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:

•  miPolScope, multimodal instant polarization microscope https://twitter.com/mattersOfLight/…

• Python bindings for micro-manager note installable via conda https://twitter.com/manager_micro/…

• The last chapter of #SnoutyTale https://twitter.com/MarijnSiemons/…

• Diffractive optical system design by cascaded propagation https://twitter.com/ShechtmanLab/…

• Pyfocus, new tool for calculating focused optical field https://twitter.com/FerStefaniLab/…

• New fluorescent proteins for improved CLEM https://twitter.com/joachimgoedhart/…

Bioimage analysis:

• QuPath introduction by Anna Klemm https://twitter.com/ahklemm/…

• Optimising cell tracking with TrackMate-Helper https://twitter.com/jytinevez/…

• Open Access slides for GPU accelerated image analysis https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/…

• CellProfiler workshop for beginners https://twitter.com/CiminiLab/…

• Abstract submission open for “From Images to Knowledge” I2K2022 https://twitter.com/CiminiLab/…

News and interesting reads:

• Some interesting discussions happening on Twitter:

1. Spatial omics data https://twitter.com/Anjalie_Sch/…

2. Bioimage analysis collaborations https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/…

3. outsourcing image analysis https://twitter.com/KuglerElisabeth/…

4. Recommendations for getting started on electron microscopy https://twitter.com/EMofCTO/…

• Do not use jpg files for analysis. Why? here is a useful animation by Joachim Goedhart https://twitter.com/joachimgoedhart/…

• Explaining Huygens principle https://twitter.com/sfera314/…

• 3 March was World Book Day. Here is a list of books that inspired researchers https://twitter.com/AcademicChatter/…

• Happy birthday Edmund Optics! https://twitter.com/OptoManishK/…

• The fascinating optics of cell phone lenses https://twitter.com/ScopeKurt/…

• preprint survey https://twitter.com/preLights/…

• New review on single particle analysis, tweetorial with intro video included https://twitter.com/afonsomendes92/…

• Tweetorial about ALT-FISH approach to study alternative lengthening of telomereshttps://twitter.com/LukasFrank91/…

• New public vEM data on brain microvasculature https://twitter.com/AndyShih_Lab/…

• New preprint and tweetorial from Tolić lab https://twitter.com/Toliclab/…

Scientists at work

• Celebrating papers with commemorative mugs https://twitter.com/schalleklab/…

• New microcourse in process https://twitter.com/JenCWaters/… and here it latest microcourse: https://twitter.com/JenCWaters/…

• Tools ready https://twitter.com/iii_imaging/…

• Remembering the old days of data storage and analysis https://twitter.com/FishCsCells/…

Movie time

• Microscopist nightmares https://twitter.com/DrLachie/…

• Amazing fish parasites https://twitter.com/parasitology_as/…

• Follow the flow https://twitter.com/ThomasXBessy/…

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