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 Andrey Andreev who helped us create this list.

Twitter

Microscopes and imaging tools:

• Temperature-sensitive optogenetic tools https://twitter.com/BugajLab/…

• Foldscope now has a TIRF adaptor https://twitter.com/PrakashLab/…

• Confocal vs Spinning disk https://twitter.com/Maurice_Y_Lee/…

Bioimage analysis:

• NEUBIAS Academy YouTube channel hits 100,000 views, with lots of webinars and tutorials about various image analysis tools and techniques https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/…

• Image analysis workflow optimizer in napari, to help fine-tune parameters, by Robert Haase https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/…

• Useful guide to writing good comments for your code https://twitter.com/newsycombinator/…

• ZELDA: A 3D Image Segmentation plugin in Napari https://twitter.com/RogerDAntuono/…

• QuPath v0.3.1 released https://twitter.com/QuPath/…

• Using TrackMate for tracking droplets fusion https://twitter.com/jytinevez/…

News and interesting reads:

• Next RMS International Microscopy Lecture Series event with Ricardo Henriques on “Open technologies for Super-Resolution and Machine Learning in Bioimaging” on Tuesday 18th Jan 16:00 GMT https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/…

• Preprint on EBI’s BioImage Archive https://twitter.com/biorxivpreprint/…

• Reviewing the last paper by Tom Cavalier-Smith https://twitter.com/JekelyLab/…

• An interesting behavioural profiling study using intravital microscopy https://twitter.com/AndrsHidalgo16/…

• Teaching optics on Instagram https://twitter.com/Maurice_Y_Lee/…

• Ricardo Henriques starts a conversation about Core Imaging and in-house development https://twitter.com/HenriquesLab/…

• Important discussion about success, funding, and climate in academia https://twitter.com/florianjug/…

• Dr Yashimuro reminds us about importance of communication and collaboration across disciplines https://twitter.com/Hide_Yshmr/…

• Bardeux Imaging Center shares some of their users’ data as Advent Calendar for Christmas season! https://twitter.com/BIC_Bordeaux/…

• Funny tweets naming microscopes https://twitter.com/aandr314/…

Movie time

• Mitochondria polygonal network https://twitter.com/pj_saez/…

• Photoactivable GFP still cool 20 years after https://twitter.com/StephenMCoscia/…

Microforum

• PC monitors for fluorescence https://forum.microlist.org/t/reccomended-pc-monitors-for-fluorescence/1646

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