Royal Microscopical Society Early Career Researchers

Royal Microscopical Society Early Career Researchers

@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

For students, postdocs and early career professionals, we aim to focus on career development of RMS members through workshops, networking and much more.

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Imaris - 3D image visualization and analysis course report - FocalPlane Imaris - 3D image visualization and analysis course report - Blog series

Quentin Lebel was awarded a @jcellsci.bsky.social-FocalPlane Training Grant to attend an IMARIS course organised by @bic-bordeaux.bsky.social.
Read about Quentin’s experience here: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/23/i...

Next application deadline: 20 February.
www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

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At the Special Edition #VirtualPub, Christian Holz of Molecular Devices presents large‑scale solutions & services for automated organoid culture expansion, 4D image acquisition platforms, and AI‑based analysis tools.
🗓️ Fri, Jan 30
Abstract🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/3d-orga...

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Jobs - The University of York

Exciting postdoc opportunity with Dr Laura Clark focused on the theory side of 4D-STEM/ptychography for anyone interested in underlying optics, deadline 29th January 2026. Informal discussions welcome.

Read more here:

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/pdra...

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EM-UKI 2026 The EM-UKI community meetings are an open forum for discussion of the latest developments and challenges in the field, suitable for both academic and commercial microscopists. The meeting will include techno bites, talks, and discussions, and also hosts the annual RMS EM lecture.

🔬 EMUKI 2026 is coming up

Stratocore will be sponsoring & attending EMUKI 2026 in Dublin on 12–13 Feb, bringing together the #electronmicroscopy community to discuss facility management, technical innovation and career pathways.

🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/xwgppvqkeu

@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

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Laboratory Engineer (Senior), in Advanced Imaging, 1.5.2026-31.12.2028

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮.
If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇

abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

#Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging
@turkubioscience.bsky.social

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Hello Bluesky! Calling all Early Career Researchers working in microscopy/image analysis or cytometry, want to gain recognition for your work and a chance to win a £100 cash prize?

Just under a month to apply to our 2026 Early Career Award...

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8 months ago
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❗️Calling ECRs❗️We would love to hear what career support you would like us to provide. Please fill out the small survey below to let us know your thoughts ! Deadline : 29th August

@royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

forms.office.com/e/bKDQcZBQdr

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Teamwork was the order of the day in this all-action, hands-on workshop on Open Source Hardware and Microscopy, which took place in the RMS Learning Zone earlier today at #mmc2025.

Thanks to everyone who took part 😃🔬

@bioimaginguk.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

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8 months ago
The infocus magazine editorial team pose for a photo in an exhibition hall, next to a large pop-up poster advertising RMS Publications

Come and chat with our friendly infocus Magazine team at this afternoon's poster session #mmc2025!

We're keen to hear your ideas for future articles and other content 💡👍

Why not be a contributor? 😃🔬

#RMSinfocus

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Members of the RMS Early Career Committee smiling at their 2025 symposium!

The Early Career Committee yesterday at our Early Career Symposium 2025! Thank you to all of our speakers and attendees for making it such a great afternoon @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

#mmc2025uk

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A busy exhibition hall at mmc2025. Delegates enjoy their lunch, with the domed roof of Manchester Central featuring prominently in the top half of the image.

A buzzing atmosphere in a grand setting: the exhibition hall at #mmc2025 over lunch 😃🍽️😋

@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social

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Niamh Burke (centre) receives the RMS Early Career Award from Lisa Maria Needham (left) and Michelle Peckham (right)

Massive congratulations to Niamh Burke @niamh-deburca.bsky.social on winning the 2025 @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Early Career Award, with her talk on the enderscope community project, co-developing accessible imaging tools with the public. 😀🙌🔬👍

@bioimaginguk.bsky.social

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Presented by Lisa-Maria Needham, Michelle Peckham and Katherine Paine, with thanks to the Journal of Microscopy for sponsorship and support!

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Congratulations and much acclaim to our RMS Early Career Award Winner: Niamh Burke at UCD @niamh-deburca.bsky.social for her work on microscopy with astounding social impact! (Second from left) #mmc2025uk

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Setting out the Director’s vision for the Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre - “keep applications in mind while innovating technology”

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Our keynote is the amazing Lisa-Maria Needham from #CAIC, Cambridge, with a high powered international career journey alongside building a family, plus introducing her Fabry-Pérot technology for detecting unlabelled molecules down to single amino acid residues in solution! #singlemolecule #mmc2025uk

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Attendees at the Early Career Symposium chat during a coffee break.

Lots of excellent conversations taking place during break-time at the @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social Early Career Symposium 😀

A great way to kick things off at #mmc2025 👏🔬👍

@yorkbioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

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After a quick break to refuel ☕️ we’re back on with Kokila Wickramanayake from Plymouth for a tour de force on how oxidative stress in rice/barley chloroplasts interacts with fungal infection 🌾🌱🍄‍🟫 #mmc2025uk

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8 months ago

Congratulations and best of luck to all of our Early Career Award Finalists! 👏👏👏

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8 months ago

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Alessandro Zunino now describes contributions to the Image Scanning Microscope (s^2-ISM) for super-res 3D sectioning much like SIM, and FLIM-capable but with a small confocal photodiode array!

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Anthoula Chatzimpinou has concerns about microglia with unusual morphology causing damage in neurodegenerative diseases, and tells us how they can be tracked label-free with X-Ray absorbance and multiplexed fluorescence techniques! 🔬❤️

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Niamh Burke joins us from University College Dublin to tell us about a fantastic community-driven open-source endoscope project! ⭐️🔬

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8 months ago

Now for our quick fire 🔥 Award ECR flash talks! 5 minutes no questions asked ⏳… #mmc2025uk

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8 months ago

#BritishHeartFoundation #mmc2025uk

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Many of the awarded case studies have leveraged these awards to secure larger funding: e.g. fo advanced imaging of key molecular signatures in cardiomyopathy!

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Emily is Head of the Imaging Resource Facility at City St George UoL, and also has a key role in encouraging and recognising ECR excellence in imaging outputs locally.

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Next up we have Emily Woodcock, an expert in melanoma cell mechanics with SICM (scanning ion conductance microscopy).

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Huge implications of AI pathology being discussed here for colorectal cancers, for which tools are yet to be progressed to clinical trials

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The science talks at #mmc2025uk are go! 🏁our newly inaugurated Committee member, Ross Walsh from Galway, introduces exciting new work on #collagen remodelling in #cancer

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