Busy #cellfie 🧪

Electrifying story from @ritamateus.bsky.social lab. @mpi-cbg.de @poldresden.bsky.social

Great to see this officially out: An mTurquoise2-Based Glucose Biosensor - works in yeast & mammalian cells and is compatible with FLIM: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Little reminder about this paper out there, it's a great reference for anyone working on Flipper-TR experiments! By @chloeroffay.bsky.social @rouxlab.bsky.social

Mammalian cells labeled with lysotracker are perfect for teaching live cell imaging. Minimal preparation, always works, and, as a bonus, results in nice data for #FluorescenceFriday

How do cells orchestrate themselves to achieve a directional movement as a group? Hi, I’m @sayukihirano.bsky.social. In this thread, I’ll highlight key mechanisms of how cells communicate with each other to perform directional collective migration.

Curious if anyone has applied #MCP in materials physics or other scientific fields. Concrete use cases, prototypes, or lessons learned are very welcome. Looking to connect with fellow scientists and exchange experiences in this area. #OpenScience #MaterialsPhysics #Physics #Langchain

AMAZING JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT!!! @calm-stp.bsky.social is hiring a Data & Systems Steward! 🧬 🔹Manage #bioimage data & #OMERO admin 🔹Automate via #Python/#Bash 🔹Support #FAIR principles 🔹Work closely with @crick-ia-team.bsky.social ⏰ Deadline: 08 Feb 2026 Apply: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

JCS snapshot - Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics in time-lapse microscopy with ARCOS.px @macdobry.bsky.social presents the key findings from their recent JCS paper with @bgraedel.bsky.social and colleagues @olivierpertz.bsky.social. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

A Comment discusses how commands, data, and metadata currently discarded by scientific instruments could be used to train AI systems to learn to conduct experiments. @henrypinkard.bsky.social @nilsnorlin.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One of the perks of living in San Francisco is free visits to the Photonics West trade show. Sharing my notes for those missing out: nicost.github.io/microscope-t...

🚨 We are hiring TWO postdocs to join the Cell Migration Lab (cellmig.org) 🇫🇮 as part of the new Centre of Excellence in Immune–Endothelial Interfaces (IMMENs). Join us to decode immune regulation & develop next-gen imaging tools! 🧪🔬 Details in thread 🧵👇 #ScienceSky #Postdoc #AcademicJobs Please RT🫶

Navigate can now run entirely with ASI's Tiger Controller, eliminating the NI data acquisition board altogether, simplifying the optoelectronics, and providing deterministic frame-to-frame operation. Documentation coming soon... github.com/TheDeanLab/n...

@marineluciano.bsky.social recreates intestinal Villi geometry by growing epithelial cells on wavy rolling substrates. Unexpected intrication of curvature effects is observed. Thanks to all! @caterinatomba.bsky.social @sgabriele.bsky.social @sciencesunige.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Real-time control of cell migration with closed-loop feedback, interoperability of smart microscopes, image analysis with Convpaint & our chatGPT microscope! Excited for this meeting!

some nice circular micropatterns by @bgraedel.bsky.social and msc student moritz in @olivierpertz.bsky.social lab! stamp printed with our microfab method.

📯👨‍🚀 Calling all #bioimage analysis aficionados. #EZInput is out! We wanted to bring #ImageJ’s capacity to record settings to the #Python ecosystem 🐍. It is a declarative library for generating UIs that just work. Done with @guijacquemet.bsky.social lab arxiv.org/abs/2601.08859 #ScientificComputing

@thorlabs.bsky.social teaching scopes are all set up and ready for my #microscopy lab course!

Kind of flew under the radar, BUT we released napari-omero 0.6 recently 🥳 @openmicroscopy.org You can now down-/upload ROIs from and to OMERO inside @napari.org 🤩Bringing the power of napari for annotation to the management of OMERO :) Thanks @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social and other maintainers!

Won best thesis award with this video! 4 years of research and play in 3 minutes :') youtu.be/so0fPlK1-LM

If you have time tomorrow, join my online talk about LLS/single molecule/microtubules and 3D data at @bioimagingna.bsky.social user group (18:00 CET for Europe). I hope I manage to fit 25 movies into 20 cohesive slides and connection will be ok.

Tune in on 23. jan to hear about our work on smart microscopy:

Finally, we’ve solved a long-standing mystery: what tintinnid shells are actually made of: A new class of biomaterial formed by remarkable structural proteins unique to tintinnids. A major milestone after 3 years of work! Read about it in our preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #ProtistsOnSky

A super detailed protocol + video on Cryo-ExM - Cryo-Expansion Microscopy, led by the labs of our former postdocs @marinelap.bsky.social & @ebertiaux.bsky.social. Clear, practical, and very useful for anyone doing nanoscale imaging 🚀 app.jove.com/t/68595/expa...

Pfffffff. Chains of transformations are hard. It took me two releases to get the live deskew slider right and looking ok (hopefully) #bigvolumebrowser

One of the difficulties in developing code for microscopes is to get access to the equipment. So, wouldn't it be nice to have emulators? Turns out that AI is really good at converting documentation into an emulator: nicost.github.io/microscope-t...

🔬📊 PhD (100%) – Statistics & ML for self-driving microscopy Joint PhD with David Ginsbourger (Stats) & Pertz Lab (Cell Biology). Gaussian Processes, Bayesian design, active learning on live-cell experiments. ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo... #PhD #Statistics #MachineLearning #Bayesian

🚀📰 End-of-year news for #RxivMaker =). Now it generates both #pdf and #docx from #markdown. Docx makes it easier to collaborate on a document for non-markdown users, making it simple to loop between docx and #RxivMaker to a professional-looking #preprint Preprint updated: arxiv.org/abs/2508.00836

Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics directly from images -- New method paper by labmates @bgraedel.bsky.social & @macdobry.bsky.social ! Python package & @napari.org plugin, all the good stuff: Paper: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... Code: github.com/pertzlab/arc... Plugin: github.com/pertzlab/arc...

How does Ras signalling affect actin? Some answers in a new review from Joe Tyler & I @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8v-3PA3s... We discuss how Ras proteins coordinate local and global changes to the actin cytoskeleton and contribute to cytoskeletal plasticity in cancer.

Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics directly from images -- New method paper by labmates @bgraedel.bsky.social & @macdobry.bsky.social ! Python package & @napari.org plugin, all the good stuff: Paper: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... Code: github.com/pertzlab/arc... Plugin: github.com/pertzlab/arc...

I was invited by @focalplane.bsky.social to write a short description about it: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/12/a...

ICYMI, our #preprint list is now up on FocalPlane, highlighting the latest research using #microscopy to answer questions in #biology. As always, send us any recommendations for preprints that we've missed: focalplane.biologists.com/2025/12/12/m...

🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨 I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany. www.bischofflab.com/jobs Fully funded ✅ #Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy #Drosophila #PhD (Details Below) Original Posting: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

Wondering how to control the environment of cells? Check out this insightful #EpithelialMechanics thread by @lhinderling.bsky.social 👇

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

So how are these structures made? Early experiments used natural materials, even spider webs! 🕸️ bsky.app/profile/epim...

Want even smaller features? We recently published a method to convert your microscope into a microfabrication station, printing features from μm to cm scale for less than $5 in materials per design. Thread: bsky.app/profile/lhin... Paper: bsky.app/profile/epim...

Cells can sense the geometry of their environment, from tiny subcellular features to whole-tissue patterns. How can we engineer environments to systematically probe these responses? 🧵 I'm @lhinderling.bsky.social from @olivierpertz.bsky.social lab, let’s do a short tour on microfabrication!

#LivingArchitectures We put cells and cytoskeleton filaments on the architecture of the musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/ev... Scientists of the #CytoMorphoLab adapted their protocols to illustrate the questions that keep them awake at night. -> Two shows on the 24th and 25th of January.

Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too! preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵 Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/9

Do you enjoy exploring embeddings interactively as much as I do? Check out _embeddoor_! I recently vibe-coded it while watching too many Harry Potter movies 😃 Feedback welcome as more features will certainly come! github.com/haesleinhuep...

I'll be there :)

Ultrack on the cover of Nature Methods! Thanks @alexandredizeux.bsky.social for helping us with the beautiful cover art! 😍

Lock-in-SIM, a new approach to reject background and minimize artefacts in structured illumination microscopy (SIM): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Glad to see @esoubies.bsky.social's FlexSIM is the best opponent in side-by-side comparisons!

🚀 New preprint out! We introduce SMOLM-LFM: a simple, ratiometric, light-field–based method for 6D single-molecule orientation + localization, no polarization optics, no complex PSFs. Fast.Robust.Large DoF. A work done at @henriqueslab.bsky.social. In colaboration with the great L. AlemanCastaneda

I gave a talk at Blender Conference yesterday, showing how biological volumes work, and how to visualize them in Blender 😋 youtu.be/WPajSWX730o?... #bcon25

📢Check out our latest #preprint list on FocalPlane This list focusses on the latest research on bioimage analysis and data management. Let us know if there are any preprints that we should add to our list and send us recommendation for the next one! focalplane.biologists.com/2025/11/14/m...

Finally, the first public release of #BigVolumeBrowser, so after teasers, you can try it yourself. For details, please check the announcement post (1/2) forum.image.sc/t/bigvolumeb...