🚨 New feature launch in our latest newsletter! We’ve just introduced Tech Bites, short, focused articles that share practical insights and innovations for the vEM Community. Check out the newsletter to explore our two inaugural Tech Bites, with more to come in future issues! conta.cc/4bJhsmk

Thesis submitted ✅

Missed our latest CCP-volumeEM Show and Tell webinar? Dr Kimberly Meechan’s talk on Good practices for image analysis software is now available to watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHJJ...

Horrifying moment when a PI says to a PhD student "why use Python when you can use Excel?" and proceeds to tear the student apart over analysis choices. To be fair, if it had been done in Excel, the student would be at a total loss because there is no way to audit the workflow unlike in Jupyter.

A few days overdue nonetheless, a big thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social for funding this opportunity! Looking forward to seeing familiar faces in @cardiffuni.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

An important focus of @cosec-ukri.bsky.social activities like #CCPvolumeEM and other CCPs is the environmental impact of scientific computing. @epcc.bsky.social have teaching materials at epcced.github.io/2026-02-26_G... Comic image from xkcd.com/1379/ #GreenHPC #GreenComputing

Do you do image analysis? Want to make it more robust and reproducible? Have you heard of containers, but don't know why they’re useful, and how to use them? @martinjones.bsky.social will explain all: crick.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Submit your abstract for the 21st International Microscopy Congress #IMC21 and join our impressive line-up of speakers in Liverpool later this year! Submit your abstract by 6 March: https://www.imc21.org.uk/#IMC21

Python Coding challenge - Day 1041| What is the output of the following Python Code? Answer with Detailed Explanation: www.clcoding.com/2026/02/pyth...

Considered switching to @linuxkernel.bsky.social for the sake of privacy and coding purposes, then I read about NVIDIA support on linux and now I'm not so sure if I should migrate everything

Do you want to spend the summer being paid to contribute to open source neuroscience software? We are taking part in Google Summer of Code again, offering paid, remote placements to work on one of our tools. Open to (nearly) everyone worldwide. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

Want to spend this summer improving open-source tools for neuroscience 🧠📈 and animal behaviour 🐭🐒? Apply to work with us on BrainGlobe, movement and others. We particularly welcome researchers who want to sharpen their software dev skills and contribute to the open-source ecosystem.

Our Method of the Year 2025 is...drumroll please...EM-based connectomics!! Our Editorial introduces our choice and highlights six Comments and other related content in this special issue. Please join us in celebrating EM-based connectomics! 🎉🧠🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So excited for @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social OME-NGFF Hackathon 2026 at Hinxton!

Haidilao? Overrated. Hype is for the free flow dessert and drinks. Otherwise? Meh.

No wonder things are slow lately. I updated my gpu driver, then i forgot to install the latest CUDA and cuDNN libraries - lesson learned!

How do I check how many bytes of memory that my code is taking up to run? From what I've found from several articles, this is not exactly a simple cli command or linear process that can be executed in seconds? Interesting way of learning how memory is allocated every time a function is called.

Note to self: no more coffee after 4pm or else your brain resets to GMT+00 and wonder why you're wide awake doing data analysis on your @ubuntu-ls.bsky.social at 2am here at GMT+08....

Read the story behind the first @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Week, in a series of blogposts for @softwaresaved.bsky.social The second edition will be even more awesome. Remember to apply by the end of January: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

🧑‍🔬 In August 2025, SSI Fellows Alessandro Felder and @nikosirmpilatze.com co-organised the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Week (OSW). Read more about the event in our latest blog post: www.software.ac.uk/blog/greater...

Applications to our summer school have been extended for two weeks! If you want to learn about open-source tools for neuroscience, please join us in London this August. Deadline Feb 15th. Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Should I try out @heyputer.bsky.social for coding projects and deploying stuff? Is it as good as having it done locally? Asking for a friend.

Did a thing. Wrote a python pipeline to help me identify segmentation errors based on biological morphometry and mathematical heuristics. Saliency map turned out great. Used genus=1 to identify any tiny errors. Now instead of eyeballing, I just need to focus on the flagged list. Not bad for a start!

Github soon…just a little longer….

The thing is, why is a PhD student the FIRST AUTHOR on a consortium paper?! Reeks of academic bureaucracy BS if you ask me. https://x.com/RetractionWatch/status/2011831355953344708

Did a thing. Wrote a python pipeline to help me identify segmentation errors based on biological morphometry and mathematical heuristics. Saliency map turned out great. Now instead of eyeballing, I just need to focus on the flagged errors. Not bad for a start!

If there is a way to optimise number of mask training patches that will be nice…..

not dragonfly out here having a cap on file size.

trained model until machine gave up 😂 time to have a drink!

Some pretty interesting finds at Tsutaya 🥸

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...

what is this weather omg

Come visit our @volumeem1.bsky.social Tech Forum 2026 Poster at the Imaging Southeast Asia Conference 2025, happening in two weeks from 12-13th November 2025 🤩🎉

All prepped and ready to go for Imaging South East Asia (iSEA) Conference 2025 - happening in two weeks from 12-13th November 2025 at Monash University Malaysia 🤩 Be sure to check out this #PosterPresentation at the event! @georgramm.bsky.social

Posters printed! All set for Imaging SEA Conference 2025! Shoutout to ArchPrint for their amazing service!

Posters printed! All set for @ImagingSEA Conference 2025! Shoutout to ArchPrint for their amazing service!

RIP Shing Xuen. Gone too soon. “Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.” - Deuteronomy 32:35 #yapshingxuen

Bring back the rotan. Period.

4th gen synchrotrons’ capabilities for ptychographic imaging of biological soft tissue is next level crazy. Insane symposium so far at @thecrick Makes me wonder what will become of 3rd gen researchers and those who do correlative imaging.

4th gen synchrotrons’ capabilities for ptychographic imaging of biological soft tissue is next level crazy. Insane symposium so far at @TheCrick. Makes me wonder what will become of 3rd gen researchers and those who do correlative imaging.

New blog post! Last year, I wrote some data visualization tips and pitfalls for a workshop, and I now ported it over to a @quarto.org manuscript with references and source code for the figures. Check it out here! marcodallavecchia.gitlab.io/web/blog/dos...

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!

Huge congratulations to the @BrainGlobe.info team for winning the 2025 International Prize awarded by the @theneuro.bsky.social and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes Selection Committee 🎉 www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/research...

🗳️ Voting is now open for the 2025 Volume EM Image Competition! ✅ Vote for your top 3 favorites in each category 🕙 Voting closes October 9 at 4:00 PM BST / 10:00 AM CT 🏆 Winners will be announced at the Town Hall Meeting later that day! 👉 Cast your vote here: www.volumeem.org/vote_awesome...

📣 The Awesome vEM Images Competition is back! Submit your images in one of two categories: 🖼️ The Power of vEM 🧠 Bringing Meaning to the Data (New!) 🏆 Prizes: $250 for 1st place, $100 for 2nd & 3rd in each category 📅 Deadline: Oct 2, 5PM CT 🔗 More details: www.volumeem.org/awesome-imag...

🌟 Awesome vEM Images Competition deadline extended to Oct 6, 5 PM CT! 🌟 Submit to one or both categories: 1️⃣ The Power of EM 2️⃣ Bringing Meaning to the Data 🏆 $250 for 1st, $100 for 2nd & 3rd (each category) 🔗 www.volumeem.org/awesome-imag... Details and last year's winning images ⬇️

DeMBA (Developmental Mouse Brain Atlas) has now been added to BrainGlobe! This includes every developmental stage from P4 to P56. Each of these 53 atlases includes MRI, LSFM and STPT templates. For more details, see the blog: brainglobe.info/blog/DeMBA Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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

Want to hack with ~40 motivated developers in the OME-Zarr space this fall in Zurich, November 12 - 14th? The application window for the 2025 OME-NGFF workflows hackathon is closing on September 30th! Apply here to be part of this exciting week about OME-Zarr: forms.gle/849cf2fBk1pJ...

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