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Marco Dalla Vecchia
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Microscopy and Image Analyst Expert at ISTA
https://marcodallavecchia.gitlab.io/web
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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
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Next blog post!

I built another simple Marimo app to explore FPs spectra and other properties. It was a fun little trip, I hope you find it insightful.

Find it here:
marcodallavecchia.gitlab.io/web/blog/mar...
Exploring Fluorescent Proteins with Marimo – marcodallavecchia/web
Access, explore and interact with FP properties
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October 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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🌟Join our Scientific Ambassador, Magdalena Schindler, on a scientific tour of her hometown!

Meet the people and explore the facilities that make up the Node, and support Vienna's rich & collaborative imaging landscape. 🏛️🔬

📽️ Watch the video ⤵️
youtu.be/mCZmL8KF4fA
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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New blog post!

Last year, I wrote some data visualization tips and pitfalls for a workshop, and I now ported it over to a @quarto.org manuscript with references and source code for the figures.

Check it out here!
marcodallavecchia.gitlab.io/web/blog/dos...
Dos and Don’ts of data visualization – marcodallavecchia/web
A few sample cases to understand the importance of proper data visualization
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October 10, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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theneuro.bsky.social
🏆Announcing the laureates of the Neuro - Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes 2025!

🎉 Join us in celebrating the laureates at the award ceremony, featuring a special lecture from International Prize laureate representative from the BrainGlobe initiative.

#OpenScience #Neuroscience
The Neuro – Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes: Meet the winners of an exceptional edition
This year’s edition of the Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes at The Neuro, organised by the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, was exceptional in every way. With a record number of ap...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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I'm happy to release into the wild my new professional and personal website marcodallavecchia.gitlab.io/web/

I finally found some time to reorganize ideas and redo the framework with @quarto.org

You can read my first blog post on the website here!
marcodallavecchia.gitlab.io/web/blog/web...
Personal & Professional Website – marcodallavecchia/web
my corner of the web
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October 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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In preparation for our annual microscopy course I used #NotebookLM to gather resources about light-sheet microscopy and get ideas for teaching and get a better understanding. Then I listened to the audio summary, and I got mad at how decently good it was!

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September 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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neuroinformatics.dev
New guest blog by @marcodv.bsky.social about our open software summer school, held at @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social.

neuroinformatics.dev/blog/perspec...

Stay tuned for information about next years event, which will be bigger and better!
Some of the summer school participants, gathered after the summer school hackday.
September 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Reposted by Marco Dalla Vecchia
joelluethi.bsky.social
We're happy to announce the 2025 International OME-NGFF workshop 🎉

📅 Dates:
- Symposium: Nov 10–11, 2025
- Hackathon: Nov 12–14, 2025

📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Full details & registration: www.biovisioncenter.uzh.ch/en/events/Up... 

#bioimaging #openscience #OMENGFF #OMEZarr

(1/x 🧵)
Visual of segmented human induced pluripotent stem cells with the key workshop dates: Symposium on November 10-11, Hackathon on November 12-14th in Zurich Switzerland
August 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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First day of work back in @istaustria-iof.bsky.social after 2 weeks exchange with the guys at @neuroinformatics.dev. Still processing all the ideas and new information in my brain, I hope to be able to write them down and make something concrete out of all of it very soon!
marcodv.bsky.social Marco Dalla Vecchia @marcodv.bsky.social · Aug 16
What an experience, great people, great material and great environment. Thanks for making this possible and I hope this becomes a well established yearly tradition @neuroinformatics.dev
neuroinformatics.dev SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · Aug 15
Thank you to everyone who came to Open Software Week. We had a great time, and we hope you all left with new knowledge, ideas or collaborations.

#niu_osw
August 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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What an experience, great people, great material and great environment. Thanks for making this possible and I hope this becomes a well established yearly tradition @neuroinformatics.dev
neuroinformatics.dev SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · Aug 15
Thank you to everyone who came to Open Software Week. We had a great time, and we hope you all left with new knowledge, ideas or collaborations.

#niu_osw
August 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Day 4 open software week #OSW by @neuroinformatics.dev, Hackday!

It was really a cool experience to see people from different backgrounds coming together and try things, learn with each other and contributing to open source resources

Thanks a lot to the instructors for guiding and supporting us!
August 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Day 4 of the open software week #OSW, all about big jmaging data and @zarr.dev @openmicroscopy.org

One of my favorite days so far, lots of discussions with mang experts in the field from very different backgrounds. I understood Zarr much better and we got to write blog posts on selected topics!
August 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Day 3 of open software week #OSW by @neuroinformatics.dev!

Super cool demos and time to dig deep into 2D and 3D visualizations of the mapped atlas with cells, segmented structures, and annotations. You can even make movies or html exports!

Looking forward to the big data track next!
neuroinformatics.dev SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · Aug 13
The third day of Open Software Week is underway. On the @brainglobe.info track, students are learning how to use the BrainGlobe Python ecosystem to write their own scripts.

Starting with creating visualisations using brainglobe-heatmap:
brainglobe.info/documentatio...

#niu_osw
August 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Day 2, open software week #OSW by @neuroinformatics.dev

Today was all about @brainglobe.info and a little sneaky visit of the imaging facility 🔬

Most of the material below was at-your-own-pace tutorials, but the in-house expertise is unparalleled making discussions rewarding and stimulating!
neuroinformatics.dev SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit @neuroinformatics.dev · Aug 12
The BrainGlobe track started with an introduction to image analysis with @napari.org, and then tutorials on how to use @brainglobe.info to register data to atlases, and how to detect cells in whole-brain microscopy images.

All our tutorials are online: brainglobe.info/tutorials

#niu_osw
August 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Day 1 of Open Software Week #OSW organized by @neuroinformatics.dev!

Really impressed with everything I've seen so far. Great lecture material, great team synergies and great organization.

Wanna peak at the material? Take a look here: neuroinformatics.dev/open-softwar...

Looking forward to Day 2!
Entrance door to the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre Lecture hall of welcome slides
August 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I'm headed to London where in the next two weeks I'll learn from the amazing people at @neuroinformatics.dev!

I'm super excited for the open software week #OSW to learn all about large image data handling, @brainglobe.info and much more!
Image of the airport gate display showing London destination
August 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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carpentries.carpentries.org
Please engage with our announcement about curriculum development for Carpentries workshops about genAI.

🗣️ If you have experience, expertise, and perspectives to share in a nuanced discussion on this topic, please join the upcoming sessions on 12th August.

Details: carpentries.org/blog/2025/08...
AI Carpentry? Helping learners make better choices with genAI.
In two recent community discussion sessions, we explored what mental model of machine learning/deep learning we could teach to learners already familiar with the basics of programming, to help them sa...
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August 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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bethcimini.bsky.social
@kbias.bsky.social, @pmsampaio.bsky.social, @tischi.bsky.social, Rocco D'Antuono, ‪and @haesleinhuepf.bsky.social
‬ did a great job of pulling the data together, to describe who we are, where we want to get, and how we get there together. Check out the preprint and join us today! (5/5)
GloBIAS: strengthening the foundations of BioImage Analysis
There is a global need for BioImage Analysis (BIA) as advances in life sciences increasingly rely on cutting-edge imaging systems that have dramatically expanded the complexity and dimensionality of b...
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July 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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We've been trying nnInteractive (github.com/MIC-DKFZ/nap...) to quickly create labeled data for later training an Omnipose model. I whatever black magic you did there, keep at it! It's such a life-changer!
May 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Any scikit-image fans in Vienna? The skimage team would like to meet in Vienna for a code sprint Aug 14-16 ahead of EuroSciPy. We'd super appreciate it if someone's workplace can host us! All we need is electricity, natural light, and (most important) walking distance to coffee. ☕️😂🙏
May 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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If a community of software developers struggles with version control of their own documents, I don't think I have a chance 👀 look at that file name 😅
napari.org napari @napari.org · Apr 15
Hello all,
Hopefully the last community meeting now before 0.6.0 lands 😅 This has been a lot of hard work the last weeks by multiple people! Want to discuss the release or have any napari questions for core devs or want to show a cool demo? Come join tomorrow! Details below
April 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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In the past 2 days, we had the great pleasure to host an in-person workshop at @istaresearch.bsky.social with the collaboration of @globias.bsky.social, @carpentries.carpentries.org and @istaustria-iof.bsky.social.

We wanted to create a go-to course for image analysis in Python. Info in the thread!
GloBIAS and Data Carpentry members group picture
April 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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bethcimini.bsky.social
If you train people in ImageJ, Fiji, whatever, even if it isn't your day job, please let us know, and please share this post! Thanks a ton, we really appreciate it. (2/2) forms.gle/C8dUpg8qZkbD... #bioimaging #microscopy #bioimageanalysis
Open Source Bioimage Analysis Training Survey
We are attempting for a publication to estimate the number of biologists who have attended a tutorial or training course in open source bioimage analysis (especially user friendly tools, but anything ...
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April 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM