🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

1/? I've had a few people ask me why I prefer Thorlabs posts over their cages. The argument for cages is self-defeating: supposedly they provide pre-aligned centration, but mechanical tolerances =/= optical tolerances. You end up having to put everything on kinematic mounts...

James nails it: the best reason to enjoy the good view from your lab is "alignment purposes"

It's written in the stars: there's a new fluorescence microscopy paper coming from the Arctic University :)

Remember Avatar, the first 3D movie? Yeah, that wasn't 3D. Actual 3D needs more than polarising glasses. Let's develop a real 3D imaging system together, shall we? youtu.be/JAnzREt6IZE Details in our newly published Optica paper 🥳: doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA…

How to draw optical layout / schematics? First, start with vector graphics tool. Inkscape is free and good. Secondly, there are libraries of nicely drawn basic optical elements such as gwoptics.org/ComponentLibra… @gwoptics & Alexander Franzen 1/N

nature.com/articles/s4158… Fantastic work by Hari Shroff's group on 4-beam SIM.

Here's how we did it: nature.com/articles/s4137… .. of course with complementary YouTube video: youtu.be/2_01bQVeJn4

When you show up to #FOM2023 with the whole squad :D Fantastic presence and presentations by the #UiT nanoscopy group at this year's conference. And thanks to Olli for the video ..

The slight disappointment with being scooped is more than compensated by the very nice results and demonstrations of reduced photobleaching/toxicity with NIR co-illumination in this paper by Ludvikova et al: doi.org/10.1038/s41587…

🤫 #chatGPT integration will be coming to Fiji's Script Editor #SneakPreview 🥳 Thanks for the support 𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚜 𝚁𝚞𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚗 (@[email protected]) ! 🙌 github.com/scijava/script…

Recording many image planes simultaneously is a great time saver for 3D imaging. A wonderful tool for such multifocus microscopy is sara abrahamsson's Multifocus Grating: Here is a short video on how they work and how to make them (without a cleanroom). youtu.be/4K_KcILtAMo?si…

We present: 'Multispectral live-cell imaging with uncompromised spatiotemporal resolution'. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/16

This is _clearly_ one of the best ideas in imaging of the decade. I strongly encourage people to play around with this if they have a few spare hours — watching a *dye* clear a tissue in front of your eyes for the first time is an amazing experience.