Reposted by Sara McArdleSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just a lil guy and his mulberry branch 262507677
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Today is that LAST DAY to register for the Multiplex Image Analysis meeting! Remote and in-person registration is available. See the program and register here: quantitativebioimaging.com/miacp2026/ September 15-16, San Diego, CA. 000
Reposted by Sara McArdleReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵 18455329
Reposted by Sara McArdlederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I enjoyed this. ordinaryabundance.comordinaryabundance.comOrdinary AbundanceA walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new. 753422910
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky 020
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 29/07/20262 more days to submit an abstract to the QBI Multiplexing conference! Come to beautiful San Diego to discuss all things multiplex immunofluorescence. Registration is still open for those who want to attend but not speak. 012
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 24/06/2026There is still time to register for the QBI Multiplex Image Analysis and Computational Pathology workshop! Details below. 060
Reposted by Sara McArdleYasin Dagdas @plantophagy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I will arrive at your therapeutic area with a molecule so chiral, so offensive to your multi-parameter optimization algorithm, that your model will flag it as “not drug-like.” It will then proceed to work, in vivo. inpreparation.substack.com/p/go-ahead-a...inpreparation.substack.comGo Ahead and Use AI to Design Drugs. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You.A message of support for my fellow drug hunters 2309
Reposted by Sara McArdleJoachim Goedhart @joachimgoedhart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026From Segmentation to Pipelines: AI-Assisted Bioimage Analysis with Python 21-24 September 2026, Erasmus MC Rotterdam (The Netherlands) Application deadline: 25 July 2026 More information & signing up: courses.microscopie.nl?event_id=527courses.microscopie.nlNL-BioImaging Advanced Image Analysis for Biologists 2026 12114
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Announcing a Multiplex Image Analysis and Computational Pathology workshop through the Quantitative BioImaging Society Talks on cell segmentation and phenotyping, data normalization, spatial analysis, and more! Hosted by @lji.org in San Diego, CA, Sept. 15-16 quantitativebioimaging.com/miacp2026/quantitativebioimaging.comMultiplex Image Analysis & Computational Pathology - QBI Society 142
Reposted by Sara McArdleAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 09/06/202625 minutes of Photuris tremulans fireflies in Tennessee's smoky mountains. 271634309
Reposted by Sara McArdleReese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below) 18590367
Reposted by Sara McArdleJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize. 198115043756
Reposted by Sara McArdleMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 12/05/2026More about the Cowlitz Tribe's beaver relocation program, which is among the largest in the West. "Beavers are amazing ecosystem engineers and create high-quality, complex wetland habitats that support biodiversity and ecosystem properties that can help buffer projected impacts of climate change.”columbian.comCheck out baby beavers on ‘Kit Cam’ thanks to Cowlitz Indian TribeThe Cowlitz Indian Tribe recently launched a new livestream featuring a mother beaver and four kits born April 16 as they wait to be relocated. 0258
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Birdsky! I need advice. This little bird has been sitting unnaturally still near my back door, and didn't even move when my kid excitedly banged on the glass. It's def alive, but I think not healthy? Is there anything I can do to help it? 000
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org5calls.org5 CallsSpend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard. 010
Reposted by Sara McArdleAlex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Absolutely incredible Nutella ad. 803935975
Reposted by Sara McArdleBrian Northan @truenorth-ia.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Last week I shared results showing large variability between Imaris/Arivis/Aivia vs Python/ImageJ/CellProfiler. Much was due to small code issues (x/y swaps, microns vs pixels). After fixing, results are much closer—no big log-scale gaps. Some variability remains, but large errors weren’t real. 1257
Reposted by Sara McArdleThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 07/03/2026Love is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins. Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates. 27995314
Reposted by Sara McArdleCheshire @thatsregrettab1.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Cool, useful, project. www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d... 1155
Reposted by Sara McArdleBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 07/02/2026Good morning from the harbor seal factory! We got several working harbor seal families ready to challenge the establishment! Here you can see a mother teaching their baby about the union. Get em started young! #UnionsForAll #SealSky 🦭 🦑 856786
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Videos are now available from the 2025 QuPath Training Course, from @iamichaelnelson.bsky.social, @zmikulski.bsky.social, and myself. Watch for multiplex tutorials! For image analysis inspiration! Or just watch to hear me speak like an overcaffeinated squirrel! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comFrom Samples to Knowledge 2025: QuPath Training Course - YouTubeRecordings of the 2-day hands-on workshop at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in February 2025. To follow along please use QuPath 0.6.0 or later. 1178
Reposted by Sara McArdleJennifer Waters @jencwaters.bsky.social · 06/01/2026🔬 🖥️ Applications are open for the CSHL course Quantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to Analysis (April 6–21, 2026)! An intensive, hands-on course covering advanced fluorescence microscopy and quantitative image analysis using open-source tools. 🗓️ Apply online by Jan 30, 2026meetings.cshl.eduQuantitative Imaging: From Acquisition to AnalysisCold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics. 14432
Reposted by Sara McArdleMDI Biological Laboratory @mdibl.org · 10/12/2025Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2026: Registration Open! An international course in #fluorescence #microscopy and imaging for advanced grad students, postdoc trainees, imaging core managers and researchers who are incorporating the technology into their laboratories. 🧪 🐟🎸 🍎 👩🔬 🌎 🖥️ 🧬mdibl.orgQuantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2026 054
Reposted by Sara McArdleDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪thetransmitter.orgSpringer Nature retracts, removes nearly 40 publicationsThe dataset contains images of children’s faces downloaded from websites about autism, which sparked concerns at Springer Nature about consent and reliability. 13734360
Reposted by Sara McArdleTaskmaster @taskmaster.tv · 04/12/2025XXL NEWS! Greg and Alex are coming to America in January 2026 to spread the word of the Taskmaster. Shows in Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and New York! Sign up to the mailing list for pre-sale access. taskmaster.tv/taskmaster-l... 4422134
Reposted by Sara McArdleErik Angner @erikangner.com · 27/11/2025"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se 2012302737
Reposted by Sara McArdleRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/11/2025Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/ 288117072437
Reposted by Sara McArdleEugene Katrukha 🇺🇦 @ekatrukha.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Python notebook from a two year old paper: Oh, no, I cannot run, there is a slight mismatch of a logging library. ImageJ plugin from 2001 running on Quantum Java 51 in 2078: Your 100 petabyte temporal hologram was successfully thresholded. 1446
Reposted by Sara McArdleBeth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x) 15348
Reposted by Sara McArdleBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 30/10/2025California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50. 466228616595
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Took my daughter to one of the San Diego No Kings rallies, because even she knows that you have to stand up and say No to bullies. 0135
Reposted by Sara McArdle🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Wouldn’t it be cool if this photo of Obama receiving his Noble Peace Prize went viral today? 🔄 321231651
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I'm thrilled to share that our work studying microglia morphological changes in early Alzheimer's in mice is up! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgUnmasking Early Microglial Remodeling in an Alzheimer's Disease Mouse ModelEarly neuroimmune remodeling is a critical yet understudied component of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. To investigate microglial contributions to AD development prior to overt plaque depositi... 1142
Reposted by Sara McArdleMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25. 648249418244
Reposted by Sara McArdleAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 29/09/2025While I’m at it: You guys know what to do!! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...youtu.beLip Sync Battle - Tom HollandYouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica 421028411
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Happy Fluorescence Friday! Rainbow Z projection of lymph node follicular dendritic cells. 051
Reposted by Sara McArdleA/Prof Sam Stehbens PhD (She/Her) @samstehbens.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Who say what now?!! BLUEY THE MOVIE?!! #bluey #myChildWillBeTooOldButIllStillGo www.bluey.tv/blog/date-an...media.tenor.comtwo cartoon animals hugging each other with the word seduff on the bottom rightALT: two cartoon animals hugging each other with the word seduff on the bottom right 131
Sara McArdle @saramcardle.bsky.social · 07/08/2025I got this in my head and I couldn't focus on work until it existed. Microscopy image file alignment chart, based on how I feel if you give me an image to analyze: 5256
Reposted by Sara McArdleStefania Marcotti @lankylaste.bsky.social · 06/08/2025Ready to automate your #microscopy #imageanalysis tasks? Applications are now open for our next "Introduction to Image Analysis" training course, in London at the @crick.ac.uk on October 27th-28th, 2025! 🔬💻 More info ⬇️ www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/int...crick.ac.ukIntroduction to image analysis 1138
Reposted by Sara McArdleMorgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 25/06/2025It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA. The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US. We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work. 161084409
Reposted by Sara McArdleBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice. 5704847714656
Reposted by Sara McArdleAbby Polter @ampolter.bsky.social · 15/05/2025It's not that we might lose our jobs. It's that all of it will disappear or mutate beyond recognition. I worry we're not talking or thinking enough about this deeper sadness hiding behind our immediate anxieties and it's this heaviness that has us all at a breaking point. 723231
Reposted by Sara McArdleSteve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Cleansing the timeline with video from the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. 1487866848
Reposted by Sara McArdleBioVoxxel (Jan Brocher) @biovoxxel.de · 23/04/2025🚀 Tired of manual image analysis or scared of scripting? Our self-paced “ImageJ Macro Scripting for Automatic Image Analysis” course makes automation easy—no coding experience needed! Start from scratch & build pro-level macros. www.biovoxxel.de/individual-w... #ImageJ #MacroScripting 171
Reposted by Sara McArdleBeth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Bioimaging and bioimage analysis friends, some help if you have 2-3 mins; for a paper, we're trying to estimate the number of biologists trained in open source software or tools in the last ~5 years. (1/2) #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis 12834
Reposted by Sara McArdleABC 10News @abc10news.bsky.social · 14/04/2025WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. 562781821