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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I left my phone at the hotel on the day of the award, so it was a little delayed. Congratulations Andy Stone on winning the @bioimagingna.bsky.social 's Early Career award (w/ Natalie Woo) for his work in the community and @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social !

Heather & Andy in front of the BioImaging North America banner

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Struggle with sharing data? @bogovicj.bsky.social shows us better options than emailing data #I2KxBINA

John at the podium with a slide titled "Sharing OME-Zarr dats with Fileglancer"

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kirk Czymmek explaining how to use XRM, vEM, and LM to study plants

Kirk at the podium with a slide showing plant tissue with XRM and EM

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Never knew there was a plugin called empanada 🥟 🤣 #I2KxBINA

Kedar at the podium with a slide about the empanada napari plugin for segmentation

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you @clairebrown514.bsky.social for her work with Équilbre to further "alternative" careers in academia for people that are not PIs #I2KxBINA @bioimagingna.bsky.social

Claire Brown at podium with slide titled 3 pillars of change

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's been great meeting new people and catching up with everyone at #I2KxBINA! And it's particularly nice to catch up with some OGs of the Comms group after being on zoom every month for 5+ years

Picture of Heather, Michelle, and Eduardo in front of the comms group poster at the BINA poster session

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congratulations to @marianadeniz.bsky.social for winning the Michael W. Davidson Memorial Award! 🎉 #I2KxBINA

Mariana at the podium in front of her presentation titled "Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable"

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of this morning's talks is @kevin-dean.bsky.social explaining how to do cyclic IF for ExM #I2KxBINA

Kevin at a podium with slide titled "Post-Expansion Cyclic Immunofluorescence"

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Awesome session with @emiglietta.bsky.social on 'gamification' of co-localization analysis. It did a great job making folks think about the whole acquisition to analysis pipeline.

Esteban standing in front of screens saying "The CoLoc Game."

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

QuPath workshop with Michael Nelson-- going through many new extensions! #I2KxBINA

Michael sitting at the podium with a segmented image on the screen

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I made it to #I2KxBINA 2026! First keynote by @saramcardle.bsky.social on using QuPath on to study pancreatic tissue sections with multiple staining rounds!

Sara presenting her work with a slide about T1D disrupting islets

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is not a drill, there is a plane for me to get on! I might actually make it to BINA in Madison this time

American airlines plan at the gate in Logan airport

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I may have planted too many things for the 7th year in a row. 😬 I don't have it in me to process another 4 quarts of beans this week, so neighbors will be getting care packages

Bench with 2 containers of tomatoes, a container and a bag of beans, a spaghetti squash and a zucchini

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ok, just kidding, final final try. This is too good not to share

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Final try. Asked it to start from scratch with the images uploaded, and now it doesn't know what to do with me? Anyways, don't waste your time trying to combine a bunch of screenshots. (Most of you probably already knew) 😬

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Try #3. Told it that no changes were made, please make the following changes (same instructions as before). Now, please note that the names and pictures are missing and flipped.

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gave it specific instructions on what needed changing, gave the same image again

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm quite busy right now and I'm trying to finish up a poster for #BINA. I wanted an updated list of Comms WG Members. Please see the glory of Gemini. #1

Image of comms group with 2 Heathers, 2 Hiphys, & an Eduardo with Hiphy's image

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Last week, @whipkclark.bsky.social visited Brandeis to meet with the @turrigiano.bsky.social lab. She stopped by the light microscopy core, where we showed her what the support of the state and federal grants can achieve.

Picture of me standing in a microscope suite with Rep. Katherine Clark. You can see a STED image in green and red on the computer screen of a neuron

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Today is my last day at the HCBI. It has truly been the best job of my life. I've learned so much and work with the kindest people around. I will miss them, but will only be a 20 minute drive away at Brandeis

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Sometimes you need to enjoy the little things 😀

Smiling brown dog with one ear flipped back

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Found an old flash drive from 2017 with a tif file just labeled "caterpillar", so I had to open it up. It's apparently an SEM image from an Amray 1810 (SEM), but I have no idea what part of the animal I took!

A SEM image of part of a caterpillar, unclear what part of the animal. It appears like a rope with fibers coming off.

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just because England had a draw last night, didn't stop her from wearing her full personalized England kit for sports day at school

Girl wear a pink England soccer jersey with matching shorts and socks

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Scottish statue treatment has made it to Harvard's BioLabs 🤭

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Our summer series is back! Free pizza and cool new swag provided by Zeiss Check out the full schedule: hcbi.fas.harvard.edu/calendar

A measuring tape and multi tool with ZEISS printed on it

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I work earlier than everyone else. No one will give me a real answer on why there is a scan head outside my office, and no systems and missing one 🤔

Confocal scan head missing its casing sitting on a desk, not connected to a microscope

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This is the stat you want to highlight Yokogawa?

Screenshot from Yokogawa's conference citing statistics from the 2024 meeting. 25% Female Attendees is circled in pink

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The poster that Nikon sent us to put on our bulletin board is a bit oversized 😂

Nikon small world poster that takes up half the bulletin board and hangs several inches over the bottom

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

It's like they don't trust me to read labels 😂

Loaf of bread with paper that says "Greek Easter Bread from Kalliopi. Please help yourselves? (Not GF)"

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I have to admit, I needed a good laugh today. Apparently a hawk has been attacking people outside Northwest building at Harvard this week. 😂

Sign that reads: Warning: Aggressive birds ahead. Hawk activity reported. Proceed with caution

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Lots of stickers left from the poster session. So if you see me ask me for a BINA sticker! I'll be handing some off to @michelleitano.bsky.social, so she can be your sticker dealer as well 😉

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

At #ABRF2026? Come visit me at poster 45 to talk about @bioimagingna.bsky.social or microscopy in general so I'm not lonely. I got stickers!

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Penn State Huck core facilities has the office of research published acknowledgement guidelines so individuals core directors don't have to be the "bad guy" in requesting it. #ABRF2026

Authorship and Acknowledgement Guidelines

Authorship:

"Payment for research services or staff assistance does not discharge investigators from their responsibility to consider core staff for authorship when producing a scholarly work..."

Acknowledgment:

"At a minimum, core facilities should be acknowledged whenever their equipment is used, services are provided, or staff contribute to the work..."

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Kelly Vere is talking about the career progression framework due to the technician commitment. #ABRF2026

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Making a new graph for my marketing paper to show marketing works by way of showing growth in the last 10 years. Would you want a linear regression that is thrown off by 2020 or a piecewise fit that is more complicated?

Graphs showing a piecewise fit vs a linear regression on 10 years of HCBI usage data

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

My husband made these for me and my co-workers and I have to credit the badge reel with me not locking myself out at all this week 😂

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Poster is ready! Come visit me on Monday 3/30 when I have my BINA hat on at #ABRF2026

From Pixels to Partnerships: Navigate Your BioImaging Journey with BINA poster on conference room table

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Check out our icicles and snow drift on our back porch 🥶

Image taken out the backdoor of the house. Icicles are reaching door handles and snow drifts are covering Adirondack chair

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Doug spent 3 hours last night building our Glacios 2 Lego model. 😂 If you are in the area you can check it out in the hallway outside our offices. Biolabs 2052/2058

Lego model of Glacios 2 Cryo-EM with booklet explaining the parts

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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

😬 At least the aqua stop did its job. (Water came out of tube when I adjusted it)

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