I thought Wordle made word/tag clouds. Sadly it's been discontinued and I feel just a little bit older now. Wordle 200 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We know that coding knowledge is useful in neuroscience research, but how do we train our students when few bio instructors are proficient in coding and C.S. classes are full? 🤔 I tackle these issues in this NeuroView for Neuron! authors.elsevier.com/a/1eOdV3BtfGzl…

Some scientists on the team are looking for instructional materials for data analysis in Python, many migrating from MATLAB with limited software experience. I have some old links kicking around, but would love to hear from y'all. What's the state of the art?

Data Trap xkcd.com/2582

I am looking for a research engineer to join me at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics. If you are (or know) a recent or soon to be graduate interested in working on next generation light-sheet software + hardware please apply + share! alleninstitute.hrmdirect.com/employment/job…

1st Get Your Brain Straight Hackathon - bringing together🧠neuro data generators, 🛠️image registration experts and 💻compute infrastructure providers for a hands-on collaborative virtual event April 4-7, 2022 #BICCN Allen Institute Kitware #BrianImagingLibrary #StudyBRAIN

We made our pre-beta version of light sheet based mouse P56 brain template with Allen CCF labels at 10μm isotropic resolution. Please DM me if you want to try it for your brain mapping. Happy to share in condition for user feedback :)

Quote of the day: "Just a quick heads up - I am going hunt you all down. For metadata."

Quote of the day (~5 years ago): "You're just secretly trying to convert all of our scientists to software engineers, aren't you?" Here's to hoping it's now safe to set aside my secret devops agenda.

What do scientists here use to keep track of experiments, subjects, local datasets, etc? Spreadsheets, Airtable, structured SQL databases? MongoDB or Firebase? Some special software because of PII or HIPAA? What has worked for you in the past, and what hasn't?

I just learned the phrase "screaming snake case" and can't stop giggling.

Latest report from the #OMENGFF #Community describing #OMEZARR, a #CloudOptimized #BioImaging #DataFormat, is out now on #bioRxiv! If you have issues with big, slow, or otherwise unwieldy imaging data, reach out or take a look for a #FAIR-er option. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

"Toward #scalable reuse of #vEM data: #OMEZarr to the rescue" just hit the shelves!📚 doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb… Special thanks to co-authors Norman Rzepka 🇺🇦 & John Bogovic, co-artist Henning Falk, and volume (ha!) editors @EM_STP Kedar Narayan & @PaulVerkade

Do you use #neuropixels or #highdensity probes? Are your recordings filling up your hard drives? We got you covered! In the first preprint from Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, we looked at ways to reduce the footprint of #ephys data. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/n)

How do you image the large and the small at the same time? We developed new 🔬 technology to image centimeter-scale specimens - including whole mouse brains 🧠 - with diffraction-limited resolution and without sectioning. #mesoscale #imaging biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 🧵 (1/n)

Out now! "#OMEZarr: a #CloudOptimized #BioImaging #FileFormat with Int'l #Community Support" 😍 Huge thanks to the 68 co-authors, across 32 institutions (see the quoted tweet) 🙌 If you use #OMEZarr & weren't involved, let's start the next report! 📝 doi.org/10.1007/s00418…

Sharing🤯video to get you through Friday! Credit: John Rohde Blender 🔶 animation of the Allen Mouse Common Coordinate Framework (#CCF). Outer structures "explodes" out to reveal inner brain structures. Allen Institute