Jennifer Waters
Microscopist builder
- A great opportunity to learn Python for image analysis from a group of excellent instructors! 🐍 🖥️ 📊 Financial aid available.
- 📣 We are accepting applications for the 2026 Boston Bioimage Analysis Course (BoBiAC): bobiac.github.io! Join us this July at Harvard Medical School for a 6-day intensive hands-on course to learn bioimage analysis with Python! Apply by May 18th! No prior Python experience required! 🧫->🔬->💻->📊
- Reposted by Jennifer Watersdefinitely the coolest microscopy course around
- QI Class of 2025! Centroid = @sciencedoodles.bsky.social & @florianjug.bsky.social / first minima = @talley.codes & me. Applications for 2026 due on Friday! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersDon't let the price of QI deter you! QI offers financial aid through NCI, HHMS, and @bioimagingna.bsky.social. Include a brief statement of need with your application. Aid is distributed by CSHL (not the course instructors). Many of our students - sometimes all! - receive significant support.
- Join us at CSHL for Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis—two weeks of advanced imaging, analysis, and hands-on labs with cutting-edge microscopes and open source software! 📅 April 6–21, 2026 📝 Applications due Friday Jan 30, 2026
- Reposted by Jennifer Waters🚨 Only a few days left to apply for maybe the best microscopy course there is!!! 🚨 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
- PIs & Group Leaders, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available! Applications due Friday 1/30. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- PIs & Group Leaders, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available! Applications due Friday 1/30. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- There's exciting Microtutor news in store for 2026! Be the first to hear the latest on course releases and other learning opportunities by signing up for the Microtutor mailing list: lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/5BYgJu6/m...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersWant to up your microscopy and image analysis game? Applications open now for QI 2026! Join us in cold spring harbor for two weeks of intensive training in all things microscopy.
- 🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)! An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools. 🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026
- Turn up the volume! 🥳
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersOne of the most useful resources for anyone who uses fluorescence methods.
- The FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it! www.fpbase.org/spectra/
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThe FPbase spectra viewer just had it's biggest software refactor in 6 years. It *should* be largely invisible to the end user (hopefully just faster and less buggy). Please let me know if you find any issues as you use it! www.fpbase.org/spectra/
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersRequired reading for cell biologists to get a sense of basic statistical principles! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersRegistration for Halfway to I2K is now OPEN! And workshop submission is still too (for a bit)! Join 20+ presenters and counting, and hundreds of attendees in learning about image analysis, whether you're a complete beginner or a total pro.
- #HappyFluorescenceFriday #microscopycommunity Got an idea for an image analysis workshop? Share it at Halfway to I2K: Online Tutorials on Image Analysis (Nov 17–19, 2025), held with Zoom Events! Submit by Oct 31: buff.ly/lMhK4vz Website: buff.ly/QP36RZB Register for the workshops: buff.ly/8nNAI18
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersItalian 🇮🇹 scientists! Our open call for image analysis support through the @humantechnopole.bsky.social national facilities is currently accepting applications!
- Happy birthday Eva!! @sciencedoodles.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThis 2009 article by @jencwaters.bsky.social discusses the parameters of digital image acquisition that affect the accuracy & precision of quantitative fluorescence #microscopy measurements rupress.org/jcb/article/... In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersIn 2019, Anna Jost & @jencwaters.bsky.social reviewed best practices for validating quantitative #microscopy methods & discuss strategies to avoid unconscious bias in imaging experiments rupress.org/jcb/article/... 📕 In #Reproducibility & Best Practices in Cell Biology: rupress.org/jcb/collecti...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersProduction has started for a new #Snoutscope objective, AMS-AGY v3. It has significantly larger FOV and some other tweaks from v1 and v2. Currently accepting pre-orders. The price will need to increase modestly after deliveries start late October.
- Reposted by Jennifer Waters3rd challenge from AI4Life! We're inviting the community to design unsupervised models that preserve spatial & temporal patterns in neuronal data. 📅 Open till Aug 11, 2025 🚀 Join now: ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/challenge-3/
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThis week, we are highlighting Helen Zenner, Community Manager of @focalplane.bsky.social and @jcellsci.bsky.social Online Editor, as an extraordinary biologist. #100biologists @helenzsci.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersDo you like developing new AI vision methods for microscopy image analysis? You love theory & implementation? 1 week left to apply for a fully funded PhD position in our lab in Dresden 🇩🇪! Topics: object detection/tracking, multimodal models & more. DM/email for details! #PhD #AcademicJobs #GPUsgoBrr
- The Surprising Scientists Hit by Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
- New PIs: Objective lens damage during routine use is real. These videos explain how this can happen and how to avoid it. Share with your lab! #savetheobjectives
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersIn Advice: It can feel very risky to tell your doctoral adviser that you plan to deviate from the expected faculty career path. Here’s how to approach that conversation. chroni.cl/4end1P1
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThe White House's proposed FY26 budget would cut NIH funding by >40%. Our new #SCIMaP report projects the budget would lead to economic losses throughout the US with $10M+ lost in almost every House district. scienceimpacts.org/fy26 @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social
- "The money the government sends to Harvard is, in effect, not a subsidy to advance the university’s mission. It’s a payment for the role Harvard plays in advancing the research mission of the United States." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- "Without researchers at Harvard or other universities doing this foundational work, it’s not clear who would. The government doesn’t have the expertise. Companies don’t have the luxury of time."
- "This is the science model the U.S. has developed over 80 years: The government sets the agenda and funds the work; university scientists design the studies and find the answers... There is no alternative in the U.S. to produce the kind of scientific advancements represented by these grants."
- “The money the government sends to Harvard is, in effect, not a subsidy to advance the university’s mission. It’s a payment for the role Harvard plays in advancing the research mission of the United States.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersWatching a science talk with slides completely incomprehensible to us colorblind folks. Easily fixable with a little effort… 🧪
- Reposted by Jennifer Waters"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersSee this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersYour yearly reminder to acknowledge the core facilities you use and their staff scientists in your papers. These scientists are a crucial part of the scientific ecosystem and to continue to exist they need tangible credit for their work. Plus their associated expertise adds credibility to your work.
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThe latest AIC Call for Proposals is now open! Deadline is June 16, 2025. Come use @hhmijanelia.bsky.social imaging technology and expertise for FREE. Visit www.aicjanelia.org/apply for details. Before applying, contact us to schedule a technical consultation!
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersUS students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersLight sheet baby!! QI2025
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersOur latest preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1..., describes Willi Stepp’s project to make smart microscopy even gentler by doing event detection in phase contrast. We developed neural networks to detect mito-LD and mito-lysosome contacts, as well as mitochondrial pre-fission constrictions.
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersOur first prize winners for their confocal data presentation: 'Pinhole Pros' Federico & Naly!
- Close to the end! #mixedfeelings
- Half way there!
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersI spy with my little eye...a sneak peek of our light sheet microscopy lab samples! Perks of being a @cshlnews.bsky.social course is access to lots of great sample collecting spots! #catchoftheday #tardigrades
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersOur openSPIM is officially up and running to image the latest catch of the day! Fueled by pymmcore-plus & pymmcore-gui! 💪⚡🔬 pymmcore-plus.github.io/pymmcore-plus/ github.com/pymmcore-plu...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersQI 2025 student Federico, a computer scientist, oiling an immersion lens for the first time. 💪
- Reposted by Jennifer Waters@fedegasparoli.bsky.social is setting up our openSPIM in preparation for the light sheet lab next week. Pro tip: Stouts block light more effectively than lagers.
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersFull calendar, great students, dedicated instructors & TAs, and nonstop learning! 🔬🖥️ 📊#microscopybootcamp
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersExcited teach & help w/BoBiAC! This course is perfect for grad students & postdocs using fluorescence microscopy to learn how to use python to process & analyze image data! Best part: it's beginner friendly - no python experience required! More info & apply: iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025/...
- New Python image processing and analysis course!! Pls retweet
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersCome learn microscopy with us by the sea in May!
- PAIR-UP is partnering with the MBL to host an intensive Imaging Boot Camp. This workshop is free to those selected. APPLY NOW! forms.gle/DDWmQq8ogk2h...
- Reposted by Jennifer Waters“Join the Pigino Lab! We’re hiring a PhD student to explore primary cilia biology using advanced imaging, spatial ‘omics, and AI. Apply now at www.cilia-ai.eu and be part of the Cilia-AI Doctoral Network!”
- 👀 Looking for a PhD position but you are torn between cilia biology and computational AI research? 😜 The Cilia-AI Doctoral Network has you covered! Lots of fantastic projects throughout Europe, also @humantechnopole.bsky.social with us or @gaiapigino.bsky.social - apply now! ‼️ www.cilia-ai.eu
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- Reposted by Jennifer Waters🔬🎤 As pre-announced a few days ago... please let us proudly present to you: 𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒓𝒐𝕊𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒕 - your ticket to imaging more, imaging more gentle, and/or imaging more efficient. 🔬 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Like ❤️, repost 🔂, and most importantly... please send feedback ✉️ our way! 🙏
- Immagine you could image two cellular structures in the same fluorescent channel and still reliably get them separated afterwards… What would you do with this? Now… what would you do if that also worked with 4 structures at once? 👇 #MicroSplit #preview🧵
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersEvery time someone mentions using a #FRET #biosensor to me, I still think about this tweet from @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social. Even after seven long years. #Microscopy #Imaging #CellBiology #PlantMicroscopy
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersLike if you get your Tesla serviced after one of its many regular breakdowns, you wouldn't expect to only have to pay for the shop supplies (at cost) and a portion of the one mechanics salary. You'd expect that things like facility operations, building rent, etc would all be wrapped in
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersChildren’s Hospital of Pennsylvania has indirect rate of 70%, but they probably didn’t want to list that atop Harvard because defunding a children’s hospital might be perceived as problematic. This is devastating
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThe Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH. GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC. Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersI would like to point out to the finance bros out there, all your tech stocks, pharma stocks, biotechnology, they are about to tank. You defund the NIH, the universities, the research infrastructure, who do you think is buying the 10x genomics plarforms? The novel monoclonals? The NMEs?
- QI Alumni: QI wants to follow you! Post below or follow @qiatcshl.bsky.social & we'll follow you back! 😺 🔬 💻 📊
- Application are due this Friday! @qiatcshl.bsky.social
- Quantitative Imaging From Acquisition to Analysis applications are due Jan 31! 2 weeks of total microscopy & image analysis immersion with me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott! See comments... (1/5) meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersIf you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThe Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis course at CSHL is now on Bluesky! Follow us for updates on future course dates and fun photos when the course is in progress. Applications for this years course (March 24- April 8) are due next week on Jan 31!
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersHi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersBiased but honest opinion: best microscopy course there is! 👍 🔬 👩🎓 Apply this month, join us late May and early April at CSHL!!!
- Quantitative Imaging From Acquisition to Analysis applications are due Jan 31! 2 weeks of total microscopy & image analysis immersion with me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott! See comments... (1/5) meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThis course is a perfect opportunity for grad students & postdocs using optical microscopy to study biology! You will strengthen fundamental knowledge and confidence in approaching your quantitative light microscopy experimentation. Apply by Jan 31! 🔬
- Quantitative Imaging From Acquisition to Analysis applications are due Jan 31! 2 weeks of total microscopy & image analysis immersion with me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott! See comments... (1/5) meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThe Image & Optics Facility @ Institute of Science and Technology Austria is expanding it’s image analysis services and has a vacant position for a service oriented *Image Analysis Specialist* with a strong interest for data infrastructure organization🔬🧑💻📈 - sharing is much appreciated!
- Applications for our Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis 2025 course (Mar 24-Apr 8) are due on Jan 31! Come immerse yourself in microscopy and image analysis with me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott! Please RT
- Hey PIs, do your trainees need to learn light microscopy and image analysis? Send them to us! Financial aid is available. meetings.cshl.edu/coursesinten...
- Quantitative Imaging From Acquisition to Analysis applications are due Jan 31! 2 weeks of total microscopy & image analysis immersion with me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott! See comments... (1/5) meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- Acceptance into the course is competitive. In your application, the essay is important! Be sure to tell us why you need the course, focusing on your quantitative imaging plans. If you are struggling with quantitative microscopy, explain how and why you think the course can help! (5/5)
- Join me, @talleylambert.bsky.social, @bethcimini.bsky.social, @florianjug.bsky.social & Hunter Elliott for our two week CSHL course on microscopy & image analysis starting March 24, 2025! Applications are due 1/31/25. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersI have created a starter pack for AI for Science. Let me know if you would like to be added. go.bsky.app/FPgU6Ptat://did:plc:t6dn56uvxz55kmc4y3uemcme/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lf34vwlu532z
- Reposted by Jennifer Waters📢Announcing a QuPath Workshop 📢 February 24-25, 2025, in San Diego, CA, at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. This year’s event will be all about Multiplex Immunofluorescence Analysis. The workshop will be followed by an 🎉 Advanced QuPath User’s Meeting 🎉- February 26, 2025.
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersSmall reminder about registration for the microscopy course in Pasteur Paris. The deadline for registration is early January, and there are only a few seats left.
- Do you want to learn light microscopy? The registration for the Pasteur course 'Principles and Applications of Fluorescence Microscopy' in March 2025 are open!! pasteur.fr/en/pafm 10 March – 21 March 2025 plz RT! #PAFM is back after a two-year break 🤩🌈🔬🪛 👇thread
- Reposted by Jennifer WatersThe long-awaited #TiM2025 workshop list is here!🌟 From basic #microscopy to advanced techniques like lightsheet, FLIM, CLEM & more! Full list on our event page: bit.ly/3BPN9fB Stay tuned for workshop registration opening next year for registered participants! ⏳
