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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊

@bethcimini.bsky.social
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She/her. I turn pictures into numbers so others can turn them into medicine. Also I yell about politics a lot. See the fantastic things my team does at ciminilab.github.io/WeMakeStuff . Views my own, awesome science from my amazing team.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 2h
!!! — If you are in the NIH ecosystem please read this thread.
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JT Neal @jtneal.bsky.social · 5h
Excited to share that we have received an NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award!🎉 Our project, Encore, combines optical barcoding and cell imaging to test 1.6M+ drug-disease combinations in parallel, aiming to repurpose existing drugs for rare genetic conditions.
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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 5h
It's a dream come true for all of us, including Paul Blainey and Mikko Taipale and Shantanu Singh @shantanu-singh.cc to see our foundational technologies combined in a way we hope will directly impact patients! Huge thanks to early funders: VISTA Consortium & Ladders to Cures Scientific Accelerator!
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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 17h
🏁 That's a wrap! The @biohub.org Cell Tracking machine learning challenge on @kaggle.com is over: 4,478 participants, 3,947 teams, 120 countries, 95,438 submissions, tracking every cell of zebrafish embryos. 🧪🔬🧵 kaggle.com/competition... #microscopy
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rosalind Franklin knew what she was looking at. 👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 ⚛️
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21h
“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏
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Virginie Uhlmann @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Are you a biologist working with microscopy images? A computer scientist wanting to work with microscopy data? Their boss??? None of these, but curious how AI has transformed microscopy image analysis? 🔬🤖 This one's for you: 📄 doi.org/10.1146/annu... More in the thread! 🧵
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From Pixels to Discovery: Microscopy Image Analysis in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Modern microscopy generates data volumes that far exceed human analytical capacity. Over the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed microscopy image analysis into an engine for quan...
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...
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Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis. Institut Pasteur, Image Analysis Hub - 2026
Dear all Below is an announcement for a permanent position as a Research Engineer in the Institut Pasteur, Paris. There is a flyer attached at the bottom. We are looking ideally for a Bioimage An...
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Virginia Silio @virsicas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s as easy as showing the raw data next to the winning video, if AI was used just to colour it… what is the problem?
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Florent Waltz @florentwaltz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Huge congratulations to all three Nobel Laureates, and especially Peter Hegemann! 👏 His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨ Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Should Republicans distance themselves from their top donor, who is fighting a ban on AI-generated nude images in court
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The petty-ass bullshit this administration inflicts on people just trying to live their livea is truly something to behold
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Struggle with sharing data? @bogovicj.bsky.social shows us better options than emailing data #I2KxBINA
John at the podium with a slide titled "Sharing OME-Zarr dats with Fileglancer"
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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When people talk about rape culture this is exactly what they mean: Michaels and Herbstreit minimizing and dismissing the allegations of dozens of women.
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David Gaboriau @dgaboriau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thank you @dalemoulding.bsky.social for posting what it really looks like, with information on acquisition, time stamp, scale bar, and raw and processed images. 🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬🔬
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
America today is a country where regulators won't allow private companies to air interviews of the opposition on TV, but declare that taxpayer funded propaganda is fine.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/10/2026
I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...
Me peering through a little magnifier at a tiny watch mechanism connected to some monitoring equipment, while making adjustments with a small screwdriver
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026
To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026
i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NSF announces a new branding page. "You shared your feedback — we listened!" WTF content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USN... At the end of FY 2026, NSF has made 6218 awards compared to 11,387 average in previous years. Thx @grantwitness.org If you're listening NSF, how about doing your job?
Graph of NSF awards for FY 2021-2026 showing that at the end of FY 2026, NSF has made about half the usual number of awards.
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Johannes Soltwedel @jo-soltwedel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just released the napari-clusters-plotter 0.11.0 github.com/BiAPoL/napar..., a little passion-project of mine for interactive exploration of datasets and attached features in @napari.org Two cool things to take note of 👇
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GitHub - BiAPoL/napari-clusters-plotter: A napari plugin for clustering objects according to their properties.
A napari plugin for clustering objects according to their properties. - BiAPoL/napari-clusters-plotter
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John Bogovic @bogovicj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's @perlman.bsky.social representing the @image.coop at #i2kbina2026!
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Melanie D. White @melaniedwhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I spoke with @nature.com about the Nikon Small World controversy. As AI becomes part of scientific imaging, we need greater transparency about what was measured, inferred or generated. It's not about excluding AI. It’s about preserving trust in scientific evidence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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This award-winning microscopy image used AI — igniting controversy in a prestigious competition
Researchers say that using artificial-intelligence tools to visualize scientific images can become problematic when models misrepresent the underlying data.
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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
While #NikonSmallWorldInMotion has been quiet over #CiliaGate, the story has broken mainstream media here in the UK just in time for #PCDAwarenessMonth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest
Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.
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Heather Brown-Harding @microscopyed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of this morning's talks is @kevin-dean.bsky.social explaining how to do cyclic IF for ExM #I2KxBINA
Kevin at a podium with slide titled "Post-Expansion Cyclic Immunofluorescence"
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Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hi all, prototype of a napari-zenapi-streaming plugin is working using @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social and @napari.org. - stream pixels from ZEN into multi-dim array and display live - stream pixels from ZEN directly into OME-ZARR (see video) For viewing I used: find-nuclei.github.io
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/09/2026
need the Red Sox to lock in and support my large adult son in defeating the evil empire tonight
Payton Tolle smiling and pointing
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Esteban is the best!!!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And once again, real harms imposed on real people must be set aside until after real damage is done in order to privilege the unproven right of Trump to impose those harms
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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Massive thanks to Professor Peter O'Toole, who signs off this week as RMS President after three action-packed years in the role🙏 🙂 In our latest issue of #RMSinfocus, Pete talks about his time in the role, and the progress made across all our RMS activities: ow.ly/7ib150ZSJiT
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All of you know this, but any time some centrist loser starts talking about how a social policy will only benefit the wealthy what they really mean is they don't want anything to benefit anyone.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.
Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.
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Ask Erin / Dear Beth @askerindearbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ep 41! Distance transforms are super handy ways to filter or measure objects in images- but what are they, and how can we make and understand them? Let @erinweisbart.bsky.social and @bethcimini.bsky.social guide you along the way!
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Understanding Distance Transformations and using them in CellProfiler: AskErinDearBeth Episode 41
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nvidia's CEO (net worth ~$200B, annual donations <1%) admitted he doesn't know his own zip code, much less his address, and that he doesn't care if kids can do basic math. No "safety" product by such a company should ever be trusted. This message brought to you by #BringBackShame
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

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[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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Marie Held @makaefer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Want to enhance your image analysis skills with napari? We’re running a two-day training event on how to use napari to effectively analyse your bioimaging data. 🕒 Applications close on 15 September. Learn more and apply 👇 www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbi...
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
really sad to see colleges are still protecting rapists. kudos to the students exposing Cornell's institutional betrayal.
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
it’s bad, actually, that much of the industry is gatekept by people whose standard for hiring a woman is “are you a Cool Girl who is into weird men doing sex stuff at her all the time?”
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
related to this: Apple is introducing what amounts to an acquisition-coupled watermark, as a means of proving provenance and authenticity microscopy acquisition and processing software packages must do the same thing — create an explicit chain of watermarks to vouch for the image you see
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
“Much of STEM has [a lot] in common with the humanities and social sciences.” This. I’d say scientific discovery has *everything* in common with scholarship in other fields. It’s why the Trump/Vought/ view that we can kill academia and still have science research is so totally wrong.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
Why is the U.S. public so much more negative on AI than almost anyone else? Well, I think the fact that the U.S. AI industry is being lead by a bunch of very visible, crazy weirdos who talk about how AI will take everyone’s job and maybe kill us all the time is a pretty key factor.
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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To add to all the lovely videos of non-AI processes multicilia beating: ctenophore multiciliated cells! They can reach up to 1mm long, causing a rainbow light refraction effect with the correct light positioning! Taken by myself at MBL in 2019 embryology. Realtime frame-rate!
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