Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA. Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions). It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!

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🧬 EuroBioC2026 is coming to Turku, Finland, from June 3–5, 2026! Expect 3 exciting days with the Bioconductor community, showcasing the latest advances in Bioconductor software and emerging technologies shaping computational biology. 👉 More details soon at eurobioc2026.bioconductor.org

Thank you to all our amazing sponsors, organizers, speakers, and attendees for making #EuroBioC2025 in Barcelona such a success! Read the full recap blog post here👉 blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-1... And, see you next year at #EuroBioC2026! 🎉 #Bioconductor #Community #Conference

I'm very excited to share our latest preprint! We introduce structure-based analysis of spatial omics data – an approach that focuses on multi-cellular anatomical structures rather than single cells. We also present sosta to facilitate this type of analysis: bioconductor.org/packages/sos...

It’s happening 🤗 #EuroBioC2025 @bioconductor.bsky.social

🚀 Spatial Transcriptomics (Imaging) + Spatial-centric analyses by @helucro.bsky.social : the way to truly interrogate tissues!!! 📖 Read our pre-print on human tonsil architecture (full of tonsiLove ♥️) here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are excited to share the publication of our paper on exploratory spatial statistics for spatial omics data academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

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In July we had the 3rd edition of the Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School. Now a regular, it has created a sense of community: young people eager to learn new topics, network across the country&world. Seeing how science is a positive&optimistic force. www.huber.embl.de/group/posts/...

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Did you know you can infer CNVs using image-based spatial transcriptomics? Check it out in our latest preprint.

📝 New blog post: Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0 - What’s Changing and How to Prepare A major ggplot2 update is coming and may impact Bioconductor packages. What’s changing, how to test, and where to get help 👉 blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0... #Bioconductor #RStats

In Situ Inference of Copy Number Variations in Image-Based Spatial Transcriptomics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.02.662761v1

Going from methods dev to full on cancer bio has been tough. All the more excited to see this out at last— www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @pascual-reguant.bsky.social @brukerspatial.bsky.social @hoheyn.bsky.social

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EuroBioC goes south! The most south since… ever? Come join us in Barcelona 🇪🇸 for great science, community, and scholarly chats by the sea 🌊

⏳ Time’s running out! Submit your abstract for #EuroBioC2025 by 24 April. Join us this Sept in Barcelona to share your research, meet the #Bioconductor community & explore all things #Bioinformatics + #RStats. 👉 eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org/pages/submis...

Bioconductor 3.21 released with 72 new software packages, for a total of 2341 software packages, 432 experiment data packages, 928 annotation packages, 30 workflows and 5 books bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_... 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats

Eleven (!) quick tips for writing a Bioconductor package from @csoneson.bsky.social et al. from @fmiscience.bsky.social journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Do you want to learn more about the statistical analysis of proteomics, metabolomics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics? Do you want to up your game with R and Bioconductor? All of this while enjoying summer in the beautiful Italian Alps? Join us for the 21st edition of CSAMA July 6-11!

@helucro.bsky.social @estellayixingdong.bsky.social @kevinyamauchi.bsky.social @arturmansl.bsky.social Dario Righelli, Louise Deconick, Vincent Carey Should you use R (Bioconductor) or Python (scverse) for spatial omics? Ideally, you won’t have to choose one. We are working toward making...

Recently, we held the first #scverse SpatialData 3-day hackathon in Basel (Switzerland), where we brought together 20 developers from the Python, R, and web communities to work on interoperability, performance, and ergonomics for spatial omics data. Here is what we worked on!

It’s been a real fun (& productive) event, as well as a great demo of how R/Bioc and Python/scverse communities can come together to pursuit mutually beneficial (vs. redundant/diverging) efforts. — Thanks @scverse.bsky.social & all of the SpatialData team for having us!

As Saint Nicholas is coming to a close, these were my fav (non-science) 📖s of '24: 💻 Living Computers, A Brazma — from snowflakes to Asimov & GEB to ML... A rare read by a rare (& lovely) mind. ☁️ The Discovery of Heaven, H Mulisch — a tome so great, I read it the 2nd time & am still sad it ended.

Interested in spatial statistics for spatial omics data? Check out our new resource: pasta. We show how different technologies lead to different data modalities give and overview of point-pattern and lattice-based spatial analysis. Feedback welcome! arxiv.org/abs/2412.01561

A little piece that's been in the works with former MSc, now PhD student, Jiayi Wang & @markrobinsonca.bsky.social in the multi-sample/-condition/-subpopulation theme: ...

My brother wrote a thesis summary in Greek, and that’s gotta be the singular best thing I’ve seen. So aesthetic… Although I can’t say that I understand the math.

Great read!! Can recommend -- "Academics have their own mythology. We view ourselves as fiercely independent, objective truth-seekers. Our research is curiosity-driven & its impact is measured through the respect of our esteemed peers. We combine this with the education of the next generation, ...

So I just discovered that one can `setMethod`s on multiple S4 signatures with a `for`-loop 🤯 and go from many to ~5 lines 🤩 So now you know. #rstats

European Bioconductor Conference (EuroBioC2025): 17-19 September 2025 in Barcelona! eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org