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LGBTQ+ STEM @lgbtqstem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Last call!

Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's my last day in the Lee Lab here in Cambridge. Excitingly, I'm leaving to start my own lab at the University of Warwick! It's been wonderful in Cambridge, and I'm excited to start this new adventure. PhD positions will be being advertised soon, so watch this space! warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/chem...

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Registration is now open for the LGBTQ+ in STEM Workshop! 22nd-23rd September, Cambridge. Excellent speaker line-up confirmed, with subsidised accommodation and travel bursaries. Come down, share your experiences of being queer in STEM www.outsavvy.com/event/35459/... @lgbtqstemworkshop.bsky.social

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We are very excited to present spatial-spectral single-molecule microscopy. We use spatial patterning of filters on commercial cameras to enable multiplexing and spectroscopy. We really put the technique through its paces, and it did everything we threw at it! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Mark Bates @wmarkbates.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Delighted to share our preprint describing COMET, a new approach to drift correction for #SMLM, which performs exceptionally well in practice. Check out the benchmarking results compared to other methods! :) Thanks to @lreinkensmeier.bsky.social for a superb effort. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I don't think it's very fair to call a substantial amount of people in your life "the algorithm"

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Presumably you could become motion sick just from walking, at that rate

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Sorry how is roller coasters even close to most surprising

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Your Party's new slogan "It's Your Party, so cry if you want to"

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

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georg-meisl.bsky.social @georg-meisl.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Thrilled to see our recent preprint on tipping points in neurodegeneration highlighted on Alzforum! Read it here: www.alzforum.org/news/researc.... Many thanks to Jessica Shugart for the engaging coverage, and to everyone involved in this exciting project at the @ukdri.ac.uk and elsewhere!

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Ulrike Endesfelder @uendesfelder.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Please share: The application for Les Houches is open (until Oct 31) fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com *This is for you, if you ever wanted to learn all about fluorescence markers & how to apply them for your biological research!* PS: no fees this year, you just need to get there, that's all!

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French-German WE-Heraeus-Seminar "Fluorescence markers for advanced microscopy : From photophysics to biology - 2026"

March 15-20 2026, Les Houches, France

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ʟɪɴᴇꜱ @lines.ink · 03/09/2025

I am finding the fact that "is it acceptable and proportional to call for trans women to be assaulted in public" is now a subject of public debate in the UK really very upsetting.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Microglial activation and alpha-synuclein oligomers drive the early inflammatory phase of Parkinson's disease www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Lovely bit of business this wordplay

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Yves Brun lab @brunlabcaulo.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Please repost: PhD position with my lab and @weisslab.bsky.social in a great collaboration on bacterial adhesion #microsky. See drive.google.com/file/d/1GJD4...

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Marko Kaksonen @kaksonen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Hello microscopy and imaging experts and enthusiasts! We are looking for a staff scientist to join us here in Geneva to work on microscopy and image analysis projects! See the link for the job announcement (in French and in English). Please apply and/or repost! jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Why have I done this ridiculous pose

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Sam Daly @samofmidworld.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Excited to share some recent work tracking the 3D movement of individual molecules inside the organelles of living cells (💡+ 🦠 + ⚽️💨) with the best team @joechambers.bsky.social @jamesdmanton.bsky.social @jsbeckwith.bsky.social @dgershlick.bsky.social @stevethechemist.bsky.social

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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The 3rd Berlin Single Molecule Biophysics Course will run from 8th to 12th September at the HU-Berlin, Institute of Biology. Learn about single channels, single molecule TIRF, theory and analysis. Apply by 7th July at bsmbc@icloud.com. Fee waivers and bursaries available. ! Please share widely !

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

www.rsc.org/events/detai... Come to this meeting magnificently organised by @rsc-photochem.bsky.social! Abstract deadline May 30, conference is 26–27 June in London, and I am baffled and happy to be an invited speaker alongside some really great people. #photochem #photophysics #microscopy

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Photophysics and Photochemistry Group Early Career Meeting 2025

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James McEnaney @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Section 28 was "the law" too - that doesn't change the fact that the people who supported it were doing so out of bigotry.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Today, thousands gathered across the country - from Hastings to London to Glasgow - to say: we will always stand with trans people. Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

Someone holding a sign saying: Respect existence or expect resistance.

Parents holding up a sign saying: "this mum says trans rights are human rights" and "our beautiful daughter is trans."

Someone holding a sign saying "you can't legislate us out of existence."

Someone holding a sign saying "i love my trans self. I love my trans friends."

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Xin Shi @xinshi-o.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

🚨We have a 4-year ERC-funded PhD position available in the beautiful city of Leuven, Belgium, for building artificial nanomachines in lipid membranes. Check out the details and apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Feel free to email me for more information!

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Nature Protocols @natprot.nature.com · 17/04/2025

Today we share our Collection on protocols describing how to build and operate a broad variety of microscopy setups. Let us know which one is your favourite microscope? 🧪 🔬

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Microscopy setup protocols

A collection of Protocols and Tutorials covering a range of microscopy approaches, and including the build of microscopy setups and the use of microscopy ...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hi all---I sadly cannot make it to #FOM2025, would anybody want to take my registration? Feel free to ping me on here/forward to possibly interested people.

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micro-manager.bsky.social @micro-manager.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Just had the pleasure to experiment with a camera targeting the astronomy market, but offering great value for microscopy. Cooled, low noise (<1.5 e read-noise), high QE cameras that work with Micro-Manager can be bought for ~$1k: nicost.github.io/microscope-t...

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PlayerOne cooled CMOS camera

The Sony STARVIS and STARVIS2 image sensors are back-illuminated, have high QE and low readnoise (where STARVIS2 increases full well depth over STARVIS). Even though these sensors are marketed towards...

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Do you want to learn #BioimageAnalysis? Do you want to strengthen your skills? We're thrilled to announce the #NEUBIAS Pasteur Course on Bioimage Analysis - May 2025! in @pasteur.fr Paris! research.pasteur.fr/en/course/ne... Details are on the page linked here, some info below 👇

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NEUBIAS Pasteur course on Bioimage Analysis - 2025 - Research

Topics The exact schedule is still being finalized. Here is a description of the course content. Both tracks of the course have a specific focus on hands-on and interactive tutorials. They are meant t...

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Alfred Millett-Sikking @amsikking.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Microscope objectives can be confusing, and detailed specs (or even basic properties) are often hard to find. Here's an introductory resource to help new builders and instrument designers with the basics. It's a work in progress so feedback is appreciated: amsikking.github.io/microscope_o...

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A bit late to the party, but we (Cambridge Queer in Chemistry Network) put up some posters of inspirational LGBT scientists for LGBT history month! With all that's going on, we hope it brings a little bit of joy. 🏳️‍🌈

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Don't think the quiet part has ever been louder than in the "Palestinian refugees accidentally allowed into Ukrainian refugee program" story

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over. Please keep signing & sharing. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“This is bad, full stop. It creates a class of person who are forever excluded from civic life no matter how long they live here. It’s also a clear breach of the refugee convention.” Damn straigt, @colinyeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’

Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’

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Andrew | TheSpoilist @thespoilist.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

That's how screens work.

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 07/02/2025

'In Germany in the 1930s, scientific institutions and societies failed at every level to offer any significant resistance to Nazism,' writes @philipcball.bsky.social. 'Donald Trump’s United States is not Hitler’s Germany. But the point is surely to learn from it anyway.'

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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be

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Joe Beckwith @jsbeckwith.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

does anyone know of good repositories for (e.g.) nice scalable vector graphics of a microscope objective? Or have a nice svg they'd be willing to part with? @hohlbeinlab.bsky.social @jamesdmanton.bsky.social @samofmidworld.bsky.social #chemsky #microscopy

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

All I'm saying, @royalsociety.org, is that your one of your Fellows giving Nazi salutes is never going to be a good look for you.

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