Although the world outside still feels grey and wintry, under the microscope the retina reveals a vibrant landscape of color.
For #FluorescenceFriday: a section of the avian retina showing beautifully organized neuronal layers from inner to outer retina.
#Neuroscience #Retina #Microscopy
EDTA and tequila (2024)
Separate bubbles.
Alone, they exist. Together, they matter.
This image captures bubbles of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) dissolved in tequila, where light radiates from each sphere and visually connects them into a single network.
Cells rarely know they are being photographed. Scientists do👩🏻🔬
Our CellArt Gallery brings together those moments when research pauses for a second and simply looks amazing.
⬩➤ Explore the gallery: zurl.co/67UJP
#cellart #microscopy #sciart #bioart #scienceandart
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! This week we are highlighting an awesome image of an Arabidopsis root from @janmartinek.bsky.social.
Check out our post to learn more about the image and about Jan’s research: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/02/13/f...
#sciart #plants #microscopy
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20.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Students love it and so do I! It really helps biologists understand concepts like conjugate planes that seem rather abstract to them in lectures
07.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thx for @mollyherring.bsky.social for featuring our recent work with @centriolelab.bsky.social and our quest with @gautamdey.bsky.social & the support of the @moorefound.bsky.social to look for the beauty in every #eukaryote out there using #Expansion #Microscopy #UExM
04.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 42 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
Are you passionate about #microscopy? 🔬
Want to build a strong foundation in #imaging skills?
One week left to apply for AQLM 2026 at the incomparable Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. @mblscience.bsky.social
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✨💃Disco Ball!💃✨
A UV laser excites fluorescein, producing green fluorescence. Glitter scatters the light to demonstrate dynamic light scattering (DLS) for measuring particle size.
#FluorescenceFriday #RealTimeChem #SciArt #SciComm #ChemArt
blue and red abstract watercolor with blobby shapes
painting shown at an angle so the side is visible
Watercolor inspired by xylem #sciart
This one is cool because it's box-mounted, no framing required
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Microscopy image of a developing mouse lung. Cells that express Shh are shown in green. Membranes of non-expressing cells are magenta.
Happy #FluorescenceFriday! I've shared this before but am reposting b/c I think the developing #lung is just so darn pretty! This is an E18.5 🐭 lung with 🟢 marking cells that express my favorite gene, Shh.🟣 marks cell membranes. 🔬 by @stjuderesearch.bsky.social postdoc👩🔬 @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪
23.01.2026 14:35 — 👍 39 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
New paper from our lab @jxbotany.bsky.social about auxin and cytokinin interactions during carpel initiation in Arabidopsis
Led by @andreagomezfe.bsky.social in collaboration with @defolter-lab.bsky.social
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@thorlabs.bsky.social teaching scopes are all set up and ready for my #microscopy lab course!
15.01.2026 16:21 — 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Sounds like France
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👉 Think your research image could be next? Submit your image for 2027: zurl.co/QLQRp
#ibidicalendar2026 #microscopy #scienceinfocus #bioart #sciart #immunofluorescence #inspiringscience #imaging #scienceisfun #scienceinpictures
Are you microscopy-curious? Or already obsessed?
We are hosting a zoom info session for AQLM on Monday Jan 12 (info below). Come ask me anything!
@mblscience.bsky.social
Scientists captured the exact moment cardiac cells self-organize into a coordinated rhythm—seconds before the first heartbeat.
Early beats are irregular and shift in origin, yet spread coherently across the heart.
Credit to Bill Jia!
Excited to share Alison's @alisonkickuth.bsky.social paper from the lab out in @nature.com this week! We uncovered how a mechanical ratchet mechanism drives cytokinesis in early #zebrafish embryos. Read more in this thread 🧵 and at www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🤩
@poldresden.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de
Had an interesting talk with Owen Morton of the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social, found that InFocus magazine is accessible even if you’re not a member.
www.rms.org.uk/resource/the...
Join us to study developmental cell biology with a focus on cell migration and morphogenesis.
More info about our research:
www.bischofflab.com
Job posting and application details:
focalplane.biologists.com/cell-biology...
#Science #CellBio #DevBio #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #PhDPosition #Drosophila
Christmas has come a few days late! Our new @brukercorporation.bsky.social MuViSPIM #lightsheet #microscope will be running by the end of the week 🤌
#microscopy #bioimaging #fluorescence
My team are running the Peripheral Nerve Society's Instagram account this week: www.instagram.com/pnsociety1
If you like images of the nervous system, please check it out!
#FluorescenceFriday
@uclqsneuromuscular.bsky.social
@uclqsion.bsky.social
Genetic engineering, painting, sculpting, floristry, and fantasy are united in @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social 's flower design art project. New essay out now on a blossoming frontier of transgenic art!
15.12.2025 17:42 — 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 2
It’s FINALLY out! 🎉🚀 We have been working on PhotoFiTT for a long time, and it’s now published, introducing a quantitative framework to measure phototoxicity and optimise live-cell microscopy experiments. So excited to finally share the last version! 🔬✨ #PhotoFiTT doi.org/10.1038/s414...
15.12.2025 14:58 — 👍 30 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 3
Want to do great science and beautiful microscopy with a great guy? @maikbischoff.bsky.social is recruiting a PhD student for his new lab!
#cellbio #devbio #microscopy #bioimaging
It was nice to see the art and science session at Cell Bio so full!
#sciart #bioart #cellbio #microscopy
Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking.
It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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#syGlass v2.5.0 is out! 🎉
New depth-aware colormaps, expanded file formats (NRRD/MRC/TCF/OME-Zarr v3), better #VR segmentation tools, and upgraded narration workflows — all focused on making #3Ddata easier to explore and share.
Blog: www.syglass.io/blog/syglass...
#Microscopy #Imaging #3DThursday
Going to Cell Bio 2025 in Philly? Join us at the Science and Art session on Sunday! You may know that I love the intersection of art and science. I'll be talking about the art of microscopy 🔬👨🎨
#sciart #bioart #cellbio #cellfie #microscopy #scicomm
