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abacbs.bsky.social @abacbs.bsky.social · Jul 10

Want to host a #bioinformatics workshop at #ABACBS2025?

We’re building a program of 90-minute workshops and tutorials.

Details below. EOIs to host close August 1st.
www.abacbs.org/abacbs-2025-...

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abacbs.bsky.social @abacbs.bsky.social · Jul 2

Finally joined Bluesky! Follow along to stay connected with ABACBS. Keep an eye out in the coming days, we’ll be releasing more details for 2025 conference, including opening abstract submissions and announcing invited speakers!

www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025

ABACBS 2025 Conference

Adelaide, South Australia. Nov. 24-

www.abacbs.org

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Jun 20

🎉 A huge thank you to all the incredible speakers who shared their research in our Semester 1 Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar Series! 🧬📊

The series will be back on August 4. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Davis McCarthy @davisjmcc.bsky.social · Jun 16

📢 PostDoc opportunity in our Bioinformatics & Cellular Genomics lab at SVI! 🧬

You’d join a welcoming, supportive, and brilliant team.

Why not spend a few years in Melbourne and be part of something exciting?

Apply here: www.seek.com.au/job/84737876

#ScienceCareers #PostDoc #Bioinformatics

Research Officer - Bioinformatics Job in Fitzroy, Melbourne VIC - SEEK

Seeking a Postdoc to develop computational toolkits to enable large-scale studies of single-cell and spatial 'omics and statistical genetics

www.seek.com.au

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · May 28

✨Next Monday, join us for our final seminar this semester with Andy Tran from our centre!

🔬From benchtop to bedside: advancing multi-omics statistical methods for precision medicine

⏱️2 June, 1pm (AEST)
🔗http://bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Mar 3

Introducing our new micro-credential: Data Analysis for Precision Health!

This hands-on course equips health professionals and researchers with essential statistical skills for analysing real-world health and medical data.

📅 23-24 April (1.5 days)
🎓20% alumni discount
🔗Sign up: bit.ly/4iiCjyv

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Luciano Martelotto @lgmartelotto.bsky.social · Feb 27

WEHI Spatial Technology Symposium is back! 🚨

Don’t miss out on the latest in spatial tech—rego below!!!

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Feb 19

🎉 We're thrilled to launch our 2025 seminar series next Monday with @lucapinello.bsky.social from Harvard Medical School!✨

He will present: Computational Approaches in Functional Genomics: Understanding Gene Regulation and Development 🧬

⏱️February 24, 1pm (AEST)
🔗bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Feb 17

🔬 Our Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar series returns next week! 🌟

Join us for another incredible semester with a stellar lineup of speakers. ✨ Here's a sneak peek at some of them 👀

We look forward to seeing you! 🤩

#Bioinformatics #Seminar

🔗bit.ly/4hZLxiR

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · Feb 16

#SpatialTranscriptomics

There are 11 methods (CNN- or Transformer-based) enabling predicting spatial gene expression from H&E histology😆

Which behaves?
DeepPT
EGNv1 EGNv2
Hist2ST
THItoGene
DeepSpaCE
TCGN
ST-Net
iStar
HisToGene
GeneCodeR

@naturecomms.bsky.social 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Shila Ghazanfar @shazanfar.bsky.social · Jan 31

:D Thanks Matt!

Shila Ghazanfar @shazanfar.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thanks Jovana!! :D

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Shila Ghazanfar @shazanfar.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thanks so much Davis!!

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Oz Single Cell @ozsinglecell.bsky.social · Jan 7

Did you “Save the date”? If so you may have noticed these are not the right dates!!!

Please save 21-23 May

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Fabian Theis @fabiantheis.bsky.social · Jan 22

Excited to see Moscot (moscot-tools.org) published in @Nature! We scaled Optimal Transport (OT) in single-cell genomics & added multimodality together with spatiotemporal trajectory inference, finding exciting new biology in the pancreas! 🚀 Read at www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping cells through time and space with moscot - Nature

Moscot is an optimal transport approach that overcomes current limitations of similar methods to enable multimodal, scalable and consistent single-cell analyses of datasets across spatial and temporal...

www.nature.com

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Jan 22

I've stopped posting on Twitter and Threads. I'll stop interacting there and lock those accounts at the end of the week.

If you have colleagues who used to follow me on those platforms, feel free to let them know, and that they can follow me here or Mastodon instead.

🙏

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Jan 20

Only 7 days left to apply for the Data Science Hub Statistician positions 📈 at the Charles Perkins Centre.

🚀Join our team and contribute to cutting-edge research in biomedical, metabolomics health, public health and beyond!

🔗 bit.ly/4ghCxoS

Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Dec 16

📢 Job Alert!

We are recruiting 5 x Data Science Hub Statisticians 📈at the Charles Perkins Centre.

🚀Join us to drive impactful research in biomedical and metabolomics 🧬health, public health 🩺 and beyond!

📆 Applications close 27 Jan
🔗 bit.ly/4ghCxoS

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Jan 16

“The PhD stipend is $33,511 … well below minimum wage of $47,627”

“Universities can raise the stipend to a maximum of $52,352, but a ACGR survey found none have done so. The highest stipend is just over $40,000 … with the average at $34,244.”

#RaiseTheStipend

PhD student Jesse Gardner-Russell earns $20 an hour. Experts say low pay is turning Australia’s best and brightest away

The University of Melbourne student whose work could contribute to curing blindness says ‘people are shocked to find out how unlivable it is’

www.theguardian.com

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Shila Ghazanfar @shazanfar.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thanks Tim!!

Shila Ghazanfar @shazanfar.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thank you Dana!!

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Shila Ghazanfar @shazanfar.bsky.social · Jan 14

Thank you Bertie!

Shila Ghazanfar @shazanfar.bsky.social · Jan 13

Wishing everyone a happy and productive 2025! I'm happy to share that I have been promoted to Senior Lecturer, thank you to my wonderful colleagues and team for your encouragement and support!

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Alex Swarbrick @alexswarbrick.bsky.social · Dec 12

Jobortunities: Shortly advertising for 2 positions, both working on the Breast Cancer Atlas, in Sydney.
- Wet lab research assistant: mol bio +/- pathology desirable
- Comp. Research Assistant: scRNA-Seq, spatial transcriptomics and ML
Details to follow, DM or email if you are a great fit.

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Sydney Precision Data Science Centre @sydneyprecisionds.bsky.social · Dec 12

There's no better way to end an incredible year than with a special Statistical Bioinformatics seminar featuring Dr Jacqueline Siu (Oxford) ✨

She will present Incorporating experimental medicine into single-cell multi-omics 🧬

🔗 More details: bit.ly/4fgDJYe

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Stephanie Hicks @stephaniehicks.bsky.social · Dec 5

I want to thank all the coauthors including @boyiguo.bsky.social, Caleb Hallinan, and most importantly, my partner in crime who co-led this work with me @shazanfar.bsky.social 😀

Finally, we want to thank @cziscience.bsky.social for the generous funding and support!

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