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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 16h

I spoke with @nature.com about the Nikon Small World controversy. As AI becomes part of scientific imaging, we need greater transparency about what was measured, inferred or generated. It's not about excluding AI. It’s about preserving trust in scientific evidence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This award-winning microscopy image used AI — igniting controversy in a prestigious competition

Researchers say that using artificial-intelligence tools to visualize scientific images can become problematic when models misrepresent the underlying data.

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Dan Jackson @danj2k.bsky.social · 14h

"some of the structures "pop in and out of existence" and the cilia "appear from nowhere". Meanwhile [...] the source image appeared to contain a distinctive watermark indicating it had been AI generated."

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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Checkpoint #1 at KM 520 validated after 2 days, 3 hours and 45 minutes 🚴‍♂️ At Fausto Coppi's birth house in Castellania!

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last visit to la Bonne Mère for good luck before the 1470 km, 18,000 D+ Marseille-Napoli cycling adventure. I won't post much here but you can follow the race on Madcap app.madcap.cc/event/marsei... and I'll post updates on my instagram @ultradistan

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Fena Ochs @fenaochs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy to share our new software SIMworks out today in Nature Protocols (1/3) SIMworks is a software suite built on our previous tools SIMCheck, Chromagnon, ChaiN and SIMinspector and enables data augmentation, quantitative processing and analysis. Link to publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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SIMworks—an integrated software suite for quality-controlled augmented quantitative structured illumination microscopy

Nature Protocols - SIMworks is an integrated software suite for quality-controlled augmented quantitative structured illumination microscopy (SIM), enabling both new learners and experienced users...

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday. The first time I imaged a 🐸 embryo, I didn't realise they had these ciliated cells on the outer surface. So you can imagine how surprised and curious I was! These cilia are similar to those found in the human airway. And yes, this is just a good old confocal + 🔥LUT!

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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To add to all the lovely videos of non-AI processes multicilia beating: ctenophore multiciliated cells! They can reach up to 1mm long, causing a rainbow light refraction effect with the correct light positioning! Taken by myself at MBL in 2019 embryology. Realtime frame-rate!

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a balanced account of where the microscopy community stands on AI use by this year's Small World in Motion winner. My main issue is that no one seems to have seen the original data despite requests (no mention of it being reviewed by the organizers) www.the-scientist.com/allegations-...

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Allegations of AI Use in Nikon Competition Spark Controversy | The Scientist

Microscopists raise concerns about inappropriate AI usage in Nikon's microscopy contest-winning video. Nikon stands their ground, citing no policy breach.

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Valentin Dunsing-Eichenauer @dunsingvalentin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#FluorescenceFriday: Given the recently grown interest in ciliary beating, here is a movie of beating cilia in a human airway model that I captured last week with lattice light-sheet microscopy. No AI „processing“, this is the raw data! Frame rate is ca. 170fps, displayed here at 25fps.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Small World in Motion winner is now officially a "rendition" 🙄

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's strategy from the Small Artificial World in Motion winner is to have Singapore colleagues dilute the concerns of world-class microscopists with sycophantic comments

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cilia - AI champion show🏆 Credit: GPT6-Astra Inspired by @christlet.bsky.social

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today I'm posting a video about Neurodigitech LLC which has provided clearly photoshopped neurons to research teams that published these images in Nature, JBC, and more. A year after I uncovered this only one paper has been corrected. It's in Frontiers. youtu.be/4g_1_AWOVpI

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Faked Images of Neurons in Major Journals

YouTube video by Sholto David

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Come to LinkedIn they said, there's more science on LinkedIn they said

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Joyce Meiring @joycemeiri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Excited to share that our latest story on #microtubule conformation controlling cell #signaling is now out in NCB! We show that microtubule expansion by taxane chemotherapeutics releases microtubule bound GEF-H1 which in turn activates RhoA/ROCK signaling. ✨ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think I'm going to lose it being lectured on microscopy image presentation integrity by the winner of the Small Artificial World in Motion competition

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Good luck trying to understand the imaging method used by the Small World in Motion winner with these nonsensical optical diagrams from their publication

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As they are not active here, I left a comment on the LinkedIn post from Nikon Small World about the concerns I think I share with many (first screenshot is their post, second screenshot is my comment) lnkd.in/p/ecdT6saZ

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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As someone who uses and loves artificial labelling, I fully agree with @christlet.bsky.social This is sad and disappointing.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

From the new info my bet is fluo labeling inference pushed to 11. Hallucinating nonsensical DAPI nuclei, mitochondria stain, membrane labeling from a kind of phase contrast image: wrong localization, wrong scale, wrong movement. Keeping this movie as SWiM winner is a disgrace to the competition

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the updated part. Looks like the movie is an AI-generated fluorescence image from a non-labeled acquisition technique. No indication that the Small World jury and organizers have requested and verified the raw data (as mentioned as a possibility in the competition rules)

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Stephane Vassilopoulos @stefvass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great to see this finally out! ✨ A real pleasure to contribute to this special issue celebrating 50 years of #Clathrin and to revisit how this superstar coat keeps surprising us ⚽🔬

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are shooting a movie. Can't say much now but the props are next level

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Acronyms in biology tools these days are either already used by another method or "Here we present sMLFNJCOIMZNJQM"

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Human cilia disease specialist on the Small World in Motion winning movie

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's a way to get a pure science shot on Bluesky: a custom feed that only shows the posts from people you follow that are linked to a DOI bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I asked chatGPT and - Well I asked Toko the starling and he said he loves me so much and that's everything I need

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I knew some birds could mimic sounds and human talk but it is freaky (insta @mikostorm_). What species is this?

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Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal, PhD @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚨Our work #ReScale4DL: balancing pixel and contextual information for enhanced bioimage segmentation, with @henriqueslab.bsky.social is out today!🚀 www.nature.com/articles/s41... ReScale4DL links key concepts in DL (receptive fields)+microscopy (resolution) so they can work #bettertogether😉 Threat👇

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Questions about the recently announced Small World in Motion winner @healthcare.nikon.com

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New lab pic just dropped at lab meeting courtesy of Louis

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Questions about the recently announced Small World in Motion winner @healthcare.nikon.com

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hallelujah! Papers written by an AI and reviewed by an AI can finally be read by an AI, fulfilling the prophecy of the Great AI Circlejerk

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bioRxiv Cell Biology @biorxiv-cellbio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Uncoupling microtubule lifetime, stability and post-translational modifications. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Made in Marseille @madeinmarseille.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🔬 À La Timone, des chercheurs observent les cellules du cerveau pour tenter de comprendre ce qu'il se passe lorsque la maladie d’Alzheimer s’installe ⤵️

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À La Timone, des chercheurs font avancer la recherche sur la maladie d'Alzheimer

À La Timone, les chercheurs de l’Institut de neurophysiopathologie (INP) étudient le rôle d'un type de cellule

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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🔬🚀 Out now in Communications AI & Computing: mAIcrobe, our open-source napari plugin for high-throughput bacterial image analysis. Segmentation, morphological profiling and cell cycle classification, all in one place 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s44488-026-00022-y

Screenshot of the published article page. Software, Open access, published 15 September 2026. Title: mAIcrobe, an open-source framework for high-throughput bacterial image analysis. Authors: António D. Brito, Dominik Alwardt, Beatriz de P. Mariz, Sérgio R. Filipe, Mariana G. Pinho, Bruno M. Saraiva and Ricardo Henriques. Communications AI & Computing 1, article number 16 (2026), followed by the abstract.

Diagram of the mAIcrobe workflow. Acquisition feeds into segmentation with StarDist, Cellpose and community models, then into morphological profiling and a three-class cell cycle classifier, ending in a feature-space scatter plot with three separated clusters.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now that it's in the newspaper I really have to make it 🌋🚴‍♂️⛱️ www.laprovence.com/article/soci...

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bonfire? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

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Wikipédia en français @wikipediafr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

13 septembre 1993 : le premier ministre israélien Yitzhak Rabin et le président de l'Organisation de libération de la Palestine Yasser Arafat signent les accords d'Oslo. La poignée de main entre les deux hommes fait renaître pendant un temps l'espoir d'une paix durable au Proche-Orient. #CeJourlà

Le Premier ministre israélien Yitzhak Rabin et le président de l'Organisation de libération de la Palestine (OLP) Yasser Arafat se serrent la main, encouragés par le président américain Bill Clinton, lors de la cérémonie de signature des Accords d'Oslo sur la pelouse de la Maison-Blanche, le 13 septembre 1993.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I for one welcome our AI hacking overlords but put Strava back online please

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The wrong platform for science

Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 09/09/2026

Perspective: Harriet Lo, Robert Parton et al. provide a perspective on the role of #skeletalmuscle #caveolae, focusing on the cellular processes impaired by caveola dysfunction in muscle disease. They propose a new classification for disease-associated CAV3 variants. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

D-18: Lots of planning and mapping ahead of Marseille-Napoli

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