#Metroflow2026 registration is open and for the first time we are hosting our annual meeting at Wiley, publisher of Cytometry Part A, Cytometry Part B, and Current Protocols of Cytometry. Find us at Eventbrite or in the URL below for more details! tinyurl.com/MetroFlow2026 #flowcytometry #flowcyto

We’re excited to announce the dates and location for CYTO 2028! 🎉 Save the date and stay tuned for more details as we continue building future opportunities for discovery, collaboration, and innovation within the cytometry community. CYTO 2028 June 24-28, 2028 Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Ph.Done! youtu.be/h_G-UR-BmS4?...

One week to go, everyone is still invited 😇😂 www.youtube.com/live/K7iae7I... #rstats #flowcytometry #bioconductor

A Reproducible and Extensible Benchmark of Supervised Cell Type Annotation Tools for Cytometry Data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.02.729500v1

Going to #CYTO2026? Same! If you don't see me in the coffee line, and are looking to add to your laptop's hex sticker collection (or just want to give me general grief 🤓), you can track me down at the following 1/n #rstats #CytometryInR #flowcytometry #Bioconductor

📅 Schedule information for BioC2026 is now available on the BioC2026 website. Registration is also officially open for the conference and the post-conference Carpentries workshop and hackathon. Early bird pricing ends on 15 June 2026. 🎟️ More details and registration: bioc2026.bioconductor.org

FlowWeb, a free, web-based platform for flow cytometry data analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.16.717288v1

Late-Breaking Poster submissions close MONDAY! If you have new, high-impact data, now’s the time to share it with the global cytometry community. Don't miss the chance to be part of the conference experience. Submission deadline: Monday, April 13 www.cytoconference.org/abstracts"

Also, using the UI is the MOST SUCCESSFUL WAY I've ever been able to stash and pop changes. It's so niiiiice! Heres a fun game: count how many times I mention git making me cry (in the past) in this video 😂 #positron #databs #GitHub #Git #rstats #pydata

#r2u had its first 'three point five million packages delivered' month in Februaru (outside that two-day Sep 2023 outlier) bringing the total to over 68 million #CRAN #Rstats packages shipped as #Ubuntu .deb binaries. #r2u. Fast. Easy. Reliable. Pick All Three.

FlowCLOc, a New Tool for Selecting the Most Appropriate Antibodies in Flow Cytometry www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/27...

Hello #rstats folks, can anyone point me towards a good resource on how to set up/retrieve existing Google analytics account data and bring it into R? Not my usual #rstats niche, currently reading through the GoogleAnalyticsR vignette but post authentication not seeing any accounts or properties.

Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.

Wow this scoring chaos seems to be an extreme case of what I say about many ad hoc analyses: no derivation of method from a clear scientific theory, no assessment of statistical properties, and decades pass before someone notices. This happens in biology too, so let’s not pick on psychology only

Excited to officially announce our free "Cytometry in R" mini-course, aimed at coding beginners, will be starting up the first week of February! 🥳 It will be offered both online and in-person at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. 1500 people have signed up!!! #flowcytometry #rstats #quarto 1/7

Unmixing Spread Estimation Based on Residual Model in Spectral Flow Cytometry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.27.701929v1

(It also (optionally) plays a gong sound 🤣)

The 0.5.0 version of my {brms} + {tidyverse} translation of McElreath's "Statistical Rethinking" (2nd ed) is up! solomon.quarto.pub/sr2/ 1/3 #rstats

At CYTO, it’s the people who make the experience unforgettable. Colleagues become friends, mentorships take shape, and a community comes together around a shared passion for cytometry.

The CYTO 2026 abstract deadline is TODAY. This is your last chance to show off your research and join the global cytometry wave in West Palm Beach! Submission deadline: December 15th at 11:59pm ET. Submit today: www.cytoconference.org/abstracts.html

Our English and Mandarin versions of our Basics of Flow Cytometry E-Course are now available free on YouTube! Check it out and make sure you like and subscribe to stay updated as we release additional educational content along with this course in additional languages! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Next May, the Computational Cytometry Summer School returns to Ghent for its 3rd edition. Sofie Van Gassen explains what participants can expect from this intensive hands-on program. https://tinyurl.com/msmzk74f Apply before 16 December 2025 ⚠️

📢 We are taking applications for our Postdoctoral Fellows Program at Harvard/DFCI! 🔹Join a research group in our department 🔹Co-mentoring opportunities with 2+ faculty 🔹Collaborate with investigators beyond our department 🔹Salary starts at $75K Apply here: t.co/B7SLZzQFKu

Merry December folks! Wanna know your most used and co-dependent geoms this past year?! I've built "Spotify Wrapped" for {ggplot2} that produces you an interactive story and analytical tools for your geom usage! #rstats Build your own report by following the docs: gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapp...

Bought my laptop back in 2020, and #plannedobsolescence be dammed, I will use it until it disintegrates. Just swapped out the dying battery, and not worrying about finding the charger after 10 minutes unplugged is nice! Similar story for last years RAM upgrades and #Linux dual-boot.

Autofluorescence imaging reveals the impact of cryopreservation on T cell metabolism and activation response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.688556v1

Maybe it’s a little over optimistic, but I legitimately feel like the fabled Year Of the Linux Desktop™ is really coming.

My talk from posit::conf earlier this fall on getting unstuck with #Python is now available to watch! - Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩 - I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌 youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE

Just restocked a lot of stickers including these guys! (shop.emibirdee.com/products/be-...)

One more test from #RStats console before I share my wrapper around {bskyr}...

This is an amazing (and infuriating) story, complete with Github repos of their analysis!

This obit of Watson is *amazing*.

Happy to officially announce that we are hosting a free “Cytometry in R” weekly mini-course, aimed at coding beginners, both in-person here at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and virtually, starting up in December/January. For details: umgccfcss.github.io/CytometryInR/ #rstats #flowcytometry

Huge credit to @colibricytometry.bsky.social, who has spent years working on every aspect of the spectral flow cytometry pipeline. Follow the Colibri blog to get tips in real-time, pre-pre-print! www.colibri-cytometry.com

First, pos-neg gating. Ideal controls are your actual antibodies on the actual cells. However different antibodies bind different cells (see: CD4 vs XCR1 below), meaning they have different backgrounds to control. AutoSpectral matches the FSC-SSC of each pos to a suitable neg: with results!

💡 Came across this nice tool today: 🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

If you're one of the 0.5 people who actually use any of my #rstats packages: please, please, please send a PR my way with your beginner-friendly docs rather than make a new resource. I'll make you an official author and everything...

Still time to join our Flow Cytometry Core at the University of Aberdeen as a lead scientist

Teaching scientists about statistics is not even that difficult. But it slows down how many papers get published, so we can't do it. I mean, why would we put any brakes on LLM produced papers by insisting scientists and reviewers understand the output!? Madness.

Very proud of our team at the @i3h-upenn.bsky.social, for publishing an article that I believe contributes to a deeper and more robust analysis of cytometry data, enabling the scale-up of human immune profiling. #immunology #cytometry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Citizen science gamers enable automated flow cytometry gating through machine learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.679685v1

🌟 Save the Date! BioC2026 is Coming! 🌟 Mark your calendars for August 10-12, 2026, at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.

CytoScan: Automated detection of technical anomalies for cytometry quality control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.24.678276v1

I am intrigued, but now need to track down the specific soap 😂

"And that’s the other problem — the bigger one: how much people want this causality. They want to believe that we have the data and methods to show that a disease that wipes out bats leads to an 8% increase in infant mortality."

Oh, boy, I has missed this positron feature. You can link your github account and access PR and issues directly from the IDE. #rstats

In honor of ggplot 4.0 being released, a call back to the greatest #rstats meme I've ever seen.