News digest

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

Thank you to our ‘FocalPlane reporters’ Martin Jones and Parash Prasad who helped us create this list.

Twitter

Microscopes and imaging tools:

• Open Microscopy in the Life Sciences: https://twitter.com/HohlbeinLab/…

• MethodsJ2 published, for generating comprehensive imaging methods text: https://twitter.com/Maurice_Y_Lee/…

Bioimage analysis:

• ZELDA: a 3D Image Segmentation and Parent-Child relation plugin for microscopy image analysis in napari: https://twitter.com/vnzloy/…

• 5 rules for good data management in the life sciences https://twitter.com/BioResBuzz/…

News and interesting reads:

• cryo-EM of brain organoids to look at ultrastructure of human axons with unprecedented resolution (including large datasets deposited in EMPIAR): https://twitter.com/Mad_Lancaster/…

• p-values with large datasets. Assessment of practical differences between groups of experimental data: https://twitter.com/gomez_mariscal/…

• Correlative light and volume electron microscopy (vCLEM): How community participation can advance developing technologies: https://twitter.com/JofMicroscopy/…

• Beautiful sciart animations to illustrate a new paper thread: https://twitter.com/miriamlisci/…

• Cryo-ET and expansion microscopy to reveal the architecture of the ciliary base https://twitter.com/bengeliscious/…

• Improved browsing of the OpenOrganelle datasets: https://twitter.com/OpenOrganelle/…

• Deal between Wiley and Jisc to broaden access to Open Access publishing: https://twitter.com/JofMicroscopy/…

• A novel role for microtubules in cell deformation https://twitter.com/LevayerR/…

• A microscopy advice from the 1744 https://twitter.com/barrosolab/…

• Happy birthday to Antonie van Leeuwenhoek! https://twitter.com/minouette/…

• Great tweetorial by Guillaume Jacquemet on their latest preprint https://twitter.com/guijacquemet/…

Scientists at work

• Getting the microscope ready for Halloween https://twitter.com/DunnSchoolBIF/…

Movie time

• Dividing cells from different angles https://twitter.com/aaandmoore/…

• Mesmerising microtubule dynamics https://twitter.com/SittewelleM/…

• GCaMP to study ovulation and egg laying https://twitter.com/vikram0285/…

• Spooky cell https://twitter.com/thekengevik/…

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

Microforum

• An interesting discussion on resonant scanning imaging https://forum.microlist.org/t/choosing-a-confocal-for-live-imaging-how-resonant-scanning-actually-works/1569

• LEDs vs Lasers https://forum.microlist.org/t/led-vs-lasers-for-spinning-disk-line-scan-confocal/1562

YouTube

• Lots more Imaging OneWorld talks uploaded to the RMS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoemaChWEBWFj55504_1PywDUi7ZGIRLP

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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