The SwissBIAS Annual Meeting is taking place on June 3rd in Bern. Registration deadline: Friday, May 15th, so make sure to secure your spot now! We look forward to seeing you all there for a fantastic day of science, networking, and inspiration. @swissbias.bsky.social tinyurl.com/SwissBIAS2026

I reposted this but want to add some comments: the OME community is my "scientific home", a place rooted on mutual respect, trust and looking out for each other. #OME2026 was 2/3 first-time attendees and it was amazing to see they immediately "got it". Extremely rewarding as an organizer.

Thank you all for the incredible energy and inspiration! The OME community is a real treasure ❤️

Back from ICLR 2026 in Rio! 🇧🇷 Highlights: presenting my poster at the LMRL workshop, Copacabana sunsets☀️, and the best coincidence: finding out my best friend got in too without us even planning it! 👯‍♀️ So grateful to @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social for the support. Where to next? 🚀

#OME2026 is coming to an end. It has been a truly welcoming, motivating, and inspiring experience full of intensive exchange and shaped by an exceptionally open and collaborative spirit. Grateful for the many insightful discussions, new connections, and shared ideas. Thank you!

Meme-lord @tom-bssnnt.bsky.social at it again at #OME2026 🤣

Amazing to be at #OME2026 & talk about the future of OME-Zarr. @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social @lorenzocerrone.bsky.social & I were very happy to present the BioVisionCenter, ngio and Fractal yesterday. If you want to learn more, check out today’s ngio workshop: github.com/BioVisionCen...

🚨ngff-spec release candidate out🚨 Just out: ngff specification version 0.6.dev4 (github.com/ome/ngff-spe...), which will be the last dev version (!) and mark the beginning of the 🚧spec-phase🚧 (see also forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekl...) This means: let's develop some implementations 👷‍♀️👷‍♂️ #OME2026 👋

Day 1 at #OME2026 is coming to an end with stimulating discussions during the poster session. It's been a wonderful first conference day. Looking forward to tomorrow with highlights including workshops and our keynote speaker Carole Goble. Stay tuned.

Great talks and fruitful discussions on day 1 of the #OME2026 Community Meeting in Düsseldorf with demonstrations of using OMERO, OME-Zarr, and other OME tools in material sciences, palynology, spatial omics and more. Now starting: The Poster session. 📜💬🗨️

A painful truth well put by @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social at #OME2026 😬 Striving for software #interoperability will make all our lives easier in the future!

A significant moment at #OME2026: Thanking Prof. Jason Swedlow, the founder of OME, who shaped this remarkable community work since the beginning of the millenium. His work & leadership were honored - even with a nod to his famous blue shirts by OME's Interim Board, nominated by Jason in Oct '25.

nice to see fellow Latin American presenting on how the Smithsonian Tropival Research Institute (STRI) is using OMERO to manage data on ancient polen from the Amazon forest (at #OME2026) "the solution I have been waiting my whole life"

openmicroscopy. Isn't it ironic? #OME2026 starts this morning!! ☕ 🌇 🤗 gerbi-gmb.de/event/ome-20...

We are looking for an experienced light microscopy specialist, motivated to support our users in the Advanced Light Microscopy Facility at EMBL Heidelberg. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... -closing date 11 May 2026 @eurobioimaging.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social

🚨🔬🚨🔬🚨 We are pleased to announce that registration for the 7th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS 2026 is now open! 🕐November 23rd-24th, 2026📍The Francis Crick Institute, London. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there (or online 😀)

A question I get asked all the time by @dev-journal.bsky.social authors "Why does it cost so much to publish a paper?" We break down the finances and explain where the money goes Spoiler: quality publishing takes a village (people + infrastructure) journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

We have just released the latest Fractal update: Bringing workflow template support to Fractal with Fractal server 2.20 This allows users to create workflow templates & share it with others. Learn more about it here: fractal-analytics-platform.github.io/news/2026-03...

napari 0.7.0 is available now! 🚀🎉 It's a BIG release so read the full release notes, with highlights: https://napari.org/stable/release/release_0_7_0.html We want to thank everyone who has worked incredibly hard on this release including our 11 new brilliant […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

🔬 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...

Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software. image.coop/blog/posts/2...

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/...

Streaming OME-Zarr data directly into syGlass for #3DThursday🌍🔬 With #syGlass v2.6.0, datasets can stream from disk, S3, or HTTPS with no massive downloads required. Huge thanks to the community building open imaging standards: @openmicroscopy.org #OMEZarr #Microscopy #OpenScience #Bioimaging

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 ❤️

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...

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.

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...

Rewrote my Python bioformats wrapper (from aicsimageio/bioio) as a standalone package: - fully bootstrapped Java setup (just pip install) - lazy, repeatably-indexable Array object - fully spec-compliant OME-Zarr group obj. - xarray/dask exports github.com/imaging-form... v0.0.rc1 on PyPI

🚀 We’re hiring! The Structural Biology Platform is seeking a Project Leader to advance cryo-electron tomography and expand capabilities at the FMI. Join a vibrant research community at the interface of structural biology, cell biology & disease mechanisms. Apply at: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

We are hiring a Research Software Engineer to enhance and maintain the SpatialData framework. We will work together with colleagues at EMBL, DKFZ, GSK, and across the scverse community. 🔗 Deadline: 15/02/2026 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

19th #OME Community Meeting, Düsseldorf · 28–30 April 2026 Registration is now open! Join researchers, developers, and imaging facility staff to connect, share experiences, and discuss the future of OME tools. Details & registration (deadline: 31 March 2026): gerbi-gmb.de/event/ome-20...

Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Has napari helped your research this year? Why not say thank you to free and open source software by making a small donation? Every bit helps your friendly core team fix bugs and bring new features to life! CZI will match up to $75K in donations! opencollective.com/napari/donate

We're a bit late in ringing in the giving season, but it is indeed upon us. Enjoy our special edition holiday logo ☃️ and, if you can spare a bit and appreciate napari, please donate to our development efforts! 🙏 CZI will match donations up to $75K. opencollective.com/napari/donate

Do you have 2D-to-3D image registration challenges? Let me know about them here forum.image.sc/t/toward-bet...

I am still digesting all the info from the OME-NGFF hackathon last week. So I decided to make a little UI for some of the code created there (just to play around), which one can easily show to interested colleagues 😜. CZI --> OME-ZARR with some options ... By far not perfect but still fun!

It's been great to present OME-Zarrs & Fractal for interoperable bioimage analysis at the 2025 @cytodata.bsky.social conference in Berlin today. Thanks a lot to the organizers & especially Christopher Schmied for having us!

Hi #teamtomo! Want to use OME-Zarr for your tilt series but can't integrate it with your existing sub-tomogram averaging pipelines? Try zarr-particle-tools - RELION-style extraction & reconstruction built for OME-Zarr-based workflows! 📦 pip install zarr-particle-tools 🔗 github.com/czimagingins...

📢 Apply now for the first DL@Janelia Bootcamp (June 4–18, 2026)! 2 weeks of hands-on deep learning for microscopy: train models on your own data, Python needed (no ML experience), housing + meals included, no registration fee 📍 Janelia Research Campus, VA 🗓️ Apply by Jan 15, 2026 🔗 shorturl.at/j4sgY

Go read Joel's thread on the hackathon last week in Zürich! If you have any level of interest in OME-NGFF, there are so many exciting things happening. I had a great time meeting some of my favorite people in the world - It was equal parts rewarding, fun and exhausting 🙃️

Very happy to share some more pics! What an amazing week! I am still recovering! Thank you so much to you all❤️‍🩹🥲

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 🧵

What an incredible two days! Reposting this with so much appreciation for everyone who made the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop such a special event. Thanks everyone for coming & especially everyone of the BVC team to help pull this off!

This is what hacking *actually* looks like. #OME_NGFF_Hackathon

The Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis at the University of Zurich is seeking a new Head: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... It is super fun to work with them, tons of expertise and cutting edge instrumentation in ❄️🔬 Application deadline: December 15, 2025.

Very happy to share our latest work extending iterative immunofluorescence to in toto imaging of early zebrafish embryos (3D-4i), integrated with a 3D-dedicated image analysis pipeline! 🐟🔬📊 Huge kudos to Max Hess for this PhD milestone! 💪 @lucaspelkmans.bsky.social shorturl.at/cO0u7 Let's zoom in!

The #mesoSPIM symposium really opened my eyes to the power of open source hardware. I've highlighted some of the surprising outcomes in a new blog post: How Open Source Microscopy is Solving the Funding Crisis: Insights from the mesoSPIM 10-Year Symposium www.syglass.io/blog/how-ope...

Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!

We’ve upgraded ShapeEmbed 🎉 ShapeEmbedLite decodes latent codes via an MLP to guarantee valid EDMs, making it lighter and ideal for small microscopy datasets or limited compute. Hear more at my BIC workshop talk or poster at #ICCV2025! Try it out at github.com/uhlmanngroup...