One, perhaps two, of our postdocs are moving on to faculty positions this year (more news soon!). While they're truly irreplaceable, it does mean that we have openings for new members to join our team studying #cilia. If interested, please apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15526

Overall very cool stuff. A reconfigurable instrument that repurposes equipment investment in adaptive optics, SLM, lasers, to do a lot of different things 🧪

🔈 PhD offers! 2 PhD positions available at the BiOf-lab 🎓 Fancy 3D biology? Microscopy? Microfabrication? Bordeaux? 🧫 🔬 🛠️ 🍷 the first one is already online, the other will be out soon! (stay tuned) adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

It's out! 🥳 In situ architecture of #plasmodesmata - plant cytoplasmic bridges - by #cryoET. 📝 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 Thread: bsky.app/profile/madi... #teamtomo #proteomics #AlphaFold

How can a single cell learn without a brain? We explore this in my paper with @wallaceucsf.bsky.social! We discovered that single cells may learn using molecules similar to those that animal brains use to learn, like CaMKII. Cells can also propagate memory states to their progeny!

Happy Birthday to Santiago Ramón y Cajal - the "father of modern neuroscience."

@gtexm.bsky.social !!!

Sanctions contre Israël, « non à la guerre » : l’Espagne cultive sa singularité en Europe Par @fabienescalona.bsky.social

Our #UExM efforts with @gautamdey.bsky.social & @moorefound.bsky.social featured in @nature.com this month. Beyond the #science, every image is a thing of beauty. I think a world-tour exhibition has to happen at one point. #Expansion #Microscopy

🚨New paper out today in @acs.org ACS Nano, showing how expansion microscopy can visually quantify the cell surface receptor turnover mediated by signalling & receptor organising machineries on the surfaces of endosomes, some of the smallest organelles in cells. 🧪 🔬 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Sad news on the passing of Prof. Andreas Engel, a pioneer in the field of cryo-EM (shared with the 3DEM community by Henning Stahlberg). Andreas' kindness, warmth, and enthusiasm for science and his colleagues will be missed.

After the poster, the presentation ! #FOM2026

It’s incredibly hard to study lipids in biological membranes on the nanoscale. You need near-perfect information on both membrane ultrastructure and lipid density. Lipid-CLEM, now out in @natcellbio.nature.com brought to you by @mathilda95.bsky.social changes that: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to finally see Anna Brachet's paper out. Looks amazing! Done at the @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social and the @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This week, engineers from the photonics division are leading the longest-running course in our catalog: The Basics of Wide-Field and Confocal Microscopy !

Don't miss this opportunity, Bordeaux Node of FBI rocks!!! #SMLM #ExM #STED with @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social and @iins-bordeaux.bsky.social

Reviewers 5 months after the deadline when the editor sends urgent reminders to submit their reports

I think this is the most useful tool for the democratization of scripts for biological research in a long time.

This week @jeremie-bic.bsky.social presented his work on sample clearing and light-sheet imaging during @france-bioimaging.bsky.social annual meeting. This is the pure définition of the "Whaou" effect! Congrats !!!

First 24 hours of embryonic development in 9 different animal species: (From left to right) Zebrafish, Sea urchin, Black widow spider, Tardigrade, Sea squirt, Comb jelly, Parchment tube worm, Roundworm, Slipper snail. Credit to @tessamontague.bsky.social & Zuzka Vavrušová. #ZebrafishZunday #devbio 🧪

Mesmerizing actin fireworks 💥 with our actin probe SPY650-FastAct_X for #FluorescenceFriday Easy to use: just dilute the probe in cell culture medium and image 30 min later! 🔗 spirochrome.com/product/spy6... 🙏 Big thanks to @lazaresaladin.bsky.social for the images. 🧪

for #fluorescencefriday we have the dance of blood vessels by @mind-western.bsky.social @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social @nadiahaghbinphd.bsky.social and Vladislav Novikov

Our March cover (rupress.org/jcb/issue/22...) is an immunofluorescence image of nurse cells in the #Drosophila ovary. #Actin cables (cyan) assembling at the nurse cell cortex co-align with acetylated #microtubules (magenta) as they grow toward the nuclei. See Chou et al. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity-Join the AIMM user community on Friday, March 6, for a talk by Hannah Somers- “Stop Reinventing the Protocol: MicroHub, a Searchable Hub for Microscopy Knowledge” Learn more: buff.ly/kZSIkSJ

Attention all microscopists!

It’s FREE to publish in Journal of Cell Science – there are no page charges, colour charges or hidden fees. And if your institution has a Read & Publish agreement, you can publish immediate OA free of charge. Find out more: journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/re... #forscientists #notforprofit

New research provides insight into how division orientation is controlled to ensure robust tissue architecture during plant growth. Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/3Okfjp7

📢 Registration for the 28th Annual Meeting of the Club Exocytose-Endocytose is open until April 15 ! 👉 Register here: exoendo.org/en/evenement... Please share widely! @gdrimabio.bsky.social @biologists.bsky.social @sbcf.bsky.social @embo.org @febsletters.bsky.social @sneuroendo.bsky.social

#ZebrafishZunday: Valentine's Day Edition ❤️ Beating heart of a transgenic zebrafish embryo. Credit to @zebrafish007.bsky.social. 🧪

What a beautiful dividing cell, we can clearly see the chromosomes and even count them with MAGNIFY in Arabidopsis root tip. © Magali Grison @monica-bic.bsky.social @lbm-bordeaux.bsky.social

A projection atlas of excitatory and inhibitory inputs to the preBötzinger Complex: substrates for multimodal breathing control www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

There was so much to unpack with this data, we teamed up with the marvellous @margotriggi.bsky.social to help explain what we think is going on. (Please also check out our model of central apparatus assembly here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...)

I have more live imaging of actin in B cells from this week for this #FluorescenceFriday

#fluorescencefriday 🧠 from AppNL-G-F mouse model triple stained for amyloid beta (Cyan) IBA1 (microglia magenta) and CD31 (blood vessels yellow) thanks to @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social @nadiahaghbinphd.bsky.social and @arashsalah.bsky.social @mind-western.bsky.social

A Sticky Dance Between a Cell and a Neuron. #neuroscience #science #mysterious #HiddenWorld #cell #FluorescenceFriday ➡️A Schwann cell precursor interacting with sensory axons 🔬🧫🧪

Intruder waving #Fluorescentfriday #Actin #neurons #astrocyte

Pues que terminen de estudiarlo y lo hagan. Ese evento incita a conductas de claro riesgo para la salud pública, en pleno repunte del sarampión. ☹️

I agree, #ExM really changed my microscopy work…

The next @bioimagingna.bsky.social @canadabioimaging.bsky.social Nanoscopy (previously STED) User Group meeting is on 12 February from 12 pm ET. The group welcomes researchers at all levels for an open discussion on nanoscopy methods. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/02/b...

✨ En ce début d’année, l’équipe du pôle photonique s’est dit qu’il était temps de changer des slides et des listes d’équipements 📄❌ 👉 Résultat : un mini-film un peu décalé pour présenter nos systèmes de microscopie, d’optique et d’instrumentation 🔬 La photonique, mais en version musicale 🎶

#ImageOfTheMonth February 2026 ✨ Fluorescent fibers (hundreds of µm) of a Platinium complex visualized in Fiji using orientation-based pseudocolors 🎨. Image acquired during the BIC hands-on microscopy training 🔬 Credits: F. R. Lauro, A. Virepinte (ISM), J. Teillon (BIC)

🏆 Image of the Year 2025 226 votes, 12 Images of the Month, and a race decided by just one vote 😮 With 58 votes, @tdhellemmes.bsky.social wins for his cleared brain image acquired using light-sheet microscopy and will proudly carry the colors of the BIC 🎉🔬✨

Congratulations to Bob Asselbergh, who was named runner-up in the Autumn round of the Four Seasons of the Invisible imaging contest hosted by Euro-BioImaging! 🏆 https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/congratulations-to-the-winners-of-the-autumn-imaging-contest/

Are you a cell biologist who secretly thinks cellular cryo-electron tomography is just George Palade-era EM, but fancier? Join this webinar to see how modern #teamtomo has shifted from pretty pictures to quantitative, local membrane biology, and how that changes the questions we can ask.

Curious about Advanced fluorescence imaging techniques? 🔬 Check out this course organised in collaboration with @embl.org Node experts, taking place at EMBL Heidelberg from May 17-22. 🗓️ Apply by February 8 🔽 www.embl.org/about/info/c...

Look the video @mag-bic.bsky.social !!!

Applications for QI 2026 are due on Friday! 🔬 🖥️ 📊 😺

Save the date 🤩🤩🤩! Our student-led Young Scientist Symposium will take place on the 4th & 5th of June this summer! More information and registration available soon!

At the Special Edition #VirtualPub, Christian Holz of Molecular Devices presents large‑scale solutions & services for automated organoid culture expansion, 4D image acquisition platforms, and AI‑based analysis tools. 🗓️ Fri, Jan 30 Abstract🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/3d-orga...

Hey! IMARIS rocks, but the trainers rock even more!!! @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social