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Olatz Niembro
@olatznv.bsky.social
5'3' like DNA 🧬 bioimage analysis enthusiast & Cellular Immunology PhD –Graduate!– @ Dan Davis lab, Imperial. (she/her)
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The #CBIAS2025 poster collection is now available, along with associated DOIs for further dissemination. Take a look!

crick.figshare.com/collections/...
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025 Posters
CBIAS features a mix of invited and selected talks, poster sessions, and panel discussions focused on current topics in image analysis and image processing for microscopy and computational microscopy....
crick.figshare.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Many many thanks, and happy holidays!
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Merci beaucoup David! Happy holidays ☺️
December 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Fully embracing the whimsy of UK academia is a nice way to end the year. Specially because my family could be there, like they’ve been all the way. Plus the Manchester doctoral gown has *excellent* colours 🪻🍇🌻
December 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I've always thought Morgan's White Eyed Drosophila paper is neat! (if not *too classic*) It's a cool story, reads like a lab report and even as an undergrad not studying in English it was simple enough to follow. www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1...
www.jstor.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I wrote my first proper post on LinkedIn today. It was cheesy, bit of a weird thing to do.

Bottom line is I'm still buzzing from spending two days playing with napari sourounded by kind microscopy nerds at the #CBIAS2025 Napari Workshop.
December 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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If you or your trainees are just getting started with image analysis of cells & are #CellProfiler -curious, here is a fairly thorough walk-through demo I did recently. Loading files, extracting metadata (fun with Regex!), identifying objects, measuring, filtering, QC, exporting:
youtu.be/fO5nJdhj_7I
Introduction to CellProfiler - by a biologist, for biologists!
YouTube video by CellMorphoJSero
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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And perhaps we could have a bit more funding for scientific infrastructure? Because without that nobody (stars or otherwise) is going to get anything done.
November 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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An immense thank you again to @cbias.bsky.social committee, sponsors and fellow imaging friends for this fantastic symposium!
It's is not the end but the beginning of tons of papers to read, colleagues to contact, new collaborations to form. And most importantly, it's a 'see you soon' #CBIAS2026 🔬🥰
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Want to automate workflows in #FIJI?
Don't know where to start?
We (@lankylaste.bsky.social, Alicja Skórkowska and Sara Salgueiro Torres) have added a step-by-step tutorial to the wiki to get you started.

Thanks @ctrue.bsky.social for adding!

imagej.github.io/tutorials/ba...
Batch Processing with the ImageJ Macro Language
The ImageJ wiki is a community-edited knowledge base on topics relating to ImageJ, a public domain program for processing and analyzing scientific images, and its ecosystem of derivatives and variants...
imagej.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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One can only aspire to someday have some part of themselves discovered in a vulture's nest.
Medieval sandal, from 14th century, found preserved in vultures nest on a cliff in southern Spain, a rough sandal woven from grasses and twigs

I'm not saying that vultures might also steal single socks from your laundry basket, but y'know...?

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest
Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.
www.nationalgeographic.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Join an international, student-led space to explore critical, feminist, and decolonial perspectives on the climate crisis and polycrisis. Expand your critical perspective, share ideas, & nurture academic relations across borders.

First session:
📅 21 October 2025 | 🕔 17:00 GMT | 🌐 Zoom
DM to signup
September 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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I really recommend @cbias.bsky.social !

See what we said last year, with @zeinabrekad.bsky.social and @fmlove.bsky.social

This year will my 6th time! 🎉🔬
September 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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I am QT dunking but I think this is a case where it is warranted:
Science is political and "not wanting to see politics" as a scientist is a political choice. You may decide it's what works for you, but you need to decide how that fits with the fact your (diverse) colleagues still exist 🧪
How to avoid politics on Bluesky 🦋 [THREAD]
When scientists left X, many hoped for a quieter space. But politics will take over your feeds unless you actively do something about it. This guide will help you if you just want to follow your scientific interest!
mikeyoungacademy.dk/researchers-...
Researchers are (also) stoking politics on Bluesky. Here is how to avoid it
When researchers migrated from X to Bluesky, the hope was for a quieter space. They wanted less outrage, and more science. But reality is biting back. So here are a few tips to avoid the politics anyw...
mikeyoungacademy.dk
September 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Our new paper, discussed here

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/268793/...
www.imperial.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
All full of two-colour dSTORM just in time for #FluorescenceFriday 💥
September 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Our new paper is out! Khodor Hazime led the brilliant work at the @dandavis101.bsky.social lab that shows *how* engagers that bring NK cell receptors together at the immune synapse boost activation against tumour cells

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
September 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Last chance today to sign up for two days of excellent image analysis training delivered by lovely experts! 🚂
📢 After #CBIAS2025, join our hands-on 2-day napari training by @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social
From conda to plugins to Jupyter, practicals on real data with expert guidance.
For Python/ImageJ coders. Apply by 1 Sept – limited to 30! crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cbias-napari-workshop-2025
CBIAS napari workshop 2025
crick.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I like your "no such thing as too many cowbells" approach to drumming.
September 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The #CBIAS2025 abstract deadline is this Sunday, August 31st. Submit your #BioImageAnalysis work, whether it’s a new tool or a biological discovery. #EarlyCareerResearchers, this is for you! Short and flash talk slots are up for grabs.

www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
August 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Hello! Very excited to share our latest preprint, which is great news for us but terrible news for any diehard fans of PSNR and SSIM as image quality metrics in microscopy... (1/5)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Image quality metrics fail to accurately represent biological information in fluorescence microscopy
Image processing methods offer the potential to improve the quality of fluorescence microscopy data, allowing for image acquisition at lower, less phototoxic illumination doses. The training and evalu...
www.biorxiv.org
August 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Deep sea exploration livestreamed with commentary from the scientists on board, doing sci-comm live and inviting the audience to join in the discovery 🥲
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAxq...
Lance 30.1 Mar Del Plata Canyon | SOI Divestream 819 PART 2
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
www.youtube.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Abstract submission for the Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium #CBIAS2025 is now open until August 31st!

If you are interested in bioimage analysis, whether as a user or methods developer, join us in London on November 24th-25th - we look forward to seeing you there!

www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025
www.crick.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM