🚨 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...
It is precisely because the student ran the analysis in .ipynb that they eventually caught the error and fixed it. Now the analysis is so much better compared to their previous run and it actually made biological sense.
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
A comic from the XKCD webcomic showing the effects of CO2 emissions, with a temperature scale indicating the effect of temperature changing in 4.5 degree centigrade steps, from an ice age 20,000 years ago to possible future scenarios.
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/
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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
The Google Summer of Code and Neuroinformatics Unit logos next to each other.
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.
Thrilled to contribute to @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social Hackathon, but KL-UK return flights are MYR 3500 (~£670). And my uni’s travel grants are frozen. Wild that flight costs are the gatekeeper for Global South researchers contributing to open science standards....💸🌏✈️ #BioImaging #OpenScience #vEM
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...
An overview of the Open Software Summer School 2026 schedule. There are two tracks in the first week, "Animals in Motion" and "Large Array Data". "BrainGlobe" and "Extracellular Electrophysiology" will be run in the second week.
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.
Z-continuity was trash and this is why no amount of model tweaks can save my segmentation quality unless there's proofreading, even with dataset generalization.
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. x.com/RetractionWatch/status/2...
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!