I'd only dabbled with napari, but needed to use it for a paper we're writing. This is a quick post about getting started: from installation to a folder full of thousands of processed images, with gotchas along the way. quantixed.org/2025/11/04/a...

Save the date! The Open Software Summer School returns August 17-28 2026 in London, U.K. There will be four separate tracks on animal behaviour, extracellular electrophysiology, anatomy and handling large data. Applications open Dec 1st. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Happy Halloween from the napari team!

It was a fantastic opportunity to finally meet the people behind this software that I have been using for years and is so important for my work! A big thank you to all core developers who were so welcoming, and patiently guided participants in their attempts to contribute back to napari!

I truly appreciate the organizers, core contributors, and all attendees for this wonderful opportunity! I enjoyed learning and working on napari in a welcoming environment. Those interested in talking about and contributing to napari, let’s join the regular community meeting together!

Longer wrap-up to come, but in the meantime: we had a fantastic and productive time at the napari hackathon at @globias.bsky.social 2025 conference! Thanks to all the participants and to the GloBIAS team for hosting us!

Do you use napari and love @xarray.bsky.social? Or use Xarray but cry when napari ignores the axis names? Read how we will improve this in the future! 🤝 napari.org/island-dispa... Co-authored by @ianhi.bsky.social and @timmonko.bsky.social, powered by the @scipyconf.bsky.social sprints!

Filling out the attached survey and reading this blog will really help bring you up to speed with our progress as a team. Most importantly, we want to guide this project in the direction that sustainably supports the community -- and that's why we'd like your help!

You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help: napari.org/island-dispa...

The #OME-Zarr RFC-5 proposal allows you to transform multiple images into the same coordinateSystem. Trying this out with napari at github.com/will-moore/n.... Cool that you can offset T-dimension as well as XYZ!

napari 0.6.6 is out! 🚀 This is a bugfix release following up 0.6.5: if something in your napari workflow unexplicably broke, you might want to update ;) Also, with the new bundle you can now "open files with > napari"! Check out the full release notes on the website: napari.org/stable/relea...

We are incredibly proud to receieve this award, especially as it recognises the hard work of the entire BrainGlobe community. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to BrainGlobe over the years!

Join the new plugin sustainability initiative! Everyone is invited to fill out this interest form: forms.gle/iwX6P4tuooHK... Follow along with initial discussion on Zulip: napari.zulipchat.com#narrow/chann... The first zoom meeting will be this coming week: napari.org/stable/commu...

napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀 Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: napari.org/dev/release/...

Check out the cool new “release highlights history” page @timmonko.bsky.social cooked up for us! 😍 napari.org/stable/relea... Best of all: it’s automatically generated from release notes so it’ll always stay up to date.

the @napari.org crew came to town! 🥰

Jumping 🕴️ now into "Practical session 4: Behavior Modeling" with @kevinyamauchi.bsky.social online! First things first, students are getting to know how to do #bioimage visualization in Python 🖥️🐍 using @napari.org👇

Lovely talk by Open Software Week participant @ishratz25.bsky.social on the challenges of using @brainglobe.info tools to identify very small regions, in very large images.

Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️

In our next guest blog, GSoC participant Saarah Hussain talks about her summer working on @brainglobe.info. neuroinformatics.dev/blog/gsoc_20...

💻 You can directly try out CLEM-Reg for yourself with our @napari.org plugin where we also include a sample benchmark dataset. Installation instructions are here 👉 github.com/krentzd/napa... (8/9) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud3z...

Super happy to see CLEM-Reg out in @natmethods.nature.com! A short thread on the algorithm behind it and how to try it out for yourself🧵(1/9) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We (with @nicolasdray.bsky.social @zenlabpasteur.bsky.social) are happy to release officially FishFeats, our #napari plugin to streamline 3D smFish/RNA quantification! 🎊 Available here: github.com/gletort/Fish... user documentation: gletort.github.io/FishFeats/

u-Probe now can be run without a MATLAB license, and exports detection and tracking results in a format that can immediately be visualized with @napari.org! github.com/DanuserLab/u...

Once is an exception, twice is a trend, thrice is a tradition! Save the date for our now-traditional annual OME-NGFF extravaganza in Zurich! Whether you’ve just heard about OME-NGFF and are curious to learn more or if you are working with it every day, there is something for everyone this year!

We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉 📅 Dates: - Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025 - Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025 📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...  #bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr (1/x 🧵)

Each experiment gets a jupyter notebook, so experiments are reproducible and easy to run, even for users with little coding experience. Image processing pipeline is modular, easily adjusted to different cell lines or experiments. Using @napari.org as GUI. Code: github.com/pertzlab/rtm...

I finally managed to upload the first version of the napari-czitools plugin (still in alpha - expect issues...) - open complete CZI images or subsets - read CZI metadata pypi.org/project/napa... or github.com/sebi06/napar...

🚀 napari 0.6.4 is out! Highlights from this bite-sized release: launching scripts from the command line with `napari <path-to-script>` and making the console auto-focus when opened. We’ll be announcing all future napari releases here, so stay tuned! 🔗 Release notes: napari.org/stable/relea...

🚀 napari 0.6.4 is out! Highlights from this bite-sized release: launching scripts from the command line with `napari <path-to-script>` and making the console auto-focus when opened. We’ll be announcing all future napari releases here, so stay tuned! 🔗 Release notes: napari.org/stable/relea...

The BrainGlobe track started with an introduction to image analysis with @napari.org, and then tutorials on how to use @brainglobe.info to register data to atlases, and how to detect cells in whole-brain microscopy images. All our tutorials are online: brainglobe.info/tutorials #niu_osw

📢 After #CBIAS2025, join our hands-on 2-day napari training by @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social From conda to plugins to Jupyter, practicals on real data with expert guidance. For Python/ImageJ coders. Apply by 1 Sept – limited to 30! crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbias-napari-workshop-2025

Excited to share the final version of the STRESS software paper 🎉 Do you want to measure cell or tissue stresses using deformable beads or droplets, please check this paper: nature.com/articles/s41... Full access: rdcu.be/ezlGj and the preprint thread below ⬇️ x.com/CampasLab/st...

It's hard to express how much gratitude I have to everyone involved in the journey, both mine and @napari.org's, that has led to this point. #EurekaPrizes A small attempt below: 👇

@napari.org @jni.codes is a finalist in the @ardc.edu.au Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software. Learn more: youtu.be/0g_MkTa_NwQ #EurekaPrizes

Cell tracking is never perfect, and it's important to understand the types of errors your solution contains. Here is my stab at this: Divisualisations in @napari.org. github.com/bentaculum/d... You spin tracks out upwards from the playing video. Green edges are correct, FP in magenta, FN in cyan.

The 1st working version of my little @napari.org plugin (napari-czitools) is almost ready. It contains sample data, allows to read CZI metadata and can read CZI images (or parts of it) by using the sliders to crop what should be read. Still quite some things to improve ...

first data from the new LLSM in PertzLab @olivierpertz.bsky.social! i always thought nuclei were spherical but they are pancakes???? so much more to see in 3d, but data volume produced is insane, we will have to rethink our analysis pipelines. tips welcome! here shown in @napari.org

🚀 Big news! The napari hub has been reimplemented and is now community-run! 🎉 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

#bioimage 🔬 data #visualization and #exploration in @napari.org with the napari-clusters-plotter (0.10.0) becoming yet a bit more versatile: Select objects & put them into new layers for processing, introspection or whatever. Works for all layers, of course! #bioimageanalysis @mazoc.bsky.social

Btw, and in the spirit of #OpenScience, all my #Napari #bioimage analysis #tutorials are freely available — from basics to #segmentation, #tracking, and #clustering. Feel free to explore and share ✌️ 🌍 www.fabriziomusacchio.com/teaching/tea...

What I really like about @napari.org is how well it integrates modern #Python tools. Great to have such a flexible, evolving #opensource platform for #bioimage analysis! 👌 #Napari #imageanalysis #neuroscience

🚀The napari team is excited to announce our brand new development roadmap — a community-informed vision for the future of napari! 🔍Read the blog to learn about our process and priorities: napari.org/island-dispa... 🗺️OR check out the roadmap itself on napari.org: napari.org/stable/roadm...

Excited and honored to speak at the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social meeting tomorrow where I'll talk about our latest AI tools. Meanwhile, check out Vijay&Arlo's Napari "bootstrapper" plugin for massively accelerated segmentation of multidimensional imaging datasets Github: github.com/ucsdmanorlab...

I'll be at the Learning Zone at #MMC2025 tomorrow afternoon with @martinjones.bsky.social, @lankylaste.bsky.social & Sara Salgueiro Torres, talking about how you can get started using #OpenSource software like #FIJI, @jupyter.org and @napari.org for #ImageAnalysis rms-daim.github.io/DAIM-MMC2025/

FINALLY just released the @napari.org clusters-plotter 0.9.0 🤗 pypi.org/project/napa... The latest version comes with a complete overhaul of the entire codebase to make #microscopy data introspection and browsing even more accessible, intuitive and versatile! #bioimaging Let's have a look 👇🧪💻🔬

We developed Spotiflow with the mindset of making it useful and usable, and as such it comes in different flavors: one can use it as a Python API, as a CLI or with a GUI using our @napari.org plugin! Hopefully more integrations will come soon ;) (7/N)

🚨 We’re hiring TWO new colleagues! 🧠 Structured Metadata Expert – Design data models, standards & annotations for #OMEZarr 🌐 Web Developer / Prototyper – Build interactive tools & demos for the community Both fully remote. Both open science. 🔗 gerbi-gmb.de/resources/ca... #RSE #OpenScience

Reminder: the @globias.bsky.social 2025 symposium is happening Oct 26-31 in Kobe, Japan, and, on top of many other cool bioimage analysis events, several members of the napari core team will be leading a napari hackathon. 🧑‍💻👩‍💻👨‍💻 Registration deadline is Jun 15! www.globias.org/activities/b...

It's been a while since I was legitimately blown away by something but nnInteractive is, I swear, some kind of dark segmentation magic. Every time I think "it can't possibly get this", somehow it does. github.com/MIC-DKFZ/nap...