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...

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!

🎉 ELMI 2026 registration is OPEN! Join us in Coimbra 🇵🇹 June 16–19 for Europe’s premier microscopy event. 🔬 Cutting-edge talks 🧪 Hands-on workshops 🤝 Meet top researchers & vendors Secure your spot now! 🔗https://shorturl.at/IkyxX Post sponsored by @okolab.bsky.social

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

💬 We’re excited to announce, together with @gerbi-gmb.de, another Ask the Experts session! 🎉 Next week, on Nov 5 from 3–5 pm CET, we’ll discuss Spatial Transcriptomics with our invited experts: Jan-Philipp Mallm, Sheida Hadji Rasouliha and Marina Peralta! If you are interested to join, reach out!

Another #RDM4mic meeting, which focused on research data management for microscopy, took place @uni-muenster.de. 💫 Several NFDI4BIOIMAGE task area leaders and data stewards met on site and contributed to the program. Susanne Kunis' presentation is already available: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🔬 Join us in Leipzig! The #YMIA panel discussion "The Power of Sharing: Open Data in Bio-image Analysis" is happening in person at UFZ Leipzig on Friday! Organized by the Young Microscopists & Image Analysts (YMIA) Team, part of the GerBI community. #BioImageAnalysis #Microscopy #OpenData

🔬We are looking forward to the #RDM4mic meeting that will take place from October 21-23 at the University of Münster. It is co-organized by @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and @gerbi-gmb.de and aims to bring together members of the imaging and #RDM community. Read more: 👉 hackmd.io/@marietoveli...

First day of our 5th Day of Intravital Microscopy conference has started! Organised by our Team Intravital Microscopy and the working group of the @wsic.bsky.social and iFIT Cluster of Excellence. Already had amazing talks and are looking forward to many more ✨ #IvMic2025

🚀 Registration is open for BioHackathon Germany 2025! Join us 1–5 Dec in Walsrode for hands-on projects, networking, and innovation in #bioinformatics. 🧬🤝 🏨 Anders Hotel Walsrode | 🍽️ Social events | ✈️ Easy travel 🔗 Seats limited—register now! www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event... #Hackathon

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 🧵)

📢 Deadline Extended! We’re excited to announce that the registration deadline for in-person attendance at the #foundingGIDE Community Event has been extended. 🗓️ New deadline: 30 September 2025 (previously 31 August 2025)

⏰ Reminder: The early bird registration and abstract submission for our 5th Day of Intravital Microscopy close on September 5! Don’t miss your chance to join us in Tübingen on 18–19 Sept. Secure your spot today! 👉 bit.ly/3IOlJtJ

Check out the detailed program for the 5th Day of Intravital Microscopy (18–19 Sept, Tübingen)! Our keynote: @matthiakarreman.bsky.social‬: "Imaging cancer networks in brain metastases in vivo." Full details 👉 bit.ly/3IOlJtJ #IVMIC25

#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

Today is already the last day of our #CoreFacility Leadership and #Management Course 2025 together with @hfpconsulting.bsky.social at Schloss Mickeln in Düsseldorf 🏰📚

Everything is set and ready for our #CoreFacility Leadership and Management Course together with @hfpconsulting.bsky.social at Schloss Mickeln in Düsseldorf 🏰We are excited to get started! If you are interested in the course check out: bit.ly/45LOPTy #LeadershipInScience #CFLM #microscopy

🔬 Join us for the 5th Day of Intravital Microscopy! 📅 September 18–19, 2025 | 📍 Tübingen, Germany Talks, discussions & networking around all things intravital imaging! 📝 Abstract submission deadline is fast approaching: Submit by July 30, 2025 Register & submit here: 🔗 bit.ly/44RTzFK #IvMic2025

So happy to have you on board! Welcome to the team! 🙌

Over the past few weeks, we've been actively highlighting our projects focused on FAIR image data management and OME-Zarr. Here is a collection, we've collected the related links to the webinars on our news page for you to (re)watch anytime! 🎥🔬: bit.ly/4nHu1DL #FAIRdata#OMEZarr#Bioimaging

#TiM2023 and #TiM2025 data is now publicly available! Find the data collected and annotated at the Trends in Microscopy conference in an OMERO-based framework introduced by I3D:bio '23 and extended in '25, supported by the @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social data stewards. 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/news/news-de...

🔬 YMIA is at the Helmholtz Imaging Conference 2025! Elena from the core team presents a poster about the YMIA community — who we are, what we do, and how we connect early-career researchers in imaging and analysis. She’s here to exchange ideas and meet you. Come say hi! #HIConference2025 #BSIC2025

💬 Our #GerBIchat is about to start! Join us and drop by to discuss large equipment proposals with our GerBI Legal & Financial Framework Team.

Core facility contributions are essential, and #ImagingScientists deserve to receive #CreditWhereItsDue. That’s why we fully support the #AcknowledgementGuidelines launched by @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social and @globalbioimaging.bsky.social and have proudly displayed them in our digital office.

⌛ Only one week left! The application deadline for our open positions as Remote Web Developer, Remote Software Developer and Project Coordinator is just 7 days away. Don't miss your chance to apply! Check out all job openings on our careers page⬇️

🧠 Metadata and Standards Lead 🛠️ Job Alert: Metadata and Standards Lead (up to 100%, fully remote, based in EU) We’re looking for a thoughtful and technically skilled expert to help us shape the future of metadata in bioimaging.

🌐 Junior Web Developer / Scientific Prototyper 🛠️ Job Alert: Web Developer / Scientific Prototyper (up to 100%, fully remote, based in EU) We’re looking for a creative web developer to build engaging tools and interactive demos for the imaging community.

"What #FAIR #RDM tools are available to you in your laboratory or facility?" State of the #bioimaging #community captured during #ELMI2025 Core Facility Day

Michele Bortolomeazzi, Christian Schmidt and Jan-Philipp Mallm at @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social have developed a new OMERO-web plugin: OMERO-vitessce. It enables the visualization of datasets hosted in #OMERO with the #Vitessce multimodal data viewer. Find the poster here: 👉 zenodo.org/records/1483...

@joshmoore.bsky.social presenting at #ELMI2025 about the #Bioimaging community's immense efforts to pave the way to OME-Zarr 1.0 - Stable cloud-readiness for bioimage data is getting real. Slides available in Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @gerbi-gmb.de @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social

📍 Meet us at #ELMI2025 @events.embl.org during today’s and tomorrow’s poster sessions! 🎤 And don’t miss @joshmoore.bsky.social’s talk on Thursday at 12 PM on “The road to OME-Zarr 1.0: A FAIR future for bioimaging”! See where to find us: 👉 bit.ly/3SxGdsD

🥳 We've just signed the Memorandum of Understanding with @globalbioimaging.bsky.social at #ELMI2025! 🥳 With this step, GerBI proudly joins the international network to foster global exchange, training, and collaboration in bioimaging. @sweidtkamp.bsky.social @janinahanne.bsky.social

🚨 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

🚨Registration now open! Join us for the 5th Day of Intravital Microscopy on 18-19 September 2025 in Tübingen. Organized together with @wsic.bsky.social. 👉Don’t miss out and register now: gerbi-gmb.de/event/5th-da... #IVMIC25

🛠️ Job Alert: Project Coordinator (50-100%, fully remote) We're seeking a dynamic and proactive professional who's passionate about science, communication and community building to join and strengthen our management office team. Apply by 30 June 2025! Full posting: gerbi-gmb.de/resources/ca...

💬 Join us for the next #GerBIchat on Successful large equipment proposals: from approval to final report with insights from procurement & finance experts and the #GerBI Legal & Financial Framework team. 🗓️ 25.06.2025 | ⏰ 1–3 pm CEST | 💬 Held in German 🔗 More info here: bit.ly/43HG5gl

We invite you to our next #NFDITalk about "Cloud based image data science". 🗓️ 2 June, 4 PM – Online 🎤 Speakers: Josh Moore and Yi Sun #NFDI4BIOIMAGE ➡ Join the Zoom Meeting: www.nfdi.de/talks ➡ YouTube stream: www.youtube.com/live/bzfmE29... #NFDI #fdm #rdm #datascience #forschungsdaten

📊⚖️Our #Team "Financial & Legal Frameworks of Core Facilities" met in Eisenach for their writing workshop! They focus on sustainable funding models & legal frameworks for operating technology platforms in Germany. 💬 Want to get involved? 👉 Meet the team: bit.ly/4mjlrue

A few weeks ago, our GerBI team invited visitors of all ages to dive into the fascinating world of microscopy at the 400th anniversary celebration of #Microscopy at the Zeiss Großplanetarium in Berlin. 🔬✨ 👉Wondering what it looked like in action? 📖 Read the full recap here: bit.ly/4kkEaUC

🏰 Save the date for our GerBI Community Meeting & General Assembly 2026! 📅 March 16–18, 2026 | 📍 Fulda, Frauenberg Monastery Can’t wait to see the #community back together ☀️ More soon: bit.ly/3FbsNza #GerBI_CM2026

🚨 Only a few spots left! Join our GerBI-GMB #CoreFacility Leadership & Management Course 2025 (Aug 11–16, Düsseldorf) 🏰 Strengthen your #leadership skills in team #management, conflict resolution, strategic planning & more. Apply by May 19 👉 bit.ly/3FPSo0N #LeadershipInScience #CFLM #microscopy

The YMIA would like to invite everyone interested in microscopy and image analysis to our weekly watch-parties. This Tuesday we cover how to choose the right microscope for your experiment as well as learning how to minimize damage to samples during light microscopy.

Second round of hashtag#GloBIAS Free Help (previously Call4Help) is happening in May. You can register for the sessions on our webpage: www.globias.org/activities/g... Registration deadline is 7. May 2025.

Take a gander at those young faces! www.openmicroscopy.org/teams/ has been updated with the GerBI #OME team's (slightly dated) looks 📸👀 Thrilled to continue contributing to #FAIR data infrastructure @openmicroscopy.org as a part of the @dfg.de funded @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and #i3dbio projects!

Register now: #CytoData2025 🔬 This fall, EU-OPENSCREEN is co-hosting the CytoData Hackathon and Symposium, which will explore the power of #microscopy imaging as a data-rich resource for quantifying cellular phenotypes – with a strong focus on high-content imaging techniques such as #CellPainting.

Eine Pilotmaßnahme bis Ende 2025 bietet jetzt die Möglichkeit, vorhandene #Forschungsgroßgeräte für einen verlängerten Einsatz in der Forschung zu erneuern bzw. in Stand zu setzen. Somit können auch Anträge über geringere Investitionskosten gestellt werden. #Nachhaltigkeit www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

GloBIAS #BioimageAnalysis #Conference 2025 – we have opened the registration for our 2025 in-person event. Please check the webpage www.globias.org/activities/b... for more information and the link to the registration form.

We’re back under the stars today ✨ After an engaging first day at the 400th anniversary of the #Microscopy yesterday at the Zeiss Large Planetarium in Berlin, including one of our tardigrade samples projected into the dome, we’re happy to be here again. Swing by and see for yourself! 🔬🙌

Fun for kids and adults alike at our GerBI booth during the theme days „invisible worlds: from #microcosm to universe“ at the 400th day of #microscopy in the Zeiss Large Planetarium Berlin. Come by and explore! 🧪🔬👀

BioDIP is getting ready to participate in the 400th anniversary of the microscope at the Zeiss Large Planetarium Berlin, alongside GerBI! 🧬🔬 Experience exciting workshops, live microscopy, and more during the themed days "Invisible Worlds: From Microcosm to Universe". 🌌✨ #BioDIP #GerBI