I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
#microscopycommunity- looking for help on your image analysis? GloBIAS offers free help sessions!
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I’m trying to figure out (like everyone else) how to reasonably use LLMs both for my work and teaching. This is fantastically written and clearly articulates a lot of ideas and concerns I had vaguely in mind. I’m considering suggesting this as a read to participants in my scientific coding courses.
was just reminded that tomorrow is april fool’s day and especially this year can we just… not, please
Welcome, Tony Hyman!
EMBL welcomes its new Director General, Tony Hyman, as he takes up the mandate of leading EMBL's six sites.
www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
I've been thinking about this for a few days, since I watched it. Candide Thovex might be the greatest skier of his generation. This is an *incredibly* political video, in the best and most noble sense.
Watching the tech industry unleash unpredictable software into production in the name of AI adoption, then spend twice as much time and money trying to limit the blast radius, proves humans should be investing in our own intelligence before allowing the machines to mimic us.
We have some good news, regarding the 19th @openmicroscopy.org (#OME) Community Meeting from 28.-30.4.2026! To ensure that everyone can participate, we have decided to hold the event in a hybrid format.
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At the council’s first meeting…
No more duplicate dependencies in pyproject.toml!
Pixi Python packages can now set `ignore-pypi-mapping = false` to automatically convert `pyproject.toml` dependencies into conda package requirements.
The goal is no configuration, this is a step in that direction!
I’m actually super curious about how you got the trailing shapes effect — are you updating the data as you change t?
I'm happy to present our new tool, EpiCure, a napari plugin to ease correction of segmentation and tracking of epithelia movies, developed in @devstempasteur.bsky.social
Japan is the future we were promised instead of the future we got. 🥲
apparently Wikipedia has more rigorous standards than every university on the planet, university administrators, edtech enthusiasts, (certainly more than) AI bros, several prominent academic journals, and too many professors and teachers
Two weeks left to apply for three research software engineering jobs at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.
Closing date April 12th, salary £54-64k
For more details see: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved
#neuroscience #rse
🔬 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...
bioRxiv Community Voices graphic featuring Christophe Leterrier, from the Neurophysiopathology Institute in Marseille (France) The post has a headshot of Christophe and the quote “bioRxiv has been invaluable in making my research accessible as soon as possible, and to regain agency over its publication—in the literal sense of making it public.” The footer says "bioRxiv and medRxiv are preprint servers of openRxiv."
Affiliate @christlet.bsky.social says that bioRxiv shows that coming up with usable alternatives with proper incentives is the better way to systemically change things.
Thanks to Affiliates like him, preprints post ~48 hours after submission.
#openRxiv #OpenScience #preprints #CommunityVoices
We’re excited to invite you to our Software Carpentry Python: Coding for Beginners workshop in partnership with @instats.bsky.social!
📆 Dates: 22-23 April 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00am - 12:00pm ET (UTC -4)
🖥️ Location: Zoom
Our #Python workshop is for those with little or no prior experience in programming.
🐍 Learn Python for Image Analysis — for free!
UK life scientists: join EuroBioImaging's hands-on beginner course at The Crick in London (23–25 June), running simultaneously with sites in CZ, PT and SWE!
⏰ Register by 15 April — places are limited!
✈️ Travel funding may be available
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I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.
Interesting post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...
> Two years ago, we came across Valerie Young’s excellent talk, Inside Igalia: Scaling a Co-Op Beyond 100 Members. If you are still reading, you should probably add it to your watch list.
Love it, welcome!
napari 0.7.0 is available now! 🚀🎉
It's a BIG release so read the full release notes, with highlights: napari.org/stable/relea...
We want to thank everyone who has worked incredibly hard on this release including our 11 new brilliant contributors 🤩 and the community for their support and feedback!
🚨 We are hiring! Personally, I think this is a fantastic job, good salary, and fun work place with exceptional colleagues.
⚠️ Warning, I’m quite biased… but still right! 😜
Join us! Apply!!! 🎉
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if giving up and letting AI corpo slop infest an entire creative medium is to "man up" then ig I'll continue to woman down
this is a choice, just don't use it, it's literally that easy
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Last week I shared results showing large variability between Imaris/Arivis/Aivia vs Python/ImageJ/CellProfiler. Much was due to small code issues (x/y swaps, microns vs pixels). After fixing, results are much closer—no big log-scale gaps. Some variability remains, but large errors weren’t real.
Just another sign that the end of the world is coming 😂😬
Call me a luddite I guess but I do in fact kind of die inside any time anyone tells me "ask Claude" when I ask them for advice about how to do something.
As if teaching one another was just about passing 1 packet of knowledge from one brain to the next 😵💫
“Suddenly, the text jumps down 250 pixels and they lose their place... High CLS correlates often directly with high abandonment rates.”
Perfectly explains something I experience every single day, and how I respond to it every single time.
