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we reproduce asexually, releasing clouds of spores at certain points in our lifecycles, like some species of fungi

🚨 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/...

Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Here is an example of what I mean in a simple illustration, from our New Developer project. AI Skill Threat is how acutely developers anticipated identity-based and skill-based loss and Contest Culture is how much they rated software as demanding punitive, ruthless competition norms.

This is the "SEA SHEEP" (Costasiella kuroshimae) & it took the old axiom: "you are what you eat" VERY literally. It eats algae & rather than just digest them, it harvests the chloroplasts & becomes PHOTOSYNTHETIC. Solar slug! Also, some of its cousins can rip their own heads off.

even if the Supreme Court says we can never touch Trump for any of this shit, the next admin should go after everyone involved in buying and selling pardons and they should do it loudly and aggressively

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

Episode 21 - when we talk about doing image augmentations for deep learning, what do we MEAN? @erinweisbart.bsky.social uses CellProfiler to demonstrate exactly how we transform images to make neural networks more robust. PLUS (1/2)

Very important 🧵 🧪 Amplifying for greater reach

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...

We wrote two reviews on cell migration, published today in Nature Methods. They provides practical guidelines how to select a cell-migration assay and how to analyze cell-migration data Review 1: nature.com/articles/s41... Review 2: nature.com/articles/s41...

They updated the website today to remove the word "independent" Before (left), after (right)

the sort of canonical raison d’être of NSF funding, of course, is that it supports research efforts that do not appeal to the venture capital/industry/near-term profit-motivated set,

American Academy of Pediatrics has grants cut by HHS [Gift link] wapo.st/48U8yB2 1/3

The Company of Biologists Travelling Fellowships programme: a commitment to support the next generation of scientists Our Reviews Editor Saanjbati Adhikari surveys 35 years of @biologists.bsky.social's Travelling Fellowships programme for #biologists100: doi.org/10.1242/dev....

🧵 NSF is reducing external review requirements and eliminating routine expert panels, citing staff shortages that this administration implemented. This change expands program officer authority. But the solution to flawed accountability isn't less public accountability.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

I don’t wanna influence people. I just wanna hang out with interesting people and see some science, and maybe some cute animals or interesting plants. I wanna celebrate my internet friends’ promotions and gardens and holidays. I do not have instagram or TikTok and it’s a nice life!

An extra big tick in the odometer today. 30 was in a lot of ways one of the most fun and exciting years I've had, let's see if the next -0 keeps up.

whenever we talk about the eternal humanities versus STEM debate on here, it’s probably worth remembering that an American fascist administration is very actively trying to finish off the already-weakened humanities, even *more* so than it’s trying to do the same to all science it doesn’t like

Huge shoutout to all the NIH scientific review officers and external academics who stepped up after the government shutdown to help reschedule hundreds of study sections. Thanks to this great community, my fellowship review was rescheduled within two months of its original review date 🧪

This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…

Leonel Malacrida @ipmontevideo.bsky.social Uruguay stars in #TheMicroscopists chats about early ambitions of becoming a vet, the twists/turns, the unique challenges/opportunities in Latin America. +how biking and staying active helps him remain balanced beyond the lab. Stream: bit.ly/microscopist...

If you want to learn more about Appose, check out the hands-on Appose workshop from "Halfway to I2K" 2025: fiji.github.io/i2k-2025-app... – along with the reference implementation of the demo project at github.com/ctrueden/uns.... New releases of python and java flavors coming before year's end.

The scikit-bio paper in online in Nature Methods! Many thanks to our collaborators, community contributors and reviewers! We couldn’t have done it without you. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Bioinformatics #OpenSource

I still can’t believe the National Science Foundation is being forced to move out of their brand new, purpose-built building because the HUD secretary thought his building was ugly. The Trump administration is destroying the best parts of this country, and it will take decades to rebuild.

CellSAM A foundation model for Cell Segmentation Segment Anything Model - Vision Transformer cellsam.deepcell.org Outperforming CellPose Similar to Human Single-cell spatial transcriptomics Live-cell tracking 3D cell segmentation @natmethods.nature.com 2025 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The new version of TrackMate, the v8.1 has just been released. It builds upon the recent v8, linked below, and offers two main improvements 👇

SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery. My story:

It’s *mean* to say this is racist, you woke snowflake. Why are you so sensitive bsky.app/profile/nyti...

I’m holly, I’m jolly. You’ve got believe me. I swear I am

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD

Remember, as Sean Duffy keeps telling us his ideas for air travel -- dress up nice for your flight! do a little workout before you get on too! -- this is an actual Good Thing We Wanted that Democrats secured for us before these assholes took it away

Trump and his crowd played on the emotions of many women when they promised free universal IVF. Of course it was a lie. Of course they betrayed them. www.ms.now/news/mike-jo...

Looking at my calendar like "who allowed me to agree to this"

This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday. AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.

20 eps - wow! Today, @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I introduce BioimagingGuide.org, a fantastic resource we made in partnership with @bioimagingna.bsky.social , your guide to "what you don't know you don't know" about imaging and analysis. Friendly and in 4 languages (and counting!); check it today!

#HappyMicroscpyMonday #microscopycommunity - Come see BINA at ASCB today!

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."

What kind of sick fuck could be opposed to eliminating prison rape?

It's notable that, even in an article critical of RFK Jr., the reporter hedges, saying "There’s no good evidence of serious, widespread harm from the vaccine" rather than just "vaccines are safe." RFK Jr. has made a career of exploiting the ambiguity of the former. www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-anti-v...

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

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