As we wrap up the year, we’re reflecting on what AI4Life delivered and what continues beyond the project. AI4Life concluded in August 2025, but its outcomes remain central to FAIR, accessible AI-powered bioimage analysis. Here’s where to start: www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/ai4life...

Now… that sounds like an event NOT to miss!!! 🤩 (…notes down pre-registration reminder for mid-January… 📝)

Look who arrived!!! 🎉

Funding a research institute of some hundred people for 10 years? 1.5 Billion. Funding continued defense of a small country in a war for 2 or so years? 90 Billion. Elon Musk’s personal wealth? Estimated 750 Billion. We are fine! Please move on, there is nothing to see here… 🙏

🎉 In January, I will join the new "Multimodal AI Across Scales" research area at the @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 🎉 More soon, but for now: my lab and the new area will have postdoc, RSE, and PhD positions available. Feel free to reach out if interested! humantechnopole.it/en/research/

The first phase of AI4Life ended in August 2025, so we caught up with Kreshuk and Jug to learn more about the project, its use, and what they hope its impact will be. 🔗 www.embl.org/news/lab-mat... 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLU6... @florianjug.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social

Just a regular morning in our madhouse… 😜

The new version of TrackMate, the v8.1 has just been released. It builds upon the recent v8, linked below, and offers two main improvements 👇

Yes, it would be nice to actually do something… doing nothing is exactly the behavior that motivates bullies to bully. 😔 www.spiegel.de/ausland/dona...

Today was an impressive day. Also mentally engaging… all around a day to remember! Who would have thought where AI will bring me? 😮 👍

Twitter, pre-Elon had a whole safety team that made sure things like this did not happen. What needs to happen now is that X needs to be sued into oblivion.

Invited talk by Zeynep @zey.bsky.social Tufekci at @neuripsconf.bsky.social was really very good! Title: Are We Having the Wrong Nightmares About AI? Spoiler: yep! 😉 Very thoughtful! Thanks!🙏

Invited talk by Rich Sutton at @neuripsconf.bsky.social was presenting the OaK architecture. A “scaffold” for superintelligent agents in which human inputs (at design time) are depreciated. 🧵

Currently at NeurIPS @neuripsconf.bsky.social. In 🇲🇽, not 🇺🇸. Workshops are running… you here too? What do you think so far? Be honest…

Shots being fired!!! 😱

PhD position in my lab in #AI #RNA, in co-supervision with superstar @florianjug.bsky.social www.polimi.it/dottorato/fu...

I’m at #AIS25 today and tomorrow… Where scientists, industry leaders, investors, and policymakers meet to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on scientific discovery. I think this is a very important conversation we must have NOW! 👍

Hello from day 2 of #EESImaging 👋 After three very intesting talks about dynamic super-resolution microscopy this morning, participants used the coffee break to meet the speakers and discover the diverse offerings at our sponsor's booths ☕🔬📸

Excited to announce the first @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Cell Modeling in Space and Time, June 2026 💫 meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp... Bringing together experiments, computation and theory to explore dynamic, multi-scale cellular organization and function! 1/3

🚀 ERC Scientific Council member Geneviève Almouzni’s latest #ERCMagazine editorial shows how inclusive research cultures drive excellence, creativity, and discovery - & what the ERC is doing to make it happen 👉 bit.ly/4n8usX4 #DiversityInScience #ScienceForSociety #FrontierResearch

Our cover indicates that while we celebrate the past we're looking ahead to the future - with the help of a Viewpoint! 13 researchers offer a glimpse of what their research field might look like in 2050 🔮 👉 go.nature.com/4neNdYU

🎉 Our paper “MIFA: Metadata, Incentives, Formats and Accessibility guidelines to improve the reuse of AI datasets for bioimage analysis” is out in @natmethods.nature.com! Community-driven standards to make bioimage data AI-ready & reusable. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI #Bioimaging #FAIRdata

🚨 Wow, that really sounds like an amazing opportunity… If I were a bit younger, I would start preparing my application already… 😮 www.scilifelab.se/news/ready-t...

I have some BIG NEWS to share today! Today I begin my next adventure as Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!! (a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

This week, we have Jörg Bewersdorf 🔬 visit us at @humantechnopole.bsky.social. He gave a fantastic talk on Monday and a very useful ad-hoc microscopy workshop today. The future of Pan-labeled Expansion Microscopy will be amazing! 🌟 Thanks, Jörg, for visiting & sharing! 🙏

$8 trillion lost.....

First day of #bobiac2025. Six days of intensive Python based #BioImageAnalysis. Intro by @fedegasparoli.bsky.social - "This will be a long week, but it will change your life". iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025/

Submit your method to our denoising challenge!!! 👍

#CALIPERSv2 🚀 preprint is locked—journal submission next. Final polish, more hiPSC reference lines, and fresh light-sheet data. Still, a great collaboration led by @moisesdisante with the team @LabPhysiology and the amazing @berterolab.bsky.social and @florianjug.bsky.social group members! 1/N

🐾 The BioImage Model Zoo just got a major upgrade! It has been fully redesigned, offering a new backend, model uploader, community curation tools, and integrated browser-based test runs powered by BioEngine. 🧪 Explore now 👉 bioimage.io

Join the challenge, get the data, contribute your solution!!! 🎉

My guilty pleasure… every year… 🍿 + 🏃 This year will be craaazy!!! I feel it!!!

If unsupervised approaches are your thing, also check out the unsupervised denoising challenge and submit your solutions (the challenge is from last year, but we are still taking entries from everyone who is interested). 👉 ai4life-mdc24.grand-challenge.org

The 2nd AI4Life Challenge is live! Calling the AI & bioimaging community to tackle a key microscopy challenge: removing noise while preserving detail. 📦 Paired noisy/clean datasets 📈 Ground-truth evaluation 🧠 DL focus Build, test, compete 👉 ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/challenge-2/

Come and work with us! Super exciting and relevant projects! Become an #AI pro and do something positive for the 🌍! 👩‍🎓 🧑‍🎓 If you know someone who might be interested… please repost and/or forward this! 🙏

Out today in @natmethods.nature.com : Spotiflow, our transcript localization method for imaging-based spatial transcriptomics. Led by amazing PhD student @albertdm.bsky.social, joint work w @gioelelamanno.bsky.social at EPFL / @scadsai.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/epIB7

Spotiflow, our deep learning based spot detection method for microscopy, is now published in @natmethods.nature.com! Since the pre-print, we have added many features, notably native 3D detection! @maweigert.bsky.social @gioelelamanno.bsky.social @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social Paper: rdcu.be/epIB7 (1/N)

Another year, another #BIC Workshop! This year at #ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, 🌺 🏄‍♀️ 🍹 🌼 Check it here: www.bioimagecomputing.com Submission deadline: July 4th Hey, you have a month left to submit your work!!! 👍

The AI4Life Community Event comes to a close. We wrapped up with a big-picture discussion around the sustainability of services and the role that AI4Life plays in the EOSC. Thank you to everyone who joined us in Helsinki and online! 🦒 Stay connected 💚

Amaaazing talk by Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social Rhode from Zeiss (maybe @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social) today at the @ai4life.bsky.social community meeting. Teasing us with great software solutions and good dev mindset! 👍

📘 Where science meets policy: Stefan Liebler (European Commission 🇪🇺) shares insights on Open Science, AI, EOSC, and how projects like AI4Life support the European research strategy. But also, he showcased notebooks running on the EOSC EU node! 🤖

GloBIAS @globias.bsky.social presents itself (via the one and only @mycroscopy.bsky.social) at the @ai4life.bsky.social communityevent in Helsinki! Join as a member and come to Japan this fall!!! 🎉

AI is an integral part of Fragment-Screen - great to be recognised at the @ai4life.bsky.social Community Meeting today! We are keen to interact with experts across Europe and beyond to advance the use of AI and Machine Learning for FBDD! @instruct-eric.bsky.social @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

Walking through streets of Helsinki. After-conference social events are the best way to finish the day. Sunny Helsinki summer night, good weather, good company, what else can one ask for? @florianjug.bsky.social @jwpylvanainen.bsky.social @turkubioimaging.bsky.social @ai4life.bsky.social

Did you know that Bioimage Archive has a specific database for people to share AI-ready imaging datasets? I did not until @yanlanmao.bsky.social told me! Please deposit! If people regularly submitted, it would have a huge collective impact on bioimage analysis. www.ebi.ac.uk/bioimage-arc...

First workshop is rolling! 🚀 We’re diving into the BioImage Model Zoo @bioimageIO — where life scientists meet powerful AI tools for bioimage analysis. Let’s explore what’s inside the Zoo! 🐾

🔧 Time for our tech-savvy crowd! The afternoon kicks off with a workshop for developers and image analysts: creating, uploading, containerising, and deploying models like a pro.

Want to host your own AI models without relying on external infrastructure? Enter BioEngine ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/announcing-b... Your go-to for flexible, self-hosted bioimage analysis. Open source, scalable, and built for you!

Kick-starting the #neubiaspasteur2025 #BioImageAnalysis courses at @pasteur.fr and @pasteuredu.bsky.social

Great recipe from @cfusterbarcelo.bsky.social on how to train a DL model