Red blood cells are analysed inside a lab-on-a-chip, a tiny device that condenses the complexity of a lab into postage-stamp size. Researchers are using these to tackle malaria with speed and precision. See the #ArtOfScience gallery: www.wehi.edu.au/art-of-scien...

Annual photo of waking up in my happy place.

Check out the PyCon Au talk from my team member: @ishratz25.bsky.social on the challenges and solutions(?) of cell counting in whole-brain light sheet images! Also give her a follow, she's new here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccLn...

Abby demonstrating how your email finds me.

Want to enhance your image analysis skills with napari? We’re running a two-day training event on how to use napari to effectively analyse your bioimaging data. 🕒 Applications close on 15 September. Learn more and apply 👇 www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

For those that don't know what a kakapo is. Tell me the world wouldn't be a better place without more of these:

In one week I'm off to far north Queensland. It has become an annual family tradition and one of the only holidays I genuinely relax. Unfortunately I still have a to do list that's getting longer and the time remaining to do it keeps getting shorter.

One of the best academic experiences has to be receiving the Friday night chain email from the lead author to collaborators about a paper acceptance.

I did it. I am whelmed.

GloBIAS conference Kobe 2025, the registration for the symposium is still open, until Sept 15th! bit.ly/GloBIAS2025-...

Lol - I'm deleting so many emails that I crashed outlook

The (literally) overwhelming number of emails from my kids' school has also thrown into sharp relief the stress that is induced by my work email inbox. I'm going to try inbox-zero again by way of email bankruptcy. Wish me luck - and I apologise for anyone caught in the abyss.

165.

There have been less than 145 school days so far this year, and I've received 163 emails from school. This is simply too much information - I can not keep up.

Look, LLMs can definitely speed up a lot of my work, but let's not pretend they "know" anything. I asked two networks to explain the same thing:

I did something on the HPC yesterday that seemed to crash everything and caused our research computing team to reboot all our login nodes. But today I did something on the HPC that potentially saves thousands of dollars of proprietary software. So, you know, swings and roundabouts.

I'm not too old! Just bought tickets to the tour next year!

The thing about being approximately the same age as bands is they get me. Loving the new hilltop hoods album, favourite tracks are about insomnia and anxiety.

I'm going to sleep now, I wonder what I'll wake up to.

Ahh Melbourne. Never change. Or do, and then rapidly change again.

In the first-world-est of first world problems, I'm going to miss this year's Melbourne Pen Show because I'll be in Japan when it happens.

I'm concerned that I'm causing a SyntaxError. If one of you in the northern hemisphere could have a glass that closes the bracket I'd appreciate it.

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

Any ideas what I should do with an approx 5 year old chromebook?

Gave a talk today about the AI tools I've used over the last decade and one slide showed how computationally expensive a network maxing out my 16G of RAM. We've come a long way baby.

In case anyone needs to hear it.

Pfft, chat-gpt saying: "Yes, you could code it like that, however a safer option is to...."

I knew this would happen. I have two presentations to write, but got handed a python dev task that is way more interesting

Didn't expect to see some of my data analysis when I clicked on the video with the awful auto-gen voice.

Around 15 years ago my wife and I had an amazing steak dinner in Kobe. We still remember it all these years later. We justified the costs with the old "when will we ever be here again?" Well now, thanks to @globias.bsky.social conference I will be there again....

I've decided not to release the full paper, but I'm not averse to sending it to predatory journals every time I'm solicited for a publication.

I swear - the only place my headphones/mic/camera/laptop all work together is in one specific room. I guess I'm having all my meetings in the single-molecule localisation lab from now on.

I just ran an analysis for nearly 2 hours - so I have all the measurements I need. Unfortunately I got the wrong window title and now I don't know which data goes with which image.

I said something stupid (but true) at work yesterday, and now I'm making figures and formatting a satirical journal article. How far is too far to go for a stupid joke?

I just "found" a VM. Going through running updates on our compute resources and I thought we had 6 of one particular configuration, but I've found a 7th.

Forgot to take glamour photos but I absolutely nailed tonight's porterhouse on the coal BBQ. Might not seem like much but even my exceedingly picky eldest smashed it, and he would rather go hungry than eat something he didn't want to.

My phone brought up an alert that there was a problem with my battery and I could get a free replacement. Checked the Google link and I guess that's not an option in Australia so they just gave me the money for a new phone. Not a bad outcome to be honest.

Some #FluorescenceFriday for your feed

Running a qupath workshop is thirsty work. Most important part of the day is post-workshop debrief meeting with the team.

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Replacing all my random print() statements with logger.info() and logger.debug() statements. I feel so grown up.

I'm doing my best damn it! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

🧬50 years of impact 🌍 From #malaria breakthroughs to global collaborations, our researchers have transformed the field of #parasitology – and they’re not done yet. Find out more: www.wehi.edu.au/news/from-a-...

Went to the zoo and every animal looked at me the same way my kids do when I make an undeniably hilarious joke.

I think the groomers returned the wrong dog.

Heh.

When professor frink turns up on my desk, you know I'm doing micro CT training

Trying to fill out the calendar for AusBIAS monthly online meetings. 3 or 4 spots left that will go to members first if requested, but if you're an internationally based image analyst and would like an invite - let me know! Just be aware of time zones, +10GMT isn't great for everyone!