Free online intro training: Shell, Git & Python for research workflows. 16-18 Feb 2026 via #STEPUP. For PhD students, researchers & tech professionals developing software or processing data. Software Carpentries lessons. Register: tinyurl.com/ycxndkz8 #RSE #dRTP #UKRI @carpentries.carpentries.org

We just published a new blog post on the state of search and the critical need for open index access. The dawn of a healthier, user-centric web is possible, but it requires structural change. blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn...

Ayer me entrevistaron sobre los 25 años de @wikipedia.org y cuál es su situación frente a la IA. No solo no está muerta sino que es una herramienta más necesaria que nunca. Es casi el único lugar en internet que no se rige por los postulados capitalistas. ¡Defendámosla! www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits. AI poses a grave threat to students' cognitive development. www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...

Fire-breathing dragons. Medieval squares. World-class pierogi. 🐉 🏰 🥟 EuroPython 2026 is heading somewhere exciting and the CFP is open! 🎥 Watch the video, then submit your talk and join us! programme.europython.eu 🎥 youtu.be/laSzm-raS5A

Let’s check out what hsbc has said in the past!

Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Bandcamp bans AI music

I wrote a post describing a minimal set of principles that I've been using to make my research papers a bit more reproducible. Would love hearing what you think! #OpenScience brunovellutini.com/posts/daft-p...

Are you a mid-career researcher with a passion for storytelling or #SciComm? If so, you must apply to the @uscwrigley.usc.edu Storymakers program! This event is the professional equivalent of a yoga retreat - introspective and transformative. Apps close Feb 1st - dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/enga...

🚀 New blog post by Joren Hammudoglu! One year as a NumPy Fellow, pushing (and reshaping) the boundaries of static typing within the Scientific Python ecosystem. Read more here: blog.scientific-python.org/numpy/fellow...

As always, the CES Worst in Show from @ifixit.com is a sight to behold. The list includes a disposable battery-powered lollipop. 🤦‍♂️ www.ifixit.com/News/115344/...

HIRING: STScI is searching for a Software Engineer who will help design, develop and maintain the software that transforms raw spacecraft data into high-precision scientific products, directly supporting astronomers around the world and advancing NASA’s mission of exploration: https://bit.ly/49gwZdr

Please other companies also do this

🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)! An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools. 🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026

Here is my first newsletter of the year, on the destruction of science past and future. buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...

Kind of flew under the radar, BUT we released napari-omero 0.6 recently 🥳 @openmicroscopy.org You can now down-/upload ROIs from and to OMERO inside @napari.org 🤩Bringing the power of napari for annotation to the management of OMERO :) Thanks @psobolewskiphd.bsky.social and other maintainers!

The weather in these parts is really something. (Check out the wind direction forecast in particular.)

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

After six years working on commercial products, happy to say I’m returning to the research world. Today I start as a Researcher-in-Residence at @inkandswitch.com

No. The Grok bot is not “fixing safeguards.” How is the media so bad at this. Good grief.

“This could look like a user asking how much ibuprofen to take for a headache receiving a promoted ad for Advil in the chatbot’s response. Meanwhile, actual results on correct dosage may be brushed to the side, or buried under a mountain of ad text…”

Happy New Year from Oz! 2025 was rough. Let’s try to turn this ship around, shall we?

As someone who often conducts fieldwork in remote places, I find it really irritating that many basic applications now require an internet connection to function.

🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨 AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐 In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!? 20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers 🗓️ June 4-18 2026 ✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️ 🔁 pls!! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...

DOGE were cruel and incompetent, Trump’s DOJ is cruel and incompetent, but not having an Adobe subscription has nothing to do with this. There is an infinity of options to properly redact pdfs that rely only on free and open source software. If anything, the dissolution of 18F is a more apt culprit.

Repealing “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal to modify devices and services without permission from manufacturers, would be a way for other countries to retaliate against the US. Doing so at home would also make America great again.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

CryoEM folks, If you want to handle huge STAR file efficiently in Python, please try starfile-rs! github.com/hanjinliu/star… Reading a motion data of a particle from a 15 MB file is just like this ↓🤩

I Donated to @gnome.org and you can do too! donate.gnome.org #linux #opensource #gnome

I’m happy to announce that the Steering Council has approved my proposal to hold the next Language Summit at @europython.eu 2026 and then alternate with @pycon.us! discuss.python.org/t/language-s... ep2026.europython.eu #Python #LanguageSummit #EuroPython

The enshittification of search is doing real damage to people's lives. Is your ability to make AI memes worth this? AI was not ready for general release. We did not discuss the implications or create policy around its use and implementation. This is mass human experimentation, and it's bad.

Do you love quantifying animal behavior as much as we do? We have just the tool for you! Presenting #OCTRON - a pipeline that helps you create rich annotation data and enables training of custom segmentation models. Have a look, particularly if you work with non-model / invertebrate organisms!

Has napari helped your research this year? Why not say thank you to free and open source software by making a small donation? Every bit helps your friendly core team fix bugs and bring new features to life! CZI will match up to $75K in donations! opencollective.com/napari/donate

🚀📰 End-of-year news for #RxivMaker =). Now it generates both #pdf and #docx from #markdown. Docx makes it easier to collaborate on a document for non-markdown users, making it simple to loop between docx and #RxivMaker to a professional-looking #preprint Preprint updated: arxiv.org/abs/2508.00836

I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year. - One image analyst - one biologist interested in working on lymphatics! Reach out if you are interested 👍

New video: more examples showing deep learning segmentation failure modes—and how to detect them with Napari. I show how Napari’s layer system compares images, ground truth, and results, and how Appose enables comparison across incompatible DL packages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c369...

Update. The Danish government is moving away from #Microsoft products to #opensource alternatives. https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/ #Denmark

After switching my default search engine to @kagi.com, I keep on being surprised when I search for something and get back the beautifully simply kagi page with excellent results and no spammy/incorrect google "AI summary". Highly rec. Note, not a shareholder 😆

The Call for Proposals for #SciPy2026 is now live! pretalx.com/scipy-2026/cfp If you have questions about @scipyconf.bsky.social just ask and be on the lookout for proposal writing office hours!

🎉 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/

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled. One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood. Read more here: eos.org/research-and...

We're a bit late in ringing in the giving season, but it is indeed upon us. Enjoy our special edition holiday logo ☃️ and, if you can spare a bit and appreciate napari, please donate to our development efforts! 🙏 CZI will match donations up to $75K. opencollective.com/napari/donate

Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics directly from images -- New method paper by labmates @bgraedel.bsky.social & @macdobry.bsky.social ! Python package & @napari.org plugin, all the good stuff: Paper: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... Code: github.com/pertzlab/arc... Plugin: github.com/pertzlab/arc...

DRAM prices mooning will hurt everyone and might cause a consumer tech recession on its own in the next 12 months even without the AI bubble popping. Hyperscalers are going to jack up prices for cloud resources, electronics manufacturers (Apple, Samsung, etc.) will raise prices, this is gonna hurt.

🫵🏻 Are you a data visualization specialist who wants to make a difference in the current US political environment? @americansunlight.org needs you!

Come and work with us, We are looking for a new group leader at Turku Bioscience @turkubioscience.bsky.social. Åbo Akademi University invites applications for a fixed term position as Head of Research in Bioscience (Principle Investigator). abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

If you want to learn more about Appose, check out the hands-on Appose workshop from "Halfway to I2K" 2025: fiji.github.io/i2k-2025-app... – along with the reference implementation of the demo project at github.com/ctrueden/uns.... New releases of python and java flavors coming before year's end.

🧭 We are happy to announce our new #SSIFellows! Read more about this year's applications and the 2026 cohort at www.software.ac.uk/news/introdu...

Any European institution with some modicum of respect left for decency and democracy should immediately quit this oligarch's toxic platform, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu.