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:

• MBL’s Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy course will be taking place from 26 April – 4 May 2023. Apply by 25 January to attend:
  https://twitter.com/AQLMMBL/status/1604904491593175040

• Want to learn more about expansion microscopy? EMBL are running a hands-on course in May 2023:
  https://twitter.com/EMBLEvents/status/1604776314224926720

• Applications for EMBL’s course on deep learning are open until 13 March
  https://twitter.com/EMBLEvents/status/1610938163601481728

• Applications are open for the 2023 Janelia Conferences, including Imaging Techniques and Molecular Tools for Biology
  https://twitter.com/janeliaconf/status/1611121128214241285

• The Royal Society are holding a free meeting from 22-23 May 2023 focused on open, reproducible hardware for microscopy
  https://twitter.com/kirtiprakash25/status/1610916401379958784

• Euro-BioImaging’s weekly virtual pub talks are back for 2023. Check out the schedule here:
  https://twitter.com/EuroBioImaging/status/1611019030013280258

News and interesting reads:

• This thread from Johannnes Hohlbein highlights some exciting new open-source tools
  https://twitter.com/HohlbeinLab/status/1611368336411049985

• Check out Stackview, a tool to help you interact more easily with your images
  https://twitter.com/digitalsreeni/status/1610726828859338752

Papers:

• Introducing Magnify, a new expansion microscopy method
  https://twitter.com/GallagherCMU/status/1609958131215523841

• A new approach for video-based screening of pooled libraries, which which the authors apply to evolve far-red voltage sensors
  https://twitter.com/tianhe121/status/1612507117252141056

Competitions and opportunities:

• Congratulations to the winners of the Scottish Microscopy Society’s Winter Image Competition! Jamie Whitelaw’s gorgeous image ‘Cells Actin Like an Xmas Tree’ topped the Christmas Cracker category:
  https://twitter.com/scotmicro/status/1605190701419225088

• The winners of the France-BioImaging Image Contest have also been announced. Congratulations to them!
  https://twitter.com/Fr_BioImaging/status/1604866322134728704

Movie time:

• #FluorescenceFriday returns for 2023:
  https://twitter.com/pj_saez/status/1611271350294904833

• Check out this beating zebrafish heart:
  https://twitter.com/ZebrafishRock/status/1612145273144315904

• And finally, watch it all come together in this mesmerising wound healing movie:
  https://twitter.com/thekengevik/status/1611406057376743425

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