📢 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.

Pleased to report that I have been paid in cold hard pounds sterling for a Fast and Fair review job. Just like when I was in the clinic: payment for professional advice. Money has a purpose and this is it. Better than vouchers, crypto or Brownie points because I can do what I want with it.

Daniel Gorelick@danielgorelick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Check out New York Times coverage of our full website launch! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c...

Looking forward to returning to my PhD alma mater @qmul.bsky.social this July for back-to-back ISBM and BRS meetings: www.bonemorphometry.org/isbm-2026/ boneresearchsociety.org/meeting/brs2... See you there!

Just merged a pull request from @ctrue.bsky.social into @bonej.org 's master branch solving a long-standing CI annoyance (🙏). Weirdly, Anthropic's Claude LLM has inserted text claiming that it is a co-author. One should use the best tools for the job (e.g. IDEs), but tools are not authors.

Interested in trying BoneJ+ with accelerated GPU processing? Drop us a DM to get a free @beancounter.ch voucher to try it out!

📢 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

Based in Ireland and work with imaging? @microscopyirl.bsky.social & Core Facilities Network Ireland are making the case to government for an Irish @eurobioimaging.bsky.social node. Take our short survey by June 25th docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please RT! 🙏 #Microscopy #Bioimaging

Microscopy Ireland Irish Imaging Community Survey

Supporting the case for an Irish Euro-BioImaging Node Prepared by Microscopy Ireland (MSI) and the National Core Facilities Network

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📢 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.

IOB "This study applies #biomaterials/imaging techniques to #wildlife forensics, using micro-computed #tomography to forensically analyse bullet-induced damage in a unique collection of helmeted hornbill skull specimens..." doi.org/10.1093/iob/... Chan et al #birds #biology #organisms

It's World Swift Day! ❤️ Swifts raise their chicks high in eaves or nestboxes, returning to the same site year after year. When the young fledge, they launch into open air... & just keep going! They’ll remain airborne for the next two or three years, until it’s time to breed themselves.

New pedestrian traffic lights in front of the main building at #UniJena and at two other locations highlight Jena's status as a centre for science and research; instead of the traditional traffic light figure, they feature a walking microscope. ➡️ rathaus.jena.de/en/citizens-b…

Emblème de l'animation suisse, Pingu célèbre ses 40 ans

Emblème de l'animation suisse, Pingu célèbre ses 40 ans

MÉDIAS – Chercheuse en histoire du cinéma à la Faculté des lettres et spécialiste de l'animation, Chloé Hofmann revient sur les coulisses de la création de la franchise au micro de la RTS.

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Who would have thought that people would be incentivised by being paid for their expert opinions? It's normal to pay for professional services. Hopefully the big for-profit players will wake up and realise that they will have to pay too, to maintain their "premium" reputations.

Daniel Gorelick@danielgorelick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Peatlands are powerful. Here are just a few reasons why… 1. Peatland vegetation slows the flow of rainfall which helps reduce the risk of flooding in nearby towns and villages. Peatlands only cover around 3% of the world's surface but contains more carbon than all the world's rainforests.

📢 Big news in OA publishing. Open Research Europe will open up to researchers in 11 European countries. No APC fee to authors as long as any one author of the work is affiliated to an institution in a participating country, regardless of funding. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/blog/this-au...

Beautiful.

Erick Ratamero@erickratamero.com · 2mo ago

ok this one made me laugh

LLMs need detailed oversight. Mine sometimes proposes Java and OpenCL methods that don't exist; others cite literature that was never written. Looks plausible != is true.

The Empty City@davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Artificial Intelligence and legal work - a crucial case to read There was a routine court application which would usually go through on nod, but the judge suspected something was not right and asked questions, and this then came out. If you must use AI, be careful. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

These cows have got the right idea. Nothing like the sea breeze and a paddle to cool down.

@bonej.org has been supporting the bone research community for over 15 years. Ever since the early days of the project, there have been lots of other uses. Check out this paper that used BoneJ for measuring basalt rock formation on the Moon 🌕, from the Chang'e-5 mission! doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Cooling History of Chang'e‐5 Basalts Recorded by Diffusion‐Driven Mg and Fe Isotope Fractionation

Remarkable and negatively correlated δ26Mg and δ56Fe variability at the mineral scale is observed in a Chang'e-5 basalt clast Chemical diffusion in mineral grains within a cooling melt caused the...

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Intersection of the food tube with the air tube at the larynx is a nasty evolutionary hangover, with life-threatening consequences. Why not two separate tubes for two different functions, eating and breathing? Check out this paper on how toothed whales have solved it.

SICB journals@sicbjournals.bsky.social · 3mo ago

IOB "In #odontocete #cetaceans (toothed #whales, #dolphins, and #porpoises), a #palatopharyngeal sphincter permanently anchors the laryngeal inlet in the #nasopharynx and isolates the airway from the gut tube." from A W Vogl , et al doi.org/10.1093/iob/... #science #biology #biomechanics

Looking forward to returning to my PhD alma mater @qmul.bsky.social this July for back-to-back ISBM and BRS meetings: www.bonemorphometry.org/isbm-2026/ boneresearchsociety.org/meeting/brs2... See you there!

"the design of Facebook's and Instagram's online interfaces, which may exploit the vulnerabilities and inexperience of minors, leading to addictive behaviour and reinforcing the so-called ‘rabbit hole' effects"

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 3mo ago

Meta's own terms indicate its services aren't for children under 13. Yet Meta is failing to keep them off Instagram and Facebook. We've found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act. ℹ️ link.europa.eu/yPBWgY

🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨🚨 The Image Analysis Unit at Human Technopole in Milan is recruiting for two positions to join our growing team: 1) Bioimage Analyst 2) Research Software Engineer (RSE) Read on to learn why one of these two people should be you!

Committee. Unnecessary duplication, letters turning up just to be seen to be doing something.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 3mo ago

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

If for a scientist, "writing is thinking" (which I agree with, having done quite a bit of it), is an LLM that synthesises sophisticated texts also thinking (as their GUIs have been programmed to make us believe)?

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🗣️"Scientific writing isn’t the packaging around knowledge. It’s one of the key places of knowledge production itself" #AcWri #AcademicSky

#HappyMicroscopyMonday #microscopycommunity- Wayne S. Rasband Open Source Imaging Award recognizes individuals advancing open source imaging software or hardware by making tools freely accessible, modifiable, and impactful. Nominate or apply by May 1, 2026! buff.ly/5DYr7UO

La France a dit "l'état, sur Linux". www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es...

🚨🔬🚨🔬🚨 We are pleased to announce that registration for the 7th edition of the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS 2026 is now open! 🕐November 23rd-24th, 2026📍The Francis Crick Institute, London. We look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there (or online 😀)

1-year MRes projects at the RVC are open for application! I've got 2; 1 on combining experimental data with musculoskeletal simulations to understand how broiler chickens walk while growing, & 1 #DAWNDINOS choice of fossil critters to simulate: www.rvc.ac.uk/study/postgr...