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Please! No more UMAPs/t-SNEs 👇👇👇

Let us know what you think after reading everything!

I'm surprised you're the first to make this joke. Congrats

Oh yes, and check out my debut as a failed YouTuber. I'm really much more excited about this than I sound in the video, because look how nice our Bonsai-scout app actually works to explore the data!

Represent the data by a tree structure! That’s the idea that @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social‬ proposed 3 years ago, and what we’ve been working on ever since. It came with many theoretical and computational challenges, but now I’m confident that we’ve created something truly worthwhile.

and UMAP are so popular, even though everyone agrees they severely mess up your data? It's because there was nothing better, and some data, just demand a visual tool for exploration. Indeed, it’s hard to beat UMAP in the low-dimensional embedding game, unless you just change the game:

Bonsai is out! Finally, we can visually explore high-dimensional data in a distortion-free way. Try it out! It works from scRNA-seq data (bonsai.unibas.ch/bonsai-scout...) up to football statistics (bonsai.unibas.ch/bonsai-scout...). 
Ever wondered why low-dimensional embeddings like t-SNE

New publication! We identify growth coupled sensitivity: a deceivingly simple mechanism that makes E. coli switch to the best sugar. We combined neat theory (due to @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social, and to which I contributed) with clean experiments (due to @thomasjulou.bsky.social and Theo Gervais).

Um die grossen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit (KI, Klimawandel, Pandemien, etc) richtig beurteilen zu können, brauchen wir fundierten Wissenschaftsjournalismus.

Es ist ein Fehler, dass #SRF ausgerechnet hier spart.

bajour.ch/a/die-srf-sp...

Thrilled to announce that our work (w. with fantastic @neher.io and Liam Shaw) has been published on Molecular Biology and Evolution! 🎉

academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-...

Are you curious about how fast the genome of E.coli evolves structurally (gains, rearrangements...) ? 🧬

A summary thread [1/N]🧵

What do bacterial cells do when they run out of nutrients? Although most bacterial studies focus on cells in exponentially growing states, in the wild bacteria likely spend most of their time slowly starving to death. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...