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napari @napari.org · 26/09/2026

🚀 napari is hiring Remote Developers-in-Residence! Join us to build the future of interactive n-dimensional data visualization in Python. 💻 60% Dev / 20% Maintenance / 20% Community & Outreach ⏱️ Contract, 14–35 hrs/wk 🌍 Global 100% Remote Learn more and apply today: napari.org/island-dispa...

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We’re hiring Developers-in-Residence! — napari blog documentation

Organization: napari (a NumFOCUS Sponsored Project) Position Type: Independent contractor agreement. Global, 100% Remote. Duration: One year, possibility to extend. Commitment: 0.4 to 1.0 FTE…

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Niko Sirmpilatze @nikosirmpilatze.com · 22/09/2026

It was such a pleasure having @annateruel.bsky.social work on this over the summer! She's added lots of cool new features to our GUI. Keep an eye out for a fresh movement release this autumn 🍁

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Observable @observablehq.com · 21/09/2026

Stephan Schiffels, @stschiff.bsky.social, a researcher who sometimes uses principal component analysis for genetics, here illustrates the concept using EU flags. observablehq.com/@stschiff/pc...

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I can't stop thinking about this essay: akamatsu.leaflet.pub/3mkwouogdzs2j If so much of research is going to come from large companies, then maybe the way academia survives is to take advantage of our yet unrealized potential for open collaboration

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A protocol for attributable modular research contribution

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London BioImage Interest Group @biig-ucl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We are excited to share that the first session of London BIIG will be on Friday 11th September at 12pm at the LMCB! Talks: Yongjoo Kim (UCL) & Nina Thornton (Crick) #l-biig Refreshments will be provided. Directions for LMCB can be found on our website.

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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just released a new version of nwb4edu, an online resource for educators and self-guided learners to use @nwb.org datasets, to adapt for the loss of Dandihub 😢 nwb4edu.github.io

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Andrew Straw @andrewstraw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We are hiring! Come join us in the Straw Lab at the @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social . Seeking a scientist to work on the neural and computational mechanisms of visual navigation in honey bees. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Bee trajectories in agricultural landscape and two photon microscope for in-vivo calcium activity imaging.

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Enny van Beest @ennyvb.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Textbook: tracking position during navigation is primarily the job of the hippocampus. Recent findings suggest a more complicated story. Recording >20k neurons brainwide, we indeed find spatial representations in every region! With @kenneth-harris.bsky.social and @carandinilab.net

Brainwide representations of a virtual corridor

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Heads-up: Doris Tsao is hiring 15 scientists/engineers to work on the neuroscience of consciousness at her new venture (Astera). astera.org/careers/#box...

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Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

⬡ Today, we become the Institute for Research Software. For 15 years, we've worked as the Software Sustainability Institute to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised.

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Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Interested in image analysis and a service role in a dynamic and growing facility? Come and joy our image analysis team! Feel free to reach out for any questions or doubts. ista.ac.at/en/job/?titl...

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SpikeInterface @spikeinterface.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Teaching extracellular #ephys analysis and #spikesorting with SpikeInterface at @neuroinformatics.dev Open Software Summer School at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social in London this week! Course material is available here: neuroinformatics.dev/course_ephys...

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Neuromatch is hiring a #remote, temporary, part-time Curriculum Specialist! 🤓 Help adapt our existing #NeuroAI course for a new audience, bringing important AI and neuroscience concepts to high school students! ➡️ Learn more and apply before 30 August: neuromatch.io/careers/

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Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...

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Losing my religion

In spring 2025 I had a crisis of faith. I thought about what the technology I'm helping to create might do to our future, and got scared. M...

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Every illustration in the British Library's 19th-century book images dataset now has an instance mask: 1.02M clean cutouts of public-domain engravings, no image generation involved! One small segmentation model, $3.24 of compute. Model, masks and a search Space with cutout view all open.

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Alex Schier @schierlab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What regulates the urge to sleep? William Joo and colleagues identified brain regions that reflect how long mice have been awake. Strikingly, inhibiting one of these regions reduces sleep by 70%, without the major behavioral deficits associated with sleep deprivation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Wake-activated neuronal populations that regulate sleep drive - Nature

Whole-brain activity mapping, targeted cell manipulations and electrophysiology in mice identify wake-activated neuronal populations that are crucial for sleep drive and can persistently red...

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London BioImage Interest Group @biig-ucl.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The BioImage Interest Group is expanding! London-BIIG is bringing together microscopists and computational scientists across UCL, Crick, KCL and Imperial. Follow us for updates on bioimage analysis talks (@LMCB & Zoom) as well as next year's networking event! 🔬🧫 #L-BIIG

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BrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 11/08/2026

BrainGlobe Atlas API V3 is out! After 6 years, this is the first major change in how BrainGlobe works. Each atlas component is fetched independently, meaning all BrainGlobe tools will work faster, and more reliably. Read more at: brainglobe.info/blog/braingl...

A figure illustrating the use of the new BrainGlobe Atlas API. Lazy fetching of components for analysis. To draw the hippocampus inside a transparent brain, V2 pulled a 7.4 GB archive containing every image and every mesh in the atlas. V3 fetches the two meshes the render actually uses, 2.3 MB

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BrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 05/08/2026

All BrainGlobe atlases now have Neuroglancer links so that you can explore atlases in the browser without needing to download them first! All links here: brainglobe.info/documentatio... Here you can view our Eurasian Blackcap atlas: neuroglancer-demo.appspot.com#!https://bra...

Screenshot of the Neuroglancer preview of the BrainGlobe Eurasian Blackcap atlas.

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jared toettcher @toettch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

New Toettchlab paper alert! Harrison Oatman just published his beautiful work combining software design for "smart" microscopy+optogenetics and some really beautiful work understanding EGFR-driven collective cell migration. www.cell.com/cell-systems...

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Aafke Gros @aafkegros.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Microscopy Nodes 3.1 is out for Blender 5.2! 🎉 This has cool new features for conditional masking, working with even larger data (regional upscaling), and data manipulation! Watch the new youtube tutorials that explain the features: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A FIB-SEM plankton visualization where the top shows only the volumetric data of the chromosomes, and the bottom a normally sliced region of the cell.

A fluorescence microscopy dataset where a region has been reloaded to be much higher resolution

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Mikkel Roald-Arbøl @roald-arboel.com · 07/07/2026

We do an awful lot of looooong video recordings in our lab and have long wanted an easy way to clip, compress and combine videos for our workflows. So here's #croppy! 🦀 I hope others will find it useful too - I'd love to hear if you do! And would appreciate if you give it a star on Github! 🌟

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Niko Sirmpilatze @nikosirmpilatze.com · 02/07/2026

I'll be in Barcelona for #FENS2026 next week, presenting a poster about movement, and also hanging around our team's other posters (details in quoted post). Drop by if you want to chat about any of these projects or just to say hi!

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Joel Lüthi @joelluethi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Working with OME-Zarrs in @napari.org ? Check out the newest release of napari-ome-zarr-navigator to make your life easier & allow more interactive ways to write back to OME-Zarrs. Follow the thread for more (1/5 🧵)

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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The University of Exeter have announced a programme of academic staff cuts, including all of www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro... Sign the open letter of support at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @crab-exeter.bsky.social

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Centre for Research in Animal Behaviour (CRAB) | Research Groups | University of Exeter

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Horst Obenhaus @octoscience.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🌟 NEW OCTRON RELEASE! 🌟 Want to track your animals using the command line? You can now train models and predict videos with single prompts in a terminal! Ideal for batch jobs, headless servers, and remote machines. Big shout-out to @roald-arboel.com for helping with this release!

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Loïc A. Royer 💻🔬🧪 @loicaroyer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

1/ 🧬🔬 How does one cell become an entire animal? We can now film it in 3D 🐟, but turning those movies into accurate cell tracks is brutally hard. Enter our new #Kaggle challenge: $60K prize pool, to help crack 3D+time cell tracking at scale! 🧵👇 www.kaggle.com/competitions... @biohub.org

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Posit @posit.co · 29/06/2026

Posit has joined the Jupyter Foundation! 🎉 @jupyter.org has powered interactive computing across our tools for years, from Notebooks to the kernels behind Positron. Now we're helping fund the infrastructure and community that keep it thriving. Read the blog: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...

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Virginie Uhlmann @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📢📢 We are hiring a Bioimage Analyst at the BioVisionCenter! 📢📢 Join our collaboration with the Flow Cytometry Facility and contribute back to the international efforts on open standards for bioimaging data! More information here, reach out if you have any question: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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UZH: Bioimage Analyst

The University of Zurich is the largest university in Switzerland and one of the most prominent in Europe. For research purposes the Biovision Center and Flow Cytometry Facility offer services to supp...

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Neuromatch Academy & @connectedminds.bsky.social are forming a #ComputationalBehaviour Course Creation Committee!. It's a #volunteer role for researchers w a PhD. 🤓 Learn more about the course: neuromatch.io/computationa... 🙋 Full role description and application: neuromatch.io/volunteer/

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Come join me for a all new slidecrafting workshop! 2 hours of all new content, teaching you to go from zero to hero in quarto slides! It is free and open to anyone, very minimal quarto knowledge required, we are starting with the basics! pos.it/slide-wrkshp #quarto #slidecrafting

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Slidecrafting Workshop with Emil Hvitfeldt

This will be a 2-hour workshop (with a short break) led by Emil Hvitfeldt all about making great slides in Quarto! Wed, Aug 12, 2026 12:00 PM EDT

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SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · 16/06/2026

datashuttle is now published in JOSS! A tool to automate the creation, validation & transfer of standardised neuroscience project folders — GUI or Python API. The GUI works on all operating systems, even remotely via SSH! More details: datashuttle.neuroinformatics.dev #neuroscience #openscience

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SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · 10/06/2026

v0.17.0 of movement released! 🧠🧪 This version includes new path analysis functions along with a number of bug fixes. Importantly there are some small breaking changes, so please read the release notes to see how your code may be affected. More details: github.com/neuroinforma...

Schematic summarising new path analysis functions, including "path straightness", "path deviation" and "directional change".

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Job ad (1/2): Postdoc fellowship in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-pos... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share!

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BrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 18/05/2026

We've started an effort to bring every 3D (non-human) anatomical atlas that exists into BrainGlobe. Get in touch if there's an atlas we've missed, or you think there's a specific atlas we should prioritise. Read more in our blog: brainglobe.info/blog/the-sys...

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The Systematic Atlas Packaging Project — BrainGlobe

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Royal Microscopical Society @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We are very pleased to announce Dr Adam Tyson @adamltyson.com of the @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social as winner of the RMS Life Sciences Award. 🙂 🔬 Congratulations Adam! 👏🎖️ Read more about Adam's achievements: www.rms.org.uk/resource/dr-...

Dr Adam Tyson pictured wearing a light blue shirt against a plain background. Head and shoulders image.

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BrainGlobe @brainglobe.info · 13/05/2026

Great writeup from our collaborators at UCL Advanced Research Computing on our joint work to make building novel 3D brain atlases faster, more reproducible, and accessible to more labs. 🧠 www.ucl.ac.uk/advanced-res...

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BrainGlobe Template Builder

Atlas building is complex and time-consuming. To help the BrainGlobe team meet growing demand, we streamlined the first stage: generating a high-quality, standardised 3D reference template.

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Open Source for Science Fund @os4science.org · 04/05/2026

Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-so...

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Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery

A new multi-donor fund by Renaissance Philanthropy seeded by Biohub and Wellcome opens its first call for proposals.

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Biohub @biohub.org · 29/04/2026

Today we're announcing the Virtual Biology Initiative—a major new commitment to build the data foundation biology needs to power the next generation of AI models. Next-gen imaging. Molecular engineering tools. Open data infrastructure for the entire scientific community. Read more: bit.ly/3ONTkHO

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Biohub launches the Virtual Biology Initiative

A $500M commitment to galvanize a global, open-data effort to build predictive models of the human cell.

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCL

Discover Postdoctoral Research Fellow jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

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Chunyu Ann Duan @annduan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Ahmed El Hady @zamakany.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

After three years of working on this review with my collaborator Emily Dennis (Janelia Farm), it is finally in press. The review provides an overview and our personal reflections on what constitutes an integrative approach to neurobiology of foraging. Enjoy www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Neurobiology of Foraging: An Integrative Approach

Foraging, defined as the search for food to sustain one's energetic needs, is a fundamental behavior performed by almost all animals to survive in their environment. Foraging involves a variety o...

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Niko Sirmpilatze @nikosirmpilatze.com · 23/04/2026

Drawing regions of interest has been among our most-requested features, and a long time in the making. Building it on top of @napari.org was fun. Drawing and editing shapes is such a joy!

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Image Cooperative @image.coop · 22/04/2026

Our first project is live. ✨ With support from @biohub.org, @image.coop is coordinating work across the #OMEZarr community to help move the standard toward 1.0—supporting both implementation and the coordination needed to get there. More details in our latest post: image.coop/blog/posts/2...

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Image Cooperative’s first order of business: helping push the OME-Zarr standard forward – Image Cooperative

Announcing our first partnership and how we hope to contribute to OME-Zarr

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Olivier Grisel @ogrisel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The team of JupyterCon 2023, PyData Paris 2024 & 2025 organizes a new conference named Compute! Paris 2026 on open source computation and data. The event will take place on November 25–26, 2026 at Sorbonne Université in Paris. CfP deadline: May 24, 2026: compute.events/paris2026/cf...

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Call for Proposals — Compute! Paris 2026

Submit your talk proposal for Compute! Paris 2026. The Call for Proposals is open from April 15th to May 24th, 2026.

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Niko Sirmpilatze @nikosirmpilatze.com · 20/04/2026

Mapping brains never gets old, especially when the territory is new 🐦🧠🗺️. Loved being drawn into this collaboration by @neuroweiler.bsky.social and learning about birds and their magnetic senses. Stay tuned for more new atlases coming to @brainglobe.info

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Flatiron Institute @flatironinstitute.org · 03/04/2026

Apply for #FlatironCCN's Neural Data Analysis workshop at #FENS2026 before April 10! Learn more: www.simonsfoundation.org/event/ccn_… #science #neuroscience

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