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Three of our journals @dev-journal.bsky.social, @jcellsci.bsky.social & @jexpbiol.bsky.social offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £3k to graduate students and post-docs wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. Next deadline: 23 October More at www.biologists.com/grants/trave...

Looking to attend a #microscopy training course? Don't miss the 16 October deadline to apply for a grant of up to £1,000 from @jcellsci.bsky.social and @focalplane.bsky.social Find out more at www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

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...

Population declines and changes in community composition at the world’s largest penguin colony. Learn more in Current Biology: spkl.io/633217padD Norman Ratcliffe & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

1/3 The Euro-BioImaging UK Node has grown from 7 to 13 sites! 🔬 Open access to 60+ imaging techniques, image analysis & expert support across the UK. Welcome to Babraham, Birmingham, Leeds, Newcastle, Oxford & UK-BIAS 👋

From bioRxiv to PNAS! 🎉 Very happy to see our paper “Diversity and spatial segregation of TRP channels in the closest relatives of animals” now published in @pnas.org. Another piece in the puzzle of how animal cell signalling evolved. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Enjoyable day and interesting talks at the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social AGM on Wednesday. Pleased that there was a peaceful transfer of power @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social 😜 (as an aside, the Royal Society of Chemistry's premises are very nice)

Damn straight there's work in progress

(1/4) We are very excited to share our latest preprint from @sauer-lab.bsky.social: Mega Expansion Microscopy (Mega-ExM)! We combine iterative hydrogel expansion with whole-proteome NHS labeling and post-expansion immunostaining, reaching tunable expansion factors up to ~1500× in whole cells 🤯

Become an RMS member today! Join our friendly, international community of #microscopy users, keep up with all the latest developments and enjoy a huge range of benefits! 😃🔬 Find out more and join online: https://ow.ly/GxSN50Wuvsc

#EuroBioImaging's UK Node 🇬🇧 is expanding, from 7 to 13 sites after a successful upgrade application. More technologies, FAIR image analysis support & better geographic coverage ... 👀 check out what the upgraded UK Node has to offer! ⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/the-uk-... @bioimaginguk.bsky.social

New insights into cell fates of the Arabidopsis inflorescence meristem @sebamorenor.bsky.social generated the most detailed map to date of this critical stem cell niche, identifying 18 distinct cell type clusters, including precursors to cortex & vascular tissues www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/new-ins...

How ancient are the building blocks of animal sensory systems? Key components of animal sensory systems evolved before animals. We find that choanoflagellates possess diverse & spatially segregated TRP channels, pointing to ancient origins of sensory specialization. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Our June issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus is now freely available to read online! Loads of great content - including a colourful preview of the 21st International Microscopy Congress (#IMC21) coming to Liverpool, UK, this summer! Read the issue: https://ow.ly/jQgg50Zanmt

Exciting results from experiments, accepted papers and upgraded microscope systems. Occasionally science gives you a good week, and last week was such a week :)

If you missed the first webinar, featuring talks from Thomas Ott @ottlab.bsky.social (on behalf of Beatrice Lace @blace.bsky.social) and Simon Gilroy, you can view the recordings here: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/05/19/f...

Register now for the 2nd webinar in our new series on quantitative plant imaging, hosted by @ajcellbio.bsky.social & @joemckenna.bsky.social. In this webinar we’ll hear from @laurabacete.bsky.social on Brillouin microscopy & @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social on expansion microscopy. 🗓️16 July, 15:00 BST

Congratulations to the PhD graduands getting their degrees conferred today- in particular BioImaging users Nadine, Barrack, Alistair, Emily and Grace!

We are very pleased to announce Prof. Paul Guichard and Dr. Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social as joint winners of the RMS Award for Light Microscopy 🔬 👏 🏅 Huge congratulations to both! Read more about Paul and Virginie's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/pro...

🔬 UK researchers - funding is available to access world-class bioimaging facilities! The UK Bioimaging User Access Fund offers up to £5K for bioimaging or £2K for image analysis at 6 UK sites Open to PhD students, postdocs, technicians & PIs 📅 Next deadline: 31 Jul '26 👉https://shorturl.at/M2ckv

🔬🔦In their Imaging spotlight, @taylashakespeare.bsky.social and @ijayas.bsky.social highlight their research dissecting receptor sorting in endosomes using the calibrated 3D ExM toolkit that they developed. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/15/i...

Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo (apologies to everyone who now has this song stuck in their head for the rest of the day)

(Scientific) Riddles in the Dark

Advances in imaging Arabidopsis embryogenesis Babić et al. @istaresearch.bsky.social @milanzupunski.bsky.social @frimllab.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...