🎥 Lights, camera, action! Great to film with Carlos Pelleschi Taborda discussing fungal infections, the impact in Latin America, global collaboration & future possibilities. More to come soon! 👀 #ImageOfTheWeek

Rubin Observatory sits atop Cerro Pachón under a starry sky. Its dome is open, revealing the telescope. The Little Beehive Cluster glows as a dense patch of stars above and to the right.

Oh, bee-have! 🐝

The Little Beehive Cluster (M41) dazzles above NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory in this @noirlab.bsky.social #ImageoftheWeek. 🔭🧪

About 2300 light-years away, M41’s ~100 stars were born together — and Rubin will study clusters like this to reveal how stars form and evolve. 🌫️

A colourful look at Candida albicans! 🔬
This image shows the fungus in its hyphal form, with the cell wall (blue), mitochondria (yellow) and membranes (red) highlighted.
These visuals help researchers understand how fungal infections grow and spread.
📸 Tina Bedekovic, MRC CMM #ImageOfTheWeek

#Imageoftheweek was submitted by Sergio Patrón, Rosario Becerra-Becerra, and Emilio Contreras de León from Hospital Infantil de México “Federico Gómez", Mexico City, Mexico.
What explains the dilation of the RV and superior vena cava?

Answer now👉 https://ow.ly/saMt50Yse0k

🔬 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

Astronomical image of double boomerang galaxy PKS 2014-55. The image shows jets emanating from both sides of the black hole, each shaped like a boomerang and indicated in blue.

Radio #ImageoftheWeek

Meet 'Double Boomerang' Galaxy PKS 2014-55, located 800 million light years from Earth.

Two powerful jets of radio waves (🔵blue) originate from a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

📸 Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello & W. Cotton; SARAO; DES

#RadioAstronomy

🔬 Eduardo is exploring what drives virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans. Using calcofluor white staining and fluorescence microscopy, he’s able to visualise bright‑blue, chitin‑rich cell walls that reveal striking differences between strains.

#Science #Mycology #Microscopy #ImageOfTheWeek

Celebrating the brilliant fungi‑inspired work created by Exeter College Fashion & Textiles students 🌱🧵✨

A fantastic example of how art and medical mycology can spark fresh ideas and new perspectives.

#ScienceArt #Mycology #Fungi #SciComm #STEM #ImageOfTheWeek

We're throwing it back to Summer 2025!

This @noirlab.bsky.social #ImageoftheWeek shows NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory’s initial observations of the interstellar object Comet 3I/ATLAS☄️

Scientists expect that Rubin could detect dozens more visitors from other stars over the next decade 🔭

🔬 3D super‑resolution image of Candida albicans, highlighting chitin and β‑1,3 glucan in its yeast and pseudohyphal forms.

Captured on Andor Dragonfly by @fungalhyphae at the MRC CMM.

@oxfordinstruments.bsky.social

#ImageOfTheWeek #FungalBiology #Microscopy

#ImageOfTheWeek by Willis Kwandou and Bambang Budiono from Primaya Heart and Vascular Center Hospital, Makassar, Indonesia.

What diagnosis does this ECG pattern suggest? https://ow.ly/jQgk50Y4HvJ

#cardioed

🦠 Hospitals face a silent killer: Candida auris. This drug-resistant fungus is spreading globally, threatening vulnerable patients. Exeter researchers found iron hunting pumps, a survival trick that could be its Achilles’ heel.

🔗 Learn more 👉 buff.ly/8IN0w4r.

#ImageOfTheWeek #Science #Health

🥊💥 You breathe fungi every day! Aspergillus fumigatus is usually harmless but for those with weak immunity or lung disease, it can be deadly.

🔍 Blue = fungal hyphae
🟣 Purple = immune cells trapping fungus

📸 Mariano Malamud Guillan & @darrenthomson.bsky.social

#ImageOfTheWeek

#ImageOfTheWeek by Raid Faraj, Xavier Lamit, and Sébastien Hess from the Cardiovascular Institute of Strasbourg, Rhéna Clinic. A 62-year-old man with hypertension presented with acute chest pain & ST-elevation in inferior leads. What is the most likely underlying condition? https://ow.ly/oBCm50XWEmy

Congrats to Dr Iana Kalinina & Dr Duncan Wilson for featuring on mBio’s December cover!

Their study shows how “Goliath” cells formed under zinc limitation drive biofilm formation.

Cover: buff.ly/xfz8aEH
Article: buff.ly/WqvpK25

#Microbiology #Research #ImageOfTheWeek

An ancient Greek vase painting showing a man stabbing another man who has two faces and three arms. Behind them a woman stands next to a cow.

Happy New Year from the IGRCT! Our first #imageoftheweek for 2026 is this 6th century Attic vase painting depicting Hermes slaying the giant Argos. Argos has two faces, similar to the Roman god Janus! Hera and Io stand behind them. #classicssky #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

🎶 …and a partridge in a petri 🎶

The labs are feeling festive! Some of our team have decorated their petri-tree, complete with an Eppendorf star 🌟

Thanks to Will Newton, @orlandorosss.bsky.social Abby Potton, @harry-osborne.bsky.social and Matheus Araujo for spreading the cheer!

#ImageOfTheWeek

#ImageOfTheWeek was submitted by Esosa Odigie-Okon, MD, and Haider Alkhateeb, MD, from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, USA.

This patient is a 79-year-old man with #PulmonaryHypertension. What defect is shown?

Answer now👉https://ow.ly/9xlf50XGKI9

Astronomical image of quasar MG J0751+2716 showing gravitational lensing. Faint red arcs in a ring shape are visible against a black background.

Radio #ImageoftheWeek 📡

How can astronomers study incredibly distant radio sources that cannot be directly detected? 🤔 Gravitational lensing!

Gravitational lensing explained ⤵️🧵 THREAD

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📸 Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF

#RadioAstronomt #Astronomy #GravitationalLensing

🔬 #imageoftheweek ¦ Aspergillus fumigatus colony cultured at 37C in Aspergillus Complete Medium (ACM).

This filamentous fungus is blue-green in appearance, with radial grooves and concentric rings reflecting its growth dynamics.

📸 Alberto Munoz

#mycology #aspergillus #fungi

#ImageOfTheWeek by Esosa Odigie-Okon and Fatima Khan from the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.

What is the diagnosis for this patient with stroke and heart block? https://ow.ly/tNcw50XB6In

#cardioed

Fluorescent proteins purified by Johannes Rack and his team at the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology. The team are developing a new microscopy technique to study fungal pathogens.

Protein purification in action - the new probe and two control proteins are purified ready to be used under the microscope.

🔬 #ImageOfTheWeek We’re developing a new microscopy technique, pushing the boundaries of fungal imaging. Before going in vivo, we’re validating ex vivo to ensure what we see is accurate.

Here’s our new probe + 2 control proteins after purification 💡

#Microscopy #Fluorescence

#ImageOfTheWeek by El Belidi, Georges Nadji and Thomas Vacter from centre Hospitalier de Perpignan, France. A 65-year-old with MI history and ICD received inappropriate shocks.

What is the most likely diagnosis? https://ow.ly/wf1n50XxWlG

#cardioed

Rubin, the Moon, and the Milky Way Rubin, the Moon, and the Milky Way

This image was a recent NOIRLab #ImageoftheWeek: noirlab.edu/public/image...

📷: NSF–DOE RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

#ImageOfTheWeek ¦ The Fungal Superhighway 🧫

Cryptococcus neoformans (blue) moving through mouse nose tissue (pink). This image is the first time it’s been seen in this formation in the airways.

📸 Dr Vanessa Francis, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology

#FungalInfection #Mycology #Science

#ImageOfTheWeek by Monica Ianniruberto, Enrico Pulvirenti and Lorenzo Monti from Ospedale Humanitas Mater Domini, Milan, Italy.

Which is the most likely diagnosis? https://ow.ly/e6lH50XtTYS

#cardioed

🍄🖋 #imageoftheweek ¦ A sketch of Shaggy Ink Cap mushrooms, drawn using ink from the mushrooms themselves!

Art meets nature, thanks to Professor @neil-gow.bsky.social 🌳

Trichyphyton hyphae tangled to form fungal balls. The fungus was grown in liquid shaking culture and stained for chitin with Calcofluor White. Credit: Mark Stappers, Ian Leaves and Darren Thomson, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology

🎆 Fungal fireworks! 🎆

This #imageoftheweek shows Trichophyton, the fungus behind athlete’s foot & ringworm. It is a mould, which forms spores that germinate and grow long, thin strands called hyphae.

📸 Mark Stappers, Ian Leaves and Darren Thomson, MRC Centre for Medical Mycology

👻 This creepy critter isn’t a Halloween costume, it’s Trichophyton - a fungus that causes athlete’s foot & ringworm! 🧟Seen under the microscope, it looks like it’s reaching out to haunt your skin🎃

📸 Mark Stappers

#imageoftheweek #halloweenscience #halloween #fungi

#ImageOfTheWeek by Ram Manohar Talupula and Ramesh Babu Pothineni from Aster Ramesh Hospitals, Vijayawada, India.

What is the calcific mass? https://ow.ly/jzz950Xkag6

#cardioed