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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Aug 28

🏅 Know an outstanding individual, a small team of researchers, or an institution that would be a strong candidate for the #EinsteinFoundationAward?
▶️ You can now recommend them at any time throughout the year: award.einsteinfoundation.de/recommend-a-...

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EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC @eu-openscreen.bsky.social · Jul 2

📢 #CytoData2025 oral abstract deadline extended to July 25!
🧠 Hackathon apps also due July 25
🔬 All cell biologists, chemists, machine learning researchers, computational biologists & data scientists are welcome to join!
👉 Register: cytodata25.eu-openscreen.eu
#EUOPENSCREEN #datascience

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chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · Jul 2

📢 Final Call for Oral Submissions – Deadline: July 25th!

Don’t miss the opportunity to present your research at CytoData 2025!

🚀 Hackathon Applications Also Due July 25th!

Submit your abstract and register for the Hackathon now: cytodata25.eu-openscreen.eu/registration/

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cytodata.bsky.social @cytodata.bsky.social · Jun 20

🌟 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 🌟
The deadline for abstract submissions for oral presentations at Cytodata 2025 in Berlin is approaching!

👉 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 25!
cytodata25.eu-openscreen.eu/registration/

#BerlinConference #Imageanalysis #Microscopy

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chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · Jun 6

Wonderful to present my work leading a large European consortium around @fmp-berlin.de and @eu-openscreen.bsky.social at #ELMI2025. We produce large-scale #open-source high quality Cell Painting data for drug discovery 💊. First dataset published: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Stay tuned for more!

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chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · Jun 5

@quarep-limi.bsky.social PixelQuality workshop #ELMI2025: "Best practices for publishing images" powered by @einsteinberlin.bsky.social. Super interactive and fun! Great to get direct feedback from users and contributors to our checklists: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · May 14

Big step for open science! 🎉 Our @eu-openscreen.bsky.social consortium drops their first open Cell Painting dataset.

Wolff et al. 2025: doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

FAIR, high-quality & ready to power AI in drug discovery. 100K+ compounds coming in 2025!
#OpenData #CellPainting #DrugDiscovery

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cytodata.bsky.social @cytodata.bsky.social · Apr 23

Join us in Berlin for CytoData 2025!
👉 Info & registration: cytodata25.eu-openscreen.eu

🔬 Hackathon: Nov 17–19
📢 Symposium: Nov 20–21

Explore advancements in image-based profiling & high-content screening and Tackle real-world challenges using EU-OPENSCREEN data.

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chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · Apr 14

Join us for the CytoData Symposium and Hackathon: cytodata25.eu-openscreen.eu

Registration open now!

Symposium November 20–21, 2025
Hackathon November 17–19, 2025

@eu-openscreen.bsky.social @mdc-berlin.bsky.social @fmp-berlin.de @cytodata.bsky.social

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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · Mar 26

Had an incredible time in Freiburg. I have been enchanted by this region and can't wait to return. Roland Nitschke was the best host and is doing really important work for the microscopy community. Looking forward to working together more and also with Helena and Christopher!

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Mar 14

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Mar 14

🥇 The €200K Institutional Award goes to @pubpeer.com, a community platform for rapid post-publication peer review to improve scientific publications. 19% of global retractions have been the subject of prior discussions on PubPeer since its launch in 2012. Congratulations! 🥳

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Mar 14

We would like to thank the awardees, speakers, moderators, and guests for the wonderful evening at the 2024 #EinsteinFoundationAward ceremony! @kaiwegner.bsky.social @regberlin.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @pubpeer.com @helenajambor.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Mar 14

💐 Congratulations to our €100K Early Career Award Winner PixelQuality by @helenajambor.bsky.social and @chrischmied.bsky.social! PixelQuality is a community-driven initiative aimed at enhancing image data quality and reproducibility.
Watch their project presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ-Y...

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James Saenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social · Mar 13

Tune in now to hear @helenajambor.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/live/ZZ5R8CG...

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Mar 13

📊 Figures are a cornerstone of research data communication. Early Career Award winner PixelQuality @helenajambor.bsky.social and @chrischmied.bsky.social are working to make them transparent and reliable. Discover how by watching their talk. 4/4

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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thanks for the shoutout @plos.org -

some of the work leading to our award was published in PLOS: quantification of image figure legibility:

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · Mar 13

Really connecting with people today

chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · Mar 13

Lets see what the audience thinks

chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · Mar 13

@helenajambor.bsky.social and I will present our Guidelines for publishing images and image analysis at the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social winner colloquium. @quarep-limi.bsky.social

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chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · Feb 14

Meet @helenajambor.bsky.social and me at the @einsteinberlin.bsky.social Award Colloquium in Berlin and learn how post-publication review, voluntary science sleuths and our publication guidelines (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) improve research and publication practices!

@quarep-limi.bsky.social

Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Feb 13

@natureportfolio.nature.com, @berlinualliance.bsky.social, @plos.org, @nasonline.org, @maxplanck.de

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chrischmied.bsky.social @chrischmied.bsky.social · Jan 27

@bethcimini.bsky.social introduces bilayer: bilayers.org at #slas2025: making #deeplearning tools more user-friendly.

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EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC @eu-openscreen.bsky.social · Jan 24

We're going to SLAS2025! 🔬

Next week our Director Phil Gribbon & Lead Data Scientist @chrischmied.bsky.social are at #SLAS2025 in San Diego. Be sure to connect with Christopher, who'll have a poster on morphological profiling datasets based on EU-OS compound libraries!

www.slas.org/events-calen...

SLAS2025 Schedule at a Glance

View the up-to-date schedule information for SLAS2025.

www.slas.org

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