I wrote a short op-ed in @genetics-gsa.bsky.social G3 this month’s issue on missing data problems in population genomics that I’ve been thinking about for a couple of years. Lemme know your thoughts! Comments/suggestions/ideas welcome! doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

Only 1 seat left! #lidar #rstata #remotesensing

🚀 New release: Metabonaut v1.4.0 is here! 1️⃣ New integration with the notame package for robust feature selection. 2️⃣ Added GNPS2 FBMN export for molecular networking. Explore the updates: rformassspectrometry.github.io/Metabonaut/ #Metabolomics #RStats #OpenScience #MassSpec #Bioconductor

Kick off 2026 by strengthening your data analysis skills with our three essential online courses designed specifically for biologists and life scientists: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... 🧵

🌊🧬 Marine Genomics — registrations open! 📅 25–29 May|📍Heraklion, Crete (HCMR) Dive into marine & population genomics with real datasets: genome QC, variant calling, population & seascape genomics. 5 days • hands-on • learning by doing • science by the sea 🌍 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

📈 Registrations now open! Time Series Analysis & Forecasting in R 🗓 20–24 July| 🌍 Online A very hands-on course on dynamic GLMs/GAMs for ecological time series using {mvgam} & {brms}. Bayesian models, nonlinear effects, forecasting & live coding in R. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Give yourself a holiday gift! 🎁 Boost your bioinformatics skills with our Unix for Bioinformatics course — learn essential command-line tools to speed up and simplify your data analysis. Perfect for beginners and those wanting to level up! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Join the online course "Metabarcoding in Microbial Ecology" from March 16-20, 2026. Learn metabarcoding techniques through lectures and hands-on exercises. More info: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course30/ #course

🚀 Boost your data analysis skills! Join our online Intro to Machine Learning with R course, 16–20 Feb. Hands-on, beginner-friendly, focused on ‘omics data. Register now: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #MachineLearning #RStats #Bioinformatics

Reproducibility is key to science. In computational biology, we routinely manipulate high-dimensional data (spatial, single-cell, bulk) through filtering, normalisation and transformation. Capturing those steps clearly improves reproducibility and transparency. tidyomics.github.io/tidyomicsBlo...

Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - @merenbey.bsky.social @banfieldlab.bsky.social go.nature.com/44P7nSm

🚀 Ready to bring your R skills to life with interactive web apps? Join our Introduction to R Shiny course (9–10 June online) with @drmattg.bsky.social and learn how to build powerful, dynamic apps straight from R—no web dev experience needed! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

I did this in September- it’s a great course! Very explanatory

Interested in Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) and Ecological Niche Modeling (ENM) in R? Don’t miss this chance to level up your skills! The course is nearly full — www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #SDM #ENM #RStats #Ecology #DataScience

Master #microbiome analysis with R/ @bioconductor.bsky.social ! Join our live online course Feb 2–6, with @antagomir.bsky.social & @tuomasborman.bsky.social Dive into data import, diversity metrics, differential abundance, and multi-omics integration. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

🔔 Registration is still open for the upcoming online course #LiDAR Data Analysis in R with @micheletorresani.bsky.social 📅 26–28 Jan www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... You will learn how to process LiDAR data in R through lectures and hands-on practical sessions. #RemoteSensing #Rstats

A new year is here and there’s just 10 days to apply for the new #SEA4FUTURE #S4F #postdoc position to work with us on #eDNA and #Sustainability of #Mediterranean #Fisheries (link below!) 🐟 🧬 🦐 Don’t miss out on the opportunity! @thefsbi.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social @icesmarine.bsky.social

Learn the full GWAS workflow in our 5-day online course (26–30 Jan 2026) @oscargenomics.bsky.social From study design to data analysis with R & Linux tools, gain hands-on skills to run your own GWAS. #GWAS #Genetics #Bioinformatics www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Whether you’re aiming to strengthen your command-line skills, improve your statistical foundations, or explore specialised genomic and ecological analyses, our January 2026 online courses have you covered. Check them out: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Rstats #Genomics #Bioinformatics

gptstudio is an R package that integrates ChatGPT directly into RStudio via a user-friendly add-in. It helps generate and explain R code using natural language, supports GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, and boosts productivity for both beginners and experts—all without leaving your IDE. github.com/MichelNivard...

Come and join me to learn some magic when writing technical and scientific documents with Quarto!

📊 Start the new year learning statistics in R! Our online course Introduction to Statistics in R (19–22 Jan) with @philipleftwich.bsky.social is perfect for beginners and combines theory with lots of hands-on practice in R. 🚨 Last seats available! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

🚀 Join our online course “Species Distribution & Ecological Niche Modelling in R” with @ambarbosa.bsky.social from Jan 19–23! Learn SDM & ENM concepts with hands-on R practice—no advanced skills needed. Save your spot now! 🌿👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Registrations are open for two Physalia online courses: 1) Intro to Analyzing Animal Movement with R (Feb 16-18, 2026) 2) Analyzing Habitat Selection from Telemetry Data (Apr 20-23, 2026). Details: https://www.physalia-courses.org/ #course

‪ Meta-analysis in R (2nd edition) — registrations open 🚀 Hands-on systematic reviews & modern meta-analysis in R with @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & @shreyadimri.bsky.social 📅11–14 May 2026| Online |Ecology & evolution www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview #Rstats

🎄✨ As 2025 comes to a close, a huge thank you to all our instructors, participants, and to everyone who chose Physalia Courses for training, consultancy, and project support. We’re grateful for an amazing year and can’t wait to share many exciting new activities in 2026—together! 📊🧬

Give yourself a holiday gift! 🎁 Boost your bioinformatics skills with our Unix for Bioinformatics course — learn essential command-line tools to speed up and simplify your data analysis. Perfect for beginners and those wanting to level up! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Join the Physalia online course "Conservation Genomics" from April 7-10, 2026, to learn about genomic tools for conservation. More info: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course62/ #course

Master #MultimodalAI for #SystemsBiology! Join our online course (2-6 Mar 2026) to integrate diverse biological data with R/Python. Join us and elevate your skills! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics #MachineLearning #AIinBiology

Join our online course on Multidimensional Phenotypic Evolution (2-6 Mar 2026) with @carmelofruciano.bsky.social . Learn to analyse complex traits with hands-on sessions using morphometrics, PCA, and phylogenetic methods. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Shiny + AI workshop in February www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Our final course of the year is a wrap! 🎉 Huge thanks to @bioinformatician.bsky.social and to all the participants who joined us this week to level up their #Genomics #DataViz skills. We can’t wait to see your beautiful figures making their way into papers, posters, and presentations!

✨ What a week in Barcelona! 🇪🇸✨ Last day of the Machine Learning for Multi-Omics Integration course at the University of Barcelona with @oskolkov.bsky.social 🚀 Thanks to everyone who´s joined us this week — we wish you all the best with your current and future projects📊 @irbio-ub.bsky.social

Day2 ✅: @oskolkov.bsky.social introduced unsupervised and deep learning methods for multi-omics integration, with practical sessions on MOFA1/2 and autoencoders to explore shared patterns across omics datasets. @irbio-ub.bsky.social #ML4MultiOmicsIntegration

Join us for the 2nd edition of the Computational #Pangenomics online course, 13–16 April with @andreaguarracino.bsky.social. You can learn how to build and analyse pangenome graphs from whole genome assemblies. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Pangenomics #Bioinformatics

Want to build a solid stats foundation using R? Join our online Introduction to Statistics in R course with @philipleftwich.bsky.social, 19–23 Jan 2026! Perfect for beginners wanting hands-on practice and confidence in data analysis. More info & registration: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Population-scale long-read datasets, involving sequencing and de novo assembly of multiple individuals within a species, are better at capturing the full spectrum of structural variants, but such datasets are rare outside of humans www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #biodiversity #genomics

We are hiring! If you like the #sea and its #fish and are motivated to apply #eDNA methods to make #fisheries more sustainable, then this #postdoc position might be perfect for you: jobs.ljmu.ac.uk/vacancy/post... @thefsbi.bsky.social @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social

The Norwegian Plant Biology Conference (NPBC 2026) will take place at Nord University in Bodø, June 18–19, 2026, with a Physalia course on June 17. Registrations are now open: marinetics.org/workshop2/

This week we are also running the 2nd edition of the online course on Genomic Data Visualisation with @bioinformatician.bsky.social The course covers plots for expression studies, comparative genomic and metagenomic analyses, including phylogenies, genome statistics, and synteny visualisations.

We’re extremely happy to be at the University of Barcelona (@irbio-ub.bsky.social ) this week running the in-person 3-day course on #MachineLearning for #MultiOmics Integration with @oskolkov.bsky.social Great group of attendees from across the EU and USA! 🌍✨

Registrations are now open for our Gene Set Enrichment Analysis in R course with @january3.github.io , 11–15 May (online)! Learn key GSEA methods, visualization, and custom gene sets for transcriptomics & multi-omics. #Bioinformatics #RStats #Genomics #GSEA www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

🎓Online-course: Machine Learning for Bio-imaging 📅 9–11 March 2026 🧠 Instructor: @hernanmn.bsky.social Learn CNNs for image segmentation & classification with hands-on Python sessions on real bioimage data. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Bioimaging #MachineLearning

🚀 Registrations are open for our 2026 online courses with @carmelofruciano.bsky.social ! 1 - Foundations of Geometric Morphometrics (3–5 Feb) Learn to quantify and analyse biological shape in 2D and 3D with clear, visually impactful results. 🔗 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Many thanks to @ilianabista.bsky.social , @bfeldmeyer.bsky.social, Jacopo Martelossi, and all participants of the #AdaptationGenomics course. We hope you enjoyed the week and that the methods and skills you’ve gained will be valuable for your data and research projects!

Interested in applying for a postdoc on wildlife #microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University, Sweden? The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9. www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Learn eDNA metabarcoding with @nanoporetech.com ! 🧬💻 Hands-on online course with @shump.bsky.social covering lab workflows & bioinformatics—turn samples into real biodiversity insights. #eDNA #longreads #Nanopore www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Course Alert!😍 Curious about #GWAS? This course will guide you through the entire process — from study design and data prep to statistical analysis and interpreting results. @oscargenomics.bsky.social @gwascatalog.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#gllvm is constantly evolving and expanding, so Pekka Korhonen wrote a paper demonstrating new features in the package since Niku et al. 2019. peerj.com/articles/203... We've already been working on even more features, so I suppose eventually a 3.0 paper will have to follow... 🙃

Excellent course! I highly recommend it!