Posterior-SBC now also with peer-review stamp in Statistics and Computing doi.org/10.1007/s112... (update your bib files)

A Bayesian approach to differential prevalence analysis with applications in microbiome studies ("DiPPER") arxiv.org/abs/2602.05938

Digitaalinen itsenäisyys – Suomen seuraava kohtalonkysymys 🇫🇮 Suomi on riippuvainen yhdysvaltalaisista teknologiajäteistä. Riippuvuus ei lähitulevaisuudessa vähenny vaan syvenee. #DigitaalinenItsenäisyys #Suomi #Kansalaisaloite 1/

🚀 We’ve just kicked off the first edition of the course ORCHESTRATING MICROBIOME ANALYSIS WITH @bioconductor.bsky.social ! Excited to dive deep into microbiome data analysis using powerful Bioconductor tools with @antagomir.bsky.social & @tuomasborman.bsky.social #Microbiome #Bioinformatics

Suomi kiristäisi avoimen koodin sääntelyä haitallisesti - vastusta ylimääräistä uhkasakkoa avoimelle koodille ja allekirjoita vetoomus coss.fi/uutiset/suom...

Are you working with #microbiome data and looking for a clear, practical way to analyse it in @bioconductor.bsky.social? Last places available for our online course with @antagomir.bsky.social @antagomir.bsky.social @tuomasborman.bsky.social 2–6 February www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi has open call for postdocs (DL Feb 9) www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr... There are 45 PIs to choose from, and you can apply to work also with me on computational Bayesian modeling and Bayesian workflow!

Rarefaction is better than robust Aitchison PCA and other compositional data analysis methods at controlling for uneven sequencing effort www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

🚀 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

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...

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...

We Made It! 🎉 25 days. Complete modern R package development workflow. From usethis automation to CRAN submission. You have everything you need! #rstats #CRAN #RPackageAdvent2025 #ThatsAWrap

CSAMA 2026 - Biological Data Science Summer School Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy 24-29 May 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.

Benchmarking TCR-pMHC structure prediction: a unified evaluation and CDR3-based functional insights https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.11.30.691400v1

New preprint out now! Comparative Assessment of Large Language Models for Microbial Phenotype Annotation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join our online course Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with @bioconductor.bsky.social (2–6 Feb 2026)! Learn hands-on microbiome data analysis, diversity metrics, and multi-omics integration with @antagomir.bsky.social & Tuomas Borman . www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

We have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany! Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇 anvio.org/workshops/20...

Sisäministeri Rantanen saa oman ICE:n? Ei säännöksiä eduskunnan osallistumisesta, oikeasuhtaisuudesta, välttämättömyydestä. Ei tarvittaisi edes hallituksen päätöstä vaan sisäministeri päättäisi itse. Poliisilakiin ehdotetun uuden 15k §:n 3 mom. antaisi avoimen harkintavallan lähettää ICE kaduille

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor. #Microbiome #DataAnalysis #Bioconductor @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685036v1

Greetings from Brisbane, Int'l Data Week #IDW2025, SciDataCon25 & CODATA ExComm this week - - Looking fwd to catch up! Also check this one: "Open data science and responsible research" summarizing the national policy work on open methods in #Finland (Wed 2pm) lnkd.in/d7zBrNNn

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

Just published an interactive article about a magical algorithm known as the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, which powers sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa: sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt It's also notoriously unintuitive so I'm hoping this article helps you build that intuition.

🎉 The Nordic CompBio Conference is coming soon to Tallinn, Estonia 🇪🇪 📅 Thursday-Friday 23-24th of October (10:30-17:15 EEST) 📢 Abstract submissions and registration are open 🔗 nordic-compbio.org/ncb-week #NordicCompBio #ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics #Nordics

Come join us 2-4th March 2026 for a cracking #microbiome conference in Hinxton UK! Speaker line up is AMAZING and lots of opportunities for ECRs for selected talks, flash talks and posters. Bursaries are also available! See details below 👇

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n

New ERC funded computational postdoc position in my lab! We are looking for someone who will study the genomics of bacterial evolution using samples from experimental evolution and clinical trials. Lots of opportunities for interesting and fun collaboration! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

New fun stuff for those applying for RCF funding: www.aka.fi/en/research-...

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

🌱 New course: Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with @bioconductor.bsky.social (2–6 Feb 2026, online). Learn from @antagomir.bsky.social & Toumas Borman how to analyse microbiome & multi-omics data in R/Bioconductor. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

A quick reminder to all those who care about open research to consider joining us for the FOR2026 Conference in the Future of Open Research at the Technical University of Munich in May 4-6, 2026! Deadline for paper and poster proposals: 30 September opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con...

TIA Seed 2025 -rahoitushaku avautuu 15.9. Rahoitusta voivat hakea professorit, jotka ovat olleet palkattuna suomalaisessa korkeakoulussa tai tutkimuslaitoksessa enintään kolme vuotta ja jotka ovat asuneet vähintään viisi vuotta yhtäjaksoisesti Suomen ulkopuolella ennen Suomeen tuloaan.

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other. wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

Race by other names: critiquing population categories in microbiome research #mSystems MiniReview by Marta Scaglioni journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Chronological age estimation from human microbiomes with transformer-based Robust Principal Component Analysis www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The Journal of Open Source Software (@joss-openjournals.bsky.social‬) is looking for editors. Come join our team! I've only been an editor for a few months, but I love working with JOSS. Our peer review process is actually collaborative, and we're Diamond Open Access. #AcademicSky 🧪 ⚗️ #CompChem

IMHO green computing & green software engineering are becoming even very important. Check out our Green Algorithms Initiative for more tools and information www.green-algorithms.org And the GREENER Principles which lay the foundation for a sustainability roadmap www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Our paper benchmarking foundation models for perturbation effect prediction is finally published 🎉🥳🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We show that none of the available* models outperform simple linear baselines. Since the original preprint, we added more methods, metrics, and prettier figures! 🧵

The next version of the #rstats 📦 {atrrr} will likely contain a function to stream from the Bluesky Firehose! Looking for people to test and comment now: github.com/JBGruber/atr...

You can get an accurate estimate of total bacterial biomass from stool metagenomes by simply normalizing by host read count, without needing any additional measurements. Excellent work by UW Master's student Gechlang Tang in @asm.org #mSystems Journal. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... 🧵

EurIPS is coming! 📣 Mark your calendar for Dec. 2-7, 2025 in Copenhagen 📅 EurIPS is a community-organized conference where you can present accepted NeurIPS 2025 papers, endorsed by @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @nordicair.bsky.social and is co-developed by @ellis.eu eurips.cc

"Long-term ecological research is not the only area that needs to maintain and update data for future use. Many researchers add to, revise or overhaul their data sets over the course of their projects or careers, all while continuing to publish articles." www.nature.com/articles/d41... #OpenData

🌟 Bioconductor 2025 CAB & TAB nominations are open! Join our advisory boards to support community growth or guide technical strategy. 📅 Apply by Aug 31 CAB: forms.gle/8NYxRGhprfuN... TAB: forms.gle/eqef9ThpUypc... #Bioconductor #RStats

New RESOURCE! Integrative genomic reconstruction reveals heterogeneity in carbohydrate utilization across human gut bifidobacteria @arzamasovalex.bsky.social @drlarsbode.bsky.social Andrei Osterman, Jeff Gordon & co #microbiomesky #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in an international #PhD at the intersection of computational & environmental microbiome research (Finland + Australia)? PM/email for more details.

Antimicrobial resistance ( #AMR ) is a silent pandemic that has been attributed to over a million deaths per year worldwide. Socio-demographic factors contribute to the emergence and spread of AMR.🧵

That time of the year again! summer course Brain, Bacteria and Behavior @tulipantricolor.bsky.social @eugenianatasha.bsky.social @daniquemulder.bsky.social Rochellys Diaz Heijtz @antagomir.bsky.social Thomaz Bastiaanse Aletta Kraneveld Tuomas Bormann Annemarie Boleij Maartje van Kessel ea! 🧠 🦠 🧫