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Teacher extraordinaire Max Brambach has officially started our #BoBiAC2026 measurements & quantification lessons! His excitement for pandas dataframes was contagious! 💻

Lots of excitement in the room to learn about how to use tools such as @ilastik-team.bsky.social & Cellpose for segmenting images! #BoBiAC2026

Thanks to generous funding from @bioimagingna.bsky.social, We were able to offer nearly half of our #BoBiAC2026 students fee waivers so that they could attend the course! The students also got to hear more about BINA programming & resources during a guest presentation from BINA 🔬

#BoBiAC2026 is off to a fantastic start! Our students have been drinking from the firehose since day 1 of @fedegasparoli.bsky.social getting everyone started with coding in Python and Amelie Andreas walking them through error messages 🐍💻

Last chance to apply! Applications are due at 11:59 PM ET!

Few days left to apply!!!👇#BoBiAC

It is finally out there in published form. 🎉 #MicroSplit (with an 𝕊) #Microscopy 🔬 #AI 🤖 www.nature.com/articles/s41... And no paywall... so... enjoy the read! 💸 👋 This is where the post could end... but I will have to go on for a bit below... 😉 🧵

This course also pairs nicely with @jcellsci.bsky.social -@focalplane.bsky.social training grant funding, which has an application window open until May 8th! Funding Info: www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...

@lycasworks.bsky.social showing expansion microscopy followed by some hands on expansion exercises.

Hari Shroff giving the QI keynote on structural illumination microscopy, adaptive optics and new biosensors. Wow!

Super Res Sunday! And we are doing all the techniques:)

Light sheet lab. We image anything from cells to plants to shrimp. @fedegasparoli.bsky.social @excitedemissions.bsky.social are running the machines!

Light Sheet Saturday is here. @jencwaters.bsky.social and @talley.codes lecture on how to improve your photon budget by illuminating from the side.

Pizza and image analysis. Because there’s no hackin‘ without snackin‘. @damiandn.bsky.social @bethcimini.bsky.social

AI for image analysis. @florianjug.bsky.social @bethcimini.bsky.social @damiandn.bsky.social are showing off the power of the machines:)

Cake and image analysis. True QI bliss:) @damiandn.bsky.social @bethcimini.bsky.social @emiglietta.bsky.social teaching 3D segmentation.

Looking for samples for our lightsheet microscope and expansion microscopy lab, @fedegasparoli.bsky.social and @lycasworks.bsky.social go on an expedition during low tide.

Confocal lab is where we show off the power of optical sectioning. Only one question remains: point scanner or spinning disc?

Hands on TIRF microscopy and machine learning segmentation has students up all night.

We are getting serious about analysis. Today Hunter Elliott and @florianjug.bsky.social introduce machine learning and AI. It’s not magic, it’s computers.

Late night coding and microscopy today!

Today at @qiatcshl.bsky.social , @emiglietta.bsky.social teaching the good word of CellProfiler!

Today’s lectures on live cell imaging and fluorescent proteins by @jencwaters.bsky.social and @talley.codes Every photon counts!

Today’s lab was all about live cell microscopy.

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Today @bethcimini.bsky.social and @damiandn.bsky.social lectured on image correction and colocalization. Key take-home: The computer can’t do magic; if you don’t collect photons at the microscope you can’t make them appear later.

Today Hunter Elliott is lecturing on image processing. Key take-home before lunch: There is no free lunch:)

@talley.codes teaching about digital cameras. Remember Airy disks?

Learning about the components of a microscope. How are images formed and what is that back focal plane everyone seems so excited about?

Cleaning objectives is a very important skill to learn! @fedegasparoli.bsky.social showing how it’s done:)

The famous ‚fluorescence depends on the environment‘ lecture! Need more light? Consider adding base to your sample:)

We are back! @jencwaters.bsky.social giving the first lecture of 2026 QI at CSHL. Two weeks of intense microscopy training ahead.

Apply to join #BoBiAC2026 this summer! You'll learn how to use Python to segment fluorescence images w/tools like @ilastik-team.bsky.social & CellposeSAM, & even learn how to measure cell features, neighborhood relationships, & colocalization. No coding experience needed! More info: bobiac.github.io

Apply to join us this July for a crash course on Python & bioimage analysis tailored specifically for beginners! Applications due May 18th 🔬💻 #BoBiAC2026 bobiac.github.io

This QI course is the perfect way for grad students & postdocs to strengthen fundamental knowledge and confidence in their quantitative light microscopy experimentation! Deadline to apply is TOMORROW! 🔬

Don't let the price of QI deter you! QI offers financial aid through NCI, HHMS, and @bioimagingna.bsky.social. Include a brief statement of need with your application. Aid is distributed by CSHL (not the course instructors). Many of our students - sometimes all! - receive significant support.

QI Class of 2025! Centroid = @sciencedoodles.bsky.social & @florianjug.bsky.social / first minima = @talley.codes & me. Applications for 2026 due on Friday! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

There's exciting Microtutor news in store for 2026! Be the first to hear the latest on course releases and other learning opportunities by signing up for the Microtutor mailing list: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/5BYgJu6/m...

🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)! An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools. 🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026

Do you like building novel optical microscopes to answer complex biological questions? How about doing that as part of one of the world’s most unique and vibrant research and education communities, which is incidentally located in a beautiful seaside New England village? 🐙🌊🔬

These workshops are perfect for grad students & postdocs in the Boston area that are either planning or actively conducting microscopy experiments in their research! More info about the workshops, along with the application, here: cite.hms.harvard.edu/education/wo...

Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!

Check out our amazing #bobiac2025 cohort! Was a joy to teach this group! Thanks @bioimagingna.bsky.social for generously supporting this 6 week bioimage analysis w/Python course!

Day 1 of #bobiac2025 🐍 The day started strong with @talley.codes speaking about the Python ecosystem and uv. Students then gave short talks about their research (#coolscience). It was then time to code in Python with @sciencedoodles.bsky.social!

‼️3 days left to apply to the Boston Bioimage Analysis Course (BoBiAC)! 💻 Get started w/Python & learn to analyze fluorescence microscopy images — no programming experience required! Fee waivers available! 🗓️ Apply by June 1st! 🌐 iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025/

Apply to join our awesome @citehms.bsky.social & @hms-iac.bsky.social teaching team this summer at #BoBiAC! We’ll guide you step-by-step through segmentation, classification, and colocalization on fluorescence microscopy images using Python — no coding experience required!

We are proudly hosting 𝐃𝐫. 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 @talley.codes (CITE, Harvard Medical School): 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐦 When: 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟗𝐭𝐡 @ 𝟏𝟏 𝐚𝐦 𝐄𝐃𝐓 (Boston time) Join us on Zoom! harvard.zoom.us/j/9762343464...

BIG NEWS - for the first time ever, we're running a Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp. Learn #bioimageanalysis from awesome folks, and gain familiarity with some new tools as well as how to pick the right tool in the first place. Aug 4th-8th - apply here (soon!) forms.gle/d2fCXsrWHVP8...