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.
👉 Receive further information about your online participation: gerbi-gmb.de/machform/vie...
One week left for the OME2026 Community Survey! 📣 If you haven't filled it out, please do so. We'll be discussing it live at the #OME2026 meeting in April.
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The #OME #Community #Survey is still open!
Please take a moment if you haven't already.
(For those who have, THANK YOU! 🙌)
Closing date: March 31, 2026
#GerBIMeeting2026 kicking off day 2 in Fulda with inspirations from collaborating scientific communities, represented by Claudia Giesecke-Thiel (DGfZ), Johannes Jägers (Young Physiologists), and Yara Reis (GBI). Chaired by Hella Hartmann (GerBI).
Next Up: Industry Spotlight
"GerBI ist open, creative, inspiring, playful, yet always professional"
- Bettina Weigelin at the #GerBIMeeting2026, highlighting a great GerBI community feeling.
One of each, of course 😜
Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software.
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#BioImagingSocks, anyone? 🔬🧦🟢🤩
“think about whether some of the proprietary license money you’re currently spending could be spent instead on open solutions that would be yours forever, endlessly adaptable, and benefit the entire world. And please get in touch by emailing info@image.coop”
👏 👏 👏
Can’t wait to see where this goes
So… um… I (and Draga Doncila Pop and Eric Perlman and @joshmoore.bsky.social and @kevinyamauchi.bsky.social) started a thing! We are excited and terrified in equal measures, and look forward to working with you all in our amazing scientific imaging community! ❤️🔥
Read the linked post for the lowdown.
Hot off the presses! 🖨️
If you are interested in the why & what for, check out the blog post.
Excited to see direct streaming of @openmicroscopy.org @zarr.dev datasets in #syGlass!
Exploring huge images without upfront download is just what we’ve been working toward with cloud-optimized formats.
Great to have tools connecting the ecosystem of imaging repositories, now including VR 🙌
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 👇
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Save the Date: Build Skills. Show Tools. Share Data 💥
Boosting Biodata Bootcamp on Sep 15 to 17, at
@rwth.bsky.social with @fairagro.bsky.social, @nfdi4plants.bsky.social, @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social, #NFDI4Biodiversity and @nfdi4microbiota.bsky.social.
👉Find out more: events.hifis.net/event/3702/
PAPER OUT ✨ How can we make smart microscopy more interoperable? What are the technical and cultural challenges? 30+ people from academia and industry propose a roadmap: doi.org/10.1515/mim-... Also a review of applications and repo of implementations. Join the discussion! smartmicroscopy.github.io
A cochlea imaged in light-sheet microscopy (right) with staining for spiral ganglion neurons (red) and inner hair cells (blue). You will develop AI-based methods to analyze these structures, for example via segmentation of the individual cells (right) that will support gene therapy development for hearing loss and a better overall understanding of the anatomy of hearing.
Looking for a PhD position at the intersection of AI, imaging, and gene therapy? Apply for this position in my lab: tinyurl.com/2a2v6tvx
Part of sfb1690.uni-goettingen.de to study hearing, vision, and more.
Plus, you can create pretty pictures as the one below :).
We have integrated the Allen Institute's BioFile Finder app with IDR. You can quickly Group and Filter all images in a study. Data is served by the IDR search engine and supports up to a million images at a time. BioFile Finder links are on each study page e.g. idr.openmicroscopy.org/study/idr0056/
Winter-themed graphic titled “Winter Data Wonder #11.” A dark blue text panel framed by snow and icicles reads: “NFDI4BIOIMAGE shows how even a 100-GB microscopy dataset can be accessed directly on a smartphone — thanks to data streaming with the cloud-compatible OME-Zarr format.” Light blue snowy background with falling snow dots and a small snow-covered tree in the lower right corner.
❄️Winter Data Wonder #11
NFDI4BIOIMAGE shows how cloud-compatible data streaming makes large image datasets directly viewable in the browser — enabling mobile, flexible work with microscopy data.
🔗 Read more:
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Contributed by @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social
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
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#ELMI2026 will take place in Coimbra, Portugal 🇵🇹from June 16-19 hosted by @ppbioimaging.bsky.social colleagues. Submit your abstracts for oral presentations by January 18!
More information & registration🔽
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#NFDBIOIMAGEfromAtoZ - O for OMERO.
What do @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social and the @openmicroscopy.org have in common? Both aim to improve the management, documentation, and sharing of bioimage data.
👉 Find out more about #OMERO: www.openmicroscopy.org/omero/
Photo of Marius Politze of MatWerk looking sheepish in front of a truly scary slide, titled "Detailed View of the Arch(itecture)", which shows house diagram with many, many floors each representing one tool or service in use within the consortium.
Shock slide of the first @nfdi.de workshop on #OverallArchitecture" 🤯 Marius Politze of #MatWerk sharing the breadth & depth of tools & services in use.
OME-Zarr is the answer. The question was: How do we enable interactive visualisation, FAIR sharing & image analysis at the TB scale?
Lorenzo Cerrone demoing visualizing HCS plates stored as OME-Zarr
Joel presenting Fractal
CytoData 2025 audience
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!
Hackathon participants group picture
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.
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Greetings from NFDI4Bioimage Task Area Leader Björn Grüning at the #EOSCSymposium2025, which is taking place from November 3 to 5 at Brussels. At the conference, Björn Grüning presents the #Galaxy use case, which is one of the first #EOSC candidate use cases.
👉 gxy.io/eosc25
Picture: Nicolas Lobet
📣 We’re hiring, please RT! Fully funded 4-year PhD position in our CVPD group at @informatikaehu.bsky.social!
Research at the intersection of AI, deep learning & bioimage analysis. 🧠🔬
📅 Applications open Oct 6 (deadline: ~Oct 27)
📍 San Sebastian, Spain.
👉 cvpd.github.io/post/2025-09...
I gave a talk at Blender Conference yesterday, showing how biological volumes work, and how to visualize them in Blender 😋 youtu.be/WPajSWX730o?... #bcon25
Christian Tischer addresses the online participants of the EMBO Advanced methods in biomage analysis course before starting his tutorial on OME-Zarr.
Christian Tischer gets prepared to start his tutorial on OME-Zarr in front a full classroom.
Christian Tischer gives the first intructions to the onsite and the online participants of the EMBO Advanced methods in biomage analysis course for his tutorial on OME-Zarr.
Day 5️⃣ of our @embo.org course on "Advanced methods in bioimage analysis"! 🔬🖥️📊 @embl.org
@tischi.bsky.social is already launching 🚀 Lecture 4: Introduction to working with OME-Zarr (Tutorial) @openmicroscopy.org @zarr.dev
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...
Flyer for the Open Bioimaging Practices Meetups. 1. September 24th at 4pm: Guest presentation by Charlotte Soneson & Silvia Barbiero 2. October 28th at 4pm: Guest presentation by Marvin Albert 3. November 26th at 4pm: Guest presentations by Giliane Rochat & Flurin Sturzenegger
Are you working with OME-Zarrs in Switzerland?
We're running a series of community events in the context of the BioFAIR project of the BioVisionCenter: Monthly Open Bioimaging Practices Meetups with presentations by us & community members. Starting off with 3 cool events this fall (see image) (1/6)