Michael Morehead
@michael-syglass.bsky.social
CEO & cofounder of @syGlassVR, a virtual reality science company.
computer scientist, startups, VR, and lover of microscopy.
computer scientist, startups, VR, and lover of microscopy.
Reposted by Michael Morehead
One year of #3DThursday! Revisiting our first specimen, a Pekin duck: thanks to this community we learned she was Beaker, a rescued duck from Utah who later contributed to science.
🔬: #CTScan, Scarlet Imaging's BriteVu
🥼: Scott Echols
🎬: syGlass.io
🦆📸: credit TIFOtter
#Anatomy #syGlass #SciComm
🔬: #CTScan, Scarlet Imaging's BriteVu
🥼: Scott Echols
🎬: syGlass.io
🦆📸: credit TIFOtter
#Anatomy #syGlass #SciComm
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
One year of #3DThursday! Revisiting our first specimen, a Pekin duck: thanks to this community we learned she was Beaker, a rescued duck from Utah who later contributed to science.
🔬: #CTScan, Scarlet Imaging's BriteVu
🥼: Scott Echols
🎬: syGlass.io
🦆📸: credit TIFOtter
#Anatomy #syGlass #SciComm
🔬: #CTScan, Scarlet Imaging's BriteVu
🥼: Scott Echols
🎬: syGlass.io
🦆📸: credit TIFOtter
#Anatomy #syGlass #SciComm
Stoked to be back in San Diego for #sfn25 with syGlass and the rest of the team. This week, we're showing off our new AI based axon tracer and the new Sony Spatial Display. Come visit us at booth 813!
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Stoked to be back in San Diego for #sfn25 with syGlass and the rest of the team. This week, we're showing off our new AI based axon tracer and the new Sony Spatial Display. Come visit us at booth 813!
Exciting News! 😎 syGlass is proud to announce our new collaboration with Sony, featuring their revolutionary glasses-free 3D Spatial Reality Display. Experience the future of visualization at the 2025 Society for Neuroscience conference. Stop by our booth #813 to see it in action!
#sfn25 #sfn2025
#sfn25 #sfn2025
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Michael Morehead
For #3DThursday we’re introducing Dynamic Depth color mapping! It encodes distance with smooth depth-aware gradients so layered structures pop without losing context.
🔬 #MicroCT of a P1 mouse
🥼 Hsu Lab, Baylor, @cwloganhsu.bsky.social
🎬 syGlass.io
#Microscopy #SciComm #3DVisualization #syGlass
🔬 #MicroCT of a P1 mouse
🥼 Hsu Lab, Baylor, @cwloganhsu.bsky.social
🎬 syGlass.io
#Microscopy #SciComm #3DVisualization #syGlass
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
For #3DThursday we’re introducing Dynamic Depth color mapping! It encodes distance with smooth depth-aware gradients so layered structures pop without losing context.
🔬 #MicroCT of a P1 mouse
🥼 Hsu Lab, Baylor, @cwloganhsu.bsky.social
🎬 syGlass.io
#Microscopy #SciComm #3DVisualization #syGlass
🔬 #MicroCT of a P1 mouse
🥼 Hsu Lab, Baylor, @cwloganhsu.bsky.social
🎬 syGlass.io
#Microscopy #SciComm #3DVisualization #syGlass
Expansion with Magnify for #3DThursday this week!
This mouse brain tissue was imaged using Magnify Biosciences, Inc. expansion microscopy — a simple, low-cost way to achieve nanoscale resolution with a standard confocal.
This mouse brain tissue was imaged using Magnify Biosciences, Inc. expansion microscopy — a simple, low-cost way to achieve nanoscale resolution with a standard confocal.
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Expansion with Magnify for #3DThursday this week!
This mouse brain tissue was imaged using Magnify Biosciences, Inc. expansion microscopy — a simple, low-cost way to achieve nanoscale resolution with a standard confocal.
This mouse brain tissue was imaged using Magnify Biosciences, Inc. expansion microscopy — a simple, low-cost way to achieve nanoscale resolution with a standard confocal.
it was great to present syGlass, Inc at CACIE, part of the largest international educational conference in China, with Kenan Sener, Ed.D.
Very grateful for CAEIE for hosting me for this week in Beijing. ❤️ lnkd.in/g8KQMa8x
Very grateful for CAEIE for hosting me for this week in Beijing. ❤️ lnkd.in/g8KQMa8x
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
it was great to present syGlass, Inc at CACIE, part of the largest international educational conference in China, with Kenan Sener, Ed.D.
Very grateful for CAEIE for hosting me for this week in Beijing. ❤️ lnkd.in/g8KQMa8x
Very grateful for CAEIE for hosting me for this week in Beijing. ❤️ lnkd.in/g8KQMa8x
Taking over #3DThursday while Brandy Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social is out of office for some adventures!
🦇: Rousettus aegyptiacus stained in 10% Lugol’s iodine for 3 months
🔬: PerkinElmer Quantum GX microCT
🥼: @acsharp.bsky.social
🏛️: University of Liverpool’s Centre for Preclinical Imaging
🦇: Rousettus aegyptiacus stained in 10% Lugol’s iodine for 3 months
🔬: PerkinElmer Quantum GX microCT
🥼: @acsharp.bsky.social
🏛️: University of Liverpool’s Centre for Preclinical Imaging
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Taking over #3DThursday while Brandy Freitas @brandy-syglass.bsky.social is out of office for some adventures!
🦇: Rousettus aegyptiacus stained in 10% Lugol’s iodine for 3 months
🔬: PerkinElmer Quantum GX microCT
🥼: @acsharp.bsky.social
🏛️: University of Liverpool’s Centre for Preclinical Imaging
🦇: Rousettus aegyptiacus stained in 10% Lugol’s iodine for 3 months
🔬: PerkinElmer Quantum GX microCT
🥼: @acsharp.bsky.social
🏛️: University of Liverpool’s Centre for Preclinical Imaging
Absolutely amazing to hike the Great Wall of China. Truly an engineering marvel and an amazing historic achievement.
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Absolutely amazing to hike the Great Wall of China. Truly an engineering marvel and an amazing historic achievement.
It's great to visit my good friend Alain Chédotal for an extra special lecture of tissue clearing and light sheet microscopy -- at Faculté de Médecine Lyon Est, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 + Hospices Civils de Lyon - HCL
@hospicescivilslyon.bsky.social
@hospicescivilslyon.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 7:35 AM
It's great to visit my good friend Alain Chédotal for an extra special lecture of tissue clearing and light sheet microscopy -- at Faculté de Médecine Lyon Est, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 + Hospices Civils de Lyon - HCL
@hospicescivilslyon.bsky.social
@hospicescivilslyon.bsky.social
The #mesoSPIM symposium really opened my eyes to the power of open source hardware. I've highlighted some of the surprising outcomes in a new blog post:
How Open Source Microscopy is Solving the Funding Crisis: Insights from the mesoSPIM 10-Year Symposium
www.syglass.io/blog/how-ope...
How Open Source Microscopy is Solving the Funding Crisis: Insights from the mesoSPIM 10-Year Symposium
www.syglass.io/blog/how-ope...
October 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The #mesoSPIM symposium really opened my eyes to the power of open source hardware. I've highlighted some of the surprising outcomes in a new blog post:
How Open Source Microscopy is Solving the Funding Crisis: Insights from the mesoSPIM 10-Year Symposium
www.syglass.io/blog/how-ope...
How Open Source Microscopy is Solving the Funding Crisis: Insights from the mesoSPIM 10-Year Symposium
www.syglass.io/blog/how-ope...
I have really neglected Bluesky. I'm going to try to add my backlog of adventures here now. To start, #mesoSPIM symposium in Zurich! Amazing conference, amazing people, amazing talks!
October 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I have really neglected Bluesky. I'm going to try to add my backlog of adventures here now. To start, #mesoSPIM symposium in Zurich! Amazing conference, amazing people, amazing talks!
One of my favorite #syGlass keyframes yet!
💧 A male water flea (#Daphnia magna) for #3DThursday! Yellow 🟨 is musculature, magenta/gray 🟪 shows autofluorescence of its outer cuticle.
🔬: Fluorescence Microscopy
🥼: Carsten Wolff
🏛️: Marine Bio Lab @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io
#EnvironmentalScience #MBL #SciComm #Microscopy #syGlass
🔬: Fluorescence Microscopy
🥼: Carsten Wolff
🏛️: Marine Bio Lab @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io
#EnvironmentalScience #MBL #SciComm #Microscopy #syGlass
October 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
One of my favorite #syGlass keyframes yet!
Reposted by Michael Morehead
👀 #3DThursday: Cross your eyes to see this super res pollen dataset in 3D! Good old fashioned stereo pairs in #syGlass bringing science to life. 🌿✨
🔬: Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2
🥼: Nat Prunet, @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core: tarheels.live/biologymicro...
🎬: syGlass.io
🔬: Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2
🥼: Nat Prunet, @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core: tarheels.live/biologymicro...
🎬: syGlass.io
September 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
👀 #3DThursday: Cross your eyes to see this super res pollen dataset in 3D! Good old fashioned stereo pairs in #syGlass bringing science to life. 🌿✨
🔬: Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2
🥼: Nat Prunet, @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core: tarheels.live/biologymicro...
🎬: syGlass.io
🔬: Zeiss LSM 980 with Airyscan 2
🥼: Nat Prunet, @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core: tarheels.live/biologymicro...
🎬: syGlass.io
this is so freaking cool! 🤩
Non-destructive testing for #3DThursday!🥽 Apple Vision Pro vs MetaQuest in a microCT.
🔬: Lumafield @lumafield.bsky.social microCT
🎬: syGlass.io, loading two projects at once
3D imaging like this is used to validate design, catch flaws, and build smarter devices.
#MicroCT #syGlass #VR #SciComm
🔬: Lumafield @lumafield.bsky.social microCT
🎬: syGlass.io, loading two projects at once
3D imaging like this is used to validate design, catch flaws, and build smarter devices.
#MicroCT #syGlass #VR #SciComm
September 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
this is so freaking cool! 🤩
Reposted by Michael Morehead
Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ??
🦑 🌊 🌿
🦑 🌊 🌿
September 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just woke up from a social media pause and the first thing I see is an incredible footage of a sperm whale casually cruising with a giant squid in its mouth ??
🦑 🌊 🌿
🦑 🌊 🌿
Reposted by Michael Morehead
🦐 High-res microCT of #Parhyale hawaiensis for #3DThursday! A powerful crustacean model for studying limb development, regeneration, and evo-devo.
🥼: Nipam Patel & Andrew Gillis, 2017
🏛️: University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk
🎬: syGlass.io
#Parhyale #MicroCT #DevBio #EvoDevo #ModelOrganisms #syGlass
🥼: Nipam Patel & Andrew Gillis, 2017
🏛️: University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk
🎬: syGlass.io
#Parhyale #MicroCT #DevBio #EvoDevo #ModelOrganisms #syGlass
September 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🦐 High-res microCT of #Parhyale hawaiensis for #3DThursday! A powerful crustacean model for studying limb development, regeneration, and evo-devo.
🥼: Nipam Patel & Andrew Gillis, 2017
🏛️: University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk
🎬: syGlass.io
#Parhyale #MicroCT #DevBio #EvoDevo #ModelOrganisms #syGlass
🥼: Nipam Patel & Andrew Gillis, 2017
🏛️: University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk
🎬: syGlass.io
#Parhyale #MicroCT #DevBio #EvoDevo #ModelOrganisms #syGlass
Reposted by Michael Morehead
Pollen diversity #3DThursday!🌼🌾 Thanks to Nat Prunet's careful microscopy, we see ridges, spikes & pores that reveal how plants spread & survive.
🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM 980, Airyscan 2
🥼: @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0 #syGlass
🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM 980, Airyscan 2
🥼: @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0 #syGlass
September 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Pollen diversity #3DThursday!🌼🌾 Thanks to Nat Prunet's careful microscopy, we see ridges, spikes & pores that reveal how plants spread & survive.
🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM 980, Airyscan 2
🥼: @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0 #syGlass
🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LSM 980, Airyscan 2
🥼: @nat-prunet.bsky.social
🏛️: UNC Biological Microscopy Core
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0 #syGlass
Reposted by Michael Morehead
Chicken balancing for #3DThursday!🐔 These utricle hair cells sense gravity & straight-line motion. We segmented them with #CellposeSAM in #syGlass.
🥼: Stefan Heller Group
🏛️: Stanford @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0, out now!
#Neuroanatomy #Microscopy #3DVisualization #SciComm
🥼: Stefan Heller Group
🏛️: Stanford @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0, out now!
#Neuroanatomy #Microscopy #3DVisualization #SciComm
August 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Chicken balancing for #3DThursday!🐔 These utricle hair cells sense gravity & straight-line motion. We segmented them with #CellposeSAM in #syGlass.
🥼: Stefan Heller Group
🏛️: Stanford @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0, out now!
#Neuroanatomy #Microscopy #3DVisualization #SciComm
🥼: Stefan Heller Group
🏛️: Stanford @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io v2.4.0, out now!
#Neuroanatomy #Microscopy #3DVisualization #SciComm
Another great conference at M&M (Microscopy and Microanalysis) means another annual interview with the fantastic Eric Jay Miller! Check out the short interview here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=herZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=herZ...
SyGlass VR Data Explorer @ M&M 2025 || Instructinate
YouTube video by Instructinate
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August 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Another great conference at M&M (Microscopy and Microanalysis) means another annual interview with the fantastic Eric Jay Miller! Check out the short interview here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=herZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=herZ...
Reposted by Michael Morehead
Automated Segmentation by Cellpose-SAM using syGlass for #3DThursday! This took about 30 minutes to run on one of the gaming laptops. Crazy.
🔬: Synchrotron #MicroCT
🥼: Keith Cheng, MD, PhD, @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
📝: #CellposeSAM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🥽: syGlass.io v2.4.0 -- out soon!
🔬: Synchrotron #MicroCT
🥼: Keith Cheng, MD, PhD, @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
📝: #CellposeSAM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🥽: syGlass.io v2.4.0 -- out soon!
July 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Automated Segmentation by Cellpose-SAM using syGlass for #3DThursday! This took about 30 minutes to run on one of the gaming laptops. Crazy.
🔬: Synchrotron #MicroCT
🥼: Keith Cheng, MD, PhD, @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
📝: #CellposeSAM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🥽: syGlass.io v2.4.0 -- out soon!
🔬: Synchrotron #MicroCT
🥼: Keith Cheng, MD, PhD, @pennstateuniv.bsky.social
📝: #CellposeSAM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🥽: syGlass.io v2.4.0 -- out soon!
really nice cochlea whew!
A beautiful tour through an AAV-PHP.B-GFP-transduced intact cochlea as visualized via lightsheet microscopy after tissue clearing. Magenta is a hair cell marker, yellow is a neuron marker, and green is AAV-GFP (relatively low hair cell transduction rate in this specific sample).
July 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
really nice cochlea whew!
If you're attending 🎉 Microscopy & Microanalysis 2025! 🎉
definitely say hello at booth 1228 and try out the latest workflows in syGlass
definitely say hello at booth 1228 and try out the latest workflows in syGlass
A medley of modalities for #3DThursday! 🔬: #SBSEM, #Lightsheet, #ExM, & #MicroCT! Come see me at M&M in Salt Lake City. mm2025.eventscribe.net/index.asp
🥼: George Spirou (SEM), Elizabeth Engle (Lightsheet), Ksena Longrin (ExM), Lumafield (microCT)
#VirtualReality #syGlass #MM2025
🥼: George Spirou (SEM), Elizabeth Engle (Lightsheet), Ksena Longrin (ExM), Lumafield (microCT)
#VirtualReality #syGlass #MM2025
July 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
If you're attending 🎉 Microscopy & Microanalysis 2025! 🎉
definitely say hello at booth 1228 and try out the latest workflows in syGlass
definitely say hello at booth 1228 and try out the latest workflows in syGlass
Reposted by Michael Morehead
A #microscopy mystery for #3DThursday!🌾 What is this? 🔍 Things that I know: it is a #plant, it was imaged on a Lumafield #microCT, and the color is a LUT (look up table) that I applied in #syGlass and has nothing to do with the organism (microCT comes in as grayscale). Help! #SciComm
July 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A #microscopy mystery for #3DThursday!🌾 What is this? 🔍 Things that I know: it is a #plant, it was imaged on a Lumafield #microCT, and the color is a LUT (look up table) that I applied in #syGlass and has nothing to do with the organism (microCT comes in as grayscale). Help! #SciComm
The Confetti Cannon was the work of one of our UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social summer interns!
Happy 4th for #3DThursday! 🎉 Do I occasionally forget and then remember ecstatically that we have a confetti cannon in the syGlass room? Yes, yes, I do ...
#syGlass #VRScience #Microscopy #SciComm
#syGlass #VRScience #Microscopy #SciComm
July 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Confetti Cannon was the work of one of our UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social summer interns!
Reposted by Michael Morehead
Happy 4th for #3DThursday! 🎉 Do I occasionally forget and then remember ecstatically that we have a confetti cannon in the syGlass room? Yes, yes, I do ...
#syGlass #VRScience #Microscopy #SciComm
#syGlass #VRScience #Microscopy #SciComm
July 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Happy 4th for #3DThursday! 🎉 Do I occasionally forget and then remember ecstatically that we have a confetti cannon in the syGlass room? Yes, yes, I do ...
#syGlass #VRScience #Microscopy #SciComm
#syGlass #VRScience #Microscopy #SciComm