I'll be in Barcelona for #FENS2026 next week, presenting a poster about movement, and also hanging around our team's other posters (details in quoted post). Drop by if you want to chat about any of these projects or just to say hi!

Working with OME-Zarrs in @napari.org ? Check out the newest release of napari-ome-zarr-navigator to make your life easier & allow more interactive ways to write back to OME-Zarrs. Follow the thread for more (1/5 🧵)

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

🌟 NEW OCTRON RELEASE! 🌟 Want to track your animals using the command line? You can now train models and predict videos with single prompts in a terminal! Ideal for batch jobs, headless servers, and remote machines. Big shout-out to @roald-arboel.com for helping with this release!

1/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org

Posit has joined the Jupyter Foundation! 🎉 @jupyter.org has powered interactive computing across our tools for years, from Notebooks to the kernels behind Positron. Now we're helping fund the infrastructure and community that keep it thriving. Read the blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

📢📢 We are hiring a Bioimage Analyst at the BioVisionCenter! 📢📢 Join our collaboration with the Flow Cytometry Facility and contribute back to the international efforts on open standards for bioimaging data! More information here, reach out if you have any question: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Neuromatch Academy & @connectedminds.bsky.social are forming a #ComputationalBehaviour Course Creation Committee!. It's a #volunteer role for researchers w a PhD. 🤓 Learn more about the course: neuromatch.io/computationa... 🙋 Full role description and application: neuromatch.io/volunteer/

Come join me for a all new slidecrafting workshop! 2 hours of all new content, teaching you to go from zero to hero in quarto slides! It is free and open to anyone, very minimal quarto knowledge required, we are starting with the basics! pos.it/slide-wrkshp #quarto #slidecrafting

datashuttle is now published in JOSS! A tool to automate the creation, validation & transfer of standardised neuroscience project folders — GUI or Python API. The GUI works on all operating systems, even remotely via SSH! More details: datashuttle.neuroinformatics.dev #neuroscience #openscience

v0.17.0 of movement released! 🧠🧪 This version includes new path analysis functions along with a number of bug fixes. Importantly there are some small breaking changes, so please read the release notes to see how your code may be affected. More details: github.com/neuroinforma...

Job ad (1/2): Postdoc fellowship in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-pos... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share!

We've started an effort to bring every 3D (non-human) anatomical atlas that exists into BrainGlobe. Get in touch if there's an atlas we've missed, or you think there's a specific atlas we should prioritise. Read more in our blog: brainglobe.info/blog/the-sys...

We are very pleased to announce Dr Adam Tyson @adamltyson.com of the @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social as winner of the RMS Life Sciences Award. 🙂 🔬 Congratulations Adam! 👏🎖️ Read more about Adam's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/dr-...

Great writeup from our collaborators at UCL Advanced Research Computing on our joint work to make building novel 3D brain atlases faster, more reproducible, and accessible to more labs. 🧠 www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-res...

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-so...

New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Today we're announcing the Virtual Biology Initiative—a major new commitment to build the data foundation biology needs to power the next generation of AI models. Next-gen imaging. Molecular engineering tools. Open data infrastructure for the entire scientific community. Read more: bit.ly/3ONTkHO

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

After three years of working on this review with my collaborator Emily Dennis (Janelia Farm), it is finally in press. The review provides an overview and our personal reflections on what constitutes an integrative approach to neurobiology of foraging. Enjoy www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Drawing regions of interest has been among our most-requested features, and a long time in the making. Building it on top of @napari.org was fun. Drawing and editing shapes is such a joy!

Our first project is live. ✨ With support from @biohub.org, @image.coop is coordinating work across the #OMEZarr community to help move the standard toward 1.0—supporting both implementation and the coordination needed to get there. More details in our latest post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...

The team of JupyterCon 2023, PyData Paris 2024 & 2025 organizes a new conference named Compute! Paris 2026 on open source computation and data. The event will take place on November 25–26, 2026 at Sorbonne Université in Paris. CfP deadline: May 24, 2026: compute.events/paris2026/cf...

Mapping brains never gets old, especially when the territory is new 🐦🧠🗺️. Loved being drawn into this collaboration by @neuroweiler.bsky.social and learning about birds and their magnetic senses. Stay tuned for more new atlases coming to @brainglobe.info

Apply for #FlatironCCN's Neural Data Analysis workshop at #FENS2026 before April 10! Learn more: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/ccn_fens2026/ #science #neuroscience

formats over apps

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

#BIDS has been extended to #EyeTracking data! There is now a standard for organizing and sharing eye tracking, covering gaze position, pupil size, meta data, messages, and more. Great news for #OpenScience! 🎉 Martin Szinte et al: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Upcoming talk at TheBehaviourForum.org seminar series. See forum post for details: www.thebehaviourforum.org/t/virtual-wo... Come to see me talk about 'movement', our open-source Python package for analysing motion tracking data.

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

The paper that sums up what I've been working on and running for the last three years was published this week 🎉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you're interested in the intersection of neuroscience 🧠 and software engineering 👩‍💻, these are excellent opportunities. Great teams and a supportive working environment. Can't recommend them enough! #neuroskyence

Tiny, transparent, and now charted! Our brain atlas of adult Danionella cerebrum includes >200 annotated regions, 29 whole-brain in situs, and male/female reference volumes – openly available, versioned and extendable. Work by @nkadobyansky.bsky.social and team. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Version 0.15.0 of movement released! New features include: - Derivation of bounding boxes from pose tracks - Saving and loading of RoIs via GeoJSON - A new example for scaling pose tracks to real-world coordinates Release notes: github.com/neuroinforma... Docs: movement.neuroinformatics.dev

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

Come work with us, it's fun! #neuroskyence

Are you a neuroscientist with great coding skills, or a software engineer interested in the brain? We are recruiting for a research software engineer to help us build pipelines to process weeks of neural and behavioural recordings from freely moving animals. More details: bit.ly/rse-2026a

🚀 New workshop before FENS in Barcelona! Join the Flatiron Institute Center for Computational Neuroscience of the Simons Foundation for a hands-on workshop on pynapple & NeMoS. Learn to analyze and model neural data with open-source tools. Accommodation & meals included. Details ⬇️

There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

Triple paper drop from the inimitable @willydorrell.bsky.social : 1) A normative theory of prefrontal working memory slots. 2) A comprehensive review of normative theories of why grid cells look like grid cells. 3) A new theory of convex efficient coding. (0/3)

Using BORIS to annotate animal behaviour and want a model to automate it? 🐦 DL classifiers need short, focused clips — not hour-long recordings. 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀-𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗽 extracts those from your `.boris` files, ready for BehaveAI, Octron, and friends. 🤖 roald-arboel.com/boris-clip/ #ComputationalEthology

"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know." We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Want to spend this summer improving open-source tools for neuroscience 🧠📈 and animal behaviour 🐭🐒? Apply to work with us on BrainGlobe, movement and others. We particularly welcome researchers who want to sharpen their software dev skills and contribute to the open-source ecosystem.

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

👀 A precise atlas of the human subcortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

holy shit PR from an ‘agent’ gets closed so it writes a blog post with a personal takedown Some interesting comments from the maintainers too Slop machine go brr, dead internet theory x1000 github.com/matplotlib/m...

Folding Flow 19 (2021) #rstats and #ggplot2

New blogpost outlining our work with @athenaakrami.bsky.social at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social to build light-microscopy based atlases of the rat brain. brainglobe.info/blog/swc-fem...