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VolumeEM @volumeem1.bsky.social · 10d

🌟 Awesome vEM Images Competition deadline extended to Oct 6, 5 PM CT! 🌟

Submit to one or both categories:
1️⃣ The Power of EM
2️⃣ Bringing Meaning to the Data

🏆 $250 for 1st, $100 for 2nd & 3rd (each category)

🔗 www.volumeem.org/awesome-imag...

Details and last year's winning images ⬇️

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VolumeEM @volumeem1.bsky.social · Aug 24

📣 The Awesome vEM Images Competition is back!

Submit your images in one of two categories:
🖼️ The Power of vEM
🧠 Bringing Meaning to the Data (New!)

🏆 Prizes: $250 for 1st place, $100 for 2nd & 3rd in each category
📅 Deadline: Oct 2, 5PM CT
🔗 More details: www.volumeem.org/awesome-imag...

Awesome image competition - 2025

📸 We are seeking impressive volume EM (vEM) images as part of our mission to promote our Volume EM Community Initiative and vEM techniques to the world! We'd love to offer you the opportunity to...

www.volumeem.org

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VolumeEM @volumeem1.bsky.social · Aug 23

📣 Join Us for the 6th Annual Volume EM Community Initiative Town Hall Meeting on October 9th, 2025 from 3-6pm BST / 10am-1pm ET. A key theme of this year’s Town Hall is strengthening connections across the global community.

👉 Register now on our website: www.volumeem.org/2025-town-ha...

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Kyle Harrington @kyleharrington.com · Aug 26

Better ML for cryo-ET starts with better benchmarks.

We built a phantom cryo-ET dataset (~500 tomograms) + hosted a Kaggle challenge.

The result: community models beat expert tools.

Read more in the @natmethods.nature.com article that just came out:
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A realistic phantom dataset for benchmarking cryo-ET data annotation - Nature Methods

A standardized, realistic phantom dataset consisting of ground-truth annotations for six diverse molecular species is provided as a community resource for cryo-electron-tomography algorithm benchmarki...

doi.org

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Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium @cbias.bsky.social · Aug 8

Abstract submission #CBIAS2025 is closing on August 31st - we invite submissions on all topics related to #bioimageanalysis: new tools, biological discoveries using existing methods, and anything in between. Early-career researchers especially encouraged to submit!

www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...

Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025

www.crick.ac.uk

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Sali Davis @becomingsali.bsky.social · Jul 28

Great to see one of our own Lucy Collinson picking up the Distinguished Scientist Award at M and M this year. Well deserved and a wonderful accolade. Congratulations Lucy! @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jul 22

The registration for our #CCPvolumeEM community meeting is now open!

Join us in person in London (at
@crick.ac.uk) or online on 3rd November to discuss the computational needs of #volumeEM

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-a-...

#vEM #BioImageAnalysis

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Jul 14

If you’ve ever wondered how we get high resolution images of incredibly tiny things, check out our latest video with @em-stp.bsky.social

They discuss how electron microscopes use beams of electrons to see things that light microscopes can’t.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMAe...

Seeing the Invisible with Electron Microscopy

YouTube video by Francis Crick Institute

www.youtube.com

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · Jul 14

As life sciences research becomes enmeshed in the age of AI, real experimental data are more valuable than ever. Read more in this month's Editorial.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Calling all data - Nature Methods

As life sciences research becomes enmeshed in the age of AI, real experimental data are more valuable than ever.

www.nature.com

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jul 9

Big thanks for the amazing images by @falk-illustrations.de supported by @zarr.dev and @numfocus.bsky.social and provided to the community under CC BY 4.0 license

Falk, H. zarr-developers/zarr-illustrations-falk-2022 | Zenodo [WWW Document], 2022. URL doi.org/10.5281/zeno... (accessed 2025-07-09)

zarr-developers/zarr-illustrations-falk-2022: Zarr illustrations by Henning Falk (August 2022)

These illustrations were contracted by Zarr, a NumFOCUS sponsored project, from Henning Falk and are free to re-use under a CC-BY license. Attribution Please include an attribution similar to: "Adam u...

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jul 9

REGISTRATION LINK TO FOLLOW - sign up to our mailing list at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j... for updates on the event and community

www.jiscmail.ac.uk

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jul 9

The meeting output will include a prioritised roadmap for how CCP-volumeEM can support the community going forward.

Here’s a bit of info on what a Collaborative Computational Project (CCP) is: www.cosec.ac.uk/communities/...

@cosec-ukri.bsky.social

What are CCPs? – CoSeC

www.cosec.ac.uk

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jul 9

This meeting will kickstart the development of a Collaborative Computational Project (CCP) to address these challenges - sharing methods, establishing best practices, and supporting adoption of cutting-edge technologies such as AI, Next Generation File Formats #NGFF, and high performance computing

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jul 9

Effectively analysing these vast datasets requires coordinated, cross-disciplinary effort and robust, scalable tools

Image showing a cartoon of a cloud computer connected by lines to three different devices, a PC workstation, a laptop, and a tablet. Each has some electron microscopy data shown on their screen.
Acknowledgement: "Multiple clients" by Henning Falk, ©2022 NumFOCUS, is used under a CC BY 4.0 license

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jul 9

vEM encompasses powerful TEM and SEM-based techniques that enable nanometre-resolution imaging through cellular and tissue volumes, capable of routinely producing terabyte-scale datasets

Image showing a cartoon psychiatrist with a patient on the couch with a speech bubble showing an ominous tidal wave labelled "DATA" about to crash into a person
Acknowledgement: "Kit's deluge" by Henning Falk, ©2022 NumFOCUS, is used under a CC BY 4.0 license

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jul 9

The aim of the meeting is to bring together researchers, microscopists, biologists, computer scientists, image analysts, and software engineers to shape the future of computational support for volume electron microscopy (vEM)

Image showing researchers surrounding a sketch of different datasets, represented as blocks of cubes. Arrows connect between the different data, indicating various processes like "acquire", "publish", "make available", "analyze"
Acknowledgement: "FAIR re-use" by Henning Falk, ©2022 NumFOCUS, is used under a CC BY 4.0 license

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jul 9

🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨
Inaugural CCP-volumeEM Community Meeting, 3rd November 2025 at @crick.ac.uk in London
"Towards a collaborative computational community for volume EM"
Timings: 12pm - 5.30pm, followed by networking reception

#volumeEM #BioImageAnalysis #VEM #CCPvolumeEM #CoSeC

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jun 27

We now have a mailing list for anyone who'd like to get involved with the volume EM collaborative computational community!
Sign up at bit.ly/ccp-volume-em to hear all the latest news and opportunities

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · May 29

If you work in #VolumeEM, please fill in our survey to help us build a Collaborative Computational Project for volumeEM!

Survey link: forms.office.com/e/eMAJGCKUnc

we're aiming to identify the needs of the community in order to build a roadmap for all-things data-related in #vEM

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Jemima Burden @jemimaburden.bsky.social · Jul 2

Exciting next steps in #volumeEM data analysis! A way to remove the data bottleneck..🍾👏 #mmc2025

@ccp-volumeem.bsky.social @martinjones.bsky.social

man stands by PowerPoint slide sharing qr codes for a survey and mailing list for image analysis of volume EM data

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · Jun 27

We now have a mailing list for anyone who'd like to get involved with the volume EM collaborative computational community!
Sign up at bit.ly/ccp-volume-em to hear all the latest news and opportunities

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Martin Jones @martinjones.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks to everyone who has filled this in already - if you haven't, and you work in #volumeEM, please help us by filling in this survey about all-things data (analysis, processing, storage, transfer and anything else to do with data!)

CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · May 29

If you work in #VolumeEM, please fill in our survey to help us build a Collaborative Computational Project for volumeEM!

Survey link: forms.office.com/e/eMAJGCKUnc

we're aiming to identify the needs of the community in order to build a roadmap for all-things data-related in #vEM

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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · May 30

Need help with bioimage analysis? Contact the UK Euro-BioImaging Node to see how we can help!

www.eurobioimaging-access.eu/nodes/uk-node

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Martin Jones @martinjones.bsky.social · May 29

If you work in #VolumeEM, we'd be very grateful if you could fill in our survey so we can better understand the computational needs of the #vEM community

#BioImageAnalysis #ResearchSoftwareEngineering #ElectronMicroscopy

CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · May 29

If you work in #VolumeEM, please fill in our survey to help us build a Collaborative Computational Project for volumeEM!

Survey link: forms.office.com/e/eMAJGCKUnc

we're aiming to identify the needs of the community in order to build a roadmap for all-things data-related in #vEM

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CCP-volumeEM @ccp-volumeem.bsky.social · May 29

If you work in #VolumeEM, please fill in our survey to help us build a Collaborative Computational Project for volumeEM!

Survey link: forms.office.com/e/eMAJGCKUnc

we're aiming to identify the needs of the community in order to build a roadmap for all-things data-related in #vEM

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