Michael Doube

How can we make sure community software projects that are delivering value are worth looking after from the developers' perspective? I've always found that being paid is highly motivating. Now there is a fair way for users to help developers keep going: @beancounter.ch

“They have found the original homeland of modern horses.” #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4zlJRZN

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Your periodic reminder that freedom isn't free. "While essential for getting started, grant support is not a sustainable long term solution for funding daily operations."

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Having seen the news: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... thought I'd share a cilia movie captured at UCL GOS ICH with Eriomina Shahaj & Vanesa Papastavrou using simple DIC on a Nikon Ti2 with DIC at 60x1.4. 500 fps here slowed down 20 times. Processed with Nikon's denoiseAI and an unsharp mask in Fiji.

Clinicians includes vets - and looks like it is internationally open as well.

In guinea fowl, walking and running form a continuum of center-of-mass dynamics in which the rotation sense of the velocity loop indicates the walk-run divide. Read the article by Monica A. Daley and Aleksandra Birn-Jeffery doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Getting income from @beancounter.ch means in practice that @bonej.org continues to improve and stays relevant in a changing world, because it's worth my time to continue working on it.

All these posts about the cool screenings at @princecharlescinema.com almost make me want to move back to London.

Drowning in Image data? Know there’s a better way to analyse it, but don’t know where to start? 📣 UK-BIAS to the rescue! 👩‍💻🧑‍💻👨‍💻We’re the first dedicated #BioImageAnalysis service in the UK-node of @eurobioimaging.bsky.social bringing together specialists from ten UK institutions. 👩‍💻🧑‍💻👨‍💻

@nature.com has an obvious conflict of interest in running this story. They benefit from a huge amount of reviewing labour that others pay for. Reminder: @springernature.com is half owned by one person. Why are you NOT insisting that he pay for your expert opinion, like any other professional?

New in #OAC! Phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography of human articular #cartilage samples reveal age-related changes with similar fidelity as histology, while providing substantial additional quantitative information. Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Normally I avoid social media outrage - switch off, block, etc. But there's a sprouting of a special kind. Real microscopic imaging vs. fabrication of epithelial cilia. Fabulous. Everyone who's in love ❤️ with ML inference 🤖: it's not measurement data. It's just filling the gaps with a guess.

Researchers have sorted out and deciphered thousands of letters written in cuneiform script on clay tablets found in Mesopotamia. 📜 These are eerily modern, showing that people four millennia ago shared the same interests and concerns as we do today

This article seems to celebrate the shift from poor support for #software #engineers in research to pretending they aren't needed at all. Did we spend 2 decades consolidating fragmented software ecosystems into platforms only to see them dissolve through "vibe coding"? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in joining the #RSOS editorial board? We seek enthusiastic & engaged Associate Editors who will perform a range of valuable tasks for the journal and the communities it serves. The application deadline is 30 October 2026. Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/pages/e...

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⬡ Today, we become the Institute for Research Software. For 15 years, we've worked as the Software Sustainability Institute to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised.

1 year teaching post in anatomy/physiology in beautiful West Wales. Closes Sunday! Please share widely jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/v...

🎉 Big news is coming. Next week we'll unveil a new name and brand identity for the Software Sustainability Institute that captures the work we do today, honours what we've achieved so far, and sets the stage for what's next. Watch this space 👀 www.software.ac.uk/blog/new-ide...

A l’approche de l’hiver, le crâne des musaraignes s’aplatit, tandis que leur museau s’élargit

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En 2006, il était presqu’obligatoire de payer un logiciel Microsoft pour avoir le droit d’utiliser un ordinateur. Et je trouvais ça injuste… En 2026, il est presqu’obligatoire d’avoir un compte chez Google et chez Meta qui nous espionne en permanence juste pour avoir le droit de vivre…

Question: do I know anyone near Nantes who would be willing to pick up a dead gull-billed tern and its logger? L49 has sadly been killed near a road. I’d be very grateful for a picture and the logger and would of course reimburse postage.

📢 Release alert! BoneJ+ is now callable in headless mode, including specifying which GPU(s) to use. ~/Fiji/fiji --headless -Dbonej.plus.devices="1-0" --run run_all_bonej_plus.py Drop us a line if you'd like to know more and to get a demo script.

Pleased to report that I have been paid in cold hard pounds sterling for a Fast and Fair review job. Just like when I was in the clinic: payment for professional advice. Money has a purpose and this is it. Better than vouchers, crypto or Brownie points because I can do what I want with it.

Check out New York Times coverage of our full website launch! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/c...

Looking forward to returning to my PhD alma mater @qmul.bsky.social this July for back-to-back ISBM and BRS meetings: www.bonemorphometry.org/isbm-2026/ boneresearchsociety.org/meeting/brs2... See you there!

Just merged a pull request from @ctrue.bsky.social into @bonej.org 's master branch solving a long-standing CI annoyance (🙏). Weirdly, Anthropic's Claude LLM has inserted text claiming that it is a co-author. One should use the best tools for the job (e.g. IDEs), but tools are not authors.

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