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:

• Squidpy for spatial-omics, bringing together images analysis and omics https://twitter.com/fabian_theis/…

• Combining micro-manager and napari for real-time segmentation https://twitter.com/lhinderling/…

• New methods for high-resolution bacterial imaging https://twitter.com/KevinDWhitley/…

Bioimage analysis:

• TissUUmaps 3 for spatial omics data https://twitter.com/ahklemm/…

• Slides from Robert Haase on “Current challenges in GPU-accelerated image processing for the life sciences” https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/…

• Join in with the napari plugin developer workshop https://twitter.com/sofroniewn/…

• Multi-resolution on-the-fly data loading and fusion with 1.4 terapixel dataset https://twitter.com/nKiaru/…

News and interesting reads:

• Actin regulates microtubule aster positioning, the latest work from CytoMorpho Lab https://twitter.com/ManuelTHERY/…

• A new #teamtomo story by Grotjhan lab https://twitter.com/benjaminbarad/…

• New work from the Beyene lab imaging dopamine release from axonal boutons and dendrites https://twitter.com/BeyeneAbraham/…

• The story behind the squid micrograph from Nikon Small World https://twitter.com/natclarke8/…

• Fourier Transform quiz… https://twitter.com/IG_Hughes/…

• … and an educational animation on diffraction patterns by Jacopo Bertolotti https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/…

• Discussion on microscopy data sharing https://twitter.com/Merz/…

• An interesting discussion on phototoxicity https://twitter.com/manorlaboratory/…

• 3D visualisation of volume EM data shows effects of HIV budding https://twitter.com/KedarNarayan2/…

• Useful display settings for colour-blind people https://twitter.com/carravilla_p/…

• Bin Yang shares his impressions from working in industry https://twitter.com/Bin_YANG_Optics/…

• Lots of interesting stories in #ImagingTheFuture https://twitter.com/ChanZuckerberg/…

Scientists at work

• Undergrad practical starting on the basics… onion cells slide! https://twitter.com/MicronOxford/…

• Scientists at the movies https://twitter.com/aecnichols/…

Movie time

• Mesmerising actin https://twitter.com/chillinwithpfn1/…

• Muscle contractions of the intestine https://twitter.com/cziscience/…

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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