my gifts to the world on christmas eve: an UNBEATABLE speedrun (www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzAp...) and corresponding SRC leaderboard (www.speedrun.com/UNBEATABLE)

is UNBEATABLE a fun speedrun? one way to find out. www.twitch.tv/ratamero

Idk if I posted this. I'm hosting a panel at MAGFest next month talking about how race and racism seeps into media and the spaces that surround it. If you're going, this is DEFINITELY one you should come to :) builder.guidebook.com/g/#/guides/m...

I sat down and wrote about every game I played in 2025, in no particular order. pages.erickratamero.com/personal-web...

I sat down and wrote about every game I played in 2025, in no particular order. pages.erickratamero.com/personal-web...

Did a little over 40km on the ebike today, in which was probably the longest bike ride of my life. Sure, I'm not putting 100% of the power that goes into it, but 80% of a lot is still a lot

We’re looking for a Community Manager to help shape and support the growing scverse ecosystem. Deadline January 10, 2026! More details here: jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/d...

Ok, the Star Wars Holiday Special is about as bad as I expected it to be, but not in the way I expected: I went in prepared for a no-budget light adventure with questionable decisions and what I got was a tacky variety show.

re. last RT: I know "self host a Jellyfin server" is not an option for everyone but: have an mp3 library. Buy your music from the artists. Stop paying rent for it - especially when the landlord sucks and no money goes to the musicians.

if you desperately need analytics just plug your shit into LastFM and realise you spent an unreasonable amount of the year listening to the title theme from "space ghost coast to coast"

What can I say? I am a cultured man.

Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General. He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999. www.embl.org/news/people-...

Unicode normalization.

MASSIVE thank you to everyone involved in this year's I2K meeting - 32 SUPER sessions from our volunteer presenters, and so many super-engaged participants. HUGE shoutout to Aditi from @bioimagingna.bsky.social for being the organizational wizard! See you in the recordings and at next year's!

Past me packing the boxes for this move clearly thought the right answer for "how many HDMI and Ethernet cables should you have" was "as many as you can get your hands on"

Very few things are as satisfying as mentally going "I think there's about a minute I can shave from this run purely on execution" and then you go a whole four minutes faster and still have things to clean up. Practice and repetition - even just a little bit of it - are superpowers.

Go read Joel's thread on the hackathon last week in Zürich! If you have any level of interest in OME-NGFF, there are so many exciting things happening. I had a great time meeting some of my favorite people in the world - It was equal parts rewarding, fun and exhausting 🙃️

there's no speedrunning leaderboard for The Séance of Blake Manor yet. Someone's gotta start working on it, and it may as well be me www.twitch.tv/ratamero

We wrapped up the symposium part of our 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop on Tuesday. What a phenomenal two days! I'm humbled by the incredible positive energy, talent, and enthusiasm that filled this event.

Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)

OME-NGFF Hackathon in Zürich just started! We're organizing ourselves to dig into various topics during the next few days. Let's shape the future of microscopy image data standards together. #OME-NGFF_Hackathon #GerBI

Been busy in Zürich für the last 24h or so. Talks have been great so far, and I have a talk too. Still find it weird to see my name on a poster.

The Séance of Blake Manor is a strange game. It's not a brilliant puzzle game, nor a great adventure game, but it has me completely hooked. The presentation is amazing, it has great writing, and it's very very well paced. Strong recommend.

Today I'm announcing a new digital textbook 📖🖥️, "An Introduction to OME-Zarr for Big Bioimaging Data". ome-zarr-book.readthedocs.io

my brain put together the words "Truman Zenodo" which 1) is a joke that will only make sense for the 5 people in the world who deal with research data management AND are Psychonauts fans; 2) is barely a joke to begin with

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Episode 17 - perhaps my favorite yet. How do you write a forum.image.sc post that will get you the answers you need without revealing information you don't want to tell? @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I go through what the experts need to know to help you. Post your sci q's today on forum.image.sc !

Right! Daylight savings has ended. That explains why I feel so well rested this morning (and why it was so bright at 7am)

If you've ever worked with OME things, it is worth reading this update from Jason Swedlow on image.sc about the evolving OME governance. The TL;DR is that an interim leadership team has been assembled and new governance structures are coming sooner rather than later. forum.image.sc/t/ome-transi...

We just hit 10 workshops submitted, with almost two weeks to go! Help us get to 20 before the last-day frantic mad dash? Teach your favorite tool today!

One more open position at the Data Science Centre here! This one is working on our recently open-sourced ELN/LIMS/all-in-one solution LabID (gitlab.com/lab-integrat...). If you have either full stack or scientific workflows experience, check it out! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

tomorrow my meetings span from Australia to the US West Coast. call me Mr. Worldwide (minus the Pacific)

Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!

The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

My former team at JAX sent two people to SciPy this year and they teamed up to teach a workshop on scaling-up deep learning inference to large-scale bioimage data - it's finally on youtube! if you need an intro to the dask/zarr world, this is a great starting point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCWu...

Jean-Yves is not only really really good at his job, but also a great person. This is a great chance to work in exciting science in a fantastic environment!

Woke up at 5:30 (really feel like I'm getting old) and did what any normal person would before work: setting up a (internet-facing) jellyfin server on my VPS that still uses my local storage as a backend. So now I can listen to all my music and watch all my stuff from anywhere, no VPN needed!

I'll be there talking about my slightly-unconventional career path and my slightly-unconventional current job!

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way) azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

At this point I have seen enough people whose opinions I care about raving about One Battle After Another that I found a place showing it in English and bought a ticket for Friday. Will report back.

BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...

Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems? Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Sometimes a game can just be flipping a biased coin thousands of times until you get 10 heads in a row. store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

THE SPEEDRUNS OF MY PEOPLE

First trip as an EMBL employee: Barcelona!

HHMI adopts Plan U journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones. If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

about to write a blogpost titled "how to avoid white dudes who think scientists are not people on bluesky" as an antidote to the "how to avoid politics on bluesky" crap

Genuine question I could not find an answer for: what is the business model for prefix/pixi? I know astral/uv are building their own (paid) package repository that seems geared towards ML stuff, but I have no idea what prefix is planning.

I have discovered the local Rewe has dark chocolate Digestives. They are VERY expensive. This is the worst possible combination.