Damian Dalle Nogare
@damiandn.bsky.social
Leading the bioimage analysis facility at Human Technopole Milan. Formerly cell and developmental biologist at the NIH. Serial immigrant 🇦🇺➡️🇳🇿➡️🇺🇸➡️🇮🇹🇪🇺. Fan of dogs, open source tools, and gin.
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The thing is that 10 years ago transformers hadn't been invented and most people (me included!) would have told you that it would be impossible to get in 10 years to where we are today.
But lots of people here are strangely confident about where this tech is going to be 10 years from now.
But lots of people here are strangely confident about where this tech is going to be 10 years from now.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
The thing is that 10 years ago transformers hadn't been invented and most people (me included!) would have told you that it would be impossible to get in 10 years to where we are today.
But lots of people here are strangely confident about where this tech is going to be 10 years from now.
But lots of people here are strangely confident about where this tech is going to be 10 years from now.
The ruins of the Linari abbey. First described in 1045, now not much remains.
February 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The ruins of the Linari abbey. First described in 1045, now not much remains.
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QI Class of 2025! Centroid = @sciencedoodles.bsky.social & @florianjug.bsky.social / first minima = @talley.codes & me.
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January 28, 2026 at 7:43 PM
QI Class of 2025! Centroid = @sciencedoodles.bsky.social & @florianjug.bsky.social / first minima = @talley.codes & me.
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I swear to God Europe has the worst power plugs on the planet. Just absolute garbage. They either fall out of their sockets if you look at them wrong, or won't come out without a forklift. Just absolute clown show shit.
January 23, 2026 at 6:42 PM
I swear to God Europe has the worst power plugs on the planet. Just absolute garbage. They either fall out of their sockets if you look at them wrong, or won't come out without a forklift. Just absolute clown show shit.
I hesitate to jump into this, but I think this is a useful illustration of the distinction between activists and academics.
Is this historically accurate?
Is this helpful right this minute to the people putting their bodies on the line on the streets of Minneapolis?
Two very different Qs.
Is this historically accurate?
Is this helpful right this minute to the people putting their bodies on the line on the streets of Minneapolis?
Two very different Qs.
I very much disagree with @whstancil.bsky.social on this - how are you going to oppose ICE and the Trump administration if you don't understand that this *is* indeed who you are as a nation and that what we're seeing today is the culmination of a long history of American violence? 1/
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
January 23, 2026 at 1:22 PM
I hesitate to jump into this, but I think this is a useful illustration of the distinction between activists and academics.
Is this historically accurate?
Is this helpful right this minute to the people putting their bodies on the line on the streets of Minneapolis?
Two very different Qs.
Is this historically accurate?
Is this helpful right this minute to the people putting their bodies on the line on the streets of Minneapolis?
Two very different Qs.
Re-upping: if you want to learn microscopy and image analysis - REALLY learn them, in an intense and hands on way - this is a really great place to do it. Applications close Jan 30
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January 22, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Re-upping: if you want to learn microscopy and image analysis - REALLY learn them, in an intense and hands on way - this is a really great place to do it. Applications close Jan 30
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
Europe needs to realize that the only thing trump understands is strength. Cower before him and he'll ask for more and more. Smack him in the face and he'll run away like the scared little bitch he is.
Denmark and Greenland are not alone.
Good to see my colleagues Troels Lund Poulsen and Vivian Motzfeldt.
Arctic security is a shared transatlantic interest, and one we can discuss with our US allies.
But tariff threats are not the way to go about this. Sovereignty is not for trade. (1/2)
Good to see my colleagues Troels Lund Poulsen and Vivian Motzfeldt.
Arctic security is a shared transatlantic interest, and one we can discuss with our US allies.
But tariff threats are not the way to go about this. Sovereignty is not for trade. (1/2)
January 19, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Europe needs to realize that the only thing trump understands is strength. Cower before him and he'll ask for more and more. Smack him in the face and he'll run away like the scared little bitch he is.
Tonight was the Falò San Nicolò, where the first of two factions in Pontremoli compete to see who can build the biggest fire 🔥
January 17, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Tonight was the Falò San Nicolò, where the first of two factions in Pontremoli compete to see who can build the biggest fire 🔥
Dmitry hits the nail on the head here. We have to pretend that the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet are serious people because a collection of the other dumbest motherfuckers on the planet decided to give them the keys to the car.
It makes me so angry because these are not serious people and we are forced to pretend they are or get scolded for being elitists insufficiently open to new stalls in the marketplace of ideas when we point out a prerequisite for the debate stage should be understanding how literally anything works.
January 16, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Dmitry hits the nail on the head here. We have to pretend that the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet are serious people because a collection of the other dumbest motherfuckers on the planet decided to give them the keys to the car.
Halfway through heated rivalry and I'm 10X more invested in Hunter/Kip than I am in Rozanov/Hollander 😂
January 16, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Halfway through heated rivalry and I'm 10X more invested in Hunter/Kip than I am in Rozanov/Hollander 😂
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Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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January 14, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Big news! The Data Management team/Data Science Centre at EMBL (i.e. my team) is hiring for a position based in Heidelberg (but working across all sites!). We are looking for a scientific workflows developer that will focus on multimodal pipelines. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
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I am looking for two postdocs to join our lab
- One (bio)image analyst
- One cell biologist interested to work on lymphatics!
The positions will open soon, be in touch!
- One (bio)image analyst
- One cell biologist interested to work on lymphatics!
The positions will open soon, be in touch!
January 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I am looking for two postdocs to join our lab
- One (bio)image analyst
- One cell biologist interested to work on lymphatics!
The positions will open soon, be in touch!
- One (bio)image analyst
- One cell biologist interested to work on lymphatics!
The positions will open soon, be in touch!
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January 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Want to up your microscopy and image analysis game?
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I will never forgive anyone who voted to give this piece of shit the power he has now. Never.
Asked “if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
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January 8, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I will never forgive anyone who voted to give this piece of shit the power he has now. Never.
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THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
The Melian Dialogue has a similar role to the Clausewitz quote about “politics by other means” - it exists to give a bit of frisson and even sexual pleasure to morons who have never read those quotes in context but who are still desperate to sound smart.
People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 AM
THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue
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This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?
Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.
January 6, 2026 at 10:37 AM
This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?
Wake up babe new deranged import just dropped
January 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Wake up babe new deranged import just dropped
A good start, but Europe needs to be very clear-eyed about where the world is right now, and where it could be headed.
Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
January 6, 2026 at 1:16 PM
A good start, but Europe needs to be very clear-eyed about where the world is right now, and where it could be headed.
It's honestly a bit surprising how much more complex image analysis gets once you're in the regime of images too big to fit in memory.
All of the solutions you do (use zarr! Split the image!) come with a whole host of issues that you've never had to think about until you run into them.
All of the solutions you do (use zarr! Split the image!) come with a whole host of issues that you've never had to think about until you run into them.
January 5, 2026 at 12:37 PM
It's honestly a bit surprising how much more complex image analysis gets once you're in the regime of images too big to fit in memory.
All of the solutions you do (use zarr! Split the image!) come with a whole host of issues that you've never had to think about until you run into them.
All of the solutions you do (use zarr! Split the image!) come with a whole host of issues that you've never had to think about until you run into them.
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I'm super excited to announce that I will join the Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan in April 2026 as a Research Group Leader.
January 5, 2026 at 11:49 AM
I'm super excited to announce that I will join the Human Technopole @humantechnopole.bsky.social in Milan in April 2026 as a Research Group Leader.
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some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar
January 4, 2026 at 10:28 PM
some identify publicly with the left because they hate oppression, others because they hate being oppressed. things will make more sense when you keep in mind that these are not the same - or even similar