📢 Out Now in BoneJ+: Improved 3D skeletonisation performance, on Intel GPUs. Compiler optimisation is back on, giving 🔥 10× 🔥 speedup. Special mention to Windows, whose flakiness exposed buggy behaviour of the unoptimised OpenCL kernel. You *might* have to update your graphics driver 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, wow, this preprint really highlights that ImageJ is alive and kicking.

Eugene Katrukha 🇺🇦@ekatrukha.bsky.social · 2w ago

It looks like the reports of #Fiji/#ImageJ death were considerably exaggerated. I am surprised (or not) to see MetaMorph still going strong.

Good to be on the moove! 🐮🔔🚆 See you @cbias.bsky.social

Michael Doube@mdoube.bsky.social · 2w ago

Looking forward to presenting @beancounter.ch at @cbias.bsky.social in a few weeks. Taking the train, Geneva-London. Bit slower door-to-door than flying but avoids airports & CO2. One day there might be a direct route avoiding the change in Paris. www.swissinfo.ch/fre/un-sonda...

Checkout our new preprint 🔬! An eye-opening analysis detailing the adoption of bioimage-analysis tools in microscopy, curated with Bruno Saraiva and @henriqueslab.bsky.social – a thread 🧵: preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.21.760457 github: github.com/HenriquesLab/mapping-bioimage-software

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Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 2w ago

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

An unsung #Czech hero who saved the Internet yesterday. Excerpt: "When I started doing open-source, it was fun. And it kind of still is. But the environment has shifted. Open-source sometimes feels like exploitation."

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 2w ago

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Your periodic reminder that freedom isn't free. "While essential for getting started, grant support is not a sustainable long term solution for funding daily operations."

Dr. Emma E. Bird@dremmabird.bsky.social · last mo.

For years, 💀MorphoSource💀 has given researchers, educators, and students 🚨free access🚨 to 3D data on museum specimens from around the world. 🔆Now it is asking for some help to continue its work🔆 www.morphosource.org/donate/

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Research software is costly and time-consuming to produce because it requires focused time from developers who have invested years learning to master their craft, just like art. There is nothing to celebrate about relinquishing intellectual expertise and mastery in favor of fast and cheap.

@paveltomancak.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This article seems to celebrate the shift from poor support for #software #engineers in research to pretending they aren't needed at all. Did we spend 2 decades consolidating fragmented software ecosystems into platforms only to see them dissolve through "vibe coding"? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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📢 Release alert! BoneJ+ is now callable in headless mode, including specifying which GPU(s) to use. ~/Fiji/fiji --headless -Dbonej.plus.devices="1-0" --run run_all_bonej_plus.py Drop us a line if you'd like to know more and to get a demo script.

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📢 Release alert! BoneJ+ 0.0.20 brings stability to GPU checking on Windows and belatedly bumps the minimum Java version to 17. Check it out! Drop us a DM to get a tester voucher from @beancounter.ch

📢 Release alert! radius-r0 uses Scijava Datasets as the image format for input-output, and harmonises all the plugins to use the same results table. Scripting users will need to update their scripts to use Dataset and SharedTable; internally, functionality is the same.