🏆 Proud to share that @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social & BioImagingUK have been awarded the @tech-commit.bsky.social Award of Impact!
This recognises our support of imaging technicians through:
✈️ 85 travel grants
📚 60 training subsidies
🔬 84K+ pupils engaged in outreach
📝 Core Facilities Poster & Policy

@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social

Come and work for us!
#KingsJobs
We have a technician role available. Advert is here my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

Every few months we vote on which of the images we post here is best - Congratulations @lodemwingie.bsky.social for winning this round with Lumbar Spinal Cord.
#FluorescenceFriday

This image was the winner in our image competition! Congratulations @lodemwingie.bsky.social !

#FluorescenceFriday time
Differentiated Hippocampal Neurons
Treated with psilocin (from psilocybin)
Zarah Haniff

It's #FluorescenceFriday !
@sahandfarmand.bsky.social has shared some hippocampal progenitor cells that he imaged label free with the Phenix @kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

It's #FluorescenceFriday - this week we have expanded mouse brain tissue with GFP labeled PSD95. Imaged by Kaiyu Wu here at @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Tracking spatiotemporal distribution of organelle contacts in vivo with SPLICS reporters - Cell Death & Disease Cell Death & Disease - Tracking spatiotemporal distribution of organelle contacts in vivo with SPLICS reporters

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fun collab with T.Calì&M.Brini, led by postdoc Lucia Barazzuol and supported by Tatiana Tykhonenko and PhD student Tia Griffiths @kingsioppn.bsky.social @wohlmicroscopy.bsky.social @nc3rs.bsky.social

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social

#FluorescenceFriday
NUP96 (Cyan) in U2OS cells, using DNA-PAINT with anti-GFP showing nuclear pore complex - highlights accumulation of GR20 (Magenta), an arginine-rich DPR near NPCs suggesting disruptions in transport
Dr Seoungjun Lee @ukdri.ac.uk

Drosophila larval motor neurons labelled with GFP (green) showing activated ATF4 expression (magenta) due to knockdown of the mitochondrial complex I subunit NDUFS1 Two larger ridges of green vertically show green processes coming out from the centre with magenta cells along the central valley between the green in clusters as well as some along the green outer processes

Drosophila larval motor neurons labelled with GFP (green) showing activated ATF4 expression (magenta) due to knockdown of the mitochondrial complex I subunit NDUFS1 #FluorescenceFriday
Imaged by @batemanlab.bsky.social

Fluorescently stained spinal cord slice

#FluorescenceFriday
Lumbar Spinal Cord
Imaged by Laura Odemwingie @lodemwingie.bsky.social @kingsioppn.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk

a woman is holding a child 's hand while a pumpkin with a face on it glows in the dark ALT: a woman is holding a child 's hand while a pumpkin with a face on it glows in the dark

We come in peace

The Colours Out of Space
Rajvinder Khare - December 2019
#FluorescenceFriday

Joint A*STAR - King’s College London PhD Studentships in Biomedical Science 2025/26 King's College London is seeking outstanding and motivated students to join our university and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

@stroudlab.bsky.social and I have a joint PhD position available as part of the A*STAR Research Attachment Programme. You'll have the opportunity to work across two continents in supportive environments on how nuclear envelope biology affects disease and aging. Details: www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

3D rending of microscope imaging data collected with a confocal showing ramifications of microglia

Synaptic Pruning by Microglia - Mrityunjoy Mondal - November 2019
#fluorescencefriday

#flurorescencefriday cooking at NCIS.

Apply for The Company of Biologists Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America - FocalPlane Apply for The Company of Biologists Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America - Default

Apply for a funded early-career researcher place at @biologists.bsky.social Workshop on Democratising Microscopy in Latin America.
The Workshop will be in Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador from 12 – 15 October 2025
Application deadline: 14 February
focalplane.biologists.com/2025/02/11/a...

Woman looking into a microscope, wearing blue, protective gloves and a white lab coat.

This #WomenInScience Day, why not check out our 'Equity in Microscopy' Resource, which highlights women and other underrepresented people in #microscopy and #cytometry

A great resource for conference organisers!

Find out more and add to our database: www.rms.org.uk/community/eq...

Huw Thomas (left, wearing dark jacket and glasses) holds his painting of a supernova alongside RMS Chief Executive Sali Davis (wearing grey jumper) in the RMS library. A large mirror and mantlepiece with two old microscopes is visible in the background.

Huw Thomas (right), wearing dark jacket and glasses, holds his painting of a macrophage alongside RMS Chief Executive Sali Davis (wearing grey jumper) in the RMS library. Bookshelves filled with scientific journals are visible in the background.

It was lovely to receive a recent visit from RMS Corporate Advisory Board member - and talented artist - Huw Thomas, who very kindly presented a pair of his paintings to adorn our office walls 😊🔬👨‍🎨🖼️🎨

Read more: rms.org.uk/resource/mic...

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Some of my favorite images of #algae for #MicroscopyMonday. Calcofluor white + #chlorophyll autofluorescence imaged on a #confocal #microscope

#bioart #sciart #microscopyart #microscopy #phycology #tides #tide #closeup #lookcloser