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Michelle Peckham @michellepeckham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are recruiting up to 5 new Cheney PhD students @ Leeds - for projects involving discovery scientists and clinicians. www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
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FindAPhD : Fully Funded 4-Year Cheney Scholarship PhD Programme in In Situ Biology at University of Leeds
Apply for a PhD: Fully Funded 4-Year Cheney Scholarship PhD Programme in In Situ Biology at University of Leeds
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Michelle Peckham @michellepeckham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Unusual request? I came across your publication, “Expression, Purification, and In Vitro Analysis of Myosin,” and wanted to reach out personally as we believe your research could make a valuable contribution to our upcoming Recycling and Waste Management-27 Congress in Lisbon and Online.
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Michelle Peckham @michellepeckham.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excellent stuff!
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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
Contribute to jdmanton/radelta development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Michelle Peckham @michellepeckham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A great meeting!
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Michelle Peckham @michellepeckham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A great meeting!
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Michelle Peckham @michellepeckham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So useful!
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jofmicroscopy.bsky.social @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📣 Come and say hello at stand #452 at #IMC21 to chat with our Editors and staff about publishing in the journal, open access options, and how we can help share your microscopy research with the wider community. We look forward to seeing you there!
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napari @napari.org · 26/08/2026
🚨🚨🚨 napari 0.9.0 is out! 🚨🚨🚨 This is a huge release for us and for our community, with over 30 people contributing new features, improvements, and bug fixes in the 6 weeks since 0.8.0! Release notes here: napari.org/stable/relea... and some highlights in the thread below! 👇
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napari 0.9.0
Tue, Aug 25, 2026 We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.9.0! napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It’s designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing l...
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myosinactncrazy.bsky.social @myosinactncrazy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Captivated by Kinesin - by Ron Vale published in Cytoskeleton onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... " In this essay, I reflect on how I first encountered kinesin and how it taught me to watch cells and proteins directly, letting observation reveal nature's workings."
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A real buzz around this afternoon's poster session to round off a busy first day at #IMC21! Who's ready to go again tomorrow? 😀 🔬
Attendees exploring scientific research posters displayed on blue boards at a busy conference hall with orange flooring.Attendees at a scientific conference examining research posters displayed on blue boards in a large hall with orange flooring.
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Luke Lavis @rhodamine110.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Excited to see this collaboration now in print. Dye chemistry meets AI-designed proteins. Three small, orthogonal tags; lifetime modulation; split versions. Request the free dyes at dyes.janelia.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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De novo design of orthogonal far-red, orange, and green fluorophore-binding proteins for multiplexed imaging
Fluorescent proteins and small-molecule dyes offer complementary advantages for biological imaging: proteins are amenable to genetic tagging, whereas dyes provide superior brightness and photostabilit...
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Kat Toropova @kattoropova.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is a fantastic opportunity, I started my lab through this scheme and the support throughout is phenomenal, please share.
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Robert Insall @robinsall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
UCL's Cell and Developmental Biology are hiring! Come and join us if you're interested in AI, computation and how they can lead to new biological discovery. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
If you haven't booked for #IMC21 in Liverpool this summer, now is the time to do so! Our 'Early Bird' discounted rates on a range of ticket options are available only until *TOMORROW* (Friday 17 July). Book now: www.imc21.org.uk
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Constantin Pape @cppape.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Want to learn about the latest trends and developments in bioimage analysis? Join us for the GLOBIAS workshop in Dortmund this November! I will be hosting a session on foundation models / AI. www.globias.org/activities/g...
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GloBIAS2026 Workshop Dortmund
GloBIAS 2026 Bioimage Analysts' Workshop Registration is open! Register with this link! 10-13 November, 2026 - Tuesday to Friday Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e. V. (https...
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Don't forget abstract submission for late-breaking posters at #IMC21 closes *this Friday*(26th June). Great opportunity to share the most exciting, recent developments in #microscopy 🙂🔬 www.imc21.org.uk/congress/abstract-…
Attendees engaging with scientific posters at the 21st International Microscopy Congress in Liverpool, 2026.
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jofmicroscopy.bsky.social @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
📣Authors from eligible German institutions may publish #OpenAccess in the Journal of Microscopy with no article processing charge (APC) under the Wiley DEAL agreement!
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Helen Foster @helenfoster.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There are lots of exciting opportunities to join the in situ structural biology community at Leeds this Autumn - 2 studentships in the Cheney PhD program (astbury.leeds.ac.uk/cheney-phd/) and I am recruiting a PhD student and research assistant. Please share and send any future tomographers our way!
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Cheney Scholarship PhD Programme : The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology - "Understanding Life in Molecular Detail"
Applications are open for 2 PhD student places.  Closing date for applications is Thursday 26 June, 5pm. Interviews will be held on 9th July 2026. The Cheney Scholarship is a prestigious 4-year PhD pr...
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Our June issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus is now freely available to read online! Loads of great content - including a colourful preview of the 21st International Microscopy Congress (#IMC21) coming to Liverpool, UK, this summer! Read the issue: ow.ly/jQgg50Zanmt
Cover of In Focus Magazine June 2026 featuring a vibrant, multicolored microscopic image resembling abstract floral patterns.
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Have you booked your ticket for the 21st International Microscopy Congress #IMC21, coming to Liverpool this summer? Don't miss this great event for the global #microscopy community 🙂🔬🌍 Book now: ow.ly/aSnB50Z2epE
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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Still time to register to join us next Friday in Leeds for our annual in-person UK Cilia and Centrosome Network in Leeds (05/06/2026)! Keynotes from the amazing @helenfoster.bsky.social & Fanni Gergely, plus latest breaking #cilia & #centrosome science. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-cilia-c...
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UK Cilia & Centrosomal Network Meeting Spring Meeting 2026
Join us for the annual in-person meeting of the UK Cilia & Centrosomal Network meeting, which for 2026 will be at the University of Leeds!
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LUMICKS @lumicks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
An amazing experience! It was truly great to participate and co-organize the 3rd UK & Ireland SMBio symposium in Sheffield this week. Thanks to all 🙏 invited speakers: @gwuite.bsky.social,@slfort.bsky.social, @jwelburn.bsky.social, @akellett.bsky.social, @michellepeckham.bsky.social & Aakash Basu
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myosinactncrazy.bsky.social @myosinactncrazy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Using iPALM to determine protein organisation in cardiac muscle Z-discs www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Get the most from your Confocal microscope by booking your place on this excellent course! 🙂🔬 Great 2-day course covering the principles of confocal #microscopy, utilising many different sample types and fluorescent probes. ow.ly/758750YVqTn
Announcement for the RMS event 'Getting the most from your Confocal Course 2026' held 2-3 July at University of York's Biology Department.
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Alister Burt @alisterburt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
tl;dr: MissAlignment learns to score misalignment then wiggles your alignments around to reduce that misalignment -> no more misalignment = high res STA 🌟 Watching @martenchaillet.bsky.social chip away at this was a real privilege! I’m excited to see this out and what you all will do with it 🙃
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Wyoming Wormboy @wyomingwormboy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Please repost! This comes from the good people at ChimeraX, who produce powerful up-to-date software to study protein (etc) structures, which are FREE to the community. 🙏 To stay viable and serve us, they need an experienced structural biologist to assume the leadership role on a funded project.
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Faculty Position – In-Residence
University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!
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Peter O'Toole @yorkbioimaging.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Not just for microscopists, but relevant to all technical specialists. Making the invisible visible: A global examination of careers and recognition for Imaging Scientists in core facilities - Thompson - Journal of Microscopy - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Making the invisible visible: A global examination of careers and recognition for Imaging Scientists in core facilities
Modern life-science research relies heavily on advanced imaging technologies, from microscopes that reveal the structure of cells to imaging systems used in biomedical research. These instruments are...
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Michelle Peckham @michellepeckham.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
New findings from CERN - as seen in the guardian - all about dark matter and its origins
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Glenn Carrington @drgcarrington.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨 New review out in @jmrcm-springer.bsky.social 🧬 From the @michellepeckham.bsky.social lab, we summarise how smooth muscle myosin is regulated—covering autoinhibition, filament assembly, and structural insights into motor control and disease. 👉 rdcu.be/feUiX
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Smooth muscle contractile cytoskeleton in health and disease - Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
Smooth muscle cells are widespread in the human body, found in a range of tissues from the vasculature to the gut, airways, bladder and so on. They can be found as isolated cells or organised into syncytia (groups of cells). The organisation of the contractile cytoskeleton (smooth muscle actin and myosin filaments) is less well understood than that of striated (cardiac and skeletal) muscle. This review aims to explore what is known, the potential effects of mutations in smooth muscle actin, myosin and tropomyosin and how they lead to disease, and to highlight what we have still to learn about the smooth muscle contractile cytoskeleton.
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Glenn Carrington @drgcarrington.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🚨 New paper alert 🧬 Our work from the @michellepeckham.bsky.social lab is now out in #ScienceAdvances. We present the #cryoEM structure of shutdown human non-muscle myosin 2A, showing how ionic interactions stabilise auto-inhibition and how mutations disrupt this state. 👉 tinyurl.com/4de8teyh
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Mark Dodding @markdodding.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Two manuscripts from the lab to catch up upon exploring aspects kinesin-1 regulation. First, our examining the role of cargo-adaptor binding in controlling kinesin-1 conformational dynamics and association with MAP7 is now a VOR @elife.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/109...
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Kinesin-1 conformational dynamics are controlled by a cargo-sensitive TPR switch
Cargo-adaptor binding to the KLC-TPR domains binding triggers structural rearrangements that relieve kinesin-1 autoinhibition, enabling MAP7 recruitment, through an allosteric mechanism that connects ...
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Fantastic opportunity for Early Career Researchers 😀 Sign up for the 'Science Slam' for the chance to represent the RMS at #IMC21 🔥
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Helen Foster @helenfoster.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
A big thank you to everyone for their support and encouragement, especially @carter-lab.bsky.social and @gaiapigino.bsky.social for their mentorship, and @takashiochi.bsky.social for nominating me!!
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Teng-Leong Chew @scopeshifu.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🧪 From ~2500 applications to various international microscopy workshops, we delineate fascinating regional patterns in research foci and microscopy usage across the globe. These data could help form the basis for tailoring microscopy workshop curricula to local needs. tinyurl.com/32c3fzvk
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Michelle Peckham @michellepeckham.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
For the first time in a while I am going to this - any of my friends and colleagues going? www.grc.org/cytoskeletal...
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2026 Cytoskeletal Motors Conference GRC
The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Cytoskeletal Motors will be held in Portland, Maine. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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jofmicroscopy.bsky.social @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
📣 The Editors of the Journal of Microscopy are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ‘Best Paper’ awards for Early Career Researchers. For physical sciences, Dr Alexandra Sheader was awarded the prize and Dr Elnaz Fazeli won the Life Sciences prize.
Dr Alexandra SheaderDr Elnaz Fazeli
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jofmicroscopy.bsky.social @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
📣 Submission deadline extended for special issue "Taking the Stage: The Future of Microscopy"! The Journal of Microscopy has launched an open call for papers for an exciting new special issue which will feature submissions by Early Career Researchers. Deadline extended: 30 April 2026
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jofmicroscopy.bsky.social @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The issue will be guest edited by Katherine Paine, Myfanwy Adams and Colum O'Leary. This special issue will celebrate the contributions of Early Career Researchers in the field of microscopy and we look forward to reading your submissions! More info: www.rms.org.uk/resources/jo...
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Call for Papers - Taking the Stage: The Future of Microscopy
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jofmicroscopy.bsky.social @jofmicroscopy.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"International microscopy facility benchmarking survey" by Alfonso J. Schmidt, Ellie Cho, Nicholas Condon, Eleanor Kable and Paul McMillan will appear in the upcoming 'Light Microscopy Core Facility Management' special issue and it is free-to-view here > doi.org/10.1111/jmi....
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International microscopy facility benchmarking survey
Microscopy core facilities are critical to modern research, providing access to advanced microscopy applications and expert support. Despite this, global benchmarking data on facility operations, sta...
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
What are you most looking forward to at the 21st International Microscopy Congress? #IMC21 Big thanks to @drtranfield.bsky.social for sharing her thoughts ahead of this year's premier international event for the global #microscopy community 🙂🔬
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napari @napari.org · 24/03/2026
napari 0.7.0 is available now! 🚀🎉 It's a BIG release so read the full release notes, with highlights: napari.org/stable/relea... We want to thank everyone who has worked incredibly hard on this release including our 11 new brilliant contributors 🤩 and the community for their support and feedback!
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napari 0.7.0
Mon, Mar 23, 2026 We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.7.0! napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It’s designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing…
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
More than *100* exhibitors have already signed up for the 21st International Microscopy Congress #IMC21! 😃 🔬 Huge thanks to all the companies supporting this fantastic event for the global #microscopy community - and we still have limited spaces available! ow.ly/szKe50Yyw7h
Scientists and attendees engage around microscopy equipment at IMC21 in Liverpool, August-September 2026.
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BioImagingUK @bioimaginguk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Brilliant to see the UK Light Microscopy Facilities paper from BioImagingUK being used to benchmark globally 🔬 Huge thanks to Paul and team — open benchmarking data like this is invaluable for making the case for facility funding worldwide.
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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Little bit surprised to see most microscopy facilities now have dedicated image analysis support, but 1.0 FTE on average is nowhere near enough. And more than half don't charge for analysis services?!? 🤨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Image analysis. (A) Pie chart shows the % of facilities with dedicated image analysis support. Yes (blue), no (orange). (B) Violin plot shows the distribution of # FTE providing that support. Mean and standard deviation are included. (C) Pie chart shows the % of facilities providing bespoke image analysis. Yes (blue), no (orange). (D) Pie chart shows the sources of cost recovery of bespoke image analysis support. Uncharged (blue), charged by the hour (orange), project fee (green), staff salary contribution (sky blue). (E) Pie chart shows the % of facilities that support commercial image analysis software. Yes (blue), no (orange). (F) Pie chart shows the sources of funding to maintain commercial analysis software. Mix of all sources (blue), on an annual basis from user charges (orange), institutional support (green), grant funding (sky blue), on an ad hoc basis from user charges (magenta).

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jmi.70079
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eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Want to learn #Python for #ImageAnalysis? 🐍 Supported by the #EVOLVEproject, four #EuroBioImaging Nodes are offering a distributed training course for beginners on Python - it's free! Join the course in 4 in person locations - 🇬🇧 🇵🇹 🇨🇿 🇸🇪 Apply before April 15⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/evolv...
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Michelle Peckham @michellepeckham.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A fascinating meeting on molecular motors in Alpbach! Just on day 1, lots of food for thought (and great walks and skiing)
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
In our latest issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus, we speak to Professor Kang-Nee Ting about her work bringing the wonder of #microscopy to underprivileged and rural communities throughout Malaysia, with the aid of the RMS’s Microscope Activity Kits 🙂 👏 🔬 Read more: ow.ly/NhIn50Ytj5j
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Anne Straube @anne.mechanochemistry.org · 25/02/2026
The abstract deadline for our Motors and Filaments Meeting is approaching fast - 1st March. We have plenty slots for 15/10min talks and 3min flash talks to allocate. Thanks to generous support from @embo.org and @biologists.bsky.social, we can offer sustainable travel bursaries and a free livestream
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
📣Book Now: AFM & SPM Meeting 2026 (23–25 June - with a training workshop on 22 June) Great meeting bringing together researchers from around the world, and across the full range of scanning probe techniques! Registration and Abstract submission: ow.ly/FCPV50Ymosn
Promotional poster for AFM & SPM Meeting 2026 with keynote and invited speakers, event dates, deadlines, and sponsor logos.
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