🌟 Thrilled to share that my lab’s first publication is now out in @natmetabolism.nature.com. Congrats to the team 🎉 🧠 We discovered that neurons use endogenous fatty acids as an energy fuel, challenging long-standing models of sugars being the exclusive energy source for neurons. 1/3

The ExM gang @jvermot.bsky.social @mahjoublab.bsky.social @marinelap.bsky.social @centriolelab.bsky.social @simonemortal.bsky.social et al #GEF25

Latest imaging data from our completely re-designed ExA-SPIM system. Expansion-assisted imaging (3X expansion, 0.3 NA) enables brain-wide imaging with high-contrast and <400 nm effective resolution.

Now out on bioRxiv. 🥳My research on #cytokinesis, averaging thousands of #ExM images🔬, creating a dynamic atlas of cytokinesis 🦠⏳. Here's an animated sneak peek of what we found. Better resolution on bioRxiv😄 #PSFoftheGIF

Huntingtin protein bound to actin filaments. I didn’t know it could do that! Nice one @schurlab.bsky.social and friends! 🧪🧶🧬 #TeamTomo

Anyone interested in getting my job? Do not hesitate to apply, it's a pretty good gig

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

💙 Our new findings show that babies younger than 3 months, whose mothers received the maternal RSV vaccination, were 80% less likely to end up in hospital than those whose mums hadn’t been vaccinated. Find out more 🔽 publichealthscotland.scot/news/2025/au... #VaccinesWork

#ExM rocks!!!

I don't know that it works perfectly, but I have to say that the Asta search tool from @ai2.bsky.social is exactly what I want from an AI-powered research search tool for scientists: Describe a style of experiment or work and see if there are papers that have done that. asta.allen.ai/chat

Nazis con porra bsky.app/profile/fons...

"La Vuelta interrumpida en su última etapa, las calles de Madrid atestadas de policía tomada por voces que no aceptan el silencio sobre Gaza. Un recordatorio brutal de que el espectáculo no siempre puede continuar", por Manuel Jabois social.elpais.com/frgh44

HAK-actin™ was developed in the labs of @centriolelab.bsky.social and @dudinlab.bsky.social. Find out more about HAK-actin™ in the BioRxiv manuscript: doi.org/10.1101/2025... We are grateful to @dudinlab.bsky.social for providing the creolimax frangantissima data used in the movie

Scientists present an advanced new technique for live-imaging regenerating limbs, shown here on a sand flea. buff.ly/J0SQ4hR

#FluorescenceFriday After a wonderful summer at the beach, what could be better than discovering a new microscope on the facility to keep your spirits high? Just a few more days until you can image your #organoids cleared or in vivo! #SPIM @institutcochin.bsky.social @france-bioimaging.bsky.social

New preprint online! So much fun working on this project, thank you @centriolelab.bsky.social and @dudinlab.bsky.social for embarking me on this one! Hopefully HAK-actin will become your best companion for actin staining U-ExM expanded samples.

Drawing the mind, one neuron at a time: A 2022 book walks readers through the life and work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spaniard whom many consider the founder of modern #neuroscience. Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #BookLoversDay: scim.ag/3RvHDmQ

OMG, they did it!!!

FDA approves first blood test for Alzheimer's diagnosis—a potential game-changer that could dramatically increase access to early detection through routine blood draws. www.oneneurojhu.org/2025/08/21/f...

Automated optogenetic control of hundreds of cells in parallel. Each cell is individually steered, collectively acting as a "tissue printer". Preprint & code out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 New Preprint! Ex-dSTORM resolves fine details of the molecular architecture of CCPs, the 8-nm periodicity of microtubules, and the docking site of synaptic vesicles at the presynapse of hippocampal neurons. ▶️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Here is the Priorities document (long thread) 1/n

First real-time human embryo implantation recorded (in 2D and 3D). Time lapse video of 2 embryos (200 μm apart) implanting in the 3D platform science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pan-ASLM system for large scale expansion microscopy from the Bewersdorf lab. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Download our updated database for POSTDOC fellowships in neuroscience/neurology/psychology/psychiatry/neuro-X 23 entries (w/ description, amount, link, deadline, eligibility criteria). Good luck! Here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... With @dudinlab.bsky.social @embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social

Lithium orotate… Hope that works! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The study notes that the natural amounts of lithium are tiny comp'd to what they use in psych drugs. Also note!: "The National Institutes of Health was the major funder of the study, along with grants from private foundations... NIH support was absolutely critical for this work,' Yankner said."

Very excited to announce that my first, first author paper, is now on BioRxiv! In this paper we unambiguously show #COPII coated vesicles in unperturbed human cells for the very first time!! Make my day and check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Cryo-ET #TeamTomo #Cryo-CLEM ❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬❄️🔬

CryoET and plasmodesmata structure!! @emmanuellebayer.bsky.social

Fantastic achievement - congratulations Lucy! 😀🔬

Flossie Wong-Staal (1946 – 2020) was a Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist. She was the first scientist to clone HIV and determine the function of its genes, which was a major step in proving that HIV is the cause of AIDS. 🔬🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Hey, it's out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Aligning Big Brains and Atlases, ABBA in short, is published in Cell Reports @cp-cellreports.bsky.social . @biancasilvalab.bsky.social's lab added an analysis pipeline on top of it (BraiAn) and did all the relevant biological work. What is it ? Short thread:

We're hiring! Nature Neuroscience is hiring an Associate or Senior Editor with experience in cellular and molecular neuroscience, glia, and genomics to work in our New York or Shanghai office. Applications are due August 19. springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Spring...

Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung has committed €7 million to the EMBL Imaging Centre. That means more opportunities to create groundbreaking, next-gen imaging technologies and provide the necessary support so European life scientists can benefit. www.embl.org/news/connect...

After almost a year without major updates, I’ve spent the last few months working hard on PoCA again. I’ll share some of the new stuff here. Stay tuned if you're into point cloud data, SMLM, or just love a good visualization tool. And maybe… PoCA won’t be limited to point clouds anymore 👀

🚨 New EMBO Practical Course! Ultrastructure Expansion Microscopy: From Cells to Tissue 🔬 📅 20–24 Apr 2026 | 📍 EMBL Heidelberg Co-organised with @banterlegroup.bsky.social @gautamdey.bsky.social 💡 Register your interest to get notified when registration opens: 🔗 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

𝕊𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕆𝕡𝕖𝕟 Jr Researcher⏰21Jul: tinyurl.com/62kur7ht Research Tech⏰22Jul: tinyurl.com/hr97sbn4 Jr Researcher⏰23Jul: tinyurl.com/a7sh5npe Research Grant⏰23Jul: tinyurl.com/3fwddc2u Jr Researcher⏰24Jul: tinyurl.com/em6t7bhx

wonderful opportunity for junior faculty

nice combo approach! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🕒 Deadline extended – Your last Chance! There’s still time to showcase your new single molecule or time-resolved #fluorescence #microscopy method at the @spie.org BiOS conference "Single Molecule #Spectroscopy and Superresolution Imaging XIX" Submit your abstract now: ➡️ spie.org/PWB/conferen...

Interested in developmental epigenetics? So are we! Apply now to join us for your postdoc! Multiple positions across multiple groups @mrc-lms.bsky.social Projects spanning germline demethylation, gene regulation, genome architecture in development & disease 👇👇 lms.mrc.ac.uk/work/vacanci...

Pedro Cuatrecasas, el español desconocido que pudo ganar dos Premios Nobel El científico, fallecido a los 88 años en Estados Unidos, transformó la vida de millones de personas tras participar en el desarrollo de 40 nuevos medicamentos elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Hello microscopists!! Help needed - does anybody know of any good Mn2+ indicators that are good in live cell microscopy assays ? Never worked with them before and not sure if there are any reliable & affordable ones out there..? Reposts appreciated 🙏🙏

Teaching an old bacterial protein new tricks: Fast, bright and reversible rhodamine tags for live-cell imaging: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congratulations to Julian Kompa and the entire team.

It's here! ✨ The #ExSRRF protocol paper is out 😍. Full details for merging Expansion Microscopy with our eSRRF analysis. From cells to tissue. A partnership with @puellesv.bsky.social's lab. Lead by Dominik Kylies and @hannah-superres.bsky.social + colleagues. #ExM #eSRRF ➡️ Open link: rdcu.be/euvEw

Goodbye June #MicroscopyMonday

Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.