Laurent Thomas @LauLauThom@qoto.org
Originally from Brittany in France, I studied in Strasbourg and I am now living in Germany, close to Heidelberg.
While my initial training was in biotechnology, I am now mostly doing software development (C#/Java) for a living. I am dealing with image-processing / #BioImageAnalysis / data-handling, and working with community software such as #FijiSc, python and #KNIME.
Joined Oct 2022
NDC YT channel has very inspiring talks about software dev. This one is one my favorite, about simpler, and more intelligible codebase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw2XffPmlYo
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I often need to synchronize two timelapse recordings of developing embryos (control vs treatment) and combine them side-by-side to visualize the differences.
Combining image stacks in ImageJ/Fiji is straightforward, but synchronizing involves more manual (and tedious) stack wrangling. So I wrote a small macro to help me out. Maybe it's useful for you too :)
#ImageJ macro debugging reloaded 🤯 After struggling for a while trying to understand why a macro does not work as expected (black image) with my ImageJ, but fine with others. We finally found out the foreground color for my imageJ installation was actually set to black, so roiManager("Fill"); was basically not doing anything. Here is the magic line to fix it run("Colors...", "foreground=white background=black selection=yellow");
Interesting narrative about restriction of commercial use for #OpenSource software https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/articles/why-open-source-licenses-with-a-commons-clause-may-become-less-common.html
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The Hungarian Entomological Society recently posted this image highlighting the importance of diverse yards and the decline in insect diversity when shifting to monoculture
#solarpunk #nolawns
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RT @EuroBioImaging
At this week's Virtual Pub/Correlated Imaging Series with @COMULIS_COST we welcome @perrinepgil of @Fr_BioImaging's Node in Nantes for a talk on “#ImageAnalysis tools & applications for correlative microscopy.”
Don't miss her great talk!
Registration ⤵ https://www.eurobioimaging.eu/about-us/virtual-pub
Hi there, anyone knows how to make a "global" mastodon search for posts, so not limited to posts I authored, liked or boosted. Is it a server specific functionality ?
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"More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022"
Hard to know what the most shocking part of this story is, but just the idea that 25% of current warming is from methane and **40%** of that methane is from entirely avoidable fossil fuel facility leaks is horrifying. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/revealed-1000-super-emitting-methane-leaks-risk-triggering-climate-tipping-points #methane #climate #fossilfuels
Still discovering incredible functionalities of git, after using it on a daily basis for the last 5 years 😅Namely `git bisect` to narrow down when a bug first appeared. From a nice post on StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/a/5550205/6722135
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Petition: Remove academic age limits on ERC grants
https://chng.it/gGSycngtmg
Since its original release targeting #microscopy, I am always suprised to see how multi-template matching has been used for very diverse applications, such as digitalization of documents into machine-readable format. Last example in date for HVAC diagram (ventilation and air conditioning) ! #ComputerVision https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-25182-5_40
Great video, and good luck to the students with their projects again !
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⚠️⚠️🎥A fresh new video on MSCA ITN project @inflanet ! ⬇️⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDtPVfmYkA
Find out what are the research thematics, how the project is organized, what activities are planned and get to know our PhD students ! 😍
@MSCActions @HorizonEU @REA_research @umontpellier
https://twitter.com/inflanet/status/1618921661113434113
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Introducing Eye Contact by NVIDIA 👀
NVIDIA just released a new Eye Contact feature that uses AI to make you look into the camera.
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We are very happy to announce our Image analysis course is opening to register! Apply here: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2E24DD62253BA8A0🧑💻
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Interested in research data management #rdm?
Just found this handbook by openAIRE
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RT @Radkomm@twitter.com
Es tut weh zu sehen, was gerade in #Luetzerath passiert. Beide Seiten verweisen auf Studien, um ihren Standpunkt zu untermauern. In ihrem aktuellen Podcast erläutert @CKemfert@twitter.com vom @diw_berlin@twitter.com die Studienlage. Ihr Wunsch: Abbau stoppen!
https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/podcast/kemfert-klima/index.html
Ce matin le poisson-zebre 🐠 mentionné sur FranceInter 📻 dans la revue de presse de Claude Askolovitch ! Une étude récente a permis de clarifier l'origine de l'asymetrie dans la position de certains organes, comme le coeur : à gauche. Lien vers la chronique : https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/la-revue-de-presse/la-revue-de-presse-du-jeudi-12-janvier-2023-6625981 et vers l'article du monde : https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2023/01/12/le-fabuleux-processus-embryonnaire-qui-place-le-c-ur-a-gauche-mis-au-jour_6157534_1650684.html
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Yet another AI reproducibility / reliability / generalizability crisis, this time in medicine
Originally from Brittany in France, I studied in Strasbourg and I am now living in Germany, close to Heidelberg.
While my initial training was in biotechnology, I am now mostly doing software development (C#/Java) for a living. I am dealing with image-processing / #BioImageAnalysis / data-handling, and working with community software such as #FijiSc, python and #KNIME.
Joined Oct 2022
