Barbara Ciani

We are on iCURE Explore! Go team Optipaws! #iCURE #BBSRC #InnovateUK

Schematic overview on how MicroSpit operates. It can split superimposed structures in fluorescent image channels by using a suitably trained AI.

Concrete example for how MicroSplit unmixes four superimposed structures.

Immagine you could image two cellular structures in the same fluorescent channel and still reliably get them separated afterwards…
What would you do with this?

Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵

Still difficult to come to terms with this. He was tweeting till not too long ago.

Fall in UK university core science courses stokes fears for industrial strategy Chemistry courses have dropped a quarter and biosciences by 15% in past 5 years

"Chemistry undergraduate degree course numbers have dropped 26 per cent since 2020, according to OfS figures".
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Ahah! That’s sweet and matters so much to me. Thank you.

🥂

Thank you!!

Grazie Daniela!

Never lose hope I guess?

Thanks Juan. Looking forward to host you in Sheffield.

Well looks like I finally can add the ‘senior’ word to the lecturer. Only because of supporting colleagues, fantastic collaborators, marvellous students and researchers. It’s a bit bittersweet this year but I need to say thank you 🤗

One by one? I hope Nature pays for physio!

Give me some time and I’ll follow you all back. At the rate of 30+ a day, I am getting repetitive strain injury 😬

University of Reading proposes closing its chemistry department next year The university joins several others that are considering the future of their departments and undergraduate programmes

if you are a chemistry academic in the UK you should know this. The third department this year. www.chemistryworld.com/news/univers...

Is there an easy way to follow everyone back that follows you ?

BSCB Women in #CellBiology prize 🧪
Deadline extended (15th Nov)
The deal: UK-based scientist, running lab for < 7 years with 1+ senior author publication.
Do you know someone who should be nominated? Maybe it's you?
Details (a bit out of date): bscb.org/competitions...

Welcome all (new) followers! Besides our work on probes & biosensors I'd like to share what I know about #Rstats and #DataViz. So I composed a book on data visualization with R & ggplot2 (it's work in progress).
Target audience = wet lab scientists.
Link: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...

Hey #ChemSky, look who’s here >>> @carolynbertozzi.bsky.social - hey Carolyn! 👋

Woo! Hello followers!

Deeply saddened by the news that David Stephens died last night.
David was an outstanding cell biologist based at Bristol whose work spanned #MembraneTraffic #cytoskeleton #ciliogenesis + more. He was “one of the good guys”. Kind, supportive, generous with his time, and rigorous about his science. 🧪

Oh no!

Sign the Petition If you are reading this right now, it's probably because of Chemistry at the University of Hull. Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) were a huge advancement in technology, that kicked off the flat screen r...

www.change.org/p/halt-the-c...

I wrote simplified guide to move from Twitter/X to Mastodon.

If you find bluesky a bit meh, or if you want to try the OG federated social network (or give it another chance), you might find it useful.
quantixed.org/2024/08/14/e...

ESCRT-III is necessary for the integrity of the nuclear envelope in micronuclei but is aberrant at ruptured micronuclear envelopes generating damage - Oncogenesis Oncogenesis - ESCRT-III is necessary for the integrity of the nuclear envelope in micronuclei but is aberrant at ruptured micronuclear envelopes generating damage

So proud our observations of ESCRT-III at micronuclei fare still so well in citations. It was the effort of 3 PhD students, international collaborators and friends (& £0!). Thank you for still citing it even though more complete works are now out there. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you are (or know) a postdoc or about to do a PhD viva interested in bioimaging, neurodegeneration and molecular basis of disease, consider applying by the 18.01 for this job in Rome! This is a collaboration with us in Sheffield. 4 questions email the PI or me.

Last chance to apply to join us at the LMB for a PhD to explore archaeal cell division and the archaeal origins of eukaryotes: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...

We are hiring! Two assistant prof level jobs in biology. Focusing on cellular and molecular biology, microbiology, and metabolic physiology but all good candidates will be considered. cas.gsu.edu/about/employ...

Bullying and University Under-Performance - 21percent.org In a recent post, we tackled the myth that bullying is necessary to drive academic staff performance. In fact, the data suggest the exact opposite. Institutions with a historical record of bullying pe...

"Institutions with a historical record of bullying performed more poorly in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. Those with good management cultures performed much better."
21percent.org?p=785

This shouldn’t come as a surprise. What is surprising is that there is a non-zero community who subscribe to the thesis that bullying or fear-based workplace cultures can promote “excellence” in academic performance.

Work of art! What happened to the inside?