at the link below! It will highlight common challenges in #bioimageanalysis, as well as our favorite solutions to them. (1/x)

#MicroscopyMonday! #microscopycommunity, join us on March 11 to hear from 4 amazing @bioimagingna.bsky.social members about their experiences as Imaging Scientists in facilities across Canada, Mexico and the US. It is free and online, so please join by registering buff.ly/IsB2eiw

I don't think I've ever heard of a core facility that didn't have IT issues! Check-out this informal discussion about the challenges (and small victories) in dealing with your institutional information technology department

Since I have way more non-academic followers than I ever would have imagined: a short explainer. TL;DR: Substantially cutting indirect costs will either mean raising tuition and fees, or laying off a bunch of mid- and low-salary staff and students.

We're hiring! "Lecturer, Introductory Microbiology, Human Physiology, and/or Human Anatomy (Two Positions)" jobs.jmu.edu/jobs/lecture...

Maybe its a good time for a little Executive Order (EO) primer, a few wee tools for sorting wheat from chaff so it seems like less of a deluge. Item 1. EOs have to comply with the Constitution & laws, including acts of Congress. Any that don't will face long court battles before anything changes. /1

Hey PIs, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available. meetings.cshl.edu/coursesinten...

#CellMigration meets #SciArt Naomi Wee (naomiwee.com) did this great movie to explain how amoeboid migration works (also mesenchymal & cancer migration) Wanna know what happens if this leukocyte chooses the wrong path? Watch this ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPwn... @focalplane.bsky.social #SciSky

Warming up for the upcoming #GRCCellMigration For me the best video to explain adhesion-dependent #CellMigration by Felix Donghwi Son More in the website felixvis.artstation.com #sciart #scicomm #ScienceSky #SciSky #cytoskeleton #FocalAdhesion

New Year, new job? Delighted to announce two early-career-level (post-BA/BS or MA) positions in my lab, and an open call for computational postdocs at the Broad! First, an image analysis associate - work on high content screens for all kinds of cells and dimensionalities! See more at link (1/4)

I got a "square egg maker" in a recent gift exchange. It was apparently found among an old aunt's belongings; the branding on the box looks like it's many decades old. Actually works really well! But low-throughput. So no making a hard-boiled egg igloo (eggloo?)

Good news - we're extending the Early Registration pricing for #AIM2025 - register before 2024 ends! aim2025.eventbrite.com

Calling all #Microscopists! Please complete the 2024 #ImageAnalysis Community Survey to inform us about your training needs! Particularly interested in hearing from people outside Europe/North America or anyone who does not consider themselves "computational"! forum.image.sc/t/2024-image...

🧪🔬 Check-out my (mostly undergrad) microscopy class's annual photo contest! sites.google.com/view/jmu-mic... Each week, my students bring in something (anything) and try to take a photo with a microscope. And it's not just for fun... 1/2

TOMORROW, Dec 10 at 12 pm CT, the Scientific Speaker Series will feature a panel on "Neurodiversity assets, challenges, and paths to inclusion in microscopy careers"! Register to join us: www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/bina-... @marianadeniz.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky! It's good to be here and looking forward to connecting and reconnecting with our bioimaging community in Africa and around the world 👋🌍🔬. Just in time, too- we're at our 3rd annual ABIC Community Meeting in Côte d'Ivoire 🇨🇮. We'll be sharing updates here and on Twitter!

Mark your calendars!!! #ASMB 2025 Biennial Meeting👇🏻 🗓️When? November 16-19, 2025 🏙️Where? Baltimore 🥅What? #ECMatrix #Marvels ❓Why? 25th anniversary with lots of new features 🥳 plus all the leading #ECMatrix research (and we all know how fundamental it is to life!)

I just created a Microscopy feed that tracks anything that has a cute 🔬 emoji on it as well as the simple #microscopy and #imaging tags. Enjoy! bsky.app/profile/did:...

The 2024 biennial survey by COBA, @bioimagingna.bsky.social, @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social and @globias.bsky.social is here to connect imaging users with image analysis. Check this out @biologists.bsky.social for more details - focalplane.biologists.com/2024/11/13/b...

Hello friends! We’re here to celebrate and share all things fluorescent. Tag us as you share findings related to the use or publication of FPs and other probes

Open house greeting prospective students and showing off our microscopy teaching lab!

Cell and developmental biologists--Join us at the 2025 Cell Contact and Adhesion Gordon Conference. We've assembled a strong and diverse program of speakers at the cutting-edge of science in our field 1/n Please repost www.grc.org/cell-contact...

I took a break from social media after the election to preserve my mental health. When I logged in today was startled by how many new followers I had, especially since I'm not that interesting 😜 Finally figured-out I was added to a starter pack! Thanks @bethcimini.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/Nwa91pC

In Genetics class this week we explored the history of our field & its roots in Eugenics. I used it to frame the question: Should scientists just “Stay in the lab” or is it our duty to speak out when others lie about our science & use it to further their own political views? 1/n

New from a huge cast of amazing #bioimage analysts in the Journal of Cell Science - "The crucial role of bioimage analysts in scientific research and publication" journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... . Hop into 🧵to learn more! (1/x) #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalyst

When you're in a Biology Dept, strange mail sometimes arrives. Here is a week before Halloween tale in multiple acts Act 1--a package arrives in the mailroom address to "Dept of Biology" and sits on the counter. After two weeks, I email an image of the package to the Dept & no one claims it 1/n 🧪

It’s common during scientific talks for the speaker to say the research was done by a “talented” student (heard it today in fact). I know this is meant as a compliment but does it send the wrong message? That the ability to do science is an innate ability? Like a fixed rather than growth mindset?

Right, recently encountered a high information voter unaware of this resource. You can go to www.vote411.org , type in your address, and get both a list of what is on your ballot, and responses from candidates to a standard set of questions sent to all candidates for a given race.

Have you ever analyzed a #microscope image before- even just a single one? Please take our survey on progress and places to still improve for image analysis software! #microscopy #imageanalysis #bioimageanalysis forum.image.sc/t/2024-image...

Proteins are the tiny machines empowering everything in our cells, from DNA replication to enzymatic reactions to cell motility. They're synthesized as amino acids polymers, but these fold into complex shapes that define function. How does sequence define structure & function? 1/n 🧪

Most of us learned in school about the Central Dogma: DNA->RNA->Proteins. For decades gene regulation was only about protein transcription factors regulating gene expression. Ambros and Rukun used the small nematode worm C. elegans to change that picture 1/2 🧪

When I wrote my Short History of Plant Microscopy, I wondered when I couldn't find any reference to 'monk's chambers' in Robert Hooke's "Micrographia". Apparently I'm not the only one who wondered: "Will the real Robert Hooke please stand up?" by Winfried S. Peters, in #ThePlantCell #PlantScience