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.

EMBL International PhD Programme - winter recruitment 2026! 📣 Research groups across EMBL are recruiting now! www.embl.org/about/info/e... Don’t miss this opportunity to receive dedicated mentoring while doing interdisciplinary research.

Had an amazing time helping out at the "Advanced methods in bioimage analysis" @embo.org course this week. It was great seeing a bunch of friends and meeting a group of students highly motivated to do better science and eager to learn. Genuinely grateful to @tischi.bsky.social and the org team!

THEY DEFORMED ME, COOP. REDUCED ME DOWN TO ONLY MY MOST RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERISTICS. I’M A CUTESY SHELL OF MY FORMER SELF. THE BOYS AT QUANTICO ARE CALLING ME A “CHEE-BEE.” I’M SEVEN CENTIMETERS TALL, COOP. 150 GRAMS OF VINYL PLASTIC.

This is art

Want to hack with ~40 motivated developers in the OME-Zarr space this fall in Zurich, November 12 - 14th? The application window for the 2025 OME-NGFF workflows hackathon is closing on September 30th! Apply here to be part of this exciting week about OME-Zarr: forms.gle/849cf2fBk1pJ...

thinking about my one of my favorite zelda cdi scenes for no reason in particular today

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

A slide from my med school syphilis talk

So much good hiking in this place! Today I climbed way too many stairs and checked out the castle.

absolute banger of a review - it is about NBA 2K26, but it is also about the (ongoing, long-running) death of the sports video game.

Somehow it only took me about a week of active searching to have a signed lease contract for an apartment in Heidelberg, which based on what I've heard from people living here accounts to a genuine miracle

new blog post: in which I talk (briefly) about getting a new job and moving back to Europe, getting a VPS, and self-hosting my code and my personal website. pages.erickratamero.com/personal-web...

Get ready, get hyped!!! Our Latin American Heritage Month Celebration is happening Sept. 27th and 28th!! Here's a look at the schedule!!

Ok, I finally bothered setting up a self hosted Forgejo thing, with actions and everything. Now I have to figure out how to get an action to build and deploy a Quarto website to my VPS...

I'll be there! Giving a talk! and hacking on _something_ for a few days!

The Danish BioImaging Infrastructure is hiring! We are looking for a highly motivated and independent Image Analysis Application Specialist with a strong bioimage analysis background and drive to collaborate in multidisciplinary environments More information candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

ok, I am now over 1k followers (!!!) and have a new job, so new pinned post: hi! I'm Erick. I just started work as the new Data Management Coordinator in the Data Science Centre at EMBL. Most of my work is on open-source tools to help people manage their data. Glad to have you here!

Enough people said they wanted to see the final slide deck, so I took the time to put it on my non-teacher github so I could share it. I didn't end up getting in trouble. I ended up being encouraged by a colleague to share it with my dept chair, and he liked it authorblues.github.io/lecture-slid...

The bus is 12 minutes late and every single German in this bus stop is completely losing it. I swear I am not making this up

An hour and a half into the new job and my Mogwai shirt has already got 2 compliments. Good omens

"car sold. insurance cancelled. fully packed. moving tomorrow." is my current version of "unbothered. moisturized. in my lane etc etc"

In other news my living room has fully become the archetypal Male Living Space until the day of the move

Pretty much everything sorted for the move (stress levels have reduced significantly!) last day at current job. Feeling excited and hopeful for my first day at EMBL next Friday!

started reading Infinite Jest again... despite everything...

kentucky route zero is on sale at a pretty nice discount on switch right now. if you've never played it, well, it's a masterpiece. A better world is possible. Keep on dreaming, and I'll keep on driving. youtu.be/JxcUZU0vtLE?...

If you're not watching CITY: the Animation right now, you owe it to yourself. It's the funniest, most joyous thing in the world. Keiichi Arawi's tone and characters are so unique and charming, there really isn't anything like it out there.

I have reached the "literally have an eye twitch" stage of moving stress. Two weeks to go.

If Silly Block at SGDQ destroyed my sleep schedule I would simply go through a whole day that includes a volunteer slot as if nothing had happened, sleep at a normal hour and wake up at 7AM like a Regular Human Being. (I have no idea HOW it happened, but that is exactly what happened.)

I made it!

Finished playing this today, and this game is SO cool. Super charming, interesting mechanics, just-hard-enough puzzles and combat. (and it has the most creative, most heartbreaking "new game+" I have ever seen.)

I won't be at SciPy this year, but if you are, you should go find @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social and Fernando Cervantes from my team, who are incredible at what they do (and amazing people!). I'm excited to hear what they will being back from the event!

what if I mess around and become the only non-Japanese speedrunner of Racing Lagoon...... (I haven't even played Racing Lagoon yet)

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

In alphabetical order. If you ask me tomorrow, you're probably getting a different list.

#microscopycommunity- do you use BioFormats, OMERO, OME-TIFF, OME-Zarr or are you interested in open source and microscopy? Then you should check out the recordings from OME2025! buff.ly/fgUxoQf @openmicroscopy.org @gerbi-gmb.de‬. @jacksonlab.bsky.social‬ @mblscience.bsky.social

now that the ink has dried I can finally share this with the world: from mid-August I will be the new Data Management Coordinator at @embl.org - working across all six sites, with all data types (not only imaging)! It's a HUGE new challenge for me and I could not be more excited about it.

Never has a an upbeat jaunty song created such a Pavlovian anger response in me. The devs need to answer for their crimes. (I am enjoying it.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Nc...

🚨 We’re hiring TWO new colleagues! 🧠 Structured Metadata Expert – Design data models, standards & annotations for #OMEZarr 🌐 Web Developer / Prototyper – Build interactive tools & demos for the community Both fully remote. Both open science. 🔗 gerbi-gmb.de/resources/ca... #RSE #OpenScience

Hey bioimaging folks, join us for the next OME-NGFF Community Call on June 24 at 9:00 CEST and 17:00 CEST! Details and agenda on the one and only image.sc here: forum.image.sc/t/join-us-fo...

One last "love seeing a bunch of dogs hanging out" moment before leaving Brazil

i am not sure developers realize I would literally rather have a stick figure with the words of what they're supposed to be scrawled across them, then AI generated content Legit a square that says "PLACEHOLDER FOR NOW SORRY PRETEND THERES A COOL SHOPKEEPER HERE" is 100x better than any AI "art"

(almost) every talk from OME 2025 is now on YouTube! If you care about microscopy data and about open-source, you should definitely check them out. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...