Naparistas, or anyone who does image analysis in Python — reminder — we want to hear from you! Please fill in our survey, which will close at the end of Feb 23 Anywhere on Earth! What do you *really* have better to do on Friday night, hmmm? 😂 Thank you! bit.ly/napari-survey-…

Check out this fantastic video by Brian Northan showcasing his new “napari-segment-everything” plugin: youtube.com/watch?v=Ipa3jW… We love it because it highlights the power of napari’s dimension-agnostic approach to data vis! 😍

Want to learn how to contribute to napari? The next #napariCodeCafe will again be led by Wouter-Michiel Vierdag on Wed 8 May at 8pm Paris Time (2pm NYC/11am SF). Join Wouter to add the HiLo colormap to napari — handy to check for over/underexposure in your images! forum.image.sc/t/napari-code-…

Hey folks! I'm the creator of Python Pillow & today is my birthday. Can I ask a favor? I'm looking for a new role & I'd appreciate a RT aclark.net/resume/ I'm passionate about open source & making a living doing open source. Next move? Thank you Will McGugan for the nudge ❤️

TIL that Matplotlib mpl.rc_context can be used as a function decorator if you've got the one function you want to style: mpl.rc_context({'lines.linewidth': 3, 'lines.linestyle': '-'}) def plotting_function(): plt.plot(data) matplotlib.org/devdocs/users/…

We know that development has slowed over the past couple of years. We are working on that 🚧😅. There is so much left to do, but today we invite you to celebrate everything we have achieved using the #napariAt6 hashtag! 🎈

What's your favorite napari tweet, paper, blog post, workshop from the past 6 years? Your favorite napari feature/plugin/workflow? What have you done with napari that you are excited about/proud of? Did you make a scientific discovery helped by napari? Let us know! 🧑‍🔬 #napariAt6

🚨 Attention all naparistas! 🚨 Announcing napari 0.5.0a4 pre-release! 🚀 napari.org/dev/release/re… 🧵👇

The big new thing is contributable menus! 📋🍽️ Add your plugin's commands to napari menus with just a few extra lines in your napari.yaml. Now commands can be grouped together by function rather than mixed in a plugin salad! 🎉 Read all about it in NAP-6: napari.org/dev/naps/6-con…

Here's a PR demonstrating this for affinder: github.com/jni/affinder/p… It's easy *and* it's backwards compatible with 0.4.19 so you can add and release updates to your plugins *today*!

We'll have more highlights when the full release rolls around next week, but for now please test, chat with us on Zulip(1), and raise issues on GitHub(2)! 🙏 (1) release thread: napari.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream… (2) github.com/napari/napari/… /end 🧵

If you want to become a (better) scientist, learn to program. Even if they tell you, "You don't have to because AI will do it for you," learn to program anyway. Hours spent processing data and text often become minutes, thanks to a bit of code, even if you're a newbie in coding

In the absence of a whiteboard ⁦Jordão Bragantini⁩ used a Labels layer to explain watershed segmentation during #skimage and ⁦napari🔬⁩ tutorial ⁦SciPyConf⁩ 🤣

A potential way to generate training data for 3D Stardist is to first apply a Stardist model in 2d, then connect in 3D. I made a video about this, and I'm happy to answer related questions on the Image.sc forum youtube.com/watch?v=yjVSd5…

We just dropped something big Earthmover - a new transactional storage engine for zarr_dev.