napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀 Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html

The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91. She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.

added a cheat sheet to the official Git website https://git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

Timeline-cleanse: Fly through 3D map of stellar nurseries made by #esa's #gaia mission: ▶️ https://youtu.be/cejvjP-a77k Especially from ~1 min on: just turn on the volume, put the video on full screen and enjoy. #Astrodon #nature #astronomy

We can create communities that celebrate being just as much as doing. One of the best ways to do this is by cultivating purely social spaces where you can get to know each other as whole people, share pictures of your pets, talk about your favorite books and tv shows, and vent about your day. I […]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

And another French rural branch line - the Ligne des Hirondelles - is in danger https://www.laviedurail.com/actualites/ter-menaces-sur-la-ligne-des-hirondelles/ This one is amazing - super scenic. But the service is already very thin, and passenger numbers low. Renovation, coupled with a better […]

Looks like the issue with @libreoffice which destroyed all my work is a Known Issue with Mac installations that should be shared with all Mac users ON INSTALLATION. Libre Office stopped responding when I replied with more info. As @argv_minus_one says "A cursory web search shows there are a […]

#Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an #urbanforest #urbanism #owgf #solarpunk #climateaction

Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post) Amazing work by the team 🎉 Expect a blog post with all the […] [Original post on oisaur.com]

Last week trump announced plans to "review" 8 Smithsonian museums. Today he doubled down, very explicit about the intent to revise history to reflect the ethno-nationalist fantasy of US history. You can do something about that! We are backing up the digital archives of those museums on sciop […]

All the books I've read and don't remember in detail, have been firmly pressed into the foundation of who I am. You can't tell the individual books apart under the weight of the later experience, but they are there, shaping who I am, planting the seeds of today's thoughts and decisions. Every […]

With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media. Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

If you're using mastodon.social's web app, you may notice that the "Some replies may be missing" notice in certain threads is gone. Instead, you may see a "New replies available" button, as Mastodon checks for missing replies automatically now, based on work submitted by @jonny. Please enjoy!

We are modernizing the user interface Pray we do not modernize it further

🚀 Big news! The napari hub has been reimplemented and is now community-run! :tada: It's still the go-to place for finding and sharing napari plugins, but the website is now snappier and lighter-weight. Check it out 👉 www.napari-hub.org

On my Safari, for #GitHub PRs the labels panel look like the screenshot on the left — little chrome, label descriptions, little x on the right to clear a label. On issues, it looks like the screenshot on the right, with clear tick boxes for each label, and […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

I'm so sad by how thoroughly shit the web has become.

I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works. Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying. In about ten seconds it had a […]

I finally properly published an introductory Python course that I wrote a few years ago, on http://proficientpython.com/ I added interactive quizzes and Pyodide-powered code widgets with doctest runners. Blog post overview: https://blog.pamelafox.org/2025/06/proficient-python-free-interactive.html

Say goodbye to 1.5°C. But remember, the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous. https://on.ft.com/45pMG0h

Heck yeah, @bioconductor has moved its chat to @zulip! https://blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-05-29-slack-to-zulip/ I'm a huge fan of Zulip (quoted with permission in https://zulip.com/for/open-source/), which has been instrumental in helping us develop @napari in the open. Cannot *wait* […]

Reminder: the GloBIAS 2025 symposium is happening Oct 26-31 in Kobe, Japan, and, on top of many other cool bioimage analysis events, several members of the napari core team will be leading a napari hackathon. https://www.globias.org/activities/bioimage-analysis-conference-2025-in-kobe

The OIST Graduate School has opened a Special PhD Admissions Portal for students currently enrolled in, or accepted to, universities in the U.S. #PhDProgram www.oist.jp/admissions/s...

Ok guys **nobody open any more issues** 😂

"Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/20/almost-half-of-young-people-would-prefer-a-world-without-internet-uk-study-finds Does that make me young? 😜 More seriously, this is so damning of the efforts of the Googles […]

@SafeguardingResearch Anyways, big thanks to @lavaeolus and @jonny for being the unlikely cyberpunk heroes we need right now. Thanks to your hard work we have a fighting chance to keep some climate, biosciences, etc data from disappearing forever.

The outright wrecking of the scientific infrastructure in the US under the current administration chilled me to my bone. Kept me doomscrolling. But I finally found a way to do something positive, in a small way: I dedicated some storage space and a bit of my internet connection to a […]

Any scikit-image fans in Vienna? The #skimage team would like to meet in Vienna for a code sprint Aug 14-16 ahead of EuroSciPy. We'd super appreciate it if someone's workplace can host us! All we need is electricity, natural light, and (most important) walking distance to coffee. ☕️😂🙏

I've written up how my switch from #ios to #android/#grapheneos went and with which alternatives I replaced my most commonly used iOS apps. I hope it's useful for others who're making the switch too! https://tzovar.as/ios-to-grapheneos/

I was one of these people with "post treatment lyme disease" (when you continue to have symptoms after the traditional dose of 14 days of doxycycline) so this is amazing news:

Previously i had written a masto patch to use favorite/boost counts from remote instances so that you would actually see the real* values instead of fedi appearing like a lonely and desolate place. that got merged, but it wasn't working bc ruby is a weird language. so fixed that, and if you're […]

And it's finally here! napari 0.6.0 is out on PyPI and conda-forge! 🥳 We've had a few threads about this release already but let's recap with some highlights: 🧵

Media sites: A tip If you can use an AI image for an article header The article didn't need a picture So just don't Thanks, bye

Defederation must be the single worst feature of mastodon. Currently a bunch of instances are defederating/threatening to defederate with fosstodon (👋) because a mod is a right-wing troll, and the instance owners are standing by said troll. I totally agree with that assessment, and it sucks, but […]

napari 0.6.0rc0 is out! Barring any crazy bugs 🐛, 🙏 napari 0.6.0 should be out next week, Apr 30.

I just watched this prescient 2012 episode from political comedians Clarke & Dawe. It includes this: C: Well, as you know in Economics, the great battle in the 20th century was that between capital and labor… D: Won by capital C: Won resoundingly by capital, who then move on to the next round […]

Even the right-wing Cato Institute is sounding the alarm about the Trump regime's headlong race into fascism. That's more than I can say for Big Journalism, which mostly continues to ever-so-politely do both-sides stenography. https://www.cato.org/blog/where-writ-courts-does-not-run For god's […]

Many folks are hurting right now, but there are pockets of opportunity… Are you an organisational powerhouse with a passion for open source and open science? @NumFOCUS, which supports projects including @numpy, @Spyder, @napari and many more, is looking for its next Executive Director. A *lot* […]

Oh god, I have made a terrible mistake…

Just got this news on the #nasa budget proposal by the president. #astrophysics gets hit by a sledgehammer. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/trump-white-house-budget-proposal-eviscerates-science-funding-at-nasa/ #Astrodon #astronomy * ~50 percent cut in funding. After the agency received […]

It's taking us some time but it's gonna be worth the wait we promise! 😅 napari 0.6.0a1 is out now! You can install it with `pip install "napari>=0.6.0a1"`. The full release notes are here: https://napari.org/0.6.0/release/release_0_6_0.html But to save you a click here's a short thread: 👇

🚀 New preprint! "Spatial Data Science Languages: Commonalities and Needs" 🌍 Exploring challenges & insights from #Rstats #Python & #JuliaLang for spatial data handling—geodetic coords, data cubes, and more! 🔗 Read here: https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16686v1 […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Just heard about @ente, a FOSS photo gallery app with end-to-end encryption, replicated cloud storage, and sharing. Basically a complete Apple iCloud Photos or Google Photos replacement except you own your data. It also includes on-device AI-powered search, galleries, all the nice things. Check […]

we whipped up a bittorrent swarm that has 200TB of proven storage in like a month by cobbling together everyone's random hard drives. storing 200TB on s3 would cost at least $4.5k per month and would cost $10,000 to download it _one time._ why is the cloud good