Very emotional symposium in memory of our dear Spencer Shorte @pasteur.fr His legacy will be with us for ever, many thanks to Nathalie Aulner and all speakers @krogersiooi.bsky.social @freddyfrischknecht.bsky.social @jytinevez.bsky.social @yarareis-gbi.bsky.social @stratocore.bsky.social

Great news for German #BioImaging! 🤝 #GerBI & #de.NBI just signed an MoU to launch a GerBI #OMERO platform. de.NBI brings the cloud, GerBI handles ops, support & community. 🧩 A testbed + training hub for everyone. Stronger data, stronger science. More soon!

19th #OME Community Meeting, Düsseldorf · 28–30 April 2026 Registration is now open! Join researchers, developers, and imaging facility staff to connect, share experiences, and discuss the future of OME tools. Details & registration (deadline: 31 March 2026): gerbi-gmb.de/event/ome-20...

Won best thesis award with this video! 4 years of research and play in 3 minutes :') youtu.be/so0fPlK1-LM

Kind of flew under the radar, BUT we released napari-omero 0.6 recently 🥳 @openmicroscopy.org You can now down-/upload ROIs from and to OMERO inside @napari.org 🤩Bringing the power of napari for annotation to the management of OMERO :) Thanks @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social and other maintainers!

Very pleased to announce the release of #OMERO.figure 7.3.0 including ROI Labels, Colorbars and lots of bug fixes. Thanks to contributors: Rémy Dornier, @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social, Jens Wendt, Niraj Kandpal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUy5...

As I prepare the next #OMERO.figure release (apologies, it's been a while) I found a video for the last release that I never published! youtu.be/Jj-XjIhaQF4 shows Interactive Inset panels, borders, Hilo LUTs, label re-ordering etc.

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Pleased to say that Jonas Hartmann (bs-less) and I have finally released DySTrack (“diss track”) - Dynamic Sample Tracking. It’s a Python-based, modular tool that brings smart microscopy to everyday imaging on commercial systems. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... [1/6]

Idr0168: Prediction of protein subcellular localization in single cells from www.nature.com/articles/s41... by Zhang et al. Images in idr0168 are OME-Zarrs converted by the submitter. idr.openmicroscopy.org/search/?quer...

Finally, the first public release of #BigVolumeBrowser, so after teasers, you can try it yourself. For details, please check the announcement post (1/2) forum.image.sc/t/bigvolumeb...

So nice to see this!!!

For Python package management I use a mixture of pixi, uv and conda depending on the task I'm doing. I wrote up a long form post about the history of these tools, why each one exists, and why I settled on these choices in my workflow. jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/p...

This is what hacking *actually* looks like. #OME_NGFF_Hackathon

This week, we're hosting the #OME_NGFF_Hackathon 2024 at the BioVisionCenter at the University of Zurich. We're bringing together 40 motivated researchers and specialist for #OMEZarr workflows, #OMEZarr Python tools & #OMEZarr Java tools. (1/3)

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.

Morning run to explore Zurich and grab breakfast

Some great talks on the first day of the #NGFF symposium in Zurich yesterday, including this lovely slide from Matthew Hartley, #ome-zarr

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

I'd only dabbled with napari, but needed to use it for a paper we're writing. This is a quick post about getting started: from installation to a folder full of thousands of processed images, with gotchas along the way. quantixed.org/2025/11/04/a...

Another #OME-Zarr RFC, another implementation! Started a basic display of OME-Zarr Collections (RFC-8) in ome-ngff-validator at github.com/ome/ome-ngff...

Today, napari users can’t fully leverage Xarray’s labeled metadata, as slider names, units & dimensions often get out of sync. That’s changing. At SciPy 2025, napari, Xarray & CellProfiler devs began a collab to build true metadata-aware visualization across sciences. earthmover.io/blog/scienti...

The comedy Wildlife photography competition come at the perfect time each year www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

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...

Over at `ome-zarr-models` we're working on implementing support for the new coordinate systems too - here's an example of a transformation graph from multiple tiled images that can be transformed into a common "world" coordinate system. 🟥 ➡️ 🌎

Those sample datasets are public, so you can try them yourselfs. Links can also be found at github.com/ome/ome-ngff...

The #OME-Zarr RFC-5 proposal allows you to transform multiple images into the same coordinateSystem. Trying this out with napari at github.com/will-moore/n.... Cool that you can offset T-dimension as well as XYZ!

The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very nice! Your Affine Transform blog post is really neat and just what I needed right now 👍 for #OME-Zarr RFC-5. I also want to try out marimo and Web Assembly 😍

Day 5️⃣ of our @embo.org course on "Advanced methods in bioimage analysis"! 🔬🖥️📊 @embl.org @tischi.bsky.social is already launching 🚀 Lecture 4: Introduction to working with OME-Zarr (Tutorial) @openmicroscopy.org @zarr.dev

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...

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

What to do if you have extraordinary size data but no extraordinary local memory? 😱 At the @grcib2025.bsky.social, @joshmoore.bsky.social addressed this issue in the talk “When Data Doesn’t Fit – A Bioimaging Story from Files to FAIR”. 👉 Interested? zenodo.org/records/1708...

Honoured to be featured - and even prouder of what the @bioimagearchive.bsky.social team is building together for the life sciences community.

From #ome-ngff-validator you can open open #OME-Zarr images in a bunch of viewers, and neuroglancer's rendering of multi-channel images just got a lot nicer: ome.github.io/ome-ngff-val... - See github.com/google/neuro...

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...

You are an OME-Zarr developer yourself? Join us at the hackathon! Help push OME-Zarr towards 1.0, work on RFCs to the spec, contribute to tooling in Java or Python or build workflows using OME-Zarrs. Find out more & apply to the hackathon here: biovisioncenter.notion.site/2025-OME-NGF...

We’re excited to share that ez_zarr now supports Zarr v3! 🚀 Huge thanks to @mbstadler.bsky.social & @csoneson.bsky.social who took on the challenge of creating this open-source tool for fast, programmatic access to OME-Zarr file sets + easy plotting 📊 📄 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… (1/3)

Currently working on #OMERO web-based import of public #OME-Zarr images github.com/ome/omero-we...

Poster Session at #CoRDI2025. Here is @joshmoore.bsky.social presenting how cloud-ready next-generation file formats like #OME-Zarr enable federated repositories with large N-dimensional arrays at peta-scale. #OME-NGFF @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social Find the poster on C.A.R.L level 2 @rwth.bsky.social

🧬🔬🧪 🎉 Our team at @czbiohub is thrilled to share TWO companion papers out today in @NatureMethods! 📦 Ultrack — robust, scalable nD cell tracking 🌐 inTRACKtive — a beautiful, open-source web viewer for lineage exploration Let’s dive in! 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉 📅 Dates: - Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025 - Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025 📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...  #bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr (1/x 🧵)

#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

🌟 #MeetOurDataSteward: #3: Riccardo Massei #DataSteward at NFDI4Bioimage and researcher @ufz.de. He makes high-content screening data FAIR and cloud-ready using #OMERO, #Python, #Galaxy, and #Jupyter. Questions? Get in touch! 👉https://nfdi4bioimage.de/about-us/data-stewardship-team/massei/

if interested in creating anywidgets of your own, our tutorial was finally shared to youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=frEo...

For a list of the OME-Zarr images in idr0170, see github.com/IDR/idr0170-... where the metadata can be viewed in BioFile Finder (bff.allencell.org) - use Chrome!

It's hard to express how much gratitude I have to everyone involved in the journey, both mine and @napari.org's, that has led to this point. #EurekaPrizes A small attempt below: 👇

New landing pages have landed for every study in the Image Data Resource (IDR)! Now, you can easily see clear details of the study - including how to download the data! To access the landing page for a study, just click on its thumbnail from the homepage (idr.openmicroscopy.org).

As good as a time as any to announce: After a great time at @poldresden.bsky.social I'm looking forward to starting my new position at @gerbi-gmb.de as a software developer for @openmicroscopy.org 🔬😀! Scalable #RDM solutions in the ome-zarr-verse, here we come!