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Microscopic farmer 🔬🌺 Microscopy core director @UNC Chapel Hill Former plant developmental biologist
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Journal of Cell Science
5 days ago
Our
#JCSciliaSI
is complete Explore our ToC:
journals.biologists.com/jcs/issue/13...
Our cover image shows tracheal epithelial cells from an air-liquid interface culture imaged using U-ExM from Oliver Mercey and Marine Brunet
@centriolelab.bsky.social
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journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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I had to try it. It was really good!
#microscope
#microscopy
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Gorgeous cover by
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FocalPlane
4 days ago
Incoming deadline - 7 November 2025 Apply for a
@jcellsci.bsky.social
@focalplane.bsky.social
Training Grant to support your attendance at a
#microscopy
or
#bioimageanalysis
training course. Open to ECRs in
#cellbio
. For more info:
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
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Alexa Mattheyses
13 days ago
🔬We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course at MBL. Come learn to be an excellent microscopist! Questions? Ask here or DM me.
@mblscience.bsky.social
@aqlm.bsky.social
#microscopy
#fluorescence
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Hey plant developmental biologists! Want to do great science with a great guy in a great place?
@oconnord.bsky.social
is looking for a postdoc to join his lab at Colorado State:
oconnorlab.colostate.edu/wp-content/u...
#devbio
#plantscience
#botany
#bioimaging
#microscopy
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René Campbell
12 days ago
I was asked whether I was going to paint any shiny reflections to Mr blue swimmer crab. You bet.
#sciart
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Brandy A Freitas
17 days ago
The
#mesoSPIM
community just celebrated 10 years of open-source light-sheet microscopy in Zürich! For
#3DThursday
, we're honoring Martina Schaettin & Fabian Voigt’s iconic 3D chick embryo dataset — a luminous benchmark for open science and shared discovery.
#Microscopy
#Lightsheet
#syGlass
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Science Sam
25 days ago
The winners for the largest photo microscopy competition were just announced and they do NOT disappoint!! [Photos shared with permission courtesy of the 2025 Nikon Small World Photo Competition] 🧪🔬
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The Guardian
24 days ago
Magnifying the minuscule: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2025 – in pictures
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Magnifying the minuscule: Nikon Small World photomicrography 2025 – in pictures
Weevils, spores, slime mold and cells in extreme closeup for the 51st anniversary of the Nikon Small World competition
https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2025/oct/16/nikon-small-world-photomicrography-2025-in-pictures?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1760569777
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LifeCanvas Technologies
18 days ago
Hello scientists of Bluesky! Since we're new here, what better way to introduce ourselves than to share our collection of light-sheet
#microscopy
data, featuring a diverse range of species and tissue types 🐠🐁🦎🔬:
vimeo.com/lifecanvastech
Stay tuned for more
#bioimaging
data drops coming soon!
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Seiler Rankin
about 2 months ago
Mushroom chair (unknown designer).
#FungiFriends
#Mycology
#Fungi
#Mushrooms
#Photography
#Photos
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Seiler Rankin
19 days ago
Miscellaneous pollen grains seen through a microscope.
#Photography
#Photos
#Microscopy
#Botany
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Mathieu Preußner
23 days ago
For this
#FluorescenceFriday
🔬 a cryosection of a dissected zebrafish gill, stained with phalloidin (orange) and DAPI (blue-ish).
#Zebrafish
#DevBio
#Microscopy
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Garcia-Mata Lab
about 1 month ago
Huge thanks to the incredibly talented Center for Visual Arts students for transforming microscopy images into incredible works of art for Toledo CellulART! Science meets art in the most inspiring way. 🔬❤️🎨
www.toledocellulart.org
#SciArt
#Microscopy
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Jess Holz
28 days ago
Polychaete larva cilia currents in timelapse.
#sciart
#microscopy
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Nicolas Hubacz
about 1 month ago
This sea star is only 2 months old 🐣 — but already has a decentralized nervous system. No brain, just a nerve ring + radial cords guiding how it moves, senses & grows. 🌊 Echinoderm family 🧠 Brain-free coordination 🔄 Decentralized = resilient Credit: Dr. Laurent Formery
#Neurobiology
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about 1 month ago
🏆 The PPBI Image Contest celebrates the art of science! 🎉 Congratulations to Carina Mónico (CCMAR) for her winning image! A huge thank-you to everyone who took part.
#PPBI
#Microscopy
#BioImaging
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Proteintech
20 days ago
Microscopy Image Competition 2025 Finalists There are two categories: Category 1: Featuring Proteintech antibodies Category 2: Featuring any antibodies The images below are the Category 2 finalists. Vote before Oct 26 (T&Cs apply): https://ow.ly/qhK350
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Nicolas Denans
23 days ago
for
#FluorescenceFriday
: is your ExM sample too large to be imaged with high NA objectives? VIPS it! Very clever way to tackle one of the biggest challenge in large volumetric ExM
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Mesoscale volumetric fluorescence imaging at nanoscale resolution by photochemical sectioning
Optical nanoscopy of intact biological specimens has been transformed by recent advancements in hydrogel-based tissue clearing and expansion, enabling the imaging of cellular and subcellular structure...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr9109
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Ivan Radin
20 days ago
This image of moss Physcomitrium patens beautifully demonstrates what we mean when we say that this cell type is characterized by oblique cell walls. You can see that the cell walls between cells are at an angle and not perpendicular to the cell axis.
#microscopymonday
#moss
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BioImaging North America
23 days ago
#HappyFluorescenceFriday
!
#microscopycommunity
- 🎉 Winners of the BINA Image Contest! 1st Place: Frederic Bonnet – Hexagonal Vision: Compound Eye and Sensory Crown 2nd Place: Nat Prunet – Allergy Season 3rd Place: Arlen Ramírez Corona – Blue, Red and Fish People’s Choice: Mahgol Darvishmolla
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Development
24 days ago
Issue 19 is complete! On the cover: Mouse E10.5 embryo stained for Sox9 (cyan), alpha-tubulin (yellow), and endomucin (magenta). Acquired by Nicole Roos & Anthony Wokasch and chosen by popular vote from the Node’s 2025 MBL Embryology course image competition.
thenode.biologists.com/results-from...
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Grateful to see one my
#superresolution
#pollen
images won 2nd place at the 2025
@bioimagingna.bsky.social
image contest!
www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/image-contes...
#microscopy
#confocal
#botany
#plantscience
#allergies
#bioimaging
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️🌈
26 days ago
I found these immune cells just finished mitosis but their midbody is still yet to be resolved. How cool? If you zoom in to the midbody, you can see its classical shape just like in the textbooks. I love these little details.
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Brandy A Freitas
about 1 month ago
💧 A male water flea (#Daphnia magna) for
#3DThursday
! Yellow 🟨 is musculature, magenta/gray 🟪 shows autofluorescence of its outer cuticle. 🔬: Fluorescence Microscopy 🥼: Carsten Wolff 🏛️: Marine Bio Lab
@mblscience.bsky.social
🎬:
syGlass.io
#EnvironmentalScience
#MBL
#SciComm
#Microscopy
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Keith Duncan
30 days ago
I'm frequently asked if we can use XRM imaging to study Arabidopsis, and the answer is absolutely yes. The pollen grains were segmented using basic grayscale thresholding. This scan used the 4X lens, stayed tuned for results from the 20X.
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Congratulations
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Brandy A Freitas
about 1 month ago
👀
#3DThursday
: Cross your eyes to see this super res pollen dataset in 3D! Good old fashioned stereo pairs in
#syGlass
bringing science to life. 🌿✨ 🔬: Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2 🥼: Nat Prunet,
@nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core:
tarheels.live/biologymicro...
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Danielle Beckman
about 2 months ago
For students: how can we quantify neurodegeneration using
#microscopy
? One way is to use a marker like 🟡 below (SMI32). It identifies a population of pyramidal neurons that is lost early in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer and Parkinson. And after some viral infections 👀👀
#Neuroscience
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the Node
about 2 months ago
Congratulations to the winners of our image competition with the
@mblscience.bsky.social
Embryology course. The winner of the Editor’s choice is an image of a anole lizard eye, acquired by Arthur Boutillon
@campaslab.bsky.social
.
thenode.biologists.com/results-from...
#devbio
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MBF Bioscience
6 months ago
🧠🎨 Got brain art? Submit to our NeuroArt Monthly Image Contest for a chance to be featured + win prizes! Microscope images, digital renderings, creative interpretations—we want it all. Let’s celebrate the art in science 🧬✨ 🔗
neuroart.com/may-image-co...
#NeuroArt
#SciArt
#Neuroscience
#BrainArt
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Nick Desnoyer
about 2 months ago
Friday Flower 005: Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱✨ A tiny flower, but a giant in research, thale cress enabled our understanding of flower development through the "ABC Model". With this knowledge, their flowers can be essentially reprogrammed to produce micro-roses 🧬🌹
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BioImaging North America
about 2 months ago
#HappyFluorescenceFriday
!
#microscopycommunity
- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications! Learn more & sign up:
buff.ly/esGIotD
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Ele Willoughby
about 2 months ago
Day 19
#SciArtSeptember
🧪🐡prompt depths: The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), literally the ‘vampire squid from hell’ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans with 2 long retractile filaments, located between the first two pairs of arms on its dorsal 🧵
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Hey
#pollen
people!
@theobrominated.bsky.social
would like to know which species these mixed pollen grains are from, and I admit except for pine and lily, I'm not sure. Would anyone be able to help?
#botany
#plantscience
#bioimaging
#microscopy
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Mathieu Preußner
about 2 months ago
14🧵 Gills offer a powerful model to study : 🩸 Angiogenesis 💨 Blood flow & pressure 🧠 Neural crest stem cells 🌿 Branching morphogenesis — all in vivo. Our work provides a detailed framework to explore these complex processes.
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Jonathan Jacobs
about 2 months ago
This is epic!
@officialatcc.bsky.social
announced the winners of the 2025 Photo contest! They look amazing! Check the Alt text and follow the link for tons more.
www.atcc.org/about-us/upc...
I love this! Please reshare!
#microscopy
#biology
#research
#science
#cellbiology
#microbiology
#biotech
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France-BioImaging
about 2 months ago
We are thrilled to announce that our Image Contest is back! 🔬🏆 Submit your best images & try to win your registration fees for one 2026
#microscopy
related event. 📆Before November 14th, 2025 Info & entries👉
france-bioimaging.org/fbi-special-...
We are all eager to see your work!
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Ele Willoughby
about 2 months ago
I’m making more cyanotypes on handmade paper with a deckle edge: Fern and wild carrot flower 🐡
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New England Society for Microscopy
about 2 months ago
Announcing one of our Keynote Speakers, Elizabeth Engle, for
#MicroscopyMonday
! Please join us in November at Brandeis! 🔬: 3i Light Sheet 🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital 🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility 🎬:
syGlass.io
#NESM
#LightSheetMicroscopy
#3DImaging
#TissueClearing
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James Manton
about 2 months ago
We present a simple method to easily increase the imageable depth of an expansion microscopy gel on a typical inverted microscope ten-fold, using some carefully placed FEP film and a water dipping objective lens:
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Mark Peifer (He, him)
about 2 months ago
If you are interested in the latest advances in Imaging Cell Dynamics, check out the 2026
@jcellsci.bsky.social
Meeting. These small meetings are a terrific way to meet key people in the field and get feedback on your own work. Highly recommended!
www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...
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Nikon Microscope Solutions
about 2 months ago
📄 🌟 Researchers introduce HAK-actin, an actin label compatible with post-labeling in
#SuperResolution
ultrastructure expansion
#Microscopy
#ExM
. The authors demonstrate its use in cells expanded up to 16-fold (figure). 🔗 View the preprint article:
bit.ly/47xC8NJ
#Microscope
#Imaging
#Fluorescence
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