News digest

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the past two weeks.

Thank you to our ‘FocalPlane reporters’: Martin Jones, Manish Kumar, Andrey Andreev and Parash Prasad who helped us create this list.

Twitter

Microscopes and imaging tools:

• REALM, adaptive optics for single-molecule localisation https://twitter.com/MarijnSiemons/...

• Excitation optics in light sheet microscopy https://twitter.com/edwardlachica3/...

• Label free imaging with quantum enhanced nonlinear microscopy https://twitter.com/BowenWarwick/...

• New software tool for facilitating the extraction of microscopy metadata https://twitter.com/Ulrike_Boehm/...

• New publication on best practices for reporting microscopy methods https://twitter.com/LlopisMontero/...

Bioimage analysis:

• The NEUBIAS academy webinars continue, next week ZeroCostDL4Mic https://twitter.com/guijacquemet/…

• Big update to StarDist, including multi-class prediction and plugin integration with Napari https://twitter.com/martweig/…

• First results of Napari’s user survey available https://twitter.com/napari_imaging/…

• New ImageJ wiki is live https://twitter.com/ctrueden/…

News and interesting reads:

• Whole-brain volumetric calcium imaging study with an excellent tweetorial by the author https://twitter.com/RibeiroCarlitos/…

• Image analysis in the 70s https://twitter.com/quantixed/…

• The importance of Wikipedia, and ensuring the community contributes to relevant pages https://twitter.com/emollick/…

• Harvard and Google AI annotated dataset covering a cubic mm of cortical tissue imaged in EM https://twitter.com/GoogleAI/…

• Another reason for publishing preprints https://twitter.com/joshuamhardy/…

• Do you know who Douglas Prasher is? https://twitter.com/somssichm/…

• Rob Kesseler giving a special talk at MMC2021 on an art/science project with Louise Hughes, accessible with a free exhibition pass for MMC2021 https://twitter.com/mmc_series/…

• Welcome African BioImaging Consortium! https://twitter.com/afribioimaging/…

• The Crick Discovery Day to get the next generation interested in science! https://twitter.com/TheCrick/…

• New survey on data management https://twitter.com/SchmChristian/…

Courses and workshops:

• Upcoming EMBO CLEM course https://twitter.com/EMBLEvents/…

• “Latin American Bioimaging Network: facts, experiences, and challenges” https://twitter.com/LatamBioimaging/…

• Ask the experts about STED microscopy https://twitter.com/GerBI_GMB/…

Hands-on scientists:

• Microscopy nightmares https://twitter.com/OertnerLab/…

• Greg Corder shows us how to build stereotax setup for mouse brain recording https://twitter.com/FlyBottleEscape/…

• Zach Marin sets the (optical) table with fine (lab) silverware https://twitter.com/ZachMarin__/…

• Anne Churchland wrote a song (and made a video, and a protocol paper) about building a wide-field 1P macro-scope for mouse brain imaging https://twitter.com/anne_churchland/…

• Manish Kumar reminds us to keep our microscopes well-hydrated https://twitter.com/OptoManishK/…

• We can’t really travel, but we can take a look inside beautiful Human Technopole research institute in Milan, Italy https://twitter.com/ChriSchmied/…

Movie time:

• The highly dynamic endoplasmic reticulum https://twitter.com/aaandmoore/…

• Plant cell bio, endocytosys in the Arabidopsis pollen tube https://twitter.com/aribidopsis/…

• Are still looking inside cells or the dynamics of the universe? https://twitter.com/DInoueMT/…

• Cell fireworks https://twitter.com/albertina_tz/…

Microforum

• Two-photon microscopy – labelling troubleshooting https://forum.microlist.org/t/troubleshooting-two-photon-excitation-with-filipin-iii-labeling/1421

• Two-photon microscopy – dorsal flap window protocols https://forum.microlist.org/t/dorsal-skin-flap-protocol-suggestions/1424

We hope you find this post interesting. Please let us know if you think we should include other topics or discussion platforms.

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