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 reporter’ Martin Jones who helped us create this list.

Twitter

Microscopes and imaging tools:

• Diesel2p https://twitter.com/Labrigger/…

Bioimage analysis:

• Omnipose, a new cell segmentation algorithm for complicated cell shapes is out https://twitter.com/KevinJohnCutler/…

• Robust and unbiased estimation of background in fluorescence microscopy https://twitter.com/maurosilber/…

• Bioimage analysis based on cell neighbourhoods rather than pixels https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/…

• Janelia + EMBL BioImaging seminar series are on YouTube https://twitter.com/Ulrike_Boehm/…

• New paper out on sparse deconvolution https://twitter.com/weisong_zhao/…

News and interesting reads:

• Foldscopes available at public libraries https://twitter.com/PrakashLab/…

• Cryo-ET reveals nuclear pores are mechanosensitive https://twitter.com/Beck_Laboratory/…

• Testing immersion media for overnight imaging https://twitter.com/Maurice_Y_Lee/…

• Integrating image and PPI data to model the protein communities underpinning cell function: https://twitter.com/Prof_Lundberg/…

• Thread on a new study looking at synapse biomechanics https://twitter.com/HasanU_JP/…

• Interesting discussion about Journal Club formats https://twitter.com/rburdine1/…

• Different results in SIM vs other super-resolution techniques https://twitter.com/DrGriff34/…

• Thoughts on sustainable ways to make Open Science truly global by Laura Ación: https://twitter.com/_lacion_/status/1462757943502327812?s=20

• Help to improve “NEUBIAS academy @ home” by filling in this short form to suggest topics and future directions https://twitter.com/mycroscopy/…

• COST funded COMULIS project is running a multimodal image data registration challenge: https://twitter.com/EuroBioImaging/…

• Royal Microscopical Society has a new “Data Analysis in Imaging” science section: https://twitter.com/martinjones78/…

• There’s still time to join the Reproducibility in Image Analysis Study https://twitter.com/KrisKubow/…

Scientists at work

• Looking at the insides of a laser https://twitter.com/aleestout/…

• Window’s PSF https://twitter.com/BertrandVernay/…

Movie time

• Watching the interaction of SARS-CoV2 spike protein with ACE2 https://twitter.com/eLife/…

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

Microforum

• Recommendations for ER labelling? https://forum.microlist.org/t/er-labeling-for-live-cell-imaging/1593

• Looking for fluorophore combinations for lifetime separation https://forum.microlist.org/t/suitable-fluorophore-combinations-for-tausense-lifetime-based-dye-separation/1589

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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