📣 Tracking cells through time – including divisions – is a core problem in live-imaging microscopy. We built HOCT, an edge-centric Transformer that hits state-of-the-art on the Cell Tracking Challenge without a pretrained image encoder. Work led by @jookuma.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2607.11754 🧪🔬💻

How do you track thousands of cells in complex systems, in 3D & over time? We are launching a Kaggle challenge to push the frontier of AI-powered cell tracking, building on advances like Ultrack & the DaXi lightsheet microscope from the @loicaroyer.bsky.social lab. bit.ly/4bfdzWE

🚨Open call to the Cell Tracking crowd out there🚨! Loïc's team at @biohub.org opened our Kaggle Challenge for 3D cell tracking, with $60k of prize money💰. Spread the news, delve into our gigabytes of imaging (zarr3) and cell tracking (geff) data of developing zebrafish embryos, and start tracking 🤩

Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪@loicaroyer.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org

1/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org

1/ 🚀 Excited to release: napari-mcp - agentic control of napari from any MCP-capable AI assistant! Use it for interactive image processing, analysis, and visualisation! Really cool project from @ilan-theodoro.bsky.social from my team! #napari #bioimageanalysis #MCP @biohub

Join us for the AI Applications in Biology Symposium at @biohub.org! A full day of talks on ML for structural biology, imaging, single-molecule & multimodal/omics data 🗓️ Feb. 20, 2026 (1 day before BPS) 📍San Francisco 🔗 shorturl.at/uQerL Attend in-person or virtual. Submit abstracts by Jan. 20!