News digest

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

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:

• Realising design flaws are unpleasant, but save a lot of research time https://twitter.com/MarijnSiemons/…

• Size matters – looking for a small camera? https://twitter.com/DanielBAharoni/…

• MethodsJ2 – for automatically generate methods text for manuscripts https://twitter.com/clairebrown514/…

Bioimage analysis:

• A discussion on 3D Deconvolution https://twitter.com/OptoManishK/…

• More and more bioimage analysis plugins are getting added to napari https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/…

• More steps towards making training of StarDist deep learning models accessible to Fiji users with DeepImageJ and ZeroCostDL4Mic https://twitter.com/gomez_mariscal/…

• Navigating the tricky world of optimising python code for big data https://twitter.com/jnuneziglesias/…

• New datasets added to the NEUBIAS Zenodo repository: https://twitter.com/cmci_/…

News and interesting reads:

• Dancing blastomeres, a new preprint on actin contraction waves and tension https://twitter.com/maitrejl/…

• An interesting read on the story of how immunofluorescence microscopy was developed https://twitter.com/somssichm/…

• Now you can walk on the surface of a cancer cell https://twitter.com/eLife/…

• Remembering George Patterson https://twitter.com/christlet/…

• Small world around us moves fast! https://twitter.com/TanFad/…

• Winners of the @RoyalMicroSoc scientific imaging competition 2021 announced at MMC: https://twitter.com/mmc_series/…

• #MicroscopistsNightmares https://twitter.com/DrLachie/…

Courses, workshops and other oportunities

• A new training resource by Global Bioimaging https://twitter.com/GlobalBioImage/…

• OpenScope opens the Allen Brain Observatory to the community https://twitter.com/LecoqJerome/…

• New Correlative Imaging Series from @COMULIS_Cost and @EuroBioImaging, every 3rd Friday of the month: https://twitter.com/EuroBioImaging/…

• Draft programme for the Crick Bioimage Analysis Symposium: https://twitter.com/martinjones78/…

Hands-on scientists:

• Mark Pickering built a polarized microscope for ctenophores https://twitter.com/PickeringLab/...

• Christophe Leterrier updates us on microscopy suite upgrades and is looking forward working there https://twitter.com/christlet/...

• Manuel Thery built custom device to apply electric field to sample https://twitter.com/ManuelTHERY/...

• Etsuo A. Susaki got several new optical tables, and we are envious! https://twitter.com/suishess...

• Paula Montero-Llopis and an important tool for microscopists: bucket https://twitter.com/LlopisMontero/...

• Case Western Reserve University physics department shares their spectrometer from 1890s! https://twitter.com/PhysicsCWRU/...

• Workspace snap from Jerome Mutterer https://twitter.com/jmutterer/...

• Desktop upgrade of a sentient electron https://twitter.com/quantumbeans/...

Movie time

Visualising cell competition in organoids https://twitter.com/vanRheenen_Lab/…

A growing organoid… and all the work and assistance behind the video https://twitter.com/NTallapragada/…

Lung branching observed in two-photon live microscopy https://twitter.com/AlainChedotal/…

A macrophage in action https://twitter.com/AdamHoppe1/…

Microforum

• Recommendations on materials for 3D printing https://forum.microlist.org/t/3d-printing-materials-suitable-for-optical-components/1454

• Troubleshooting a strange phalloidin staining https://forum.microlist.org/t/phalloidin-staining-only-at-the-edge-of-the-coverslip/1449

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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