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?

If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting: youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I

If you're interested in developing an open-source image analysis platform/plugin to profile bacteria with deep learning while living in the beautiful city of Paris 🇫🇷, check out this job ad from the @chzimmer.bsky.social lab @pasteur.fr research.pasteur.fr/fr/job/open-...

Happy to share the first paper from my journey at @psich.bsky.social towards X-ray connectomics, now out in @natmethods.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Organising symposia is a whole lot less work and more fun when you've got an enthusiastic group of fellow organisers to help out. But #CBIAS2025 was my 6th and I think it's now time to step back a little. So from next year, @lankylaste.bsky.social will be taking the lead. Roll on #CBIAS2026!

Researchers at the Crick, @psich.bsky.social and @esrf.fr have developed a new way to look deeper into brain cell connections by using a particle accelerator and a kind of resin borrowed from the aerospace industry. www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

Want to automatically analyse your microscopy images but have no idea where to start? 👇

Get your #bioimageanalysis journey started with this workshop! 📍Cardiff, UK 🗓️18-20/05/2026

Applications for the next @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social “Introduction to image analysis” workshop are now open! Join us for 3 days in Cardiff in May to learn the foundations of #bioimageanalysis using Fiji, Python and @napari.org www.rms.org.uk/rms-event-ca...

THANK YOU ALL for making another edition of CBIAS so special! Stay tuned for next year’s dates, we look forward to seeing you all again soon #CBIAS2025

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)

An immense thank you again to @cbias.bsky.social committee, sponsors and fellow imaging friends for this fantastic symposium! It's is not the end but the beginning of tons of papers to read, colleagues to contact, new collaborations to form. And most importantly, it's a 'see you soon' #CBIAS2026 🔬🥰

Another brilliant #CBIAS2025. Now I know the rest of my week will be testing out all those cool new analysis tools!

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.

Had such a blast at #CBIAS2025 — a meeting full of image-analysis nerds (what more could you want?). If you’d like to learn more about movement, the Python package I presented, my slides are live at neuroinformatics.dev/slides-movem...