Non-destructive testing for #3DThursday!🥽 Apple Vision Pro vs MetaQuest in a microCT. 🔬: Lumafield @lumafield.bsky.social microCT 🎬: syGlass.io, loading two projects at once 3D imaging like this is used to validate design, catch flaws, and build smarter devices. #MicroCT #syGlass #VR #SciComm

🦐 High-res microCT of #Parhyale hawaiensis for #3DThursday! A powerful crustacean model for studying limb development, regeneration, and evo-devo. 🥼: Nipam Patel & Andrew Gillis, 2017 🏛️: University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk 🎬: syGlass.io #Parhyale #MicroCT #DevBio #EvoDevo #ModelOrganisms #syGlass

Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy... 🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social 🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group 🌌: Painted Sea Urchin 📷: syGlass.io

Pollen diversity #3DThursday!🌼🌾 Thanks to Nat Prunet's careful microscopy, we see ridges, spikes & pores that reveal how plants spread & survive. 🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM 980, Airyscan 2 🥼: @nat-prunet.bsky.social 🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core 🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0 #syGlass

Chicken balancing for #3DThursday!🐔 These utricle hair cells sense gravity & straight-line motion. We segmented them with #CellposeSAM in #syGlass. 🥼: Stefan Heller Group 🏛️: Stanford @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social 🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0, out now! #Neuroanatomy #Microscopy #3DVisualization #SciComm

Love the high school programs that @mblscience.bsky.social runs, and it's so fun to be able to get the students into their data.

syGlass2.4.0 is out for #3Dthursday! Auto tracking tool for 4D data, integration with cellpose-SAM for improvements on our auto-segmentation, and a transfer function visualization! www.syglass.io/blog/syglass... #syGlass

4D bread baking inside a microCT for #3DThursday?!🍞 🔬: TESCAN DynaTOM 🏛️: TESCAN, thanks to Marijn Boone for the data! 🎬: syGlass.io Total scan time: 22m8s Time for 1 scan: 10 seconds Total scans: 124 volumes #4DImaging #MicroCT #DynamicImaging #FoodScience #syGlass #VRVisualization #ScientificVR

Organoids for #3DThursday! This is a tiny, lab-grown 3D model of a lung, meant to mimic the structure and function of real tissues. 🔬: #mesoSPIM #Lightsheet 🧫: Lung Organoid 🥼: Hei Ming Lai 🏛️: Illumos Ltd, www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🎬: syGlass.io #SciComm #TissueEngineering #Organoid #syGlass

Automated Segmentation by Cellpose-SAM using syGlass for #3DThursday! This took about 30 minutes to run on one of the gaming laptops. Crazy. 🔬: Synchrotron #MicroCT 🥼: Keith Cheng, MD, PhD, @pennstateuniv.bsky.social 📝: #CellposeSAM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🥽: syGlass.io v2.4.0 -- out soon!

A medley of modalities for #3DThursday! 🔬: #SBSEM, #Lightsheet, #ExM, & #MicroCT! Come see me at M&M in Salt Lake City. mm2025.eventscribe.net/index.asp 🥼: George Spirou (SEM), Elizabeth Engle (Lightsheet), Ksena Longrin (ExM), Lumafield (microCT) #VirtualReality #syGlass #MM2025

I love this for #3DThursday -- Zebrafish, but make it four and layer them! 🥼: Arnim Jenett 🏛️: TEFOR tefor.net/en/ 🔬: #Lightsheet 🎬: syGlass in colorblind mode, #syGlass Check it out for yourself with their resource "The Larval Standard Brain": zebrafish.tefor.net#/home?_k=fz1...

A #microscopy mystery for #3DThursday!🌾 What is this? 🔍 Things that I know: it is a #plant, it was imaged on a Lumafield #microCT, and the color is a LUT (look up table) that I applied in #syGlass and has nothing to do with the organism (microCT comes in as grayscale). Help! #SciComm

Happy 4th for #3DThursday! 🎉 Do I occasionally forget and then remember ecstatically that we have a confetti cannon in the syGlass room? Yes, yes, I do ... #syGlass #VRScience #Microscopy #SciComm

Finally plants for #3DThursday!🌽 A maize root tip, imaged using #microCT, from the Topp Roots Lab. 🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Versa 520 XRM 🥼: Keith Duncan @cygnusplantxray.bsky.social 🏛️: Danforth Center @danforthcenter.bsky.social 📝: academic.oup.com/plphys/artic... 🎬: syGlass.io #syGlass

Get your 3D glasses out for #3DThursday! And click the link below to see syGlass on the really big screen at the @mit.edu MIT Museum last week. (guys it's my first syGlass blog ...) 📝: www.syglass.io/blog/a-night... 🥼: Kory Evans @sternarchella.bsky.social , Rice University 🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

LIVE sea urchin larvae for #3DThursday! Catch me at the MIT Museum tonight at AfterDark and see it in person. 🔬: @brukercorporation.bsky.social TruLive3D 🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD 🌌: Painted Sea Urchin 🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass

This was a great sample to check out -- who knew 100M year old amber would be so close to Ethyl Cinnamate in RI? Huge shout out to @brukercorporation.bsky.social for the fleet of lightsheets at @lsfm-na.bsky.social last week!

Up in Acadia at the @mdibiolab.bsky.social for #LSFM25! Here's a cleared whole mouse head on the SmartSPIM, 3.6X objective for #3DThursday. 🔎 @jtakatoh.bsky.social, now at @stonybrooku.bsky.social 🔬 LifeCanvas Technologies, lifecanvastech.com/products/sma... 🥽 syGlass.io @lsfm-na.bsky.social

✨ Heading to @mdibiolab.bsky.social next week for the LSFM course! Here’s some stunning lightsheet data from @erturklab.bsky.social 🔬: Blaze Ultramicroscope, LaVision Biotech 🥼: Hongcheng Mai, Jie Luo, Helmholtz Munich 📝: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 🎬: syGlass.io #3DThursday #LSFM2025

It's #3DThursday! Just a little feature focus this time, checking out syGlass Narrations. An excellent way to record yourself walking through 3D datasets, explain your findings, and let your audience pause, explore, even move around you while you talk. 🥽: syglass.io #VR #Microscopy #SciComm #EdTech

#MicroscopyMonday: tissue cleared 🐭lung using light sheet microscopy (#LSFM)! 🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LIGHTSHEET 7, 5x mag 🥼: Sidrah Ahmed & Carla Kim, PI at BCH 🏛️: @bostonchildrens.bsky.social research.childrenshospital.org/resources/co... 🎬: syglass.io #Microscopy #TissueClearing #NESM

For #3DThursday, whole mouse liver imaged with #mesoSPIM light sheet microscopy! Showing how structure meets function across the organ. 🥽: syGlass.io 🥼: Hei Ming Lai 📝: INSIHGT -> www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🏛️: Chinese University of Hong Kong #LightSheet #SciComm #3DImaging #syGlass

In the age of AI annotation tools, why use VR to segment or track objects in your image volumes? My answer + more on new features from our spring release of syGlass: www.syglass.io/blog/syglass...

🔬 For #3DThursday: syGlass v2.3.0 is here!🥽 Improved time series tracking, 📊 histogram view for thresholding, avatar preview before narration, 🕶️ real-time anaglyph rendering, and narration editing. More upgrades + fixes inside. 📬 47483437.hs-sites.com/syglass-v2.2.3 #Microscopy #VR #SciComm

This is my second time trying to make a keyframe animation and *just saying* I feel like I'm getting better ... 🙃😆

For #3DThursday, a cleared axolotl on a line confocal! 🥽: syGlass.io 🔬: Dual-View Line Scanning Confocal: www.mbl.edu/research/res... 🥼: @ryliewalsh.bsky.social, @mblscience.bsky.social 🐉: @murawalalab.bsky.social, @mdibiolab.bsky.social 🏛️: MBL Center for Innovation in Imaging and Image Analysis

"Rising from Chaos" #MicroscopyMonday: an active system of microtubules, kinesin motors and actin filaments. 🔬: Resonant Scanning Nikon AX-R Confocal 🥼: Quang Tran of the Fraden Lab, MRSEC, @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social 🏛️: www.brandeis.edu/science/reso... 📩: [email protected]

Comparison may be the thief of joy, but in devbio it’s how researchers understand how life takes shape. Excited to be at SDB Northeast this weekend! www.sdbonline.org/nesdb2025 🔬: Zebrafish, synchrotron micro-CT 🥼: chenglab.io 🥽: syGlass.io #DevBio #Zebrafish #syGlass #3DImaging #3DThursday

🧠 The #MICrONS project just released the most detailed brain map ever—82K neurons, 523M synapses, all open for exploration. Dive in thanks to #BossDB: github.com/aplbrain/bos... #Neuroscience #OpenScience #Connectomics #3DThursday #syGlass @alleninstitute.bsky.social @jhuapl.bsky.social

Imagine a ghostly white #direwolf roaming again. 🧬🧪🐺 #ColossalBiosciences recently unveiled genetically engineered gray wolf pups, sparking interest in recreating the dire wolf. The species diverged 1.5-2M yrs ago - amazing how similar their skulls are. Not quite #DeExtinction, but cool! syglass.io

Expansion Microscopy (ExM) for #3DThursday! Nanoscale details, regular microscope.🤯 🥼 Ksena Longrin 🥽 syGlass.io 🟦 vGlut1, Vesicular glutamate transporter 1 🟨​ Kv3.3 , a voltage-gated potassium ion channel subunit 🔬 @ZEISS Microscopy LSM980 📝 doi.org/10.7554/eLife.75219

🧠It's a #3DThursday Sholl analysis in syGlass.io! This is a method to quantify neuronal branching by counting dendritic intersections with concentric circles around the soma. Simple but powerful! 🔬📊 #Neuroscience #Microscopy #syGlass #Neurobiology #SciComm

Thrilled to be a board member at #NESM -- here's the first post of our new social campaign. If you have any images you'd like to share, please reach out! 🔬

Happy #3DThursday! Today we'll explore a SUB(!!)-volume of 500GB from a cleared, intact mouse brain from Jose Maldonado at Vanderbilt. You can see how we render these enormous data on consumer grade GPUs. 🥽💻 🔎 @josemald.bsky.social, @vucellimaging.bsky.social 🔬 lifecanvastech.com 🥽 syglass.io

It's #3DThursday, and today I’m in VR, looking at scan of a VR, while wearing the same VR ... it’s VR inception, and I am here for it. This is a #microCT from the folks over at @lumafield.bsky.social of a Meta Quest VR in syglass.io!

Holy cow, this is one of the coolest things that I've seen! The possibilities for not just research but also science education are endless.

Boston had a great showing! #standupforscience #standupforscienceboston #marchforscience

🐋Using CT scan data & syGlass.io, Joy Reidenberg is stepping inside a baby sperm whale’s anatomy—unlocking new discoveries through immersive 3D visualization. A game-changer for comparative anatomy & science education! 🌊🥽 #3DThursday #VR #MarineBiology #CT 📝: www.syglass.io/blog/blubber...

Anaglyph 3D might not be the most cutting-edge tech for stereoscopic viewing, but it does have a place in providing a low-cost, easy to distribute 3D experience.

🩻CT scans can be hard to interpret for experts — imagine how patients feel! 3D visualization tools like syGlass.io allow doctors can rotate, zoom, and highlight key structures, making it easier to explain findings and treatment options. #3DThursday #CTScan #PatientCommunication #syGlass

For #3DThursday today, we'll jump into the intricate architecture of cells in the cochlear nucleus of a mouse. Serial Block-Face Electron Microscopy, capturing nanoscale detail of synaptic connections. Imaged: Mark Ellisman, UCSD Visualized: syGlass.io Reference: elifesciences.org/articles/833...

It's #3DThursday!🔬🌈 We had a great week at the Harvard Tissue Clearing Workshop, huge thanks to: @edwardlachica3.bsky.social @the.3i.social @harvardmed.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social Imaged: Dan Giardina & Ed Lachica, 3i Visualized: syGlass.io Sample Prep: Dharmendra Puri, HMS, BCH

Macrophages be like, #DryJanuary? Never heard of her... 🍹💦 stunning lattice light-sheet imaging of immune cells "drinking" in their environment. #3DThursday Imaged by: Dr. Nick Condon, IMB University of Queensland, @cziscience.bsky.social Visualized in syGlass.io Reference: 10.1083/jcb.201804137

Happy #3DThursday! 🐍💫The Year of the Snake reminds us that transformation is possible. This microCT of a 2,000-year-old mummified Egyptian cobra reveals a story of life and renewal—preserved for centuries, waiting to be uncovered. Visualized: syGlass.io Reference: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy #3DThursday! Okay, so you're looking at a zebrafish confocal image, and it's beautiful, but did you also know that you are looking at something that a high school freshman imaged? Imaged by: @mblscience.bsky.social & Nipam Patel Visualized in syGlass.io Reference: www.mbl.edu/education/hi...

Happy #3DThursday! Step into a kidney, captured in stunning detail using INSIHGT. This isn’t just beautiful; it’s vital, transforming how we study health, aging, and disease. I'm lost in it, I love it.🎨🔬 Imaged by Hei Ming Lai, CUHK Visualized in syGlass.io Reference: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I will admit that I am often talking to my VR alone in my office, so the fact that I can now call it productive is a big esteem boost 😂 … also 👀 confetti canon!

Happy #3DThursday! Here we have neurons in a mouse embryo looking like stars, with every shimmering network revealing clues about how our own brains develop. Beautiful. 💫🐭 Data: Alain Chédotal's Lab Visualized in syGlass.io Reference: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25456121/

Happy #3DThursday! In celebration of the New Year, I'm finishing off my cell count proofreading with a confetti party. (and yes this is really what happens, you deserve a parade for all of your hard work) Imaged: Ashley Brandebura Visualized: syGlass.io Reference: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30136399/