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@samstehbens.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 6:38 AM

I’m incredibly fortunate to be working with @joycemeiri.bsky.social who has joined my team following her post doc with the Akhmanova lab. A kindred spirit! Someone who loves #microtubules & #microscopy as much as me. Welcome to #AIBN #UQ Joyce!

@dctomaz.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 5:03 AM

🔬 DNA-based probes light up to report receptor interactions in living cells, enabling wash-free imaging and ligand screening. A cell-culture proof of concept—not a direct readout of receptor organisation.
doi.org/10.1002/anie...
#Microscopy #CellBiology

@loicaroyer.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 2:13 AM

🏁 That's a wrap! The @biohub.org Cell Tracking machine learning challenge on @kaggle.com is over: 4,478 participants, 3,947 teams, 120 countries, 95,438 submissions, tracking every cell of zebrafish embryos. 🧪🔬🧵

kaggle.com/competition... #microscopy

@aqlm.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 12:12 AM

Tip 6: The #scientific method states you should have ONE variable in your experiment.
That's impossible in #biology, but be kind to yourself and tackle the assay variables separate from the biological variables, especially during early stages.

#ScopeTheScope 🔬 #MBL 🌊 #AQLM 🧫 #Microscopy 🔬 #STEM🧬

@aqlm.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 12:12 AM

Lessons in #microscopy from Wendy Salmon, ALM:
Tip 1: Patience makes it go faster.
Take 0.5 seconds to make sure you won't crash the slide. Titrate that reagent to determine optimal staining.
📸1: #AQLM students learning single particle tracking with quantum dots with #OxfordInstruments.
📸2: Wendy!

@peterbraubach.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 4:43 PM

I think the Olympus BX50 from the 2000's is one of the most beautiful microscope frames*. It like the clear, geometric lines. More architecture than product design.

Any other vintage BX here?

#microscopy #PathSky

My desk with an Olympus BX50 microscope with dual viewing attachment and widefield tube.

@ccit.ub.edu Oct 5, 2026, 7:53 AM

🔬 #SPAOM2026 starts tomorrow in Vic!

@ub.edu and #CCiTUB are pleased to be part of the organising team of this 10th anniversary edition, bringing together the #Bioimaging and #Microscopy community.

Discover the programme, workshops and scientific sessions:

🔗 spaom2026.org

Spanish and Portuguese Advanced Optical Microscopy Meeting

@newsen.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 7:26 AM

Evident Completes Acquisition of CrestOptics S.p.A., Expanding Optical Imaging Solutions #None #Rome #microscopy #Evident #CrestOptics

@cilialab.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:42 PM

💯 but the longer they don’t rule, the worse this becomes. @healthcare.nikon.com time to step in and sort this omnishambles…. The #Microscopy community are watching & increasingly concerned by the lack of transparency. 🔬🔬🔬

@raacampbell.com Oct 4, 2026, 9:18 AM

Preprint is out! Our BakingTray software turns a 2-photon microscope into a serial-section tomography system for automated whole-organ imaging. ~€35k to convert an existing scope. 11 systems worldwide, >7,000 samples at SWC alone #neuroskyence #microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A BrainSaw at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt. A Nikon 16x water-immersion objective on a 400 µm travel PIFOC allows for fast z-stacks. Samples are imaged and cut in the clear water bath. A Leica VT1000 vibratome is seen to the right with a mounted blade.

How BrainSaw works. Samples are embedded in an agarose block, which is glued to a slide and clamped into a water bath. The bath sits on a three-axis stage under a 2-photon microscope; the stage moves the sample for both tile scanning and slicing. The microscope images the exposed face of the block, the vibratome cuts off the imaged layer, and the cycle repeats until the samples have been fully imaged. Data are stitched automatically and are ready for downstream analysis. Logos below: BrainSaw (hardware), BakingTray (acquisition software), StitchIt (stitching).

Coronal section of an Sst-tdTomato mouse brain imaged on BrainSaw. tdTomato-expressing cells are shown in yellow, scattered through cortex and hippocampus; tissue autofluorescence is shown in blue.

Coronal section of a mouse brain with three neighbouring viral injections targeting layer 5 of V1, expressing mCherry (red), eGFP (green) and BFP (blue). The thick apical dendrites of the labelled neurons are clearly visible, as are their axons projecting to distant targets. Image credit: Alex Fritzl.

@dctomaz.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 6:35 AM

🔬 Asgard archaea crawl using dynamic protrusions. Anaerobic live imaging and actin inhibitors reveal a striking link between cell shape and movement. Evolutionary implications remain hypotheses. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #CellBiology #Microscopy

@hfpinsider.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 1:40 AM

#LiveCellHFP #LiveCellMicroscopy #ScienceIsBeautiful #Microscopy

@gustavssonlab.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 6:53 PM

Excited that our work on Microfluidics-Enhanced 3D DNA-Based Points Accumulation for Imaging in Nanoscale Topography has been published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

@pubs.acs.org #microscopy #nanoscale

@tippitiwichet.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 2:55 PM

More #microscope pics from last night. The tip of a branch of sphagnum moss, lit from above, then below, then above with UV light, then below with UV light.

#microscopy #plants #science #botany #sciArt

Lit from above, the moss looks white and like it's made of crystals.

Lit from below, the moss looks green. This is the best way to see its structure.

Lit from above with UV light, the moss catches the light and becomes a bright purple against the black background.

Lit from below, the UV purple fills the background and the moss looks a glittering green against it, with the tips fading into purple shadows.

@newsanalysis.com Oct 2, 2026, 6:35 AM

Nikon is reviewing its Small World In Motion competition's winning entry after a photographer was accused of using AI to generate images. The photographer claims AI was only used for post-processing to distinguish structures. #microscopy #News

@tippitiwichet.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 4:29 AM

Spent the evening with the #microscope, got some nice shots of #VenusFlytrap digestive glands and trigger hairs. The red pigment on their leaf starts in the digestive glands and spreads outward. The glands are circular blobs.

#botany #microscopy #sciArt #photography #carnivorousPlants #goblinCore

Focus on the leaf surface. Red circular digestive glands are sprinkled on top of elongated leaf cells. Some cells toward the bottom are still green, most of them are beginning to turn red.

Increased magnification shows the circular digestive gland looks kind of bumpy like a raspberry.

Two digestive glands bleeding their pigment into the cells below.

@hfpinsider.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 7:10 PM

#LiveCellHFP #LiveCellMicroscopy #ScienceIsBeautiful #Microscopy

@ceriweber.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 4:55 PM

Calling all microscopists: anyone have light-blocking curtains around their scopes in an open lab space? My lab is super bright, and the room the scopes could've gone in is going to house jerboas! Working with facilities/safety of course, but would love to see photos of setups that work! #microscopy

@bioimaginguk.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:42 PM

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3/3 📅 Next deadline: 30 Nov, decisions in ~4 weeks.

Talk to your chosen facility first, then apply: rms.org.uk/user-access-fund

#Bioimaging #Microscopy #ImageAnalysis