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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her)

@samstehbens.bsky.social
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Everything microtubules, movement, and microscopy. Melanoma research focus. ARC Future Fellow, lab head University of Queensland #CatsOfAcademia advoCATe. UCSF Wittmann lab alumni.

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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 13h
👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/s...
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Big Controversy Upends a Contest About Microscopic Videos (Gift Article)
Nikon announced that it had disqualified the winner of its Small World in Motion competition over how A.I. was used in his submission.
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 15h
So….who is the **real**winner? #ciliaGate #nikon.
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Kristen Wiig on SNL
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Christophe 🔬 Leterrier @christlet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nikon Small World does the right thing
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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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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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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Kitch Aussie retro vibe…. Our grandmas used to travel and buy collector teaspoons. Millennials now inherit them. Hipsters remake them into rings. 🤷‍♀️
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Honestly- at what point does it become art? …..Getting some editing done for an upcoming #CSHL manual on cell migration.
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It will come down to standards, like media. We know who we can trust and who is Murdoch media.
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#ciliagate
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Come work with me!! Nature Biomedical Engineering is hiring an interim editor for 2027. Diverse relevant backgrounds welcome to apply. Please feel free to contact me with questions. Please repost! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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Interim Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biomedical Engineering
Job Title: Interim Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biomedical Engineering Locations: London or Pune – Hybrid working model Application deadline: 21st October About Springer Nature Springer Nature i...
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Cells & Development @cellsdev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
❤️ that the #NobelPrize brought the spotlight to #optogenetics. We use the same technique to study how cells move during development, like in this beautiful study by the Solnica-Krezel lab where they show mesoderm can influence endoderm convergent extension in 🐟! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@microtubule.bsky.social did you see the little yellow note on my white board? It lives on…best thing you ever taught me 😆
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
One of my favourite things to do…whiteboard brain storm. Early conceptualisation of my team’s 2024 paper ….(in Feb 2019 …😆) how it started..how it finished….( article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ) #microtubules
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Alexis Rose: That's False Advertising!
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m incredibly fortunate to be working with @joycemeiri.bsky.social who has joined my team following her post doc with the Akhmanova lab. A kindred spirit! Someone who loves #microtubules & #microscopy as much as me. Welcome to #AIBN #UQ Joyce!
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Yess Girl Clapping with Joy
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This one is my favourite!😻
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Parisians dressed their dogs up for Paris Fashion Week. Video via @reuters.com
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
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Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis. Institut Pasteur, Image Analysis Hub - 2026
Dear all Below is an announcement for a permanent position as a Research Engineer in the Institut Pasteur, Paris. There is a flyer attached at the bottom. We are looking ideally for a Bioimage An...
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quality over quantity….
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Virginie Uhlmann @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are you a biologist working with microscopy images? A computer scientist wanting to work with microscopy data? Their boss??? None of these, but curious how AI has transformed microscopy image analysis? 🔬🤖 This one's for you: 📄 doi.org/10.1146/annu... More in the thread! 🧵
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From Pixels to Discovery: Microscopy Image Analysis in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Modern microscopy generates data volumes that far exceed human analytical capacity. Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed microscopy image analysis into an engine for quan...
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Now imagine they use AI to enhance these photographs and it hallucinated parts of the image. Pretty sure the spirit of this competition would be lost.. very cute photos, worth a look!
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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
lnkd.in/p/eTV6xSxk pretty poor placeholder #NikonSmallWorldInMotion on a Saturday evening over two weeks since this all kicked off… #ReleaseTheRawData #MicroscopyMatters #CiliaGate
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Nikon is aware of the inquiries concerning this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion competition, and is reviewing the available information concerning this matter at this time. | Nikon Small World
Nikon is aware of the inquiries concerning this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion competition, and is reviewing the available information concerning this matter at this time.
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Australian academics seeing we have to learn another new funding application system ….. #ARC
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Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler): Everything Hurts And I'm Dying
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stop it! You’ll ruin my favourite conference game
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Zach Galifianakis Shushes Man
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(Yet, the master mind behind the Bali bombings were released..). 2/2
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve always struggled with the idea of it. I still think about the men, who were boys at the time of their drug smuggling crimes, who were rehabilitated (one became a minister) in Indonesian prisons but still executed 20 yrs later. At dawn, by firing squad. I can’t imagine how scared they were. 1/2
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Please Disperse - Nothing to See Here
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s interesting the author is no longer offering comments to journalists
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Speaking of AI & data…. #NikonSmallWorld still no official response…. 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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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think it will have to go beyond raw data + meta data. I’m thinking some kind of watermark/authentication mark on the raw data. Could also be verified at the institute level, and changes to the legal implications of falsifying data. It’s complicated, that’s for sure.. 🫠
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A tale as old as time…. Why are we scientists? The humanity of why we do what he do, will become key. Many of us hold these values. Many, do not. What happens once AI generated data floods our journals??our grants?? out paces how we detect it? It keeps me up at night…
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yet when we submit grants & fellowships to the same schemes, many reviewers treat them equally 🤦‍♀️
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ve been talking with @melaniedwhite.bsky.social & @nefzgerlab.bsky.social about how AI is going to alter this phase of the publishing process. It is going to become very difficult to authenticate source data. Have you come across any ideas of how we will do this?
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The typo was for @ritastrack.bsky.social 🫣
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Australia officially celebrates #InternatinalCoffeeDay on October 1st. One of my great loves ☕️
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every day…. 10am highlight
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just checking……I’m too old right? 😆 great opportunity !!!
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s up there with the new biosketch format…..
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Or printed off their microscopy images onto film….
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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The power of funding fundamental discovery in driving unexpected benefits for humankind are unmatched. We should be funding more basic research not less
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are they still fing bro hymn as their final song???
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy #FluorescenceFriday. The first time I imaged a 🐸 embryo, I didn't realise they had these ciliated cells on the outer surface. So you can imagine how surprised and curious I was! These cilia are similar to those found in the human airway. And yes, this is just a good old confocal + 🔥LUT!
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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To add to all the lovely videos of non-AI processes multicilia beating: ctenophore multiciliated cells! They can reach up to 1mm long, causing a rainbow light refraction effect with the correct light positioning! Taken by myself at MBL in 2019 embryology. Realtime frame-rate!
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Kirsty Wan @micromotility.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
ooh Bluesky can do videos now... here's an emergency #cilia movie
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Venkat Rao @venkyrao.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jumping on the bandwagon with a 3D view of Xenopus multiciliated cells: cilia (magenta) sprouting above the apical actin network (cyan) 🐸. Not live, but no #AISLOP
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Nikon will address our concerns by next week. Hopefully the pre-processed movie & raw data will be part of that. #NikonSmallWorld
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank-you to the community members who spoke up. In the age of AI it is increasingly important to maintain #biologicalreality. Hallucinating biological structures is not science. @melaniedwhite.bsky.social @christlet.bsky.social & Robert Hirst.
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Andrew Plested @andrewplested.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Image manipulation in the Nikon Small World competition? @sholtodavid.bsky.social Hold my beer. Astonishing work and a great video explanation. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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Faked Images of Neurons in Major Journals
YouTube video by Sholto David
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I believe this is the Australian translation of your post? (Warning: sweary Australian)
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m so pumped for @joycemeiri.bsky.social to see this out. She’s a wonderful scientist and I’m fortunate to have her in my team. Well done to the labs involved. 👏
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A/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please add a unicorn 🙏
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