David Stansby
@dstansby.bsky.social
Research Software Engineer in bioimagin // I run the Human Organ Atlas (@humanorganatlas.bsky.social) // cyclist // walker
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We had an amazing OME-NGFF hackathon last week, Wednesday to Friday, following the inspiring OME-NGFF symposium. What a fantastic week! It’s hard to describe how motivating it is to be surrounded by so many talented, curious & friendly people who care deeply about open, FAIR bioimaging data.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
We had an amazing OME-NGFF hackathon last week, Wednesday to Friday, following the inspiring OME-NGFF symposium. What a fantastic week! It’s hard to describe how motivating it is to be surrounded by so many talented, curious & friendly people who care deeply about open, FAIR bioimaging data.
1/14 🧵
1/14 🧵
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Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
November 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Hey Labour
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety?
We're still over here 👋
Today I'm announcing a new digital textbook 📖🖥️, "An Introduction to OME-Zarr for Big Bioimaging Data".
ome-zarr-book.readthedocs.io
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
Today I'm announcing a new digital textbook 📖🖥️, "An Introduction to OME-Zarr for Big Bioimaging Data".
ome-zarr-book.readthedocs.io
ome-zarr-book.readthedocs.io
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As LLMs manufacture a form of scholarship, presentation doesn’t mean what it used to. D&S's Ranjit Singh looks at how this threatens the open-access research repository arXiv, how its founder is fighting to sustain its credibility, & what researchers can do to help. datasociety.net/points/on-ar...
October 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
As LLMs manufacture a form of scholarship, presentation doesn’t mean what it used to. D&S's Ranjit Singh looks at how this threatens the open-access research repository arXiv, how its founder is fighting to sustain its credibility, & what researchers can do to help. datasociety.net/points/on-ar...
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A month to go! Will you be at #CBIAS2025?
The program is almost ready, and we look forward to welcoming you in London to discuss all things #BioImageAnalysis, from tool development, to biomedical applications and community building.
Register now! 🔗⬇️
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
The program is almost ready, and we look forward to welcoming you in London to discuss all things #BioImageAnalysis, from tool development, to biomedical applications and community building.
Register now! 🔗⬇️
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025
www.crick.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A month to go! Will you be at #CBIAS2025?
The program is almost ready, and we look forward to welcoming you in London to discuss all things #BioImageAnalysis, from tool development, to biomedical applications and community building.
Register now! 🔗⬇️
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
The program is almost ready, and we look forward to welcoming you in London to discuss all things #BioImageAnalysis, from tool development, to biomedical applications and community building.
Register now! 🔗⬇️
www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/cri...
Over at `ome-zarr-models` we're working on implementing support for the new coordinate systems too - here's an example of a transformation graph from multiple tiled images that can be transformed into a common "world" coordinate system. 🟥 ➡️ 🌎
October 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Over at `ome-zarr-models` we're working on implementing support for the new coordinate systems too - here's an example of a transformation graph from multiple tiled images that can be transformed into a common "world" coordinate system. 🟥 ➡️ 🌎
My first paper as a journal editor! 🎉😊
Just published in JOSS: 'VSMOD: A Vessel Segmentation and MODelization plugin for 3D Slicer' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08563
October 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
My first paper as a journal editor! 🎉😊
For a long time I've been wondering what RSEs can do to help uphold and support the basic human rights of Palestinians 🇵🇸 - today I've launched gitlab.com/rsesforpales... to collect and discuss actions we can take as a community.
RSEsForPalestine / RSEsForPalestine · GitLab
GitLab.com
gitlab.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
For a long time I've been wondering what RSEs can do to help uphold and support the basic human rights of Palestinians 🇵🇸 - today I've launched gitlab.com/rsesforpales... to collect and discuss actions we can take as a community.
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Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
August 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
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The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.
In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.
Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.
Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
July 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.
In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.
Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.
Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.
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🚀 Big news! The napari hub has been reimplemented and is now community-run! :tada: It's still the go-to place for finding and sharing napari plugins, but the website is now snappier and lighter-weight. Check it out 👉 www.napari-hub.org
July 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🚀 Big news! The napari hub has been reimplemented and is now community-run! :tada: It's still the go-to place for finding and sharing napari plugins, but the website is now snappier and lighter-weight. Check it out 👉 www.napari-hub.org
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"Gender neutral toilets are available on floor 1 and 15 of our London office." I am somehow reminded of the bit in "Hidden Figures" where the brilliant Black mathematician is forced to run across campus on her break to get to a bathroom she is allowed to use...
Given the below, we're especially interested in hearing urgently from any affected staff members at the Financial Conduct Authority. More details in how to contact us in the next message.
May 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"Gender neutral toilets are available on floor 1 and 15 of our London office." I am somehow reminded of the bit in "Hidden Figures" where the brilliant Black mathematician is forced to run across campus on her break to get to a bathroom she is allowed to use...
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Drought conditions in Europe in the first half of April. Getting worse
[Source: joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/european-and...
[Source: joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/european-and...
April 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Drought conditions in Europe in the first half of April. Getting worse
[Source: joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/european-and...
[Source: joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/european-and...
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The UK supreme court just single-handedly overturned most trans rights in the UK today.
Very disturbingly, the ruling also opens a clear pathway for TERFs to completely push trans people out of public life.
This one ruling pushes trans rights in the UK back at least 25 years. It's horrible
Very disturbingly, the ruling also opens a clear pathway for TERFs to completely push trans people out of public life.
This one ruling pushes trans rights in the UK back at least 25 years. It's horrible
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The UK supreme court just single-handedly overturned most trans rights in the UK today.
Very disturbingly, the ruling also opens a clear pathway for TERFs to completely push trans people out of public life.
This one ruling pushes trans rights in the UK back at least 25 years. It's horrible
Very disturbingly, the ruling also opens a clear pathway for TERFs to completely push trans people out of public life.
This one ruling pushes trans rights in the UK back at least 25 years. It's horrible
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New Post: OfS free-speech absolutism allows abuse, harassment, and bullying www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/09/o...
April 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
New Post: OfS free-speech absolutism allows abuse, harassment, and bullying www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/09/o...
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Hello world! 👋
🔥 The Scientific Python community is building tools to power our ecosystem and support contributors and maintainers!
🚀 Discover our projects and learn how you can get involved by following us on GitHub:
🔗 github.com/scientific-python
🔥 The Scientific Python community is building tools to power our ecosystem and support contributors and maintainers!
🚀 Discover our projects and learn how you can get involved by following us on GitHub:
🔗 github.com/scientific-python
Scientific Python
Community developed, community owned. Scientific Python has 43 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
github.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Hello world! 👋
🔥 The Scientific Python community is building tools to power our ecosystem and support contributors and maintainers!
🚀 Discover our projects and learn how you can get involved by following us on GitHub:
🔗 github.com/scientific-python
🔥 The Scientific Python community is building tools to power our ecosystem and support contributors and maintainers!
🚀 Discover our projects and learn how you can get involved by following us on GitHub:
🔗 github.com/scientific-python
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Year-end scramble getting you down? ⏳
Applications for lots of our Antarctic #jobs are closing in the next week. They include vehicles manager at Halley, and Radio Operator and IT Engineer at Rothera Research Station.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth ⬇️
Applications for lots of our Antarctic #jobs are closing in the next week. They include vehicles manager at Halley, and Radio Operator and IT Engineer at Rothera Research Station.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth ⬇️
March 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Year-end scramble getting you down? ⏳
Applications for lots of our Antarctic #jobs are closing in the next week. They include vehicles manager at Halley, and Radio Operator and IT Engineer at Rothera Research Station.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth ⬇️
Applications for lots of our Antarctic #jobs are closing in the next week. They include vehicles manager at Halley, and Radio Operator and IT Engineer at Rothera Research Station.
These are jobs unlike any other, in one of the most beautiful places on Earth ⬇️
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So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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🚀 We’re very excited to share our latest preprint on OME-Zarr! 🚀
Our report on the 2024 OME-NGFF Workflows Hackathon is a deep dive into the status of OME-Zarr and the great work that happened last November at the BioVisionCenter in Zurich.
🔗 Read the preprint: osf.io/preprints/bi...
🧵 (1/15)
Our report on the 2024 OME-NGFF Workflows Hackathon is a deep dive into the status of OME-Zarr and the great work that happened last November at the BioVisionCenter in Zurich.
🔗 Read the preprint: osf.io/preprints/bi...
🧵 (1/15)
OSF
osf.io
March 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🚀 We’re very excited to share our latest preprint on OME-Zarr! 🚀
Our report on the 2024 OME-NGFF Workflows Hackathon is a deep dive into the status of OME-Zarr and the great work that happened last November at the BioVisionCenter in Zurich.
🔗 Read the preprint: osf.io/preprints/bi...
🧵 (1/15)
Our report on the 2024 OME-NGFF Workflows Hackathon is a deep dive into the status of OME-Zarr and the great work that happened last November at the BioVisionCenter in Zurich.
🔗 Read the preprint: osf.io/preprints/bi...
🧵 (1/15)
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While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels...
More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
March 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels...
More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...
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What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't
February 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't
Well it was bound to happen, but @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social have finally stopped championing equitable oppurtunities - DEI page was online last week but now it's been wiped:
web.archive.org/web/20250212...
web.archive.org/web/20250212...
Building a more just, inclusive and equitable future
Learn about CZI’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, and how we’re investing in advancing racial equity
web.archive.org
February 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Well it was bound to happen, but @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social have finally stopped championing equitable oppurtunities - DEI page was online last week but now it's been wiped:
web.archive.org/web/20250212...
web.archive.org/web/20250212...
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It’s sickening how weak-kneed every foundation in US is. Where are your principles?
February 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
It’s sickening how weak-kneed every foundation in US is. Where are your principles?
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An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
An open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values | Reciprocal Space
occamstypewriter.org
February 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...