Why Seeing Still Matters in Biology @helenajambor.bsky.social addresses why all biologists need data visualisation. Read and discuss this topic on the Node. ⬇️ #DataVis #BioVis thenode.biologists.com/why-seeing-s...

📣 Save the Date | 5th BNMI Symposium 2026 🔬The 5th Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructures Symposium will take place in Levi, Lapland, Finland, on November 23/24–27, 2026 📍 Levi Summit Event Centre & Hotel Levi Panorama 🇫🇮 🗓️ November 23/24–27, 2026 🔗 More info: eurobioimaging.fi/FiAM/bnmi-sy...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... How do the astrocytes sense the difference between natural stimuli and optogenetic stimuli? Intriguing and super cool work ✨

🔔🔔‼️I’m looking for a “conference” in Europe 🇪🇺or the UK 🇬🇧 to present my PhD project on #Bioimaging, #AI4Microscopy, Cell Biology #Imaging, and #Computer_Vision/#Deep_Learning in #Cell_Biology in 2026. Please let me know if you can help.👇🏼

Our #preprint list is up on FocalPlane. This list focusses on the latest tools in bioimage analysis. Let us know if you have any recommendations to add to our list. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/06/m...

Ep 24 - Understanding your thresholding options is the diff between a win and a loss in SO MANY workflows - gain that intuition, and SO MUCH is easier. The 1st of 3 episodes discussing why - inspired by OUR FIRST REAL READER QUESTION. @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I are actual advice columnists now!

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Ep 23 - So what actually IS CellPainting anyway? You may have heard of it if you're say, a fan of the @drannecarpenter.bsky.social - @shantanu-singh.cc lab (and who isn't????), but what, you know, is it? Let @erinweisbart.bsky.social break it down for you! youtu.be/9-d6DoHtgUY

New year, new paper — and my first paper of the year! Happy to share our newly published open-access article in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Many thanks to my collaborators in Poland and the US for their support. #StemCell #CellBiology

New year, new paper — and my first paper of the year! Happy to share our newly published open-access article in Stem Cell Reviews and Reports: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Many thanks to my collaborators in Poland and the US for their support. #StemCell #CellBiology

Ep 22 - while we all love CellProfiler (right??), we know that often the challenging part is handling the "bookkeeping" to get your data into it in the first place. @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I do a quick overview, and then point to great longer-form materials. Welcome to AE/DB 2026!

A thorough review of deep-learning approaches (I prefer that to "AI") for enhancing super-resolution microscopy by @orangeroad2017.bsky.social, Yang Zhang and colleagues in @natmethods.nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

It’s certainly been a year, but I’m incredibly grateful that earlier in 2025 I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! Huge thanks to you all for promoting our work here and on the other site, for talk invites, for writing letters of support, and to the lab for all their contributions. 🥂

Single-molecule live-cell fluorescence in situ hybridization uses an RNA-targeting CRISPR–Csm complex to image and track endogenous RNAs go.nature.com/3EJPKsM rdcu.be/eUK9K

Just came across this book from a friend (Iman Khorsand)🤝🏼 A holiday must-read 🫶🏻👌🏻📚

My talk at the #I2K 2025 conference is now available online. There are also many other great talks worth checking out. My full talk is on their YouTube and includes a hands-on walkthrough of how to use VNC-Dist: youtu.be/ZxngGrqAr_Y?...

The videos from this year's I2K are now online! Check out the Ask Erin / Dear Beth "Ask Us Anything" below, or the whole conference at www.i2kconference.org Making these 24 (with bonuses) episodes might be the most fun thing I did in 2025 - see you with more AE/DB content in 2026!

A new paper out in @natmethods.nature.com introduces NimbusImage, a cloud-computing platform for image analysis ft. William Niu (SAS), Jingxin Li (@cambupenn.bsky.social), @aofarrell.bsky.social (Bioengineering) & @arjunraj.bsky.social (@penngenetics.bsky.social) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Nobody's found anything in the universe that's non computable, so far!” —Demis Hassabis

If you use linkedin connect with @sabersaharkhiz.bsky.social he is posting some interesting material.

ICYMI, our #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane, highlighting the latest research using #microscopy to answer questions in #biology. As always, send us any recommendations for preprints that we've missed: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/12/m...

If you’re interested in bioimage analysis tools, my LinkedIn post(s) are worth a read. #Bioimage_Analysis #Microscopy #CellBiology #AI4Microscopy

🎄 Day 14 of the 24 Days of Development ✨🧬 Interested in the history of cellular dedifferentiation🧫? Explore Betty Hay’s pioneering contributions and how her work continues to shape regeneration biology🦎 doi.org/10.1016/j.yd...

Vertebrates can use entirely different mechanisms to generate its anterior and posterior dorsal tissue. In this thorough review from the lab of Lance Davidson, different morphogenetic events are compared between the front and the back in a developing embryo. Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

CellSAM A foundation model for Cell Segmentation Segment Anything Model - Vision Transformer cellsam.deepcell.org Outperforming CellPose Similar to Human Single-cell spatial transcriptomics Live-cell tracking 3D cell segmentation @natmethods.nature.com 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Review @cp-cellchembiol.bsky.social @sbaratchi.bsky.social Immunity in motion: The role of mechanics in macrophage biology www.cell.com/cell-chemica...

Contribution of Gli1+ #AdventitialStemCell to #SmoothMuscleCell ❌Atherosclerosis ❌Wire-Injured Femoral Artery ✅Femoral Artery Anastomosis 1⃣Gli1-CreER;R26-tdT🐭 2⃣Myh11-Dre;Gli1-CreER;R26-IR1🐭 Gli1+ lineage➡️ZsG Preexisting SMC➡️tdT Adv Sci 2025 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do your samples move out of view? Tired of manually adjusting the stage? Introducing DySTrack developed by @zimengwu33.bsky.social and Jonas Hartmann from UCL, a tool that can be integrated into modern microscopes to automate the tracking of moving samples. #MicroscopyMonday doi.org/10.64898/202...

20 eps - wow! Today, @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I introduce BioimagingGuide.org, a fantastic resource we made in partnership with @bioimagingna.bsky.social , your guide to "what you don't know you don't know" about imaging and analysis. Friendly and in 4 languages (and counting!); check it today!

In their Tools and Resources article, Nina Grishchenko, Michael Olson and colleagues present Toogle-Untoogle, a cell segmentation tool with an interactive user verification interface. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

One of the worst parts of training a Transformer-based model is spending hours stuck in the queue for a remote server!!!

Nature research paper: Inhibitory PD-1 axis maintains high-avidity stem-like CD8+ T cells go.nature.com/48tM9dM

Here’s a side-by-side comparison of the reference image input (from Sachs et al., 2009) and the AI generated figure (below)

Gemini 3 created this figure in under 30 seconds from a couple reference images and a one sentence prompt So I’m at a loss for words, honestly #MicroscopyMonday

WHat? ARe YoU SEriOus? Bullshit?????? @natureportfolio.nature.com

The Society for Neuroscience meeting starts tomorrow! I prepared some microscopy images for display at the convention center in San Diego. Let me know if you see one of my images around! 🤓 🔬 🧠 @sfn.org #SfN25 #FluorescenceFriday

And many research papers confirm that quote as well!

I always start my talks with this slide to encourage the audience, especially biologists 🧬🔬, to learn coding. This quote from the legendary Steve Jobs 🧑🏻‍💻 reshaped my research path almost 5 years ago, when I was a biologist with no computer science background.

A whole-brain single-cell atlas of circadian neural activity in mice | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Do you know how many genetic tools used to visualize only the nuclei of these neurons? (From my PhD work) 1. Endogenous CRISPR knock-in tag 2. Promotor transgene fused to Histone 3. Endogenous CRISPR knock-in dual color tag with self-cleaving peptide T2A fused to Histone. #FluorescenceFriday

Beating iPSC-derived heart muscle cells videoed through a microscope. Alpha-actinin-2 is shown. #CellBiology

Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's Halloween 🎃 #FlourescenceFriday! Here is a microscopic pumpkin generated by showing a cell nucleus in 🟠 with the primary cilium "stem" in 🟢! I hope everyone has a spooky 👻 day! 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social grad student Christina Wang. 🧪

#Atherosclerosis Epitranscriptomics Mettl3-YTHDF3⏫m6A-MTRFA mRNA in SMCs➡️ ⏫cholesterol-induced Mφ-like phenotype SMC Mettl3 KO🐭+HFD AAV-PCSK9➡️ ⏬Lesion burden, necrotic core, Mφ 👉Abolishes SMC contribution to lesion! 👉Reverted by AAV9-SM22-MRTFA #CardiovascRes 2025 academic.oup.com/cardiovascre...

Happy Cyrus The Great Day! (October 29th) Remembering #Cyrus_The_Great 📷 @ShahbanouFarah @PahlaviReza

Mechanical coordination between anaphase A and B drives asymmetric chromosome segregation, say Ana Dias Maia Henriques, Julien Dumont, Gilliane Maton and colleagues @ijmonod.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Development #CellCycle #CellDivision #Celegans #Mitosis

Episode 17 - perhaps my favorite yet. How do you write a forum.image.sc post that will get you the answers you need without revealing information you don't want to tell? @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I go through what the experts need to know to help you. Post your sci q's today on forum.image.sc !

As spooky season is upon us 🎃, we have cells that look like spider webs for #FluorescenceFriday 🧪🔬

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