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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share. duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

Skymind: I'm learning about 'spatially aware clustering' in spatial omics and wondering how it is different from 'segmentation'? (in essence, not by way of marketing)

Where most of the drama is in most experiments. Classic if you needed fancy statistical test, you didn't design your experiment well enough :) Though if anyone has a power/design framework for AI interpretation please let me know. It's the wild west out there!

Am contributing to a collaborative dry-wet project proposal and everyone incl. myself thinks I should be writing about fancy algorithms. Instead, I spend all time on experimental design,power, what do we know or not, what do we aim to show? And on 2nd thought, that's probably OK for a statistician.

This comic is becoming increasingly realistic. m.xkcd.com/3056/

Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org

A useful analogy. One can say that much of the progress in computer programming is aligned with ever increasing levels abstraction. LLM-based coding tools are "just" a next level. The choice of objective, and the measure of success, still remains something external to the tool.

Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems? Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

How every PhD project develops

Join us at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht to start your research group! Fantastic scientific environment, strong support, and nice colleagues :) Apply and please share broadly in your network.

Happy Stanislav Petrov day! Sometimes, questioning what the computer tells you, is the way to go.

{gm} - Create music with R: flujoo.github.io/gm/ #RStats bookmark from old twitter

Great to have @markmccarthy985.bsky.social at @uob-ieu.bsky.social giving a seminar tomorrow (Friday) at 12.30 online or in person www.bristol.ac.uk/integrative-...

We’re proud to have supported the #Paleocore project through the TREC expedition! Paleocore is a BIOcean5D-funded initiative uncovering how human activities have shaped Europe’s coastal ecosystems over thousands of years. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/science... @embltrec.bsky.social

Human organisations are like biological networks: there are enzymes, activators and repressors. The enzymes are the people who do stuff. Activating interactions motivate and inspire them. Repressing interactions create friction, bureaucracy, etc. Roles or processes that create friction tend ... 1/2

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with two Children, 1932-1936, sculpture #WomensArt

The tylenol story - it's not just scientific non-sense, it fits into the ideological agenda: autism is the fault of women. They should endure pain instead of taking painkillers.

The Disney brand, and the USA brand, sinking together. Parody from Dutch TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty. Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3

#EuroBioC2025 is over and it has been a blast! Thanks to all participants that came to @prbb.org for contributing to make such an enjoyable event and special thanks to the support from our sponsors, the organizing institutions @upf.edu @isglobal.org and the European @bioconductor.bsky.social Society

“The more the German industry continues to focus on phasing out niche technologies […] the easier it becomes for Chinese companies to expand their lead in batteries and new electronic vehicle architectures.” Remarkable op-ed by former VW boss Herbert Diess. www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Saturday afternoon mountain bike ride rest stop.

Just dropping this here for no particular reason

EuroBioC2025 is in full swing here in Barcelona! Day 1 was full of great talks, conversations, and that amazing Bioconductor community energy. Excited for what’s ahead today and tomorrow! #EuroBioC2025 #Bioconductor #OpenScience #Community

Mood of 2025

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

Martin Emons on SpatialFDA - searching for differential colocalization in spatial omics data

Luca Marconato at the European Bioconductor Conference 2025 in Barcelona, on advancing spatial biology analysis across programming languages — R, Python, JS. Important infrastructure for data ingest, representation, visualization, analysis for emerging spatial omics techniques

Manchester ! —

Dream job - research software engineer, in one of the most beautiful parts of the world

Solar panels now cost peanuts (under 10 cents per W) in most of the world. Carbon dioxide emissions in high-income countries are now falling, and there's reason to believe other countries will be able to develop much more sustainably than those did. ourworldindata.org/grapher/annu...

Like software development right :) 1. Throw one away; you will have to anyway ..and then.. 2. You will always throw away one more version than you plan for This is like the version 1.0 problem ....

Science: only when you write up the manuscript, you realize what you should have done.

... and at other times the log-scale really brings home just HOW MUCH progress we made! 💚

Skipping a log-scale sometimes impressively makes the point...

Distributed Denial of Science attack

Business idea: an email inbox that charges money for receiving messages. I would gladly use that for work, and donate the proceeds to a good cause. (But keep the saved lifetime and sanity for myself.)

My work email is a DDoS attack.

Bats 🦇 aren’t even on the list!

Good old Kyiv tonight

"According to a recent study in The Journal of Clinical Oncology, every $326 that our government spends researching cancer extends a human life by one year." That's astonishing. That's the cost of one vial of polymerase

This is such an under studied phenomenon. Extreme politics as a midlife pout

I keep stumbling when, in biological data analysis, someone uses the word "noise" as if it represented an objectively existing, tangible thing. It is not. Noise is just another word for ignorance. Complicated but in principle deterministic stuff that ... (1/2)

@embl.org Heidelberg is looking for a new Head of Scientific Instrumentation! This is an exciting opportunity at the interface between scientific research and technology development, overseeing our mechanical and electronic workshops! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

We don't do propaganda to make you believe something. It's to make you believe nothing. So you do nothing.