We are all super happy and proud to see our work on the function and evolution of the #cephalic #furrow published in @nature.com. Let me say a few things about the background and history of this work on the #Evolution_of_Morphogenesis (1/12)
Stephan Preibisch
@preibischs.bsky.social
Open Science Software Enthusiast - Director of Scientific Computing Software at HHMI Janelia
Excited to share more widely: I am starting the Dorkenwald Lab at MIT (McGovern Institute + BCS) in January 2026. We study the organizational principles of neuronal circuits using connectomics. And we are hiring postdocs & tech associates! dorkenwaldlab.com/join
MIT’s McGovern Institute and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences welcome new faculty member Sven Dorkenwald - MIT McGovern Institute
The McGovern Institute and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences are pleased to announce the appointment of Sven Dorkenwald as an assistant professor starting in January 2026. A trailblazer i...
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The connectome of the entire male Drosophila central nervous system is out!! Acquired using FIB-SEM @ 8x8x8nm, we aligned 7.5 mio 2D images aligned into one seamless 3D volume, which was used to segment & proofread neurons and synapses. @hhmijanelia.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Preprint - Excited to present WHOLISTIC, which extends the concept of whole-brain functional imaging to the entire body. Pioneering work by incredibly talented Virginia Ruetten @vmsruetten.bsky.social, this platform reveals whole-organism cellular dynamics in vivo. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
What does a neural network look like? Maybe like this view of Larissa Heinrich's U-net for organelle segmentation, with edges between layer inputs and outputs. Want to help build networks like this? Join #HHMIJanelia's new AI initiative as a data engineer: hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...
🎉 Call for Abstracts! 🎉 We’re celebrating 10 years of #mesoSPIM #opensource initiative – join us at the symposium for talks, demos & posters on open-source light-sheet microscopy, tissue clearing, and imaging! Dates: October 13-15, 2025 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Registration: ema.uzh.ch/R7YRN
Found some pretty cool books at the Marine Biological Laboratory @mblscience.bsky.social library alongside pictures of renowned stylish scientists, with @markkitti.bsky.social, @joshmoore.bsky.social and Graham Johnson. It was overall a very inspiring OME community meeting in Woods Hole!
#GloBIAS has a blog series - new post out today! Two GloBIAS volunteers reflect on the first version of GloBIAS Free Help (previously Call4Help), explain the idea behind this activity and what was learned during the pilot session. Please check out the webpage: www.globias.org/resources/gl...
The STIM paper is out! We build on established computer vision techniques to automatically create 3D volumes of spatial transcriptomics datasets with human-level accuracy, and useful, interactive visualizations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @hhmijanelia.bsky.social @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social
Join us in Potsdam for the #HIConference25 by @helmholtzimaging.bsky.social – three days of talks, workshops, community challenges, and some stunning scientific visuals! 🗓 Abstract deadline: May 1, 2025 More info and registration: 🔗 events.hifis.net/event/2061/ #HelmholtzImaging #mdcBerlin
Our 3D study of the tumor microenvironment is finally out! Play around with the data yourself at lung-3d-browser.mdc-berlin.de (Kudos to @danilexn.bsky.social👏 ) Many thanks to Nikolaus Rajewsky lab at @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social and everyone involved, it takes a village to raise a multimodal paper!
www.cell.com/cell-systems... CosMx data by @brukerspatial.bsky.social Second harmonics by Andrew Woehler Immunofluorescence by @sonjafritzsche.bsky.social and @josenimo.bsky.social in Fabian Coscia lab STIM for 3D alignment by @preibischs.bsky.social @nukappa.bsky.social et al (coming very soon!)
Combining spatial transcriptomics and ECM imaging in 3D for mapping cellular interactions in the tumor microenvironment
Pentimalli et al. extend imaging-based spatial transcriptomics to 3D and combine it with ECM profiling. The multimodal analysis of cellular neighborhoods in a clinical lung adenocarcinoma sample revea...
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Shout out to my dear #BigStitcher #Windows users :) I finally got access to a Windows VM and fixed many Windows bugs. I hope most functionality is restored. I still advise switching to Linux/Mac, but I will be able to provide more Windows support in the future if necessary.
I recently visited #Amazon HQ2, to present at the AWS Imagine Nonprofit conference 2025. It was exciting to see use cases & opinions from other areas than biomedicine, to make new contacts, and to see how people at AWS work. #AWS has an interesting line up of #conferences & #funding opportunities:
Check out this new & exciting #postdoc program from Max Planck Society 🤩 - My lab is thrilled to move to MPI MB in Muenster - positions available in #chromatin #mechanobiology #cancer #stemcells #transcription join us!
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft@maxplanck.de · last yr.🚀 Apply now 🚀 The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. postdocprogram.mpg.de #ScienceCareer #PostdocProgram
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
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🔜 Starting at 5 PM tonight, the @dfg.de will present the 2025 #LeibnizPreis to #mdcBerlin researcher @apombo1.bsky.social and nine other recipients. Congratulations to all of them! 🥳 📺 You can join the action via livestream – click the link below! 👇 #mdcBIMSB | @www.helmholtz.de
👉 LIVESTREAM | Verleihung der Leibniz-Preise 2025 👈
Seien Sie ab 17 Uhr live dabei!
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Pretty awesome setting for today’s workshop on enabling access to emerging bioimaging techniques organized by Ian Dobbie at JHU’s downtown DC campus. We had great presentations and discussions; sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iic/workshop...
Happy #InternationalWomensDay ‼️ Over the past weeks, we’ve shared insights from #mdcBerlin's inspiring #WomenInSTEM – highlighting their work, challenges, and career advice. 🔗 Explore all of their stories here: ➡️ www.mdc-berlin.de/about/values... ⬅️ #WomenInScience #mdcDiversity #IWD2025
Amazing news on thr #Fiji front. The new launcher holds beautiful promises for better bioimage analysis tools, and not only for Fiji!! See this summary thread by Curtis forum.image.sc/t/fiji-2024-...
Fiji 2024 Year in Review: Milestones and Roadmap
Introduction The Fiji team at LOCI is pleased to share significant progress on several major initiatives as we work towards raising the technological standards of Fiji. These include Fiji 2.16.0, feat...
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Calling the #bioimageanalysis community! Remember the #GatherIsland used during the online #I2K? Remember #Hebedas? #Woodstockbio2025 will be like this, in real life on a #YMCA #campsite in #Czech woods. Bioimage Geeks of the World - Unite and Register! woodstock.img.cas.cz/registration/
Stephan (@herrsaalfeld.bsky.social) of @hhmijanelia.bsky.social explains to the interested Ashburn community how AI can help us understanding biological systems at Old Ox Brewery 😎
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
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“Join the Pigino Lab! We’re hiring a PhD student to explore primary cilia biology using advanced imaging, spatial ‘omics, and AI. Apply now at www.cilia-ai.eu and be part of the Cilia-AI Doctoral Network!”
Florian Jug@florianjug.bsky.social · 2y ago👀 Looking for a PhD position but you are torn between cilia biology and computational AI research? 😜 The Cilia-AI Doctoral Network has you covered! Lots of fantastic projects throughout Europe, also @humantechnopole.bsky.social with us or @gaiapigino.bsky.social - apply now! ‼️ www.cilia-ai.eu
🚨🚨 MEGA JOB ALERT 🚨🚨 Independent Group Leader Positions in Computational Biology @humantechnopole.bsky.social! Are you ready to start your own lab? Do you know someone who is? Repost this + share with everyone who might want to know about it. Thanks!!! 🙏 More details below... check it out! 🧵 1/3
Do you love software engineering for exciting biological applications, open science,open source, R, Bioconductor, modern web, cloud& ML technologies? We're looking for a software engineer to work on R/Bioconductor tools for biological data science and AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Special issue on C. elegans genetics and biology @heredityjournal.bsky.social. Submit your manuscripts by 1st May 2025. Contact me for more info. www.nature.com/collections/...
Special Issue: Caenorhabditis elegans genetics and biology
See more information on the new Heredity special issue on Caenorhabditis elegans genetics and biology.
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