FFv1 v4 will add support for IEEE-754 single- and half-precision RGB/RGBA/Grayscale floating point pixel formats. The work designing and implementing that was funded by the Sovereign Tech Fund. Support will be available in FFmpeg 8.0 with -strict experimental.

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

@spectatorindex Oh dear, Plagiarism-Bot has been plagiarized. Who ever could have seen this coming

The code of Syntalos is licensed under the LGPL-3.0+ license (libraries), and GPL-3.0+ (main application) you can find it on GitHub: https://t.co/wK3mbilMYg We are excited for your feedback and the cool research people will realize with the software! 9/9

I also want to thank the great projects we depend on, like @kdecommunity, @FFmpeg, Eclipse #Iceoryx, OpenCV, @micropython and so many more! Kudos to hardware vendors with open libraries for their devices, and especially efforts like @MiniscopeTeam and @OpenEphys! You rock! 8/9

Last, but absolutely not least, I want to thank everyone who collaborated on the publication and helped get it over the finish line, especially the group of Alex Groh. This was a team effort and I am so proud of the result we achieved! 7/x9

No time to read the paper? Syntalos is also thoroughly documented and some short video tutorials are available to get you started with using the software! It is also already in use by many labs. Check out our website at https://t.co/u034WouvIC! 6/9

You can download the open-access paper from @NatureComms here: https://t.co/AcfgVUKKPF It is written with a focus on the users of the software and contains many example experiments, as well as a thorough validation of the performance claims we make about the software! 5/9

Syntalos' multithread-/multiprocess-based design is optimized to reduce latency and improve robustness. The software is #opensource running on the #Linux operating system, allowing insight into every single step of the data acquisition pipeline. 4/9

In addition to that, its module-based intuitive UI to design DAQ schemes and integration of native #Python allows it to be extended easily for a wide array of data-acquisition and closed-loop intervention tasks. For many experiments, no programming skills are needed at all! 3/9

Many devices used in #biosciences do not allow hardware-level time synchronization, while integrating data from multiple sources becomes increasingly important. #Syntalos provides a novel statistics-based algorithm to keep timestamps in sync over long recording times. 2/9

I am excited to announce our publication of "Syntalos" in @NatureComms: A software to easily and reliably record from multi-modal data sources and design closed-loop interventions, with a focus on (neuro)scientific experiments, all while keeping timestamps synchronized! 🧵1/9

I hope reviewer 3 appreciates that I am coming into lab at 3:30am today to get a critical revision experiment time point 😴

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On the bright side, we now have an answer to the Fermi Paradox

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Release notes here: https://t.co/wwuZz2Lxfh You can also download the release from Flathub:

#Syntalos 2.0 was just released, for better (neuro)scientific data acquisition in behavior experiments! This release contains tons of changes and improved Python APIs, lower latencies and a new IPC system. Check it out at

I updated the #Freedesktop specifications website, to build it with some more modern tools - please let me know if you notice any issues! 🙂 https://t.co/RsNLHw67k9

My good friend & colleague @DanielBAharoni shares my passion for making Miniscope technology 🔬 accessible to all. His featured piece in @_TheTransmitter highlights the need for ongoing support & maintenance of these valuable tools. Read it here 👇 https://t.co/cCGWLfEo6N