We have some good news, regarding the 19th @openmicroscopy.org (#OME) Community Meeting from 28.-30.4.2026! To ensure that everyone can participate, we have decided to hold the event in a hybrid format. 👉 Receive further information about your online participation: gerbi-gmb.de/machform/vie...

OMG Not like that! 😭

Heck of a season and game by #DukeWBB Gonna miss Ashlon and Taina 😭

OMG! Survive with a capitol S! Advance! #GoDuke #NextPlay

Survive. Advance. #GoDuke #NextPlay

I'm happy to present our new tool, EpiCure, a napari plugin to ease correction of segmentation and tracking of epithelia movies, developed in @devstempasteur.bsky.social

Friday fun with: pyapp-kit.github.io/ndv/latest/ pymmcore-plus.github.io/ome-writers/ github.com/zeiss-micros... - run an acquisition in ZEN - capture the pixel stream via ZEN API - write it directly to an OME-ZARR using ome-writers - display it in the NDV viewer. Also works with @napari.org 😉

It may be controversial, but my new paper explores the use of AI to produce a podcast to support student learning. It reflects on the pros & cons, and collects student feedback providing rich insight into their attitudes to AI. @chemistryatyork.bsky.social @york.ac.uk pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Wooooooooohoooooo! Baseball is back! #GoPhils

Survive. Advance. #GoDuke #NextPlay

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

Gorgeous #InvertedLUT 😍

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This was a lot of work but I'm so happy we could make it happen as a community. Huge thanks to the steering council and everyone that participated in the discussion!

First paper as first & corresponding author, out in PLOS Computational Biology! 🎉 napariTFM brings traction force & monolayer stress microscopy into napari, accessible via GUI; open-source, validated and no coding required. 😉 Check it out 👇

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Survive. Advance. #GoDuke #NextPlay

Survive. Adcance. #GoDuke #NextPlay

Check out and give feedback on the latest pre-release 0.7.0rc0! You can install with `pip install "napari[all]>=0.7.0rc0"` or via the bundled app. 😁 🥳 The release notes, with highlights, include so many great new features and changes: napari.org/dev/release/...

Do you know those annoying layer lines you get with FDM 3D printers? Those layers you try to avoid or hide?  What if I tell you we can use them to make 15-micrometer-tall microfluidic channels? chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.... 1/5 #chemsky the

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I put up the code on github.com/sfmlab/mole2d for anyone wanting to test it. It's full f bugs, but works if you just need to draw a molecule here and there. :) And I'm working on making it much better (and part of a bigger suite)

BIG UPDATES! OCTRON now supports the new SAM3 models (alongside SAM2)! We’ve also added a global switch for Detection vs. Segmentation: Use the same annotations to train either lightweight detection or full segmentation models. Plus, we’ve added support for the new YOLO26 models. ⤵️ 1/12

spent some time last weekend getting higlass to play nicely inside @marimo.io molab.marimo.io/notebooks/nb...

We've redesigned a practical course on cell biology. This will run for the 1st time with 100+ students, starting next week. I've made a graphical abstract to help students (and myself) understand where we are in the process.... #TeachingTheNextGeneration

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/

#RSCPoster 2026 is next week (3-4 March). Don't forget to register to be eligible to win a prize! Go to our webpage and register today ➡️ https://rsc.li/3XGGvzS

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Indeed, indeed. I'm sure there are plenty of papers around that were wrongly using cameras to monitor chemical reactions. Especially with the rise of the SDL, this is an extremely important topic.... Just because you see a color, it doesn't mean that your camera can quantify it....

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

Videos are now available from the 2025 QuPath Training Course, from @iamichaelnelson.bsky.social, @zmikulski.bsky.social, and myself. Watch for multiplex tutorials! For image analysis inspiration! Or just watch to hear me speak like an overcaffeinated squirrel! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📣 We are accepting applications for the 2026 Boston Bioimage Analysis Course (BoBiAC): bobiac.github.io! Join us this July at Harvard Medical School for a 6-day intensive hands-on course to learn bioimage analysis with Python! Apply by May 18th! No prior Python experience required! 🧫->🔬->💻->📊

Unleashing live-cell imaging for the masses! Adapting the OpenFlexure Microscope for Affordable Live-Cell Imaging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Fits into existing incubators for time-lapse experiments & feeds into existing bioimaging analysis pipelines. Thanks @wellcometrust.bsky.social funding

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...

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 🔊 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 Read more here: tinyurl.com/4jdt2ra5

The OME meeting has followed me from New England to Germany! consistently my favorite scientific meeting of the year, with the nicest community anywhere. Join us there!

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...

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GO BILLS!

Won best thesis award with this video! 4 years of research and play in 3 minutes :') youtu.be/so0fPlK1-LM

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!

Very pleased to announce the release of #OMERO.figure 7.3.0 including ROI Labels, Colorbars and lots of bug fixes. Thanks to contributors: Rémy Dornier, @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social, Jens Wendt, Niraj Kandpal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUy5...

#Bills red helmets! 😍

It's new annual conference budget time! I've updated the public, filterable Chemistry Conference Database with hundreds of new conferences. There are currently 564 conferences in the list. supersciencegrl.co.uk/conferences #chemsky #chemchat

🚨 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/...

Someone making some copycat #chemistry accounts: mastodon.social/@matthartingss And mastodon.social/@fraserstoddar #ChemSky

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...

🚀⭐️ Trackastra update 🚀⭐️ We just released a new model that uses pre-trained image features from Meta’s SAM2 model. This improves performance on many datasets, most notably for bacteria tracking. To give it a try, simply install with the new optional dep `etultra` github.com/weigertlab/t...

💻 🧬 How does #CompSci power biomedical research? Celebrate Computer Science Education Week with @jacksonlab.bsky.social's Beginner's Guide to Genomic Databases, a 🆓 self-paced course on genomic data structures, annotation & sequence alignment: education.learning.jax.org/genomic-data... #CSEdWeek