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Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · 2d

Bald könnten ALLE Chat-Nachrichten von den Behörden durchsucht werden – selbst ohne Verdacht! Das entscheiden *heute* die Minister*innen. Sag Nein zur Chatkontrolle! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

Chatkontrolle stoppen!

Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...

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Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · 8d

You need to add our ZEN API interface to that site?

github.com/zeiss-micros...

Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · 8d

Kind off .... but by rahter by showing off out ZEN API at an AiryScan Demo.

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Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · 8d

Guess what i am just doing ...?

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 13d

Americans: tell your friends who are worried about Tylenol that there's a safe alternative available in the UK.
For a modest fee, I will send them Paracetamol, which is NHS-approved for pregnancy and for children.
You can even get it combined with decongestant to make a tasty hot lemon drink.

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Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · 14d

The first day is open for all (while day 2 and 3 will be hands-on with a limited number of people)

- Learn about concepts and tools available
- AI tools within ZEISS ecosystem
- Guided Acquisition without coding
- ZEN Scripting
- ZEN API - Control ZEN via Python

and more!

Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · 14d

Hi Fans of Smart Microscopy,

Are you ready to automate your next large scale microscopy experiment and work smarter, not harder?

Join us for the Smart Microscopy workshop organized by EPFL Bio-Imaging Platform (Lausanne) and @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social

www.zeiss.ch/mikroskopie/...

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Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · 24d

I saw this in my vaccation in a cafe in France.
As a person creating AI software tools I hope that is not true but I am not so sure anymore ...

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Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · 28d

And now the real challenge starts - the data analysis :-)

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will-j-moore.bsky.social @will-j-moore.bsky.social · Sep 8

From #ome-ngff-validator you can open open #OME-Zarr images in a bunch of viewers, and neuroglancer's rendering of multi-channel images just got a lot nicer: ome.github.io/ome-ngff-val... - See github.com/google/neuro...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah OK. Slow means it takes too much time for a single DF3 run?

Sebi @sebi06.bsky.social · Sep 2

What exactly is not convincing and should be improved? And did you try the Microscopy Copilot?

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Silvia Barbiero @silviabarbiero.bsky.social · Aug 15

We’re excited to share that ez_zarr now supports Zarr v3! 🚀 Huge thanks to @mbstadler.bsky.social & @csoneson.bsky.social who took on the challenge of creating this open-source tool for fast, programmatic access to OME-Zarr file sets + easy plotting 📊
📄 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… (1/3)

ez-zarr: A Python package for easy access and visualisation of OME-Zarr filesets

Barbiero et al., (2025). ez-zarr: A Python package for easy access and visualisation of OME-Zarr filesets. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(109), 7882, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07882

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Deutsche Umwelthilfe @umwelthilfe.bsky.social · Aug 22

#HVO100 und "Bio"-Diesel aus Altspeiseöl ist klimaschädlicher als fossiler Diesel – das ergibt unsere neue Studie. Besonders relevant sind dabei Klimaschäden durch Verlagerungseffekte in der Palmölproduktion. www.duh.de/presse/press...

Deutsche Umwelthilfe belegt: HVO100 aus Altspeiseöl klimaschädlicher als fossiler Diesel

• Neue Studie im Auftrag der DUH: HVO100 und „Bio“-Diesel aus Altspeiseöl in der Gesamtbetrachtung von der Produktion bis zum Verbrauch noch klimaschädlicher als fossiler Diesel• Versprechen von fast ...

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