Juan Nunez-Iglesias

Just had the sinking realization that there are people on at least one of my basketball message boards who are using LLMs to draft their posts. It didn’t really register until I noticed them parroting an LLM’s apology structure when responding to criticisms of their posts.

So @igalia.com and friends are slowly but surely turning Servo into a web-compatible browser. This would be a singular feat of engineering whose side effects throughout the process at Mozilla and Igalia have made computing better for everybody. servo.org/blog/2026/10... wpt.fyi/results/?lab...

Conda, Mamba and Pixi users: update your tools and CA packages after the eMudhra certificate compromise. Follow the instructions for your installation, including existing environments: buff.ly/Oq9uv0w

Jim Balsillie: ".... Foundational IP for AI that Canadian taxpayers funded for two decades is transferred from U of T to Google, who thanked Canada for it and said, 'We now use it throughout our entire business and it’s a major driver of our corporate success.'” sencanada.ca/Content/SEN/...

🎉 New preprint! We built a fully open-source, 3D-printable droplet microfluidics platform with strobe-enhanced microscopy — sharp images of fast-moving droplets without a high-speed camera. All files on GitHub. #Microfluidics #OpenHardware 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.19.758223v1

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)

I'll be speaking at the Open Bioimaging Practices meetup tomorrow - join us if you're curious about (3D) multiplexed protein image analysis! 🔬

Do you want to learn about multiplexed image analysis using OME-Zarr? Tomorrow, @rhornb.bsky.social , @nrepina.bsky.social & Flurin Sturzenegger will share their learnings about building workflows around multiplexed image analysis, see www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up...

After sitting on the account for a few years, I finally set up an affiliate link on Bookshop.org -- if you use this link to pre-order my new book, you both support independent bookstores and give me a bit of an extra boost! bookshop.org/a/104234/978...

see I've tried using AI for coding I'd like to think I'm special and immune to AI addiction, but the reality is probably just that I'm incapable of feeling any kind of attachment or pride in AI generated code I feel like it pollutes the project and displaces my own motivation, I just don't want it

A month ago, I found myself in the unexpected position of founding an AI startup. Today, the Inference Co-op adopted its first real governance charter. We can't make AI good, but we can own our choices, and make them together. Want to join? https://inference.coop

#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

The State of the Map Latin America conference happens Oct 27-29 in Mexico City. If you want to help participants to find their way around town, do your OSM contributions before the 25th! We will give a talk and distribute some of our stickers. Want to meet? Reach out! www.comaps.app/community/

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...

📝 One of my arguments against putting icons in every menu item was: “Apple doesn’t do it!” Then they started doing it. Now they’ve stopped doing it. Now I can say, ‘Even Apple tried doing it, and now they say “Don’t”.’ What more could I wish for? blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-i...

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The flies arrived in Cambridge this morning—healthy and happy! So nice to see another successful shipment! And great to draw one of our all-time-best customers out of retirement long enough to recreate our first order! Here’s to another 40 years of the BDSC helping to make fly genetics happen!

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

[1/4] I joined the @subvert.fm co-op earlier this year before it went live. This is the cute little zine package I was sent. I decided to boycott Bandcamp purchasing when Subvert launched, so I will no longer buy any music (or merch) from Bandcamp for as long as Subvert remains a viable alternative.

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.

My little electric Smart car next to an American pickup truck. Thinking that the whole Smart car would fit within the engine compartment of the GMC.

Our movie won at the @inp-marseille.bsky.social retreat! Behold NeuroCyto's latest blockbuster: "Neuronal culture is a piece of cake" 🍰

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I warmly recommend this job opportunity with the Image Analysis Hub and Jean-Yves at Institut Pasteur. It’s an amazing team and a fantastic, collaborative environment that gives you the opportunity to support others while being equally supported and valued.

Mmm, worker-owned ice cream.

Python 3.15 is OUT 🐍🚀 Lazy imports, Tachyon in the stdlib, frame pointers on by default, frozendict, better error messages... this one is LOADED 🔥🔥🔥 Go upgrade 🤘 discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

Tenure track assistant/associate professor positions open in my university. Within life sciences, INCLUDING PLANT SCIENCES. Please RT jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

this week I learned that during a merge conflict, you can get a list of all commits involved in the conflict that touched a file with: $ git log --merge FILENAME Seems super useful if there are a lot of commits being merged (like in a big rebase) but only a couple of them touched that file

ATTN: The first round of applications for the napari developers-in-residence closes October 13th 11:59pm AoE. ⏰ We appreciate the great response, so finish up those applications! There may be a second round which we'd also announce on socials. 📖 Read more & apply: napari.org/island-dispa...

nothing like self-hosting in a home lab to convince me that self-hosting is not a reasonable solution for laypeople against Big Tech

Nothing makes me want to move permanently to the woods more than receiving endless 10-paragraph e-mails made entirely of sentences like "You have built a framework that is both intimately grounded in your own research and universally applicable."

🏁 That's a wrap! The @biohub.org Cell Tracking machine learning challenge on @kaggle.com is over: 4,478 participants, 3,947 teams, 120 countries, 95,438 submissions, tracking every cell of zebrafish embryos. 🧪🔬🧵 kaggle.com/competition... #microscopy

Curious to see what a malaria parasite looks like during different stages of cytokinesis? 🫣 In this month’s @nfdi4bioimage.bsky.social calendar, we present a dataset of Plasmodium falciparum in EMPIAR and available as OME-Zarr via the @bioimagearchive.bsky.social, both hosted by @ebi.embl.org.

We have a position open in our core facility in the @pasteur.fr . Please share it and / or apply! forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Yes, this is what they are working on (led by @dholms.at ) and what is to be released next month: atproto.com/blog/atproto...

Preprint is out! Our BakingTray software turns a 2-photon microscope into a serial-section tomography system for automated whole-organ imaging. ~€35k to convert an existing scope. 11 systems worldwide, >7,000 samples at SWC alone #neuroskyence #microscopy www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Great thread. Dripping with sarcasm, but still manages to heartily celebrate the importance of human contribution and connection in (specifically game development but generally) any creative endeavour.

sometimes it feels like a lot of normal people conceptualize an "artist" as a superposition of both A. a super wealthy fine art elite who does low effort abstract art nobody understands B. someone magically born with the art talent gene even though A is 0.000001% of artists and B is not a thing

Me? With my claws and teeth I will will defend art and artists as essential to any version of a beautiful livable world. a-rabbitsfoot.com/editorial/co...

This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

Last call for abstracts (deadline Tue Oct 6) for the 29th Australian Conference on Microscopy & Microanalysis! www.acmm29.org Feb 1-4, 2027 in Sydney, Australia! 🐨 #ACMM29

Just released the napari-clusters-plotter 0.11.0 github.com/BiAPoL/napar..., a little passion-project of mine for interactive exploration of datasets and attached features in @napari.org Two cool things to take note of 👇

Hi all, prototype of a napari-zenapi-streaming plugin is working using @zeiss-microscopy.bsky.social and @napari.org. - stream pixels from ZEN into multi-dim array and display live - stream pixels from ZEN directly into OME-ZARR (see video) For viewing I used: find-nuclei.github.io

I think this qualifies you to be time's person of the year

I went to Geneva a few weeks ago and spoke on a panel about the nature of time for a Geneva Watch Days event. While I was there, on a lark, I entered a competition to most precisely calibrate a Swiss watch. And today I found out that I won! 😃 www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6hUTB...

It's @perlman.bsky.social representing the @image.coop at #i2kbina2026!