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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 30/10/2025

Here's why diversity in science really matters: on our blog, ScienceWrite alum Dr Jasmeen Kanwal explores the career of Professor Thema Monroe-White and her work using big data to uncover systemic bias: #BlackHistoryMonth royalsociety.org/blog/2025/10/why-d…

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨New pre-print out now!🚨 We 3D printed a large optical element that enhanced the illumination, contrast & image quality in transmission stereomicroscopy. This simple addition to the illumination path lets us detect refractive structures & dynamics unobserved by conventional stereomicroscopy. (1/5)

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Are you fed up wasting time and photons in laser scanning microscopy? Our latest work, PerfectlyAverage, can help to determine optimal parameters for line and frame averaging while considering photobleaching. More information in our preprint! 🔬 bit.ly/PerfectlyAve...

Image of 3T3-L1 cells stained with ActinGreen, imaged with a laser scanning fluorescence microscope

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

First senior-author paper is out today in the Journal of Microscopy! 🧪🔬 We present the first 3D printed microscope where both the optics & frame are entirely 3D printed - a low-cost, accessible, and reproducible tool for histological imaging! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jmi.13398

An exploded view of the 3D-printed microscope. A front-facing (A), oblique (B), and side-facing view (C) of the microscope are presented, with the chassis coloured in grey and the positions of additional components highlighted with different colours (orange = LED light source, magenta = 3D-printed condenser lens, blue = 3D-printed objective lens, green = CMOS camera). A scale bar is presented in (a) to provide a visualisation of the size of the microscope setup.

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1 week left to submit for the Imaging Host-Pathogen Interactions session @ mmc'25! @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social & I are organising a @microbiologysociety.org sponsored session w/ invited speakers, Jessica Mark Welch @adaforsyth.bsky.social & Lara Hundsdorfer @unituebingen.bsky.social 🧪🔬 #MicroSky

An AI-generated fluorescence micrograph of red-coloured invading blobs attacking a blue branching network of filamentous cells on a dark background.

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Liam Rooney @liam-rooney.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

New Scientist (@newscientist.bsky.social) wrote a feature on our work! 🧪✨🔬 We made the first fully 3D printed microscope, with potential for rapid customisation and low-cost manufacturing. newscientist.com/article/2462618-worlds-first-fully-3d-printed-microscope-made-in-under-3-hours/

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World’s first fully 3D-printed microscope made in under 3 hours

The microscope cost less than £50 to build using an open-source design and a common 3D printer

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Gail McConnell @gailmcconnell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🚨 Pre-print alert! 🚨 We have developed a robust protocol to reveal the ultrastructure of live Candida albicans using stimulated emission depletion microscopy, tracking organelles with high spatial precision for more than 12 hours. Read more (and movies!) at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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