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New England Society for Microscopy
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Volunteer led organization focused on providing microscopy-related activities and events and disseminating microscopy knowledge and skills to anyone interested in the New England region.
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This week's #MicroscopyMonday is a time lapse 3D printing of a mini microscope from the MakerLab at Brandeis University.

🥼 Greg Buckland | Head of Brandeis MakerLab

#MicroscopyMonday #Sciencecommunication #BrandeisUniversity #NESM #Microscopy #Science #3D #3DPrinting
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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We're up in Gloucester today for the 10th Annual GMGI Science Forum! #NESM #GMGI
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday from one of our upcoming keynote speakers! #NESM www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🥼: @gewilli.bsky.social, Microscopist
🏛️: Brown University Leduc Bioimaging
🔬: TFS Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, Horizontal Field Width (HFW) = 49μm
October 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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It's #MicroscopyMonday and we are only three weeks away from the #NESM Fall Symposium! We still have opportunities for poster and oral presentations for researchers, vendors and core facilities, link here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

#Microscopy #LightSheet #3DPrinting #SEM #LSFM #SciComm
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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For #MicroscopyMonday: “Seeing Every Photon”—a hands-on workshop with Evident Scientific on the FLUOVIEW FV4000 confocal! At the Fall symposium Nov 6-7, learn to capture consistent, quantitative images with SilVIR™ detectors and performance monitoring. #NESM #ConfocalMicroscopy
October 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Excited to welcome MIT’s Julian P. Klein as a keynote at the #NESM Fall Symposium! 🔬 His work uses electron beams to target atoms in 2D materials — here’s a teaser image from his research in quantum engineering.

#MicroscopyMonday #ElectronMicroscopy #QuantumMaterials #Nanotechnology #MIT #SciComm
Stylized graphic of an electron beam, shown as a purple cone with a red bullseye tip, aimed precisely at a single atom in a hexagonal lattice of atoms. The background is a faint atomic-resolution microscopy image, highlighting the idea of targeting individual atoms in atomically thin materials
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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📣Announcing the Fall Symposium Workshops for #MicroscopyMonday!🎫 Registration is now open here: www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Hitachi Gemini FE SEM
🥼: Benjamin Muller, PI Giovanni Traverso, MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE)
📝: Feig et al, lnkd.in/ea5M7aET

#NESM #SciComm
September 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Announcing one of our Keynote Speakers, Elizabeth Engle, for #MicroscopyMonday! Please join us in November at Brandeis!

🔬: 3i Light Sheet
🐭: Dharmendra Puri, Boston Children's Hospital
🏛️: Harvard Medical School's MicRoN facility
🎬: syGlass.io

#NESM #LightSheetMicroscopy #3DImaging #TissueClearing
September 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Announcing registration for the Fall Symposium at Brandeis for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM
www.nesmicroscopy.org/2025-fall-sy...

🔬: Bruker TruLive3D @brukerspatial.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social ‬, Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
📷: syGlass.io
September 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🕷️ A winter tick’s lethal grasp for a late #MicroscopyMonday, captured in stunning SEM by Monica Miles, winner of 3rd place in UMaine’s 2025 Imaging Your Research Contest.

Tiny structures, huge impact on Maine’s moose calves.

#Microscopy #Ecology #Moose #SEM #NESM @umaine.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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It's #MicroscopyMonday! Today we have a very special confocal dataset that HIGH SCHOOL students were able to label and image themselves at the MBL.

🐟: #Zebrafish
🔬: Nipam Patel, High School Science Discovery Programs
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
🎬: syGlass.io

#NESM #Confocal #SciComm #ScienceEd
August 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Tungsten crystals for #MicroscopyMonday! #NESM

⚗️: Tungsten oxide crystals
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social , Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social , Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 8um
August 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Announcing our first Fall Symposium speaker for #MicroscopyMonday! Geoff Williams, Brown. #NESM

🌾: Lily of the Valley
🥼: Geoff Williams, @gewilli.bsky.social
🏛️: @brownuresearch.bsky.social Leduc Bioimaging Facility
🔬: @thermofishersci.bsky.social Apreo 2 VS Scanning Electron Microscope, HFW 4mm
Black and white scanning electron micrograph of a Lily of the Valley flower showing three anthers, each with a textured, folded surface. The anthers are suspended above a cellular platform-like base, revealing intricate tissue structure and fine surface detail at high magnification.
August 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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A #NESM Save the Date for #MicroscopyMonday! We're happy to announce our in-person Fall Symposium will be held at Brandeis University @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social November 6th & 7th. We're looking for #poster and oral presentations and #abstract submission opens soon!
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July 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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🐙 This Octopus shifts from deep to active rest while "dreaming" for #MicroscopyMonday. REM‑like sleep (color bursts and twitches) filmed in real time by Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social‬, currently a 2025 Whitman Fellow at @mblscience.bsky.social. #NESM

#Octopus #Neuro #SleepScience #MBL
July 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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@brandeisuniversity.bsky.social has a new lightsheet for #MicroscopyMonday !💡New England microscopy cores - do you have a system you want advertised? Send us an image! #NESM
🧠: TdTomato Mouse Brain
🔬: #LifeCanvas SmartSPIM, 1.6x obj
🥼: @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: Brandeis LMCF (RRID:SCR_02589)
July 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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For #MicroscopyMonday, we have "The Many Layers of a Squid": Pictured here is a cross-section of the optic lobe from Doryteuthis pealei, the longfin inshore squid. #NESM

🔬: Zeiss @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social Axioscope
📸: Sony DSC-s70
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, Alan Kuzirian
🏛️: @mblscience.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#MicroscopyMonday! Time-lapse fluorescence imaging🧫 live human blood vessel cells expressing GFP fusion protein. #NESM

🔬: @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social Stellaris 8 FALCON
🥼: Sung Hoon Lee, Andre Levchenko
🏛️: Yale West Campus Imaging Core
📝: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lIAk8YyDf...
🏋️: Joerg Nikolaus
June 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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#MicroscopyMonday! Vero cells (🟩: intermediate filaments 🟪: nuclear pores), on conventional confocal and STED microscope. #NESM

🔬: ‪Abberior Line 3D STED @abberior.rocks
🥼: Andy Stone @andystoneimaging.bsky.social
🏛️: @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social Light Microscopy Core Facility (RRID:SCR_02589)
Split image comparing confocal and STED microscopy of a cell. The left half (labeled "Confocal") shows a blurrier image with magenta and green signals—magenta representing nuclear pore complexes in the nucleus, and green showing the vimentin cytoskeleton. The right half (labeled "STED") displays the same structures with much sharper definition and finer detail, highlighting the improved resolution of STED microscopy.
June 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Still of a LIVE sea urchin larvae for #MicroscopyMondy from our #NESM trip to the MIT Museum!

🔬: Bruker's TruLive3D @brukercorporation.bsky.social
🥼: Amro Hamdoun @hamdounlab.bsky.social , Tzer Han Tan's @tzerhan29.bsky.social group at UCSD #UCSD
🌌: Painted Sea Urchin
🎥: syGlass.io #syGlass
June 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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For #MicroscopyMonday, a 100M year-old 🦟 in amber! Lots of familiar #NESM faces up in Acadia for the #LSFM25 at the MDI @mdibiolab.bsky.social !

🔬: Bruker @brukercorporation.bsky.social, LCS SPIM
🟠: Courtesy the Sims Collection
🥼&🎥: Jan Frankowski @frankowskijc.bsky.social

@lsfm-na.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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🥣 #MicroscopyMonday at #NESM! Nano Cheerios (FeO) imaged with a Schottky field emission #SEM (FE-SEM). These rings highlight the clarity and contrast achievable with a high-brightness electron beam.

🔬 JEOL JSM-IT800SHL, www.jeolusa.com/PRODUCTS/Sca...
🥼 Jennifer Misuraca
🏛️ @jeoleurope.bsky.social
Low magnification SEM image showing multiple donut-shaped iron oxide (FeO) nanostructures scattered across the field. These ring-like structures appear as bright, well-defined circles with dark centers against a uniform grey background, illustrating the impressive clarity and contrast of the Schottky field emission SEM (JEOL JSM-IT800SHL).
June 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Microscopist on vacation: "wait, can I take an image with a phone and binoculars' lens?" ... yes, apparently you can ... 🔭

Not quite #MicroscopyMonday ... #NESM

🔬: Celestron phase coated 8x42 129m, FOV 7.4°, iPhone detector
🐦: Scarlet Tanager
🥼: @brandy-syglass.bsky.social
🏛️: West Marlboro, VT
A male scarlet tanager sitting on the top of a pine tree looking at a nutty woman taking a cell phone photo of him through a pair of binoculars.
May 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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#MicroscopyMonday: tissue cleared 🐭lung using light sheet microscopy (#LSFM)!

🔬: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social LIGHTSHEET 7, 5x mag
🥼: Sidrah Ahmed & Carla Kim, PI at BCH
🏛️: @bostonchildrens.bsky.social research.childrenshospital.org/resources/co...
🎬: syglass.io

#Microscopy #TissueClearing #NESM
May 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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For #MicroscopyMonday: 3D reconstructions of lamprey reticulospinal synapses
🐉: Petromyzon marinus
🥼: Jaqulin Wallace, @mblscience.bsky.social
🔬: JEOL JEM-200CX, MBL’s Central Microscopy Facility
📄: doi.org/10.1091/mbc....

#Neurodegeneration #ElectronMicroscopy #MBL #Microscopy #Parkinsons #NESM
Side-by-side TEM images and 3D reconstructions of lamprey synapses. Control shows dense synaptic vesicles and organized structure; high pS129 alpha-synuclein shows dispersed vesicles and disrupted architecture.
May 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM