Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’ll be running an online course in Mycology Bioimaging and want to use #Zulip to capture longer-form questions. Has anyone used it for any other useful activities? Thinking of depositing images there for an #Fiji demo ran over Imjoy browser (for 190 people, else #BAND would have been preferred) 012
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Controversy detected at @healthcare.nikon.com Small World comp. Raw data please! 000
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026lnkd.in/p/e96_JCcd The Mycology Bioimaging Initiative is hiring in Edinburgh w/ @ewjwallace.bsky.social Join us!lnkd.inPostdoctoral position in fungal engineering biology | Darren ThomsonThe Mycology Bioimaging Initiative is hiring! Join the wonderful Edward Wallace and team at The University of Edinburgh to help us understand how fungi cause disease, by bringing data-driven engineeri... 130
Reposted by Darren ThomsonThe MRC Centre for Medical Mycology @mrccmm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Join #FAILSAFE Bioimaging for Antifungal Resistance (AMR) course: 📅 5–6 Oct 2026 (online) ⏰ 1-5pm (UK time) Led by @darrenthomson.bsky.social this course is ideal for medical mycologists, infection biologists and #AMR researchers. 📝 Sign up: cmm-failsafe.com/mycology-bio... #Microscopycmm-failsafe.comMycology Bioimaging for Antifungal Resistance (AMR) - Online and Interactive 2026 - FAILSAFEMycology Bioimaging for Antifungal Resistance (AMR) – Online and Interactive 5th and 6th October 2026 This course is fully funded for CMM-FAILSAFE Network Members.Not yet a member? joining is quick an... 021
Reposted by Darren ThomsonLiz Ballou @balloulab.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The project builds on our work over the last several years, including a wonderful microscopy training course hosted last summer in Cape Town by @uctidm-mu.bsky.social, along with @caronjacobs.bsky.social @darrenthomson.bsky.social, Lucian @clairehoving.bsky.social and @rdangarembizi.bsky.social 122
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Benefits of having collaborators visit, whooo! 000
Reposted by Darren ThomsonTeresa O'Meara @teresaomeara.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Candida albicans is usually hanging out with bacterial neighbors, so what happens to the fungus during co-culture? The bacteria secrete metabolites that induce massive cell wall remodeling that change immune recognition and drug resistance. Read more in our new paper: www.cell.com/current-biol... 23512
Reposted by Darren ThomsonDavid Drubin @drubin.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Today, our animation synthesizing decades of research on actin-mediated endocytosis in budding yeast was published: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... The result of a fantastic Iwasa-Drubin lab collaboration. @margotriggi.bsky.social @jiwasa.bsky.social movie.biologists.com/video/10.124... 413253
Reposted by Darren ThomsonDave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I stopped doing reviews for Scientific Reports a long time ago as the standard of manuscript I was being sent was what I will politely describe as not great. But this... 011
Reposted by Darren ThomsonJean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 20/11/2025We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following: 418275
Reposted by Darren ThomsonFPbase @fpbase.org · 04/11/2025The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it! www.fpbase.org/spectra/fpbase.orgFPbase Fluorescence Spectra ViewerAn interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors. 511336
Reposted by Darren ThomsonJournal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 02/09/2025Wirshing, Lew et al. @mit.edu address how mothers partition growth equally among their buds in the multi-budding yeast Aureobasidium pullulans. Equal partitioning stems directly from effective equalization of #polarity sites. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Cytoskeleton #Development 0248
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Me and the #MycBio25 cohort had a great time today. Got to see an OpenScope in the wild @uctidm-mu.bsky.social and play for a whole day on an @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM980 - been 3 years since I’ve used a point scanner confocal on fungi 020
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 21/07/2025What’s everyone’s open source code-free 3D visualisation tool for fluorescence microscopy? #Fiji 231
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Me and @caronjacobs.bsky.social are gearing up to deliver this workshop in a few weeks. Excited to discuss the almighty combo of pathogenic fungal cells and the fluorescence microscope! 040
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025See my post on web-based deployment of Fiji for image analysis workshops forum.image.sc/t/running-ia... Advice / input appreciated.forum.image.scRunning IA workshop using web-based Fiji deployment (ImJoy)Hello, I am looking to give image analysis workshops in LMIC locations where deployment of Fiji software is quick and easy. I was thinking of making use of the browser-based IMJOY Fiji platform. Has... 020
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Best microscopy based workshop/conference swag? 100
Reposted by Darren ThomsonThe LeibundGut-lab @lableibundgut.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Absolutely thrilled to have been awarded an MRC Programme Grant to study the role of fungi in eczema together with @neil-gow.bsky.social, Helen Alexander and Carsten Flohr (both King's College London). 2 postdoc positions availble at jobs.exeter.ac.uk (Job References Q05626 and Q05627)news.exeter.ac.ukExeter secures £3.3 million grant to investigate treatment and prevention of eczemaA team of researchers led by the University of Exeter have been awarded a £3.3 million grant by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to study the treatment and potential cure for eczema. This new five-y... 0102
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 24/05/2025I was 3 when we last won the Scottish Cup, the same as my boy! Hope he doesn’t have to wait another 35 yrs! 010
Reposted by Darren ThomsonThe Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Napoli are crowned Serie A champions. Goals from Scott McTominay and Romelu Lukaku made sure of it on a dramatic final day They finish just one point ahead of Inter to win the fourth league title in their history. 2772683
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Great to have Lucian Duvenage from @mrccmm.bsky.social CapeTown ✈️ to do MYCOscopy w/ @balloulab.bsky.social in Emergomyces Africanus - an emerging fungal pathogen yeast that needs more Mycology bioimaging tools. Here are some Macropahges brimming with them (green yeast) 123
Reposted by Darren ThomsonMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good. 834878
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Anyone got experience of using Trello w/ TEAMS? Seems like a very nice integration for project tasks / progress contained within MS Office 000
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Trying again.. any thoughts on below? #fluorescence 000
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Cool/weird that ITV picked this up, usually home to some trashy stuff. 110
Reposted by Darren ThomsonBeth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Delighted to announce that @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I have teamed up to create a new bioimage analysis video podcast called Ask Erin/Dear Beth - you can check it out at the link below! It will highlight common challenges in #bioimageanalysis, as well as our favorite solutions to them. (1/x)youtube.comAsk Erin, Dear BethOn Ask Erin/Dear Beth, bioimage analysis experts Beth Cimini and Erin Weisbart, of the Imaging Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, answer your image analysis questions! Whether it’s ab... 15630
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Is the new Lightfield from Zeiss, applicable to volumetric tissue imaging? or is the step sizes more akin to cell biology? 000
Reposted by Darren ThomsonWorboys Lab @worboyslab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Our lab has a postdoc position available to use super-resolution microscopy to understand how nanoscopic localisation of immune checkpoints dictates their function. Please get in touch if interested in applying. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #ImmunoSky #Imaging #Microscopyjobs.manchester.ac.ukResearch Associate in Imaging Human Immunology:Oxford Road 11322
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Homework cargo for the @mrccmm.bsky.social retreat costume party this week. Kids will have to move over! #priorities 010
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025This is the last week to apply for this Workshop. Applications close March 9th. See link below! 011
Reposted by Darren ThomsonHao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Rhobo6👹 An omnipotent cell-impermeable dye labels diol/glycan of #ExtraCellularMatrix ✅collagen/fibron, BM, proteoglycan Retro-orbital injection to label the ECM throughout WHOLE mouse body▶️intravital 2P Also work on🪰🪱🐟🌱 @naturemethods.bsky.social 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 0174
Reposted by Darren ThomsonGraham Dellaire @docdellaire.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I think Trump’s time in the WWE has affected his World view… he has literally flipped the script from USA as an ally and friend to the “heel” - the villain role taken on in the late careers of many wrestlers including Hulk Hogan and McMahon himself - Trump is literally a caricature of McMahon.media.tenor.coma man in a suit is sitting in a chair with a microphone in front of himALT: a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with a microphone in front of him 111
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Mammalian systems, how stable are #fluorescent protein fusions in living mammalian cells? It used to be that transfection of epithelial cells were ~20% successfull in a monolayer of cells, which to me was unacceptable. Has this changed? 011
Reposted by Darren ThomsonAlfred Millett-Sikking @amsikking.bsky.social · 21/02/20251-2μm/°C is a good 'rule of thumb' for the axial shift of the focal plane of an objective with temperature, or ~1-2 depths of field (DOF) at high numerical aperture. -> Here's a typical lab trace with a swing of 1-2°C over 1-2h. This is ~1-4 DOF of drift per hour! So continuous autofocus is needed! 252
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025🚨🍄🥼Delighted to share the registration page for our Mycology Bioimaging Workshop on "Imaging the Fungal Cell" W/ pre-AMI Fundamentals workshop @caronjacobs.bsky.social 🗓️ July 28 - Aug 7 2025 🌍 @AMI_microscopy Cape Town, SA 🥼 Hands-on 🔬 Pls RT & Apply here: sites.google.com/view/mycolog...sites.google.comMBIDates: July 28 - August 1, 2025 Introduction to Principles of Microscopy August 4 - 7th, 2025 Advanced Imaging Approaches for Fungal Pathogens Location: University of Cape Town, South Africa Venue:... 0107
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025🔈 We will be releasing the registration website in the coming week. Watch this space for any #Africa based mycologists wanting to use fluorescence microscopy to study fungal pathogenic mechanisms! 177
Reposted by Darren ThomsonElisa Zhang, Ph.D. @elisazhang.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Get ready to #standupforscience in 2.5 weeks! 728995
Reposted by Darren ThomsonNeil Gow @neil-gow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Exciting kick-off meeting in Liverpool of our FungiCARE MRC consortium on combinatorial use of antifungals. Thanks to William Hope for hosting and Elaine Bignell for leadership. @mrccmm.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @youngecmm.bsky.social @rebeccacminman.bsky.social @hcosborne.bsky.social 0143
Darren Thomson @darrenthomson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Looking forward to chatting to the Exeter Respiratory group about fungal pathogens and pathogenesis on the microscope. Love meeting others outside my expertise! 010