Preprint 🧵! I’m really excited to introduce BIGSMALL, an interleaved multi-magnification cryo-ET scheme bridging molecular and cellular scales in a single acquisition! BIGSMALL = 𝐁road 𝐈nformation 𝐆athering 𝐒trategy by 𝐌ultiscale 𝐀cquisition of lame𝐋𝐋a www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/6)

⏳️ Have you registered yet? #EuroBioImaging's Image Data Community Days event is happening next week. If you're curious about biological & preclinical #imagedata analysis, management, tools & more this event is for you. Registration is FREE & open to all⤵️ www.eurobioimaging.eu/events/image...

🚨🔬🚨🔬🚨 We are pleased to announce that registration for the 7th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS 2026 is now open! 🕐November 23rd-24th, 2026📍The Francis Crick Institute, London. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there (or online 😀)

Analyse public OME‑Zarr images using models from the BioImage Model Zoo! 🦒 Join us April 16 🕐️ 13:00–15:00 CEST — a perfect fit for Python 🐍 users ready for hands‑on work. @ai4life.bsky.social #OMEZarr #AIinScience #ImageAnalysis #Workshop forms.gle/5hQh1BoACPaF...

Missed our latest CCP-volumeEM Show and Tell webinar? Dr Kimberly Meechan’s talk on Good practices for image analysis software is now available to watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHJJ...

🔬 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...

Dominik Kutra from @ilastik-team.bsky.social presenting the latest updates to #ilastik for #BioImageAnalysis at the @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social "From 3D Light to 3D Electron Microscopy“ symposium at @crick.ac.uk - very brave live demo with TB scale data! @em-stp.bsky.social #VolumeEM

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

Enjoying @k-meech.bsky.social's #ShowAndTell talk in the @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social series while on holiday, with suitable holiday lunch 😄 The talk will be uploaded to the #CCPvolumeEM YouTube channel, link from the website: www.ccp-volumeem.ac.uk/showandtell #BioImageAnalysis #CoSeC #VolumeEM

Just a few days left to submit your abstract for the 21st International Microscopy Congress #IMC21 - Deadline *THIS FRIDAY* (20th March) Don't miss the chance to share your work with the global #microscopy community in Liverpool this summer! 🙂 🔬 Abstract submissions: https://ow.ly/sknS50Yv9pk#IMC21

Are FMs actually FMing? ⛓️🔬 Thrilled to share that our paper on Foundational Models for mitochondria segmentation in EM is heading to the @iclr-conf.bsky.social 2026 LMRL Workshop! 🚀 Check out the full work here: 📄 ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2602.08505 📄 OpenReview: openreview.net/forum?id=Bba...

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/...

Our preprint outlining a deep learning-based phenotypic screening approach for the discovery of new TB drugs is out on bioRxiv now 💊🦠 🔗 doi.org/10.64898/202... Thank you @awehenkel.bsky.social @chzimmer.bsky.social @spetrella.bsky.social @curieuseny.bsky.social and everyone else not on bsky (yet)🙏

Our first #CCPvolumeEM #hackathon is underway, with some amazing merch! We're looking at building community resources and knowledge for the use of #NGFF in #volumeEM #BioImageAnalysis #OMEZarr #OMENGFF @cosec-ukri.bsky.social

If you've been wondering what our current obsession with OME-Zarr and lego blocks is about, I have good news for you: the Fractal preprint is out! Thanks to @joelluethi.bsky.social , all co-authors, and the Fractal developers and users community for making this beautiful project a reality ❤️

Looking forward to learning more about this and how it can be used for #volumeEM at the #CCPvolumeEM #NGFF hackathon at @ebi.embl.org this week! #BioImageAnalysis @cosec-ukri.bsky.social #OMEZarr

We’re excited to share our latest preprint on Fractal: our approach towards FAIR bioimage analysis at scale with OME-Zarr-native workflows. Fractal defines interoperable tasks on OME-Zarr and provides a platform for TB-scale image analysis. (1 / 10🧵) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Calling all OME Community members, contributors, and lurkers! Please take a minute to answer the OME 2026 Community Survey (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...) to help us prepare for discussing the future of OME governance during the OME 2026 Community Meeting at the end of April.

New Web Page - Volume EM Industrial Partners www.volumeem.org/industrial-p... We’re excited to introduce our newly curated Industrial Partners page, showcasing organizations recognized by the volumeEM Community as key contributors in the field.

Including a piece by Jenny Hounsome, @h-spiers.bsky.social, @em-stp.bsky.social and me on some @crick.ac.uk outreach we've been doing over the past few years with local primary schools

📢 UK RESEARCHERS - Ever wished you could try a completely different imaging approach on your sample but lacked access to equipment or funds? That's exactly what the Euro-BioImaging UK Node User Access Fund is for! Applications are open year-round, with 3 deadlines/yr: 📅 31 Mar | 31 July | 30 Nov

Excited to share our new paper (CVPR 2026 🚀): "MuViT: Multi-Resolution Vision Transformers for Learning Across Scales in Microscopy" which enables local predictions to use global context. Great work led by @albertdm.bsky.social & another fun collab w @gioelelamanno.bsky.social! @scadsai.bsky.social

Woohoo! So looking forward to the next iteration. 🤩

Save the date! We’re back at the @crick.ac.uk next November!

📣We’re back 🔬👀🖥️! #CBIAS2026 returns 23–24 November 2026: Join the bioimage analysis community to discuss advances in quantitative imaging & computational methods for image analysis. Great opportunity for early-career analysts & microscopists to present and connect. #CBIAS2026 #BioimageAnalysis

Our first 'Show & Tell Series' webinar, presented last week, is now available on YouTube. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-pi... We hope it’s useful to the community - please share with anyone who may be interested #VolumeEM #Bioimaging

An important focus of @cosec-ukri.bsky.social activities like #CCPvolumeEM and other CCPs is the environmental impact of scientific computing. @epcc.bsky.social have teaching materials at epcced.github.io/2026-02-26_G... Comic image from xkcd.com/1379/ #GreenHPC #GreenComputing

Thanks to His Royal Highness Prince William for visiting the Crick today to explore how education, research and innovation are helping to deliver benefits in the UK and across the world – from antimicrobial resistance to the biology underlying our mental health. 🔗 www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

Do you do image analysis? Want to make it more robust and reproducible? Have you heard of containers, but don't know why they’re useful, and how to use them? @martinjones.bsky.social will explain all: crick.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

💖 We join #LoveDataWeek2026 by sharing the recordings from Image Data Community Days 2025! Follow the “Where’s the data?” theme with on-demand sessions on FAIR principles, analysis tools, AI & preclinical imaging. 🎬 Watch anytime here youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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

New research from the Crick and @umontreal.ca has found the missing link between two chemical pathways that control blood vessel branching, potentially opening the door for new treatments for a currently incurable genetic bleeding disorder. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

🔬UK researchers: Access cutting-edge bioimaging tech + expert support with our User Access Fund! 💷 £5k for imaging 💷 £2k for image analysis Choose from 6 top UK facilities, contact them, then apply! rms.org.uk/user-access-fund ⏰ Next deadline: 31 March ✅ Decision in 4 weeks Pls share!

iCASE PhD project available in my lab, combining microscopy method development with high throughput screening of bacteria. Applications to antibiotic drug discovery and screening for new cell division proteins. Collaboration with Cairn Research #microsky #bioimaging www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We Are hiring!! 👨‍💻👩‍💻 CALM's new Data and Systems Steward Role is live 🎉https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Data-and-Systems-Steward_R2551 closing date 8th Feb!

We are hosting an #Ilastik workshop on March 27th, led by Dominik Kutra, senior research software engineer @ilastik-team.bsky.social The course is open to students and staff at @crick.ac.uk and partner universities (@ucl.ac.uk, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social)

Three of our early career participants wrote about their experiences at #CBIAS2025 on @focalplane.bsky.social. Check out the blog post!

The #CBIAS2025 poster collection is now available, along with associated DOIs for further dissemination. Take a look! crick.figshare.com/collections/...

Another brilliant #CBIAS2025 review is out, thanks to Virginia Silio, scientific ambassador for @eurobioimaging.bsky.social and Imaging Specialist at the Centre for Molecular & Cell Dynamics @ucl.ac.uk! www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/exchang...

🔬 EMUKI 2026 is coming up Stratocore will be sponsoring & attending EMUKI 2026 in Dublin on 12–13 Feb, bringing together the #electronmicroscopy community to discuss facility management, technical innovation and career pathways. 🔗 https://f.mtr.cool/xwgppvqkeu @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

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...

Applications for our Section Awards are now *OPEN*😃 These awards are chosen by each of our Scientific Committees, in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements across all forms of microscopy, imaging and flow cytometry. Find out more and apply by 28 February: https://ow.ly/1gap50XRV7j

✨New Year's resolutions involve learning something new?✨ Then apply for our “Introduction to Image Analysis” workshop in Cardiff in May 2026! Deadline for applications is January 16th. 🔗⬇️ www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca... @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social @david-j-barry.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social

*APPLY NOW* for Introduction to Image Analysis 2026! 😃🔬 Great workshop designed to empower researchers with the necessary skills and tools to confidently analyse their data. Apply by Fri, 16 Jan: https://ow.ly/hHRi50XNaG4

#NFDI4BIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - R as in REMBI. REMBI was developed by the light, electron, and X-ray microscopy communities to increase the likelihood that image data will be reused by their own reserachers, but also by other users of archived image material. Read more: 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

Less than a month to go before applications close for the Introduction to Image Analysis workshop in Cardiff (deadline 16th January)! @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...

The Francis Crick Institute Library & Information Services team has landed on bluesky! Follow us to see what's going on 😀📚🔬

Make your own sticker against #Fascism Woody Guthrie used his music to fight in the 1940ies. Let his guitar be a reminder to us that we all have tools available to stand up. As biologists, we are trained to See, Understand, Document, and Report - let's apply these today! doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?