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The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

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One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.

FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.

The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!

www.fpbase.org/spectra/

Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Registration for Halfway to I2K is now OPEN! And workshop submission is still too (for a bit)! Join 20+ presenters and counting, and hundreds of attendees in learning about image analysis, whether you're a complete beginner or a total pro.

Italian 🇮🇹 scientists! Our open call for image analysis support through the @humantechnopole.bsky.social national facilities is currently accepting applications!

Today's Majority Report pod title - “Cheney Escapes Justice”

Happy birthday Eva!! @sciencedoodles.bsky.social

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This 2009 article by @jencwaters.bsky.social discusses the parameters of digital image acquisition that affect the accuracy & precision of quantitative fluorescence #microscopy measurements rupress.org/jcb/article/...

In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

In 2019, Anna Jost & @jencwaters.bsky.social reviewed best practices for validating quantitative #microscopy methods & discuss strategies to avoid unconscious bias in imaging experiments rupress.org/jcb/article/...

📕 In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...

comparison table for v2 and v3

Production has started for a new #Snoutscope objective, AMS-AGY v3. It has significantly larger FOV and some other tweaks from v1 and v2. Currently accepting pre-orders. The price will need to increase modestly after deliveries start late October.

3rd challenge from AI4Life! We're inviting the community to design unsupervised models that preserve spatial & temporal patterns in neuronal data.

📅 Open till Aug 11, 2025
🚀 Join now: ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/challenge-3/

The Company of Biologists 100 logo to the left and QR code to the right. Portrait of Helen Zenner to the left, text to the right 100 extraordinary biologists Helen Zenner Helen Zenner, Community Manager of FocalPlane and JCS Online Editor, combines her passion for microscopy, cell biology and science communication with her background in working in interdisciplinary research teams to support and connect the microscopy community. #100biologists #biologists100

This week, we are highlighting Helen Zenner, Community Manager of @focalplane.bsky.social and @jcellsci.bsky.social Online Editor, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists
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Do you like developing new AI vision methods for microscopy image analysis? You love theory & implementation? 1 week left to apply for a fully funded PhD position in our lab in Dresden 🇩🇪! Topics: object detection/tracking, multimodal models & more. DM/email for details! #PhD #AcademicJobs #GPUsgoBrr

The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts

The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Preventing Microscope Damage - YouTube

New PIs: Objective lens damage during routine use is real. These videos explain how this can happen and how to avoid it. Share with your lab! #savetheobjectives

Advice | How to Have ‘The Talk’ With Your Adviser Why do many Ph.D. students still feel compelled to make their career plans in secret?

In Advice: It can feel very risky to tell your doctoral adviser that you plan to deviate from the expected faculty career path. Here’s how to approach that conversation. chroni.cl/4end1P1

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

The White House's proposed FY26 budget would cut NIH funding by >40%. Our new #SCIMaP report projects the budget would lead to economic losses throughout the US with $10M+ lost in almost every House district.
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (Gift Article) More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.

"The money the government sends to Harvard is, in effect, not a subsidy to advance the university’s mission. It’s a payment for the role Harvard plays in advancing the research mission of the United States." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (Gift Article) More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.

"Without researchers at Harvard or other universities doing this foundational work, it’s not clear who would. The government doesn’t have the expertise. Companies don’t have the luxury of time."

Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (Gift Article) More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.

"This is the science model the U.S. has developed over 80 years: The government sets the agenda and funds the work; university scientists design the studies and find the answers... There is no alternative in the U.S. to produce the kind of scientific advancements represented by these grants."

Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.

“The money the government sends to Harvard is, in effect, not a subsidy to advance the university’s mission. It’s a payment for the role Harvard plays in advancing the research mission of the United States.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Watching a science talk with slides completely incomprehensible to us colorblind folks.
Easily fixable with a little effort…
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Federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students' legal status A judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court case challenging previous terminations plays out.

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Federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students' legal status A judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court case challenging previous terminations plays out.

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Antibiotic research at Harvard lab threatened by federal funding cuts Microbiologist Michael Baym studies antibiotic resistance at Harvard Medical School. He lost millions in federal funding this week.

"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...