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’ Andrey Andreev, Martin Jones and Parash Prasad who helped us create this list.

Twitter

Microscopes and imaging tools:

• QUAREP-LiMi releases a new protocol on illumination https://twitter.com/QuarepLimi/…

• Important survey: which is your no-go laser line? https://twitter.com/nvladimus/…

Bioimage analysis:

• HDN: a new approach for unsupervised denoising https://twitter.com/florianjug/…

• New Napari plugin for object classification https://twitter.com/joel_luethi/…

• Recommendations on nuclei segmentation https://twitter.com/NathalieJuYa/…

News and interesting reads:

• Forget about Red-Green images, there are plenty of LUTs to play with https://twitter.com/MadS100tist/…

• Some of the simplest tools are often the most efficient! Behold, temporal color-coding https://twitter.com/KuglerElisabeth/…

• Updates on OpenOrganelle https://twitter.com/OpenOrganelle/…

• Lastest preprint from Bement Lab on cortical excitability https://twitter.com/ZacSwider/…

• A useful article on presentation slides https://twitter.com/StearnsLab/…

• New preprint on the role of cilia in germline morphogenesis https://twitter.com/YanivElkouby/…

• New CryoET preprint on phage structural biology https://twitter.com/3rdFloorTom/…

• Un-affiliated survey of high-throughput microscopy users https://twitter.com/puigvert_j/…

• Registration open for Frontiers in Bioimaging 2022 https://twitter.com/DrJoelleG/…

• Call for papers: ‘Open hardware in microscopy’ https://twitter.com/HohlbeinLab/…

Scientists at work

• Dr Vladimirov shows us some real-life measurements of objective’s performance https://twitter.com/nvladimus/…

• Dr Kay M Tay live-streams from the lab! https://twitter.com/kaymtye/…

• Smart and patient project: beer can pinhole camera to record sun over 9 months https://twitter.com/muellenbroich/…

• Rainbow holographic chocolate! Maybe we can make a 100% baked microscope one day https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/…

Movie time

• Mesmerising methyl blue droplets https://twitter.com/NickDesnoyer/…

• Amoeba vs Paramecium https://twitter.com/krispenhartung/…

• Stunning imaging of P. falciparum gametocytes https://twitter.com/geogphotog/…

• 5-way mitosis?! https://twitter.com/christlet/…

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