✨New Year's resolutions involve learning something new?✨ Then apply for our “Introduction to Image Analysis” workshop in Cardiff in May 2026! Deadline for applications is January 16th. 🔗⬇️ www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @david-j-barry.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social

This is excellent. And I say that as one of the users/developers of the "niche technologies" @patrickfreyne.bsky.social refers to. Particularly like this point: "The chatbot model encourages passive acceptance of one perspective."

Given Microsoft's continued heavy investment in AI and associated infrastructure, when can I expect Teams to be able to detect my microphone? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

He's not wrong. If hundreds of thousands of us had not migrated elsewhere, it would be a whole lot worse.

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

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 👍

Congratulations @olatznv.bsky.social !!! 🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓🎓

One of the great scholarly debates of our time has been settled: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Less than a month to go before applications close for the Introduction to Image Analysis workshop in Cardiff (deadline 16th January)! @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...

And it's supplementary figure SEVEN of THIRTEEN! Surely some of that supplemental data was worthy of prominent positioning in a manuscript of its own?

Making me homesick

When someone has a question about some software you wrote, but someone else has already provided the solution on image.sc

Do you know how far phototoxicity can hinder your experiments?🤔 @mariodelr.bsky.social and @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social have just published their work on #PhotoFiTT in @natcomms.nature.com where they explain how to quantitatively measure it in live-cell imaging.⚡🧫🔬 Read more at: shorturl.at/ly9Zn

#Mastodon, the Command Center for Large-Scale Lineage-Tracing Microscopy Datasets, is finally heading for publication (well, let's see). To #cite or not to cite shall no longer be the question 🙃, because the #preprint. Software is available in every #Fiji near you. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Have you tried Review Commons? We've used it a couple of times and it definitely helped to streamline the publication process.

I'm finding the media's fixation with Farage's schooldays somewhat odd. As if he hasn't said anything racist since. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting: youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones. If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

95% of this garment is 100% cotton

Organising symposia is a whole lot less work and more fun when you've got an enthusiastic group of fellow organisers to help out. But #CBIAS2025 was my 6th and I think it's now time to step back a little. So from next year, @lankylaste.bsky.social will be taking the lead. Roll on #CBIAS2026!

Nothing new here. I graduated with an honours degree in electronic engineering from @ucddublin.bsky.social in summer 2004 and spent the next six months working as an office temp. Hate to break it to you kids, but a good undergrad degree entitles you to absolutely nothing.

Want to automatically analyse your microscopy images but have no idea where to start? 👇

I stopped doing reviews for Scientific Reports a long time ago as the standard of manuscript I was being sent was what I will politely describe as not great. But this...

They have a majority of 148 seats and do not face re-election for, what, 3-4 years? How much stronger a political position do they need to be in before they are prepared to be a bit bolder? How do they not realise that they will be in a weaker position UNLESS they are prepared to be a bit bolder?

BIOIMAGE ANALYSTS ASSEMBLE!!! #CBIAS2025

This year I've chosen to wear my name tag at a fun jaunty angle

T-minus 1 hour #CBIAS2025

I have this on cassette. I feel old.

We just released a new major version of TrackMate (v8), the cell and organelle tracking plugin of Fiji. It ships many new features, detailed below, but that are articulated around the following:

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Less than a week to go for #CBIAS2025! A few hours left to register, in person in London or online over Zoom (registration deadline on Nov 20th) Find out all the information at the link below: www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

I'm starting a petition to have the Irish Presidential Election rerun so we can have Troy Parrott on the ballot

It would be one thing having a "debate" on immigration if people meant they wanted a "debate" based on facts. But what most people seem to mean when they say they want a debate is that is they want us to pretend a bunch of entirely made up bullshit is true.

Sara is a rising #BioImageAnalysis ⭐ Watch this space...

Time is running out to register for #CBIAS2025

My son was born in London and, therefore, obviously, has a British accent. I never really gave it much thought. Until now, as in the last few months, he has started correcting my Irish pronunciation. www.irishtimes.com/world/2025/1...

And terrible music. E.g. Linkin Park are a thing again.

📢 Enhance your bioimage analysis skills - 2-day hands-on napari workshop. Learn to: - Set up conda envis install napari - Navigate napari GUI install plugins - Jupyter notebooks for basic IA - Apply new skills to real datasets w expert guidance 📅 Apply by NOW! www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...

#BioImageAnalysis Job Alert! As it happens, I was in Helsinki in August for the first time in about 20 years - it's delightful. But I'm not entirely sure the image below is entirely representative of the role... jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

It isn't. According to @unhcr.org, there are 18.7 million forcibly displaced people in Europe, of which approximately 12.7 million are from either Syria or Ukraine. Less than 1% of that 18.7 million (about 163,000) have "chosen" Ireland and the vast majority (almost 113,000) are from Ukraine.

Pretty sure a lot of scientists do this with microscopes

I'm in the photo, but I had very little to do with the successful delivery of this workshop - @lankylaste.bsky.social, Sara Salgueiro Torres, @martinjones.bsky.social, Cameron Shand and @k-meech.bsky.social did all the heavy lifting.

Farage: epic grifter

All set up and ready to go for our 2-day Introduction to Image Analysis workshop for external attendees at @crick.ac.uk! With Sara Salgueiro Torres, @david-j-barry.bsky.social, @martinjones.bsky.social, @k-meech.bsky.social, @lankylaste.bsky.social and Cameron Shand

Want to automate workflows in #FIJI? Don't know where to start? We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started. Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding! imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...

Updating my LEGO White House

Happy Wednesday everyone greenparty.org.uk/2025/10/19/g...

🇬🇧 Are you based in the UK? 💻 Do you spend a significant amount of time working on #BioImageAnalysis? 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Want to spend time supporting external users? The UK BioImage Analysis Network (UK-BIAS) might be for you. Apply below before November 5th. forms.gle/XhP15nxg2ZgW...

Someone asked me today if I had any recommended guides for developing #FIJI plugins. It's not something I've been doing a whole lot of in recent years, so my memory is a little hazy. I did refer to this extensively during my PhD and PostDoc, but maybe people have other/better suggestions?

Done.