Fantastic opportunity to join the ALMF at EMBL in Heidelberg!

Registration deadline is tomorrow (15 April) so get your skates on!

🔬 UK researchers - funding is available to access world-class bioimaging facilities!
The UK Bioimaging User Access Fund offers up to £5K for bioimaging or £2K for image analysis at 6 UK sites
Open to PhD students, postdocs, technicians & PIs
📅 Next deadline: 31 Jul '26
👉https://shorturl.at/M2ckv

🙌 Over 100 people at the #EuroBioImgaing Image Data Community Days! Join us this week for lectures, hands-on workshops & networking sessions. Now, Aastha Mathur tells about our Image Data Services - Analysis & Beyond.
#ImagingCommunity
More info⤵️
www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/image...

If you work with preclinical imaging data, this workshop is for you! Learn hands-on how to manage projects, upload data & run QC tools in #XNAT on April 16, 🕐️ 13:00–15:00 CEST.
#XNAT #PreclinicalImaging #RDM #Workshop
utu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

In a new open-access EMBO Reports paper, we propose a practical framework for KPI-based evaluation of core facilities, reflecting how they
🔥 enable science,
🎯 run reliably,
🚀 and stay future-ready through proactive innovation
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-026-00762-z

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We are pleased to announce that registration for the 7th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS 2026 is now open!
🕐November 23rd-24th, 2026📍The Francis Crick Institute, London. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there (or online 😀)

#microscopycommunity- looking for help on your image analysis? GloBIAS offers free help sessions!
Dates: 20-24 April 2026
Registration deadline: 15 April 2026
Registration may close earlier if all available slots are filled.
Register here buff.ly/KzgIYOd

More information: buff.ly/vaCW4sF

Hidden REF Competition 2026 - The Hidden REF Celebrating all research outputs and roles The Hidden REF Competition The Hidden REF competition was launched in 2021. It is a community-driven, national event that raises awareness […]

The Hidden REF Competition 2026 officially launches at the end of May!

The last competition had 24 categories and we need your help to ensure these categories still reflect the full diversity of research outputs and roles.

Find out more and share your category suggestions:

Thinking of launching OMERO at your institute? Join us April 13 (🕒️ 15:00–16:30 CEST) to explore effective strategies for institutional deployment & coordinated implementation - ideal for research support & IT staff! @gerbi-gmb.de
#OMERO #RDM #FAIRdata
forms.gle/rJHThLV2J7oH...

Still a few open spots! Join us April 13 & 14 🕒️ 15:00–17:00 CEST to learn how to make your microscopy research more FAIR & reproducible. Great for students, postdocs, and PIs. @makaefer.bsky.social
#FAIRdata #BioImaging #Reproducibility
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨A few spaces left on our Bristol Bioimage Data Stewardship workshop!
📍 20 May, 09:30 - 17:00
🔬Learn FAIR principles, data sharing, repository submission & more — then take those skills back to your facility as a trainer
🚆 Up to £100 travel support for UK academics
Apply👉https://shorturl.at/2mZA

Looking for a course on STED? You still have time to apply by 17 April 🔬⏰ @gerbi-gmb.de @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @eulimi.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social @france-bioimaging.bsky.social @bioimaginguk.bsky.social @danishbioimaging.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social

Only one week left to apply for this Python training course!

Thank you to all the fantastic students, supervisors, co-organisers and advisors who took part in this (very) oversubscribed Summer Studentship scheme.

Delighted that it has opened doors for the students involved!

Thank you to all the fantastic students, supervisors, co-organisers and advisors who took part in this (very) oversubscribed Summer Studentship scheme.

Delighted that it has opened doors for the students involved!

Our Microscope Activity Kits have reached 200,000 primary school children since the scheme was established 😀🔬

We were delighted to share some of the feedback from schools in our latest issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus

Read more: https://ow.ly/2TCm50YzGQb

Always a informative meeting, for those interested! More details here: www.rms.org.uk/community/ne... #ZebrafishMeeting

BioImagingUK Meeting 2026 The BioImagingUK Meeting will take place on Monday 12 October 2026 at the Natural History Museum

More info and registration: www.rms.org.uk/bioimaginguk-2026

📢 BioImagingUK Community Meeting 2026 is GO!

📅 12 Oct | 10:00–17:00
📍 Natural History Museum, London
✅ Free to attend (lunch included!)

Careers, funding, community updates & more
Travel bursaries for techs & ECRs — apply by 8 May

Register👇 LINK in comments

#Bioimaging

Image analysis. (A) Pie chart shows the % of facilities with dedicated image analysis support. Yes (blue), no (orange). (B) Violin plot shows the distribution of # FTE providing that support. Mean and standard deviation are included. (C) Pie chart shows the % of facilities providing bespoke image analysis. Yes (blue), no (orange). (D) Pie chart shows the sources of cost recovery of bespoke image analysis support. Uncharged (blue), charged by the hour (orange), project fee (green), staff salary contribution (sky blue). (E) Pie chart shows the % of facilities that support commercial image analysis software. Yes (blue), no (orange). (F) Pie chart shows the sources of funding to maintain commercial analysis software. Mix of all sources (blue), on an annual basis from user charges (orange), institutional support (green), grant funding (sky blue), on an ad hoc basis from user charges (magenta). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jmi.70079

Little bit surprised to see most microscopy facilities now have dedicated image analysis support, but 1.0 FTE on average is nowhere near enough.

And more than half don't charge for analysis services?!?

🤨

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Brilliant to see the UK Light Microscopy Facilities paper from BioImagingUK being used to benchmark globally 🔬

Huge thanks to Paul and team — open benchmarking data like this is invaluable for making the case for facility funding worldwide.

Scientists and attendees engage around microscopy equipment at IMC21 in Liverpool, August-September 2026.

More than *100* exhibitors have already signed up for the 21st International Microscopy Congress #IMC21! 😃 🔬

Huge thanks to all the companies supporting this fantastic event for the global #microscopy community - and we still have limited spaces available!

https://ow.ly/szKe50Yyw7h

@makaefer.bsky.social @lankylaste.bsky.social @calm-stp.bsky.social @toddfallesen.bsky.social

🐍 Learn Python for Image Analysis — for free!
UK life scientists: join EuroBioImaging's hands-on beginner course at The Crick in London (23–25 June), running simultaneously with sites in CZ, PT and SWE!
⏰ Register by 15 April — places are limited!
✈️ Travel funding may be available
shorturl.at/v3Vsk

🔬UK researchers: Access cutting-edge bioimaging tech + expert support with our User Access Fund!

💷 £5k for imaging
💷 £2k for image analysis

Choose from 6 top UK facilities, contact them, then apply!

rms.org.uk/user-access-fund

⏰ Next deadline: 31 March
✅ Decision in 4 weeks

Pls share!

Have you submitted your abstract yet for the 21st International Microscopy Congress? #IMC21 (Deadline *tomorrow* 20 March)

Here's IMC21 Chair, Professor Nigel Browning, explaining why you should definitely be joining the global #microscopy community in Liverpool this summer!

Close-up microscopic image of intertwined red blood cells on the cover of infocus magazine March 2026 issue.

An Outreach and Education Special Issue of infocus Magazine #RMSinfocus is now available online!

Find out more about some of the most impactful initiatives within the RMS and wider #microscopy community 🙂🔬

https://ow.ly/XWRm50YrizH

📢 UK RESEARCHERS - Ever wished you could try a completely different imaging approach on your sample but lacked access to equipment or funds?

That's exactly what the Euro-BioImaging UK Node User Access Fund is for!

Applications are open year-round, with 3 deadlines/yr:
📅 31 Mar | 31 July | 30 Nov

🔬 3D rendering of Candida parapsilosis yeast and pseudohyphae, stained to visualise mannan in the cell wall and vacuoles.

Data: Andor Dragonfly spinning disk confocal | 3D processing in IMARIS by @darrenthomson.bsky.social Head of MYCOscopy, MRC CMM.

#MedicalMycology #Microscopy #ImageOfTheWeek