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Christoph Sommer
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Image Analysis
#ISTAustria
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Crank up the sound and come sing "self-supervised, we rise" with me:
paper2song.com/virtual/2025...

May the genius who created this be blessed with an eternity of good review karma.
December 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Excited to share our new #biorxivpreprint:
“Sexual dimorphism in the complete connectome of the Drosophila male central nervous system” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We describe the #connectomics reconstruction and analysis of an entire adult #maleCNS #drosophila central nervous system. 1/10
October 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Unterstellen wir einmal, ein Bundkanzler Merz fände im Nu die vielen tausend Polizist*innen, um in Wäldern und auf Wiesen wieder die deutschen Grenzen zu bewachen; er schaffte Zehntausende von neuen Haftplätzen; und er schüfe wieder zwei Klassen von Staatsangehörigen – was dann?

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January 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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E11 Bio is launching Volara: an open-source Python library for block-wise processing of large volumetric microscopy datasets! 🧪🔬

Volara features block-wise task abstractions, making scalable image processing more accessible, robust, and repeatable.

Read more: e11.bio/blog/volara
May 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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My slides about "Learning and Training #BioImageAnalysis in the Age of AI" presented at the @globias.bsky.social @carpentries.carpentries.org workshop are available #openaccess. Big thanks for hosting us @istaustria-iof.bsky.social ! 🔬🖥️🤖
zenodo.org/records/1516...
April 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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So, einmal noch die 551 Fragen, diesmal hab ich im SWR kommentiert: www.swr.de/swrkultur/le...
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March 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Our vote by mail ballot for the German general elections arrived today, less than 24h before delivery deadline (we had applied in December). Anybody taking a flight from IAD to Berlin tonight?
February 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Bioimage analysis professionals: join us in-person for a workshop at ISTA in Klosterneuburg, Austria, April 7–8, 2025. A workshop to adapt and expand the current Data Carpentries image processing curriculum. Information & registration: tinyurl.com/3twkax2k
Update the Data Carpentries Bioimage Analysis with Python Curriculum
Data Carpentries BioImage Analysis - update with a Python Curriculum Join us to update the Data Carpentries Bioimage Analysis Curriculum with a Python Curriculum! We’re inviting bioimage analysis prof...
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February 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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We just released and uploaded a new version of *Mastodon*, the large-scale tracking and track-editing framework for large, multi-view images.

Mastodon is available via Fiji, via a dedicated update site.
mastodon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/do...

Below is a thread that survey some of the novelties ⏬️
January 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Excited about protein biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy, and image analysis? Curious how proteins drive bacterial division or define organelle identity? Join us at ISTA! Apply to the PhD program by Jan 8th: gradschool.ist.ac.at
gradschool.ist.ac.at
December 20, 2024 at 9:02 AM
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😱📣 BlueSky-ers: WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! 🙏
All of you who ever liked a lecture of mine...
All of you who liked one of the courses I teach in...
All of you I work(ed) with in one way or another...
All of you who see my desperation! 😜
PLEASE re-post! 🙏 careers.humantechnopole.it/o/postdoc-in...
Postdocs in Artificial Intelligence
Human Technopole (HT) is an interdisciplinary life science research institute, created and supported by the Italian Government, with the aim of developing innovative strategies to improve human health
careers.humantechnopole.it
October 27, 2023 at 3:05 PM
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Let’s not be lulled into a false sense of security by the clownishness, the ridiculousness of it all. Some of history’s most successful authoritarians were considered goons and buffoons by their contemporaries – until they became goons and buffoons in power.
Why the Stakes in this Election Are So Enormously High
 
Democracy itself is on the ballot. If Trump wins, the extreme Right will be in a much better position than ever before to abolish it.
 
New piece:
Why the Stakes in this Election Are So Enormously High
Democracy itself is on the ballot. If Trump wins, the extreme Right will be in a much better position than ever before to abolish it
thomaszimmer.substack.com
November 4, 2024 at 11:38 PM