News digest

Here is a selection of interesting news, publications and discussions related to microscopy that happened in the last two weeks on Twitter and beyond.

Tutorials, training and workshops:

• The first mesoSPIM user meeting took place on 10 March 2022. There are 14 talks from the event available to watch on YouTube
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo2dtldqV07bk5C4B3pxX685s52LJD5HV

• There’s a new cryo-EM module on MyScope
  https://twitter.com/micro_au/status/1505780724276002818

• EMBO are running a practical course on light sheet microscopy #LISH22
  https://twitter.com/PavelTomancak/status/1505853968794140675

News and interesting reads:

• Mariana De Niz is conducting interviews for her Latin American Microscopists series. You can read the latest ones here on FocalPlane:
  https://focalplane.biologists.com/category/blog-series/latin-american-microscopists/

• Read about a nationwide remote open-desk bioimage analysis session
  https://twitter.com/jytinevez/status/1507340368169390094

• This thread brings together some resources for beginners to learn Python
  https://twitter.com/ScopeKurt/status/1507040788290494469

Papers:

• How factors outside your microscope can influence your data
  https://twitter.com/ScopeShifu/status/1506624306146512896

• DaXi, a new microscope design
  https://twitter.com/loicaroyer/status/1505957859749621767
  
  The paper includes photos of how the new microscope is set up.

• A new expansion microscopy technique, Ten-fold Robust Expansion Microscopy (TREx)
  https://twitter.com/focalplane_jcs/status/1506287081559105556
  
  The preprint was previously highlighted on preLights.

• VesselVio, a new open-source resource for analysing vasculature
  https://twitter.com/Bumgarner_JR/status/1507031188879425537

Movie time:

• Neurons making connections:
  https://twitter.com/slava__bobrov/status/1505930336076718087
  
• DaXi in action:
  https://twitter.com/christlet/status/1505943925160398848
  
• The CytoMorpho Lab presents ‘Architectures Cellulaires’: https://twitter.com/ManuelTHERY/status/1505957276405927938
  
• Visualising mitochondria in 3D with FIB-SEM: https://twitter.com/aaandmoore/status/1506070860280606721
  
• Multiple scattering of light:
  https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1506226782944518145
  
• The Iwasa group’s latest animations (‘Phase Separation 101’): https://twitter.com/janetiwasa/status/1506638646572556288
  
• A thread bursting with beautiful cell division movies: https://twitter.com/AgChaigne/status/1508874634330099726
  

Congrats to…:

• Sarah Keary, winner of the FocalPlane travel grant awarded by the Scottish Microscopy Society
  https://twitter.com/scotmicro/status/1507275754861735940
  

• Katherine Paine, winner of the 2022 RMS Early Career Award
  https://twitter.com/RoyalMicroSoc/status/1506268307145601029

Don’t miss these events:

• The African BioImaging Consortium are holding their first Community Meeting in Cape Town from 16-18 October 2022. Registration is open now:
  https://twitter.com/afribioimaging/status/1499018875781926923
  
  preLights, our sister site, will be interviewing one of the consortium’s co-founders, so keep an eye out for that.

• Interactive image analysis workshop using napari and Python, 5 April 2022
  https://twitter.com/joel_luethi/status/1505879650085613574

• Webinar highlighting a day in the life of a core facility microscopist, 21 April 2022
  https://twitter.com/MSAStudent/status/1507079740187893762

Last but not least, some words of wisdom:  

• From Robert Haase: “Every minute you spend learning the basics will spare you one hour struggling when doing the advanced stuff”
  https://twitter.com/haesleinhuepf/status/1506308794078441473

• From Christophe Leterrier: “Try to make each image better than the previous one. It’s a craft. Imagine you’re a shoemaker, a making shoes one pair after another for decades. The drive is to get to the best possible shoes”
  https://twitter.com/christlet/status/1508136081023188992

• …and finally, remember to get to know your reagents:
  https://twitter.com/mcammer1/status/1508892724816142337

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