I am a freelance data wrangler drawn to the deluge of scientific data being generated.
Other interests include biking, board games, transit & travel (of all forms).
Baltimore is home; originally from Berkeley.
Posting pictures at an unknown frequency to @perlman.
he/him; 🏳️🌈
| Web | https://www.yikes.com/~eric/ |
| GitHub | https://github.com/perlman/ |
So… um… I (and Draga Doncila Pop and @perlman and @joshmoore and @kevinyamauchi) started a thing! We are excited and terrified in equal measures, and look forward to working with you all in our amazing scientific imaging community! ❤️🔥
Read the linked post for the lowdown.
https://image.coop/blog/posts/2026/03/16/why-image-cooperative/
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@jni/116239224858280467
So, we started a thing... and, as the member with five broken ribs, I'm very happy that my slack was picked up by the rest of the kick ass team!
RIP Donald Shoup. He wrote a book that really had a big impact on me called "the high cost of free parking" it's a lot better than the title makes it sound. If you don't know it maybe check it out.
Whole adult fly brain connectome for FAFB (female adult fly brain) – last year in preprint form, today as an immersive feature in Nature.
140,000 neurons, over 50 million synapses – organised into over 8,000 cell types. (VNC not included.)
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d42859-024-00053-4/index.html
The whole connectome: Dorkenwald et al. 2024 (Seung, Murthy) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y
Cell types: Schlegel et al. 2024 (Jefferis) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07686-5 by @uni_matrix
Network statistics: Lin et al. 2024 (Murthy) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07968-y
Visual system: Garner et al. 2024 (Wernet, Kim) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07967-z and Matsliah et al. (Murthy, Seung) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07981-1
Seung also put out a solo paper on predicting visual function from the connectome: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07953-5
Control of halting in walking: Sapkal et al. 2024 (Bidaye) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07854-7
FAFB imaged by @davi 's group back in 2018: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)30787-6
Artificial intelligence and human expertise meet to generate a map of all the connections in the fly brain. The resource is already being used by experimentalists and theoreticians to further our understanding of neural circuits in the fly and beyond.
I'm very excited to announce the #OME_NGFF_workflows_hackathon for November 18th - 22nd at the BioVisionCenter in Zurich, Switzerland.
Sign up here: https://ema.uzh.ch/en/register/ome-ngff-workflows-hackathon-2024.html
This event is a follow-up to last year's successful hackathon, where 45 researchers and developers pushed the boundaries of next generation bioimage formats, processing & workflows. Learn more about last year's event here: https://forum.image.sc/t/outcomes-of-the-next-generation-bioimage-analysis-workflows-hackathon/88733
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Introducing a new connectomic dataset of the adult fly central nervous system: the Brain And Nerve Cord (BANC). Tomorrow 11a ET at @flywirenews’s town hall.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2ydgJJWQUCHq_81nzyCsj4GIgDcdEV_QroE4GgtMNmJzWSA/viewform
The next FlyWire Town Hall will take place on Thursday, April 4th at 11 am US ET. RSVP below to receive the Zoom link. Your hosts at Princeton University will share updates on the FlyWire paper package and details about the new FlyWire Data Challenge. The event will feature the debut of the BANC (Brain and Nerve Cord), a new dataset opening to proofreading and annotation in FlyWire. It was generated by Jasper Phelps and Minsu Kim at Wei-Chung Lee’s lab at Harvard Medical School. Wei will present an overview and take questions at the Town Hall. Thanks for being a part of FlyWire and we look forward to seeing you on the 4th!
ICYMI, an AI package manager where the descriptions of packages are LLM-generated garbage:
https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358
(h/t @jedbrown @jonny )
Reminds me of that @mkennedy post about AI features in products (
https://mkennedy.codes/posts/ai-features-a-waste-of-time/)
only worse
I mean, ouch: https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/pull/5360
Sorry if this has been reported elsewhere already, or if this is explained in docs somewhere, but I don't understand the contents you have in https://pkgx.dev/pkgs/. Lets take a few popular project...
Juan Nunez-Iglesias
myrmepropagandist
Gaspar Jekely
Albert Cardona
Joel Lüthi
Laffy
Wei-Chung Allen Lee
David Nicholson
Norman Rzepka