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.

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