Beth Cimini 🔬💻📊

The highs of the conference yesterday and advising people on Twitter this morning have made me a bit reflective - I want to share some stuff I've never put online before, in case it helps others out. In grad school, by any measure of academic success, I was a complete failure.

🔬📈 We analysed #microscopy papers to track #bioimage analysis use. ImageJ+Fiji dominate, but others are gaining ground. Researchers undercite them and provide too little detail to reproduce analyses. By Tayla and Bruno, with @guijacquemet.bsky.social lab 📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.21.760457

Checkout our new preprint 🔬! An eye-opening analysis detailing the adoption of bioimage-analysis tools in microscopy, curated with Bruno Saraiva and @henriqueslab.bsky.social – a thread 🧵: preprint: doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.21.760457 github: github.com/HenriquesLab/mapping-bioimage-software

Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to laziness. As someone who spent a decade in political communications and corporate PR, the straight answer is that either she or her reps reached out to the NYT and offered to provide quotes. And lazy reporters gratefully accepted the offer.

RIP Walter❤️

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

It's fall, which means it's bioimage analysis conference season! @erinweisbart.bsky.social and @bethcimini.bsky.social had SUCH fun at the @bioimagingna.bsky.social/I2K #I2kxBINA2026meeting last month. We HAD to take advantage of being in person together to film on-site with our friends! (1/2)

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

billionaires bought the news and this is what we get.

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

#HappyFluorescenceFriday #microscopycommunity - Congrats to the winner of the Wayne S. Rasband Open Source Imaging Award! Wayne S. Rasband Open Source Imaging Award – Curtis Rueden Learn more: buff.ly/hwKCCwU

Look, we're nearly there, okay. It's coming together. Just.. just one more week.

BREAKING: The hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau "will not move forward," the lead researcher says. “The solution is clear here: Take the money and vaccinate as many kids as you can,” @pauloffit.bsky.social told me: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Well, we've reached the "productive procrastination by working on every open to-do task that ISN'T grantwriting" stage of grantwriting, which is at least a welcome change from the "stare at page hopelessly, contemplate new life plans" phase.

LOL I guess it’s “find out which of your favourite websites run on php” day 😂

We took a break from advertising these but we are still holding weekly OME-Zarr office hours! Ask @jni.codes or @joshmoore.bsky.social anything about OME-Zarr on Thu Oct 22 at 9am Paris / 12:30pm Delhi / 6pm Sydney. Full details and zoom link at: ngff.openmicroscopy.org/community#of...

I don't want to hear any whining about fixing certs from the information security types today. you chose to join the techno-priest caste, now shut up and perform the rites of exorcism

We completed the publication project "Focus on the methods reproducibility of bioimage analysis", started in #GloBIAS 2024. Here is the editorial for the special issue of the Journal of Microscopy explaining the aim of this action (open access). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

Congratulations to @yerinchen.bsky.social and @ctspeng.bsky.social for receiving the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and to @jtneal.bsky.social for his NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award!

Big news! Our week-long #bioimageanalysis bootcamp is BACK! Learn how to think about bioimage analysis like the pros do, learn what corrections you should (and shouldn't!) apply to your images, learn open source tools, and more. Apply NOW at broad.io/BAB3 for our January 2027 course!

Image corrections might not be the answer to EVERYTHING, but in Ep 42, we discuss how they might be the answer to "improving your measurements enough to measure the thing you care about". @bethcimini.bsky.social and @erinweisbart.bsky.social discuss what, when, and why!

One thing you learn from reading the academic literature on parental estrangement is that it's rarely *just* about events from childhood. Most adults are willing to reconcile with their problematic parents as long as they can acknowledge their mistakes and own up to them. A lot of them refuse.

Broke: Abolish ICE Woke: Abolish MBA www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

What does DARVO look like? This. This asshat that was fired for sexual harassment, suing his accuser and winning $6 mill. Just incandescently angry on her behalf and those that have bravely come forward everywhere. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/16/m...

We are glad to announce that the @dfg.de has funded our #BioImageNet proposal! 🤩

“The culmination of my life’s work may have been targeted by an AI-assisted censorship tool & terminated by a politically-motivated AI hallucination” If you care in any way about science, you need to read this thread from my friend Kelton Minor.

Marisa's entire piece is terrific, but this part has really stuck with me. A group of College Republicans decided that El-Sayed wasn't "welcome" in the Senate and set out to stop him.

Barack Obama just delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump's actions against Ilhan Omar. This is worth reading in full.

What a coincidence that TikTok, partly owned by the pro-Trump oligarch Ellison family, shut down the account for a critical documentary of pro-Trump oligarch Elon Musk. </s>

Incredible opportunities that super-charge folks careers!

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

Come work with me! TT Professor opening at Purdue University; Quantitative Neuroscience! I’d love to recruit someone working on high throughput image data. It's a great place to be, Purdue is a top-30 US university (12th among public universities): careers.purdue.edu/job/Assistan...

we should be framing the Jake Bauers insurance story as pro-player and anti-lockout these are not all millionaires a lot of them are guys who need healthcare for their families and are tied to a job just like you

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

El- Sayed: "Here‘s the thing about it – no matter who you are, how you love, how you pray, how you identify, it just should not be this hard... Shouldn‘t be this hard to keep our money here. Spend it on roads and bridges here, build our schools here, provide healthcare here. Shouldn‘t be this hard"

Haven't done an animation in a while. Lucky for me @amsikking.bsky.social came up with a "Dual-Grind" snouty light sheet objective - amsikking.github.io/idv-snouty_l.... I happily present a look into their manufacture.

This is exactly right. Think of what happened these last few years with gerrymandering. Republicans have been pushing the envelope in red states for more than a decade now, but as soon as Democrats pushed back they began to hesitate.

It’s a miracle of pure dumb luck that this person’s gun jammed before he was able to carry out the attack, but this stuff is a symptom of all the of the rising anti-Indian racism online that desperately needs to be pushed back against

What if we just didn't make fun of what people looked like (or their size, or ability, or hair or clothes or makeup or plastic surgery even or any of that shit) Because actually what matters is what you say and what you do words and actions and their impact on other people