Conference table with giveaways, posters, a Company of Biologists logo on the table cloth and roller banners at the back promoting JCS and Open Access publishing.

We’re all set up and ready for Dynamic Cell VI in Reading. Looking forward to talking to you all over the next few days
@bscb-official.bsky.social @biochemsoc.bsky.social @jcellsci.bsky.social
@focalplane.bsky.social

Young forever 😄

Also say hi to Marcela, she is probably hiding somewhere in the audience

What if you got to work with some of your best friends on a science project? I can't publish how fun this was, but I can show you the data (🧵)! Last week, we posted our second neutrophil swarming paper to bioRxiv and I wanted to post my favorite videos here~
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

There is still time to apply. I'm now looking for someone who likes imaging, for a project like this: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Congratulations on a beautiful paper and I'm so very sorry for your loss. Many thanks for sharing the behind the paper that resonate.

A series of spontaneously blinking dyes for super-resolution microscopy - Nature Methods A series of spontaneously blinking dyes in the far-red range facilitate single-molecule localization microscopy. These dyes vary in their blinking properties and can be matched to the applications and...

Out in @natmethods.nature.com: More dyes. They work. Quite well. And blink. Pick the one that fits your target, your technique, and your labeling density. With too many collaborators and institutes to list, but anchored at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BNMI2026 symposium poster

📣 Registration is now open | 5th Bridging Nordic Microscopy Infrastructure Symposium

📍 Levi Summit & Hotel Panorama, Levi, Finland 🇫🇮
📅 23/24–27.11.2026
⏳Early bird registration DL 17.07.2026
📜Abstract submission DL 1.07.2026
🔗 More info eurobioimaging.fi/FiAM/bnmi2026/

Hold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journals Publication lag times are still a frustration for researchers. Although preprints circumvent the delay in sharing science with others, publication is still king when it comes to evaluation. Contracts are short and publication delays can be long…

It's been a while... dusted off some old code to see what the current publication lag times are at cell bio journals.

At the end of the post there's the poor paper with the longest delay in the dataset...

Hold On Hope: publication lag times at cell biology journals

quantixed.org/2026/04/09/h...

Fantastic talks at the ‘Architecting Life’ symposium @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social, including some from our own Academic Editors @jcellsci.bsky.social!
(@drmichaelway.bsky.social, @roylab-ucsd.bsky.social , @guijacquemet.bsky.social )

Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - FocalPlane Microscopy preprints – new tools and techniques in imaging - News

Our preprint list highlighting new tools and techniques in imaging is now up on FocalPlane. Check it out, and let us know if we are missing any research that we should add to the list.

focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/03/m...

Macrophages self-generate and refine chemotactic gradients during migration towards complement C5a Macrophages don’t just follow chemoattractants to locate sites of infection, they can also create and sculpt them as guidance cues but the mechanisms remain unclear. This study shows that macrophages ...

New paper! Self-generated gradients in macrophage chemotaxis. Just published, by the esteemed Abhi Kiran and many collaborators.
A short skytorial follows.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

FIMM High Content Imaging and Analysis unit is organizing symposium poster

📢FIMM High Content Imaging and Analysis unit is organizing symposium

“From Cells to Systems: Advances in High-Content Imaging and 3D Image Analysis”

🗓️ 9:00-17:00, May 12, 2026
📍 Biomedicum 1, Helsinki, Finland
⏳ Registration deadline: May 5, 2026
🔗 www.lyyti.fi/reg/from_cel...

Iv\'an Hidalgo-Cenalmor, Marcela Xiomara Rivera Pineda, Bruno M. Saraiva, Ricardo Henriques, Guillaume Jacquemet: Packaging Jupyter notebooks as installable desktop apps using LabConstrictor https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10704 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.10704 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.10704

💥 We made the COVER 🤩 of @natmater.nature.com !

CELL VISCOSITY 🎈 IN METASTATIC EXTRAVASATION

Check the entire issue here : lnkd.in/e9USS44n

@inserm.fr @unistra.fr

#zebrafish
#mouse
#metastasis
#mechanobiology
#imaging
#materials

Note : Image's credit is V.Gensbittel (PAA bead in a ZF ISV)

Dr Alexandra Sheader

Dr Elnaz Fazeli

📣 The Editors of the Journal of Microscopy are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 ‘Best Paper’ awards for Early Career Researchers.

For physical sciences, Dr Alexandra Sheader was awarded the prize and Dr Elnaz Fazeli won the Life Sciences prize.

See you in 🇫🇮

Interested in visualizing multidimensional images in @jupyter.org notebooks or the terminal? Check out our two new image explorers, JuNkIE (bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/junkie) and CLImax (bitbucket.org/rfg_lab/climax), and the associated @micropub7n.bsky.social.
micropublication.org/journals/bio...

Breakdown of costs for JCS in 2025. Pie chart: Editorial salaries and stipends - 19%; In-house production salaries - 23%; Manuscript processing and publication costs - 7%; Travel and expenses - 3%; Marketing - 6%; Sales - 8%; Community engagement - 5%; General expenses/overheads - 29%.

Why is publishing so expensive?

In this Editorial, we (@katherine-brown.bsky.social @drmichaelway.bsky.social & @seemagrewal.bsky.social) provide details and context on JCS's finances, and hope to dispel some of the myths around the economics of publishing.

journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Special Issue Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics Guest Editors: Francesca Bottanelli and Giulia Zanetti Extended deadline: 1 May 2026 Journal of Cell Science Call for papers logo Image of a cell

We are accepting submissions for our upcoming special issue - Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. This issue will be coordinated by @franbottanelli.bsky.social & Giulia Zanetti alongside our Editor @guijacquemet.bsky.social.

Extended deadline: 1 May 2026
journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/im...

Congratulations on the papers and on the grant submissions 💪💪

I'm happy to present our new tool, EpiCure, a napari plugin to ease correction of segmentation and tracking of epithelia movies, developed in @devstempasteur.bsky.social

The AI Scientist paper is out in Nature today. Runs the full ML research pipeline: idea generation, literature search, coding experiments, running them via agentic tree search, writing the paper in LaTeX, automated review.

Towards end-to-end automation of AI research www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice to see that @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social Labconstrictor made the list.
Many awesome paper in here 🤩

Learnathon/hackathon on the development of ImgLib2/BigDataViewer based Fiji tools for dealing with large image data (survey) Hello all, There is an increasing number of new tools to work with image data. But for many life scientists, Fiji remains a very important platform when it comes to interactively working with image d...

We want to organize a learnathon to teach plugin development within #FIJI #scijava #imglib2 #BigDataViewer and other Big* parts of the Java ecosystem.
Please spread the word, and if you know someone who can be interested, forward them the link below forum.image.sc/t/learnathon...

🚨 Preprint alert!! 🚨

A very important contribution by @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social
How can we make Python-based analysis pipelines very easy to share and reuse?

This will be our new default for sharing (microscopy) image analysis, but has wide applications across life science and beyond.

Try it 😀

Hey microscopist out there, any of you have 3D printed designs for stage inserts for a Leica Stellaris?

Today I would like to share a publication that is particularly meaningful to me. Our tribute to my late mentor, Richard Hynes, has just been published in Matrix Biology.
I hope you will take a moment to read and celebrate the legacy of an extraordinary scientist and mentor.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

Yes please !

Would be nice to see some fishy papers in this one!

#IMS2026 D1 finishes with great @henriqueslab.bsky.social and @guijacquemet.bsky.social pushing the limits of live-cell super-resolution, democratizing AI and quantitative microscopy, and using all these to study cancer cell transmigration and attachment 🌟