Here's some of the action on the first day of our Introduction to Image Analysis workshop in Cardiff 🙂🔬 We hope all our attendees are enjoying all the content so far!

Day 1 of the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social Introduction to Image Analysis Workshop at @cardiffuni.bsky.social 🔬

We are very pleased to announce Dr Adam Tyson @adamltyson.com of the @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social as winner of the RMS Life Sciences Award. 🙂 🔬 Congratulations Adam! 👏🎖️ Read more about Adam's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/dr-...

My PhD thesis has officially been submitted to the examiners 🎉 I’m actively looking for postdoctoral fellowship opportunities working in: - Neuroscience / Neurobiology - Bioimaging with AI/ML - Image analysis #Postdoc #VolumeEM #Microscopy #Synchrotron #ImageAnalysis

We're really looking forward to the official launch of the Welsh Microscopical Society next week @cardiffuni.bsky.social Join us in support of #microscopy and #imaging in Wales 🔬😀 Big thanks also to our sponsors: @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social, Biostatus and @jeoleurope.bsky.social

Why is turning thesis findings into a paper so difficult?! 😭

🚨 New feature launch in our latest newsletter! We’ve just introduced Tech Bites, short, focused articles that share practical insights and innovations for the vEM Community. Check out the newsletter to explore our two inaugural Tech Bites, with more to come in future issues! conta.cc/4bJhsmk

vEM Community Newsletter - March 2026

Email from Danforth March 2026 vEM Newsletter volume electron microscopy   CCP-volumeEM: Establishing a sustainable computational community for volume EM The Collaborative Computational Project (CCP)

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Thesis submitted ✅

Missed our latest CCP-volumeEM Show and Tell webinar? Dr Kimberly Meechan’s talk on Good practices for image analysis software is now available to watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHJJ...

Good practices for image analysis software with Dr Kimberly Meechan

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Horrifying moment when a PI says to a PhD student "why use Python when you can use Excel?" and proceeds to tear the student apart over analysis choices. To be fair, if it had been done in Excel, the student would be at a total loss because there is no way to audit the workflow unlike in Jupyter.

A few days overdue nonetheless, a big thank you to @wellcometrust.bsky.social @globalbioimaging.bsky.social for funding this opportunity! Looking forward to seeing familiar faces in @cardiffuni.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

An important focus of @cosec-ukri.bsky.social activities like #CCPvolumeEM and other CCPs is the environmental impact of scientific computing. @epcc.bsky.social have teaching materials at epcced.github.io/2026-02-26_G... Comic image from xkcd.com/1379/ #GreenHPC #GreenComputing

Do you do image analysis? Want to make it more robust and reproducible? Have you heard of containers, but don't know why they’re useful, and how to use them? @martinjones.bsky.social will explain all: crick.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CCP-volumeEM Show and Tell - February 2026. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

'A brief introduction to the use of containers for reproducible image analysis' with Dr Martin Jones Abstract: Reproducibility of scientific data analysis is critical, but can be particularly challe...

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Submit your abstract for the 21st International Microscopy Congress #IMC21 and join our impressive line-up of speakers in Liverpool later this year! Submit your abstract by 6 March: https://www.imc21.org.uk/

Python Coding challenge - Day 1041| What is the output of the following Python Code? Answer with Detailed Explanation: www.clcoding.com/2026/02/pyth...

Considered switching to @linuxkernel.bsky.social for the sake of privacy and coding purposes, then I read about NVIDIA support on linux and now I'm not so sure if I should migrate everything

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Do you want to spend the summer being paid to contribute to open source neuroscience software? We are taking part in Google Summer of Code again, offering paid, remote placements to work on one of our tools. Open to (nearly) everyone worldwide. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

Want to spend this summer improving open-source tools for neuroscience 🧠📈 and animal behaviour 🐭🐒? Apply to work with us on BrainGlobe, movement and others. We particularly welcome researchers who want to sharpen their software dev skills and contribute to the open-source ecosystem.

SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit@neuroinformatics.dev · 6mo ago

Do you want to spend the summer being paid to contribute to open source neuroscience software? We are taking part in Google Summer of Code again, offering paid, remote placements to work on one of our tools. Open to (nearly) everyone worldwide. More details: neuroinformatics.dev/get-involved...

Our Method of the Year 2025 is...drumroll please...EM-based connectomics!! Our Editorial introduces our choice and highlights six Comments and other related content in this special issue. Please join us in celebrating EM-based connectomics! 🎉🧠🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Method of the Year 2025: electron microscopy-based connectomics - Nature Methods

A large network of interconnected neurons serves as the basis of brain function and of behavior. Methodological advances have enabled the reconstruction of large-scale and even whole-brain connectomes...

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So excited for @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social OME-NGFF Hackathon 2026 at Hinxton!

Haidilao? Overrated. Hype is for the free flow dessert and drinks. Otherwise? Meh.

No wonder things are slow lately. I updated my gpu driver, then i forgot to install the latest CUDA and cuDNN libraries - lesson learned!

How do I check how many bytes of memory that my code is taking up to run? From what I've found from several articles, this is not exactly a simple cli command or linear process that can be executed in seconds? Interesting way of learning how memory is allocated every time a function is called.

Note to self: no more coffee after 4pm or else your brain resets to GMT+00 and wonder why you're wide awake doing data analysis on your @ubuntu-ls.bsky.social at 2am here at GMT+08....

Read the story behind the first @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Week, in a series of blogposts for @softwaresaved.bsky.social The second edition will be even more awesome. Remember to apply by the end of January: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Software Sustainability Institute@softwaresaved.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧑‍🔬 In August 2025, SSI Fellows Alessandro Felder and @nikosirmpilatze.com co-organised the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Week (OSW). Read more about the event in our latest blog post: www.software.ac.uk/blog/greater...

🧑‍🔬 In August 2025, SSI Fellows Alessandro Felder and @nikosirmpilatze.com co-organised the Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Week (OSW). Read more about the event in our latest blog post: www.software.ac.uk/blog/greater...

Applications to our summer school have been extended for two weeks! If you want to learn about open-source tools for neuroscience, please join us in London this August. Deadline Feb 15th. Full details: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Should I try out @heyputer.bsky.social for coding projects and deploying stuff? Is it as good as having it done locally? Asking for a friend.

Did a thing. Wrote a python pipeline to help me identify segmentation errors based on biological morphometry and mathematical heuristics. Saliency map turned out great. Used genus=1 to identify any tiny errors. Now instead of eyeballing, I just need to focus on the flagged list. Not bad for a start!

Github soon…just a little longer….

Minyu Chan@minyuchan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Did a thing. Wrote a python pipeline to help me identify segmentation errors based on biological morphometry and mathematical heuristics. Saliency map turned out great. Now instead of eyeballing, I just need to focus on the flagged errors. Not bad for a start!