Joachim Goedhart
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Joachim Goedhart
@joachimgoedhart.bsky.social
Scientist + Teacher UvA/Amsterdam | Cells | Molecules | Microscopy Quantitative imaging | Fluorescent Proteins | Biosensors | Open Science | dataViz | R | web apps

Homepage: https://joachimgoedhart.github.io/

DataViz Apps: https://huygens.science.uva.nl
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There are now 24 step-by-step guides, explaining how to create these ⬇️ data visualizations with R/ggplot2 - I hope this is a useful resource. Find them all here: joachimgoedhart.github.io/DataViz-prot...
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Talking about impostor syndrome.....
I'll be a teacher in the EMBO "Hack your Microscope" together with some of the very best researchers in the field.
5.5 days of hacking and microscope/fluidics shenanigans in Portugal.
You can apply here: meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic... #EMBOmicroscope
Hack your microscope
Recent advances in open-source microscopy have made high-resolution, customizable imaging systems more accessible, allowing researchers to overcome the constraints of traditional commercial solutions…
meetings.embo.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Ever wondered if analyzing your images by using intensity Z-projections impacts your data?

Happy to announce my guest article in Microscopy & Analysis on that topic. It's a very short read but worth for everyone dealing with image analysis!

buff.ly/KJ147tI

#Microscopy #ZProjection #ImageAnalysis
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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What's some random autofluorescent stuff that I can find outside that would look cool on a microscope?

Looking for weird samples to highlight some of the instruments in the faciliity
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Design stable, folded proteins using only the 10 "ancient" amino acids.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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(Before I drown myself discussing H1Bs on the bad place)

Does anyone know of a working promoter for tracking microglia?
a light that looks like a cat with a small face
ALT: a light that looks like a cat with a small face
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Have you ever wanted to make your own climate warming stripes plot? It's super easy with #rstats! (code here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/... )
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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I love to see the endoplasmic reticulum (ER, cyan) hitchhiking over microtubules (MTs, orange).

Also the membrane dynamics are lovely.

It's been a while, but here we are for a late #fluorescencefriday with some #microscopy
#scicomm #scisky @cellcommlab.bsky.social focalplane.bsky.social 🧪🔬
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Apropos of today's discussion on science Bluesky 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...
The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My son is watching 'The Office' and I finally recognize a lot of memes/gifs
#LateToTheParty
two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room .
ALT: two men in suits and ties are waving their hands in a room .
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Paul Tol also several nice colourblind-friendly palettes: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Paul Tol’s Color Schemes
cran.r-project.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Flashback #FluorescenceFriday to some of the first light-sheet imaging we were doing. Video shows the collecting duct system of the developing kidney labeled with a pan-cytokeratin antibody. Courtesy of former talented technician Deanna Hardesty.
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Question from Slack: Looking for antibodies against mscarlet-i that people have good experience with? #AskZebrafish
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Question from Slack: Looking for antibodies against mscarlet-i that people have good experience with? #AskZebrafish
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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I'm worried about outsourcing to a machine something that's part of our common endeavour to figure out the world. It's not enough that stuff is figured out, it's about **us** figuring it out! I don't remember phone numbers anymore – I outsourced that to my phone. I don't want that for my science.
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Spoiler alert: Ensure that it works ‘out of the box’
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Let's go! Super excited to partner with @richardsever.bsky.social and the fantastic @openrxiv.bsky.social team - Preprints have been the best thing that happened to science publishing during my lifetime, and we're happy @qedscience.bsky.social can make preprints do more 👊
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The Lab of Stephan Grill at MPI-CBG has finally made it to Bluesky and we also have a brand new homepage: grill-lab.org
Check it out.
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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AAVs are crucial vectors for delivering biosensors into neurons! Using AAV delivery, we perform two-color imaging of calcium and potassium transients in neurons. These AAVs are now available from @braincase.bsky.social www.ebraincase.com/news/new-pro...
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Am looking for a cloud storage solution that is European / non-US - anyone experience with jottacloud? Other recommendations?
jottacloud.com/en/
Jottacloud – Cloud storage made easy
Innovative and secure cloud storage for private and business use. Your files are stored on environmentally friendly servers, protected by Scandinavian privacy laws.
jottacloud.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I'm thrilled to finally share my PhD work on understanding how Ca2+ signals regulate the protruding front of the cell. It’s been an incredible journey working alongside all the collaborators.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A TRPV4–dependent calcium signaling axis governs lamellipodial actin architecture to promote cell migration
Cell migration is crucial for development and tissue homeostasis, while its dysregulation leads to severe pathologies. Cell migration is driven by the extension of actin–based lamellipodia protrusions...
www.biorxiv.org
March 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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My new ImageJ / Fiji toolkit is out 🔥! The goal is to make image handling & visualization easy, with an intuitive interface! Install it on Fiji with the "Image Viewer" update site
#microscopy #ImageJ #FluorescenceFriday #microscopyMonday
imagej.net/plugins/imag...
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM