Single Cell Genomics Day: A (Virtual) Practical Workshop. June 12, 2026, organized by @nygenome.org's Rahul Satija Free, livestreamed, no registration.

Kyiv sleeps underground today. Metro stations are packed with tents as citizens brace for yet another russian attack tonight.

Thanks to input from @helucro.bsky.social, Daria Lazic, Hugo Gruson, Artür Manukyan and many others, there is now a whole new level of maturity and ease-of-use for spatial omics data, see helenalc.github.io/SpatialData....

An unapologetically angry post about what’s being done to US science:

@helucro.bsky.social at CSAMA 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu

One of my professors in grad school (late '90s) used to point to the abandoned churches that are ubiquitous in American cityscapes as a warning that we should not take the permanence of modern universities for granted. Prescient, I think.

Yay! 👩🏻‍💻

Kew Gardens recording 35.1ºC today breaks its previous May record in 1922 before this spell by NEARLY 5ºC and breaks its June maximum temperature record set in 1976 by 0.5ºC - this also beats the previous May UK maximum record by OVER 2ºC (32.8ºC, 1922/44). An incredible anomaly

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Brutal and sad. The article mentions multiple scientists, but I happen to know Sean. Sean is true role model, as a scholar, engineer communicator & mentor. He has poured time into serving NIH. If the NIH / White House is kicking Sean to the curb, we're truly done for www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

Last night Russia attacked seventy-seven places in Ukraine with more than six hundred drones and missiles. You can help protect Ukrainian life by donating here. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...

"Peaked on Twitter" is the new "Peaked in high school"

Abstract submission deadline extended to May 30th! If you're a postdoc in the job market, in or out of Germany, but want everyone to know about what you've done and are scheming to do, come to Heidelberg! 🐟🧪

Autoinhibitory feedback preserves intestinal stem cell maintenance and fate commitment @wkhuber.bsky.social, @michaelboutros.bsky.social and coworkers link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There are few other policies that all at the same time help save the environment, undermine dictatorships and reduce the risk of war than ending dependence on fossil fuels. In that context it would be the Greens who are the Realists™️

This workshop is tomorrow, don't miss your chance to register! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

New CRAN package "grumpy" for reading NumPy's .npy and .npz files in R. All data types supported by NumPy, with all sizes, shapes, numbers of dimension, C and 'Fortran' order, are supported. It was inspired by, and extends the functionality of @eddelbuettel.com's RcppCNPy

#HappyFluorescenceFriday #microscopycommunity- Over the past two decades, shared formats and tools have steadily improved interoperability in bioimaging, however limits of current approaches are becoming clear. Come discuss with Josh Moore on Wednesday, May 20! Learn more: buff.ly/MWsvxni

This is very good. By the co-chairperson of the Greens, a former junior minister who weaned Germany off Russian oil and gas in 2022, and MP for Heidelberg.

Rahel Straus war die erste Frau, die an der medizinischen Fakultät in Heidelberg studierte und das medizinische Staatsexamen ablegte (Universität Heidelberg 1900). Am 21. März 1880 in Karlsruhe geboren, verstarb sie mit 83 Jahren am 15. Mai 1963 in Jerusalem in Israel 

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

… Literally not a female at the table. Photo posted by the White House.

Using Haiku to craft prompts to feed to Sonnet to build a hacking harness for Opus so it can craft zero days to steal someone's Mythos API access. And then using Mythos to craft more complex zero days to break into Anthropic and steal my true prize: the weights for Golden Gate Claude.

I went into academia for the money and the power.

The @sfb1348.bsky.social Meeting “Mechanochemical Signals at Cellular Interfaces” is just around the corner! We are excited to welcome an outstanding lineup of international speakers to #Münster for three days of inspiring scientific exchange and discussion. @uni-muenster.de

Do you ever just think about the fact penicillin is less than 100 years old?

The Cimini lab is hiring for both postdocs and interns! The postdoc role will cover bioimage analysis projects and educational material creation; the intern will be working on our Bilayers project for helping distribute and access deep learning tools for bioimage analysis. Click below to learn more!

I created the rformat package after similar frustrations with the bots cran.r-project.org/web/packages... After several similar series of frustrations, I came to the conclusion that the problem stems from LLMs working linearly in tokens, but code lives in trees cornball.ai/posts/tokens...

You can also do this with the {styler} R package (or other R formatters) across an entire directory with a single line of code!

Another experience with a coding agent in support of “Great if you know what you are doing, but you risk getting junk if not”. I had some R/quarto scripts in which I wanted to replace all assignment = operators with <- (which looks like ← in fonts with ligatures). Subtlety #1 is... 1/4

And other one with rivers of Germany. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

Reminder: bioRxiv has Contradictory and Confirmatory Results categories to encourage studies of reproducibility. Yaniv Erlich had the previous record (hours) for demonstrating irreproducibility of a paper. Now apparently we have a negative time interval 😉

Not long after I started my lab, a prominent scientist told me it was “impossible” to be a successful PI and a mother Don’t ever let the naysayers tell you it can’t be done - of course it can! #HappyMothersDay this weekend to all the amazing scientist mamas raising their wonderful kids 🥰

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Beautiful Switzerland

going to be honest this has mostly made me want to take a month off and just recreate that journey as a holiday

This — and so even surpassing the efforts of his friend Putin. While China makes sure the prices solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and wind turbines keep going down. What a time to be alive.

Come Back Alive - charitable foundation savelife.in.ua/en/

On the topic of Alexander von Humboldt, I recommend Andrea Wulf's excellent biography "The Invention of Nature"; many may also enjoy the rusticomedy "Measuring the World" that re-imagines von Humboldt alongside with C. F. Gauss. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inv... www.imdb.com/title/tt1571...

(1/15) Thrilled to share new Evo-Devo work where we address the molecular, cellular & morphometric basis of an extreme axis segmentation program in the Japanese eel — an animal that forms 120 vertebrae.

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

heyyy Positron has a packages panel now!! And it works with both #rstats and Python! github.com/posit-dev/po...

🏁 We’re hiring at the TUM Heilbronn Data Science Center (PhD & Postdoc). Focus: econometrics, innovation policy, and technology management—with a particular interest in the societal and managerial implications of #causalAI. Join a highly interdisciplinary, research-driven environment at TUM. 👇

Nicht Merz‘ Kommentare über die „Demütigung“ der USA sind das Problem, sondern Trumps erneute, dreifache Attacke auf die EU - und besonders Deutschland, trotz aller Bemühungen um Beschwichtigung. Was daraus folgt, hier in meinem Kommentar (freebie) www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Interesting comment on the already dramatic impact of automated reasoning on grant writing, and a call to increase its use in reviewing & awarding. I think where their proposed solution still falls short is the impact of automated reasoning on then doing the research itself.

How can we measure increased productivity of scientists, as a whole, whether from more AI, more funding or other measures, if the total number of Nature papers per week always stays the same?

🚀 We’re excited to share the release of Bioconductor 3.23, featuring: ✅2418 software packages (94 new) ✅437 experiment data packages (5 new) ✅928 annotation packages ✅8 books (2 new) ✅28 workflows 🔗 Please see the full release announcement here: bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_...

We're looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work at the intersection of ecology and data science 🧪 www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/postdo... #movingtonewzealand #movingtonz

Quote from a former colleague: "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."