Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #WomenInScience 🌍👩‍🔬🔬 We're dedicated to supporting equality in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry - including maintaining a positive gender balance for speakers attending international events. Find out more: https://ow.ly/VbVw50YcIL4

“Forty percent of those surveyed by the Globe said their institution had rescinded offers to students, staff, or postdoctoral researchers. Sixty-one percent said postdoctoral students or staff were laid off.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

Doug spent 3 hours last night building our Glacios 2 Lego model. 😂 If you are in the area you can check it out in the hallway outside our offices. Biolabs 2052/2058

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

😬 At least the aqua stop did its job. (Water came out of tube when I adjusted it)

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!

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

📣 Applications are open for work experience 🧪🔬 Aimed at local Y12 students from underrepresented backgrounds interested in science 🗓️ 27/07 – 31/07 Eligibility and selection criteria apply Applications by 01/03 More info: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-... #STEM #WorkExperience #BiologyCareers

Starting next week, our Cryo-EM is officially open!

Got a non-sterile sample box from ibidi as part of their core sample program, so I obviously had to touch everything. The chamber slide is so squishy!

Joystick keeps sticking. Anyone have suggestions on how to clean this other than moving it in all directions with a cotton swab shoved in?

Question: does anyone know about some "LLM-core facility" that provides "knowledge base" services to research labs? Would be great to learn more and have some feedback on the operation.

We have two funded postdoctoral positions available. Topics encompass: -Next gen light-sheet fluorescence microscopy instrumentation -Structured illumination microscopy and other approaches to extend the resolution limit. -Nonlinear microscopy combined with adaptive optics / phase conjugation

I swear, only in my core do you walk into the conference room with a 18" cucumber and after the first question of what's up with your whole cucumber, you get asked can I have some of it try to clear it...

Anyone know anything about Capital Equipment Network? At least one of our systems is listed and we have no connection to them for booking or "requesting a quote." capneteq.com/equipment/JF...

I took morning childcare and my husband is doing afternoon childcare. This is what he is doing in our yard. Why do real snowdays not exist anymore? Stupid zoom...

Ok, one more dog in snow post and then back to the regular posts. This is my dog bouncing through the snow to get to the less deep area under the snow. She's 10 and had cancer, so not as graceful as she once was 😂

My dog, Ginger Snap, enjoyed the storm for about 10 minutes, then wanted to curl up on the couch with the blanket my mother-in-law knitted just for her.

Come on Harvard! Even Market Basket is closing!

Harvard: We are emailing you that there will be 15-20" of snow by tomorrow morning. We will NOT be closing. Me: 👎

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! 👇 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index... #Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging @turkubioscience.bsky.social

Oh look, people don't like AI marketing to them... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The BINA Communication group has a new initiative this year! We are forming a multilingual subgroup to translate important documents into Spanish and French. You can participate as much or as little as you would like. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs). Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬 Details in thread 🧵👇 #ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶

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

Coolest new feature from the Yokogawa HCA: changing color if the plate isn't on the loader correctly. Removes a lot of anxiety. 💯

In Greater Boston? Come to our Cryo-EM Grand Opening!

But women are "too emotional" to be leaders 🙃

Today's lowest stake dilemma: I had a coffee, there will be a talk with coffee at 10:30. Do I have a cup of tea in the meantime? 😄

Applications are now open for AQLM 2026! Join us @mblscience.bsky.social April 29th-May 8th, 2026 for a comprehensive, hands-on light microscopy course with an amazing roster of faculty who are leading experts in their fields!

I'm reading about the terrible storm in the UK on the BBC, so I WhatsApp my friend to see how she is. This is the Peak District 😂

I get to help image a starfish today and I'm stoked! I love unusual samples

We are hiring a specialist for Cryo-EM that will be shared between Harvard FAS and HMS. Check it out! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15677

The dimensions on my crochet snake are giving "sperm" 😂

Though I do paid work as an academic, that role has nothing to do with plants. This project definitely could be published as a research paper (especially once I produce blue versions of runner beans or lima beans), but that is only likely if some lab decides to collaborate with me on it.

Since they don't expect anyone to be working today, they have made our hallway look like a scene out of Dexter...

✨ Blinking #nanobodies that work for single-molecule localization 🔬 Our new preprint shows that the self-blinking dye JF635b restores robust, buffer-free blinking in #nanobodies, enabling reliable #dSTORM, #MINFLUX, and more, without chemical-switching buffers. Opening new possibilities for #ExM!

Finally a year that week before Christmas, I only have one training. And it's someone that has used the 880 weekly for the last year and wants to use the 980 over break when he doesn't have to compete with anyone to use it

Trying not to screw over 2026 Heather, but 2025 Heather wants to do the bare minimum until break 😂

Thrilled to share our work on DISCO-seq, which combines RNA-preserving tissue clearing with whole-organ 3D imaging to enable anatomically unbiased single-cell transcriptomics, with applications in cancer and infection biology. #SpatialBiology #DISCOseq Preprint link www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

who has favorite ways to measure hypoxia in tissues using immunofluorescence/microscopy? i guess maybe the gold standard is pimonidazole/hypoxyprobe- is there any reliable way that doesn't involve injecting anything in vivo? (like what do people do for human tissues?)

Well, it's official, you can catch me at #ABRF2026 where I will be presenting on Facility Marketing at the Monday "mini-workshop."

If you don't believe this can happen, women didn't have the legal right to have their own credit cards without needing a male co-signer until 1974, when the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) was passed, a landmark law that made it illegal to discriminate in lending based on sex or marital status.

Help me come up with a story to tell today's users that's cooler than I fell on black ice 😝

I highly suggest putting random things on the microscope. I think I just took an image for the Nikon Small World image contest... if invertebrate sex doesn't disqualify it 😆 And no, I didn't realize it until after I finished an hour-long acquisition

Check out our poster #ASCB2025

It is 9F/-13C out, so time for dino santas knit sweater.