📅 Find the story behind the May image in the @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social wall calendar and read more about what it takes to make bioimaging data truly reusable here: 👉 nfdi4bioimage.de/en/community... To the corresponding dataset on @bioimagearchive.bsky.social: 👉 www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/b...

We want to hear from you about your experience using the OME-Zarr ecosystem and how we can improve it! We are joining the upcoming OME-NGFF community call to introduce ourselves to the community and to collect your feedback (May 26, 9AM and 5PM CET). See you there! forum.image.sc/t/join-us-fo...

New release of #BigVolumeBrowser (0.1.1) adds support for (multiscale) OME-Zarr (thanks to libraries from @bogovicj.bsky.social, Stefan Hahmann, Vladimir Ulman). And midi gizmo navigation (from @herrsaalfeld.bsky.social ), shown below.

You can now register for the Boosting Biodata Bootcamp 2026! Gain insights into research data management and data analysis, and learn how to advance your research and make your data and tools #FAIR. To the registration: 👉 events.hifis.net/event/3702/r...

Global BioImaging & German BioImaging launch Spotlight on DATA: 💡 Built by the Image Data Management WG 📊 Featuring a practical “10 Steps” framework 🌍 Community-driven, real-world focus 📅 Live: 28 May | 17:00 CEST 🔁 Replay:29 May | 08:00 CEST 👉 Register/contribute: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Cimini lab is hiring for both postdocs and interns! The postdoc role will cover bioimage analysis projects and educational material creation; the intern will be working on our Bilayers project for helping distribute and access deep learning tools for bioimage analysis. Click below to learn more!

Erin Diel now presenting on the mutualistic relation of Glencoe Software and the Open Microscopy Environment and the contributions of Glencoe towards OME-Zarr 1.0 #GIDE2026

Tim Olsen from XNAT showing the 27 years of progress of a platform used all over the world for clinical and pre-clinical imaging (a "DICOM repository" and much more) #GIDE2026

What's new in Ome-Zarr 0.6? Ome-Zarr is a cloud-optimised next-generation file format #NGFF for bioimaging, aiming to increase #FAIR access and remove barriers in the scientific process. The latest version offers numerous improvements and features. 👉 Find out more on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Member Eric Perlman takes the stage at @embl.org to announce our launch as an international worker co-op for #OSS scientific imaging software. First task supported by @biohub.org is accelerating #OMEZarr towards a 1.0 alpha early 2027. Stay tuned! image.coop #GIDE2026 @gideproject.bsky.social

today we also saw the vision of a bioimage index project with AI-readiness at the raw data level a nice presentation by Chi-Li Chiu (@biohub.org), and right in time to share the hot news on the @os4science.org fund

ICYMI (I did 🫣) 💚

nice to see Jason Swedlow showing the advances and vision of @biohub.org for imaging data @ @gideproject.bsky.social 2026 particularly happy to see mentions of the tech parts around the FBbi ontology and the ideas for needs of bioimaging search capabilities

shoutout to @openmicroscopy.org by Katy Wolstencroft in the context of NL-Bioimaging (at #GIDE2026)

Chris Wood and the origins of Latin American BioImaging at #GIDE2026

Great data presentation by @caronjacobs.bsky.social and the African BioImaging Consortium. In the image, the distribution of research microscopes used in African institutions #GIDE2026

I love this slide from Matthew Hartley (@bioimagearchive.bsky.social) on the repositories behind the last 50+ years of biodata management (at @gideproject.bsky.social)

@gideproject.bsky.social community event starting right now in the stunning @embl.org in Heidelberg

A significant step forward in standardizing biological imaging data. Our project partners, @gerbi-gmb.de and @bioimagearchive.bsky.social, will assure the continued development of the #FBbi ontology. Discuss this milestone and many other at our Community Event 4-6 May! tinyurl.com/26rbksyx

#OME2026 has come to an end—what an inspiring and collaborative few days. Huge thanks to @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social for documenting the meeting so thoroughly—definitely worth a look back through their posts! But first, enjoy the wrap-up video presented already during the closing session! 🤩

If you missed this because, like me, you were busy at #OME2026, please check it out! @kevinyamauchi.bsky.social and I wrote a thing on how we can all do our part to enable the next generation of microscopy-data-driven biological discoveries. Enjoy the read!

#OME2026 was a fantastic meeting & #EuroBioImaging's data team were delighted to be there! It was wonderful to exchange with so many people and listen to so many great talks. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our posters or participated in our workshops. Huge thanks to the organisers! 👏

I reposted this but want to add some comments: the OME community is my "scientific home", a place rooted on mutual respect, trust and looking out for each other. #OME2026 was 2/3 first-time attendees and it was amazing to see they immediately "got it". Extremely rewarding as an organizer.

#OME2026 is coming to an end. It has been a truly welcoming, motivating, and inspiring experience full of intensive exchange and shaped by an exceptionally open and collaborative spirit. Grateful for the many insightful discussions, new connections, and shared ideas. Thank you!

#OME2026 day 3: Matthew Hartley & Virginie Uhlmann, representing the current OME Management Group, introduced the proposed future governance for OME. Central goals: sustain OME at scale while preserving & strengthening its community-driven, inclusive character. -> stage set for an open discussion.

Matthew Hartley from EMBL-EBI, UK, demonstrating live at #OME2026 the power of recent updates around the BioImage Archive @bioimagearchive.bsky.social: Seamless image browsing enabled by OME-Zarr, and enhanced data search functionality are boosting the FAIRness of bioimage data significantly. 👏

What a delight to listen to Carole Goble's inspiring keynote at #OME2026 on community building, charismatic leadership, and endurance! A powerful reminder that lasting infrastructures are shaped not only by technology, but especially by the social experience: leveraging trust, thrust & transparency.

It's workshop time at #OME2026 in Düsseldorf. Three sessions, three rooms, and plenty of opportunities to get hands-on, exchange experiences, and share best practices around OME tools and frameworks.

Amazing to be at #OME2026 & talk about the future of OME-Zarr. @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social @lorenzocerrone.bsky.social & I were very happy to present the BioVisionCenter, ngio and Fractal yesterday. If you want to learn more, check out today’s ngio workshop: github.com/BioVisionCen...

Katy Wolstencroft from Amsterdam UMC, who has co-developed the original #FAIR principles, speaking at #OME2026 about national strategy in the Netherlands to make (image) data FAIR, building, among others, on OMERO and BIOMERO to enable research data infrastructure ecosystems at scale.

Where better to hear the community's thoughts on #OMEZarr!

#OME2026 day 2 opens with Shuichi Onami from RIKEN, Kobe, Japan, speaking about SSBD, an infrastructure for sharing biological dynamics data. SSBD combines repository functionality based on minimum required metadata with an added-value database containing richly curated datasets for optimal reuse.

@ssbd.bsky.social + @gideproject.bsky.social @ #OME2026

now Aastha Mathur presenting on all the interoperability brought by @gideproject.bsky.social #OME2026

now @will-j-moore.bsky.social and the new developments in ome-zarr.js github.com/BioNGFF/ome-... #OME2026

🚨ngff-spec release candidate out🚨 Just out: ngff specification version 0.6.dev4 (github.com/ome/ngff-spe...), which will be the last dev version (!) and mark the beginning of the 🚧spec-phase🚧 (see also forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekl...) This means: let's develop some implementations 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️ #OME2026 👋

Great talks and fruitful discussions on day 1 of the #OME2026 Community Meeting in Düsseldorf with demonstrations of using OMERO, OME-Zarr, and other OME tools in material sciences, palynology, spatial omics and more. Now starting: The Poster session. 📜💬🗨️

Day 1 at #OME2026 is coming to an end with stimulating discussions during the poster session. It's been a wonderful first conference day. Looking forward to tomorrow with highlights including workshops and our keynote speaker Carole Goble. Stay tuned.

Now flash poster talks at #OME2026! Including Isabel Kemmer presenting about the awesome @eurobioimaging.bsky.social

A painful truth well put by @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social at #OME2026 😬 Striving for software #interoperability will make all our lives easier in the future!

nice to see fellow Latin American presenting on how the Smithsonian Tropival Research Institute (STRI) is using OMERO to manage data on ancient polen from the Amazon forest (at #OME2026) "the solution I have been waiting my whole life"

OMERO for material sciences (with RDF!) at #OME2026

Day one's afternoon session at the #OME2026 Community Meeting is starting with Jan-Philipp Mallm, Task Area Lead in the @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social consortium, speaking about spatial omics data management both at the ScOpen Lab at @dkfz.bsky.social & within international standardization initiatives.

Meme-lord @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social at it again at #OME2026 🤣

Thrilled to join #ome2026! Reach out to Eric or Josh if you want to chat.

The 19th OME Meeting just kicked off in Düsseldorf! So happy to welcome this wonderful community to @hhu.de together with @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and the @openmicroscopy.org Team — really looking forward to the days ahead. 😊 Join online: gerbi-gmb.de/event/ome-20... #OME2026 #NFDI4BIOIMAGE #OME

Kiya Govek from The Jackson Laboratory gave the inspiring opening lecture at the #OME2026 meeting, bringing us the community contributor perspective based on her online community survey. Next up: An Update from the OME Ecosystem

A significant moment at #OME2026: Thanking Prof. Jason Swedlow, the founder of OME, who shaped this remarkable community work since the beginning of the millenium. His work & leadership were honored - even with a nod to his famous blue shirts by OME's Interim Board, nominated by Jason in Oct '25.

Prof. Martin Heil, Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at @hhu.de, welcomes the #OME2026 community with warms words at this historic venue - the Haus der Universität. Welcome to Düsseldorf to all community members and supporters. 👏

Finally turning a lot of Github handles into real-world acquaintances and meeting many friends from the field 😀 Looking forward to three days of @openmicroscopy.org #OME2026