Why is publishing so expensive? In this Editorial, we (@katherine-brown.bsky.social @drmichaelway.bsky.social & @seemagrewal.bsky.social) provide details and context on JCS's finances, and hope to dispel some of the myths around the economics of publishing. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working." The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.

I suppose the lesson from today is that some academics are totally fine ruining people's lives for their own greater glory.

Your April 1st gift from the CellProfiler team - adjustable table fonts :).

Lots of stickers left from the poster session. So if you see me ask me for a BINA sticker! I'll be handing some off to @michelleitano.bsky.social, so she can be your sticker dealer as well 😉

Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.

The poster, "Help Desk for Community Support in Bioimage Research Data Management," presented by @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social mage data stewards Cornelia Wetzker, Maximilian Müller and Vanessa Fuchs outlines the help desk's services and strategies to make bioimage data more FAIR. 👉 lnkd.in/dxK8u_b3

Ep 28 - part 3/3 in our thresholding series! Find out from @bethcimini.bsky.social and @erinweisbart.bsky.social why threshold correction factors and bounds are SO critical for making your workflows scale, and great ways to bring the biology you know into your workflow. Don't sleep on them!

Are you interested in the Cell Painting Assay but have some questions? We've curated a whole bunch of resources into a comprehensive and friendly "Cell Painting for Biologists" guide ciminilab.github.io/GuideToCellP...

#HappyFluorescenceFriday #microscopycommunity- BINA is proud to announce that the 2026 Awards are now open for nominations! We have a total of 4 awards this year- 2 of them are brand new! All nominations are due by May 1st, 2026 earn more about all the awards : buff.ly/uF3r6Az

Good morning from Boston University. Pride flags EVERYWHERE

🔬 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...

Are you facing challenges with an image analysis problem? 🤯 🚀 Boost your bioimage analysis skills with GloBIAS Free Help! Learn more and stay updated here: www.globias.org/activities/g... #ImageAnalysis #globias-free-help #ScienceSupport

Our Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp is back and better than ever! Delighted to offer some fee support this time, thanks to the generous sponsorship of @bioimagingna.bsky.social . Apply now to join us June 1st to 5th to level up your skills! Learn more at cimini-lab.broadinstitute.org/bootcamp

WE ARE (ALMOST) BACK BABY (for 2026 pls mentally replace the building in a meme with a nuclear bomb)

🚨 We are hiring! Personally, I think this is a fantastic job, good salary, and fun work place with exceptional colleagues. ⚠️ Warning, I’m quite biased… but still right! 😜 Join us! Apply!!! 🎉 careers.humantechnopole.it/job/AI-Exper...

movie about all the world's nations working together to stave off an environmental apocalypse succeeds by completely avoiding politics

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Yep. Since November, hundreds of thousands of people have had their applications simply put on total pause; no movement whatsoever. Even though they paid thousands of dollars to the government to adjudicate their cases.

🗓️ New month, new image in the @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social wall calendar. This publication marks the first collaboration between an NFDI4BIOIMAGE Data Steward and the Image Data Resource (IDR). 🔬 👉 Explore the data: www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/b...

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Our Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp is back and better than ever! Delighted to offer some fee support this time, thanks to the generous sponsorship of @bioimagingna.bsky.social . Apply now to join us June 1st to 5th to level up your skills! Learn more at cimini-lab.broadinstitute.org/bootcamp

Excited to share new preprint with NVIDIA on GPU-accelerated single-cell analysis 🚀 rapids-singlecell brings native GPU support to scverse/AnnData: hours → seconds (1M cells: ~52m → ~25s), scaling to 100M cells. Huge thanks to Severin Dicks 🙌 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2603.02402

I could not be more proud of this wonderful set of people doing a thing that is daring and new in the scientific imaging space. Genuinely super happy this is off the ground and very excited to see where it goes!

It's out! Happy to present ITEC, a semi supervised algorithm with an extremely low error rate that can track cells in files of any size (think Terabytes!). We used it in many organisms, including zebrafish, to study how organs form and linked it to gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... +🧪

Update 3/16: A very small handful of NIH apportionments have come through — with big exceptions. The ones that OMB has approved are all Congressionally mandated/earmarked. The broad discretionary funds that fund most NIH grants not yet been authorized. (1/2)

Very exciting news! The BioimagingGuide (your guide to what you don't know you don't know about bioimaging+analysis, led by COBA and @bioimagingna.bsky.social), is now available in Japanese! Huge thanks to Haruhiko Morita and Cheng-Yu Huan for their hard work. (1/2)

Hot off the presses! 🖨️ If you are interested in the why & what for, check out the blog post.

Here is our updated database of grants for early careers researchers in all fields. It goes way beyond traditional NIH and NSF funding opportunities. We list 428 types of grants. Download it here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Ep 27- have you heard deep learning called a "black box"? It often is, but this week, @erinweisbart.bsky.social tells @bethcimini.bsky.social about a cool paper from the @assafzaritsky.bsky.social team (and Erin!) using DL to make Cell Painting even more powerful, but still interpretable. So fun!

When you're actually right about an association being causal, but you're way off mark about the mechanism.

@embo.org young Investigator annual meeting just started!!🌟 What a honour to be here and share some of our work around #DL4Mic 🔬🖥️👾

Some folks are asking if I am anti-AI. I am not. I am pro-using good tools. AI is a tool, or a set of tools. Those are powerful tools, and like most powerful tools, they can be used and misused. The problem is that there are no rules around how people can use or abuse those powerful tools.

I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders! Why join? 🌍Work across EMBL’s 6 sites 🎓Participate in @embl.org courses and seminars 🔬Lead discovery-driven research in a collaborative environment Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ResearchCareers @epetsalaki.bsky.social

Help shape the future of @openmicroscopy.org! 🔮 The OME 2026 community survey is open—tell us what’s working, what isn’t, and what you'd like to see next. Takes just a few minutes 👇 forum.image.sc/t/ome-2026-c...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Ep 26! A whole year of AE/DB - thanks for making this first year fantastic! Cont. our deep dive on thresholding from Ep 24, @bethcimini.bsky.social and @erinweisbart.bsky.social walk through the algorithms in CellProfiler and when you might use them - our math-free logic for picking the right one!

Join #EMBOCellBiology to experience cutting-edge, hands-on training in advanced imaging, quantitative analysis, and complementary biophysical methods 👉 s.embl.org/cbb26-01-bl#EMBOCellBiology Apply by 1 June!

Current NIH leadership want you to think they are using rigorous, consistent & scientific processes to screen studies to align them with agency priorities. But the process that they have put down on paper is a sham. It’s important to know NIH is not following its own guidance. Here’s why: 🧵1/

i love the handful of people responding to this to say that Dunks is bad coffee i don't think they understand that New Englanders' affection for Dunks is only incidentally related to the quality of their products

Little red dots are clearly mitochondria

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Appose processing hackathon with @jytinevez.bsky.social, @ctrue.bsky.social, @gaellel.bsky.social, @strigaud.bsky.social, Carlos and Thomas . Simple POC with Java calling python through Appose to flip blocks. Promising!

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

🔬🔦In our latest ‘Imaging spotlight’ Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social & Mario Del Rosario @mariodelr.bsky.social tell us all about PhototFiTT, the framework they developed for measuring phototoxicity in live-cell fluorescence imaging. focalplane.biologists.com/2026/03/02/i...

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

THAR SHE SNOWS! @universalhub.com

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

We have integrated the Allen Institute's BioFile Finder app with IDR. You can quickly Group and Filter all images in a study. Data is served by the IDR search engine and supports up to a million images at a time. BioFile Finder links are on each study page e.g. idr.openmicroscopy.org/study/idr0056/