Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 13h

Girl yes, DEXA scans ✨

ASBMR @asbmr.bsky.social · 14h

🦴 Bone health is having a moment! #AmyPoehler dropped some osteoporosis awareness earlier this year.

In honor of #WorldOsteoporosisDay this month, we want to spotlight celebs who speak on bone health. 💬 Who’s your fave?

More in #LasCulturistas full ep: youtu.be/6Ab3vaatghk

Reposted by Michael Doube

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk on.ft.com/46EWow2 | opinion

The Royal Society should be protecting science, not Musk

The esteemed club risks becoming a bystander as reason and rationality come under attack

on.ft.com

3 27 82

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 1d

And honoured

1

Reposted by Michael Doube

Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 1d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

forum.image.sc

2 72 56

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 1d

Robert I didn't mean you when I referred to AI slop, ofc. 😂 I see a lot of dumb images illustrating formulaic "country discovered thing!" badly framed attention-seeking posts.

3

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 2d

Surely the ND (no derivative works) bit of a CC-BY-ND licence precludes incorporating material from a paper into a model?

Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

2

Reposted by Michael Doube

Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · Sep 19

Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.

Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.

Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors

The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).

www.thebookseller.com

1 92 99

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 2d

I concur. Stylistically it's a bit twee ("I was honoured to have done this thing...") but quite a lot going on there from the professional sphere. Algorithm does tend to shove bad science reporting in your face and there is a lot of AI slop posting.

1 5

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 2d

It's a great leveller. Everyone turns up for the ritual, driving their Aston Martin or riding their bike.

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 2d

... aerosols, motor oil, vegetable oil, nespresso pods, PET, clothes, building rubble... I think that's it.

1

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 2d

Compost, wood, corks, metal lids, clear glass, green glass, brown glass, furniture, iron, paper, cardboard, plastic, chemicals, alkaline batteries, lithium batteries, aluminium cans, aluminium foil, tetrapaks, milk bottles, medicines, radiographs, electronics, toys, cds, dvds, books, unrecyclables,

1

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 2d

Good bin run today! Scored a box set of the best Star Wars movies.

Waste management is a big deal in 🇨🇭. Other places have a dump or a tip but it's classy here, we have a déchetterie with maybe 20 categories to sort into. Will try to list them all in a reply...

Box set of the only good Star Wars movies, the middle three from the late seventies.

1 2

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 4d

You can fake an image no matter the technology. Even an electronic "this is an original image from this device" certificate trail (using hashes or whatever) can be spoofed, just by staging the subject. Better to work on the incentives that drive people to fraud, in my view.

1 2

Reposted by Michael Doube

Kevin Terretaz @kwolbachia.bsky.social · 4d

I’m happy to share some plugins I’ve been developping this summer: "Channels and Contrast" and LUTs Manager!
I can’t find new bugs and ideas by now so I need your help to please test them in your machines and report bugs, feedbacks and ideas! forum.image.sc/t/looking-fo...

6 34 92

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 5d

Really important perspective for funders (and participants) in risky exploratory endeavours.

John Thornhill @johnthornhill.bsky.social · 5d

Terrific piece on @alphaville.ft.com by Sinead O'Sullivan:

"Winners emerge from redundancy, not efficiency."

on.ft.com/4gTUz1M

In space, nobody can hear you budget

SpaceX and Blue Origin are no more efficient at building spacecraft than NASA. But that’s not the point of them

on.ft.com

1

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 5d

Long, slender trabeculae pass across the marrow space. Trabeculae help resist weightbearing loads. But these ones don't appear to be in a good configuration to do that, unlike the spongy trabeculae nearby.

Maybe they're holding adipose tissue in place, preventing it from wobbling during locomotion?

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 5d

The stripe of dense bone running from top right to lower left is the growth plate scar, separating the main part of the bone from the epiphysis, the knobbly joint condyle. It's formed when the cartilagenous growth plate stops expanding and is replaced by bone.

1

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 5d

Top left is the cortical ('dense') bone shell. Looks solid but it's porous, filled with millions of osteocytes and capillaries serving them. Bottom right is spongy (trabecular, cancellous) bone, thought to help spread joint loads.

1

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 5d

The leftovers from last week's bœuf bourguignon. This is a 'marrow bone' after boiling out the adipose tissue for gravy and washing in lots of warm tap water, household detergents and a little chlorine bleach. Cortex & (glorious) trabeculae, growth plate 'scar', marrow cavity visible.

1

Reposted by Michael Doube

Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊 @bethcimini.bsky.social · 15d

Halfway to I2K is BACK, friends of all kinds! Last year, 650 people attended 30+ TOTALLY FREE image analysis workshops of all kinds, across many timezones.

If you make image analysis software and want to teach it, workshop submissions are open now! We'd love to have your tool highlighted.

BioImaging North America @bioimagingna.bsky.social · 19d

#HappyFluorescenceFriday!

#microscopycommunity- want to learn open source image analysis or share your knowledge to help others? We’ve got a FREE virtual workshop Nov 17-19! Now accepting workshop session applications!

Learn more & sign up: buff.ly/esGIotD

1 32 49

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 7d

Well - it was earlier than that but not much. Alan Boyde at UCL was using a Petran & Hadravsky spinning disc confocal from Czechoslovakia (apparently he drove it over himself and had to be bailed out at the border by friends and colleagues over an enormous import duty bill). doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Stereoscopic Images in Confocal (Tandem Scanning) Microscopy

Stereoscopic pair images with parallel projection geometry are obtained by through-focusing along two inclined axes while recording two (summed and stacked) images with a microscope with a very shallo...

doi.org

1 2

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 7d

Spinning disc confocal was already in use in London at UCL after Alan Boyde imported one from behind the iron curtain, hand made by Petran and Hadravsky in Czechoslovakia. See this 1985 article in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

(it was still going 20 years later when I did my PhD with Alan)

Stereoscopic Images in Confocal (Tandem Scanning) Microscopy

Stereoscopic pair images with parallel projection geometry are obtained by through-focusing along two inclined axes while recording two (summed and stacked) images with a microscope with a very shallo...

doi.org

1

Reposted by Michael Doube

Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 21d

PhD Alert! 😍 Our lab is hiring a PhD student to study how shrews shrink in winter and grow in spring. Yes, you read that right!
tinyurl.com/shrinkingshr...
Join us at the @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social, study a super cool animal, and join the @imprs-qbee.bsky.social community!

DM me for questions!

Seasonal size change and aging in shrews

imprs-qbee.mpg.de

2 50 36

Michael Doube @mdoube.bsky.social · 8d

Late night project writing: surf music time... 🌊

tidal.com/playlist/10c...

Surf music

Playlist - Surf music - 62 items

tidal.com

1

Reposted by Michael Doube

Ignacio Arganda-Carreras @iarganda.bsky.social · 8d

📣 We’re hiring, please RT! Fully funded 4-year PhD position in our CVPD group at @informatikaehu.bsky.social!

Research at the intersection of AI, deep learning & bioimage analysis. 🧠🔬

📅 Applications open Oct 6 (deadline: ~Oct 27)
📍 San Sebastian, Spain.
👉 cvpd.github.io/post/2025-09...

📢 Open 4-year PhD Position in Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis! | CVPD Research group

The Computer Vision and Pattern Discovery (CVPD) group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is offering a fully funded 4-year PhD position within the recently awarded project TOSBI: Towar...

cvpd.github.io

2 26 26