Mike-roscope
iamichaelnelson.bsky.social
Mike-roscope
@iamichaelnelson.bsky.social
Grad student in Eliceiri lab at UW-Madison. Admin on Image.sc forum and major image analysis enthusiast. Migrating from 2D to 3D analysis, and pathology to lightsheet (or combine both!)
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We've updated our BIOP extensions to QuPath 0.6! 🎉

forum.image.sc/t/qupath-bio...

One-click extension installs are her! ABBA, Warpy, Cellpose, and the last one? chef's kiss 👌(1/3)
QuPath-BIOP catalog is out
Hello @qupath team & users, We are pleased to announce the changes to our extensions that come with the release of QuPath 0.6.0. QuPath BIOP catalog Starting from v0.6.x, QuPath now handles extensio...
forum.image.sc
August 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I got this in my head and I couldn't focus on work until it existed.

Microscopy image file alignment chart, based on how I feel if you give me an image to analyze:
August 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Yikes...
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday!

#microscopycommunity - join @bioimagingna.bsky.social Thursday, June 5, to hear Thao Do as part of BINA’s Career Speaker Series hosted by the Early Career Working Group

Learn more and register here: buff.ly/rcfgvC4
June 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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After a long journey, Segment Anything for Microscopy is now published in Nature Methods! We significantly improve SAM for interactive and automatic segmentation in light and electron microscopy and build a user-friendly tool.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday!

We're so excited to be co-hosting #GBIxBINA2025 with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social, in beautiful Montreal on Oct 6-10, 2025! 🍁

Need Financial Assistance? 📅Apply by March 5, 2025!

Details & application links @ www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/gbixb...
January 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Happy #Fluorescence Friday!

#microscopy community, mark your calendar and join us for Valeria Piazza’s presentation as part of @bioimagingna.bsky.social's Career Speaker series on Feb 6, free & online!
Register here www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/caree...
January 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Registration is OPEN for the 2025 QuPath Training Course on Feb 24-25 and an Advanced Users Meeting on Feb 26 at @lji.org .

The year, the focus will be on Multiplex Immunofluorescence analysis. Hosted by Zbigniew Mikulski, @iamichaelnelson.bsky.social , and myself.
January 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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I cannot imagine not wearing a mask on an airplane in perpetuity.
How droplets from a cough flow through an airplane cabin when the virus is airborne. Video from Qingyan Chen, Purdue Univ. School of Mechanical Engineering.
November 25, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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Cassava Sciences $SAVA and its Alzheimer’s drug are done. The damage lingers

While many investors lost money, the bigger tragedy involves patients

www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/c...
Cassava Sciences and its Alzheimer's drug are done. The damage lingers
The Cassava Sciences story ended Monday exactly as many knew it would — with the company’s experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease, simufilam, failing a clinical trial.
www.statnews.com
November 25, 2024 at 7:56 PM
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday !
It's the end of the week, so have a good coffee or tea, look in the mirror and give yourself a smile. Even if you're not in the mood, maybe you can trick your brain for a bit...
At least, you have a smile from me :)
November 15, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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I feel the science-to-nonsense ratio is much better on this site:

Enjoy these jittery mitochondria sifting through axons of patient-derived motor neurons thanks to the pkMito probe from @spirochrome.com

#neuroscience #science #microscopy #bioimaging #mitochondria
October 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Made a starter pack for microscopy and image analysis - please (self-)nominate additions!

go.bsky.app/Nwa91pC
November 6, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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Consult your friendly, neighborhood bioimage analyst before your next experiment!

This paper discusses all that we do for scientific research, how we can do more, and how we can convince admins and grant agencies to fund us better.
October 30, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Neat position at HHMI in Chevy Chase MD:
"Open Science Strategy Program Coordinator"
pay range $75-120k, PhD required
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Open Science Strategy Program Coordinator
Primary Work Address: 4000 Jones Bridge Road, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815 Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. HHMI is focused on supporting and moving science forward in a...
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
September 28, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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1/New court filing from David Sabatini (dkt#213) includes a letter from HHS, saying a debarment is being considered. It says generally debarments are for three years or less.
September 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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If you’re seeing pictures of the eclipse “taken with JWST,” JWST doesn’t take pictures of the sun and also is a million miles away from Earth and not in the path of totality 🔭🧪
April 9, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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We kind of his the eclipse jackpot, the cloud made it so much more dramatic.
April 8, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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fake solar eclipse streams from fake SpaceX channels featuring a fake AI-generated Elon Musk speech filled YouTube today

why? to dupe the hundreds of thousands of viewers into falling for a crypto scam of course
mashable.com/article/fake...
AI-generated Elon Musk videos flood YouTube with fake eclipse streams to promote crypto scams
The fake solar eclipse streams are racking up hundreds of thousands of views.
mashable.com
April 8, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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Super exciting news from @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

BMGF Open Access policy will:
End the foundation’s support for individual article publishing fees & Require preprints and advocate their review

Huge step towards changing the system
March 27, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Internship at the Broad on-site in Cambridge MA!

- develop methods to interpret microscopy images
- apply deep learning
- work at the interface of computer science and biology
- ~6 months starting June 2024
- BS/masters/PhD student or recent grad, w USA work permission

broad.io/CSInternship
March 27, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Cursive Letters xkcd.com/2912
March 27, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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Monday Mood
March 4, 2024 at 4:56 AM
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I've lived in Wisconsin for 9 years, and this is the first time that we will have state legislative maps that are not horribly gerrymandered. Forward! www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
Gov. Tony Evers signs new election maps, ending Wisconsin Republicans' grip on legislative power
Republicans in Wisconsin have enjoyed lopsided majorities in the Legislature under gerrymandered maps drawn in 2011.
www.jsonline.com
February 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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Sphere Tastiness xkcd.com/2893
February 13, 2024 at 2:24 AM