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 reporter’ Martin Jones who helped us create this list.

Twitter

Microscopes and imaging tools:

• Marijn Siemons continues sharing updates on his #aSnoutyTale https://twitter.com/MarijnSiemons/…

• A useful tip for those using expansion microscopy https://twitter.com/louvel_vincent/…

• New tool for studying neuronal circuits in vitro https://twitter.com/Jose_C_Mateus/…

• New LUTs by James Manton https://twitter.com/JamesDManton/…

Bioimage analysis:

• BBii-Decon is now available https://twitter.com/DocDellaire/…

• Bioimage hackathon on OME-Zarr https://twitter.com/GlobalBioImage/…

• Lots of material for image analysis in python from @digitalsreeni  https://twitter.com/DocDellaire/…

• Virtual napari hackathon on 18th Jan 2022 (registration deadline 1st Jan) https://twitter.com/ky396/…

News and interesting reads:

• Darwin’s lost microscope https://twitter.com/alesposito75/…

• The recordings of the workshop on Advanced Microscopy and Biophotonics at the Institut Pasteur Montevideo are now available https://twitter.com/MalacridaLab/…

• Conference/seminar videos can now be displayed alongside preprints on bioRXiv https://twitter.com/cshperspectives/…

• Open Life Science awarded the Wellcome Open Research Fund to support cohort based training in open science practices https://twitter.com/openlifesci/…

• Registration open for “From 3D light to 3D electron microscopy” – planned to be both on-site and virtual, 13-16th March 2022 https://twitter.com/PaoloRonchi10/…

• Great tweetorial on a new publication understanding gut elongation https://twitter.com/ReiterLab/…

• Interesting thread about a new preprint on chromatin structure dynamics https://twitter.com/Anders_S_Hansen/…

Scientists at work

• Christmas tree decoration https://twitter.com/cshperspectives/…

• Object detection with Fiji. Holidays version https://twitter.com/LauLauThom/…

Movie time

• Imaging the highly dynamic ER https://twitter.com/aaandmoore/…

• Mitosis rounding https://twitter.com/aaandmoore/…

Microforum

• Suggestions on cameras for STORM systems https://forum.microlist.org/t/camera-choices-for-storm/1640

We hope you find this post interesting. Please let us know if you think we should include other topics or discussion platforms.

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