Heather Brown-Harding

First day of managing my very own core. Let's do this @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social !

Checkout our new preprint 🔬! An eye-opening analysis detailing the adoption of bioimage-analysis tools in microscopy, curated with Bruno Saraiva and @henriqueslab.bsky.social – a thread 🧵: preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.21.760457 github: github.com/HenriquesLab/mapping-bioimage-software

No one deserves this award more than @ctrue.bsky.social His (and his team’s) tireless work on #Fiji powers the daily research of thousands of scientists. Imagine your daily work without Fiji >.< Yet the work is often thankless. We reach out when things break, rarely when they work.

It's about time NYT didn't "both sides" something about this administration

I'm sorry, this is considered a "consumable" Oko?

Please marvel at the work done by Brandeis Light Microscopy users and this microbiologist's best attempt to explain how cool the neuroscience is 😉

We completed the publication project "Focus on the methods reproducibility of bioimage analysis", started in #GloBIAS 2024. Here is the editorial for the special issue of the Journal of Microscopy explaining the aim of this action (open access). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Me: Why do all these websites seem to be down? Oh 😬

I brought my daughter to her first protest today. She made her own sign and received many compliments. She only lasted 30 minutes, but you have to start somewhere

I used to agonize about typos in my emails. Now I just shrug and go "well at least they know it's a human answering them."

The most comprehensive data that I know isis from Grant-Witness and States United. www.lostfunds.org

We are considering a Piazza forum for the microscopy core, so that it keeps a searchable record of questions/solutions like image.sc . Has anyone else tried this? www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/index.php

Here is the REAL winner of the Nikon Small World in Motion after the AI Monstrosity was removed www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

Nikon has finally put out a statement! www.nikonsmallworld.com/news/nikon-s...

We are updating our Expansion Microscopy (U-ExM) website with : - Protocols tips to help you get started - Examples of applications across different biological systems. - work in progress - an antibody database 👉 mocel.unige.ch/research-gro...

It's asset tracking time at work! Can't we just agree anything over 20 years doesn't need to be tracked? (Looking at you, 2002 printer 🤨)

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

I left my phone at the hotel on the day of the award, so it was a little delayed. Congratulations Andy Stone on winning the @bioimagingna.bsky.social 's Early Career award (w/ Natalie Woo) for his work in the community and @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social !

Struggle with sharing data? @bogovicj.bsky.social shows us better options than emailing data #I2KxBINA

Kirk Czymmek explaining how to use XRM, vEM, and LM to study plants

Never knew there was a plugin called empanada 🥟 🤣 #I2KxBINA

Thank you @clairebrown514.bsky.social for her work with Équilbre to further "alternative" careers in academia for people that are not PIs #I2KxBINA @bioimagingna.bsky.social

It's been great meeting new people and catching up with everyone at #I2KxBINA! And it's particularly nice to catch up with some OGs of the Comms group after being on zoom every month for 5+ years

Congratulations to @marianadeniz.bsky.social for winning the Michael W. Davidson Memorial Award! 🎉 #I2KxBINA

One of this morning's talks is @kevin-dean.bsky.social explaining how to do cyclic IF for ExM #I2KxBINA

Awesome session with @emiglietta.bsky.social on 'gamification' of co-localization analysis. It did a great job making folks think about the whole acquisition to analysis pipeline.

QuPath workshop with Michael Nelson-- going through many new extensions! #I2KxBINA

I made it to #I2KxBINA 2026! First keynote by @saramcardle.bsky.social on using QuPath on to study pancreatic tissue sections with multiple staining rounds!

This is not a drill, there is a plane for me to get on! I might actually make it to BINA in Madison this time

Ok, not reply department email, but it reminds me of the time several people got vacuum sealed mice in orders of plastic wear (that the did not order). Ahh, the good times of SciTwitter

Ok, fingers crossed I get out today so I can get to @bioimagingna.bsky.social!

And it's cancelled 😕

Nothing like waiting for maintenance to come on a Friday evening because the autoclave next door is leaking into the scope room...

Interesting article from Henning & Ivan prompted by departures at Genentech. As they say the "question is not whether scientists should embrace AI [but] how AI should reshape the role of scientists". Like many, they worry that in a rush to embrace AI some orgs aren't being smart enough...

Hopefully, my flight gets out for @bioimagingna.bsky.social 😬 weather.com/2026/09/24/f...

Anyone have any seen red autofluorescence in the agarose pad while imaging c. elegans

Next week I'm at @bioimagingna.bsky.social x I2K in Madison, Wisconsin. When I need a break from sessions, what should I check out?

What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

My Spinn coffee maker has died 🥺 The one I want is nearly $2k😬 What's the best one for people that want a delicious coffee, but doesn't want to faff about in the morning? www.terrakaffe.com/products/tk-...

Can’t join us in Madison? You can still be part of I2KxBINA 2026 virtually via Zoom Events! - Virtual registration is FREE! buff.ly/qoZqTbm - Virtual registration closes September 27, 2026

I had a dream that I came into work and the lightsheet was filled with tater tots. How's your morning going? 🤣

I may have planted too many things for the 7th year in a row. 😬 I don't have it in me to process another 4 quarts of beans this week, so neighbors will be getting care packages

Exciting news! Our @erc.europa.eu StG project ARCHAEAOLOGY got funded 🎉 We’ll combine cryoET/EM, ExM & spatial omics to explore the subcellular organization of Asgard archaea. Job ads coming soon! 🦠 ❄️ 🔬 #TeamTomo #ArchaeaSky #MicroSky