SPIE @spie.org Welcome to the official account of SPIE, the international society for optics and #photonics. Over the past five years, we have invested over $26M in the international optics community! 💡
Optica @optica.org Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide. 💡⚛️
http://www.optica.org/
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
@dianelidke.bsky.social @dianelidke.bsky.social 
Jenny Sachweh @jennysachweh.bsky.social Scientist. She/her. I like cryoET, fluorescence microscopy, and cell biology.
Developing cryoCLEM methods in the Mahamid lab at EMBL Heidelberg. Formerly studying NPCs in the Beck Lab at MPIBP Frankfurt. MBL Physiology’23 alumn.
Wendy Salmon 🐟🔬🧫 @fishcscells.bsky.social Light Microscopy #ImagingScientist
@unc_cbp. Enabling others to harness the power of light microscopy. Opinions and typoes my own. she/her
Jennifer Jahncke @thejenjay.bsky.social Postdoc at OHSU studying inhibitory synapses. Mother to two megaesophagus dogs and many indoor plants. She/her. 
Okolab @okolab.bsky.social Okolab provides leading edge solutions for Live Cell Microscopy and In Vitro Fertilization.
Visit our website www.oko-lab.com 
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Laboratory of Genomic Stability @lgs-imb.bsky.social Institute of Molecular Biology, BAS
#DNArepair #Replication #Genomeintegrity #Cancer #Anticancerdrugs #Microscopy
Jain_Akanksha_ @akanksha-jain.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Of Neural MorphoGenomics @DMLS, Uni Zurich. •4D tissue morphogenesis •Human organoids •Developmental biology •Evolution of tissue mechanics. Previous @ETH @mpicbg @DBS-TIFR
https://akankshajain2022.github.io/AkankshaJain.github.io/
Collin Ainslie @cmainslie.bsky.social PhD Candidate | Mattheyses Lab @ UAB | GBS Genetics Genomics and Bioinformatics | UAB MSMBS ‘21 | UAH BS Biology ‘20 | He/Him
https://t.crdtg2.com/331727/5165?aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
@rory-m-power.bsky.social @rory-m-power.bsky.social Engineer @ EMBL Imaging Centre, EMBL Heidelberg
Tanner Fadero @tanner-fadero.bsky.social (he/him) Light microscopy scientist interested in developing and deploying better live-cell fluorescence microscopy technology. Tweets about microscopy🔬, cell biology, and optics. Conflicts of interest: http://tinyurl.com/y25ctubo
Peter Carlton @carltonlab.org From Seattle USA, now in Hieidaira, Japan. Researching meiosis @ Kyoto University. he/him. シアトル生まれ、比叡平（滋賀県大津市）に住む。京都大学・生命科学研究科の准教授。研究テーマは線虫の減数分裂
Orcid: 0000-0002-5320-6024
HP: https://www.carltonlab.org
Pacific Optica @pacificoptica.bsky.social Optics for multiphoton imaging, laser scanning, and more. Based in Santa Barbara, California. pacificoptica.com
Nat Prunet @nat-prunet.bsky.social Microscopic farmer 🔬🌺
Microscopy core director @UNC Chapel Hill
Former plant developmental biologist
Jonathan Taylor @jtimaging.bsky.social Optical physicist tackling biomedical imaging and measurement problems with realtime computation, maths and computational imaging
Viroscope @viroscope.bsky.social Scientific Visualization (PhD) | Viroscope | Revealing the cinematic universe inside your cells | High-End Microscopy & Storytelling
Center on Probes for Molecular Mechanotechnology @cpmm24.bsky.social We're an NIH-funded center that develops and optimizes technologies to enable the study of mechanobiology and mechanotransduction pathways in living cells. Primarily based out of Emory University but have collaborators globally!
Lucien Weiss @weisslab.bsky.social Assoc. Prof @polymtl @transmedtech
Cell biophysics, superres microscopy, & curious-methods enthusiast.
We have open positions www.WeissLab.ca
Eric Griffis @egriffis.bsky.social Microscope nerd, and recovering academic. Currently enjoying startup life. @DrGriff34 from the bad place. 
Andrew Barentine @barentine.bsky.social postdoc in the Moerner lab
i heart bikes and microscopes
plasmidsaurus @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social Sequence plasmids, amplicons, colonies, AAV, yeast, and bacterial genomes! Our advanced sequencing delivers comprehensive visibility, higher accuracy, and the ability to detect structural variations and rare mutations that other sequencing methods miss.
Seth Blackshaw @sethblackshaw.bsky.social Professor of Neuroscience. Studying neural development, regeneration, and control of innate behaviors at Johns Hopkins.
Anna-Karin Gustavsson @gustavssonlab.bsky.social Develops single-molecule imaging tools to gain detailed information about cellular nanoscale structures, dynamics, and molecular mechanisms.
https://gustavssonlab.rice.edu 
Gary Laevsky @glaevsky.bsky.social Science, dogs, and outside. Not necessarily in that order. All opinions, my own.
https://molbio.princeton.edu/core-facilities/imaging/confocal-microscopy
Avezov lab @avezovlab.bsky.social Exploring brain cell biology, organelle dynamics & proteostasis.
📍University of Cambridge @cambridge-uni.bsky.social | @UKDRI | 🔬developing live cell biosensing tech 
Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social Scientist + Teacher UvA/Amsterdam | Cells | Molecules | Microscopy | Fluorescent Proteins | Biosensors | Lifetime imaging | Open Science | dataViz | R | web apps
Homepage: https://joachimgoedhart.github.io/
DataViz Apps: https://huygens.science.uva.nl
Arjun Raj @arjunraj.bsky.social Just another LLM. Tweets do not necessarily reflect the views of people in my lab or even my own views last week. http://rajlab.seas.upenn.edu https://rajlaboratory.blogspot.com
Robert E. Campbell @campbell-lab.bsky.social Professor in the Department of Chemistry, School of Science, The University of Tokyo.
Editor-in-Chief of Protein Engineering, Design & Selection (PEDS).
Opinions are my own.
https://campbell.chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Lin Tian, PhD @lintianphd.bsky.social Scientific Director at MPFI | Developing optical & molecular tools for 🧠 research & 💊 discovery | Baseball mom, swim mom & dog mom
Ed Boyden @eboyden3.bsky.social Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, MIT. Mindspan Institute, co-founder, co-CEO. Neuroscientist, inventor, entrepreneur.
Lewis MacKenzie @lemackz.bsky.social Upconversion nanoparticles, optical biosensors, chiral spectroscopy, scicomm, blood oxygen | bass player | uranium glass collector
Group website: www.mackenzie-lab.org
he/him | Glasgow | Expect typos
Jonas Wietek @jwietek.bsky.social Synapse modulation, biophysics, optogenetics, opsins, optoGPCRs & channelrhodopsins... garden stuff, photography, cats, cycling, parenting...still postdocing. Patch-clamper with imaging ambitions
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4xDsEF4AAAAJ&hl=en
Jeremy Baskin @jeremybaskin.bsky.social Associate Professor at Cornell University: chemical biology, cell biology, #lipidtime and membrane biology
Giulia Bertolin @bertolingiulia.bsky.social CNRS researcher @IGDR, Rennes. Mitochondria lover, FRET/FLIM and biosensor aficionado. Views my own. 
Ewerslab @ewerslab.bsky.social Membrane cytoskeleton, specifically septins. Nanobodies, superresolution. Developing microscopy assays for cell biology. We love complicated experiments! Opinions my own as scientist, parent, citizen.
Alison Tebo @agtebo.bsky.social Group Leader @ Janelia Research Campus, protein engineer, 🏳️🌈 she/they
https://alisontebo.com/
Michelle Frei @michellefrei17.bsky.social Chemical biologist working on tools for fluorescence microscopy | Assistant Professor ETH DCHAB | Postdoc UCSDPharm | PhD MPI-MR and EPFL
Max Josse @maxjosse.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇬🇧 🧗♀️ 🚴🏻
Postdoc at @SLCU Cambridge, plant biologist by day, Auxin biosensor and protein engineer by night 🌱🔬
Xander Jones @xanderjones.bsky.social Representing Team Biosensor at Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University. https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/research/jones-group
---Hormone biosensor engineering and imaging---- B Thom Hughes @bioguy.bsky.social Biosensor developer, Recovering academic
Julia Lazzari-Dean @jlazzaridean.bsky.social I'm a microscopist | I like everything from fluorescent sensors to custom microscope hardware | I also do my best to garden in a Bay Area apartment
Jim Rowe @botanicaljim.bsky.social Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield. Interested in how ABA patterns control water fluxes in leaves using ABA biosensors and image analysis.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/academic-staff/people/jim-rowe
Gal Haimovich ☣ 🧪🔬🎗 @grnfluoresceblg.bsky.social Staff scientist, Gerst lab, Weizmann Inst.
Husband, father
Topics: Science, Molec/Cell Biology, RNA, microscopy, Tunneling Nanotubes, Sci fi.
Life in Israel (Hebrew)
Blogs: https://greenfluorescentblog.wordpress.com
https://flyingsaucermovies.wordpress.com
Felipe Opazo @opazo.bsky.social PI at the Uni Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Founder and CTO of NanoTag Biotechnologies. Using nanobodies for super-resolution microscopy in neurosciences. Opinions are my own.
Helen Farrants @helenfarrants.bsky.social 
Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering. Ph.D. Previously at Nature Methods. @rita_strack on the place formerly known as twitter.
Falk Schneider @faldalf.bsky.social Assistant Professor at University of Warwick
Leading FMD Lab: https://fmd-lab.org/
Postdoc in Fraser Lab (USC)
Postdoc Fritzsche Lab (Oxford)
PhD in Eggeling Lab (Oxford)
Into all things Biophysics, Fluorescence, and Membranes
https://faldalf.github.io
Spirochrome @spirochrome.com Our main focus is to offer innovative tools for live cell fluorescence imaging to the scientific community.
https://spirochrome.com/
Julien Hiblot @julienhiblot.bsky.social Lab head | Protein engineer | Biochemist
Biochemist passionate about protein science, protein engineering, biophysics, and fluorescence-based tools.
Dedicated to collaborative science, mentoring future talents, and advancing healthcare.
Luc Reym⌬nd @lreymond.bsky.social Organic chemistry passionate 🧪, mountain addict 🧗 & freediver 🤿. EPFL scientist and @spirochrome.com co-founder. 🇨🇭
Addgene @addgene.bsky.social Sharing speeds science! Addgene helps scientists around the world find and share research materials - plasmids, viral preps, antibodies, data, and more.
Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social Flower Designer at Neoplants 🌺
Researcher at Binomica Labs
Degreeless Heathen
Petunia and Snapdragon Breeder
Open Lab Notebook: http://tinyurl.com/ATGCFFE
Jeffrey van Haren @jeffreyharen.bsky.social Cell biologist, Assistant professor @ Erasmus MC, Optical Imaging Centre (OIC). Postdoc alumnus @ UCSF. Interested in cytoskeleton dynamics, neuronal growth cones, live cell microscopy, optogenetics. Opinions are my own.
Anneliese Gest @ammgest.bsky.social Not a chemist, not a biologist, but a secret third thing | Postdoc in Jin Zhang lab at UCSD | PhD from UC Berkeley Evan Miller Lab| Nominally a professional account | I like fluorescence and ttrpgs | SD IRACDA Fellow
Stephen Royle @steveroyle.bsky.social I'm into chord changes and cell biology.
Professor - University of Warwick. Director - The Company of Biologists. Views are my own and not those of any organisation I am associated with.
Mastodon: @steveroyle@biologists.social
Lab: https://roylelab.org
Garcia-Mata Lab @rhopower.bsky.social Cell Biology, Rho GTPases, GEFs/GAPs, microscopy, Cytoskeleton, cell adhesion, cell migration
garciamatalab.com and toledocellulart.org
❤️🔬🚴♂️🇦🇷- J Javin Oza @javinoza.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Cal Poly, SLO. Interested in Bioengineering, Syn Bio, Cell-Free Systems.
Michael Booth @drmikebooth.bsky.social Associate Prof of ChemBio+OrgChem at UCL Chemistry, Royal Society URF, chemistry, DNA/RNA, synthetic biology. Coeliac. Dad. 🎸 boothlab.uk
Abhishek Chatterjee @achemsynbio.bsky.social Professor @BostonCollege
Chemical Biology, Synthetic Biology, Directed Evolution, Expanding the genetic code https://sites.google.com/a/bc.edu/thechatterjeelab/home
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zeSNxNcAAAAJ&hl=en
Mike Lacy @mlacyphd.bsky.social I work @addgene.bsky.social curating DNA and web content - if I liked your paper, are you sharing your materials?
#OpenScience supporter, previously at ASCB, science publishing/preprints. Yale Biophysics PhD. Opinions my own. He/him
Nathan Fraikin @nfrk92.bsky.social Post-doc at TacC team / CNRS / Lyon 1- Catching bacteria on tape right in the act !
Brandán Pedre @brandanium.bsky.social I make fluorescent indicators that monitor metabolites and signaling molecules in the cell.
Now @KULeuven, previously in @DKFZ and @VIBLifeSciences.
Clausen Lab @clausenlab.bsky.social Molecular machines, Proteostasis, Ubiquitin Signaling, Cell Autonomous Defense, Protein Disorders and Team Nematode
@IMP Vienna
www.imp.ac.at/groups/tim-clausen/
Danielle L. Schmitt 🔬 @schmittwitt.bsky.social Cell signaling & metabolism & biosensors. Asst Prof. Cat mom. She/her. Los Angeles. Posts are my own views not my employers.
James Manton @jamesdmanton.bsky.social Applied physicist & microscopist/microscopologist
Bowchro @bowchro.bsky.social Scientist and educator at the University of Warwick. Interested in the replication and spatial dynamics of chromatin.
Reto Fiolka @retof.bsky.social Optical imaging, interested in STEM topics.
First generation graduate from ETH Zürich
Associate Professor at UT
Southwestern Medical Center
Javier Apfeld @javierapfeld.bsky.social Aging scientist. Worm expert. Community-engaged teacher. Lab at Northeastern University. I watch worms die to learn how to live.
Lab: apfeldlab.mystrikingly.com
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9897-5671
Raghav Chhetri @rchhmiscope.bsky.social Optics, Imaging, Microscopy, Neurotechnology
Team Lead, Miller Brain Observatory @Rockefeller
Carolina | Janelia | Rockefeller
Tim Feinstein @timnfeinstein.bsky.social Ph.D. ex-academic, self-published author of “A Heuristic Guide To Quantitative Imaging”. Lead, operations and technical sales at Coastal Microscopes. 
Evelina Tutucci @anilevetu.bsky.social Assistant professor at Vrije University Amsterdam
We study spatiotemporal control of gene expression. We develop tools to visualize and quantify single mRNAs in fungi and bacteria #RNA #single-molecule #imaging-analysis
🍄🦠🇮🇹➡️🇨🇭➡️🇺🇸➡️ 🇳🇱
www.tutuccilab.com
Johannes Stein @jmstein.bsky.social Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Studying genome organization with quantitative super-resolution microscopy
https://www.molgen.mpg.de/stein-lab
Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social Epithelial cell death, cell extrusion, self-organisation, mechanotransduction and many other things
Michael Westberg @westberglab.com Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark | biophysical chemistry PhD | into chembio, synbio, protein design, photochem, microscopy | 2018-2022 at Stanford Bio-X | westberglab.com
Abhi Aggarwal @abhiaggarwal.bsky.social Resident Physician
Former researcher at the Allen Institute, Seattle
Medicine | Protein Engineering | Biosensors | Fluorescent Proteins | iGluSnFR | Imaging
Views are my own. Posts are not medical advice.
@piatkevich.bsky.social @piatkevich.bsky.social 
Robert Arkowitz @robertarkowitz.bsky.social Fascinated by fungal growth & asymmetries. Institute of Biology Valrose, CNRS-Inserm-Université Côté d’Azur, Nice. Microscopy addict, all things cell biological
Cole DeForest @coledeforest.bsky.social Weyerhaeuser Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering, University of Washington | User-Programmable Biomaterials | Photochemistry | Optogenetics | Protein Engineering
http://www.coledeforest.com
Ben Campbell @lysergicdesigns.bsky.social Neuroscientist/protein-engineer developing fluorescent protein biosensors for use across the life sciences.
Biointegrated Photonics Lab @schubertlab.bsky.social Science at the interface of biology, chemistry and photonics, discovering new applications of microscopic lasers and sensors. Part of the Humboldt Centre for Nano- and Biophotonics, University of Cologne. PI posting. https://schubert-lab.uni-koeln.de/
Lazare Saladin @lazaresaladin.bsky.social Post Doctoral Researcher at EPFL (LCBM). Synthesis of fluorescent probes for cell imaging. 
Giuseppe Di Caprio @giudica.bsky.social Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the University of Strathclyde. PI at CeMi. Interested in Smart Microscopy, Cell Engineering, Bioimage Analysis and Organs-On-Chip. Formerly Harvard and Federico II 🏳️🌈 📍Glasgow
https://dicaprio.bioe.strath.ac.uk
Albert Blanch-Asensio @ablanchasensio.bsky.social ▪️Postdoc at @CRG.eu (LinLab)
▪️Cell Fate Engineering
▪️Mammalian Synthetic Biology
▪️Stem Cell Biology
▪️Genome Engineering
▪️STRAIGHT-IN Dual platform
David Solecki @so-lets-kilab70.bsky.social Posting our lab life studying the neuronal cytoskeleton and chromatin with cool microscopes🔬Proud #GenX, #firstgen college, #intj @RITscience @stonybrooku Alum
Verified: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8481-0403
jared toettcher @toettch.bsky.social Dad, bioengineer, climber, skier, surfer (in that order, more or less).
Chaotic good alignment, or so my lab tells me...
Robert Hughes @bobbyhughesiv.bsky.social Creator of optical tools (OptoProfilin, OptoBax, Cry-Bars,etc.), immobilized enzymes (TEV,PKA,etc.), and other wacky biochemical contraptions.
John Ngo @johntngo.bsky.social Associate Prof of BME at BU
Synthetic mechanobiology, single molecules, molecular structure and engineering, bio-organic chemistry, and general enthusiast of science, kindness, and understanding.
www.thengolab.com
Olivier Duss @olivierduss.bsky.social Group leader @embl.org European Molecular Biology Laboratory
#RNA biology | #single-molecule #biophysics | #structural biology | #biochemistry | #quantitative biology | #chemical biology | #synthetic biology - https://www.embl.org/groups/duss/
Tal Laviv @lavivtal.bsky.social Neuroscientists, microscopy, biosensors
www.lavivlab.com
Michael Lin, MD PhD @michaelzlin.bsky.social Harvard → UCLA → HMS → UCSD → Associate Prof. of Neurobiology & Bioengineering at Stanford → Molecules, medicines, & SARSCoV2. Bad manners blocked. 
Wan-Chen Lin @wchlin.bsky.social Chemical neurobiologist at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
http://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/wan-chen-lin/
Mathias Mahn @mmahn.bsky.social Trying to bridge cellular, circuit, and behavior neuroscience - from designing molecular tools to studying complex behaviors.
Jason Zhang 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 @jasonzxzhang.bsky.social Computational designer of molecular tools for intracellular signaling. Assistant Professor at UCLA Bioengineering. Website: www.jasonzhanglab.com Lab’s Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jasonzhanglab.bsky.social
Merlin Lange @merlinlange.bsky.social Scientist @ INSERM Institut de la Vision 🇫🇷 | Microscopy 🔬 | Transcriptomics 🧬 | Developmental Biology in 4D 🌟 - Ex Chan Zuckerberg Biohub SF 🇺🇸 / RIKEN 🇯🇵
Sam Holtzen, PhD @samholtzen.bsky.social postdoc at caltech
he/they
opinions are my own
computers and biosensors
💻 https://samholtzen.github.io/
Sam Connell @samuelconnell.3i.social Scientist and Global Sales Director at 3i (@the.3i.social), foodie, family man. Tai Chi and meditation matter. Compassion Heals. Microscopes Rock. https://www.intelligent-imaging.com
Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social Scientist (biophysics, single molecule imaging,🔬) | HoD of Molecular Medicine UNSW Sydney | she/her | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | proud Tangata Tiriti | mostly posting science, academia, & inequality | posts reflect personal views only.