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.

Talks, training and workshops:

• Registration is now oApplications are open for the Cold Spring Harbor course on quantitative imaging
  https://twitter.com/JenCWaters/status/1599805154471337984

News and interesting reads:

• Check out this video summary of the EMBO Practical Course in Computational Optical Biology
  https://twitter.com/HenriquesLab/status/1600156454425489408

• Tips on converting tiff movies to MP4s
  https://twitter.com/jenscs83/status/1600495194406674432

• Elisabeth Kugler is running a zebrafish calendar, sharing a gorgeous SciArt image each day
  https://twitter.com/KuglerElisabeth/status/1598270900247330823

• Along with our fellow community sites (the Node and preLights) we are celebrating the end of the year by bringing you a song, #The12daysof…, highlighting some beautiful images from across The Company of Biologists’ sites and journals
  https://twitter.com/focalplane_jcs/status/1599743778683658240

Papers:

• Introducing BrightEyes-TTM, an open-source data acquisition system for use in single-photon microscopy
  https://twitter.com/VicidominiLab/status/1600403914544668672

• A new 6D super-resolution microscope
  https://twitter.com/Lew_Lab/status/1600158071648444416

• A new approach for segmenting volume electron microscopy images
  https://twitter.com/Galenes/status/1600082630245945345

Competitions and opportunities:

• Volunteers needed to co-organise the Royal Microscopical Society’s Imaging ONEWORLD lecture series
  https://twitter.com/kirtiprakash25/status/1600424817496588289

Movie time:

• The ASCB meeting took place in Washington DC this week. Here’s a mesmerising movie of zebrafish mitotic divisions from Olga Afonso, who presented at the meeting:
  https://twitter.com/OlgaAfonso_/status/1599131245430341632

• A movie illustrating a new live imaging protocol developed from the MBL Embryology course in Woods Hole:
  https://twitter.com/MBLScience/status/1597679061932953607

• Diving into an intestinal organoid:
  https://twitter.com/schumacherama/status/1600189525644353537

• Tracking retinal dynamics in jumping spiders:
  https://twitter.com/amwinsor1/status/1600262428012564486

• And finally, who knew cell death could be so beautiful?
  https://twitter.com/kat_shkarina/status/1600463374315200513