Some algae swim in circles, by exercising exquisite control of their breaststroke. And they switch direction under light of different intensity. Here's how. (No one is yet quite sure why.)
physics.aps.org/articles/v19...
🎥 Don't miss this recording of the #VirtualPub with @lhinderling.bsky.social PertzLab on Smart Microscopy workflows - for automation of optogenetic targeting & beyond.
Great talk 👏 🔽
youtu.be/YpGmMzrFJ80
FACED 2.0: a method for high-speed, large FOV, volumetric 2-photon voltage and calcium imaging in the mouse and zebrafish brain.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hi, I used this site for mounted diatom samples. Really nice for demonstrating other types of transmitted light contrast enhancing techniques. I'm not sure if they ship outside EU, though. www.diatomshop.com
Job alert!
We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?
See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
Fibronectin, a key component of the vessel wall, triggers smooth muscle cells to release collagen-rich extracellular vesicles that guide their movement during vessel repair and atherosclerosis.
buff.ly/YOkDI4a
#GEF25 the expansion microscopy community would benefit from high NA, long working distance water objectives. Who's working on these? What's out there?
2 decades after the first GLP-1 drug, we're still in the early stages for where this is headed. Nice, succinct summary and graphic by a pioneer of the field: @danieljdrucker.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
My lab @mpi-muenster.bsky.social is looking for a computational biologist with a passion for imaging and spatial biology. A staff scientist position with long-term perspective! Apply and spread the word 🙏 jobs.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/jobposting/0...
Today I learned that one possible endpoint of the carcinization process is a high-tech optical component
anything -> crab -> crab powder -> diffraction grating -> laser
stands to reason
Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.
A disaster for ocean and climate research is unfolding before our eyes. #NOAA 🌊
"The White House Office of Management and Budget is pulling back $239 million in funds Congress already provided. The biggest hits fall on climate and ocean research."
oceanpolicy.substack.com/p/roundup-un...
Refractive index mapping below the diffraction limit via single molecule localization microscopy https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.670782v1
Single-molecule flow cytometry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672174v1
The terminal B Tattered Cover at Denver Airport has six signed copies of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You!
Looking for a calcium sensor to fill the gap between red and green spectra? Orange you glad we asked! Check out our latest blog post on OCaMP, by @abhiaggarwal.bsky.social!
Why hearing in noisy places gets harder with age, even with “normal” hearing
This study links hidden damage in the ear's neural wiring to speech-in-noise difficulties and increased listening effort in middle-aged adults.
buff.ly/m9fS8Nv
Time pressure gets in the way of ideas. Developing ‘creative oases’ and small grants for risky ideas can encourage innovative thinking in science
go.nature.com/459cPQz
A 125-million-year-old fossil feather may have shimmered with iridescent colour, possibly for courtship.
The study presents ‘fundamental’ findings, but reviewers note the evidence isn’t yet conclusive. Read the reviews and author responses: buff.ly/hwQ2P1D
#EvoBio
1/N What are the organizational principles underlying crossmodal cortical connections?
We address this in this new preprint, led by @alexegeaweiss.bsky.social & @bturner-bridger.bsky.social in collab w/ @petrznam.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Voltage Imaging with Periodic Structured Illumination https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.24.666645v1
The “what if we inject it full of fluorescent laser dye and energize it with another laser” approach to the “will it lase” challenge.
The answer for peacock feather appears to be “yes, and noticeably better than other animals we’ve tried”
Sharing our recent work on using old-school FTIR spectroscopy for species classification of oral bacteria!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
🌊 The oceans are overheating - and scientists say a climate tipping point may be here
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
We're all too used to seeing news of a "reproducibility crisis" in science.
So it is interesting to find that a huge project that reviewed a whole field - Drosophila fruit fly immunity - over 50 years has found that at least 61% of claims in it are verifiable. 🧪🧵1/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Could we one day detect Alzheimer's before symptoms emerge?
Anthea Rowan for BBC Science Focus dives into a new study that finds the Alzheimer's disease has two distinct phases - an early 'stealth' phase and a devastating later phase.
🧠📈 www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...
Using new adaptive-optics techniques, researchers have created ultra-high resolution images of the Sun's corona--and the results are astonishing.
This video shows "coronal rain": loops of magnetic plasma arching out from the Sun, cooling, and flowing back down. 🧪🔭
nso.edu/press-releas...
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We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to study how to apply optical techniques💡 to recover the information of historical wall paintings for the preservation of the UNESCO World Heritage Site La Pedrera-Casa Milà. 🖼️
Apply now 👉 jobs.icfo.eu/?detail=972
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Only a few days left to apply. 2yr fully funded postdoctoral position at the interface between microscopy, nanoscience, Raman spectroscopy, microfluidics, single-cell analysis, and microbiology.
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