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Big triumphs for little images…. #InMicroscopyWeTrust #CiliaGate #NikonSWiM2026 @nytimes.com but the #RareDisease at the epicentre of all this #PCD still swept up in misinformation. How about a piece on why #MicroscopyMatters for these patients, people behind the bylines?

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 10h

This 100% for a disease that depends on videomicroscopy for diagnostics through to much needed developing therapeutics. Some say 'there's no such thing as bad publicity', especially in rare disease, but disinformation takes even more work to try to tackle. #StopTheSlop #PCDAwarenessMonth

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 10h

Otherwise you will be left with the unicorn...

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 11h

There has to be some hard reflection and learning from the Nikon SWiM team about how this was all went terribly wrong without earlier action, more transparent... even when so many experts were speaking out #CiliaGate

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 11h

Finally, this is the actual rendition !! They'll get our list of signatures, organized by @cilialab.bsky.social , and they might think that we are the Mad Microscopy Gang... Hey Nikon, it's just common sense.

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 12h

www.nikonsmallworld.com/news/nikon-s... It is gone! This is just the beginning of the discussion with whole community about how we leverage AI microscopy without compromising authenticity.

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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 12h

looks like you got your result - the places have been readjusted and the entry has disappeared #ciliagate www.nikonsmallworld.com/news/nikon-s... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Prize-winning image which sparked backlash was AI-generated, Nikon rules

The camera-maker says it is now re-evaluating the rules and procedures of its Small World in Motion contest.

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 12h

Nikon just announced it has withdrawn first place in this year’s #SWiM after finding winning video did not comply with its generative AI rules. www.nikonsmallworld.com/news/nikon-s... Letter still open until Monday- this is a starting point to engage & discuss how AI is transforming microscopy 🔬

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Nikon Small World in Motion Video Statement | News | Nikon Small World

An update from Nikon Small World regarding the 2026 Small World in Motion first-place winning video: After thoroughly re-evaluating the video and supporting materials and consulting with members of…

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 13h

This is not an end, more a starting point to engage with the whole community and discuss how AI is transforming microscopy

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 14h

#InMicroscopyWeTrust #ImagedNotImagined 🔬 Let's keep this up we are 396 signatories- researchers, imaging specialists, clinicians and patient advocates- from 33 countries and territories to far, including three former Small World judges. Add your voice! 💪 🧪

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Lüders Lab @luderslab.bsky.social · 20h

Seeing is believing, but only if we uphold image standards 👀👇🏼

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Rebecca D. Burdine, PhD @rburdine1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you are as outraged as the rest of us at an AI hallucination winning a Nikon imaging award, please co-sign the letter.

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We are at 302 signatories from 30 countries and territories... let's keep up this momentum. Nikon may be quiet but we are not.... stand up for imaging integrity! #NikonSWiM

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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Researchers from cilia biology and microscopy, as well as primary ciliary dyskinesia clinicians, have written an open letter to Nikon regarding the winning video in their Small World in Motion competition. To read the open letter and find out how to add you name:

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Please sign and share: open letter to Nikon on the 2026 Small World in Motion winner - FocalPlane

Please sign and share: open letter to Nikon on the 2026 Small World in Motion winner - News

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As of noon today, we are just shy of 200 signatures from 22 countries and country... let's keep up the pressure! #ScienceIntegrity #MicroscopyMatters #ShareTheRawData #CiliaGate

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Microscopy images are scientific evidence, and that image processing must be transparent and faithful to the underlying biology. Reinforce those standards, especially now-insist Nikon uphold them. #NikonSWiM2026 Read the letter: tinyurl.com/OpenLetterSW... Add your name: forms.gle/TyGRELnCxq5z...

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Open letter to Nikon Small World in Motion

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On it thanks to sleuthing of @florianjug.bsky.social Until then- You should be able to just access the open letter is here tinyurl.com/OpenLetterSW... If you agree with it, please sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter to Nikon Small World in Motion

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Zebrafish Rock! 🎃 @zebrafishrock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Stunning movies from @bellecmaelle.bsky.social that capture individual mRNA molecules (magenta) and their nascent translation (cyan) 🐟 (She's on the job market btw!)

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

In our new paper by Kata Szabó et al. we present optimised sample-preparation workflows for volume electron microscopy for entire small marine organisms. The workflow includes high-pressure freezing, various freeze substitution protocols and synchrotron […] [Original post on biologists.social]

X-ray image of a platynereis annelid worm larva collected at the European Sycnrotron Facility at Grenoble. The left image shows morphological rendering of a 6-day-old Platynereis scanned at 100 nm/px, the right images show individual image planes of the same larva scanned at 55 nm/px or 20 nm/px.

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not a huge ask? Right @dalemoulding.bsky.social for most microscopists... Beautiful hightlight of HSVM for real. And thank you for demonstrating what reasonable AI-assisted (not generated) rendering can look like... #NikonSmallWorldInMotion #CiliaGate #CapturedNotCreated

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

💯 but the longer they don’t rule, the worse this becomes. @healthcare.nikon.com time to step in and sort this omnishambles…. The #Microscopy community are watching & increasingly concerned by the lack of transparency. 🔬🔬🔬

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Agreed 💯absence of evidence speaks DEAFENING VOLUMES 🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊 #CiliaGate #NikonSmallWorldInMotion

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s as easy as showing the raw data next to the winning video, if AI was used just to colour it… what is the problem?

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's precisely why it needs to be pulled, because that's what was used as selling point. It's asinine

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pretty poor handling… That winning creation got such wide coverage, pulling it back will be challenging. In part because it is framed as ‘human disease’ and ‘child’, gives it heightened gravitas undeservingly…

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Hannes Maib @maiblab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This #FluorescenceFriday we have an Endosome sorting itself out! 37min of PI(3)P (green) positive sorting endosome with fluorescent Transferrin in Magenta. The sorting of Transferrin is tightly interlinked with PI(3)P intensity. Soon we will publish how cargo sorting controls PI(3)P levels!

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy #FluorescenceFriday. Single immune cell migration is fascinating. But these cells can also behave like a coordinated collective, like 🐝 from a hive. I captured some embryonic myeloid cells (🔴) displaying swarming behaviour in a migrating ectoderm cell sheet (🔵), like neutrophils in our body!

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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking for a PhD? @crick.ac.uk PhD applications for next year are open. 4 year program with lots of outstanding projects on offer. If you are interested in viral host interactions, cytoskeleton, cell bio, live cell imaging - see Way lab project + video. plz repost www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

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PhD student positions

PhD projects for the 2027 Crick PhD programme.

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Dale Moulding @dalemoulding.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Having seen the news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... thought I'd share a cilia movie captured at UCL GOS ICH with Eriomina Shahaj & Vanesa Papastavrou using simple DIC on a Nikon Ti2 with DIC at 60x1.4. 500 fps here slowed down 20 times. Processed with Nikon's denoiseAI and an unsharp mask in Fiji.

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Im still waiting to hear their response. Tomorrow will be the final day to respond based on their comment. Lets see after their (hopefully) extensive checking, there will be a verdict. If they fail to at least give us something tmr, nobody will take Nikon seriously anymore.

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Simon Cleary @simoncleary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It was good that Nature News did comment on the winner's unwillingness to show non-edited images. It is telling and was missed in the pieces from The Scientist and BBC News.

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Simon Cleary @simoncleary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This stood out in the Nature news coverage. I don't think that we will ever get to see the underlying data.

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oooh #GhostData 👻 spooky- just in time for my favorite month of Hallowe'en...🎃

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

💯 I actually think there is no justifiable reason NOT to share the raw data file behind this creation too- how much liberty, license, hallucination etc was taken to create the sequence, as opposed to 'processing'- denoising, rendering, pseudocoloring, stitching etc. #MicroscopyMatters 🧪

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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Agreed which is why Nikon just needs to publically speak out sooner than later, to uphold its own rules... Negotiating on rational grounds may not be the way forward here.

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Nikolai Slavov @slavov-n.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

bioRxiv has a dedicated section for negative results. Use it. Share negative results. Your colleagues will appreciate it.

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Gaspar Jekely @jekely.biologists.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If you are interested in serial sectioning for electron microscopy, we have now uploaded a revised version of our paper Shahidi et al: "Volume Electron Microscopy: Tips & Tricks on Micromanipulator-Assisted Serial Sectioning for Array Tomography" […] [Original post on biologists.social]

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Mathilda Lennartz @mathilda95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UPDATE!: I am absolutely stoked that the second paper of my PhD is now out in @natcellbio.nature.com :D. We combined lipid imaging, STED microscopy, and mathematical modelling in a super cool team effort to quantify lipid partitioning inside clathrin-coated pits. www.nature.com/articles/s41....

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Quantification of lipid sorting during clathrin-mediated endocytosis - Nature Cell Biology

Lennartz et al. evaluate lipid enrichment in clathrin-coated pits and observe that the differential lipid partitioning into clathrin-coated pits is largely driven by the lipid asymmetry of the plasma ...

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