One week left for the OME2026 Community Survey! 📣 If you haven't filled it out, please do so. We'll be discussing it live at the #OME2026 meeting in April. bit.ly/ome2026-comm...

The #OME #Community #Survey is still open! Please take a moment if you haven't already. (For those who have, THANK YOU! 🙌) Closing date: March 31, 2026

#GerBIMeeting2026 kicking off day 2 in Fulda with inspirations from collaborating scientific communities, represented by Claudia Giesecke-Thiel (DGfZ), Johannes Jägers (Young Physiologists), and Yara Reis (GBI). Chaired by Hella Hartmann (GerBI). Next Up: Industry Spotlight

"GerBI ist open, creative, inspiring, playful, yet always professional" - Bettina Weigelin at the #GerBIMeeting2026, highlighting a great GerBI community feeling.

Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software. image.coop/blog/posts/2...

#BioImagingSocks, anyone? 🔬🧦🟢🤩

“think about whether some of the proprietary license money you’re currently spending could be spent instead on open solutions that would be yours forever, endlessly adaptable, and benefit the entire world. And please get in touch by emailing [email protected]” 👏 👏 👏 Can’t wait to see where this goes

So… um… I (and Draga Doncila Pop and Eric Perlman and @joshmoore.bsky.social and @kevinyamauchi.bsky.social) started a thing! We are excited and terrified in equal measures, and look forward to working with you all in our amazing scientific imaging community! ❤️‍🔥 Read the linked post for the lowdown.

Hot off the presses! 🖨️ If you are interested in the why & what for, check out the blog post.

Excited to see direct streaming of @openmicroscopy.org @zarr.dev datasets in #syGlass! Exploring huge images without upfront download is just what we’ve been working toward with cloud-optimized formats. Great to have tools connecting the ecosystem of imaging repositories, now including VR 🙌

Help shape the future of @openmicroscopy.org! 🔮 The OME 2026 community survey is open—tell us what’s working, what isn’t, and what you'd like to see next. Takes just a few minutes 👇 forum.image.sc/t/ome-2026-c...

Save the Date: Build Skills. Show Tools. Share Data 💥 Boosting Biodata Bootcamp on Sep 15 to 17, at @rwth.bsky.social with @fairagro.bsky.social, @nfdi4plants.bsky.social, @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social, #NFDI4Biodiversity and @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social. 👉Find out more: events.hifis.net/event/3702/

PAPER OUT ✨ How can we make smart microscopy more interoperable? What are the technical and cultural challenges? 30+ people from academia and industry propose a roadmap: doi.org/10.1515/mim-... Also a review of applications and repo of implementations. Join the discussion! smartmicroscopy.github.io

Looking for a PhD position at the intersection of AI, imaging, and gene therapy? Apply for this position in my lab: tinyurl.com/2a2v6tvx Part of sfb1690.uni-goettingen.de to study hearing, vision, and more. Plus, you can create pretty pictures as the one below :).

We have integrated the Allen Institute's BioFile Finder app with IDR. You can quickly Group and Filter all images in a study. Data is served by the IDR search engine and supports up to a million images at a time. BioFile Finder links are on each study page e.g. idr.openmicroscopy.org/study/idr0056/

❄️Winter Data Wonder #11 NFDI4BIOIMAGE shows how cloud-compatible data streaming makes large image datasets directly viewable in the browser — enabling mobile, flexible work with microscopy data. 🔗 Read more: nfdi4bioimage.de/news/news-de... Contributed by @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social

We are hiring a Research Software Engineer to enhance and maintain the SpatialData framework. We will work together with colleagues at EMBL, DKFZ, GSK, and across the scverse community. 🔗 Deadline: 15/02/2026 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

#ELMI2026 will take place in Coimbra, Portugal 🇵🇹from June 16-19 hosted by @ppbioimaging.bsky.social colleagues. Submit your abstracts for oral presentations by January 18! More information & registration🔽 ppbi.pt/wordpress/in...

#NFDBIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - O for OMERO. What do @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and the @openmicroscopy.org have in common? Both aim to improve the management, documentation, and sharing of bioimage data. 👉 Find out more about #OMERO: www.openmicroscopy.org/omero/

Shock slide of the first @nfdi.de workshop on #OverallArchitecture" 🤯 Marius Politze of #MatWerk sharing the breadth & depth of tools & services in use.

It's been great to present OME-Zarrs & Fractal for interoperable bioimage analysis at the 2025 @cytodata.bsky.social conference in Berlin today. Thanks a lot to the organizers & especially Christopher Schmied for having us!

We had an amazing OME-NGFF hackathon last week, Wednesday to Friday, following the inspiring OME-NGFF symposium. What a fantastic week! It’s hard to describe how motivating it is to be surrounded by so many talented, curious & friendly people who care deeply about open, FAIR bioimaging data. 1/14 🧵

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.