Spannender Artikel: "Für einen gefällten Altbaum mit einer 20 Meter großen Krone brauche es etwa 400 neue Jungbäume, um den Verlust auszugleichen, heißt es in einer Studie der Technischen Universität Dresden."

What's new in Ome-Zarr 0.6? Ome-Zarr is a cloud-optimised next-generation file format #NGFF for bioimaging, aiming to increase #FAIR access and remove barriers in the scientific process. The latest version offers numerous improvements and features. 👉 Find out more on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

MicroSplit: a computational unmixing method for multiplexed fluorescence imaging of up to 4 structures per imaging channel. @ashesh-0.bsky.social @florianjug.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#OME2026 is coming to an end. It has been a truly welcoming, motivating, and inspiring experience full of intensive exchange and shaped by an exceptionally open and collaborative spirit. Grateful for the many insightful discussions, new connections, and shared ideas. Thank you!

One of the funniest conversations I've ever had with Claude... stick with it through the third image to watch it slowly realize it's broken, try to "play it cool", fail spectacularly, then attempt self-aware commentary and immediately faceplant again. it's worth it, I promise.

🚨ngff-spec release candidate out🚨 Just out: ngff specification version 0.6.dev4 (github.com/ome/ngff-spe...), which will be the last dev version (!) and mark the beginning of the 🚧spec-phase🚧 (see also forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekl...) This means: let's develop some implementations 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️ #OME2026 👋

A painful truth well put by @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social at #OME2026 😬 Striving for software #interoperability will make all our lives easier in the future!

🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨🚨 The Image Analysis Unit at Human Technopole in Milan is recruiting for two positions to join our growing team: 1) Bioimage Analyst 2) Research Software Engineer (RSE) Read on to learn why one of these two people should be you!

Meme-lord @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social at it again at #OME2026 🤣

Kiya Govek from The Jackson Laboratory gave the inspiring opening lecture at the #OME2026 meeting, bringing us the community contributor perspective based on her online community survey. Next up: An Update from the OME Ecosystem

It's on! #OME2026 kicking off at Haus der Universität in Düsseldorf! @sweidtkamp.bsky.social opened this exciting community event, looking ahead at three days of exchange to shape bioimage data management as an international collaborative endeavor.

Finally turning a lot of Github handles into real-world acquaintances and meeting many friends from the field 😀 Looking forward to three days of @openmicroscopy.org #OME2026

Neubau für Erforschung der Grundlagen des Lebens: 🧬 @wissenschaftsrat.de hat die Förderung eines neuen Gebäudes für die #TUDresden empfohlen. Das Exzellenzcluster @poldresden.bsky.social bekommt eine herausragende Forschungsinfrastruktur, um die Grundlagen des Lebens zu ergründen. ℹ️ tud.link/vhazar

Pam Carter (1952-2022) Breakish Daisies

Types of Board Game xkcd.com/3235/

Abschliessend mal was zum Thema "Akademische Karriere". Sieht aus wie ein Durchlauferhitzer - ist es irgendwie auch. Wenn ich nicht diesen - anfangs erwähnten - Kindheitstraum verfolgen würde, hätte ich schon dutzendmal aufgegeben... Denn je weiter runter (in dem Diagramm) man sich bewegt, ...

I feel I made a mistake, I should swap the images for Findable and Accessible. Seems that the treasure on the island is the thing that's not findable. We know it's out there, just can't find it → AIR And the dragon is keeping anyone from getting access to the pile of gold → FIR

It’s all about #FAIR data. The presentation "Developing Towards the Ideal FAIR Research Data Management Environment," given by Johannes Soltwedel, @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social, and @sweidtkamp.bsky.social at the @gerbi-gmb.de community meeting #GerBIMeeting2026 on March 17, clearly demonstrates this.

Heilung nach Herzinfarkt: ❤️‍🩹 Die @dfg.de fördert eine neue Forschungsgruppe an der #TUDresden. Diese untersucht, wie die Immunreaktion nach einem Herzinfarkt gezielt gesteuert werden kann, um schädliche Prozesse zu begrenzen & heilungsfördernde Mechanismen zu stärken. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

New release of #BigVolumeBrowser. Many things were added: UI improvement (thanks to @kwolbachia.bsky.social feedback), pyramidization for BioFormats dataset, bug fixes. Now there is an isosurface rendering mode (1/4)

🔬 Next Open Bioimaging Practices Meetup (OBPM) – Mar 31, 16:00 CET Hybrid: FMI Basel & Zoom Talk by @jo-soltwedel.bsky.social : Transforming OME-Zarr: What’s coming in v0.6 Plus short updates from the BVC & time for discussion www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...

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

#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

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

If we could just raise sea levels by 150 meters we get a backup Strait of Hormuz

I'm a simple man. I see lazy streaming of chunked bio-image data from a remote @openmicroscopy.org #ome-zarr image to a virtual reality #VR framework, I repost. Seriously, this is *so* cool! 🤯

Streaming OME-Zarr data directly into syGlass for #3DThursday🌍🔬 With #syGlass v2.6.0, datasets can stream from disk, S3, or HTTPS with no massive downloads required. Huge thanks to the community building open imaging standards: @openmicroscopy.org #OMEZarr #Microscopy #OpenScience #Bioimaging

Yep, it lags a little. But still quite impressive considering that each "pixel" is a 150 MPixel multires image. Overall the total number of 'adressable' pixels in this 2D image are 225x225x150 Mpix = 7.6 Tera pixels. #ImageJ #Fiji #BigDataViewer

Rewrote my Python bioformats wrapper (from aicsimageio/bioio) as a standalone package: - fully bootstrapped Java setup (just pip install) - lazy, repeatably-indexable Array object - fully spec-compliant OME-Zarr group obj. - xarray/dask exports github.com/imaging-form... v0.0.rc1 on PyPI

I'll never get tired of lazily browsing elastix-coregistered #WSI data in @napari.org using the upcoming @openmicroscopy.org ome-zarr @zarr.dev format version that allows to specify and read transformations directly from the image data itself. Data source: rodare.hzdr.de/record/3131

Great news for German #BioImaging! 🤝 #GerBI & #de.NBI just signed an MoU to launch a GerBI #OMERO platform. de.NBI brings the cloud, GerBI handles ops, support & community. 🧩 A testbed + training hub for everyone. Stronger data, stronger science. More soon!

On the Tibetan plateau, China has installed a 16-17 GW mega solar plant that is turning an alpine desert into a “micro-oasis”: more moisture, more grass, and soils with more carbon under 64 km² of panels www.ecoticias.com/en/on-the-ti...

In 2024, seven European street artists worked with local communities to transform facades across Belgium into powerful works of art. These reflect visions of a sustainable, fair, innovative, and democratic Europe.

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

If you have 3 minutes, watch this video on the PhD work of @lhinderling.bsky.social. From ChatGPT-controlled smart microscopy to computer vision for easy image segmentation, and new insights into RAS–MAPK signaling. This earned a Faculty Prize for his thesis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=so0f...

So happy to see my #sciart featured in the @ibidicells.bsky.social 2025 Calendar 🥳

With Byung Ho Lee and Kana Fuji as first/lead authors, @anne-grapin.bsky.social group, @utokyoofficial.bsky.social, Inst. of Physics of Academia Sinica, & @igbmc.bsky.social found the shape of lumens in the developing pancreas is controlled by pressure & proliferation. www.mpi-cbg.de/news-outreac...

🚨Gearing up for #NGFF 0.6! 🚨 Help us give this a final push over the finish line and join us in ironing out the last flaws on the way! More information here 👇 forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekl...

My lab @poldresden.bsky.social is now CLOSED! The fabulous @sanikajah.bsky.social has left (defense soon). The lab @mbisg.bsky.social in SG is now 1yr old and growing! PhD students apply here (Jan 12): www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/gr... Undergrads (Jan 31): www.mbi.nus.edu.sg/education/mu...

🚨 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/...

Engagierte Hochschulleh­re: 👨‍🏫 Dr. Sebastian Schellhammer vom Institut für Angewandte Physik der #TUDresden ist in die Akademie Ausgezeichnete Hochschullehre e.V. aufgenommen worden. Schellhammer entwickelt innovative Lehransätze & fördert den kollegialen Austausch. ℹ️ tu-dresden.de/tu-dresden/n...

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!

Ha! Just noticed that my terminal now (has it always?) shows a small loading bar 🚧 when @pytest.org tests are running! Cool :)

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!

Stefan Dvoretskii, Anwai Archit, Constantin Pape, Josh Moore, Marco Nolden: BioimageAIpub: a toolbox for AI-ready bioimaging data publishing https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.15820 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.15820 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.15820

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - P as in Pixels. In biological microscopy, #pixels are more than just image dots – they are quantitative measurements that encode spatial and intensity information at the core of high-dimensional bioimaging data.

🚨 PhD Position Available 🚨 I’m recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC), Münster, Germany. www.bischofflab.com/jobs Fully funded ✅ #Cellbio #Morphogenesis #Microscopy #Drosophila #PhD (Details Below) Original Posting: stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...

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

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: