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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was never a person to look at "numbers going up", but I admit it feels good to see my (and our team's) increase in usage of our institute GitLab instance for project and infrastructure.

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Day 4 open software week #OSW by @neuroinformatics.dev, Hackday! It was really a cool experience to see people from different backgrounds coming together and try things, learn with each other and contributing to open source resources Thanks a lot to the instructors for guiding and supporting us!

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Day 4 of the open software week #OSW, all about big jmaging data and @zarr.dev @openmicroscopy.org One of my favorite days so far, lots of discussions with mang experts in the field from very different backgrounds. I understood Zarr much better and we got to write blog posts on selected topics!

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Day 1 of Open Software Week #OSW organized by @neuroinformatics.dev! Really impressed with everything I've seen so far. Great lecture material, great team synergies and great organization. Wanna peak at the material? Take a look here: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar... Looking forward to Day 2!

Entrance door to the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I'm headed to London where in the next two weeks I'll learn from the amazing people at @neuroinformatics.dev! I'm super excited for the open software week #OSW to learn all about large image data handling, @brainglobe.info and much more!

Image of the airport gate display showing London destination

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

And here's the full labeling by one of our users for the full training patch. Some errors to still correct, but such a time saver!

Napari 3D view screenshot depicting a labeled bacteria dataset

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

We've been trying nnInteractive (github.com/MIC-DKFZ/nap...) to quickly create labeled data for later training an Omnipose model. I whatever black magic you did there, keep at it! It's such a life-changer!

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We also invited @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social who gave us an excellent and super relevant talk about "Learning and Training #BioImageAnalysis in the Age of AI". His experience in image analysis and teaching gave further push to the initiative with concrete solutions. Thank you for joining!

Full room following Robert Haase lecture on the background

Robert Haase presenting his slides on "Learning and Training #BioImageAnalysis in the Age of AI"

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

During the event, we had the honor of having the Director of Curriculum @tobyhodges.bsky.social himself giving us an intro to @carpentries.carpentries.org philosophy and goals. He provided essential wisdom and guidance in steering the discussion for the course approach and content. Thank you, Toby!

Toby Hodges Director of Curriculum of the Carpentries presenting the organization

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

In the past 2 days, we had the great pleasure to host an in-person workshop at @istaresearch.bsky.social with the collaboration of @globias.bsky.social, @carpentries.carpentries.org and @istaustria-iof.bsky.social. We wanted to create a go-to course for image analysis in Python. Info in the thread!

GloBIAS and Data Carpentry members group picture

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

As part of our regular health check of our systems at @istaustria-iof.bsky.social, we acquire and analyze flat-field images automatically through our internal database. Today I noticed a particularly strange FF image my script analyzed, but of course I am going to leave it there! 😂

Overlay of good FF image with homogeneity and centrality scores

Overlay of a wrong cat picture instead of an FF image

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Let's give it a go to my first #FluorescenceFriday Here's a color-coded Z-projection of a weevil head imaged on our Zeiss light-sheet 7 with pure green autofluorescence. Looking very cool, but also ominous! @istaustria-iof.bsky.social

color-coded z projection of a weevil head acquired at Zeiss light-sheet 7 microscope

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Don't you hate it when the last time you modified your Jupyter notebook was *next year*? 😂

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I think I'm getting addicted to new #BigTrace in #Fiji by @ekatrukha.bsky.social 😅 So satisfying! Here's a live demo as I segment an entire notochord using the 'one-click' tracking tool and instantly straighten the entire thing for later analysis! Try it out here: github.com/ekatrukha/Bi...

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