The Early Career Committee yesterday at our Early Career Symposium 2025! Thank you to all of our speakers and attendees for making it such a great afternoon @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social #mmc2025uk

Massive congratulations to Niamh Burke @niamh-deburca.bsky.social on winning the 2025 @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Early Career Award, with her talk on the enderscope community project, co-developing accessible imaging tools with the public. 😀🙌🔬👍 @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

A buzzing atmosphere in a grand setting: the exhibition hall at #mmc2025 over lunch 😃🍽️😋 @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social

After a quick break to refuel ☕️ we’re back on with Kokila Wickramanayake from Plymouth for a tour de force on how oxidative stress in rice/barley chloroplasts interacts with fungal infection 🌾🌱🍄‍🟫 #mmc2025uk

Lots of excellent conversations taking place during break-time at the @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Early Career Symposium 😀 A great way to kick things off at #mmc2025 👏🔬👍 @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

Congratulations and best of luck to all of our Early Career Award Finalists! 👏👏👏

Alessandro Zunino now describes contributions to the Image Scanning Microscope (s^2-ISM) for super-res 3D sectioning much like SIM, and FLIM-capable but with a small confocal photodiode array!

Anthoula Chatzimpinou has concerns about microglia with unusual morphology causing damage in neurodegenerative diseases, and tells us how they can be tracked label-free with X-Ray absorbance and multiplexed fluorescence techniques! 🔬❤️

Niamh Burke joins us from University College Dublin to tell us about a fantastic community-driven open-source endoscope project! ⭐️🔬

Next up we have Emily Woodcock, an expert in melanoma cell mechanics with SICM (scanning ion conductance microscopy).

...New at #mmc2025: Introducing our official mascot, Ruggles the Bear - pictured here with Katie from the events team. Ruggles will be busy 'volunteering' over the next few days, so keep an eye out for him! 😁🐻🔬 @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @iop-emag.bsky.social

The science talks at #mmc2025uk are go! 🏁our newly inaugurated Committee member, Ross Walsh from Galway, introduces exciting new work on #collagen remodelling in #cancer

Kicking the meeting off is our amazing ECR Committee Chair Katherine Paine who is an alumna of the Award!

We’re gearing up at #mmc2025uk Manchester for the RMS Early Career Symposium and Award …

Been a real privilege to organise this satellite meeting, standing on the shoulders of giants! #mmc2025uk

Super excited for the arrival of our brand new Lumicks C-Trap in Biology at York @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social, funded by @ukri.org BBSRC. This state-of-the-art optical tweezers / confocal microscope will enable us to probe the dynamics of structured viral RNAs, one molecule at a time 🔆🧬🔆

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Graham @york.ac.uk #Physicsoflife group for successfully defending her thesis! Thanks also to Dr Tara Sabir & @agnesnoy.bsky.social for doing the honours as examiners, @bpsiyork.bsky.social for co-supervising & @chillzaa.bsky.social for all the help along the way!

It's here. The lumicks C-Trap is up and running with real samples from Durham, Hull, Newcastle and York consortium. Thanks @ukri.org #BBSRC for funding. @chillzaa.bsky.social

...And we're off! All packed and ready for #mmc2025 in Manchester next week 😀🔬🚛 We'll see you there - and if you haven't booked your ticket yet, there's still time! (Exhibition tickets are *FREE*) 👇 www.mmc-series.org.uk/general-info... @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

‼️Programme finalised ‼️Check out the Early Career Symposium programme below 👇 🔬 #mmc2025UK

A great day of thinking about teaching bioimage analysis and designing courses at the #TrainTheTrainerBIA2025 @martinjones.bsky.social @makaefer.bsky.social @lankylaste.bsky.social @giuliapaci.bsky.social A well deserved fresh drink!

The Maria Leptin | EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships support life scientists pursuing a career in #ScienceJournalism and science journalists who wish to further their scientific education. Apply now: buff.ly/2YPDOJv #LifeSciences #Funding 🧪

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

The second Review, from Wei Min and colleagues, introduces probes for Raman microscopy and describes how probes can extend the benefits of technology that has traditionally been considered “label-free”. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A huge thank-you to everyone who submitted their work for this year's Open Research Awards. Our judging panel look forward to reading about the variety of projects and initiatives that have been taking place across our depts and schools 👍 Watch this space for the awardee announcement next month 🏆

👋 Biophysicists of the UK, come visit our table at the Physics of Life conference between today and March 27 for exclusive demos of the C-Trap -- the world's first instrument for real-time manipulation and visualization of single-molecule interactions! 📍@physicsoflifeuk.bsky.social

Back in Sheffield and excited to play with an exciting new bit of kit - our new @lumicks.bsky.social c-trap optical tweezers with @mattdnewton.bsky.social @insigneoinstitute.bsky.social @mcb-sheffield.bsky.social

🌷🌷🌷 Looking at the flowering tulip fields, we biologists realize the heterogeneity in all things. Averaging data can mask vital details, but C-Trap’s single-molecule measurements reveal every unique interaction. Capture the full spectrum of molecular dynamics! More here: lumicks.com/products/c-t...

MBoC #CallForPapers: Special Issue on Biomolecular Condensates Submit to be considered by lead editors: Amy Gladfelter, University of North Carolina Jeffrey B. Woodruff, UT Southwestern Medical Center Huaiying Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University www.molbiolcell.org/biomolecular... #CellBiology

In vivo single-particle tracking by Geng-Jen Jang, Caroline Dean et al reveals the modular assembly of #Arabidopsis gene expression regulator FLOWERING CONTROL LOCUS A from oligomers into molecular condensates competent for RNA 3’-processing www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Our paper has been published! We used in vivo single-particle tracking to demonstrate that the assembly of core FCA oligomers into functional macromolecular condensates. Thanks to all the authors and colleagues!

CALVADOS-RNA is now published doi.org/10.1021/acs.... This is a simple model for flexible RNA that complements and works with the CALVADOS protein model. Work led by Ikki Yasuda who visited us from Keio University. Try it yourself using our latest code for CALVADOS github.com/KULL-Centre/...

Steven Chou, #Nobel laureate and former Energy Secretary under Obama gives us, #BPS2025 attendees, the facts about how we degrade our environment and imperil life on Earth! And outlines ways in which #biophysics can be part of a solution!

For anyone that was too busy at the end of last year to think about PhDs or are still looking for the right project/place, I have a project available in the second round of the Yorkshire Biosciences DTP scheme looking at the dynamics of human condensin: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Major goals right now… seeing the legendary Novel Laureate Steven Chu talk at the #BPS2025 keynote about the BIG STUFF: climate, energy, biodiversity and human wellbeing 🤩🤩🤩

On the plane to #bps2025 #BPS. Come find me at the Single-Molecule symposium on Subgroup Saturday—I'll be presenting our work on heterochromatin-associated proteins in fission yeast! 2:30pm Saturday in 408A

So excited to be in LA at the #BiophysicalSociety #BPS2025 meeting! A handful of talks in and we’ve already had some seriously stellar science:

Do you know an ECR who is doing outstanding research in microscopy? Why not drop them an email to encourage them to apply! www.rms.org.uk/opportunitie...

Valentine's Day is here! - and (on an equally important, if slightly less romantic note) so is the deadline for abstract submissions for #mmc2025 Why not show some love for #microscopy by submitting your abstract today! 😁😘🔬 mmc-series.org.uk/conference/a... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

Just maybe my proudest achievement will be #TheMicroscopists podcast which highlights the scientists themselves, and not just their amazing science. Revealing their hobbies and passions, their best and most difficult times. Be inspired: bit.ly/the-microsco... and please share

Only two days left to apply for this amazing opportunity to join Siân’s lab at Kings. Interested in data analysis, microscopy and working with an awesome PI? One not to miss 🔬 💻

🏆Join us for an exclusive Meet&Greet with the winners of the #EinsteinFoundationAward: Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social, PubPeer's Brandon Stell, and @helenajambor.bsky.social & Christopher Schmied (PixelQuality) on Nov 21! Register here: www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/insights/...

If you'd like to learn more about the tools available in the Fluorescent Protein Database, FPbase, here's an excellent lecture from creator Talley Lambert! youtu.be/nETkUNQ48Sg

✉️ Some science 🧪 buddies and I have written an open letter to the UK government, strongly opposing their “kicking woke ideology out of science” sentiments, which stand to damage the UK’s scientific standing and ability to deliver for public good. Please read and consider signing ✍🏻 t.co/H7rNzb0wGh

Fantastic news for all researchers using images & image analysis! 🧫🔬Our time-saving, #Reproducibility-superpowered checklists are fully #OpenAccess 🗝 in @naturemethods! Working on your next manuscript? 📝✨ Try it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...