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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Made myself a pour-over coffee this morning to take to work. Put it in the thermos my son often uses for his school lunches. Now I'm a fan of interesting coffee but I don't think the "notes of butter chicken" was entierly the intention of the roaster.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ok so this is ongoing huh? I can't help but think we should have seen some greyscale raw data by now....

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Heading back to the real world today, and back at work tomorrow. I apologise in advance to anyone who needs my full attention, my brain will be here for a day or two more.

Blue skies, green trees, blue pool. In that order.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gotta watch out for crocs up here.

A sign warning to beware it crocodiles at palm cove beach. Behind the sign is a pair of crocs (the shoes). It's a hilarious joke, regardless of what my wife and children may think.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sure I could ask AI to indentify this bird, but my kids have decided it's called the "cheese face bird" and who am I to disagree?

Photo of the cheese face bird. It looks like it has cheese melted over its beak (kind of)

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's a little damp and cooler than previous years, but still - it's a great place to wake up.

My morning coffee on a balcony in tropical North Queensland

View from my window. Very green and tropical, if a little wet this morning

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The AI bros would like us to believe that much of what we spend our time on is busywork/drudgery/tedium and we would be so much better off if that could be delegated. >>

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Week 1 of going (back) to the driving range: "Oh I vaguely remember this" Week 2: "Oh it's starting to come back" Week 3: "Hey, I'm getting pretty good" Week 4: "Which end of golf stick for holding and which end for hitting?"

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why is it always on the days where I have so much stuff to do that the network goes down? This will make next week significantly more stressful than I would like before I go on holiday.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Had a sleep study done. I think it's a serious fulfilling prophecy. "Wow, you sleep terribly*" *When you're connected to the wall by a hundred wires connected to your face.

Photo of terrible cable management going into a detector. The unshown other end of the cables are on my face.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Had a seminar from a scientific recruiter yesterday. Really interesting to see how the world outside academia functions and the ways in and out of it. I'm not sure I'm down with posting daily on linkedIn though.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I like that my local driving range has ball tracking, I particularly enjoy the "ego boost" button (or "convert" as they call it which translates to "yes you hit 170, but if you were using quality golf balls it would have flown over 200!" still all over the shop though)

Screenshot of my range practice. Or random dots thrown overlayed on a fairway. It's hard to tell which.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've decided to start posting here again. But I will try and keep it light in response to *gestures vaguely at everything* Was cool to have the NFL in Melbourne. I wish I could have gone (if the Seahawks ever make it down here I will sell a kidney to go)

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Reading a paper that involves a 2048-dimensional latent space. How do you even start to think about these? It's actually quite simple, just think about an N dimensional space, and set N to 2048.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Proud to present the publication of napari-lattice – our solution to the immense computational requirements of Lattice Light Sheet and Oblique Plane Microscopy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Before I get into the thread, the important part is on github: github.com/BioimageAnal... (1/n)

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napari‐lattice: A user‐friendly image processing tool for lattice light‐sheet microscopy data

Lattice light-sheet microscopy (LLSM) enables researchers to capture high-speed 3D videos of living cells with high definition and minimal damage. However, this technology generates terabytes of data....

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bought a new grinder and it changed my morning workflow. I wish there was a way to make coffee after having coffee.

Coffee grounds that have missed the container designed to catch them, because the container was not in place.

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Australian BioImage Analysts' Society @ausbias.org · 03/08/2026

In a talk out of left field for us, this Month's AusBIAS meeting was @pradeepr.bsky.social taking us back to Ancient Rome to investigate whether image anlaysis can help read scrolls that haven't been read for nearly two thousand years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPtS...

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AusBIAS July 2026 - Pradeep Rajasekhar

YouTube video by AusBIAS

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I can't believe I haven't even made a move and @niallgeoghegan.bsky.social is already a piece and a half up! I think he's in cahoots with my pets. The cat knocks them down and the dog finishes them off.

A chess set with wooden pieces. The rook is missing and the knight has been obviously chewed but a troublesome poodle.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And I think today, Wordle has jumped the shark.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Can't believe someone has beaten me to register drlachie.com

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Life is weird. One day you're excited about getting a new gaming console, then at some point you're excited about getting a new condensor clothes dryer. Wait. Those are both the same day.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Every so often I discover a tool that completely changes a lot of my future analysis tasks for the better. Today's is nnInteractive. Absolutely game-changing for my microCT anlaysis.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Can anyone talk me out of upgrading to a Nintendo Switch 2?

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's amazing what you can learn about strangers when they have a similar name and occasionally mis-spell their email as mine on online forms. I'm glad their golden retriever is vaccinated and hope that they enjoy their holiday Africa

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

You know maintaining inbox zero would be a lot easier if people stopped emailing me.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A toast to open-source software. Makes me smile every time I open this menu (which is a lot)

Two item menus.
Color Picker (American spelling)
followed directly under with
Colour Deconvolution (British spelling)

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Looking through an old hard-drive and found a file called: "oil_immersion_lens.mp4" - a previously unseen #microscopistsNightmares?

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Trying to make a montage image of all the food photos I took in Japan.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Seems like something a suspicious shop would say...

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

18 hours, two flights, one train and a decent walk later and I've made it to Osaka. Wife and kids are exhausted (as am I) but excited for exploring tomorrow!

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apparently the new meta in the online coffee community is to use steamed water for making long blacks (or Americanos are the same thing I guess?) Everyone seems kind of mad that it makes a difference, I feel like I need to try it.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Produced a couple of web-app dashboards (with the help of claude) last week. Decided to try and work out hosting and everything is up and running on what I HOPE is the free-tier of one of the cloud providers. I guess I'll find out at the end of the month.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Took my kids to a footy game. Eldest read The Hobbit, youngest was screaming and complaining about the umpire with the best of them (despite barely knowing the rules). I think next time it will cost half as much 😂 Glad for the Melbourne win though, closer than I would have liked.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I know the NHMRC has bigger things to worry about, but if we could get rid of this errant pixel in the sapphire portal's favicon I'd greatful. For those of you who hadn't noticed it before now: I'm sorry that you'll now not be able to ignore it.

Sapphire grant application system Favicon. There's a single bright pixel that shouldn't be there in the bottom right corner.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've tried to brush it off my monitor.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

When we're at a loss of things to do we often head out to Melbourne airport to go plane spotting. Got lucky today with a 747 and an a380 within half an hour of each other.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I'm a big fan of the ome ngff zarr thing - but damn does it take a long time to delete them.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Can someone please make the maths of this sentence make sense? "A Sydney-to-London ticket now averages more than $1,500, 429 per cent higher or roughly double last year’s price."

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napari @napari.org · 24/03/2026

napari 0.7.0 is available now! 🚀🎉 It's a BIG release so read the full release notes, with highlights: napari.org/stable/relea... We want to thank everyone who has worked incredibly hard on this release including our 11 new brilliant contributors 🤩 and the community for their support and feedback!

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napari 0.7.0

Mon, Mar 23, 2026 We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.7.0! napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It’s designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing…

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I do a lot of HPC processing, but every time I move a workflow from "normal" to HPC/parallelised it takes me some time. Today that equation worked out, <1hr of dev end debug and a workflow as gone from 12 hours to 10 minutes. I should be able to bank those savings to use on other projects.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Melbourne herb and chilli fest is on again! Heading out to the Yarra Valley tomorrow for it, and it's not going to belt with rain like last year.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I've caught several mice in my house this today. I would like to nominate Abby for the "Most useless" award.

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Australian BioImage Analysts' Society @ausbias.org · 11/03/2026

You asked (well a couple of you) and I listened! AusBIAS monthly meeting presentations will now be available on YouTube! (with speaker permission) First up is last month's presentation by Cam Nowell taking us on a whirlwind tour of projects that come across his desk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaRu...

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AusBIAS FEB2026 Cameron Nowell

YouTube video by AusBIAS

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Bought an IKEA sit/stand desk for my home office to help look after my lower back. You know what doesn't look after my lower back? Assembling an IKEA sit/stand desk.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

So I now require glasses for reading, but not distance (or computer screen). This has probably cut down my multi-screen use and increased my attention span for movies/TV. However given I can't stand fingerpints on my monitors, I think I'm going to become a compulsive glasses polisher.

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DrLachie @drlachie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Have spent a day and a half on something that will save me around 2 hours every month. Worth it. xkcd.com/1205/

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