💔🙏Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are celebrating Christmas today in the trenches while holding the line against Russian aggression They're doing it for their nation's survival & for Europe's security Merry Christmas to all of them & their families. May they reunite soon

Guter Tag um an @hateaid.org zu spenden, habe das auch gerade schnell erledigt. hateaid.org

Thinking of the next big move at the turn of the year? Here are some in Machine Learning and AI research, for PIs and postdocs: @ellisinstitute.fi is looking for: - PIs who will also get a tenure track professorship: DL Jan 12 www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2...

The name of the street I live in has been changed. It used to be named after a local Nazi professor, now it is named after a neighbourhood resistance fighter who risked his life and helped build a new country after 1945.

Announcing the Ascona Workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems" on 28 June - 3 July 2026 in Ascona, CH www.huber.embl.de/group/events... Reserve the dates!

Are you a bachelor or master student anywhere in the world, and would like to come to us to work full-time on a supervised research project? Applications for the 2026 MPIA Summer Internship are open now!

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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

and there will also be lectures and workshops for #MassSpectrometry - based #proteomics and #metabolomics analysis in #rstats with @bioconductor.bsky.social 😎

The audience when the speaker says "sorry for going over time, this is my last slide"

An #RStats blog entry by Heather Turner explains the new Research Software Maintenance Fund grant. blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...

The R Foundation is happy to be a partner on the project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" awarded £500k under the Research Software Maintenance Fund (Software Sustainability Institute, UK). Announcement: www.software.ac.uk/ssi-awards-f... Congratulations to the project team!

🎓 PhD scholarship We are recruiting a PhD student to develop new methods for analysing spatial omics data at the University of Sydney, cosupervised by @shazanfar.bsky.social and me. Ideal for students with backgrounds in statistics, data science, computer science or bioinformatics Apply by 18 Jan

Just got a paper to review where the authors labeled lasso regression as interpretable AI in the paper's title. Holy crap. #StatsSky #Statistics

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.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

IMHO It’s near impossible to sustainably scale an academic research team quickly to 5-10 people. My take: Keep the bar for hiring high, keep money in the bank (allows you to scale up when things start working), and keep two full days per week free of Interruptions for hands on work.

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

This is what is going to happen. There will be a thin top layer of non-digital universities — and all the tech billionaires will send their kids to those places.

Ungodly sums of money being spent on Workday -- hundreds of millions of $ per higher ed institution (!!). And everyone seems to hate it. What gives? This article has some answers. The summary: "Customer service is Workday's goal. It's just that the customer isn't you."

Supported by the Global Minds Initiative Germany by the #BMFTR, Dr. Girlie Eunice Lopez chose Germany to advance her research within the DFG Walter Benjamin Programme. For her, the initiative provides crucial momentum for her next career steps. More: sohub.io/di2t

🎉 Big news for the future of #RStats. The project "Enabling the next generation of R contributors" has received £500k over 2 years. - mentoring expert contributors - modernising infrastructure - improving governance - strengthen communication and outreach www.software.ac.uk/rsmf-round-1...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Tomorrow will be the day with the earliest sunset in Heidelberg, at 16:27. Starting Saturday, the sun will start setting later again, until it does so at 21:36 on 25 June. The day of the latest sunrise here will only be on 31 Dec. R code: github.com/wolfganghube...

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

One review. Many journals. Less redundancy. Check out this conversation with our head Dr. Thomas Lemberger on the vision behind @reviewcommons.org and what it means for authors and journals alike @embopress.org @embo.org www.embo.org/people/revie...

Why does anyone use the Wilcoxon test for anything? It's not even transitive. It's sensitive to things one most likely is not looking for (changes in distribution shape) and relatively insensitive to what one usually is looking for (change in location). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here is the whole Trump, Brexit, Russia story neatly summed up for you The battle started about Ukraine, now it’s about big tech monopoly power

Since it is Finland’s Independence Day today, here’s probably the most famous Finnish patriotic painting ever. My favourite too! Because note the book the two-headed eagle is attacking. “Lex” - Law. The rule of law. “The Attack,” Edvard (Eetu) Isto, 1899.

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

I'd like to thank the academy,

Whatever comes out of them, today's talks in Moscow are a diplomatic all-time low for the US. Incompetent, mercurial envoys trying to reset relations w one of the worst regimes in the world at the expense of the victim of unprovoked aggression and the security of America's best allies in Europe.

“Europe is losing confidence, sinking into fatalism and justifying its passivity with the soothing thought that it has no real choice, as its cards are weak. Besides, in the long run, things will work out. Just wait for the U.S. midterms.” www.politico.eu/article/euro...

📢 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

Join EMBL's Interdisciplinary Postdoc Programme! 3 years funding, self-designed interdisciplinary project co-led between EMBL PI and PI in one of EMBL's actual, prospect or associate member states. In particular: AI&Theory, use mathem. models, physics principles and AI www.embl.org/about/info/p...

A post by UNESCO on group member Prisca Kweyamba, shared with Vicky Ingham's lab: www.unesco.org/en/articles/... www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/en/kliniken-...

Fig. 6: Mathematical model

Sadly, this is true, and already happening. Maybe I'd say "environment of increased uncertainty" but in substance, right.

Well we had a blocked pipe that meant cutting through dry wall, tons of replumbing, and a houseful of mess. Can’t wait till AI can solve all this.

How I imagine it must be like to work in a small university town

GreenRobust PI Jan Lohmann (@meristemania.bsky.social) receives the Lautenschläger award, the most prestigous price of Heidelberg University acknowledging his scientific achievements. Congratulations!

Representing EuroBioC2026 at the @abacbs.bsky.social Conference this week. The next European @bioconductor.bsky.social Conference will be in Turku, Finland! #ABACBS2025 #EuroBioC2026

Anthony A. Hyman will become EMBL’s next Director General. He joins EMBL from @mpi-cbg.de in Dresden. He is also Professor of Molecular Biology @tudresden.bsky.social, and was a group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999. www.embl.org/news/people-...

This is Adriana, she was only 12-year-old. She died in hospital today. The girl was wounded on November 19, when Russia struck residential buildings in Ternopil with missiles. That same attack killed her mother🕯 This brings death tall in russian attack on Ternopil to 35.

The Euro Bioc 2026 in Turku is official!