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Jennifer Waters
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Microscopist builder
Turn up the volume! 🥳
November 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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One of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!

www.fpbase.org/spectra/
FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.
www.fpbase.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Jennifer Waters
The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it!

www.fpbase.org/spectra/
FPbase Fluorescence Spectra Viewer
An interactive fluorescence spectra viewer to evaluate the spectral properties of fluorescent proteins, organic dyes, filters, and detectors.
www.fpbase.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Jennifer Waters
Required reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ten essential tips for robust statistics in cell biology - Nature Cell Biology
Statistical thinking is a core part of solid, trustworthy biology. However, many studies still include insufficient sample sizes, have poor experimental design or select an incorrect statistical metho...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Registration for Halfway to I2K is now OPEN! And workshop submission is still too (for a bit)! Join 20+ presenters and counting, and hundreds of attendees in learning about image analysis, whether you're a complete beginner or a total pro.
October 31, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Italian 🇮🇹 scientists! Our open call for image analysis support through the @humantechnopole.bsky.social national facilities is currently accepting applications!
December 7, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Happy birthday Eva!! @sciencedoodles.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
September 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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This 2009 article by @jencwaters.bsky.social discusses the parameters of digital image acquisition that affect the accuracy & precision of quantitative fluorescence #microscopy measurements rupress.org/jcb/article/...

In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
September 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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In 2019, Anna Jost & @jencwaters.bsky.social reviewed best practices for validating quantitative #microscopy methods & discuss strategies to avoid unconscious bias in imaging experiments rupress.org/jcb/article/...

📕 In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
September 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Production has started for a new #Snoutscope objective, AMS-AGY v3. It has significantly larger FOV and some other tweaks from v1 and v2. Currently accepting pre-orders. The price will need to increase modestly after deliveries start late October.
July 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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3rd challenge from AI4Life! We're inviting the community to design unsupervised models that preserve spatial & temporal patterns in neuronal data.

📅 Open till Aug 11, 2025
🚀 Join now: ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/challenge-3/
July 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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This week, we are highlighting Helen Zenner, Community Manager of @focalplane.bsky.social and @jcellsci.bsky.social Online Editor, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists
@helenzsci.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Do you like developing new AI vision methods for microscopy image analysis? You love theory & implementation? 1 week left to apply for a fully funded PhD position in our lab in Dresden 🇩🇪! Topics: object detection/tracking, multimodal models & more. DM/email for details! #PhD #AcademicJobs #GPUsgoBrr
Vacancy ID 12244
www.verw.tu-dresden.de
July 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New PIs: Objective lens damage during routine use is real. These videos explain how this can happen and how to avoid it. Share with your lab! #savetheobjectives
Preventing Microscope Damage - YouTube
www.youtube.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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In Advice: It can feel very risky to tell your doctoral adviser that you plan to deviate from the expected faculty career path. Here’s how to approach that conversation. chroni.cl/4end1P1
Advice | How to Have ‘The Talk’ With Your Adviser
Why do many Ph.D. students still feel compelled to make their career plans in secret?
chroni.cl
June 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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The White House's proposed FY26 budget would cut NIH funding by >40%. Our new #SCIMaP report projects the budget would lead to economic losses throughout the US with $10M+ lost in almost every House district.
scienceimpacts.org/fy26

@joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
scienceimpacts.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"The money the government sends to Harvard is, in effect, not a subsidy to advance the university’s mission. It’s a payment for the role Harvard plays in advancing the research mission of the United States." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (Gift Article)
More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
"Without researchers at Harvard or other universities doing this foundational work, it’s not clear who would. The government doesn’t have the expertise. Companies don’t have the luxury of time."
Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (Gift Article)
More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"This is the science model the U.S. has developed over 80 years: The government sets the agenda and funds the work; university scientists design the studies and find the answers... There is no alternative in the U.S. to produce the kind of scientific advancements represented by these grants."
Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard (Gift Article)
More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“The money the government sends to Harvard is, in effect, not a subsidy to advance the university’s mission. It’s a payment for the role Harvard plays in advancing the research mission of the United States.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard
More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Reposted by Jennifer Waters
Watching a science talk with slides completely incomprehensible to us colorblind folks.
Easily fixable with a little effort…
🧪
June 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
Antibiotic research at Harvard lab threatened by federal funding cuts
Microbiologist Michael Baym studies antibiotic resistance at Harvard Medical School. He lost millions in federal funding this week.
www.wbur.org
May 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM