Erick Ratamero
erickratamero.com
Erick Ratamero
@erickratamero.com
Cross-posting from idlethumbs.social/@ratamero

half respectable professional (life sciences data stuff), half nerdy gremlin. views my own etc etc. he/him/ele

https://erickratamero.com
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ok, I am now over 1k followers (!!!) and have a new job, so new pinned post: hi! I'm Erick. I just started work as the new Data Management Coordinator in the Data Science Centre at EMBL. Most of my work is on open-source tools to help people manage their data. Glad to have you here!
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We wrapped up the symposium part of our 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop on Tuesday. What a phenomenal two days! I'm humbled by the incredible positive energy, talent, and enthusiasm that filled this event.
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Just 4 days until the start of I2K and its 33 totally free image analysis tutorials and events! Please share with your "home networks", especially early career researchers - the videos will be amazing and high-impact no matter how many people attend live, BUT (1/x)
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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OME-NGFF Hackathon in Zürich just started! We're organizing ourselves to dig into various topics during the next few days. Let's shape the future of microscopy image data standards together. #OME-NGFF_Hackathon #GerBI
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Been busy in Zürich für the last 24h or so. Talks have been great so far, and I have a talk too. Still find it weird to see my name on a poster.
November 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The Séance of Blake Manor is a strange game. It's not a brilliant puzzle game, nor a great adventure game, but it has me completely hooked. The presentation is amazing, it has great writing, and it's very very well paced. Strong recommend.
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Today I'm announcing a new digital textbook 📖🖥️, "An Introduction to OME-Zarr for Big Bioimaging Data".

ome-zarr-book.readthedocs.io
An Introduction to OME-Zarr for Big Bioimaging Data
ome-zarr-book.readthedocs.io
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
my brain put together the words "Truman Zenodo" which 1) is a joke that will only make sense for the 5 people in the world who deal with research data management AND are Psychonauts fans; 2) is barely a joke to begin with
October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Episode 17 - perhaps my favorite yet. How do you write a forum.image.sc post that will get you the answers you need without revealing information you don't want to tell? @erinweisbart.bsky.social and I go through what the experts need to know to help you. Post your sci q's today on forum.image.sc !
October 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Right! Daylight savings has ended. That explains why I feel so well rested this morning (and why it was so bright at 7am)
October 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
If you've ever worked with OME things, it is worth reading this update from Jason Swedlow on image.sc about the evolving OME governance. The TL;DR is that an interim leadership team has been assembled and new governance structures are coming sooner rather than later. forum.image.sc/t/ome-transi...
OME Transition-- Update
Dear All- Over the past two decades, OME has grown into a vibrant and global community dedicated to developing open standards, tools, and resources for the management, sharing, and analysis of micros...
forum.image.sc
October 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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We just hit 10 workshops submitted, with almost two weeks to go! Help us get to 20 before the last-day frantic mad dash? Teach your favorite tool today!
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.
#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
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
One more open position at the Data Science Centre here! This one is working on our recently open-sourced ELN/LIMS/all-in-one solution LabID (gitlab.com/lab-integrat...). If you have either full stack or scientific workflows experience, check it out! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Scientific Developer or Full Stack Developer
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is a world leader in scientific research and at the forefront in the development of cutting-edge technologies. EMBL core facilities and scientists gene...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:06 AM
tomorrow my meetings span from Australia to the US West Coast. call me Mr. Worldwide (minus the Pacific)
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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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 2026 course!
October 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Scientific Community Manager
EMBL is Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and teams performing scientific research in disci...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
My former team at JAX sent two people to SciPy this year and they teamed up to teach a workshop on scaling-up deep learning inference to large-scale bioimage data - it's finally on youtube! if you need an intro to the dask/zarr world, this is a great starting point. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCWu...
October 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Jean-Yves is not only really really good at his job, but also a great person. This is a great chance to work in exciting science in a fantastic environment!
October 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Woke up at 5:30 (really feel like I'm getting old) and did what any normal person would before work: setting up a (internet-facing) jellyfin server on my VPS that still uses my local storage as a backend. So now I can listen to all my music and watch all my stuff from anywhere, no VPN needed!
October 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I'll be there talking about my slightly-unconventional career path and my slightly-unconventional current job!
#HappyFluorescenceFriday!

#microscopycommunity- Join us for Image Analysis Journeys from Academia to Industry featuring Caroline Miller, Kevin Murphy, Jian Wei Tay, Erick Ratamero, Sara McArdle, and Sripad Ram. Nov 6, 1:00 to 2:30 pm ET

More info & registration: buff.ly/eFUU6up
October 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way)

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...
Delusions of a Protocol
On vaporware as an ideological product.
azhdarchid.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
At this point I have seen enough people whose opinions I care about raving about One Battle After Another that I found a place showing it in English and bought a ticket for Friday. Will report back.
October 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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BioImage analysis friends - King's are recruiting for a full-time, permanent facility position! Come and work with fun microscopes and fun people (and me!) - please share! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/126345-...
Bioimage Analysis Specialist | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems?

Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
September 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Sometimes a game can just be flipping a biased coin thousands of times until you get 10 heads in a row. store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...
Unfair Flips on Steam
A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?
store.steampowered.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM