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napari @napari.org · 26/08/2026

🚨🚨🚨 napari 0.9.0 is out! 🚨🚨🚨 This is a huge release for us and for our community, with over 30 people contributing new features, improvements, and bug fixes in the 6 weeks since 0.8.0! Release notes here: napari.org/stable/relea... and some highlights in the thread below! 👇

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napari 0.9.0

Tue, Aug 25, 2026 We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.9.0! napari is a fast, interactive, multi-dimensional image viewer for Python. It’s designed for browsing, annotating, and analyzing l...

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napari @napari.org · 20/08/2026

Sizzling Summer Series 4 - global 🌍️ napari 0.9.0 is about ready to fly out the door! ✈️ We would be grateful if you tried out the pre-release: Install into an environment with `pip install "napari[all]>=0.9.0rc1"` or try with uv in a temp environment with `uvx "napari[all]>=0.9.0rc1"`.

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napari @napari.org · 12/08/2026

July was a whirlwind 🌪️ Join us for a Sizzling Summer Series of posts highlighting the community's amazing work💪 First, @timmonko.bsky.social, @aganders3.bsky.social and @willingc.bsky.social took on Minneapolis for SciPy 2026 with a tutorial, talk and plenary update - bit.ly/napari-scipy26

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napari @napari.org · 12/08/2026

Sizzling Summer Series 2: Minneapolis -> Kraków ✈️ We talked, tutorialed and sprinted at EuroPython! The sprints WENT OFF -- 22 merged PRs don't lie 🤯 Then rinse repeat for EuroSciPy - our first conference as platinum sponsors! 💐THANK YOU💐 to those who joined us in Kraków!

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napari @napari.org · 12/07/2026

Struggling for something to do in a TWO DAY gap without ⚽? How about trying our pre-release of napari 0.8.0? napari.org/dev/release/... Of note, this release drops Py3.10 support and deprecates PyQt5 in favor of PyQt6. It also adds some neat new features and improvements! See below: 👇

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napari @napari.org · 22/05/2026

🎉 Announcing the naPLari hackathon in Kraków, Poland 🇵🇱, July 24–29 2026, after EuroSciPy! Hack on napari, join deep dives, meet the team. All experience levels welcome! 📝 Register by July 1: napari.typeform.com/naplari-hack #napari #ScientificPython #OpenSource #EuroSciPy #BioImageAnalysis

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naPLari Hackathon

Questionnaire for the napari hackathon in Krakow, Poland, July 24-29th, 2026.

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Damian Dalle Nogare @damiandn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨🚨 The Image Analysis Unit at Human Technopole in Milan is recruiting for two positions to join our growing team: 1) Bioimage Analyst 2) Research Software Engineer (RSE) Read on to learn why one of these two people should be you!

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napari @napari.org · 12/03/2026

Check out and give feedback on the latest pre-release 0.7.0rc0! You can install with `pip install "napari[all]>=0.7.0rc0"` or via the bundled app. 😁 🥳 The release notes, with highlights, include so many great new features and changes: napari.org/dev/release/...

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napari 0.7.0

⚠️ Note: these release notes are still in draft while 0.7.0 is in release candidate testing. ⚠️ Tue, Mar 10, 2026 We’re happy to announce the release of napari 0.7.0! napari is a fast, interactive,…

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napari @napari.org · 11/03/2026

🔬 Registration is open for our pilot Introduction to napari Workshop! napari is a powerful open-source image viewer for scientific data analysis in Python. This hands-on workshop will get you exploring multi-dimensional datasets fast. #napari #Python #ImageAnalysis #DataScience #OpenSource

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napari @napari.org · 24/12/2025

Has napari helped your research this year? Why not say thank you to free and open source software by making a small donation? Every bit helps your friendly core team fix bugs and bring new features to life! CZI will match up to $75K in donations! opencollective.com/napari/donate

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Tim Monko @timmonko.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This looks incredible! Congrats to you and the team! It's great to see the fruit of your labor!

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napari @napari.org · 18/12/2025

We're a bit late in ringing in the giving season, but it is indeed upon us. Enjoy our special edition holiday logo ☃️ and, if you can spare a bit and appreciate napari, please donate to our development efforts! 🙏 CZI will match donations up to $75K. opencollective.com/napari/donate

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Brian Northan @truenorth-ia.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

New video: more examples showing deep learning segmentation failure modes—and how to detect them with Napari. I show how Napari’s layer system compares images, ground truth, and results, and how Appose enables comparison across incompatible DL packages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c369...

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Using Appose with Pixi and Napari for reproducible deep learning segmentation workflows.

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simonecoppola.bsky.social @simonecoppola.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Happy to finally share micromorph with everyone! If you are interested in performing morphological measurements of bacteria, and like using Python and Napari then this is for you! You can read about it in our preprint, and find the code on our Github repo, PyPi or directly from the napari hub!

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micromorph: a Python toolkit for measurement of microbial morphology

Detection of morphological phenotypes from light microscopy is a key part of microbiology. Despite advances in automated morphological analysis, accurate measurements still often require significant u...

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Thrilled to see Dr. Kevin Eliceiri and Dr. Beth Cimini awarded an NIGMS R24 grant! 🚀 A major boost for the future of open-source image analysis tools like Fiji, ImageJ & CellProfiler. buff.ly/1LBphLf

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Tim Monko @timmonko.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Both the deadline and school are coming up, but I still want to boost this among the life sciences crowd! I had the pleasure of teaching one of these schools in Alaska this summer, and it was an AWESOME experience. It's a very inviting space to learn things that we aren't normally taught!

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napari @napari.org · 10/11/2025

Remember that survey about how we can sustain napari development? We extended the deadline until the 16th, AoE! Blog post: napari.org/island-dispa... Survey: napari.typeform.com/sustainability If you use napari at all we would be super grateful if you filled it in! 🙏

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Yohsuke T. Fukai @fukaity.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I truly appreciate the organizers, core contributors, and all attendees for this wonderful opportunity! I enjoyed learning and working on napari in a welcoming environment. Those interested in talking about and contributing to napari, let’s join the regular community meeting together!

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Community

There are several different ways to be a part of the napari community. From being a code or documentation contributor, to creating educational content or examples, you are welcome to help develop and ...

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Guillaume Witz @guiwitz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It was a fantastic opportunity to finally meet the people behind this software that I have been using for years and is so important for my work! A big thank you to all core developers who were so welcoming, and patiently guided participants in their attempts to contribute back to napari!

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napari @napari.org · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween from the napari team!

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Giulia Paci @giuliapaci.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️

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napari @napari.org · 30/10/2025

Longer wrap-up to come, but in the meantime: we had a fantastic and productive time at the napari hackathon at @globias.bsky.social 2025 conference! Thanks to all the participants and to the GloBIAS team for hosting us!

napari core team members coding with community members at the GloBIAS 2025 hackathon at RIKEN BDR in Kobe, Japan.

napari core team members and community members in a discussion at the GloBIAS 2025 hackathon at RIKEN BDR in Kobe, Japan.

napari core team members and community members posing together for a group photo on a staircase at the GloBIAS 2025 hackathon at RIKEN BDR in Kobe, Japan.

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Episode 17 - perhaps my favorite yet. How do you write a forum.image.sc post that will get you the answers you need without revealing information you don't want to tell? @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I go through what the experts need to know to help you. Post your sci q's today on forum.image.sc !

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How to Write a Great Post on the Image.sc Forum - AskErinDearBeth Episode 17

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napari @napari.org · 24/10/2025

Do you use napari and love @xarray.bsky.social? Or use Xarray but cry when napari ignores the axis names? Read how we will improve this in the future! 🤝 napari.org/island-dispa... Co-authored by @ianhi.bsky.social and @timmonko.bsky.social, powered by the @scipyconf.bsky.social sprints!

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Xarray ❤️ napari — napari blog documentation

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Virginie Uhlmann @virginieuhlmann.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

If you ever used napari in your research, take a moment to read this. Napari, like many other resources in the bioimaging world, is freely available despite the fact that it costs many people much time and efforts to develop and maintain it. Now you get a chance to give back, don't miss it :)

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Tim Monko @timmonko.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Filling out the attached survey and reading this blog will really help bring you up to speed with our progress as a team. Most importantly, we want to guide this project in the direction that sustainably supports the community -- and that's why we'd like your help!

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napari @napari.org · 16/10/2025

napari 0.6.6 is out! 🚀 This is a bugfix release following up 0.6.5: if something in your napari workflow unexplicably broke, you might want to update ;) Also, with the new bundle you can now "open files with > napari"! Check out the full release notes on the website: napari.org/stable/relea...

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napari: a fast, interactive viewer for multi-dimensional images in Python

view and explore 2D, 3D, and higher-dimensional arrays on a canvas;, overlay derived data such as points, polygons, segmentations, and more;, annotate and edit derived datasets, using standard data st...

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2026 course!

A flyer for the Bioimage Analysis Beginnings Bootcamp - blue and white with a picture of cells on the top. It says "Learn core bioimage analysis skills using open-source tools for light microscopy. Open to participants at all skill levels." It also says it will be held a the Broad Institute, 415 Main Street, Cambridge MA USA, on Monday to Friday January 12th-16, 2026, from 9-5pm. Registration is $750 academic, $1250 industry, and applications are open at broad.io/BAB3

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Tim Monko @timmonko.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This was an absolutely fabulous presentation by @jytinevez.bsky.social, and I highly encourage folks to watch! Grateful that these seminars get uploaded!

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Job alert! We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? See also on the forum: forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

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Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

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napari @napari.org · 06/10/2025

Join the new plugin sustainability initiative! Everyone is invited to fill out this interest form: forms.gle/iwX6P4tuooHK... Follow along with initial discussion on Zulip: napari.zulipchat.com#narrow/chann... The first zoom meeting will be this coming week: napari.org/stable/commu...

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Meeting schedule

We hold regular meetings, the timings of which are available on our public calendar. If you are using napari or interested in how napari could be used in your work, please join one of our regular comm...

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Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones. If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

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napari @napari.org · 02/10/2025

napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀 Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: napari.org/dev/release/...

Image depicting the napari viewer in grid mode with scale bars and color bars enabled

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napari @napari.org · 20/09/2025

Check out the cool new “release highlights history” page @timmonko.bsky.social cooked up for us! 😍 napari.org/stable/relea... Best of all: it’s automatically generated from release notes so it’ll always stay up to date.

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Release Notes

Each section shows the highlights from recent releases. Click on the version links to view the complete release notes. Last updated: September 17, 2025 Recent Releases (Last 3 Months): Latest features...

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Australian Museum Eureka Prizes @eurekaprizes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

@napari.org @jni.codes is a finalist in the @ardc.edu.au Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software. Learn more: youtu.be/0g_MkTa_NwQ #EurekaPrizes

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Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.codes · 01/08/2025

It's hard to express how much gratitude I have to everyone involved in the journey, both mine and @napari.org's, that has led to this point. #EurekaPrizes A small attempt below: 👇

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🥰 Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here Congrats to Cyril on this very cool first, first author publication 🏆! This started when he was a bachelor's student (and he's now completing his masters!). And many thanks to my other awesome co-authors🙏 elifesciences.org/articles/99848

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Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here

EPFL researchers introduce CellSeg3D, a self-supervised tool for 3D cell segmentation in fluorescence microscopy, eliminating the need for manual labeling and enhancing accessibility for various biolo...

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Daniel Krentzel @danielkrentzel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Indeed, the participants formed groups and implemented @napari.org plugins from scratch for tasks like pixel classification or cell tracking. At the end, the groups did a live demo of their plugin 💻 I was super impressed! 🥳 #NEUBIASPasteur2025 📚 Course materials: github.com/Image-Analys...

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Tim Monko @timmonko.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So excited and proud of everyone! 🎉 With this release I worked very hard to contribute to napari and learned so much along the way. I guess they want to keep me around, as I'm a core dev now! 🥳 Grateful for the entire image analysis community. 🥰

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

#HappyFluorescenceFriday! #microscopycommunity Join @bioimagingna.bsky.social Early Career WG for our Career Speaker Series on The BioImaging ToolBox: “Pre-nalysis”, Imaging, Analysis and Processing” next Thursday , May 1 Learn More & Register here buff.ly/BHGomlc

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Carol Willing @willingc.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Are you using @napari.org or want to learn more? I've curated a list of videos about napari and its uses on YouTube. If I missed a video, please let me know. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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napari - scientific image viewer - YouTube

napari (https://napari.org) is a fast, interactive viewer for multi-dimensional images in Python. Napari is a Python library for n-dimensional image visualis...

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BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Happy #MicroscopyMonday! The recordings of the #Virtual #I2K2024 workshops are available now tinyurl.com/VirtualI2K20... Thanks to all who presented! Please re-share! 2022 and 2023 content available too: www.youtube.com/@I2KConference

Virtual I2K Flyer notifying that the Recordings are available on the I2K YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@I2KConference

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