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We could have gotten smarter fascists, who work to boost the economy upon taking office, funneling benefits to their supporters, consolidating power behind the scenes. Instead, they rushed to overt corruption while making even supporters' lives worse. A lot of pain before they fall, but they will.

At last something important to report. Must try.

According to signaling theory, some signals must be costly just to be costly—that's how you get a separating equilibrium. Think peacocks and their oversized feathers. So even if AI removes one costly signal, it doesn't mean we should stop technological progress — we'll just find new ones.

The Wikipedia page on Simpson's paradox contains a really nice visualisation of it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson...

Now recruiting several PhD students and postdocs for different projects of our excellence cluster SynthImmune: application.synthimmune.de For more info see perspective article below and synthimmune.de

Beautiful autumn after-work ride to Königstuhl, the 550m hill in Heidelberg

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

Biologist finds a CRISPR hit in a cell line screen and rushes to call it clinically relevant.

Born #OnThisDay in 1914 was actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. As well as acting in 30 films, during the Second World War she co-developed a frequency-hopping guidance system for American torpedoes, the principles of which are used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today. #WomenInSTEM

AI tells you what you want to hear, statisticians usually tell you what you don't want to hear

Awful lot of people seem to think houses used to fall off trees, jobs were well paid and lovely, people were lovely to each other, and everyone could afford holidays every day. Of course life isn't perfect now. But it never was. And in many ways it is much better.

There are two complementary views of scientific advance: the "heroes" view, individual geniuses driving unique one-of-a-kind advances, and the "multiple discovery" or zeitgeist view, that the time is ripe for a discovery, and the details of who makes it first, where, and how are, well, details.(1/3)

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

🎓 Upcoming Online Course: R/Bioconductor for Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics 📅 November 17–19, 2025 Join Dr Laurent Gatto for a hands-on course on mass spectrometry–based proteomics analysis using R and Bioconductor. 👉 Register & learn more: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

It's time to start to thinking about Christmas presents, isn't it? I have an idea, that costs just £22 a month. 📰 subscribenow.economist.com

Now heading to a CRAN near you...

“An EMBO #Fellowship really opens your possibilities,” says Nikolai Klena, EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Human Technopole in Milan, #Italy. 🧪 Read more: www.embo.org/people/peeki... #LifeSciences #research #funding #opportunity

And we have another open position, this time with a focus on Genome Biology! Join a great community in Vienna to bring your research to the next level!

In an ideal world, these #dronesightings would be free training for our counterdrone measures #Brusselsairport

Want to work on ethical implications of using ML/AI in science? Tuebingen & the ML4Science cluster are a great place to work :)

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

Have you tried @murena-com.bsky.social docs. It is based on onlyoffice and works great.

Who did this?!

My favourite pastime is going through manuscript drafts and replacing all instance of leverag and utilis with us.

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Proton Docs yet! proton.me/blog/docs-pr...

Not having to use Teams, Sharepoint, MS365 could be a big competitive advantage for collaborative research teams.

#r2u now contains BioConductor 3.22 released yesterday for Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04 (for the 500-some packages we cover, details at the site). #Rstats 4.5.2 has been built, we will update the containers in a few days as well. #r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three. eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u

Innovate! Create! Disrupt! Think outside the box, smash accepted concepts, break the rules….wait wait, not THOSE rules, those are the arbitrary ones that are just there because That Is How It Is Done Here, obey those to the letter! Sigh. Creativity is a culture. It needs support not apparatchiks.

Last chance to apply for the #EMBLBrillouin course! 🔬 • Introduction to Brillouin microscopy • Hands-on training • Guidance on project design, data analysis, and visualisation • Skills to interpret and apply BM in your own research 👉 Apply by 3 Nov: s.embl.org/brm26-01-bl#EMBLBrillouin #BrillouinMicroscopy

Join us for the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'AI and biology' 🤖🧬 Explore how AI transforms biological research – from foundation models for biology to generative modelling 🧠💡 10 – 13 March 2026 EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual Submit your abstract: s.embl.org/ees26-02-bl #EESAIBio #AI

A wise point

That merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation

Thread on the intellectual landscape around LLMs 👇 I love progress and am happy to see investment in it—but wonder if the amounts currently going into genAI are a missed opportunity to invest in more mundane "data plumbing" and digitalisation. Which could eventually have higher societal benefits.

I hereby declare email bankruptcy. If you’ve written to me in the past months and haven’t heard back — it’s not you, it’s the inbox. I recently discovered that hundreds of messages had been flagged as spam and never reached me. 👇

TIL that you can pull the weather via the command line with curl 😅 Try it yourself 👇🏼 curl wttr.in/your_city_name

Don’t mince words - spread what is true and visible to all willing to see.

Having US military funded by private billionaires (whether from US or abroad) might be one of the most consequential developments yet.

Solar is EU's biggest power source for first time Solar booms that no one saw coming --Netherlands and Hungary --- are now over 40% solar, higher than Spain! Installation boomed once policy became supportive few years ago @palmapolyak.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/0894...

Weekly recap (Oct 17, 2025) https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-recap-oct-17-2025 #rstats #databs

Did "Writing R Extensions" go to a beauty salon?! cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/... #RStats

Vous êtes étudiant(e) en informatique, ingénierie ou mathématiques dans une université ou une grande école ? La biologie et le fonctionnement du vivant vous intéressent ? Envie d'élargir vos horizons ? Ce stage pourrait vous convenir. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i...

The train I wanted to take is an hour late, but luckily the one from an hour ago is so, too.

You should read this wonderful little history of the #tidyverse, by @hadley.nz. It reminded me about my early #rstats days as a PhD student (2011 - 2016), where I was constantly trying out the new things Hadley and crew were cooking up. hadley.github.io/25-tidyverse...

The Louvre thieves should just say they're using the pieces to train their AI algorithm and it should all be good

Parenting tip: After spending hours and tears turning the household upside down to find a crucial brick for 8yo's Lego Saturn rocket, we discovered that the vendor's website offers a convenient picker for ordering individual bricks ("Pick a Brick").