Our featured image was acquired by Kaiden Power @wormkaiden.bsky.social and shows the head and probolae of an Acrobeles complexus nematode. Check out our post to learn more about the image and Kaiden’s research: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/26/f... #FluorescenceFriday #microscopy

ICYMI – the recording from FocalPlane features… @prelights.bsky.social LIVE is up! preLighters @fadelvalle.bsky.social & @vibhasingh.bsky.social present their live preLights & share research talks from @probablycarmen.bsky.social & Eva Mejía-Ramírez. #preprints #cellbio #microscopy

So flattering! Thanks @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social for this deeply meaningful award! All credit goes to my lab members and collaborators. @scilifelab.se @ki.se

Now 3/4 of the way through the @picoquant.bsky.social single-molecule meeting, and I want to share some takeaways and observations (in no particular order of importance)! If you're here, please feel free to add to this thread!

So for you out there wondering what to do in January ? Register quickly, only a few spots are left. Prioirty to CH PhS Students/Postdocs.

Still undecided about registering to #CBIAS2025? See what last year’s participants had to say about their experience on @focalplane.bsky.social! focalplane.biologists.com/2024/12/18/t...

📢Join the UK Euro-BioImaging Node – Expression of Interest Open Until 2 December Applications are open to join the established UK @eurobioimaging.bsky.social Node. Find out more at the information webinar on 9 October. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/22/j...

Join us for the #VirtualPub with @virsicas.bsky.social - one of Euro-BioImaging's Scientific Ambassadors! She'll give a talk entitled "From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging & Analysis." 🗓️ Fri, Sept 26 @ 13:00 CEST Register 🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...

Protein labeling made simple. Self-labeling tags like HaloTag® let you visualize proteins in real time with the dye or ligand of your choice. Find out how these systems expand your experimental toolkit. 🔗 Read the blog:

Hey! This is us! @mvls-srf.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social

Our Imaging with… series, highlighting microscopy core facilities from around the world, returns with the Cellular Analysis Facility at @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Meet the team, the microscopes, and learn how (and why) you should acknowledge the facility. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/24/i...

⤵️Our mini-symposium with the membrane trafficking webinar series is tomorrow at 15:00 BST (UTC+1). We're looking forward to hearing from @nickader.bsky.social, @maiblab.bsky.social, Mónica Quiñones-Frías and Gillian Griffiths.

I’m speaking at the Euro-BioImaging Virtual Pub! I’ll share my journey into microscopy support, introduce UCL’s Light Microscopy facility, and show how we help researchers from planning to analysis — plus reproducible workflows & community building. www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...

Be our new colleague! 🎉 The Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Geneva is hiring an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. 👉 More details here: lnkd.in/e8Z9eAm4 👉 Our department: mocel.unige.ch Please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

Check out my new article at @the-node.bsky.social where @accorsi-alice.bsky.social and @planaria1.bsky.social share #behindthepaper stories ! Come for the science, stay for learning about curiosity, philosophy, mentorship & joy of discovery! #devbio #regeneration #stemcells #scicomm

📣 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Cell and Molecular Biology to join the @weillinstitute.bsky.social PLS spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30607

LABI at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's #ImagingTheFuture 2025 meeting! Last week, the #LABICommunity participated in an inspiring gathering that continues to shape the future of imaging around the world.

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones. If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

Really glad to show our recent work using recombinant phosphoinositide probes to investigate membrane identity changes during endosomal trafficking. Should be a great mini symposium to highlight the power of fluorescent microscopy techniques for cell biology!

Calling all prospective PhD students! Why not consider the LMB for your PhD? Applications are now open! www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int... General deadline: 2nd DEC US Gates Scholarship deadline: 15th OCT

#LightMicroscopy26 returns for its 7th edition in Ghent, 18-22 May 2026. Join us for a hands-on week of imaging, optics, and sunny science vibes, from optics basics to super-resolution: vibbio.tech/46w60rL See the microscopic world in a whole new light. #LightMicroscopy26 #ConfocalMicroscopy

Please join us! sundaramlab.com/blog/aecm-cl...

Join us this Thursday for our mini-symposium with the membrane trafficking webinar series Featuring talks from @nickader.bsky.social, @maiblab.bsky.social and Mónica Quiñones-Frías, and a keynote lecture from Gillian Griffiths @griffithslab.bsky.social. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...

🔬 Free microscopes + teacher training! 📅 Applications are now open. To apply, visit www.foldscope.com or scan the QR code (video) ✉️ Any questions? Email us at [email protected] #stem #education #science #teachers #training #free #microscopy #educators #professionaldevelopment #microscope

Oh yes-the one and only Robert Haase @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social From #GrandTheftAuto to the impact AI is having on #bioimaging. +the challenges of creating AI courses for bioimage analysis, & his unique perspective as a programmer-turned-biologist. Stream- bit.ly/microscopist... @globias.bsky.social

📢Our latest #preprint list is up on FocalPlane In this list, we highlight research using #microscopy to answer questions in biology. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/19/m... #cellbio #neuroscience #cytoskeleton #microbiology #cilia

🔬 CALLING UK BIOLOGICAL IMAGING FACILITIES! Join the UK Euro-BioImaging Node! 🎯 Need: ≥20% capacity for community use + 5yr commitment ✨ Get: International recognition + funding support + collaboration 📅 Info webinar: Oct 9, 12:30-14:00 ⏰ Closes: Dec 2, 16:00 Website in comments below 👇

📣 Open Call! Want to do an imaging project at one of #EuroBioImaging's Czech Nodes? The Czech-BioImaging Open Call for access to core facilities is open until September 30. 🌐 This call is open to academic, commercial & international users. Check it out🔽 www.czech-bioimaging.cz/activities/o...

1🧵 Excited to share my first PhD paper, published in @dev-journal.bsky.social What if fish gills —often overlook —hold secrets about development, patterning, and function? We uncovered how early patterning shapes adult gill architecture. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/... #DevBio #Zebrafish

Congrats to @errricpeterman.bsky.social on leading our latest paper now published in @jcellsci.bsky.social ! Eric found multiple roles for microtubules in tissue-resident macrophage homeostasis and function -- including in helping macrophages navigate around epithelial obstacles during wound repair👇

#Drosophila community - look at this amazing lineup for #InDRC2025 Registration for #InDRC2025 is now open! Visit indrc2025.in to register and submit your abstract. #genetics #devbio @flybase.bsky.social

We’re organizing a conference at @ijmonod.bsky.social in Paris, January 2026, in memory of M.P. Sheetz — pioneer in cell mechanics and mechanobiology, co-discoverer of kinesin, and founder of @mbisg.bsky.social. Join us to explore his legacy. mikeinmemoriam.sciencesconf.org

Our 3rd quarterly @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social newsletter is out! Find information on the last months' political and strategic developments, links to important papers, recordings and training material as well as an overview of upcoming events. To the newsletter: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/community-in...

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

📢 Join us next week for our mini-symposium with the membrane trafficking webinar series Featuring talks from @nickader.bsky.social, @maiblab.bsky.social and Mónica Quiñones-Frías, and a keynote lecture from Gillian Griffiths @griffithslab.bsky.social.

New JCS snapshot - TMEM184B modulates endolysosomal acidification via the vesicular proton pump Elizabeth Wright presents the key findings from their recent @jcellsci.bsky.social paper with Martha Bhattacharya @marthabhattacharya.bsky.social & colleagues. focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/17/j...

It started #Czechbioimaging conference: Imaging Principles of Life Day 1: Intro to @eurobioimaging.bsky.social #czechbioimaging infrastructures Updates from core facilities 2 invited speakers: Christian Schöfer and Alena Salašová

Episode 13 - so why is it so important to use the small brush in ilastik (ep 11)? How do random forests WORK, anyway? Join @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I as we explore using #marimo! Looking for notebooks/pipelines/images, or want to submit a q? Check our site! ciminilab.github.io/AskErin_Dear...

The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026): www.embl.org/about/info/e... We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

🌟#MeetOurDataStewards: #4: Vanessa Fuchs In today's blog post, Vanessa tells you about her first steps toward making her data reusable. In the end, the data was accessible, annotated, and reusable and her colleague was able to reanalyze it. 👉 Find out more: nfdi4bioimage.de/news/news-de...

Another exciting opportunity @dunnschool.bsky.social ! Come and be a colleague to a great group of scientists working on the fundamental mechanisms underlying disease, and how to transform health Please help us find great applicants

Our PhD studentship programme is officially open; pass it on If you are looking for a fully-funded PhD in the mechanisms underlying human disease, here are the details... Great science and a great environment! www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

We are featuring Daisy Pineda-Suazo, who was interviewed for @biologyopen.bsky.social's ‘First Person’ series in 2024 after her first-author publication in the journal, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists #NPAW2025

📢Join us at the @jcellsci.bsky.social meeting on Imaging Cell Dynamics Registration is now open for #JCSImaging in Catalonia, Spain from 11-14 May 2026. 🔬 For more info: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/15/r...

Come see Mónica, who is on the job market! This is a really cool story using beatiful imaging to reveal unexpected properties of the presynaptic ER.

📢 The September newsletter is out! Updates from our nodes, recent events, training opportunities, job offers... everything you need to know about France-BioImaging is inside. How to read it? Click here ⤵️ france-bioimaging.org/newsletter/s...

If you have missed the dates! @spaommeeting.bsky.social deadlines have been extended!!

Our team (Pixel) and along with it our institute (IBS, Grenoble) is now officially a node of the IMAGINE consortium (for next generation imaging for biology across scales) www.linkedin.com/posts/imagin...

Lovely talk by Open Software Week participant @ishratz25.bsky.social on the challenges of using @brainglobe.info tools to identify very small regions, in very large images.

Next Thursday Sept 25 (4-6pm CET) we have our first #FocalPlaneFeatures together with our #membranetrafficking community! Thanks to all who submitted such exciting abstracts. The final program is out, featuring a keynote by Gillian Griffiths. Register here: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/09/16/f...