Dave Barry

@david-j-barry

BioImage Data Analysis at @crick.ac.uk: @crick-ia-team.bsky.social Science → Reproducible as Data Analysis → Automated Dubliner 🇮🇪 in London 🇬🇧 | Brunch sceptic | Trophy husband | Dissipator of masculine energy

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Dave Barry@david-j-barry· 9d

New cartoon from @marketoonist.bsky.social

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· 26d

I hate to think how much time I have wasted over the years grappling with scientific software that was not fit for purpose. Great guide on how not to waste your time like I did: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Jun 1

In the latest issue of @jcellsci.bsky.social, with @lankylaste.bsky.social, Lina Gerontogianni and Gavin Kelly at @crick.ac.uk, a reanalysis of images from the IDR to answer the age-old question: How do you tell statistical significance from biological significance? doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· May 28

The data this infographic is based on is a couple of years old, so by now, data centers in Ireland are possibly consuming more electricity than every house in the country combined. Utterly insane.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-dcmec/datacentresmeteredelectricityconsumption2024/

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· May 27

New paper out today in @jcellsci.bsky.social on telling statistical from biological significance. I asked Gemini to make a "podcast" summary of it - a bit silly and generic, but not bad. Then again, I'm not much of a podcast person. doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... @lankylaste.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· May 24

It's too bloody warm

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· May 18

Kicking off the python installations with @lankylaste.bsky.social at the @royalmicrosoc.bsky.social Intro to Image Analysis workshop, hosted by Tom Slater at Cardiff University

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· May 14

On my way to the @biofair.bsky.social showcase in Cambridge, where, for the first time in at least 6 years (😬), I will be presenting a poster! Come and say hello to learn about what we do in the @crick-ia-team.bsky.social at @crick.ac.uk

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· May 8

Yep, this system is utterly ludicrous. In my ward, 85% of people didn't vote for the "winning" candidate.

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· May 7

The joy of being asked to troubleshoot FIJI scripts that have been passed from one lab to another, down through the ages

DOUBLE NOTE: It will error the first time round and talk about "saveCurrentImage". Hit cancel, and rerun. Any further errors are
likely to be genuine. Don't ask me why.

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· May 2

Is it just me, or is the scope for BBSRC standard research grants now looking much more tech/infrastructure focussed? www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Apr 19

London needs more of these

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Apr 12

Interesting new direction for the @mdc-berlin.bsky.social - I wish them all the best in their efforts to conduct High-Peformance Computing through the Irish language

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Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Apr 11

Excellent read, whatever your position on AI

Emily Bender, professor of computational linguistics at the University of Washington, explained it to me like this: “Writing is thinking. Reading is thinking.” Politics is the business of reading and writing, speaking and thinking. In the making of laws, it is important that those in power take the opportunity to think. Legislation, Bender said, is written “to have an impact on the world now, and into the future”; a court case decades hence might hinge on the meaning of a single word. “You want those words to be chosen with utmost care."

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Apr 8

We’ve been here before. By 2003, Internet Explorer had 95% of the browser market. Firefox launched in 2004. IE never recovered, fading slowly at first, then completely. Open standards and open source decentralized control over the core technologies of the web.

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Mar 25

Little bit surprised to see most microscopy facilities now have dedicated image analysis support, but 1.0 FTE on average is nowhere near enough. And more than half don't charge for analysis services?!? 🤨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Image analysis. (A) Pie chart shows the % of facilities with dedicated image analysis support. Yes (blue), no (orange). (B) Violin plot shows the distribution of # FTE providing that support. Mean and standard deviation are included. (C) Pie chart shows the % of facilities providing bespoke image analysis. Yes (blue), no (orange). (D) Pie chart shows the sources of cost recovery of bespoke image analysis support. Uncharged (blue), charged by the hour (orange), project fee (green), staff salary contribution (sky blue). (E) Pie chart shows the % of facilities that support commercial image analysis software. Yes (blue), no (orange). (F) Pie chart shows the sources of funding to maintain commercial analysis software. Mix of all sources (blue), on an annual basis from user charges (orange), institutional support (green), grant funding (sky blue), on an ad hoc basis from user charges (magenta).

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jmi.70079

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Mar 17

I have just noticed that #ImageAnalysis features very prominently on the @overleaf.com homepage

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Mar 14

Sure it is

From: Springer Nature <springernature@research.springernature.com>
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Subject: Writing a book is easier than you think

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Mar 11

For the purposes of comparison, this is the Grand Canal in Dublin, which I assume was built to the same scale

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Feb 26

40k is plenty - at least an order of magnitude more than necessary. The problem is it's a single constituency, not a spatially random sample. Large populations can be accurately represented with surprisingly small random samples. I frequently see similar misunderstandings in cell image analysis!

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Feb 25

Hate to break it to you kids, but the overwhelming majority of people outside of Ireland will not have heard of UCD, never mind the Smurfit Business School. And I say that as a graduate of UCD myself!

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Feb 16

Same is true of scientific software.

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Feb 9

Seems about right?

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Jan 31

AMAZING JOB OPPORTUNITY ALERT!!! @calm-stp.bsky.social is hiring a Data & Systems Steward! 🧬 🔹Manage #bioimage data & #OMERO admin 🔹Automate via #Python/#Bash 🔹Support #FAIR principles 🔹Work closely with @crick-ia-team.bsky.social ⏰ Deadline: 08 Feb 2026 Apply: www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Jan 31

This is more like it - hats off to @kristinaulicna.bsky.social

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Jan 26

"Science is encouraged by its performance" Really? Most of your authors are not sharing their code - how is that encouraging? How can anyone possibly reproduce the results in those papers? www.science.org/content/blog...

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Jan 25

I'm generally opposed to the "verbing" of nouns, but in this case...

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Jan 4

Not something I was conscious of, but my book choices apparently darkened considerably over the course of 2025

Dave Barry@david-j-barry· Dec 4

Maybe @normanrz.com can provide more @webknossos.org socks to help with the shoe-filling?