Our recent work in @Nature, MouseMapper uses foundation-model AI, mapping perturbations in mouse body cell-by-cell, revealed unexpected facial nerve damage. Proud to see >75K accesses & >60 news stories in the first week. Paper->> www.nature.com/articles/s41... Next www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

34.8ºC at Kew Gardens breaks its May AND June records by OVER 4ºC for its May record set in 1922 and by 0.2ºC for its June record set in 1976. Unprecedented heat for the UK in late May, and likely to be bettered tomorrow. A rounded 35ºC temperature should not happen in May.

Scientific figures can strongly influence how research findings are interpreted. This ‘How to’ Comment article in Nature Human Behaviour outlines a practical strategy for creating figures that communicate clearly across audiences and scientific contexts. go.nature.com/3R00b1t #Academicsky 🧪

kuva v0.2.0 Now over 60 plots! New plot types: Gantt, Network, Waffle, Horizon, PopulationPyramid, Joint, Clustermap, ROC, PR, Lollipop, Survival, Raincloud, Slope, Venn, Parallel, Mosaic, Streamgraph, Radar, Treemap, Sunburst, Bump, Funnel, Rose, Calendar, Legend, Text github.com/Psy-Fer/kuva

Science has missed a real giant. Not uncontroversial, but inspiring nevertheless. Here is an interview which was recorded a few days before his death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxg3...

Quite interesting read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who decoded the human genome, has died at 79.

🚀 #BioHackathon Germany 2026: Call for Projects! 🧬 Submit your innovative life science project ideas! 📅 Deadline: 15 July 2026 📝 Max 500 words 🔗 Align with #deNBI (ELIXIR Germany) topics Join us to solve bioinformatics challenges! 💻✨ Read more: www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event... #Bioinformatics

Slowly going through all the checks for a new version of kuva to be releases. Probably going to take another few days. But i'm up to 59 plot types now (with lots more sub variants). There is one more plot in a PR, don't worry i'll make it an even 60

#HelmholtzKLIMA -Datenbank - Expertise im Überblick: Digitalisierung für nachhaltige Wertschöpfungsketten Stefanie Kunkel beschäftigt sich am @rifs-potsdam.bsky.social mit der Frage, wie sich die globale Digitalisierung sozial-ökologisch und gerecht gestalten lässt. Zum Profil: t1p.de/ojvod 1/2

The genome of the hepatitis D virus, with just 1700 bases of RNA, was squeezed onto a quantum computer. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4mCifuv

#EarthDay2026: Wir haben es in der Hand, unseren Planeten zu gestalten! Ihr habt Interesse an neuesten Forschungsergebnisse & Lösungen für einen lebenswerten Planeten von @helmholtz.de? Dann schaut ins online Programm der Earth Week vom AK Forum Nachhaltigkeit! ▶️ t1p.de/vp7pm #OurPowerOurPlanet

So, OpenAI, whose entire business model relies on some overhyped dudebros using vast amounts of stolen data and stolen labour, is releasing a specialised GPT for the life sciences. And naming it, apparently without any sense of irony or self-awareness. Rosalind.

Bezahlbarer ÖPNV statt Tankrabatt – 29-Euro-Ticket jetzt! EU-Kommission empfiehlt günstigere Tickets, um sofort Sprit zu sparen. Tankrabatte dagegen verschärfen die Krise. Bei geringerem Preis nutzen mehr Menschen den ÖPNV und lassen dafür das Auto stehen. mitmachen.duh.de/deutschlandt...

⭐️PhD Cognitive/Computational Psychology ⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning + computational modelling to study how we form beliefs in the face of unreliable information (with me +Tali Sharot). Full funding for those eligible for UK home fees. Deadline 18/5. Please share! @queenmarycbb.bsky.social

Weekend reads: Half of social science ‘doesn’t replicate’; ‘Scientific ghosts: Life after retraction’; multisensory learning paper retracted

So you're telling me Claude functions by screaming at itself "WRITE GOOD CODE NO BUGS SECURE VERY STABLE", mashes compile button, reads back the error and yells ONLY GOOD CODE NO BUGS at itself again while crying and copying random things from Stack Overflow until it compiles? it just like me fr fr

In March, we had the pleasure of welcoming the Universitätsbund to HIRI for one of their board meetings. In addition to their own agenda, our guests received a brief introduction to the institute & joined a tour of our construction site.🧬👷 Thanks for visiting! 👉 www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/newsroom/...

stMCP: Spatial Transcriptomics with a Model Context Protocol Server https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.710153v1

ggdiceplot 1.2.0 is now on CRAN. It fixes the 1.1.0 bug where no pips were rendered. Lesson learned: we need better visual testing. Any recommendations for checking, in an automated way, that plots not only compile but also render as expected in R? github.com/maflot/ggdic... #CRAN #Datavis #testthat

🔬 PSH Core Facility Tech Talks Recap: High-Resolution Microscopy Core Facility Last week, we got an in-depth look at imaging techniques, access procedures & a Pretubulysin research project. More TechTalks to follow! 👉 https://psh.digital/xwgcl Photo: PSH

Built a small open-source template to manage multiple SSH nodes with tmux, track Claude Code/Codex sessions, and keep context in sync. Hope this helps someone else building across multiple machines. github.com/maflot/multi... #opensource #ssh #tmux #claudecode #codex

Applications close today. ⌛👇

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ggdiceplot v1.1.0 is now on CRAN 🎲 New pip_scale controls pip size: less white space, clearer plots, adjustable layout. github.com/maflot/ggdic... cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #CRAN #Datavis #diceplot

Don’t miss our next #HMC Open Office Hour! Talk directly to metadata experts and get tailored advice. Participation is free and open to everyone. 📅 When: 19/03/2026 🔗 Registration: helmholtz-metadaten.de/events/hmc-o... We look forward to welcoming you! #HMC_OpenOffice @helmholtz.de @kit.edu

We’re excited to announce the 2nd edition of the Health Privacy Challenge. 🍅🫐 What started last year as a CAMDA community challenge has grown into a benchmarking study of generative models for biologically useful and privacy-preserving synthetic omics, focusing on trade-offs across evaluation axes.👇

🧬 5th BioHackathon Germany – Save the Date! 📍 Göttingen | 📅 Dec 7–11, 2026 Mark your calendars! We’re bringing together life scientists, bioinformaticians, and data stewards for an intense week of hacking. 💻✨ 🚀 Mid-April: Project applications open 🔗 www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event... #BioHackathon

You might have noted that we visualize constituencies and their winners as cartogram. We do this with a similar technique that @driven-by-data.net has already used last year. The method is based on centroids, Delaunay tessellation and a force directed graph layout.

In a competitive field like academia, everyone feels like a fraud sometimes, whether it’s a scathing peer review, a bad comment from a student, or being shooed away by campus security when you get caught eating apple cores and chicken bones out of the dining hall dumpster at 3 a.m.

We will have our next community meeting on Tue, Feb 17, 2026, 11AM CST/ 9AM PST ! Kexin Huang, will be presenting on Biomni: a general-purpose biomedical agent. Details in 🧵

Giving science a boost. ⚡🔬 We're partnering with @anthropic.com to design and deploy custom AI agents that will help scientists turn big data into scientific discoveries faster. 🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/news/partnering-with-anthropic-to-supercharge-research-to-help-cure-disease/ 🧠📈

At the start of January, Johanna, @rorak.bsky.social and Sven traveled to Vancouver where Johanna presented our paper "Smaller and More Flexible Cuckoo Filters"(epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1...) at the ALENEX 2026. (1/4)

Great opportunity to join the lab of @patrick-pausch.bsky.social ! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Figure 5. Sudden quarrelling of spouse due to misuse of wireless sensor technology: doi.org/10.5539/jpl....

We will have our first community meeting of 2026 on Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 11AM CST/ 9AM PST ! Ian Ferenc Diks (@ianfd.bsky.social) will be presenting on SingleRust: A High-Performance Toolkit for Single-Cell Data Analysis at Scale.

"The target was numbers, and quality was mentioned only in terms of a journal’s prestige, never the work itself." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Pretty cool visualization tool for inspecting read alignments! #datavis #bioinformatics #openscience

Check out the latest paper by @carmen-aguilar.bsky.social, which also involved our #HIRI group leader @emmanuel-saliba.bsky.social and his lab. It was recently published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Congratulations to all authors! 👏🎉

The Parkinson's Disease Drug Tolcapone and Analogues are Potent Glycomimetic Lectin Inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa LecA doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Every brain tells a story. What will we learn when we listen? Together with @uwmedicine.bsky.social, we're embarking on an ambitious mission - building a functional, cellular map of the human brain. https://alleninstitute.org/news/mapping-the-brain-to-improve-lives/

🧠 CRN Team Kordower developed a co-pathology mouse model combining tau, amyloid-β, & α-synuclein. They show co-pathologies synergistically trigger an amplified neuroimmune response, with expanded CD4+/CD8+ T cells & increased CD68+ microglia. 🔗 Check out the full #preprint: https://bit.ly/4jAHzzl

ggdiceplot 1.0.1 is out now! From today, {diceplot} is deprecated and treated as the legacy implementation, all new development and features will go into {ggdiceplot}. Repo: github.com/maflot/ggdic... Docs: dice-and-domino-plot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Paper: tinyurl.com/ggdiceplot #rstats #ggplot2

For anybody working on thermal imaging of faces: The thermal-face-alignment TFAN package has just dropped on pip. github.com/openscivisio... #computer-vision #thermal-imaging #thermal-recognition #thermal-landmarks #face-alignment

Copula modeling of gene coexpression in single-cell RNA sequencing data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.04.692380v1

How does a bacterial small RNA evolve new functions? Our new study reveals the stepwise evolutionary journey of UhpU, a 3′UTR-derived sRNA in E. coli and relatives. It evolved from a metabolically-focused regulator to one with expanded targets and biogenesis manner. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

ggdiceplot 1.0.1 is out now! From today, {diceplot} is deprecated and treated as the legacy implementation, all new development and features will go into {ggdiceplot}. Repo: github.com/maflot/ggdic... Docs: dice-and-domino-plot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Paper: tinyurl.com/ggdiceplot #rstats #ggplot2

Approximately 96% of the images from some space observatories in low Earth orbit could be tainted over the next decade due to light contamination from satellites, according to an analysis in Nature. go.nature.com/3Y7eTUA 🔭 🧪