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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Has anyone yet written a package so I can listen to 4D-STEM? (Maybe @cophus.bsky.social would know?) Some of the datasets must be delightfully polyphonic

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

This is your regular reminder that EVERYONE who speaks has an accent.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 06/08/2025

ruse = 🥸 rues = 😭 roos = 🦘🦘

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

🤓 hummingbird hawk moth, in Yorkshire!

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

On the one hand, I'm sad to be missing M&M this year and I hope you're all having a blast 💜 On the other, this is the traffic I'm currently dealing with 🥰

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

In a previous job, the lab-head welcomed us with "you have no time for hobbies now, science is your hobby" I laughed, at what I thought was obvs a joke Please, have hobbies and passions beyond work. It doesn't mean you're lazy or profligate, it means you experience more of what it is to be human.

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Okay, for ten points, where have I put my bike key? It's somewhere in my house (bike locked in shed, key only comes out if locked), not in usual place (raincoat pocket), bike panniers, with house or work keys, or on the handy corner of the worktop. I need to find it by 6.30pm!

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I can never spell "physics" correctly at the first go. And yet, "ptychography" is just fine? 🤯

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

😭😭 why do I have to be called out like that?

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Crocheted a geode, like you do 🧶 #crochet

A soft crocheted geode made of yarn and pink beads on the inside to imitate crystals

A soft crocheted geode made of yarn and pink beads on the inside to imitate crystals. It is shown from the side to show the outside “rock”

A soft crocheted geode made of yarn and pink beads on the inside to imitate crystals. It is sitting on a marble counter

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Very pleased to be able to share a recently published mini-review on phase related applications of 4D-STEM methods: Phase Imaging Methods in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope, with Gabriel Sanchez-Santolino, Satoko Toyama, Tekehito Seki and Naoya Shibata pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Phase Imaging Methods in the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has become an essential tool for investigating materials, providing detailed characterization at nano and atomic scales. By combining subangstrom resol...

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I may have spoken too soon, and angered the flight delay gods 😭 Have managed to walk 15k steps around the airport while waiting, aiming to find the longest route without self intersecting (just shy of 1km)

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

See you soon Venice! Excited for FisMat2025, learning new physics and catching up with some very old friends 🥰🔬🤓

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.ac.uk · 07/07/2025

Excellent opportunity for a postdoc to join @sjorsscheres.bsky.social in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division to work on #cryoEM structure determination of amyloid filaments in a lively, multi-disciplinary group. Read more: www.nature.com/naturecareer... Closes 03 AUG #PostdocJobs #ScienceJobs

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Standing room only for @profrachelgan.bsky.social 's plenary, kebab vs chocolate cascade indices making me hungry for morning coffee break already 😋

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🥳🥳 hello again Manchester! I'm looking forwards to so many cool talks this week

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jofmicroscopy.bsky.social @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

🔬The Journal team will be on hand at @mmc_series 2025 at stand number 528 to discuss your paper ideas and Special Issue proposals! If you’d like to talk more formally you can arrange a meeting with General Editor @michellepeckham.bsky.social, using this link: calendly.com/journaladmin...

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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Our ever-popular Learning Zone is starting to take shape in the #mmc2025 exhibition hall. Lots to see and do here over the next few days - including a programme of free talks in our dedicated seminar theatre!😀 Read more: mmc-series.org.uk/resource/att... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social

A staff mmber in a yellow hi-vis vest sets up a microscope on a desk in the RMS Learning Zone

A timetable of talks scheduled to take place at the RMS Learning Zone seminar theatre

Staff set up some speakers in the seminar theatre. A number of large blue boxes are in the foreground.

A large sign reads 'Welcome to the Learning Zone' with the domed roof of Manchester Central in the background

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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I'll be at the Learning Zone at #MMC2025 tomorrow afternoon with @martinjones.bsky.social, @lankylaste.bsky.social & Sara Salgueiro Torres, talking about how you can get started using #OpenSource software like #FIJI, @jupyter.org and @napari.org for #ImageAnalysis rms-daim.github.io/DAIM-MMC2025/

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

You know when you get really thoughtful, insightful feedback from reviewers? It's so heartening😊 I wish I could chat science over a coffee with the mystery reviewer, who clearly knows interesting things. Please consider signing your reviews if you're in a career-safe place.

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025

It is true. Just tested it myself. Google AI claims that Hungary (Ungarn) starts with H in German (which it isn’t, only true in English ) and that it is sometimes called Holland (which probably refers to the Netherlands). Nice demonstration how AI works … 😉

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

A perfectly reasonable and not at all alarming number of herons

An adult Great Blue Heron and six juveniles in a tree with three heron nests.

These are large blue-grey wading birds with long necks. They have white faces with dark blue caps, yellow eyes and long, pointed yellow bills.

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Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A Lovely Day At The Yorkshire Coast. 20°C. Cormorants.

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I mean, I got a telescope for my 7th birthday, and a make-your-own-radio kit for my 8th birthday. I guess I landed about where might've been expected 🤓🔬

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Conferences are great and all, but I remain strongly in favour of taking a little sanity break to yourself during the week. Stroll up a hill in the forest, find a monk selling jam who wishes you all the best with the microscopes 🥰🥰 Brain refreshed, and tasty toast ahoy

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jofmicroscopy.bsky.social @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

📣With just four weeks to go, our Editors are eager to meet with you at mmc2025! The Journal of Microscopy will be on stand #528 in the Exhibition and we welcome submissions to our mmc2025 special issue which will feature papers by contributors to the meeting. www.mmc-series.org.uk/resource/cal...

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Martin Jones @martinjones.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

If you work in #VolumeEM, we'd be very grateful if you could fill in our survey so we can better understand the computational needs of the #vEM community #BioImageAnalysis #ResearchSoftwareEngineering #ElectronMicroscopy

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Excited to be heading to ISCS next week in Luxembourg, a few spaces still available for this very cool imaging science conference iscs2025.com Also pleased to be able to travel Flight free, following discussions with @markmiodownik.bsky.social and insights from @seatsixtyone.bsky.social

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Symposium

The International Symposium on Computational Sensing (ISCS) brings together researchers from optical microscopy, electron microscopy, RADAR, astronomical imaging, biomedical imaging, remote sensing, a...

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parafilm is cool dot com @parafilmm.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

At times like these it's important to remember the 3 branches of science

The side of a box of Parafilm that features the flask, dish, and beaker. Text has been added under them. The flask is labelled chemistry, the dish biology, and the beaker jam making. Jam making is written in a different handwritten font

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

In materials science, much of the interesting stuff happens at interfaces. Similarly, you're not getting rainbows without sun and showers.

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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium @cbias.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨 📣 Registration for #CBIAS2025 is now open! 24-25th November at the Wellcome Collection, special early bird registration rate until 20th July www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025

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Talley Lambert @talley.codes · 21/05/2025

for you other colorblind coders out there, tired of missing the red X in your github actions logs .color-fg-danger, .fgColor-danger {color: magenta !important;} .octicon-x {color: magenta !important;} you're welcome

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Please show me your pretty campuses in springtime 🐣🌱 @york.ac.uk starting us off with lots of greenery 😊

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KnitHacker @knithacker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY,’ 1956. Photo by Ansel Adams. If you're interested in learning more, here are two resources: "Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible" 👉 buff.ly/X158ux0 The Making Core Memory Project: 👉 buff.ly/2i4LXzL

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Peter O'Toole @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Registration is open for the Light Microscopy Summer School 2025 - This June, so sign up soon! www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social

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Light Microscopy Summer School 2025

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Strewth. One paper accepted, one paper submitted, and one permanent academic position confirmed in ink. I think that'll do for the week, I'm off to the pub 🍸

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 16/05/2025

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

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Katherine Paine @katherinepaine.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Nice to pop by the Edinburgh Super Resolution Imaging Consortium summer school today to talk about some of the imaging I have been doing and also cheekily plug our Early Career Symposium at mmc! @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social www.mmc-series.org.uk/meetings-fea...

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Royal Microscopical Society Early Career Researchers @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

‼️Programme finalised ‼️Check out the Early Career Symposium programme below 👇 🔬 #mmc2025UK

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Dr Laura Clark @beamsontoast.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Delightful local news story of the week, involving a daft challenge, a pensioner, a bus pass and some terrible puns: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Man on Boyes bargain store quest visits 'viral' shop

A man who is visiting every Boyes store stops by at one made famous by its High Street neighbour.

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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

📢*Deadline approaching* Just a few days left to grab 'Early Bird' tickets for #mmc2025 - Deadline this Friday (16 May)! Don't miss out on discounted rates! mmc-series.org.uk/general-info... @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social

An attendee at mmc2019 arrives at the registration desk and is given an official mmc delegate pack in a grey bag from an RMS member of staff.

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

BIG NEWS - for the first time ever, we're running a Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp. Learn #bioimageanalysis from awesome folks, and gain familiarity with some new tools as well as how to pick the right tool in the first place. Aug 4th-8th - apply here (soon!) forms.gle/d2fCXsrWHVP8...

Ad for the Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp at the Broad Institute.

Where & When
Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge MA (in-person only)
Monday–Friday, August 4–8, 20259:00 AM – 5:00 PM

About the Bootcamp
Learn core bioimage analysis skills using open-source tools for light
microscopy in this hands-on, in-person course. The Bootcamp
covers annotation, segmentation, and deep learning fundamentals.

Fee: $600 (Academic/Non-Profit) | $1000 (Industry/For-Profit)
For more information email ImagingAdmin@broadinstitute.org

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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The next @york.ac.uk Enhancing Research Culture Workshop will be on Citizen Science and Public Participation, featuring @chrislintott.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social @sarahwestsei.bsky.social @sei.org @involvementyork.bsky.social 📅 Tue 20 May, 11-13:30 (online or in-person with lunch provided)

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Access Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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