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Please! No more UMAPs/t-SNEs 👇👇👇

Oh yes, and check out my debut as a failed YouTuber. I'm really much more excited about this than I sound in the video, because look how nice our Bonsai-scout app actually works to explore the data!

Bonsai is out! Finally, we can visually explore high-dimensional data in a distortion-free way. Try it out! It works from scRNA-seq data (bonsai.unibas.ch/bonsai-scout...) up to football statistics (bonsai.unibas.ch/bonsai-scout...). 
Ever wondered why low-dimensional embeddings like t-SNE

New publication! We identify growth coupled sensitivity: a deceivingly simple mechanism that makes E. coli switch to the best sugar. We combined neat theory (due to @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social, and to which I contributed) with clean experiments (due to @thomasjulou.bsky.social and Theo Gervais).

Um die grossen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit (KI, Klimawandel, Pandemien, etc) richtig beurteilen zu können, brauchen wir fundierten Wissenschaftsjournalismus. Es ist ein Fehler, dass #SRF ausgerechnet hier spart. bajour.ch/a/die-srf-sp...

Thrilled to announce that our work (w. with fantastic @neher.io and Liam Shaw) has been published on Molecular Biology and Evolution! 🎉 academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-... Are you curious about how fast the genome of E.coli evolves structurally (gains, rearrangements...) ? 🧬 A summary thread [1/N]🧵

What do bacterial cells do when they run out of nutrients? Although most bacterial studies focus on cells in exponentially growing states, in the wild bacteria likely spend most of their time slowly starving to death. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...