Rewrote my Python bioformats wrapper (from aicsimageio/bioio) as a standalone package: - fully bootstrapped Java setup (just pip install) - lazy, repeatably-indexable Array object - fully spec-compliant OME-Zarr group obj. - xarray/dask exports github.com/imaging-form... v0.0.rc1 on PyPI

I signed up for fastmail yesterday and I'm already at a dozen masked emails. Slowly migrating every single sign-up in my life to a fake email I can nuke anytime. I shall vanquish spam

smart microscopy postdoc position in Montpellier, France. Could definitely do worse. With @glyg https://forum.image.sc/t/up-to-4-year-postdoc-position-in-montpellier-smart-microscopy/119201 #foss #microscopy #getfedihired

ok I think SOMETHING might have gone wrong with my subtitle settings here

I am joining @joss-openjournals.bsky.social as an editor! I wrote a little bit about how much I hate academic publishing and why this felt like the right thing to dedicate some volunteer time to. pages.erickratamero.com/personal-web...

so true, Wako Izumi

Registration is now OPEN! Join us in Heidelberg 🇩🇪 to shape the future of the Global Image Data Ecosystem 🌏 #foundingGIDE will have its final community event from 4–6 May 2026 in Heidelberg, Germany, followed by a two-day hackathon and workshops on 7-8 May. Register at: tinyurl.com/GIDE2026

We are hiring a Research Software Engineer to enhance and maintain the SpatialData framework. We will work together with colleagues at EMBL, DKFZ, GSK, and across the scverse community. 🔗 Deadline: 15/02/2026 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

AMAZING JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT!!! @calm-stp.bsky.social is hiring a Data & Systems Steward! 🧬 🔹Manage #bioimage data & #OMERO admin 🔹Automate via #Python/#Bash 🔹Support #FAIR principles 🔹Work closely with @crick-ia-team.bsky.social ⏰ Deadline: 08 Feb 2026 Apply: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

The OME meeting has followed me from New England to Germany! consistently my favorite scientific meeting of the year, with the nicest community anywhere. Join us there!

I disappeared from the world for 4h and finished this in one sitting. Really fun one-of-these (solve mystery on computer). Just hard enough to be enjoyable, well-written, fun to interact with, cool little tangents you can go on. Strong recommend!

We Are hiring!! 👨‍💻👩‍💻 CALM's new Data and Systems Steward Role is live 🎉https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Data-and-Systems-Steward_R2551 closing date 8th Feb!

Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

The thing that's different this time is that the plausible deniability, the pretense, is fully gone. The US feels like it doesn't even need THAT anymore. The underlying violence and corruption have been there for decades, it's just cranked up to 11 and mask off now.

Spent the last day of the year (how else?) seeing up a self-hosted cloud drive, with auto-upload for the photos I take on my phone and everything. The "Erick self-hosts everything he's not forced to use for work (and email)" dream is dangerously close.

finally bothered moving from proton to mullvad for VPN and 1) one more step towards moving off proton for everything 2) my very brittle house-of-cards networking situation doesn't implode any longer when I connect my raspberry pi to the VPN

The two TV shows I want to watch over the break are Ludwig and Poker Face season 2. Which makes me think I should just bite the bullet and watch all of Columbo, finally

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...