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I wrote my first proper post on LinkedIn today. It was cheesy, bit of a weird thing to do.

Bottom line is I'm still buzzing from spending two days playing with napari sourounded by kind microscopy nerds at the #CBIAS2025 Napari Workshop.

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

And perhaps we could have a bit more funding for scientific infrastructure? Because without that nobody (stars or otherwise) is going to get anything done.

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 🔬🥰

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Batch Processing with the ImageJ Macro Language The ImageJ wiki is a community-edited knowledge base on topics relating to ImageJ, a public domain program for processing and analyzing scientific images, and its ecosystem of derivatives and variants...

Want to automate workflows in #FIJI?
Don't know where to start?
We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started.

Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding!

imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...

One can only aspire to someday have some part of themselves discovered in a vulture's nest.

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I really recommend @cbias.bsky.social !

See what we said last year, with @zeinabrekad.bsky.social and @fmlove.bsky.social

This year will my 6th time! 🎉🔬

I am QT dunking but I think this is a case where it is warranted:
Science is political and "not wanting to see politics" as a scientist is a political choice. You may decide it's what works for you, but you need to decide how that fits with the fact your (diverse) colleagues still exist 🧪

Our new paper, discussed here

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268793/...

All full of two-colour dSTORM just in time for #FluorescenceFriday 💥

Our new paper is out! Khodor Hazime led the brilliant work at the @dandavis101.bsky.social lab that shows *how* engagers that bring NK cell receptors together at the immune synapse boost activation against tumour cells

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Last chance today to sign up for two days of excellent image analysis training delivered by lovely experts! 🚂

I like your "no such thing as too many cowbells" approach to drumming.

Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025 Poster

The #CBIAS2025 abstract deadline is this Sunday, August 31st. Submit your #BioImageAnalysis work, whether it’s a new tool or a biological discovery. #EarlyCareerResearchers, this is for you! Short and flash talk slots are up for grabs.

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

Image quality metrics fail to accurately represent biological information in fluorescence microscopy Image processing methods offer the potential to improve the quality of fluorescence microscopy data, allowing for image acquisition at lower, less phototoxic illumination doses. The training and evalu...

Hello! Very excited to share our latest preprint, which is great news for us but terrible news for any diehard fans of PSNR and SSIM as image quality metrics in microscopy... (1/5)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean Lance 30.1 Mar Del Plata Canyon | SOI Divestream 819 PART 2

Deep sea exploration livestreamed with commentary from the scientists on board, doing sci-comm live and inviting the audience to join in the discovery 🥲
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAxq...

Abstract submission for the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS2025 is now open until August 31st!

If you are interested in bioimage analysis, whether as a user or methods developer, join us in London on November 24th-25th - we look forward to seeing you there!

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

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated NOAA's Center for Heat Resilient Communities would have helped local officials keep residents safe.

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

YouTube video by American Forests Mapping the Path to Tree Equity

Do you know there is a publicly accessible, easy-to-read forest database for the United States? We invite you to learn about 'Tree Equity Score' project. Join us on 29 May 5:30 pm (UK) via Zoom & meet Dr. Kelly Turner, director of the Centre for Heat Resilient Communities
youtu.be/nOJtEMevtkQ?...

In our lab (UK) we use the Starlab plates (CC7682-7524) for mammalian tissue culture.

This is *really* cool! How do you make a kymograph like this? I'm dealing with a similar need to flatten time in some images!

I would love to know too, if it is open to people from other institutions to attend.

Research Associate in Imaging Human Immunology:Oxford Road

Our lab has a postdoc position available to use super-resolution microscopy to understand how nanoscopic localisation of immune checkpoints dictates their function.

Please get in touch if interested in applying.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

#ImmunoSky #Imaging #Microscopy

I had so much fun. Curiosity is cool 🥹

An interesting preprint from the Horrocks' lab detailing the behavior of secondary nanobodies (such a @nanotag.bsky.social ones) at the single molecule level and optimizing protocols for multiplexed labeling: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

This shows the project landing page for Etch A Cell - ImmunoExplorers. It is an image of a cell and over the top is written 'We need your help to study immune cells in kidney tissue!'

Join Etch A Cell – ImmunoExplorers, a citizen science project studying immune cells in kidneys.

Your help can speed up research

🔬 Get involved:

www.zooniverse.org/projects/h-s...

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Calling all...
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📅 Save the Date

The 5th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium will take place on November 24/25th 2025.

More details to follow...

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