DrLachie

Giant washer/dryer. In a laundromat in Kyoto

Holidays are great for escaping reality. But you can never escape laundry.

Shinkansen. Why can't we have these back home!? 😭

Farewell Kobe! Thanks @globias.bsky.social , I've had a great time, met some cool people, caught up with old friends, had some productive discussions, drank some sake. What more could you want from a conference?

Kanpai!

The comedy Wildlife photography competition come at the perfect time each year www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

I did a thing. Same restaurant, 15 years and 4 days later.

Bought a new fountain pen and ink, but made the strategic mistake of accepting the offer of doing it duty free. Now I can't use it until I get home!

Still get kind of nervous when I'm travelling solo. But I got here, and I got ramen.

Weird to think that this time tomorrow I'll be in Kobe

I feel so grown-up using try/except and actually catching errors and dealing with them. Of course my solution causes another error. It's errors all the way down.

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My house is about to be invaded by ten kids between the ages of ten and thirteen.

I'm tired in advance.

I leave for Japan in exactly one week. I feel like I have not given this enough thought.

My youngest got sent home from school because he was "feeling unwell". I'm working from home today and now he's here. I wonder if I can convince him annotate a cellpose model for me....

I think the issue is I start from the half-way point. Our HPC has a module system for things like CUDA where I can load and unload versions at will. In this case I had the correct CUDA for the version of pytorch but the wrong cuDNN. Once I loaded the correct one all went smoothly.

I haven't. Have had a play with uv but not for this project. Somewhat limited by what's permissable on our HPC. Thankfully we do have modules that allow for relatively easy loading and unloading of packages.

Just had to make sure I had the right ones loaded.

Still showing that one?! I'll need to do a new one to see if it slows down after you left!

I wish, just ONE time, that I could install cuda, cudnn, and pytorch, without it taking me 15 attempts and core dumps

Australian Centre for the Moving Image. They currently have a "Game Worlds" exhibition.

The "Sim City" display from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image "Game Worlds" exhibit. From the original floppy disks to the SimCity3000 CDROM.

Hard not to feel old when things I owned are in literal museum displays. I played the original on a Mac classic after school while my Mum was in staff meetings. I honestly believe that it is at least partially the reason I ended up where I am today - but that's a long story.

Ok nothing got more responses than a targeted email to a core facility's user list. If you work in a microscopy core I'd love it if you could advertise this to your users. There's a blog-post with info too ausbias.org/blog/2025/10...

Lisa Simpson after eating an Indian curry: "I can see through time"

After a pretty ordinary week (to put it mildly) decided to go hard on the hot sauce with Friday pizza night. I may have over done it.

Overwhelming response so far! Both responders have been very enlightening.

Help me out microscopy colleagues, there's nothing sadder than an analyst without data!

Hey microscopists! On behalf of @ausbias.org I'd like to invite you to fill in our inaugural survey of how you perform and interface with bioimage analysis in your work! Help shape our society, and help us understand how we can best serve the wider microscopy community! ausbias.org/survey-2025/

Could be a path for funding applications....

Expanding my socials again - checking back in on linkedIn, are people finding it useful and/or fun these days?

A bench on the foreshore footpath at Palm Cove in far north Queensland. The double island reef islands can be seen in the distance. This is the only place I've ever felt relaxed on a family holiday.

So hard to leave.

Photo of a beach with jetty in the background. Foreground is a sign warning that crocodiles are found in this area.

Maybe I won't go for that morning swim.

Red blood cells are analysed inside a lab-on-a-chip, a tiny device that condenses the complexity of a lab into postage-stamp size. Researchers are using these to tackle malaria with speed and precision.

See the #ArtOfScience gallery: www.wehi.edu.au/art-of-scien...

Annual photo of waking up in my happy place.

YouTube video by PyCon AU "Big Brains, Small Targets: Whole-Brain Image Analysis with Python" - Ishrat Zaman (PyCon AU 2025)

Check out the PyCon Au talk from my team member: @ishratz25.bsky.social on the challenges and solutions(?) of cell counting in whole-brain light sheet images! Also give her a follow, she's new here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccLn...