Greetings from NFDI4Bioimage Task Area Leader Björn Grüning at the #EOSCSymposium2025, which is taking place from November 3 to 5 at Brussels. At the conference, Björn Grüning presents the #Galaxy use case, which is one of the first #EOSC candidate use cases. 👉 gxy.io/eosc25 Picture: Nicolas Lobet

📣 We’re hiring, please RT! Fully funded 4-year PhD position in our CVPD group at @informatikaehu.bsky.social! Research at the intersection of AI, deep learning & bioimage analysis. 🧠🔬 📅 Applications open Oct 6 (deadline: ~Oct 27) 📍 San Sebastian, Spain. 👉 cvpd.github.io/post/2025-09...

I gave a talk at Blender Conference yesterday, showing how biological volumes work, and how to visualize them in Blender 😋 youtu.be/WPajSWX730o?... #bcon25

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...

Are you working with OME-Zarrs in Switzerland? We're running a series of community events in the context of the BioFAIR project of the BioVisionCenter: Monthly Open Bioimaging Practices Meetups with presentations by us & community members. Starting off with 3 cool events this fall (see image) (1/6)

🎉 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

🚀 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

Julia Thönnißen from @fz-juelich.de demonstrates how large-scale 3D imaging data from neuroscience research can be handled & analyzed without the need for data duplication. Leveraging #OME-Zarr, the #tiamat tool developed at FZJ enables seamless work at scale. @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social #CoRDI2025

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)

Are you using Zarr (or want to know more)? Join us in #Rome for Zarr Adopter Days on Oct 16-17! This is a great chance to learn from implementers, get hands-on support & collaborate w/ the @stacspec.bsky.social sprint folks. Register now to save your spot! zarr-summit-2025.netlify.app

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...

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

How to make bioimage analysis workflows #FAIR? Riccardo Massei shows how to use efficient RDM & analysis pipelines in #Galaxy. As a @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social Data Steward, Riccardo supports the community with expertise in data handling for high-content screening, image analysis & more. #CoRDI2025

Find Robert Wagner on the ground floor level or C.A.R.L at the #CoRDI2025 conference to learn how #OMERO helps with #FAIR data management in the field of low-temperature plasma science. @inpgreifswald.bsky.social @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social

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

Once is an exception, twice is a trend, thrice is a tradition! Save the date for our now-traditional annual OME-NGFF extravaganza in Zurich! Whether you’ve just heard about OME-NGFF and are curious to learn more or if you are working with it every day, there is something for everyone this year!

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 🧵)

Zarr is hiring again! Build scalable bioimaging solutions, collaborate globally, and join the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research as a Computational Scientist or Research Software Engineer www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

🧪Job opening at Janelia @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Integrative Imaging platform for a bioimage analyst. Please repost.

This plays on repeat in my head. (So I might as well share.) #OME #Bio-Formats #Memes

Our project BioFAIR: Towards FAIR Practices in Bioimaging has been selected for funding through the swissuniversities Open Science II Programme (www.swissuniversities.ch/en/topics/op...)! More OME-Zarr and open microscopy community events on the horizon yay!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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!

The deadline to submit proposals for BioHackathon Germany 2025 is approaching! Submit your project idea by July 15! More information is available here: www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event...

#OLSPub as an alternative to #PubMed: Infrastructure made in Europe The recording of our information event ‚Resilient and independent life science research infrastructure‘ is now online and can be watched here: youtu.be/2vSkx07VyeM

Such good news for European data management 🇪🇺

🌐 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.

🧠 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.

We welcome a new project to OpenSustain.tech #climate #sustainability #opensource #opensustain #openscience github.com/zarr-develop...

🚀 We’re hiring again! Join @gerbi-gmb.de as a Software Developer! 💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions 🌍 Collaborate globally 🎯 Contribute to open science through #OME #Zarr 📣 Tell your #NGFF friends. Remote, full-time. Apply by 30 June 2025: All submissions via bit.ly/gerbi-jobs-2...

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

What a special atmosphere! #ELMI2025 Poster Session 1 on Helix A last night. The perfect environment to exchange with friends & colleagues about #bioimaging #RDM: - OMERO-vitessce - IO-FAST initiative - @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social Data Stewardship Talks, Workshops & Poster Session 2 up ahead today!🔬

🛠️ 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...

Metadata & Standards Developer – FAIR Bioimaging We seek a developer to advance metadata standards for imaging data (e.g. OME-Zarr, NGFF) 📌 Schema design (JSON-LD, RDF, SHACL), FAIR principles, open dev 🤝 Work with RO-Crate, ELIXIR, RDA & global partners 🌍 Remote | TVöD 13–14 | Deadline: 30.06

Want to work on data management for cutting edge light-sheet microscopy? The group of Jan Huisken in Göttingen is looking for a PostDoc as part of NFDI4BioImage: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... As a plus, you will be able to work with us on image analysis ;)

Great stimulating discussions about #bioimage data organization in #OMERO led by @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social from #i3dbio at #ELMI2025

Who does microscopy and has never heard of Bio-Formats? You probably used it anyway

🥳 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

Hey bioimaging folks, join us for the next OME-NGFF Community Call on June 24 at 9:00 CEST and 17:00 CEST! Details and agenda on the one and only image.sc here: forum.image.sc/t/join-us-fo...

🚨 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

See you later at our #NFDITalk with #NFDI4BIOIMAGE. 📣

In the context of our @reviewcommons.org revision process, I'm happy to announce Microscopy Nodes v2.2.0! This packs lots of new fun features, including new color management 🌈, clearer transparency handling 🫥, custom default settings 🔧 and more! Preprint at doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social @openmicroscopy.org @zarr.dev #Flamingos ... what's not to love?

OME-Zarr 4 life

🧠 Interested in extending #Zarr? Let us know what you think about ZEP10 "Generic extensions". Current plan is for voting on the proposal mid-June. 📅 github.com/zarr-develop...

📢 Project Submissions Open for #BioHackathon Germany 2025! Join us from December 1-5, 2025, at the Anders Hotel in Walsrode. Submit your project proposal by July 15, 2025. Proposals should focus on #bioinformatics challenges and align with de.NBI & ELIXIR-DE activities. www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event...

New release: napari-omero 0.5.0 😀@openmicroscopy.org @napari.org thanks to some big contributions from @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social , @will-j-moore.bsky.social and of course @talley.codes. Some features in spotlight 👇 First: napari-omero now supports lazy loading of image pyramids from OMERO🔺:

If you train people in ImageJ, Fiji, whatever, even if it isn't your day job, please let us know, and please share this post! Thanks a ton, we really appreciate it. (2/2) forms.gle/C8dUpg8qZkbD... #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis

Journals, confs, repos— Please 🙏 provide a form of bulk author upload. I've just retyped 28 authors 6 times due to upload errors & I'm still not done.... Shout out to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social as one example. Even better: let's build this into @orcid.org have have it automated. 😍

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.