Jamie Riches
@chickenrampant.bsky.social
Microscopist. Interested in science, politics and the environment. Keen bushwalker, family guy and dog owner.
I'm going to be taking part in Movember this year, to raise funds for men's mental health. If you'd like to support, here is a fundraising link.
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Jamie Riches's Mo Space
Jamie's Motivation: Globally, the rate of suicide is alarmingly high, particularly in men. Too many men are ‘toughing it out’, keeping their feelings to themselves and struggling in silence. Help me s...
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November 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I'm going to be taking part in Movember this year, to raise funds for men's mental health. If you'd like to support, here is a fundraising link.
movember.com/m/14841903?m...
movember.com/m/14841903?m...
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More than 97% of electron microscope images remain unpublished
#microscopy #academicSky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/more-th...
#microscopy #academicSky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/more-th...
More than 97% of electron microscope images remain unpublished
Huge datasets that would be a valuable training aid for AI are being lost
www.chemistryworld.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
More than 97% of electron microscope images remain unpublished
#microscopy #academicSky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/more-th...
#microscopy #academicSky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/more-th...
Azure kingfisher perched on a very patient water dragon. 🪶
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Azure kingfisher perched on a very patient water dragon. 🪶
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We have an opening for a Platform Support Officer to join our team at the Biological Optical Microscopy Platform at the University of Melbourne. For full details or to apply go to go.unimelb.edu.au/xb3p @micro-au.bsky.social @australianmms.bsky.social
Platform Support Officer
Role type: Fixed term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Department/School: School of Biomedical Sciences Salary: UOM 7 109,093 – 118,091 AUD p.a. plus 17% super E...
go.unimelb.edu.au
September 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
We have an opening for a Platform Support Officer to join our team at the Biological Optical Microscopy Platform at the University of Melbourne. For full details or to apply go to go.unimelb.edu.au/xb3p @micro-au.bsky.social @australianmms.bsky.social
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#HappyMicroscopyMonday!
#microscopycommunity -Imaging Scientists in Core Facilities play a vital role in advancing research. How are their contributions recognized in publications?
Take the survey now:https://buff.ly/k0X6PRw
#microscopycommunity -Imaging Scientists in Core Facilities play a vital role in advancing research. How are their contributions recognized in publications?
Take the survey now:https://buff.ly/k0X6PRw
September 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
#HappyMicroscopyMonday!
#microscopycommunity -Imaging Scientists in Core Facilities play a vital role in advancing research. How are their contributions recognized in publications?
Take the survey now:https://buff.ly/k0X6PRw
#microscopycommunity -Imaging Scientists in Core Facilities play a vital role in advancing research. How are their contributions recognized in publications?
Take the survey now:https://buff.ly/k0X6PRw
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Join us for the #VirtualPub with @virsicas.bsky.social - one of Euro-BioImaging's Scientific Ambassadors! She'll give a talk entitled "From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging & Analysis."
🗓️ Fri, Sept 26 @ 13:00 CEST
Register 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
🗓️ Fri, Sept 26 @ 13:00 CEST
Register 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
September 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Join us for the #VirtualPub with @virsicas.bsky.social - one of Euro-BioImaging's Scientific Ambassadors! She'll give a talk entitled "From Microscopes to Workflows: Supporting Research Through Imaging & Analysis."
🗓️ Fri, Sept 26 @ 13:00 CEST
Register 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
🗓️ Fri, Sept 26 @ 13:00 CEST
Register 🔽
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/title...
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🚨 Our next PPMS Microscopy Focus Group is on Sept 25!
Hear from Sonja Welsch, MPIBP & Stephan Junek, MPIBR & MPIBP, as they present:
“Two cores, one joint user base”
✅ Cross-institute imaging workflows
✅ Real-world light & EM examples
✅ Peer discussion for complex facilities
@maxplanck.de
Hear from Sonja Welsch, MPIBP & Stephan Junek, MPIBR & MPIBP, as they present:
“Two cores, one joint user base”
✅ Cross-institute imaging workflows
✅ Real-world light & EM examples
✅ Peer discussion for complex facilities
@maxplanck.de
September 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
🚨 Our next PPMS Microscopy Focus Group is on Sept 25!
Hear from Sonja Welsch, MPIBP & Stephan Junek, MPIBR & MPIBP, as they present:
“Two cores, one joint user base”
✅ Cross-institute imaging workflows
✅ Real-world light & EM examples
✅ Peer discussion for complex facilities
@maxplanck.de
Hear from Sonja Welsch, MPIBP & Stephan Junek, MPIBR & MPIBP, as they present:
“Two cores, one joint user base”
✅ Cross-institute imaging workflows
✅ Real-world light & EM examples
✅ Peer discussion for complex facilities
@maxplanck.de
This is a good paper highlighting the potential abuse of AI in image manipulation. Challenging times ahead.
September 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
This is a good paper highlighting the potential abuse of AI in image manipulation. Challenging times ahead.
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The Institute for Molecular Bioscience is seeking an exceptional academic leader to be the new Director of the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery and lead our centre consisting of 10 group leaders, 40 staff and approximately 50 HDR students. Come and join us in sunny Brisbane!
Director, Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery
Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Australia’s #1 research institute Based at St Lucia Campus About UQ What started as Queensland's first university in 1...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The Institute for Molecular Bioscience is seeking an exceptional academic leader to be the new Director of the Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery and lead our centre consisting of 10 group leaders, 40 staff and approximately 50 HDR students. Come and join us in sunny Brisbane!
Global Bioimaging are running a survey on Authorship and Acknowledgements for imaging core facility staff. If you work in a core, please take five minutes to fill out the survey and help us understand the good, the bad and the ugly around this topic. Thanks!
Link: forms.gle/cKh6m4SskzZm...
Link: forms.gle/cKh6m4SskzZm...
September 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Global Bioimaging are running a survey on Authorship and Acknowledgements for imaging core facility staff. If you work in a core, please take five minutes to fill out the survey and help us understand the good, the bad and the ugly around this topic. Thanks!
Link: forms.gle/cKh6m4SskzZm...
Link: forms.gle/cKh6m4SskzZm...
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🔬 We're hiring! Adelaide Microscopy is seeking a CryoTEM Microscopist to support cutting-edge research in South Australia. Passionate about cryo-EM & single particle analysis? 🧪 Apply by 18 Sept: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
#STEMjobs
#STEMjobs
August 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
🔬 We're hiring! Adelaide Microscopy is seeking a CryoTEM Microscopist to support cutting-edge research in South Australia. Passionate about cryo-EM & single particle analysis? 🧪 Apply by 18 Sept: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
#STEMjobs
#STEMjobs
Osprey decided to take a catfish from the nest and dine on the nearby transmission tower instead. 🪶
August 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Osprey decided to take a catfish from the nest and dine on the nearby transmission tower instead. 🪶
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Dear Jeff Bezos …
July 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Dear Jeff Bezos …
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Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional.
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
July 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional.
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
Came across a gray shrikethrush who was very relaxed around humans in lamington national Park. He just needed a sign, "will pose for food" 🪶
July 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Came across a gray shrikethrush who was very relaxed around humans in lamington national Park. He just needed a sign, "will pose for food" 🪶
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Time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy can resolve protein motion on millisecond or even microsecond timescales, but the need for highly specialized tools and skills limits the method’s reach
www.nature.com/artic...
www.nature.com/artic...
Freeze frame: cracking molecular motion
Nature - Time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy can resolve protein motion on millisecond or even microsecond timescales, but the need for highly specialized tools and skills limits the method’s...
www.nature.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Time-resolved cryo-electron microscopy can resolve protein motion on millisecond or even microsecond timescales, but the need for highly specialized tools and skills limits the method’s reach
www.nature.com/artic...
www.nature.com/artic...
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Over 270 fully engaged people from over 25 countries attended our open forum on Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025.
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025: A Town Hall Webinar
www.rms.org.uk
June 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Over 270 fully engaged people from over 25 countries attended our open forum on Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025.
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
Some cute cygnets at the Port of Brisbane on the weekend.
June 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Some cute cygnets at the Port of Brisbane on the weekend.
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Working with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social, we're very proud to launch our new #AcknowledgementGuidelines poster, helping #ImagingScientists get the credit they deserve for their research contributions! #CreditWhereItsDue
@bioimaginguk.bsky.social
Read more: rms.org.uk/resource/rms...
@bioimaginguk.bsky.social
Read more: rms.org.uk/resource/rms...
June 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Working with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social, we're very proud to launch our new #AcknowledgementGuidelines poster, helping #ImagingScientists get the credit they deserve for their research contributions! #CreditWhereItsDue
@bioimaginguk.bsky.social
Read more: rms.org.uk/resource/rms...
@bioimaginguk.bsky.social
Read more: rms.org.uk/resource/rms...
This is calling for solutions to the current housing crisis - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ho...
Homes For All
All the evidence from experts is clear. We need to:
• Massively increase the supply of housing;
• Boost social housing;
• Scale back negative gearing and reassess tax breaks for wealthy landlords;
• D...
www.megaphone.org.au
June 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This is calling for solutions to the current housing crisis - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ho...
Looks like an interesting discussion for core facility folk. Worth getting/staying up for those in Australia.
📢Navigating Strategies for Core Facilities 2025: A Town Hall Webinar (16 June, 5-8pm BST)
Don't miss this *free*, interactive webinar to help shape the future of core facilities! 🔬
Join the discussion - all are welcome😀
#imaging #microscopy
rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
Don't miss this *free*, interactive webinar to help shape the future of core facilities! 🔬
Join the discussion - all are welcome😀
#imaging #microscopy
rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...
@rmsearlycareer.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Looks like an interesting discussion for core facility folk. Worth getting/staying up for those in Australia.
A couple of pied oystercatchers at Bribie Island on the weekend. 🪶
June 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A couple of pied oystercatchers at Bribie Island on the weekend. 🪶
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Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN
Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...
www.cnn.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
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Bioimaging and bioimage analysis friends, some help if you have 2-3 mins; for a paper, we're trying to estimate the number of biologists trained in open source software or tools in the last ~5 years. (1/2) #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis
April 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Bioimaging and bioimage analysis friends, some help if you have 2-3 mins; for a paper, we're trying to estimate the number of biologists trained in open source software or tools in the last ~5 years. (1/2) #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis
Sometimes it's better not to take inspiration from an xkcd comic.
Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table
Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban home
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Sometimes it's better not to take inspiration from an xkcd comic.