🎉Happy International Day of Women and Girls in STEM 👩‍🔬👩‍💻 I’m a woman in science today because my wonderful female mentors, @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social and @malloryfreeberg.bsky.social, believed in me even when I felt I couldn’t do it. 🙏 #womenInScience #womenInSTEM

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #WomenInScience 🌍👩‍🔬🔬 We're dedicated to supporting equality in #microscopy, #imaging and #FlowCytometry - including maintaining a positive gender balance for speakers attending international events. Find out more: https://ow.ly/VbVw50YcIL4

🎉Happy International Day of Women and Girls in STEM 👩‍🔬👩‍💻 I’m a woman in science today because my wonderful female mentors, @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social and @malloryfreeberg.bsky.social, believed in me even when I felt I couldn’t do it. 🙏 #womenInScience #womenInSTEM

Last call! This is a great opportunity for those interested in learning and applying SOTA ML/DL models to microscopy data with the leading experts in the field. Personally super excited to be a lead TA along with the amazing @afoix.bsky.social and @edhirata.bsky.social! Hope to see you there :)

All the tiredness and travel are worth it if it means showing the world what D’Arcy taught us. Thanks to @aibio-uk.bsky.social and the local organisers for yesterday’s event in Bristol. It was a pleasure to engage in such stimulating discussions 👩🏻‍💻🦇. #AI #Morphology #ResearchCommunity #EarlyCareer

Jacqueline Chalakova, @afoix.bsky.social and @denzibubs.bsky.social share their highlights from #CBIAS2025 @cbias.bsky.social, with all three emphasising the welcoming atmosphere. Check out the reasons that #CBIAS2026 should be in your calendar⤵️ focalplane.biologists.com/2026/01/12/c...

Very much looking forward to this tomorrow 🎉 I’ll be sharing my journey from pure CS to tackling multidisciplinary challenges in biology using AI, and how crossing disciplines opens up cool scientific questions. Grateful to @aibio-uk.bsky.social 👩🏻‍💻🔬✨ #interdisciplinary #AIinBiology #AIforLifeSciences

🚨 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/...

We’ll be at @neuripsconf.bsky.social on Wednesday, 3 December, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (San Diego time). Come and chat with us about why distance matrices and invariances are cool! 🎉 #InterdisciplinaryML #neurips2025 #bioimageanalysis #shapequantification

Maria gave such an excellent and much-needed talk linking transcriptomic data with morphology at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 🔬👩‍💻 and showing how AI shapes biomedical discovery, and vice versa. @wimlworkshop.bsky.social always brings brilliant speakers! 👩‍💻👏 #InterdisciplinaryML

If you are attending @neuripsconf.bsky.social in San Diego, go check out Anna's beautiful work on learning shape representations!

We’ll be at @neuripsconf.bsky.social on Wednesday, 3 December, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (San Diego time). Come and chat with us about why distance matrices and invariances are cool! 🎉 #InterdisciplinaryML #neurips2025 #bioimageanalysis #shapequantification

Next to @afoix.bsky.social from @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social lab @ebi.embl.org talking about data-driven shape qualification for 2D microscopy Images

#CBIAS2025 ShapeEmbedLite stay tuned for a new preprint coming out soon.

Day two of #CBIAS2025 kicked off by @lankylaste.bsky.social from @crick.ac.uk and the first session is on physical and mathematical modelling chaired by @natalieah.bsky.social , with the first presenter Ewa Paluch from @cam.bsky.social

Had a blast at #CBIAS2025! Great science (like the incredible ShapeEmbed talk from @afoix.bsky.social), amazing people and obviously tons of beautiful images :) Already looking forward to coming back next year!

Congratulations to @aafkegros.bsky.social for winning the Best Poster Award at #CBIAS2025! 🎉 Their Microscopy Nodes Blender plugin not only makes visualisation easier, but also shines as a brilliant link between computer vision, mathematics, and biology.

Our very own @teunhuijben.bsky.social from the @loicaroyer.bsky.social lab at the Biohub gave a brilliant overview of their journey to improve tracking and visualisation (and our lives in general 😝) at #CBIAS2025 👩🏻‍💻🔬👩🏻‍🔬 #tracking #interdisciplinary #bioimageanalysis

It’s wonderful when a venue feels like home. Thanks to #CBIAS2025 organisers for welcoming established researchers and supporting so many early-career scientists year after year. Grateful for the amazing bioimage analysis community in the UK, Europe and beyond 🔬👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🔬. #bioimage #interdisciplinary

Amazing talk by my dear colleague and friend @albertdm.bsky.social and his supervisor @maweigert.bsky.social showing the cool things you can do with Spotiflow at #CBIAS2025. Look at this beautiful learned spot detection in 3D! 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍💻🔬 #bioimageanalysis #spotdetection

Amazing talk by my dear colleague and friend @albertdm.bsky.social and his supervisor @maweigert.bsky.social showing the cool things you can do with Spotiflow at #CBIAS2025. Look at this beautiful learned spot detection in 3D! 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍💻🔬 #bioimageanalysis #spotdetection

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Thrilled to be speaking at #CBIAS2025! 🥳 CBIAS has been my scientific home since the beginning of my PhD, providing a welcoming space for early-career researchers. This year feels extra special, as I’ll be presenting my work in the final year of my PhD. Join us if you get the chance! 😃

Super grateful to the organisers of @tlmcambridge.bsky.social for inviting me 🤩 It’s great to see in-person events coming back strong and helping rebuild a solid scientific community around Cambridge. Come have a drink and enjoy some exciting science!👩‍🔬🔬👩‍💻 #bioimageanalysis #interdisciplinary #theory

Super grateful to the organisers of @tlmcambridge.bsky.social for inviting me 🤩 It’s great to see in-person events coming back strong and helping rebuild a solid scientific community around Cambridge. Come have a drink and enjoy some exciting science!👩‍🔬🔬👩‍💻 #bioimageanalysis #interdisciplinary #theory

📢 Apply now for the first DL@Janelia Bootcamp (June 4–18, 2026)! 2 weeks of hands-on deep learning for microscopy: train models on your own data, Python needed (no ML experience), housing + meals included, no registration fee 📍 Janelia Research Campus, VA 🗓️ Apply by Jan 15, 2026 🔗 shorturl.at/j4sgY

📢 Apply now for the first DL@Janelia Bootcamp (June 4–18, 2026)! 2 weeks of hands-on deep learning for microscopy: train models on your own data, Python needed (no ML experience), housing + meals included, no registration fee 📍 Janelia Research Campus, VA 🗓️ Apply by Jan 15, 2026 🔗 shorturl.at/j4sgY

My take: Engineering *is* important. Ideas are cheap. Novelty is overrated. "Hyperparameter tuning" is a cynically dismissive term for something that is in fact the real, difficult problem.

Don’t miss Elena’s (from @ilastik-team.bsky.social lab) brilliant work @ #ICCV2025 with @anwaiarchit.bsky.social & @cppape.bsky.social poster 292 @ 11:15AM 🔬They tackle segmentation of massive 3D microscopy images & show how BatchRenorm removes tiling artifacts boosting transferability and clarity🌺

Don’t miss Elena’s (from @ilastik-team.bsky.social lab) brilliant work @ #ICCV2025 with @anwaiarchit.bsky.social & @cppape.bsky.social poster 292 @ 11:15AM 🔬They tackle segmentation of massive 3D microscopy images & show how BatchRenorm removes tiling artifacts boosting transferability and clarity🌺

Attending BISCUIT workshop at #ICCV2025 🌺 — the first talk by @mariavak.bsky.social on quantifying biases in foundation models was fantastic! Exciting to see interdisciplinary efforts focused not just on prediction but on understanding why — and ViTs seem to be the trend in biomedical vision 👩‍💻

We’ll be presenting at the #BIC workshop at @iccv.bsky.social! This year’s BIC has amazing speakers 🌺 — join us on 19 October at the Honolulu Convention Center to explore cutting-edge methods at the intersection of computer vision and biology 🔬 #ICCV2025 More details: www.bioimagecomputing.com

We’ve upgraded ShapeEmbed 🎉 ShapeEmbedLite decodes latent codes via an MLP to guarantee valid EDMs, making it lighter and ideal for small microscopy datasets or limited compute. Hear more at my BIC workshop talk or poster at #ICCV2025! Try it out at github.com/uhlmanngroup...

Thank you, @afoix.bsky.social! I am really happy I could be part of this one. Everybody, please enjoy the new ShapeEmbeding goodness!

We’ve upgraded ShapeEmbed 🎉 ShapeEmbedLite decodes latent codes via an MLP to guarantee valid EDMs, making it lighter and ideal for small microscopy datasets or limited compute. Hear more at my BIC workshop talk or poster at #ICCV2025! Try it out at github.com/uhlmanngroup...

Also don’t miss: 🧬👯 @epetsalaki.bsky.social’s talk “From Data to Digital Twins” (Wed, Digital Twin Models) 📊🧬 My poster P03.14 – Towards Data-Driven Executable Models (Wed) 🧩🤖 @alussana.bsky.social’s poster P18.13 – Data-Driven Inference of Functionally Coherent Gene Modules (Mon)

Happy to share that ShapeEmbed has been accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 🎉 SE is self-supervised framework to encode 2D contours from microscopy & natural images into a latent representation invariant to translation, scaling, rotation, reflection & point indexing 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01009 (1/N)

Thrilled to be speaking at #CBIAS2025! 🥳 CBIAS has been my scientific home since the beginning of my PhD, providing a welcoming space for early-career researchers. This year feels extra special, as I’ll be presenting my work in the final year of my PhD. Join us if you get the chance! 😃

Happy to share that ShapeEmbed has been accepted at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 🎉 SE is self-supervised framework to encode 2D contours from microscopy & natural images into a latent representation invariant to translation, scaling, rotation, reflection & point indexing 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01009 (1/N)

Thanks for all the trainers and attendees on this course, which was a lot of fun to run, and hopefully filled a gap in genomics/modelling training And especially co-organisers @leonielorenz.bsky.social @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social Joel Hellewell

It’s crucial that the bioimage community joins spaces long dominated by computer vision/CS to highlight challenges in microscopy data and how we tackle them. Brilliant talk from @aafkegros.bsky.social showing how biology is both exciting and challenging👩🏻‍💻🔬🧬🦠 #bioimage #microscopy #interdisciplinary

The abstract submission deadline for #CBIAS2025 has just closed and, for the first time, we have a near perfect gender-balance in our abstract submissions. In fact, we have slightly more submissions from women than men.

Snake-in-the-Box Problem xkcd.com/3125/

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Can robots in a swarm act like the cells of an organism? Thanks to Sedeer El-Showk for the new article in @nature.com, which highlights the work of a number of research groups, including our own, on how “Robots demonstrate principles of collective intelligence”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🔬API-first feature extraction for image-based profiling workflows If you need to obtain interpretable features from your segmented microscopy images, but want to do it in a fully automated way, we know the struggle. 1/6

And just like that @katharinaweins.bsky.social and Elvira Isenring managed to make us look cooler than we'll ever be: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t8R...

Spotiflow, our deep learning based spot detection method for microscopy, is now published in @natmethods.nature.com! Since the pre-print, we have added many features, notably native 3D detection! @maweigert.bsky.social @gioelelamanno.bsky.social @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social Paper: rdcu.be/epIB7 (1/N)

Out today in @natmethods.nature.com : Spotiflow, our transcript localization method for imaging-based spatial transcriptomics. Led by amazing PhD student @albertdm.bsky.social, joint work w @gioelelamanno.bsky.social at EPFL / @scadsai.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/epIB7