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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 22h

Our movie won at the @inp-marseille.bsky.social retreat! Behold NeuroCyto's latest blockbuster: "Neuronal culture is a piece of cake" 🍰

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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🚀 Rxiv-Maker is now peer-reviewed and open access! Write your manuscript in Markdown and get a typeset PDF or an editable Word file, with figures, citations and cross-references numbered for you. Led by Bruno Saraiva, with @guijacquemet.bsky.social's lab 🔬 doi.org/10.1242/jcs.265183

Top of the first page of the published article 'Rxiv-Maker – an automated template engine for streamlined scientific publications' by Bruno M. Saraiva, Rita Carlota, António D. Brito, Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor, Guillaume Jacquemet and Ricardo Henriques, showing the title, authors and abstract.

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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

mCranberry: A rationally engineered monomeric red fluorescent protein with 85% quantum yield by Premashis Manna and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We need to make extremely sure that one of the first discussions is to differentiate AI from genAI, and then make sure we discuss each on their own terms

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“After thoroughly re-evaluating the video…and consulting with our judging panel, Nikon has determined the winning video did not comply with the competition rules” Hard to see this as anything other than the correct decision ht @christlet.bsky.social www.nikonsmallworld.com/news/nikon-s...

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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 · 09/10/2026

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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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I think we really need what I provocatively would call the #AI-bro versus #luddite meeting in science soon. The viewpoints are diverging, and neither is tenable. There is a need to start looking for common ground for the benefit of science.

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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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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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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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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

From bioRxiv to PNAS! 🎉 Very happy to see our paper “Diversity and spatial segregation of TRP channels in the closest relatives of animals” now published in @pnas.org. Another piece in the puzzle of how animal cell signalling evolved. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ana Popović @anagracanin.bsky.social, Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social and colleagues discover that CCT8 associates with the MYO10 motor domain and regulates #filopodia and breast cancer cell invasion. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Figure showing that CCT8 modulates filopodia formation independently of the TRiC.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I just finished reading the academic paper that this news article briefly describes. It's terrific, and anyone teaching molecular biology might benefit from reading it. doi.org/10.1007/s107...

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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Since this year #NobelPrize is for #optogenetics, here is one of my favorite systems, the optoRas. Originally designed for neutrophils, I adapted this to my embryonic myeloid cells! I use it to induce a new protrusion and drives this EM cell to go backward. #MicroscopyMonday

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

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Pawel Burkhardt @pawelburkhardt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy #CtenophoreDay! Ctenophores are back. Freshly sampled Mnemiopsis leidyi from Sotra, Norway. These beautiful comb jellies continue to surprise us and are helping reveal new insights into the early evolution of nervous systems. 🌊✨ #CombJellies #Evolution #Neuroscience 1/2

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

Still no official update from them? At this point I think we all know the video was AI generated. But now the real question is can Nikon take accountability? I see so many sharing this video praising. I have to restrain myself from commenting on all of them. The long u wait, the more damage created.

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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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David Gaboriau @dgaboriau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you @dalemoulding.bsky.social for posting what it really looks like, with information on acquisition, time stamp, scale bar, and raw and processed images. 🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬

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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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Hannes Maib @maiblab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hopefully the reputational damage of being on the front line international news will make @healthcare.nikon.com reconsider how they deal with this disgrace to the microscopy community and their inaptitude to adhere to their own rules www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

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Archaea Biology Vienna @archaea-vienna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our paper on the dynamics of Asgard archaea (Promethearchaeota) is now out in Nature! Huge thanks to the reviewers for helping make the manuscript stronger. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Two “Lokis” stained for Lokiactin (FastAct, magenta), reaching toward each other to celebrate 🎉 #archaea

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

The SynthID watermark is a smoking gun. It means Google or ChatGPT AI image generating software was used. There is no appropriate reason for these tools to be used in microscopy.

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jerome mutterer @jmutterer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Except for the rules we, as a community, have set for ourselves

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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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Dan Jackson @danj2k.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"some of the structures "pop in and out of existence" and the cilia "appear from nowhere". Meanwhile [...] the source image appeared to contain a distinctive watermark indicating it had been AI generated."

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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

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

Nikon: '"At this time, we don't see that any rules were violated," it said in a statement.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

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

Rule: no AI-generated images. The winner confessed to AI-generating all details in lower half of image! SynthID watermark present, so an inappropriate Google/chatGPT AI generation tool was used. Movie also biologically implausible - we are told it is one cell but it is over 50 microns wide!

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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I spoke with @nature.com about the Nikon Small World controversy. As AI becomes part of scientific imaging, we need greater transparency about what was measured, inferred or generated. It's not about excluding AI. It’s about preserving trust in scientific evidence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This award-winning microscopy image used AI — igniting controversy in a prestigious competition

Researchers say that using artificial-intelligence tools to visualize scientific images can become problematic when models misrepresent the underlying data.

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think we need to start explicitly making the real distinction of AI vs genAI when we talk about genAI. The problem with the whole thing is that the author admitted to using genAI to create parts of the video. That is completely different from using AI for post processing

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The winning entry of a prestigious scientific photography competition is being re-evaluated following criticism from other scientists that it was made with AI. Well done @christlet.bsky.social & others for pushing this. 🧪🔬🤖 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.

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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's strategy from the Small Artificial World in Motion winner is to have Singapore colleagues dilute the concerns of world-class microscopists with sycophantic comments

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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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James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been working on a fast, high-ratio image compressor to try and alleviate the data storage issues myself and some of my colleagues have recently been facing. Before I 'release' version 1, it'd be great to gain some feedback regarding performance and missing features. github.com/jdmanton/rad...

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GitHub - jdmanton/radelta

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Eugene Katrukha 🇺🇦 @ekatrukha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really like these kind of ventures. I will not be surprised to see a post from James: "microscope connection was lagging, so I wrote a new OS. Please test it, it was my Monday after-lunch project, so not all 90s soundcards are supported yet on Macs".

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

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Jez Carlton @jezcarlton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey! Submit your papers, and spread the word, this will be great! Thanks for inviting us @jcellsci.bsky.social and great to work with @pihanson.bsky.social on this issue!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Are you looking for a postdoc exploring the cell biology of development, defining how cells change shape and move? Do you want to develop a research program & teaching skills preparing you for a position at a college or small University? Our new NIH grant will support those goals 1/n Please share

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Sasha | Kai Dao 🔬 @kaidaoscience.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Regarding the Nikon Small World controversy, I made a short explaining our concerns to the public—and why data integrity in microscopy matters: youtube.com/shorts/t1hlH... And just now seeing the LinkedIn breakdown showing Gemini generative AI altered the entry makes the whole outcome even sadder.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just published: How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs. kamounlab.medium.com/how-do-we-re...

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How do we recognize world-class science? Not by the journal it appeared in

What I told early-career researchers about prediction, rigour, failure, priors — and the tyranny of bar graphs.

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