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Wolfgang Huber
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Statistician, Computational Biologist, R |> Bioconductor
https://www.huber.embl.de

Textbook: Modern Statistics for Modern Biology https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/ (with @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social)

Wolfgang Huber is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Manfred Kock as Chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in November 2003 and was succeeded by Bishop Margot Käßmann, the first woman in that position, in October 2009. .. more

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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.

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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...

It was done by the city as part of a bigger sweep:
www.heidelberg.de/HD/Presse/21...
The discussion has been going on for years, including many stakeholders. I didn't see a rift between "locals" and "municipality". I guess some friction arose due to administrative effort and costs.
21.05.2025 Sechs Straßen und ein Platz in Heidelberg werden umbenannt
In Heidelberg bekommen sieben Straßen einen neuen Namen. Im Zuge des Prozesses der Umbenennung hat die Stadt Heidelberg innerhalb einer einmonatigen Widerspruchsfrist, die am 27. April 2024 endete, ze...
www.heidelberg.de

(Address change "paper"-work and confusions are a bit tedious, but totally worth it.)

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!
H0 H0 H0 😂
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.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."

uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de

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An #RStats blog entry by Heather Turner explains the new Research Software Maintenance Fund grant.

blog.r-project.org/2025/12/17/r...
RSMF: Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R - The R Blog
blog.r-project.org

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

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🎓 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
ARC Postgraduate Research Scholarship
A $40,109 per annum stipend scholarship for research students within the Faculty of Science.
www.sydney.edu.au

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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!
Summer internships
www.mpia.de

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

Thank you, Mike!

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

Some of the best scientists I've met had small teams. Doing a few things really well trumps doing lots of things mediocrely. In other words, we tend be assessed for our best pieces of work, not for the total amount.

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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.

As always, beware of survivor bias,
don't underestimate the importance of luck, changeable contingencies of environment, and adjust for personal style.

Home - EMBO Lab Leadership
www.embolableadership.org
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."
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🧵

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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

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🎉 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...
RSMF Round 1 Projects | Software Sustainability Institute
Round 1 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund awarded just under £3 million to 13 projects selected for their potential to deliver high impact, value for money, feasibility, and quality. The funde...
www.software.ac.uk
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...
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.
Total success to the first college/university that pledges to be AI-free and brand it as an opportunity to receive a real education.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

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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...
Review Commons: rethinking peer review – Features – EMBO
A conversation with Thomas Lemberger, lead of the Review Commons initiative and Head of Open Science Implementation at EMBO.
www.embo.org

Yes. Thank you!
How embarrassing.