One of the funniest conversations I've ever had with Claude... stick with it through the third image to watch it slowly realize it's broken, try to "play it cool", fail spectacularly, then attempt self-aware commentary and immediately faceplant again. it's worth it, I promise.

Crank up the sound and come sing "self-supervised, we rise" with me: paper2song.com/virtual/2025... May the genius who created this be blessed with an eternity of good review karma.

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Unterstellen wir einmal, ein Bundkanzler Merz fände im Nu die vielen tausend Polizist*innen, um in Wäldern und auf Wiesen wieder die deutschen Grenzen zu bewachen; er schaffte Zehntausende von neuen Haftplätzen; und er schüfe wieder zwei Klassen von Staatsangehörigen – was dann? 1/

E11 Bio is launching Volara: an open-source Python library for block-wise processing of large volumetric microscopy datasets! 🧪🔬 Volara features block-wise task abstractions, making scalable image processing more accessible, robust, and repeatable. Read more: e11.bio/blog/volara

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

My slides about "Learning and Training #BioImageAnalysis in the Age of AI" presented at the @globias.bsky.social @carpentries.carpentries.org workshop are available #openaccess. Big thanks for hosting us @istaustria-iof.bsky.social ! 🔬🖥️🤖 zenodo.org/records/1516...

So, einmal noch die 551 Fragen, diesmal hab ich im SWR kommentiert: www.swr.de/swrkultur/le...

Our vote by mail ballot for the German general elections arrived today, less than 24h before delivery deadline (we had applied in December). Anybody taking a flight from IAD to Berlin tonight?

Bioimage analysis professionals: join us in-person for a workshop at ISTA in Klosterneuburg, Austria, April 7–8, 2025. A workshop to adapt and expand the current Data Carpentries image processing curriculum. Information & registration: tinyurl.com/3twkax2k

We just released and uploaded a new version of *Mastodon*, the large-scale tracking and track-editing framework for large, multi-view images. Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site. mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do... Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️

Excited about protein biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy, and image analysis? Curious how proteins drive bacterial division or define organelle identity? Join us at ISTA! Apply to the PhD program by Jan 8th: gradschool.ist.ac.at

😱📣 BlueSky-ers: WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! 🙏 All of you who ever liked a lecture of mine... All of you who liked one of the courses I teach in... All of you I work(ed) with in one way or another... All of you who see my desperation! 😜 PLEASE re-post! 🙏 careers.humantechnopole.it/o/postdoc-in...

Let’s not be lulled into a false sense of security by the clownishness, the ridiculousness of it all. Some of history’s most successful authoritarians were considered goons and buffoons by their contemporaries – until they became goons and buffoons in power.