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Kota Miura

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bioimage analysis, NEUBIAS, GloBIAS www.globias.org

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Pablo J. Sáez @pjsaez.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We kicked off today the 1st session of the Focal Plane #CellMigration webinars Brilliant talks by @juanmagararc.bsky.social , @kyohalie.bsky.social & @djcohen.bsky.social Tks to Helen @focalplane.bsky.social for organization & support. Looking FWD to the next one @valeriaventurini.bsky.social !
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The paper is now published in Current Protocols!! 🎉🥳 currentprotocols.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... Some personal story below 👇 , and technical details in the linked post that featured the preprint 👉
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Automated Optimization of Bacterial Tracking Pipelines With TrackMate 8
Quantitative analysis of bacterial dynamics in time-lapse microscopy requires robust tracking pipelines, yet selecting and optimizing algorithms for specific experiments remains challenging. Indeed, ...
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A great paper from Stefania Marcotti et al Practical statistics for bioimage analysis – a guide to experimental design and data interpretation | JCS journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/... #GloBIAS #BioimageAnalysis
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Practical statistics for bioimage analysis – a guide to experimental design and data interpretation
Summary: You've analysed some images, but is the result significant? Is it reproducible? Through reanalysis of published image data, this Perspective offers practical guidance on experimental design a...
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano reporting the Hackthon@GloBIAS conference Kobe 2025: focalplane.biologists.com/2026/04/01/h...
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Hacking with GloBIAS by Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano - FocalPlane
Hacking with GloBIAS by Miguel A. Ibarra Arellano - GloBIAS - updates from the community
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Interesting discussion here: analyst-analyst variability of analysis results. forum.image.sc/t/does-imari...
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Does Imaris/Arivis/Aivia reduce inter-analyst variability vs ImageJ/Python/Cellprofiler?
Hi @bcimini I wouldn’t fully rely on these numbers yet, as I still need to clarify a few details with the original authors and make sure there isn’t something I’m overlooking. So far I haven’t been a...
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Anthropic {bot} @anthropicai.xmirror.bot · 23/03/2026
Introducing the Anthropic Science Blog. Increasing the pace of scientific progress is a core part of Anthropic’s mission. The Science Blog will feature new research and stories of how scientists are using AI to accelerate their work. Read the intro:
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Introducing our Science Blog
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium @cbias.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
📣We’re back 🔬👀🖥️! #CBIAS2026 returns 23–24 November 2026: Join the bioimage analysis community to discuss advances in quantitative imaging & computational methods for image analysis. Great opportunity for early-career analysts & microscopists to present and connect. #CBIAS2026 #BioimageAnalysis
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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2026
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
One week left to register to the Bioimage Analysis with AI course in Pasteur! This June, 1 - 5. I give a bit more details in the thread below 👇
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Eugene Katrukha 🇺🇦 @ekatrukha.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In the #BigVolumeBrowser news, there is a new awesome video tutorial about it made by certified magician Johanna M. Dela Cruz. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0fr... (1/2)
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Interactive 3D Visualization of Multiple Volumes & Shapes in FIJI (BigVolumeBrowser)
YouTube video by Johanna M. Dela Cruz
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Talley Lambert @talley.codes · 16/02/2026
Rewrote my Python bioformats wrapper (from aicsimageio/bioio) as a standalone package: - fully bootstrapped Java setup (just pip install) - lazy, repeatably-indexable Array object - fully spec-compliant OME-Zarr group obj. - xarray/dask exports github.com/imaging-form... v0.0.rc1 on PyPI
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GitHub - imaging-formats/bffile: Modern Bio-Formats wrapper with clean lazy Python API
Modern Bio-Formats wrapper with clean lazy Python API - imaging-formats/bffile
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Thorsten Wagner @thorstenwagner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In September 2024, I was diagnosed with ALS. Today, I can no longer speak, I am confined to a wheelchair, and I can no longer move my arms. It's really shitty. I will write here soon about how I am coping with this and how I am trying to stay cheerful. #ALS
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Warning: another round of fake Kota sending emails to you! Be careful, if the mail address contains "president", it's not from me.
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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🚀📰 End-of-year news for #RxivMaker =). Now it generates both #pdf and #docx from #markdown. Docx makes it easier to collaborate on a document for non-markdown users, making it simple to loop between docx and #RxivMaker to a professional-looking #preprint Preprint updated: arxiv.org/abs/2508.00836
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
To help you select the right assay for a given application, we critically assessed and compared in vitro/in vivo assays to measure cell migration. Read and use our paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Contact me if you need a PDF of the paper.
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Selecting the optimal cell migration assay: fundamentals and practical guidelines - Nature Methods
This Review introduces ten cell migration assays, offers practical guidance toward selecting the best assay for a specific biological question and describes how future advances can reveal important in...
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I came across a new textbook on light microscopy authored by Jeremy Sanderson; it looks like the essence has been extracted from "Understanding Light Microscopy"? academic.oup.com/book/61662
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Essentials of Light Microscopy
Abstract. Essentials of Light Microscopy gives anyone new to microscopy sufficient information to understand how a light microscope works and how to set it
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Guillaume Jacquemet @guijacquemet.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Also, the PDF or our preprint was created with Rχiv-Maker @henriqueslab.bsky.social rxiv-maker.henriqueslab.org Paper: arxiv.org/html/2508.00...
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EMBL @embl.org · 27/11/2025
Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General. He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999. www.embl.org/news/people-...
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Juanma García-Arcos @juanmagararc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
New paper from the @rouxlab.bsky.social on Nature Communications! We study how membrane tension is spatially organized in cells. Using the mechanosensitive probe Flipper-TR to visualize tension across the plasma membrane of adherent cells and to dissect the conditions needed for a gradient to happen
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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
BIOIMAGE ANALYSTS ASSEMBLE!!! #CBIAS2025
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GloBIAS @globias.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Looks like someone is misusing GloBIAS and its president name to approach people for money transfers. Please note - GloBIAS will always send proper payment requests and has no need for members and volunteers to transfer money on their behalf.
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Elnaz @mycroscopy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Opening of the networking dinner by traditional sake opening ceremony #GloBIAS2025 #BioimageAnalysis @kbias.bsky.social @globias.bsky.social
Four men opening sake barrel in a ceremonial way
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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 12/09/2025
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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CBIAS napari workshop 2025
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BoneJ @bonej.org · 12/09/2025
🔥🔥🔥 Upcoming plugin for BoneJ+, Anisotropy+ running on Intel, NVIDIA and AMD GPUs at the same time! This one uses fields of line probes to determine the fabric tensor and calculate the degree of anisotropy, a measure of underlying texture orientation and scale. Looking good for release next week 🤞
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Ryan Savill @cryaaa.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
(1/14) I’m happy and proud to introduce: SpinePy – a framework to detect the "spine" of gastruloids and measure biological and physical signals in a local dynamic 3D coordinate system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Daniel Krentzel @danielkrentzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Super happy to see CLEM-Reg out in @natmethods.nature.com! A short thread on the algorithm behind it and how to try it out for yourself🧵(1/9) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CLEM-Reg: an automated point cloud-based registration algorithm for volume correlative light and electron microscopy - Nature Methods
CLEM-Reg automates the three-dimensional alignment of volume correlative light and electron microscopy datasets by leveraging probabilistic point cloud registration techniques for fast and accurate re...
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NFDI4BIOIMAGE @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
✍ If you're having difficulty writing #BioimageAnalysis code that enables others to follow your workflow, have a look at @haesleinhuepf.bsky.socials slides on „Reproducible Bio-Image Analysis using Python, Napari, Jupyter and AI“ from the #EMBOlsm25. To the slides: 👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Save the date! The @pasteur.fr Pasteur course on image analysis is announced: It will happen from the 1st of June to the 5th 2026. This year there will be only one track: the Early Career Investigator track (beginners). 👇
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
GloBIAS conference Kobe 2025, the registration for the symposium is still open, until Sept 15th! bit.ly/GloBIAS2025-...
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Bioimage Analysis Conference 2025 in Kobe
GloBIAS Bioimage Analysis Conference 2025 Oct 26, 2025 - Oct 31, 2025 | Kobe, Japan Venue: RIKEN BDR, Kobe, Japan Registration via Google Forms here: https://tinyurl.com/3dtajhh6 General informatio...
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
we have been working on this for some years and finally out!
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Nicolas Chiaruttini @nkiaru.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Some rough edges, but it works! #Fiji MCP server (+ Claude desktop) can do things in Fiji (get some info about the current state of the app, execute groovy scripts...).
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Simon F. Nørrelykke @simonfn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
First day of #bobiac2025. Six days of intensive Python based #BioImageAnalysis. Intro by @fedegasparoli.bsky.social - "This will be a long week, but it will change your life". iac.hms.harvard.edu/bobiac/2025/
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Saul Kato @focolab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We built StarDist to detect cells in volumetric microscopy and jointly infer closed curved parametric surfaces for each cell. It's an example of an interpretable machine learning approach. More detail in the blog post and preprint. www.focolab.org/post/surfdis...
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"SurfDist" pre-print posted
We developed an "interpretable machine learning" system to find and characterize blobs in volumetric images, such as microscopy images of cells, something we need to do all the time in our lab. The no...
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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Are you developing with TrackMate? If yes let's get in touch: I plan to make API breaking changes in the future version (v8, soonish) that will break existing detector and segmentation algorithms integration. Details on the forum: forum.image.sc/t/upcoming-b...
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Upcoming breaking changes in TrackMate v8
Hello TrackMate developers, This post is only important if you are developing TrackMate extensions yourself, in particular TrackMate spot detectors and segmentation modules. If not you can skip it en...
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Serdar Balci @serdarbalci.com · 13/07/2025
Using #QuPath with HISTAI SPIDER Colorectal Module Repository github.com/sbalci/spide... Video www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tLO... #pathsky #digitalpathology #pathology #pathologist
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GitHub - sbalci/spider-qupath
Contribute to sbalci/spider-qupath development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Fabrizio Musacchio @fabmusacchio.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
✍️ New in #eLife: #CellSeg3D introduces #WNet3D, a self-supervised 3D #segmentation method for #microscopy data — no labels needed. Claims to outperform #Cellpose/#StarDist on 4 datasets. Includes #opensource plugin (#Napari) + full 3D annotated #cortex dataset. Will test it later. @napari.org
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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
@kbias.bsky.social, @pmsampaio.bsky.social, @tischi.bsky.social, Rocco D'Antuono, ‪and @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social ‬ did a great job of pulling the data together, to describe who we are, where we want to get, and how we get there together. Check out the preprint and join us today! (5/5)
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GloBIAS: strengthening the foundations of BioImage Analysis
There is a global need for BioImage Analysis (BIA) as advances in life sciences increasingly rely on cutting-edge imaging systems that have dramatically expanded the complexity and dimensionality of b...
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CCI Uni of Liverpool @cci-liv.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
‪It has been lovely to meet Kota @kbias.bsky.social after all these years! #imageanalysis @eurobioimaging.bsky.social
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Journal of Cell Science @jcellsci.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The application deadline for our next round of 🔬Training Grants is this Friday 6 June. www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-f...
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JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants
About JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants are aimed at early-career researchers, working in an area covered by JCS, who would like to attend a microscopy training course. The...
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the Node @the-node.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
When it comes to creating plots of your data, are you team 'web apps' or 'vibe coding' with genAI-based tools? 📊 In this post, Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social‬ discusses the potentials and pitfalls of both approaches in data visualization:
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Visualizing with Vibes: Potential and Pitfalls - the Node
Anyone—regardless of coding skills—should be able to generate a publication-quality plot of their data in minutes. That was the main motivation to develop
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Joachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I do agree. Well done!
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FocalPlane @focalplane.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Imaging 4 All - @globalbioimaging.bsky.social have launched their 2nd call for applications. Researchers from low- and middle-income countries can apply to receive support to visit imaging facilities & attend training courses. Deadline: 15 August 2025 focalplane.biologists.com/2025/05/20/i...
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Imaging 4 All: Funding for Access to Imaging Technologies
Apply to Imaging 4 All (i4A) for fully funded access to bioimaging facilities, laboratories with imaging equipment and imaging-related training worldwide. Open to researchers and imaging scientists ba...
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The #quarep-limi wg12 image & analysis publication workshop @ #ELMI2025 quite successful!
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Image data & analysis publication check list team ( #quarep-limi wg12) getting ready for the workshop this afternoon #ELMI2025
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 04/06/2025
Day 2 at #ELMI2025: participants and excibitors enjoying good coffee and conversations ☕🤝
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Gabriel Krens @gkrens.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
#elmi2025 working toward joining forces of builders and creators to share *community tools* @eulimi.bsky.social @bioimagingna.bsky.social -> submit your tool (elmi.embl.org/tools/)
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
#ELMI2025 500 participations
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napari @napari.org · 03/06/2025
Reminder: the @globias.bsky.social 2025 symposium is happening Oct 26-31 in Kobe, Japan, and, on top of many other cool bioimage analysis events, several members of the napari core team will be leading a napari hackathon. 🧑‍💻👩‍💻👨‍💻 Registration deadline is Jun 15! www.globias.org/activities/b...
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Bioimage Analysis Conference 2025 in Kobe
GloBIAS Bioimage Analysis Conference 2025 Oct 26, 2025 - Oct 31, 2025 | Kobe, Japan Venue: RIKEN BDR, Kobe, Japan Registration via Google Forms here: https://tinyurl.com/3dtajhh6 General informatio...
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Anna Klemm @ahklemm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
So much looking forward to this! 🤩 We're thrilled to be running a new instance of our "Advanced Methods in Bioimage Analysis" course. It's going to be a blast! Apply by June 4th.
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Kota Miura @kbias.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I posted an announcement about the GloBIAS2025 Kobe to the forum.image.sc. Added some more details, a lighter version of the conference website. #GloBIAS forum.image.sc/t/globias-co...
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GloBIAS Conference 2025 Kobe, registration extended!
We would like to draw your attention to the GloBIAS Bioimage Analysis Conference 2025, from Oct 26, 2025, to Oct 31, 2025, in Kobe, Japan, at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe Ca...
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