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

I simply do not believe that voters are incapable of understanding “1/6th of the worlds oil supply is blocked, we must use less of it” and if you do genuinely do believe that I don’t know what’s the point of engaging in politics

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/...

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet. All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Not the key point, but all the 'Andrew Mountbatten Windsor' coverage shows how quickly and easily the entire UK media complex can switch to someone's new name/title, even after using their old one for decades, when it's an incredibly pampered white male deviant. So, you know, it's not *that* hard...

Huge cuts to PPAN postdocs, but we can afford an adventure playground.

Christ, this is fucking dystopian. How about free art classes, language courses, music lessons, sport sessions, further education modules or anything other than this. This is the antithesis of education it’s a campaign of national brain rot.

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

So many reasons I could not cut it in politics, but one is I would just laugh inappropriately too much. Imagine, you’re at a meeting of senior leaders and the CEO comes out with this crap.

We've shipped a major update to the JOSS submission scope requirements, affecting what is eligible for submission and what information we require from authors. You can read more about the changes and our motivations here: blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... #joss #opensource #openscience

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

Goodbye, Monkey Cage - not as infinite as I imagined

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?

We had an amazing OME-NGFF hackathon last week, Wednesday to Friday, following the inspiring OME-NGFF symposium. What a fantastic week! It’s hard to describe how motivating it is to be surrounded by so many talented, curious & friendly people who care deeply about open, FAIR bioimaging data. 1/14 🧵

Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋

Today I'm announcing a new digital textbook 📖🖥️, "An Introduction to OME-Zarr for Big Bioimaging Data". ome-zarr-book.readthedocs.io

As LLMs manufacture a form of scholarship, presentation doesn’t mean what it used to. D&S's Ranjit Singh looks at how this threatens the open-access research repository arXiv, how its founder is fighting to sustain its credibility, & what researchers can do to help. datasociety.net/points/on-ar...

A month to go! Will you be at #CBIAS2025? The program is almost ready, and we look forward to welcoming you in London to discuss all things #BioImageAnalysis, from tool development, to biomedical applications and community building. Register now! 🔗⬇️ www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

Over at `ome-zarr-models` we're working on implementing support for the new coordinate systems too - here's an example of a transformation graph from multiple tiled images that can be transformed into a common "world" coordinate system. 🟥 ➡️ 🌎

My first paper as a journal editor! 🎉😊

For a long time I've been wondering what RSEs can do to help uphold and support the basic human rights of Palestinians 🇵🇸 - today I've launched gitlab.com/rsesforpales... to collect and discuss actions we can take as a community.

Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out. In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing. Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

🚀 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

"Gender neutral toilets are available on floor 1 and 15 of our London office." I am somehow reminded of the bit in "Hidden Figures" where the brilliant Black mathematician is forced to run across campus on her break to get to a bathroom she is allowed to use...

Drought conditions in Europe in the first half of April. Getting worse [Source: joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/european-and...

The UK supreme court just single-handedly overturned most trans rights in the UK today. Very disturbingly, the ruling also opens a clear pathway for TERFs to completely push trans people out of public life. This one ruling pushes trans rights in the UK back at least 25 years. It's horrible

New Post: OfS free-speech absolutism allows abuse, harassment, and bullying www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/09/o...

Hello world! 👋 🔥 The Scientific Python community is building tools to power our ecosystem and support contributors and maintainers! 🚀 Discover our projects and learn how you can get involved by following us on GitHub: 🔗 github.com/scientific-python

Year-end scramble getting you down? ⏳ Applications for lots of our Antarctic #jobs are closing in the next week. They include vehicles manager at Halley, and Radio Operator and IT Engineer at Rothera Research Station. These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth ⬇️

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

🚀 We’re very excited to share our latest preprint on OME-Zarr! 🚀 Our report on the 2024 OME-NGFF Workflows Hackathon is a deep dive into the status of OME-Zarr and the great work that happened last November at the BioVisionCenter in Zurich. 🔗 Read the preprint: osf.io/preprints/bi... 🧵 (1/15)

While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels... More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

Well it was bound to happen, but @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social have finally stopped championing equitable oppurtunities - DEI page was online last week but now it's been wiped: web.archive.org/web/20250212...

It’s sickening how weak-kneed every foundation in US is. Where are your principles?

An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Our paper on nurturing a #PositiveResearchCulture within your #research #team published by @wellcometrust.bsky.social gives useful tips for your lab. As well as making you a good team leader, nurturing culture pays off in building your science: 1/11 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-3...

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

Hi, Zarr community! 👋 🚨 Big news: Zarr-Python 3.0 is dropping next week! 🚨 If your project depends on Zarr-Python, make sure to check out the migration guide to get ready for the update. Guide: https://buff.ly/3W0cLxd More updates soon! 🧑🏻‍💻

🚀 We're hiring! Join the German BioImaging Team as a Software Developer! 💻 Build scalable #bioimaging solutions 🌍 Collaborate globally 🎯 Contribute to open science through #OMEZarr @openmicroscopy.org Remote, full-time. Apply by 31 Jan 2025: bit.ly/3Zrd4SR

🕺a fun surprise to round off a week and a half of bio-imaging hacking and workshops, thanks to all the organisers at #CBIAS2024 and The BioVision Centre!

And if you're at #cbias2024 this week, come talk to me about @humanorganatlas.bsky.social! 🧠🫀🫁

👋 @bsky.app, excited to see science communities moving here 🕺 Follow me for open source software/bio-imaging/huge imaging dataset stuff!

This week, we're hosting the #OME_NGFF_Hackathon 2024 at the BioVisionCenter at the University of Zurich. We're bringing together 40 motivated researchers and specialist for #OMEZarr workflows, #OMEZarr Python tools & #OMEZarr Java tools. (1/3)