Bence Kövér
@bencekover.bsky.social
PhD student at King’s College London
@pituitarylab.bsky.social
Previously at UCL (2019-23) working on multicellularity in fission yeast, and exchange student at Caltech (2021-22)
@pituitarylab.bsky.social
Previously at UCL (2019-23) working on multicellularity in fission yeast, and exchange student at Caltech (2021-22)
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Bence Kövér
@bencekover.bsky.social
· Oct 30
Excited to release the Consensus Pituitary Atlas, which brings a shared framework to process, annotate, and analyze single-cell datasets in the mouse pituitary.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
And unfortunately Wilcoxon remains what most people do in their standard scRNA-seq differential expression analysis between thousands of pseudoreplicates…
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...
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...
December 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
And unfortunately Wilcoxon remains what most people do in their standard scRNA-seq differential expression analysis between thousands of pseudoreplicates…
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Not sure why @lpachter.bsky.social did not post this here. But it is brilliant. Single cell genomics finally makes it to the clinic.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Not sure why @lpachter.bsky.social did not post this here. But it is brilliant. Single cell genomics finally makes it to the clinic.
Reposted by Bence Kövér
The protein concentration in the cytoplasm is so high that the average protein has a water hydration shell with a thickness of only ≈ 10 water molecules separating it from the adjacent protein hydration shell.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The protein concentration in the cytoplasm is so high that the average protein has a water hydration shell with a thickness of only ≈ 10 water molecules separating it from the adjacent protein hydration shell.
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Excited to release the Consensus Pituitary Atlas, which brings a shared framework to process, annotate, and analyze single-cell datasets in the mouse pituitary.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Excited to release the Consensus Pituitary Atlas, which brings a shared framework to process, annotate, and analyze single-cell datasets in the mouse pituitary.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This Tuesday I attended the annual @londonomics.bsky.social symposium at the @crick.ac.uk , and presented a methods-focused version of some of the research I’ve done this past year.
September 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This Tuesday I attended the annual @londonomics.bsky.social symposium at the @crick.ac.uk , and presented a methods-focused version of some of the research I’ve done this past year.
Reposted by Bence Kövér
We're still not finding any good evidence for a microbiome in any cancer type: see our new paper in @ScienceTM led by PhD student Yuchen (Peter) Ge www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and the accompanying news piece, www.science.org/content/arti...
Comprehensive analysis of microbial content in whole-genome sequencing samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas project
An analysis of TCGA whole-genome sequencing samples yields a comprehensive resource for investigating the role of microbes in cancer.
www.science.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
We're still not finding any good evidence for a microbiome in any cancer type: see our new paper in @ScienceTM led by PhD student Yuchen (Peter) Ge www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and the accompanying news piece, www.science.org/content/arti...
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1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
June 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
I had a great time presenting a poster of my research project at the Joint Congress of @esendocrinology.bsky.social and ESPE in Copenhagen.
May 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I had a great time presenting a poster of my research project at the Joint Congress of @esendocrinology.bsky.social and ESPE in Copenhagen.
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Between serious research, our lab took some time out today for a fun hormone-themed activity.
Endocrinology escape room- all about hormones!
#BecauseHormonesMatter
#WorldHormoneDay
#pituitary #adrenal #endocrineresearch
@esendocrinology.bsky.social @ese-eyes.bsky.social @pituitaryorg.bsky.social
Endocrinology escape room- all about hormones!
#BecauseHormonesMatter
#WorldHormoneDay
#pituitary #adrenal #endocrineresearch
@esendocrinology.bsky.social @ese-eyes.bsky.social @pituitaryorg.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Between serious research, our lab took some time out today for a fun hormone-themed activity.
Endocrinology escape room- all about hormones!
#BecauseHormonesMatter
#WorldHormoneDay
#pituitary #adrenal #endocrineresearch
@esendocrinology.bsky.social @ese-eyes.bsky.social @pituitaryorg.bsky.social
Endocrinology escape room- all about hormones!
#BecauseHormonesMatter
#WorldHormoneDay
#pituitary #adrenal #endocrineresearch
@esendocrinology.bsky.social @ese-eyes.bsky.social @pituitaryorg.bsky.social
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Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Tissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaea
The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul...
www.science.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Bence Kövér
The more jargon you have in your paper the less citations you'll get.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
April 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The more jargon you have in your paper the less citations you'll get.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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David Baker talks about how the current uncertainty and instability hinder creativity because of the difficulty in thinking long-term. From this week’s Night Science Podcast nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
David Baker talks about how the current uncertainty and instability hinder creativity because of the difficulty in thinking long-term. From this week’s Night Science Podcast nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/epis... @nightsciencepod.bsky.social
Reposted by Bence Kövér
I miss when the biggest controversy about mRNA was whether it correlated with protein or not.
March 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I miss when the biggest controversy about mRNA was whether it correlated with protein or not.
Best lab with the best coffee mornings
January 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Best lab with the best coffee mornings