NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

NIH staffing shortage could slash number of new grants issued this year

Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards.

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I noticed NIH RePORTER now shows extramural awards by month. As expected, # awards down ~50% this FY. reporter.nih.gov

Yes, confirming reports that OMB has processed its full-year apportionment to NIH, giving the agency the ability to obligate funds from the spending bill signed into law on Feb 3! From what I can tell, there are no footnotes that would indicate OMB is further delaying the process.

National Library of Medicine and 24 other accounts | 11511545

Apportionment file 11511545 (National Library of Medicine and 24 other accounts) retrieved from OMB public records

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Thankful for this blog piece by @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social on the Dirigo project. Glad you liked the posts! gcamp6f.com/2025/11/14/d...

Dirigo: a future Python alternative to Scanimage?

Over the last 20 years, many microscopes that are capable of resonant scanning two-photon microscopy have converged on using ScanImage, a powerful software package with many strengths but also two …

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🔬 New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series: Worker Products Products are the way information is carried from node to node along the acquisition pipeline. TBH I'm pretty proud of this system 😀 Introductory post below 👇

Introducing Dirigo #5: Worker Products

I’m writing a series of “bite-sized” posts about Dirigo, my modular image-acquisition framework for laser-scanning microscopy. Previous posts: [#1 Intro], [#2 Acquisition pipeline], [#3 Hardware inte...

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Introducing Thorlabs' New VantagePro® Resonant Scanner System! Learn more at https://bit.ly/4qiTwMZ Ideal for high-speed imaging, this resonant scanner is designed to deflect a laser beam from its original trajectory and continuously scan it over a user-controlled scan angle.

We present multi-immersion Oblique Plane microscope (miOPM), a light-sheet platform that can be adapted to a wide range of applications, from sensitive live cell imaging to imaging organs and cleared tissues. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🔬 🔬 New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series: Unit quantities Why units matter (think 100 µm vs 100 mm 😬), parsing “400 um”/“8 kHz”/"125 MS/s", expressive types, and unit-checked math. Dirigo achieves this with a light-weight Pint-inspired layer used everywhere units are relevant.

Introducing Dirigo #4: Unit quantities

I’m writing posts to introduce Dirigo, a flexible image acquisition framework targeting laser scanning applications. Previous posts: #1: Intro, #2: Acquisition pipeline composition, #3: Hardware inter...

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🔬 New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series! (my project to build a flexible backend for sci. image acquisition) This week: the Digitizer interface—how to abstract the main data-collection device in laser-scanning microscopy to support different cards through a single, oscilloscope-inspired API.

Introducing Dirigo – Post #3: Hardware extensibility & the Digitizer interface

I’m writing weekly posts to introduce Dirigo, a flexible image acquisition framework for Python. In the last post, I introduced the reconfigurable acquisition pipeline. In this post, I’ll describe har...

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New post in the "Introducing Dirigo" series! In this one, I share a short video clip demo & walk through how Dirigo organizes image acquisition as a reconfigurable dataflow graph. 👉 forum.image.sc/t/introducin...

Just posted Part 1 of a new series on "Dirigo", my design for a very flexible, extensible backend for scientific image acquisition. I’ll be posting weekly to spark feedback and find collaborators. This first post covers the intro & high-level design. 👇

Designing Dirigo: a flexible, extensible backend for scientific image acquisition

Some time ago, on a certain social platform that has since been renamed, I asked for suggestions on laser scanning microscopy acquisition control software. I was looking for something in the spirit of...

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I just made my Alazar digitizer Python bindings public. Provides API binding, a ton of enumerations with helper methods, and data parsing. github.com/tweber225/at...

GitHub - tweber225/atsbindings: Python bindings for AlazarTech API.

Python bindings for AlazarTech API. Contribute to tweber225/atsbindings development by creating an account on GitHub.

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