Letting the light in - capturing magical moments with my little half frame companion, the light breaking through the clouds created such an incredible atmosphere, stunning and dramatic 📷Pentax 17 🎞️Ilford HP5 🧪DDX #believeinfilm #fridayfavourites #HFF #filmphotography

The new version of TrackMate, the v8.1 has just been released. It builds upon the recent v8, linked below, and offers two main improvements 👇

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

Wonderful opportunity 🐟

A PSA Getting sick doesn’t do what you think it does. Very few viruses give lifelong immunity. Most immunity to respiratory viruses fades, and with high levels of transmission, new variants appear often. That’s why we keep getting sick. Getting sick doesn’t fix the problem. It drives it.

The Anglo-Saxon model

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

Alongside the Pentax 17 this year I’ve very much enjoyed using my Olympus 35RC on my travels. #Believeinfilm #Filmphotography

At the core of it all, though: we’ve had near two decades of politicians and media screaming at us that even having what we had in 2007 is an impossible fantasy that has to be destroyed, or creating inflammatory distractions, and that is why (points at everything on fire and sliding into the sea)

We're still exploring how to improve LSFM performance with "big" detection air objectives, where field curvature often limits achievable FOV. Here, Steven introduces curvedASLM, a method to dynamically correct field curvature (along one axis) in axially scanned setups www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors? www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

A photo I took earlier this year from quite far away (hence the composition not being as strong as I'd like) - just loved all the fellas sitting in a row on the wall eating their chips. #Photography #ThePhotoHour #BlackandWhite

Who needs a shared reality when we can just design our own news that has nothing to do with anyone else’s news?

Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.

We been "waiting for the old folks to die so we can stop being racist" for every single one of my 53 years. It's almost like, they pass it down generationally or something.

personally if I'd made several king's ransoms in salary and stock working for Evil Corp, I'd probably not bother with taking another job and instead I'd spend my days enjoying my friends and family, reading, hanging out, swanning around the world in luxury and generally living the life of a sybarite

Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail

A few more favourites from #HalfFrameStories 2025 - loads more to print . #Believeinfilm #Filmphotography

London - Dec' 2025

ICYMI: this is very obviously a crisis every bit as emergent - and indivisible from - climate breakdown.

Keir Starmer’s spokesman refuses to criticise Trump for calling Europe a group of “decaying” nations led by “weak” leaders Asked about Trump saying European countries will no longer be “viable" thanks to migration, Keir Starmer’s spokesman says the UK is “returning control to our asylum system”

you’ve definitely heard of elf on the shelf but are you ready for

Great photo. Among many other things, he had few equals as a dancer.

It’s been a year of small print making and mostly from the Pentax17. These are probably three of my favourite “constructed” faux panoramas that I’ve made on @ilfordphoto.com MGRC 5x7 paper. #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Last gas-heated homes in Germany could face extra costs of 4,000 euros per year – analysis Costs could rise by a factor of ten by 2045, as fewer customers foot the bill for maintaining distribution grids, researchers find www.cleanenergywire.org/news/last-ga...

Thus is *genuinely* how taxation was explained to me as a pre-teen

DO NOT MISS THIS if you're local to Cambridge!

Twelve scientists from Chile, India, Nigeria, Singapore and Taiwan have been selected as new EMBO Global Investigators – Congratulations to the new cohort! 🧪 Read the press release: https://www.embo.org/press-releases/twelve-scientists-become-embo-global-investigators/ #funding #training

Standing proud in a bustling metropolis for more than 160 years! ✨ 📸 London From the Rooftops.

So ... four quarters 🤔

Another interesting watch youtu.be/WJQn8QJrUiQ?...

From the Art21 channel on YouTube . youtu.be/T-fbu6b9LOE?...

My local butcher is *very* white and English, and offers halal meat

Further evidence that widespread covid vaccination is better for everybody.

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The number of global deaths of children under-5 is projected to increase this year (from 4.6m to 4.8m) for the first time this century. (FT) The price of aid cuts.

This has been the project!! This has been what the right wing media has been doing for *decades* - constructing a set of rules around racism that it's actually impossible for white middle-class racists to have ever crossed, and in fact you're the real racist for accusing them.

A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.

"Organisations including Samaritans, Mind, Centre for Mental Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists have written to the equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson, to express their “deep concern” about guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Statuesque. London.

Read, people, read.

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

I dunno man the concept of actually owning something you pay for must be like a drug if you're under 30

Diving into the global environment of fast-food chains, Richard Renaldi makes up a delicate survey of both a socio-economic reality and an American cultural hallmark. lenscratch.com/2025/12/rich...

“computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills” tech won’t save us

Incredible book, if you haven’t seen it. I think about the “technologically precocious boy” all the time.

this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme

Good-bye, Martin Parr. Last May we were waiting, and waiting, for supper and had a laugh or two, which was typical for him. One of the lights of photography has gone out. it was probably a flashgun.

The 2nd Shitty Camera Challenge Holiday Fundraiser is live! Get a Blind Box with one of 47 possible cameras & all the profits go to The Trevor Project! www.ebay.com/itm/26750357... Limit 1 per household #ShittyCameraChallenge