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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 2d

Hello from day 2 of #EESImaging 👋

After three very intesting talks about dynamic super-resolution microscopy this morning, participants used the coffee break to meet the speakers and discover the diverse offerings at our sponsor's booths ☕🔬📸

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Assaf Zaritsky @assafzaritsky.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to announce the first @cshlnews.bsky.social meeting on Cell Modeling in Space and Time, June 2026 💫

meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Bringing together experiments, computation and theory to explore dynamic, multi-scale cellular organization and function!

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 16d

🚀 ERC Scientific Council member Geneviève Almouzni’s latest #ERCMagazine editorial shows how inclusive research cultures drive excellence, creativity, and discovery - & what the ERC is doing to make it happen 👉 bit.ly/4n8usX4

#DiversityInScience #ScienceForSociety #FrontierResearch

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 16d

It was a huge pleasure to weigh in and answer an impossible question: “What will be in 25 years?” I think it turned out quite interesting! 🤩

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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com · 16d

Our cover indicates that while we celebrate the past we're looking ahead to the future - with the help of a Viewpoint!

13 researchers offer a glimpse of what their research field might look like in 2050 🔮

👉 go.nature.com/4neNdYU

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The BioImage Archive @bioimagearchive.bsky.social · 26d

🎉 Our paper “MIFA: Metadata, Incentives, Formats and Accessibility guidelines to improve the reuse of AI datasets for bioimage analysis” is out in @natmethods.nature.com!
Community-driven standards to make bioimage data AI-ready & reusable.
👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI #Bioimaging #FAIRdata

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 29d

I mean… come on! You plus 10 more young AI in the life sciences groups, surrounded by all the other DDLS groups that are there already, working on all the data from @scilifelab.se and friends… 🤯

So! Much! Potential!
SO! MUCH! FUN!
🤓

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 Wow, that really sounds like an amazing opportunity… If I were a bit younger, I would start preparing my application already… 😮

www.scilifelab.se/news/ready-t...

Ready to shape the future of AI in life science?

The next call for DDLS Fellows is opening soon, offering an outstanding opportunity for ambitious young researchers to establish their own internationally competitive research groups. This round has a...

www.scilifelab.se

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · Aug 2

Congratulations!!! 🍾
All the very best!!!

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Aug 1

I have some BIG NEWS to share today!

Today I begin my next adventure as

Chief Editor of Nature Biomedical Engineering!!

(a thread) @natmethods.nature.com @natbiomedeng.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

ALT: a bunch of balloons are flying in the sky .

media.tenor.com

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · Jul 30

This week, we have Jörg Bewersdorf 🔬 visit us at @humantechnopole.bsky.social.
He gave a fantastic talk on Monday and a very useful ad-hoc microscopy workshop today. The future of Pan-labeled Expansion Microscopy will be amazing! 🌟
Thanks, Jörg, for visiting & sharing! 🙏

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Josh Currie @joshcurrie.bsky.social · Jul 15

$8 trillion lost.....

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Jul 15

"two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses."

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength

Research cuts aren’t about shrinking government, they’re about killing science

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Simon F. Nørrelykke @simonfn.bsky.social · Jul 14

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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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · Jul 14

Submit your method to our denoising challenge!!! 👍

AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jun 27

If unsupervised approaches are your thing, also check out the unsupervised denoising challenge and submit your solutions (the challenge is from last year, but we are still taking entries from everyone who is interested).

👉 ai4life-mdc24.grand-challenge.org

AI4Life Microscopy Denoising Challenge - Grand Challenge

Wellcome to AI4Life-MDC24! In this challenge, we want to focus on an unsupervised denoising of microscopy images. By participating, researchers can contribute to a critical area of scientific research...

ai4life-mdc24.grand-challenge.org

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fspasqualini.bsky.social @fspasqualini.bsky.social · Jul 8

#CALIPERSv2 🚀 preprint is locked—journal submission next. Final polish, more hiPSC reference lines, and fresh light-sheet data. Still, a great collaboration led by @moisesdisante with the team @LabPhysiology and the amazing @berterolab.bsky.social and @florianjug.bsky.social group members! 1/N

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jun 30

🐾 The BioImage Model Zoo just got a major upgrade!

It has been fully redesigned, offering a new backend, model uploader, community curation tools, and integrated browser-based test runs powered by BioEngine. 🧪

Explore now 👉 bioimage.io

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · Jun 30

Join the challenge, get the data, contribute your solution!!! 🎉

AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jun 27

The 2nd AI4Life Challenge is live!
Calling the AI & bioimaging community to tackle a key microscopy challenge: removing noise while preserving detail.

📦 Paired noisy/clean datasets
📈 Ground-truth evaluation
🧠 DL focus

Build, test, compete 👉 ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/challenge-2/

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · Jun 28

Who do you want to excel today?
I’d love to see Kilian doing well… and Hans Troyer… but the field is STACKED!!! (And I doubt those two will win, will they?)

Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · Jun 28

My guilty pleasure… every year… 🍿 + 🏃
This year will be craaazy!!! I feel it!!!

Shasta @theshastaone.bsky.social · Jun 28

Western States is underway! #wser

Western States 2025 Live Stream

YouTube video by Western States 100

www.youtube.com

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jun 27

If unsupervised approaches are your thing, also check out the unsupervised denoising challenge and submit your solutions (the challenge is from last year, but we are still taking entries from everyone who is interested).

👉 ai4life-mdc24.grand-challenge.org

AI4Life Microscopy Denoising Challenge - Grand Challenge

Wellcome to AI4Life-MDC24! In this challenge, we want to focus on an unsupervised denoising of microscopy images. By participating, researchers can contribute to a critical area of scientific research...

ai4life-mdc24.grand-challenge.org

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AI4Life @ai4life.bsky.social · Jun 27

The 2nd AI4Life Challenge is live!
Calling the AI & bioimaging community to tackle a key microscopy challenge: removing noise while preserving detail.

📦 Paired noisy/clean datasets
📈 Ground-truth evaluation
🧠 DL focus

Build, test, compete 👉 ai4life.eurobioimaging.eu/challenge-2/

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · Jun 9

Come and work with us!
Super exciting and relevant projects!
Become an #AI pro and do something positive for the 🌍!
👩‍🎓 🧑‍🎓
If you know someone who might be interested… please repost and/or forward this! 🙏

Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚀 Fully-funded #PhD opportunity in Computational Biology with our @florianjug.bsky.social Group through Politecnico of Milan DADS programme! Co-supervision by Francesca Ieva.

🧬 Use #AI to decode complex biological data across scales.

Apply by 9 July 👉 humantechnopole.it/en/news/1-fu...

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Florian Jug @florianjug.bsky.social · Jun 7

Congrats!!! 🍾

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Martin Weigert @maweigert.bsky.social · Jun 6

Out today in @natmethods.nature.com : Spotiflow, our transcript localization method for imaging-based spatial transcriptomics. Led by amazing PhD student @albertdm.bsky.social, joint work w @gioelelamanno.bsky.social at EPFL / @scadsai.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/epIB7

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Albert Dominguez Mantes @albertdm.bsky.social · Jun 6

Spotiflow, our deep learning based spot detection method for microscopy, is now published in @natmethods.nature.com!
Since the pre-print, we have added many features, notably native 3D detection!
@maweigert.bsky.social @gioelelamanno.bsky.social @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social
Paper: rdcu.be/epIB7
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Spotiflow: accurate and efficient spot detection for fluorescence microscopy with deep stereographic flow regression

Nature Methods - Spotiflow uses deep learning for subpixel-accurate spot detection in diverse 2D and 3D images. The improved accuracy offered by Spotiflow enables improved biological insights in...

rdcu.be

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