Fully embracing the whimsy of UK academia is a nice way to end the year. Specially because my family could be there, like they’ve been all the way. Plus the Manchester doctoral gown has *excellent* colours 🪻🍇🌻

I wrote my first proper post on LinkedIn today. It was cheesy, bit of a weird thing to do. Bottom line is I'm still buzzing from spending two days playing with napari sourounded by kind microscopy nerds at the #CBIAS2025 Napari Workshop.

If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting: youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I

And perhaps we could have a bit more funding for scientific infrastructure? Because without that nobody (stars or otherwise) is going to get anything done.

An immense thank you again to @cbias.bsky.social committee, sponsors and fellow imaging friends for this fantastic symposium! It's is not the end but the beginning of tons of papers to read, colleagues to contact, new collaborations to form. And most importantly, it's a 'see you soon' #CBIAS2026 🔬🥰

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Want to automate workflows in #FIJI? Don't know where to start? We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started. Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding! imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...

One can only aspire to someday have some part of themselves discovered in a vulture's nest.

Join an international, student-led space to explore critical, feminist, and decolonial perspectives on the climate crisis and polycrisis. Expand your critical perspective, share ideas, & nurture academic relations across borders. First session: 📅 21 October 2025 | 🕔 17:00 GMT | 🌐 Zoom DM to signup

I really recommend @cbias.bsky.social ! See what we said last year, with @zeinabrekad.bsky.social and @fmlove.bsky.social This year will my 6th time! 🎉🔬

I am QT dunking but I think this is a case where it is warranted: Science is political and "not wanting to see politics" as a scientist is a political choice. You may decide it's what works for you, but you need to decide how that fits with the fact your (diverse) colleagues still exist 🧪

Our new paper, discussed here www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268793/...

Our new paper is out! Khodor Hazime led the brilliant work at the @dandavis101.bsky.social lab that shows *how* engagers that bring NK cell receptors together at the immune synapse boost activation against tumour cells www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Last chance today to sign up for two days of excellent image analysis training delivered by lovely experts! 🚂

The #CBIAS2025 abstract deadline is this Sunday, August 31st. Submit your #BioImageAnalysis work, whether it’s a new tool or a biological discovery. #EarlyCareerResearchers, this is for you! Short and flash talk slots are up for grabs. www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

Hello! Very excited to share our latest preprint, which is great news for us but terrible news for any diehard fans of PSNR and SSIM as image quality metrics in microscopy... (1/5) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deep sea exploration livestreamed with commentary from the scientists on board, doing sci-comm live and inviting the audience to join in the discovery 🥲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAxq...

Abstract submission for the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS2025 is now open until August 31st! If you are interested in bioimage analysis, whether as a user or methods developer, join us in London on November 24th-25th - we look forward to seeing you there! www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

Do you know there is a publicly accessible, easy-to-read forest database for the United States? We invite you to learn about 'Tree Equity Score' project. Join us on 29 May 5:30 pm (UK) via Zoom & meet Dr. Kelly Turner, director of the Centre for Heat Resilient Communities youtu.be/nOJtEMevtkQ?...

Our lab has a postdoc position available to use super-resolution microscopy to understand how nanoscopic localisation of immune checkpoints dictates their function. Please get in touch if interested in applying. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #ImmunoSky #Imaging #Microscopy

I had so much fun. Curiosity is cool 🥹

An interesting preprint from the Horrocks' lab detailing the behavior of secondary nanobodies (such a @nanotag.bsky.social ones) at the single molecule level and optimizing protocols for multiplexed labeling: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Join Etch A Cell – ImmunoExplorers, a citizen science project studying immune cells in kidneys. Your help can speed up research 🔬 Get involved: www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-s... 🧵 (1/6)

Calling all... 🔬 Microscopists 💻 BioImage Analysts 👩‍🔬 Life Scientists 📅 Save the Date The 5th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium will take place on November 24/25th 2025. More details to follow... #CBIAS2025

We're working hard to think of new ways to be helpful! Always looking for feedback.

Another NIH grant rescinded - The Epidemiology of Alzheimers Disease and Related Dementias in Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors - 1K01AG056669

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03 TheRiseRegistry.org

🧠 🌿 Another #SustainabilityChangemaker is Gloria Muñoz Romero, a PhD researcher in Planning and Environmental Management at the School of Environment, Education and Development. Her PhD research explores climate adaptation behaviour and its relationship with climate policy. #IWD25

Physically doing science, not just being talked down to about it, would change a lot of people's minds. Part of the reason why folks are skeptical of scientific institutions is the moat between general public participation and the various fields of research.