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Jamie Riches

@chickenrampant.bsky.social
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Microscopist. Interested in science, politics and the environment. Keen bushwalker, family guy and dog owner.

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Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ibis' out for a walk with pizza.
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WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) @wehi-research.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Congrats to biomedical animator Dr Drew Berry on his induction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Victoria, recognising his scientific contributions through captivating animations of the molecular and cellular world within our bodies. www.wehi.edu.au/news/royal-s... @drewberry.bsky.social
Drew Berry posing for photo
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Osprey with some takeaway (Sandy Camp Wetlands). 🪶
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Peter O'Toole @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Not just for microscopists, but relevant to all technical specialists. Making the invisible visible: A global examination of careers and recognition for Imaging Scientists in core facilities - Thompson - Journal of Microscopy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Making the invisible visible: A global examination of careers and recognition for Imaging Scientists in core facilities
Modern life-science research relies heavily on advanced imaging technologies, from microscopes that reveal the structure of cells to imaging systems used in biomedical research. These instruments are...
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Nice demonstration of the value of being able to visualise and analyse data from a core facility.
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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 We have an opening at our Microscopy Core Facility in Turku 🇫🇮. If you love imaging 🔬 and helping scientists succeed, we want you! 👇 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index... #Microscopy #ScienceJobs #CoreFacility #Imaging @turkubioscience.bsky.social
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Laboratory Engineer (Senior), in Advanced Imaging, 1.5.2026-31.12.2028
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Saw a couple of boobook owls at Enoggera on the weekend. Very exciting! 🪶
Boobook owl seen at Enoggera on the weekend. Another boobook owl seen at Enoggera on the weekend.
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I'm going to be taking part in Movember this year, to raise funds for men's mental health. If you'd like to support, here is a fundraising link. movember.com/m/14841903?m...
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Jamie Riches's Mo Space
Jamie's Motivation: Globally, the rate of suicide is alarmingly high, particularly in men. Too many men are ‘toughing it out’, keeping their feelings to themselves and struggling in silence. Help me s...
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Brian D. Wade @astrobrian.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
More than 97% of electron microscope images remain unpublished #microscopy #academicSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/more-th...
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More than 97% of electron microscope images remain unpublished
Huge datasets that would be a valuable training aid for AI are being lost
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Azure kingfisher perched on a very patient water dragon. 🪶
Azure kingfisher perched on the tail of a very patient water dragon, at Kumbartcho Sanctuary.
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Paul McMillan @drpaulmcmillan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
We have an opening for a Platform Support Officer to join our team at the Biological Optical Microscopy Platform at the University of Melbourne. For full details or to apply go to go.unimelb.edu.au/xb3p @micro-au.bsky.social @australianmms.bsky.social
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Platform Support Officer
Role type: Fixed term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Department/School: School of Biomedical Sciences Salary: UOM 7 109,093 – 118,091 AUD p.a. plus 17% super E...
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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#HappyMicroscopyMonday! #microscopycommunity -Imaging Scientists in Core Facilities play a vital role in advancing research. How are their contributions recognized in publications? Take the survey now:https://buff.ly/k0X6PRw
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Join us for the #VirtualPub with @virsicas.bsky.social - one of Euro-BioImaging's Scientific Ambassadors! She'll give a talk entitled "From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging & Analysis." 🗓️ Fri, Sept 26 @ 13:00 CEST Register 🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
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Stratocore @stratocore.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🚨 Our next PPMS Microscopy Focus Group is on Sept 25! Hear from Sonja Welsch, MPIBP & Stephan Junek, MPIBR & MPIBP, as they present: “Two cores, one joint user base” ✅ Cross-institute imaging workflows ✅ Real-world light & EM examples ✅ Peer discussion for complex facilities @maxplanck.de
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This is a good paper highlighting the potential abuse of AI in image manipulation. Challenging times ahead.
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Brett Collins @brettcollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The Institute for Molecular Bioscience is seeking an exceptional academic leader to be the new Director of the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery and lead our centre consisting of 10 group leaders, 40 staff and approximately 50 HDR students. Come and join us in sunny Brisbane!
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Director, Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery
Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Australia’s #1 research institute Based at St Lucia Campus About UQ What started as Queensland's first university in 1...
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Global Bioimaging are running a survey on Authorship and Acknowledgements for imaging core facility staff. If you work in a core, please take five minutes to fill out the survey and help us understand the good, the bad and the ugly around this topic. Thanks! Link: forms.gle/cKh6m4SskzZm...
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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🔬 We're hiring! Adelaide Microscopy is seeking a CryoTEM Microscopist to support cutting-edge research in South Australia. Passionate about cryo-EM & single particle analysis? 🧪 Apply by 18 Sept: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51... #STEMjobs
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Osprey decided to take a catfish from the nest and dine on the nearby transmission tower instead. 🪶
Osprey flying away from nest on top of a tall pole while carrying a catfish in one claw and watched (unhappily?) by another osprey.

Taken at Sandy Camp Road Wetlands, Brisbane, Australia. Osprey eating a catfish while sitting on top of a transmission tower.

Taken at Sandy Camp Road Wetlands, Brisbane, Australia.
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Dear Jeff Bezos …
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Australian Academy of Science @science.org.au · 11/07/2025
Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional. 📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025 🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Came across a gray shrikethrush who was very relaxed around humans in lamington national Park. He just needed a sign, "will pose for food" 🪶
Gray shrikethrush perched on branch in lamington national Park. He was very comfortable around humans and came very close, hoping to get food scraps.
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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy can resolve protein motion on millisecond or even microsecond timescales, but the need for highly specialized tools and skills limits the method’s reach www.nature.com/artic...
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Freeze frame: cracking molecular motion
Nature - Time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy can resolve protein motion on millisecond or even microsecond timescales, but the need for highly specialized tools and skills limits the method’s...
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Peter O'Toole @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Over 270 fully engaged people from over 25 countries attended our open forum on Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025. www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
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Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025: A Town Hall Webinar
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Some cute cygnets at the Port of Brisbane on the weekend.
Two cygnets (black swans) at the Port of Brisbane. Two cygnets (black swans)at their nest at the Port of Brisbane. A cygnet admiring it's reflection.
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Working with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social, we're very proud to launch our new #AcknowledgementGuidelines poster, helping #ImagingScientists get the credit they deserve for their research contributions! #CreditWhereItsDue @bioimaginguk.bsky.social Read more: rms.org.uk/resource/rms...
Two smiling staff members at an imaging facility hold up the 'Acknowledgement Guidelines' poster
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
This is calling for solutions to the current housing crisis - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ho...
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Homes For All
All the evidence from experts is clear. We need to: • Massively increase the supply of housing; • Boost social housing; • Scale back negative gearing and reassess tax breaks for wealthy landlords; • D...
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Looks like an interesting discussion for core facility folk. Worth getting/staying up for those in Australia.
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A couple of pied oystercatchers at Bribie Island on the weekend. 🪶
Two pied oystercatchers on the beach at Buckley's Hole, Bribie Island, Queensland.
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 09/04/2025
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Bioimaging and bioimage analysis friends, some help if you have 2-3 mins; for a paper, we're trying to estimate the number of biologists trained in open source software or tools in the last ~5 years. (1/2) #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Sometimes it's better not to take inspiration from an xkcd comic.
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Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table
Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban home
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#EVOLVEproject Mentoring Masterclass with @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social - download the Class Guide for key insights & strategies on #Entrepreneurship & #Leadership Skills in Imaging Core Facilities. Essential resource to strengthen imaging core facilities. 💪🔬 www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/peter-o...
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If you want to support Ukraine, here is a good option for donations. u24.gov.ua
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UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
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Paul McMillan @drpaulmcmillan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Translational Research Institute in Brisbane has an opening for a Microscopy Officer to work with @microscopemark.bsky.social. Please forward on to anyone that you think may be interested. Closing date 16th March 2025, for more info and to apply visit seek.com.au/job/82343625
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Officer Job in Brisbane at The Translational Research Institute - SEEK
The Translational Research Institute is seeking an experienced Microscopy Officer to join our team on a Permanent, Full-time basis.
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Building work in our neighbourhood. I'll be so happy if they construct a geodesic dome.
Construction signs for M Ewald Building
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Microscopy Australia @micro-au.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Join us in Melbourne for the next Global BioImaging train-the-trainer course! Learn to deliver effective training programs at your light microscopy facility. Free of charge, travel grants are available. @australianmms.bsky.social #LMA @louisecole.bsky.social
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Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society (AMMS) @australianmms.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
APMC13 is fast approaching and we are excited to have our very own AMMS booth in the exhibition hall! 🌟 Come by Booth #25 if you are there, we would love to meet you all and chat. We've also got plenty of limited edition AMMS lens cloths to give away to anyone that visits! 🔬 #APMC13 #Microscopy
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Join us for the last Pub before the Winter Break! ☃️ We'll learn about #VolumeEM approaches from the experts at #EuroBioImaging’s Advanced Light & Electron Prague Node, part of @volumeem1.bsky.social community. 🗓️Fri, Dec 20 @ 13:00 CET All are welcome 🔽 www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/diver...
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Peter O'Toole @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This is the era for technical specialists! The guests will explore how technical specialists adapt rapidly to the evolving the landscape & lead innovation with thriving careers. See - bit.ly/41Enkd9 #technicians #ScienceWorkingLife @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
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Laboratory Equipment training | laboratories equipment | Science News and E-Learning - Labmate Online
Scientists in the life and analytical science fields can find out about the latest methods and tips in this virtual learning area
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Global BioImaging @globalbioimaging.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 ⭐ Are you an imaging scientist or aspiring to be one? Share your 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟱 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 and help shape the future. Let’s explore challenges and ideas to support career growth.
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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
TOMORROW's EoE Virtual Group, Dec 11 @ 12 pm CT, will focus on "Successfully Integrating AI into Imaging Core Facility Workflows"! Register to join: www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/excha... #AI #CoreFacility #ImagingScience
Flyer for "Successfully Integrating AI into Imaging Core Facility Workflows" Exchange of Experience Virtual Group, with photos of the presenters: Constadina Arvanitis, PhD and David Kirchenbuchler, PhD of Northwestern University, hosted by the BINA T&E WG.
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Johanna Bischof @jojobischof.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Great to see the visibility for Imaging networks at #ICRI2024. Working together with partners like @micro-au.bsky.social and @nifaustralia.bsky.social within @globalbioimaging.bsky.social contributes to boosting our impact @eurobioimaging.bsky.social through collaboration and knowledge sharing.
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Here is a handy tool for CTF calculation and visualisation.
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Letters really had to adapt to survive after email, I guess.
A sign, titled Business Stationery, above a selection of crocheted hanging items, including owls.
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Jamie Riches @chickenrampant.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Saw a couple of Willie Wagtails building their nest, recycling material from a nearby abandoned one. Looked very cosy. 🪶
A willie wagtail (small black fan-tailed bird) settling into its carefully constructed nest, only slightly larger than it is. Photo taken at Wynnum Foreshore, Brisbane.
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BirdLife Australia @birdlifeoz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Imagine disliking birds while these guys are just sitting on a branch, huddled up together like this 🥹? 📸Rainbow Bee-eaters by Gary Meredith #birds #birdlifeaustralia #birdlifeoz #nature #wildlife #conservation #rainbowbeeeater #australia
Rainbow Bee-eaters huddled up together on a log
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Dr Christina N. Zdenek @cnzdenek.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A rare photo of a rare species. The Lake Taal Sea Snake (Hydrophis semperi) has rarely been seen or studied by outsiders, having only been isolated from its ancestral species in 1754 when Taal Volcano's large eruption closed the bay, turning it freshwater over time. The story...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪
Graphic shows dramatic reduction in polio, rubella, mumps, measles, and hepatitis A cases after the introduction of vaccines for each disease.
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