Where to ask microscopy-related questions?
– Image.sc and microlist
Post your microscopy, sample preparation and image analysis questions
– Confocal server
Old email-based forum that is followed by tons of people across the globe as well as most microscopy companies. Post your microscopy and sample preparation questions.
Freeware for image analysis
– Image J/Fiji
Great freeware to open images acquired on any microscope, resize, crop, change contrast, create movies, annotate, analyze and much more.
– Cell Profiler
Freeware for automated image analysis including machine learning.
– KNIME
Open source to build a custom made image analysis pipeline
– Icy
Great freeware to open images acquired on any microscope, resize, crop, change contrast, create movies, annotate, analyze and much more.
Networks, jobs and career
Light microscopy jobs, meetings, courses, networking… in Europe. Remember to mail them that you want to show up on their map of European microscopy!
Loads of information from which companies/institute works with research to how to find an apartment when moving to another lab, find work, know your rights, express your opinion about researchers’ work conditions…
Other places to look for work:
- Eurobioimaging
- European Microscopy Society (EMS)
- Indeed head hunter
- Simply Hired
- Nature Jobs
- KI Jobs
- ResearchGate
- Science jobs
- KI recruitment tool
- Professorpositions.com
- Academicum
- Confocal server
Microscopy wikis
– Kurt Thorn’s excellent microscopy blog
I highly recommend this blog even if it is not updated anymore. Monthly digest of major microscopy related articles. Loads of tips.
– Microscopy Education by Nikon
– Microscopy Education by Olympus
– Microscopy Education by ZEISS