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In two weeks (10th March) John Burn-Murdoch will be holding a Conversation at the San Giobbe campus, Room 6A (2pm). Everyone is very welcome to join (and thanks @crisvarin.bsky.social for making this happen)!

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New #rstats pkg gander is now on CRAN! gander is a coding assistant that knows how describe the objects in your global R environment. So, when you're working with data, LLMs will know the names, types, and distributions of data columns, resulting in much more effective completions.

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📣 EuroBioC2025: Abstract Submissions Open! Join us in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸, Sep 17-19, 2025, for the European Bioconductor Conference! Submit your abstract for a short talk, workshop, or poster by Apr 24. ➡️ Submit https://buff.ly/3EN9w6P #EuroBioC2025 #Bioinformatics #RStats #DataScience

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The sgdGMF #rstats package is now officially on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=sgdGMF Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback!

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🎨 EuroBioC2025 Sticker Contest! Unleash your creativity for the European Bioconductor Conference in Barcelona! The winning sticker will be featured on our website and handed out at the event. 🗓 Deadline: Mar 10, 2025 🏆 Prize: Free reg to EuroBioC2025 for winning design! Abstract call coming soon!

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Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health. I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.

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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Shoutout to all of the exceptional Black scientists who have contributed to and are currently contributing to virology research! Your work is vitally important to understanding basic virology controlling viral diseases worldwide! #BlackHistoryMonth

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A statement from the BMA Board Members to the BMA Community and Beyond. Additional alt text to follow due to the character limit.

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Registrations are now open! Follow the link at csama2025.bioconductor.eu/registration...

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It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors. "Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."

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Do you want to learn more about the statistical analysis of proteomics, metabolomics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics? Do you want to up your game with R and Bioconductor? All of this while enjoying summer in the beautiful Italian Alps? Join us for the 21st edition of CSAMA July 6-11!

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🧬 🖥️ Need help for investigating tissue complexity from #spatial #transcriptomics data? Try out our #spacedeconv R package! 💻 Code: github.com/omnideconv/s... 📝 Preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...

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This is long overdue, but over the winter break we were finally able to write up our sgdGMF paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.20509 We present a stochastic gradient descent method that allows to efficiently and very quickly estimate latent factors for, e.g., dimensionality reduction of single-cell data

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This is insane, and honestly quite worrying... even (or especially?) when looking at it from this side of the ocean.

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❗Still one week to apply for our postdoc position in bionformatics & biostatistics @ Eurac Biomedicine in the beautiful Dolomites - hurry up! #stats 👇

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A little piece that's been in the works with former MSc, now PhD student, Jiayi Wang & @markrobinsonca.bsky.social in the multi-sample/-condition/-subpopulation theme: ...

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The UX of LEGO Interface Panels interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte...

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Maintain a public archive of your old tweets that's independent of X, as a self-hosted static webpage. An R/Quarto script that reads your tweet archive (downloaded from X) & creates an HTML page. Example (w/ my own tweets 2015-24): wolfganghuber.github.io/tweets/index... github.com/wolfganghube...

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Thanks for the shout out! We will preprint this soon (and submit to CRAN), but R package is ready to use from Github (feedback welcome!)

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Thanks for the shout out! Mike is among our faculty along with @wkhuber.bsky.social, Charlotte Soneson, Vince Carey, Robert Gentleman and many others! Come for the data science stay for the Dolomites! (Or the other way around! 🙃)

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CSAMA is a one-week course in Biological Data Science, held in Italy in late June. This year organized by @davi1893.bsky.social. Topics from genomics to proteomics to single cell, statistical methods, the R/Bioconductor framework for visualization and reproducible analysis csama2024.bioconductor.eu

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There is a scientific fraud epidemic — and we are ignoring the cure Rooting out manipulation should not depend on dedicated amateurs who take personal legal risks for the greater good Anjana Ahuja writes at Financial Times www.ft.com/content/c886...

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Hello World! Thanks @wkhuber.bsky.social for the invite!

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