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Florian Jug

@florianjug.bsky.social
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Computer scientist on a life-science mission. Working on pushing bioimage analysis, computer vision, AI/ML methods for the life sciences. Love running and pottery.

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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What in the world am I looking at here? @Nikon? www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...
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Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) | 2026 Small World in Motion Competition
Ning Xu - Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD), a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function.
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here we are, #BIC 2026 at @eccv.bsky.social is kicking off! Is this really the 11th time we’re doing this! 🥜 See full program here: bioimagecomputing.com
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fspasqualini.bsky.social @fspasqualini.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Most of all, thank you to every co-author and collaborator: @Moises Di Sante and the rest of the team @unipv.bsky.social (including our new rector, Alessandro Reali!), @berterolab.bsky.social 's team Università degli Studi di Torino e @florianjug.bsky.social's team Human Technopole
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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
💬 “Knowing one’s limitations is not a weakness; it is what makes a tool usable.” 🤖 Our @florianjug.bsky.social on uncertainty-aware #AI, explainability and the future of biomedical research. Read the interview 👉 en.ilsole24ore.com/art/to-carry...
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‘To carry out research, you need artificial intelligence that can say “I don’t know”’
For the head of Human Technopole’s new strategic AI division in medicine, making a confident mistake is worse than not answering at all. The aim is to develop models capable of measuring uncertainty
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fspasqualini.bsky.social @fspasqualini.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
And it's finally out!!! www.nature.com/articles/s41... go.nature.com/4fuaJzW Congrats to first author @moisesdisante and the research teams in my Synthetic Physiology Lab @unipv.bsky.social @berterolab.bsky.social and @florianjug.bsky.social .
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CALIPERS: Cell cycle-aware live imaging for phenotyping experiments and regeneration studies - Nature Communications
Di Sante and colleagues present CALIPERS, a framework that makes cell-cycle state a measurable variable in live-cell imaging, pairing a redesigned reporter with automated inference across human cells,...
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Anna Foix @afoix.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🚨🚨🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION ALERT! 🚨🚨🚨 Great news 🧬💻 The submission deadline for the BioImage Computing (BIC) Workshop at @eccv.bsky.social is now July 20, 2026! We can't wait to see your latest research! 🔬👩‍💻👨‍💻 🚪 Submit: openreview.net/group?id=the... 🌐 Info: www.bioimagecomputing.com
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Anna Foix @afoix.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
BIC @eccv.bsky.social 2026 is OPEN! Show us your new CV, AI & Bio work🦠🔬 🚪: openreview.net/group?id=the... Thanks organisers for making it possible @alex-krull.bsky.social Peter Bajcsy @janfunkey.bsky.social @florianjug.bsky.social Qingjie Meng @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social @maweigert.bsky.social ✨
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ECCV 2026 Workshop BIC
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for ECCV 2026 Workshop BIC
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hey @ritastrack.bsky.social! We’re in Finland at a great meeting and for reasons started talking Rita. Long story short: we’re missing you! Thanks for doing a great job for so many years for our community!!!
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Estibaliz Gómez de Mariscal, PhD @gomez-mariscal.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Second and very special day at @sigridneuhauser.bsky.social #AI symposium sharing the stage with very close references @florianjug.bsky.social @henriqueslab.bsky.social @ilastik-team.bsky.social 🤩❤️
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
And so it begins! Day 1, Lecture 0 of the first DL for Microscopy Image Analysis course at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social. Slides from @florianjug.bsky.social, presented by our TA Federico Carrara. #dljanelia
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Wow, look at this beautiful mind! 🤩 @gaiapigino.bsky.social www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2...
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Gaia Pigino, l’ex schermitrice che svela i segreti delle ciglia delle cellule
Agonista e poi maestra di scherma, la scienziata dalle origini senesi guida il centro di biologia cellulare molecolare allo Human Technopole di Milano. La sua …
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Am I famous now?!? 😉 Jokes aside… I am stoked to start this new research direction with some of the most amazing scientists I know! What a team we already are… and… it will only get better from here!!! ❤️
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We're at the first in-person meeting of the Virtual Evolving Cancer Cell Consortium (VECC) at Fontanafredda, in the Langhe.
VECC Consortium Meeting · 19–21 May 2026 · Fontanafredda, Langhe Region — official meeting banner over a vineyard landscape
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
📰 News item on #MicroSplit: 🔬https://humantechnopole.it/en/news/when-less-is-more-optimising-fluorescence-microscopy-with-micro𝕊plit/ Thanks a lot @humantechnopole.bsky.social, it was such a fun co-writing experience! 🙏
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When less is more: optimising fluorescence microscopy with Micro𝕊plit - Human Technopole
Researchers at Human Technopole have developed a novel machine learning-based method that transforms composite fluorescence microscopy images with overlapping signals into separate images revealing in...
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🚨 Job Alert 🚨 In the Scientific AI Flagship @humantechnopole.bsky.social, with Philipp @3p1l.bsky.social Erdmann we are looking for: shorturl.at/Biavu "...experience in ML and CV... reliable software systems that interact with [the] real-world..." Look at the position and apply! Repost please! 🙏
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Postdoc Erdmann Lab - Flagship Research Program Scientific AI
Postdoc Erdmann Lab - Flagship Research Program Scientific AI
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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🔬 What if one fluorescence image could reveal several cellular structures at once? 🤖 Our @florianjug.bsky.social Group developed Micro𝕊plit, an #AI tool published in @natmethods.nature.com that helps split overlapping microscopy signals. Read more 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/news/when...
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When less is more: optimising fluorescence microscopy with Micro𝕊plit - Human Technopole
Researchers at Human Technopole have developed a novel machine learning-based method that transforms composite fluorescence microscopy images with overlapping signals into separate images revealing in...
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DZ Gong @dzgong.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
🎉🎉🎉
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I’m in the 10th year of leading a lab. 🧪 It is such a fun & rewarding job! ❤️ And, it is hard and brutal too! The responsibility, the people, the pressure and occasional disappointment. But at the end of the day, the joy & results outweighs it all! Why do I write this down here you’re asking? 1/2
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The Cimini lab is hiring for both postdocs and interns! The postdoc role will cover bioimage analysis projects and educational material creation; the intern will be working on our Bilayers project for helping distribute and access deep learning tools for bioimage analysis. Click below to learn more!
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Postdoctoral Associate and Data Science Intern roles - Broad Institute, Cambridge MA USA
The Broad Institute Imaging Platform (the team behind CellProfiler, Piximi, and Bilayers) is currently hiring for postdoctoral and intern roles! Postdoc role: we are looking for 1-2 candidates who ha...
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It is finally out there in published form. 🎉 #MicroSplit (with an 𝕊) #Microscopy 🔬 #AI 🤖 www.nature.com/articles/s41... And no paywall... so... enjoy the read! 💸 👋 This is where the post could end... but I will have to go on for a bit below... 😉 🧵
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🤩 Now... THIS is a nice video about what @humantechnopole.bsky.social stands for! youtu.be/okWehgenNMM I feel well represented! 🤩 If you like what you see... why don't you check our open positions and join us?! Or... repost/send to people who might want to work with us?! 🙏 👍
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Human Technopole: Connecting Science Across Scales
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨 Amazing opportunity to start in the lab of Wolfram, who works on modeling cellular properties in close collaboration with experimentalists. Apply now! Join us @humantechnopole.bsky.social in beautiful 🇮🇹!
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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
💡 What does it take to build a research institute that truly serves human health and sets a new standard for how science is done? Read more here: humantechnopole.it/en/news/huma...
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Human Technopole scales up Italian science for Europe’s health future - Human Technopole
“Shaping the future of human health, together”: Human Technopole’s new claim was the central theme of the event held this morning at the Senate of the Republic. The conference “Human Technopole Founda...
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QI@CSHL @qiatcshl.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We tried other brands but nothing works quite like a Guinness for our light sheet microscope. Future collab?
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QI@CSHL @qiatcshl.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We are getting serious about analysis. Today Hunter Elliott and @florianjug.bsky.social introduce machine learning and AI. It’s not magic, it’s computers.
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Look mum, I made it!!! 🎉 😉 @ellis.eu @humantechnopole.bsky.social
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Human Technopole brings together the expertise, infrastructure, and compute needed to develop AI across biological scales and data modalities. Below a 🧵 that explains what we have in mind. We are just getting started and are keen to hear from people who want to help shape our vision!
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We've spent the last year building something at @humantechnopole.bsky.social that we think is genuinely needed: #AI that works across biological scales and data modalities, not just within them. A thread on what we're doing, why, and who we're looking for. A 🧵... 1/9
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🚨Job Alert -- again!🚨 You are into disease risk prediction based on images or other data modalities? This is for you! 🫵 careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc-... Part of our Scientific AI Flagship @humantechnopole.bsky.social and part of our mission to benefit society via biomedical #AI solutions.
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Postdoc on Multimodal AI for Disease Risk Prediction
Postdoc on Multimodal AI for Disease Risk Prediction
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Damian Dalle Nogare @damiandn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Come and work with us at @humantechnopole.bsky.social on cutting edge AI methods to advance human health! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🚨 We are hiring! Personally, I think this is a fantastic job, good salary, and fun work place with exceptional colleagues. ⚠️ Warning, I’m quite biased… but still right! 😜 Join us! Apply!!! 🎉 careers.humantechnopole.it/job/AI-Exper...
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It's out! Happy to present ITEC, a semi supervised algorithm with an extremely low error rate that can track cells in files of any size (think Terabytes!). We used it in many organisms, including zebrafish, to study how organs form and linked it to gene expression www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... +🧪
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Martin Weigert @maweigert.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Excited to share our new paper (CVPR 2026 🚀): "MuViT: Multi-Resolution Vision Transformers for Learning Across Scales in Microscopy" which enables local predictions to use global context. Great work led by @albertdm.bsky.social & another fun collab w @gioelelamanno.bsky.social! @scadsai.bsky.social
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Does anyone ever get used seeing and hearing themselves? Other than the emotional self-cringe, the video is done super well! Thanks MIND! 👍
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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🧬 How do you see biology one molecule at a time? 🎙️ Watch the interview with Ralf Jungmann, guest of our “HT Seminars: Connecting Discoveries” series, on #DNA-PAINT and single-molecule spatial biology. youtu.be/nM7DZ-txXXA
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#MeetTheSpeaker - Seeing Molecules with DNA Paint | Ralf Jungmann
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
😔 Paper rejected from MIDL with 5 (strong accept), a 2 (weak reject, that was initially a 3, borderline), and a no show third reviewer (initially a 4, weak accept). Zero answer from the AC despite us writing to them about R2 being a reviewer two… 🤷‍♂️ How is your Saturday?!? 😉
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Gaia Pigino @gaiapigino.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Proud and excited to share our work with the community! Helen @helenfoster.bsky.social Foster et al. study how #cilia axonemes are built. 👀 Don't miss the gorgeous and insightful movies by @margotriggi.bsky.social, they really show our discoveries in full action! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Excellent talk by Matteo Hessel from Google DeepMind at @humantechnopole.bsky.social earlier today! Thanks for dropping by and infecting us with the Meta-RL bug!
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Jennifer Waters @jencwaters.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
QI Class of 2025! Centroid = @sciencedoodles.bsky.social & @florianjug.bsky.social / first minima = @talley.codes & me. Applications for 2026 due on Friday! meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...
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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🧠 #AI works best when it’s shared! The @ai4life.bsky.social project, co-led by our @florianjug.bsky.social, and Anna Kreshuk @embl.org, received the highest possible score in the @ec.europa.eu’s final review. 🔬 With open, ready-to-use resources! humantechnopole.it/en/news/ai4l...
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AI4Life: A European Success for Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences - Human Technopole
The AI4Life project, co-led by Florian Jug (Computational Biology Research Centre at Human Technopole) and Anna Kreshuk (EMBL), received the highest possible score in the European Commission’s final r...
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨 Only a few days left to apply for maybe the best microscopy course there is!!! 🚨 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🧬 Join the next talk with Ralf Jungmann (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) on #DNA nanotechnology and #spatialomics. Register by 11 February 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/training/... #HTseminars @florianjug.bsky.social
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
🚨 Alarm!!! 🚨 AI/ML course for microscopy image analysis!!! 🧐 In 2026 at Janelia (@hhmijanelia.bsky.social), no tuition, housing and meals provided! Isn’t that borderline unbelievable?!? 20 students, ~14 TAs and lecturers 🗓️ June 4-18 2026 ✍️ Jan 15 2026 ✍️ 🔁 pls!! www.janelia.org/you-janelia/...
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Deep Learning for Microscopy Image Analysis
Topics The following will be covered extensively during lectures, exercises, and project work: Image denoising and restoration (fully supervised and self-supervised) Image translation (e.g.,
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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
As we wrap up the year, we’re reflecting on what AI4Life delivered and what continues beyond the project. AI4Life concluded in August 2025, but its outcomes remain central to FAIR, accessible AI-powered bioimage analysis. Here’s where to start: www.eurobioimaging.eu/news/ai4life...
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Now… that sounds like an event NOT to miss!!! 🤩 (…notes down pre-registration reminder for mid-January… 📝)
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Look who arrived!!! 🎉
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Funding a research institute of some hundred people for 10 years? 1.5 Billion. Funding continued defense of a small country in a war for 2 or so years? 90 Billion. Elon Musk’s personal wealth? Estimated 750 Billion. We are fine! Please move on, there is nothing to see here… 🙏
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Jan Funke @janfunkey.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🎉 In January, I will join the new "Multimodal AI Across Scales" research area at the @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan 🎉 More soon, but for now: my lab and the new area will have postdoc, RSE, and PhD positions available. Feel free to reach out if interested! humantechnopole.it/en/research/
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Research - Human Technopole
Human Technopole’s research is based on a mix of fundamental and translational research. We will host extensive core expertise in basic research in areas relevant for the understanding of human biolog...
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EMBL @embl.org · 18/12/2025
The first phase of AI4Life ended in August 2025, so we caught up with Kreshuk and Jug to learn more about the project, its use, and what they hope its impact will be. 🔗 www.embl.org/news/lab-mat... 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLU6... @florianjug.bsky.social @humantechnopole.bsky.social
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Anna Kreshuk and Florian Jug discuss AI4Life and the BioImage Model Zoo
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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Just a regular morning in our madhouse… 😜
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