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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Need help analysing your image data? Don't know where to start? Have you heard about @uk-bias.bsky.social ? Come along to our first online helpdesk, hosted by @lankylaste.bsky.social and Anneliese Jarman, to find out more - details below.

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I probably need a new laptop, the sticker situation is out of control …

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It really is too perfect that the same people who claimed participation trophies were ruining our children and keeping them from actually achieving things have devoted their lives to a man who demands the world’s most prestigious trophies for doing nothing at all.

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What are you bringing back one of the biggest traumas of my cinema life?!

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is the right decision. So happy about it!

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Rob Campbell @raacampbell.com · 04/10/2026

Preprint is out! Our BakingTray software turns a 2-photon microscope into a serial-section tomography system for automated whole-organ imaging. ~€35k to convert an existing scope. 11 systems worldwide, >7,000 samples at SWC alone #neuroskyence #microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A BrainSaw at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt. A Nikon 16x water-immersion objective on a 400 µm travel PIFOC allows for fast z-stacks. Samples are imaged and cut in the clear water bath. A Leica VT1000 vibratome is seen to the right with a mounted blade.

How BrainSaw works. Samples are embedded in an agarose block, which is glued to a slide and clamped into a water bath. The bath sits on a three-axis stage under a 2-photon microscope; the stage moves the sample for both tile scanning and slicing. The microscope images the exposed face of the block, the vibratome cuts off the imaged layer, and the cycle repeats until the samples have been fully imaged. Data are stitched automatically and are ready for downstream analysis. Logos below: BrainSaw (hardware), BakingTray (acquisition software), StitchIt (stitching).

Coronal section of an Sst-tdTomato mouse brain imaged on BrainSaw. tdTomato-expressing cells are shown in yellow, scattered through cortex and hippocampus; tissue autofluorescence is shown in blue.

Coronal section of a mouse brain with three neighbouring viral injections targeting layer 5 of V1, expressing mCherry (red), eGFP (green) and BFP (blue). The thick apical dendrites of the labelled neurons are clearly visible, as are their axons projecting to distant targets. Image credit: Alex Fritzl.

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s as easy as showing the raw data next to the winning video, if AI was used just to colour it… what is the problem?

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't get it, and I want the raw data period

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For me the worst part is that.. it’s super obvious! It’s not just colouring a bit, it’s pure AI slop

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What a great meeting, of course I forgot to take photos…. @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Microscopy is so cool, you don't need AI to make it prettier!

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think that’s the problem, otherwise it’s so easy just to share it… I can’t understand this from a person that builds microscopes…

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I want to see the original image/time-lapse before the AI colouring magic, like the proper thing from the microscope

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I open this app, read numerous tweets about the world is ending, close the app. The never ending cycle…

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London BioImage Interest Group @biig-ucl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reminder for the first L-BIIG seminar of this seasone this Friday 11th September at 12pm at the LMCB! See how to join at tinyurl.com/london-biig

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was still in Spain and I remember everything with detail

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Exciting times for the BIIG!!!!

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London BioImage Interest Group @biig-ucl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The BioImage Interest Group is expanding! London-BIIG is bringing together microscopists and computational scientists across UCL, Crick, KCL and Imperial. Follow us for updates on bioimage analysis talks (@LMCB & Zoom) as well as next year's networking event! 🔬🧫 #L-BIIG

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There's a bit of a scandal about falsified WBs from antibody companies...are we talking about their immunofluorescence images next? Too early?

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BrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 18/05/2026

We've started an effort to bring every 3D (non-human) anatomical atlas that exists into BrainGlobe. Get in touch if there's an atlas we've missed, or you think there's a specific atlas we should prioritise. Read more in our blog: brainglobe.info/blog/the-sys...

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The Systematic Atlas Packaging Project — BrainGlobe

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Well, wasn’t expecting that…

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It’s behind a paywall, but I’m guessing money, lack of good jobs, stability, and housing to mention some of them

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Louder for the people with labcoats

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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We are very pleased to announce Prof. Paul Guichard and Dr. Virginie Hamel @centriolelab.bsky.social as joint winners of the RMS Award for Light Microscopy 🔬 👏 🏅 Huge congratulations to both! Read more about Paul and Virginie's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/pro...

Prof. Paul Guichard (left) and Dr. Virginie Hamel both pictured smiling against a plain background. Head and shoulders images.

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BioImagingUK @bioimaginguk.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A few spaces remain on our Bioimage Data Stewardship Workshop in Bristol (20 May)! 🔬 All other dates are fully booked so if you're interested, now's your chance. FAIR data principles | metadata standards | public repositories | train-the-trainer | £100 travel Link to Apply 👇

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Recordad que uso la 'direct submission' en el PNAS y encima no hizo la declaracion de intereses. Eso no se olvida, no es un error inocente.

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BioImagingUK @bioimaginguk.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🔬 UK researchers - funding is available to access world-class bioimaging facilities! The UK Bioimaging User Access Fund offers up to £5K for bioimaging or £2K for image analysis at 6 UK sites Open to PhD students, postdocs, technicians & PIs 📅 Next deadline: 31 Jul '26 👉https://shorturl.at/M2ckv

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David Stansby @dstansby.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The paper that sums up what I've been working on and running for the last three years was published this week 🎉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The Human Organ Atlas

The Human Organ Atlas provides open access to 3D images of human anatomy spanning whole organs to cellular scale resolution.

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

That's why I left Spain too, and now the UK science is going same way...

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BioImagingUK @bioimaginguk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

📢 UK RESEARCHERS - Ever wished you could try a completely different imaging approach on your sample but lacked access to equipment or funds? That's exactly what the Euro-BioImaging UK Node User Access Fund is for! Applications are open year-round, with 3 deadlines/yr: 📅 31 Mar | 31 July | 30 Nov

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France-BioImaging @france-bioimaging.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

[OPPORTUNITY] France-BioImaging User Access Support is now open We are thrilled to launch our new access support scheme to provide financial support to users carrying out projects that require FBI-labelled technologies or services 🔗Info here: france-bioimaging.org/application/...

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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I'm from a generation in Spain where our grandparents lived through the civil war and WW2. We remember everything they told us about what they had to endure.

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · 25/02/2026

Accessible minimal requirements for reproducible light microscopy. This viewpoint presents a community-endorsed checklist defining minimal light microscopy metadata to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in research. rupress.org/jcb/article/... @quarep-limi.bsky.social

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