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Jonathan Taylor

@jtimaging.bsky.social
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Optical physicist tackling biomedical imaging and measurement problems with realtime computation, maths and computational imaging

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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cats love sitting in boxes. But a standard-sized @thorlabs.bsky.social Lab Snacks box is too small, surely? My wife reckoned otherwise, and Rowan was game for giving it a go. He's a small cat, but I didn't think he could pull it off. Turns out he's up for trying it once.
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We've had a wave of source data corrections lately across the Nature Portfolio. We wrote an editorial about the importance of bookkeeping and QC when preparing manuscripts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Source data under scrutiny - Nature Biomedical Engineering
The source data underlying results and figures in our manuscripts can be critical for assessing the rigour of our studies and for reproducibility. Ensuring the quality and provenance of these data dur...
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I very much enjoyed Lisa Cuneo's talk at FOM2026 on a new approach to deconvolution, so it's great to see the preprint is now out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @vicidominilab.bsky.social
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Independent noise realizations enable morphologically agnostic image reconstruction in single-photon-sensitive microscopy
Advances in single-photon sensitive detectors are rapidly expanding the adoption of photon-counting fluorescence microscopy. Under the Poisson photon-counting statistics, iterative Richardson-Lucy (RL...
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Nils Norlin @nilsnorlin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am looking for postdoc candidates for two opportunities in my lab at Lund University. 1. Co-application for a two-year postdoc scholarship on method development in 3D spatial biology, with applications in lung physiology, cancer and neuroscience.
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A contactless, integrated transport payment system sounds great until you realise the university is going to demand you provide redacted bank statement downloads as evidence for every £2.40 ticketless bus fare on an expenses claim 🤦
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Karlin gave a great talk on his research into optically-gated heart imaging at @iop.org Photon26 last week. At the end of it his side-project "Optical gating: the arcade challenge" proved popular among the audience! Have a go and try and break into the high-score table... optical-gating.netlify.app
Photo of Karlin giving his talk, in front of a slide listing some of the challenges of heart imaging
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Beckett Sterner @beckettws.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
this is amazing, will be using this to teach about social construction of colors in my philosophy class #philsci moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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UofGNews @uofgnews.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Prof Jonathan Taylor of @uofgphysastro.bsky.social is leading a £4m new project with colleagues from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and @sheffielduni.bsky.social to create detailed 3D images of the mechanical forces inside a living, beating heart. Read more here: www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
A beam of laser light through a chamber of water is used to measure the forces in the beating heart. Image credit: Daniel Olesker(l-r) Prof Jonathan Taylor, Dr Emily Noël, Dr Antoine Sanchez, Dr Daniel Olesker, Dr Dan Stedman, Dr Stone Elworthy, Prof Julien Vermot
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British Society for Cell Biology @bscb-official.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
@rashmi-priya.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk is awarded the 2026 BSCB Women in Cell Biology Medal at #DynamicCellVI by @viji-draviam.bsky.social Rashmi delivered a fascinating medal talk about her research on cell and tissue mechanics during heart development.
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Anna-Lena Eckert @eckertal.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Sadly, applications to the Advanced Python summer school have dropped significantly over the past 2 years. Plus, there'll be no external funding for the 1st time in *17 years*. Likely all because of GenAI - but programming skills still matter🔥 Deadline May 3, please help by sharing: aspp.school
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Good to see this confirmation about the lumenal macrophages that show up in fli1:gfp zebrafish! We see them zipping around the heart in our beating-heart timelapses like this one (credit: Daniel Olesker). They make it harder to see cell division events - how many divisions can you spot here?
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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
⌨️ The Intermediate Research Software Development Course will take place on 13 - 16 April 2026 at the University of Manchester and will be delivered by EPCC (Chris Wood and Evgenij Belikov) with the help from SSI and Manchester RIT. Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/interme...
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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Myself and @immunoah.bsky.social are looking to hire a postdoctoral scientist to build a next-generation high-throughput high-resolution light sheet microscope for imaging entire cleared organs/tissues and to further develop live & fixed tissue clearing methods. www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I have "VERY" mixed feelings about the conference, but I'm coming for the people, and for the creative science on display in the parallel-session talks...
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
See you there! I did diplomatically mention the possibility to the organisers just in case they wanted to be aware of the possibility, and they were VERY prickly. Apparently “everything is very well protected” and such a thing would be inconceivable.
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Sigh. AI's still not there yet
AI-generated title for a LinkedIn post reads "Dr. Jonathon Taylolor". Can't even get my name right when it's spelled out in the post below
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Watch out for the "conference accommodation" scam emails that have been going around for a while. I was rather disconcerted to get one for the upcoming microscopy conference in Sweden that I *am* attending, but am not speaking at (so not even listed anywhere). How on earth could the spammers know…?
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Yesterday I learned that MS Teams throttles screen-sharing to ~3fps. To override that, you have to know to press an obscure and inscrutably-labelled button, every time. I very nearly gave a crucial online presentation, full of beating hearts, at 3fps without even realising. Stuff of nightmares.
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Toby Andrews @tobyandrews.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Job alert! 📣 I’m looking for a research assistant to join my new team @idrm.ox.ac.uk Were using #zebrafish to understand gene-environment interactions that shape the heart 🫀generate natural diversity 🐸🐭 and contribute to congenital defects ❤️‍🩹 Full info below, and please share! 🫶🏻 bit.ly/467TO0M
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
@retof.bsky.social, I sometimes think of your wish, some time ago, for everyone to have their own hype-man on stage when they are giving a conference presentation. My Teams meeting transcript from today seems to have completely hallucinated a colleague interjecting "ok. yeah! play the song! okay"
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Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We have two funded postdoctoral positions available. Topics encompass: -Next gen light-sheet fluorescence microscopy instrumentation -Structured illumination microscopy and other approaches to extend the resolution limit. -Nonlinear microscopy combined with adaptive optics / phase conjugation
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I have an old document with a bunch of formulae (some obvious, some containing hard-to-find information like FN) that a Nikon rep sent me once. FWIW that states "Field number for CFI60 optics: 25mm". But I've had mixed results when estimating FoV with the 0.3NA, so I'm a little doubtful...
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My mistake: Sigma not Fisher. We use Sigma A9414 low-melting-point agarose, though please don't take that as any sort of a recommendation, just that we've used that and feel it does the job for what we need.
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Here’s one for the Bayesians: if you are pulled from an avalanche in cardiac arrest after >60 minutes, your chances of survival are higher than if you are pulled from an avalanche in cardiac arrest after <60 minutes 🤯
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
My answer is: the expensive stuff from Fisher, but I have long suspected that a €5 batch from Amazon would probably work just as well, if that’s where you’re going with this?
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Emmanuel G. Reynaud @ereynaud.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A loaded question to scream about...which agarose do you use to mix your beads to measure the PSF? Any brand #lsfm #lightsheet
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Please spread the word among your students, and point out to them that there is extensive support available for them to develop their application, starting with applicant information sessions between now and the end of the year (see link)
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Another PhD scholarship opportunity @uofglasgow.bsky.social : Black UK-domiciled students can apply for a James McCune Smith PhD www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...; final application deadline 31st January. Scheme includes external mentors, placements, community-building & networking opportunities.
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A great opportunity to come to Glasgow for an interdisciplinary PhD, benefitting from enhanced support and stipend, and a diverse cohort of students alongside you for an inclusive, team experience for your PhD! Please share widely, and spread the word with your undergraduate students.
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
p.s. there's always something unexpected to raise your blood pressure at the 11th hour: in this case a 'secret' character limit in addition to the stated word limit for one of the sections on the form
"You have 2 words remaining. !! This answer has too many characters"
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Big grant submitted, it's always a good sign when I'm *still* excited about the science even when the grind of the application is over 😀. I sketched this graph on my office whiteboard to explain to people the stress of when the trajectory feels like we won't get to the finish line in time!
Graph showing variable progress towards completion, not always on trajectory to reach the finish line before the deadline date
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USC Stem Cell @stemcell.keck.usc.edu · 07/11/2025
Did you know zebrafish share many of the same genes as humans? Gage Crump, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC Stem Cell, explains how this tiny fish is helping advance human health research. @keckschoolusc.bsky.social
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
One thing that always lifts my spirits as the nights draw in is the sound of the geese coming south for the winter. Such cheery, chatty birds. (Watch with sound on)
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This looks great for learning and improving your research git workflows, "Rather than simply teaching commands, the sessions explore the workflows that make them meaningful". Can connect to the talk online, so no excuses not to join!
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🙌 #FOM2026 takes place in Stockholm 🇸🇪 from 🗓️ March 29 to April 1, exploring the latest innovations & developments in optical microscopy. Apply for financial support - up to 10 candidates from underrepresented backgrounds will be supported. 🔬 More info🔽 www.focusonmicroscopy.org/2026-financi...
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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔵 The Carpentries have recently published a new version of Building Better Research Software, a lesson in The Carpentries Incubator designed to serve as a “next steps” workshop after Software Carpentry. Find out more about it and how to get involved at: www.software.ac.uk/news/calling...
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Akaash Kumar @akaashkumar.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
🚨Publication alert🚨 My first, first-author paper is now out in @natphoton.nature.com! Our paper describes an iterative spectral unmixing algorithm and eight-channel camera-based hardware we developed enabling unmixing of low SNR live-cell data at video rates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multispectral live-cell imaging with uncompromised spatiotemporal resolution - Nature Photonics
A tree-like arrangement of dichroic mirrors and multiple cameras coupled with an iterative spectral unmixing algorithm enables multispectral imaging of live cells in up to eight spectral channels with...
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is a fantastic read. Entertaining and informative, with some great snark thrown in for good measure
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
You're welcome to this one on me, if it helps? ︷
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Does anyone have any experience with building a DIY upconversion/SHG setup to get pulsed blue out of a Ti:Sapph laser (Chameleon)? It seems like it should be fairly straightforward, but I would value any tips people have, or numbers for efficiency level you achieved. Thanks in advance!
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"emphasis on usability and maintainability will not only cultivate researchers who naturally think in terms of clean code but also equip them with transferable skills that are valuable in any industry". To get students on board & doing this out of choice, they must see benefits for themselves [3/3]
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Very much on my mind as I revamp a course on software development practive for STEM: "Currently, STEM undergraduates learn to program on toy problems. These do not adequately prepare one to deal with sprawling code bases that they will encounter in practice [...]" [2/3]
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A thoughtful account of why version control is essential for research software: "achieving the highest levels of insight and impact requires robust tooling and reproducibility baked into its core"; "...requires code that can handle significant complexity and can evolve" [1/3]
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I whispered the answer but you were too far away to hear. If only there was a way you could hear me from further away
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A hexagonal honeycomb made by ‘C’s rather than bees?
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The impromptu celebration lacked champagne flutes for the prosecco, so we had to make do with beer glasses 😂
Two beer glasses of Prosecco
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I'm delighted to share the news that I've been promoted to (full) Professor. Feeling very thankful for all those who have mentored and supported me over the years, the smart and enthusiastic team I get to work with on cool science, and the colleagues who make Glasgow a great place to work.
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Some wise words on the use of GenAI in scientific activity. "...that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist. [...] we’ve yielded the opportunity to think about science, discuss our practice, expand our understanding, spark new ideas and develop as researchers."
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I’ve used their CCDs for years and have been quite a fan of them. Engineers are very responsive about driver stuff. After CCDs discontinued I am trialling a xiC and am impressed so far- but will need to check out Doug’s comments…
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Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Félicitations! Ça a l'air important et interessant.
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