Do you want to learn more about OME-Zarr viewers, where they stand today and what's being developed at the moment? On August 24th at 4pm CEST, we will hear about 3 different OME-Zarr viewers and user stories for each. www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up... (1/5 🧵)
Open Bioimaging Practices Meetup August 2026
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It's an exciting day for #Fiji users! Now read and write @zarr.dev v3 and #OMEZarr v0.5. Don't want a million tiny files in your #zarr? Shard that sucker! Read the details here forum.image.sc/t/fiji-can-r...
Fiji can read and write Zarr3 & OME-Zarr v0.5 (new N5 release!)
Updating your Fiji-Latest installation will give you the newest versions of the N5 library, enabling OME-Zarr v0.5 / Zarr v3 support with sharding! What's new? Reading zarr 3 datasets (sharded and u...
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At the next #NGFFCafe, Marvin Albert (ETH Zurich) will present 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄-𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿, a Python package for scalable stitching/alignment/fusion of multi-view, tiled & multimodal image acquisitions. Join us! 🗓️ Thursday, July 30 🕚️ 11 am CEST 📍 Online Register⤵️ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Tired of AI-generated figures? I asked our talented scientific illustrator Manon Zuurmond to draw some of the instruments and lab equipment we missed in NIH's otherwise fantastic BioArt resource. First batch now available as CC BY. Free for everyone to use in publications: github.com/Center-for-P...
🚨Just out: #NGFF specification 0.6 (rc0): ngff.openmicroscopy.org/specificatio... What's new, what's what? Short thread 🧵👇
Version 0.6rc0 — NGFF documentation
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Just the occasional this-thing-is-really-easy-in-ome-zarr-0.6 kind of post: Stitching in napari @napari.org with napari-stitcher (@m-albert.bsky.social) and napari-ome-zarr (@will-j-moore.bsky.social) (WIP) : (Sample data from the awesome big-stitcher tool github.com/JaneliaSciCo...)
In March, CCP-volumeEM hosted an OME-NGFF hackathon, bringing the community together to collaborate, share ideas and advance tools for volume electron microscopy. 🔬💻 Read about what we worked on and hear directly from two attendees about their experiences: www.ccp-volumeem.ac.uk/hackathons/h...
OME-NGFF Hackathon March 2026 — CCP in vEM
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Agentic coding is genuinely useful now, and there are some impressive reports of AI agents doing science. But how well and how reliably can they handle tasks scientists actually want to hand off, ones that bottleneck progress? How do we even measure that?? New paper🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2606.07718 1/10
A case study of evaluating AI agents on a neuroscience data-to-discovery pipeline
Agentic AI tools offer a promising path to automating software development bottlenecks in scientific research pipelines, particularly for stages that take domain experts days to months to build, where...
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We want to hear from you about your experience using the OME-Zarr ecosystem and how we can improve it! We are joining the upcoming OME-NGFF community call to introduce ourselves to the community and to collect your feedback (May 26, 9AM and 5PM CET). See you there! forum.image.sc/t/join-us-fo...
Join us for the next OME-NGFF Community Call on Tuesday May 26, 2026 9:00 CET and 17:00 CET!
Dear all, We are delighted to announce our Q2 OME-NGFF Community Call to be held on Tuesday May 26! As usual, we will repeat the agenda over two time slots to welcome participants from everywhere aro...
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🚨🧠 Our paper is out! We introduce a simple computational model that generates macroscopic, long-timescale dynamics as seen in large-scale neural recordings. #neuroscience #dynamics @marius10p.bsky.social @zhong-lin.bsky.social @hhmijanelia.bsky.social Link: go.nature.com/4tRNjIu
Nature research paper: A critical initialization for biological neural networks go.nature.com/4tRNjIu
Story time friends... Ring attractor networks rely on fine-tuned symmetric connectivity. The fly head direction network has ring attractor dynamics but heterogeneous connectivity. How is this possible? 1/🧵 Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
What's new in Ome-Zarr 0.6? Ome-Zarr is a cloud-optimised next-generation file format #NGFF for bioimaging, aiming to increase #FAIR access and remove barriers in the scientific process. The latest version offers numerous improvements and features. 👉 Find out more on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
@davisvbennett.bsky.social gave a great talk on the present and future of #zarr, including extending the core github.com/zarr-develop... and #metadata.
🚨ngff-spec release candidate out🚨 Just out: ngff specification version 0.6.dev4 (github.com/ome/ngff-spe...), which will be the last dev version (!) and mark the beginning of the 🚧spec-phase🚧 (see also forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekl...) This means: let's develop some implementations 👷♀️👷♂️ #OME2026 👋
Release 0.6.dev4 · ome/ngff-spec
What's Changed fix: avoid non-unicode characters (dev) by @jo-mueller in #121 specification: Tie down possible output for coordinate transformation… by @jo-mueller in #109 Improve readability of m...
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Want to present a poster, talk, or workshop at this year's Images 2 Knowledge (I2K) meeting - Sep 27 - October 2nd in Madison, WI? Please fill out the form by Thursday - we really want to highlight your contributions! airtable.com/appPes56Tahc...
My first post here, we have a new preprint out from @aicjanelia.bsky.social! Upright LSFM is fantastic for live imaging, but not amenable to all samples - especially those requiring an air-liquid interface. We worked with Tokai Hit to try to fix that. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🔬 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...
Open Bioimaging Practices Meetup: March 2026
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🚨Gearing up for #NGFF 0.6! 🚨 Help us give this a final push over the finish line and join us in ironing out the last flaws on the way! More information here 👇 forum.image.sc/t/ngff-weekl...
NGFF weekly dev update thread
🏁 Sprint to 0.6 🏁 Dear NGFF-community, it's been some time since the last release of a mjor version of the NGFF-specification. Since then, many of you engaged with the community which resulted in a lo...
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We want to organize a learnathon to teach plugin development within #FIJI #scijava #imglib2 #BigDataViewer and other Big* parts of the Java ecosystem. Please spread the word, and if you know someone who can be interested, forward them the link below forum.image.sc/t/learnathon...
Learnathon/hackathon on the development of ImgLib2/BigDataViewer based Fiji tools for dealing with large image data (survey)
Hello all, There is an increasing number of new tools to work with image data. But for many life scientists, Fiji remains a very important platform when it comes to interactively working with image d...
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Hello, world! We are starting a worker cooperative to build, maintain, teach, and support open source scientific imaging software. image.coop/blog/posts/2...
Graph neural networks recover interpretable circuit models from neural activity saalfeldlab.github.io/flyvis-gnn/ @HHMIJanelia @AllenInstitute to be presented at @CosyneMeeting
Calling all OME Community members, contributors, and lurkers! Please take a minute to answer the OME 2026 Community Survey (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...) to help us prepare for discussing the future of OME governance during the OME 2026 Community Meeting at the end of April.
We opened 4 PhD positions at @humantechnopole.bsky.social together with Polimi (see 👇). My lab offers a PhD project on "Computational Morphogenesis": use state-of-the-art machine learning methods together with realistic simulations to build digital twins of developing tissue. Apply by March 26.
🎓 How can #AI and #datascience unlock new insights into human health? 📊 We’re offering 4 #PhD positions through Polimi’s DADS Programme in the groups of Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Francesca Ieva, @janfunkey.bsky.social and Fernanda Pinheiro. Apply by 26 March 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/news/4-ph...
Broad peer review is crucial for a healthy scientific literature, but neuroscientists turn down review requests too often. Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias the literature, writes @jvoigts.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/l...
Lack of reviewers threatens robustness of neuroscience literature
Simple math suggests that small groups of scientists can significantly bias peer review.
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Excited to be co-organising a #cosyne2026 workshop with Alison Comrie on 'algorithms for learning from scratch'! With a great line-up of speakers, we'll be tackling the question of what processes enable naive biological & artificial agents to adapt to new situations. Info here: tinyurl.com/4u8enf7k
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march 16th, workshop day 1 @ cosyne 2026
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Yep, it lags a little. But still quite impressive considering that each "pixel" is a 150 MPixel multires image. Overall the total number of 'adressable' pixels in this 2D image are 225x225x150 Mpix = 7.6 Tera pixels. #ImageJ #Fiji #BigDataViewer
Are you working at the interface of #neuroscience and ML/AI? Share your research at Janelia in Nov! 🧠 🤖 janelia.news/NAI26
📢 Applications are open! This meeting brings together scientists using data-driven #AI to analyze + model neural circuits and uncover how the brain performs complex computations. 🧠 Apply by May 28 ➡️ janelia.news/NAI26 @computingnature.bsky.social @sinzlab.bsky.social @srinituraga.bsky.social
This is work that we presented at last year's #Cosyne workshop on #GNN s sites.google.com/bu.edu/gnnwo.... Better late than never. You can reproduce everything with the associated notebooks. I think it's a good start to learn how to use GNNs to infer something about NNs. arxiv.org/abs/2602.13325
Graph neural networks uncover structure and functions underlying the activity of simulated neural assemblies
Graph neural networks trained to predict observable dynamics can be used to decompose the temporal activity of complex heterogeneous systems into simple, interpretable representations. Here we apply t...
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I am joining @joss-openjournals.bsky.social as an editor! I wrote a little bit about how much I hate academic publishing and why this felt like the right thing to dedicate some volunteer time to. pages.erickratamero.com/personal-web...