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Marie Held

@makaefer.bsky.social

Image analyst at the Centre for Cell Imaging, the University of Liverpool. didyouknowimageanalysis.wordpress.com CCI.liv.ac.uk

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CAMCON26 | Research | University of Liverpool

Working with chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) models? Check out CAMCON26, an unmissable event in the city to be, Liverpool! www.liverpool.ac.uk/research/fac...

26.01.2026 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

22.01.2026 11:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How many papers in do you give up?

17.01.2026 12:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is dystrophin - illuminating a protein often involved in muscle movement! ๐Ÿ’ช

Our cell lines & plasmids are available for just the cost of shipping to lower the barriers to scientific discovery.

๐Ÿ“ฆ Distributed by @coriellinstitute.bsky.social and @addgene.bsky.social

09.01.2026 18:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cloud of words in various colors and sizes based on a Google Scholar profile. Some of the largest words include behaviour cells using brain dynamics para-infectious responses vivo atomic attenuated autoantibody COVID-19 crassa cytokine despite detection dynamic follow- fungal fungi injury microfluidics molecular neurospora peptides persists structures airway analyses aqueous

Cloud of words in various colors and sizes based on a Google Scholar profile. Some of the largest words include behaviour cells using brain dynamics para-infectious responses vivo atomic attenuated autoantibody COVID-19 crassa cytokine despite detection dynamic follow- fungal fungi injury microfluidics molecular neurospora peptides persists structures airway analyses aqueous

It's that time of year: shiny.research.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...
What a delightful mess ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ˜…๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿต๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ฌ

08.01.2026 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Workstation Henrietta in @cci-liv.bsky.social working hard doing my bidding.

07.01.2026 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Numpy is shorter than napariโ€ฆ..

06.01.2026 16:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Introduction to Image Analysis 2026

โœจNew Year's resolutions involve learning something new?โœจ

Then apply for our โ€œIntroduction to Image Analysisโ€ workshop in Cardiff in May 2026! Deadline for applications is January 16th.

๐Ÿ”—โฌ‡๏ธ
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...

@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @david-j-barry.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social

02.01.2026 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ This is a great opportunity to learn from the best about how to apply AL/ML to microscopy images. Applications open!

29.12.2025 10:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
the napari logo (a two-lobed island) modified to look like a snowman, with Christmas (red/green) colors

the napari logo (a two-lobed island) modified to look like a snowman, with Christmas (red/green) colors

We're a bit late in ringing in the giving season, but it is indeed upon us. Enjoy our special edition holiday logo โ˜ƒ๏ธ and, if you can spare a bit and appreciate napari, please donate to our development efforts! ๐Ÿ™ CZI will match donations up to $75K.

opencollective.com/napari/donate

18.12.2025 12:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is some wondrous stuff. Try it and see what happensโ€ฆ

20.12.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

13.12.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Come on, do it. You know you want to. โฌ‡๏ธ

05.12.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!
YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!

If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I

04.12.2025 12:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Toward better 2D - 3D registration in BigWarp BigWarp has so far focused on 2D-2D or 3D-3D registration, and not on 2D-3D registration. After a conversation with @Christian_Tischer , we thought some simple UI changes could make the support for 2...

Do you have 2D-to-3D image registration challenges? Let me know about them here
forum.image.sc/t/toward-bet...

29.11.2025 18:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No CBIAS would be complete without an image analysis workshop! Thanks Rocco, @giuliapaci.bsky.social and @makaefer.bsky.social for organising, we had fun helping out with teaching ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ’ป

28.11.2025 07:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Also, massive thanks to further trainers @lankylaste.bsky.social Joost de Folter, Ana Stojiljkovic, Cameron Shand

27.11.2025 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And thatโ€™s a wrap for the @cbias.bsky.social napari workshop as well. Two days of learning, working collaboratively and finished off with a presentation from each of five project groups detailing the progress they made. Organised by Rocco Dโ€™Antuono, @giuliapaci.bsky.social and yours truly

27.11.2025 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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BIOIMAGE ANALYSTS ASSEMBLE!!!

#CBIAS2025

25.11.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

An immense thank you again to @cbias.bsky.social committee, sponsors and fellow imaging friends for this fantastic symposium!
It's is not the end but the beginning of tons of papers to read, colleagues to contact, new collaborations to form. And most importantly, it's a 'see you soon' #CBIAS2026 ๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿฅฐ

25.11.2025 18:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Topical conclusion from @helenajambor.bsky.social
Scientists have tools to fight and make life better
#CBiAS2025

25.11.2025 11:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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And weโ€™re off. #CBIAS2025 6th Edition, first outside of the Crick but impressed by the localities at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
@david-j-barry.bsky.social welcoming the community

24.11.2025 10:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Itโ€™s that time of year that I make my pilgrimage to London for the #CBIAS2025 and its trilogy of Ps: presentations, posters and panel discussions. But first I did some exploringโ€ฆ
๐ŸŽถ London calling to the faraway towns ๐ŸŽถ

24.11.2025 06:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

See you Monday!

22.11.2025 22:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025

Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th)

Find out all the information at the link below:

www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

18.11.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Time is running out to register for #CBIAS2025

13.11.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Donโ€™t miss out on this inclusive, friendly, stimulating, fun event!

13.11.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changedโ€”and what hasnโ€™t

What a pertinent read today: www.science.org/content/arti...
Let us not forget, champion the โ€œinvisible womenโ€œ, fight for whatโ€™s right.

What a coincidence that I had the privilege to name new @cci-liv.bsky.social workstations today: Henrietta Lacks, Bibha Chowdhuri and Katherine Johnson ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ฌโš›๏ธ๐Ÿ”ญ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ

07.11.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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CBIAS napari workshop 2025

๐Ÿ“ข Enhance your bioimage analysis skills - 2-day hands-on napari workshop.

Learn to:
- Set up conda envis install napari
- Navigate napari GUI install plugins
- Jupyter notebooks for basic IA
- Apply new skills to real datasets w expert guidance

๐Ÿ“… Apply by NOW!
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

07.11.2025 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It is a good listen/watch.

26.09.2025 13:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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