Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬
@sherlockpholmes.bsky.social
Statistician,Mother,Prof,Grandmother(she/her)🇫🇷🇵🇹🇺🇸🧪.
🖋️with @wkhuber.bsky.social:Modern Statistics for Modern Biology (https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/) #stats,#rstats.OSS,arXiv, microbial ecology,cytof,multi-omics,Bioconductor:phyloseq, DADA2
🖋️with @wkhuber.bsky.social:Modern Statistics for Modern Biology (https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/) #stats,#rstats.OSS,arXiv, microbial ecology,cytof,multi-omics,Bioconductor:phyloseq, DADA2
Pinned
My career path:
-- Develop computational methods so that when distributional assumptions are not met we can evaluate uncertainty.
-- Make fancy multivariate statistics easier to understand.
-- Help biologists use rank based tests correctly.
-- Ask biologists to plot their data.
-- Develop computational methods so that when distributional assumptions are not met we can evaluate uncertainty.
-- Make fancy multivariate statistics easier to understand.
-- Help biologists use rank based tests correctly.
-- Ask biologists to plot their data.
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I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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NOW OPEN!
CANSSI's postdoctoral fellowships offer a comprehensive research and training experience centred on statistical sciences.
Apply by January 16: https://loom.ly/GvcQVII
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CANSSI's postdoctoral fellowships offer a comprehensive research and training experience centred on statistical sciences.
Apply by January 16: https://loom.ly/GvcQVII
bsky.app/profile/sfu.ca | bsky.app/profile/pims.math.ca | amstatnews.bsky.social | nissorg.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
NOW OPEN!
CANSSI's postdoctoral fellowships offer a comprehensive research and training experience centred on statistical sciences.
Apply by January 16: https://loom.ly/GvcQVII
bsky.app/profile/sfu.ca | bsky.app/profile/pims.math.ca | amstatnews.bsky.social | nissorg.bsky.social
CANSSI's postdoctoral fellowships offer a comprehensive research and training experience centred on statistical sciences.
Apply by January 16: https://loom.ly/GvcQVII
bsky.app/profile/sfu.ca | bsky.app/profile/pims.math.ca | amstatnews.bsky.social | nissorg.bsky.social
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APPLY BY NOVEMBER 25!
Planning to do a #PhD in #statisticalsciences?
Come to a #Quebec university and you could get a supplement of $7,000 during the first two years.
Learn more: https://loom.ly/5Zegs20
Planning to do a #PhD in #statisticalsciences?
Come to a #Quebec university and you could get a supplement of $7,000 during the first two years.
Learn more: https://loom.ly/5Zegs20
November 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
APPLY BY NOVEMBER 25!
Planning to do a #PhD in #statisticalsciences?
Come to a #Quebec university and you could get a supplement of $7,000 during the first two years.
Learn more: https://loom.ly/5Zegs20
Planning to do a #PhD in #statisticalsciences?
Come to a #Quebec university and you could get a supplement of $7,000 during the first two years.
Learn more: https://loom.ly/5Zegs20
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📣 join in my team 🤗!
👇
- #rstats software development
- contribute to @bioconductor.bsky.social and @galaxyproject.bsky.social
- large-scale #MassSpectrometry #metabolomics and #proteomics data analysis
- hiking ⛰️
📍 Bolzano, 🇮🇹
⏲️ 3 year position
🔗 full description: bit.ly/4pyXi3V
please share
👇
- #rstats software development
- contribute to @bioconductor.bsky.social and @galaxyproject.bsky.social
- large-scale #MassSpectrometry #metabolomics and #proteomics data analysis
- hiking ⛰️
📍 Bolzano, 🇮🇹
⏲️ 3 year position
🔗 full description: bit.ly/4pyXi3V
please share
Researcher in Software Development for Large-Scale Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis (MetaRbolomics4Galaxy)
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
📣 join in my team 🤗!
👇
- #rstats software development
- contribute to @bioconductor.bsky.social and @galaxyproject.bsky.social
- large-scale #MassSpectrometry #metabolomics and #proteomics data analysis
- hiking ⛰️
📍 Bolzano, 🇮🇹
⏲️ 3 year position
🔗 full description: bit.ly/4pyXi3V
please share
👇
- #rstats software development
- contribute to @bioconductor.bsky.social and @galaxyproject.bsky.social
- large-scale #MassSpectrometry #metabolomics and #proteomics data analysis
- hiking ⛰️
📍 Bolzano, 🇮🇹
⏲️ 3 year position
🔗 full description: bit.ly/4pyXi3V
please share
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Wellcome LEAP spokesperson says there’s little debate that more research is needed.
Actually, we do query that viewpoint!
Actually, we do query that viewpoint!
Valuable reporting here from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for @science.org, adding context and other important voices to our perspective piece (linked further below, with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social)
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Wellcome LEAP spokesperson says there’s little debate that more research is needed.
Actually, we do query that viewpoint!
Actually, we do query that viewpoint!
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Valuable reporting here from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for @science.org, adding context and other important voices to our perspective piece (linked further below, with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social)
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Valuable reporting here from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for @science.org, adding context and other important voices to our perspective piece (linked further below, with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social)
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics:
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
Director, Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics
The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...
apply.refline.ch
October 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics:
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
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Hi! Florence Hommais, @nicolasparisot.bsky.social , and I are looking for a postdoctoral candidate to investigate the molecular dialogue between three weevil species and their endosymbiotic bacteria #symbiosis! Please see the #post-doc offer for more information. #SymbioSky #Bioinformatics
November 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hi! Florence Hommais, @nicolasparisot.bsky.social , and I are looking for a postdoctoral candidate to investigate the molecular dialogue between three weevil species and their endosymbiotic bacteria #symbiosis! Please see the #post-doc offer for more information. #SymbioSky #Bioinformatics
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6 hours 30 mins they could do from this December, with one change in Badajoz or Elvas - but they're likely not going to do though
So 🤷♂️
Whenever I hear about these long term plans for ES-PT rail, I wonder why they're not doing the basics with what they have right now?
#CrossBorderRail
So 🤷♂️
Whenever I hear about these long term plans for ES-PT rail, I wonder why they're not doing the basics with what they have right now?
#CrossBorderRail
🇵🇹🚉🇪🇸 “Five-hour Lisbon-Madrid rail link to go ahead by 2030, say Portuguese and Spanish governments and the European Commission.”
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
www.euronews.com/travel/2025/...
Five-hour Lisbon-Madrid rail link to go ahead by 2030, officials say
The agreement between the Portuguese and Spanish governments and the European Commission also foresees, among other goals, a high-speed connection between the two capitals by 2034.
www.euronews.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
6 hours 30 mins they could do from this December, with one change in Badajoz or Elvas - but they're likely not going to do though
So 🤷♂️
Whenever I hear about these long term plans for ES-PT rail, I wonder why they're not doing the basics with what they have right now?
#CrossBorderRail
So 🤷♂️
Whenever I hear about these long term plans for ES-PT rail, I wonder why they're not doing the basics with what they have right now?
#CrossBorderRail
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Spread the word! There is a professor position opening at our University @upcite.bsky.social. There are several possible (great) labs to join, but if you are interested in DNA methylation and epigenetics in mammals, don't hesitate to contact me directly!
#JobOffer
💼 Un poste susceptible d’être vacant de Professeur en stabilité des génomes devrait s’ouvrir pour la rentrée 2026 au sein de l’Institut Jacques Monod
➡️ Informations concernant ce poste et la procédure de candidature 🔗 www.ijm.fr/poste-de-pro...
💼 Un poste susceptible d’être vacant de Professeur en stabilité des génomes devrait s’ouvrir pour la rentrée 2026 au sein de l’Institut Jacques Monod
➡️ Informations concernant ce poste et la procédure de candidature 🔗 www.ijm.fr/poste-de-pro...
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Spread the word! There is a professor position opening at our University @upcite.bsky.social. There are several possible (great) labs to join, but if you are interested in DNA methylation and epigenetics in mammals, don't hesitate to contact me directly!
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My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
October 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely.
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Application – EMBL International PhD Programme
www.embl.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
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The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Scientific Community Manager
EMBL is Europe’s flagship research laboratory for the life sciences – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and teams performing scientific research in disci...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025
The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...
ellis.eu
October 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics.
See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment.
Please share the ad.
See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment.
Please share the ad.
Postdoc in Microbial bioinformatics
employment.ku.dk
October 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics.
See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment.
Please share the ad.
See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment.
Please share the ad.
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Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.
duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...
duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...
Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori
Avoin työpaikka: Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto, Turku. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!
duunitori.fi
September 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.
duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...
duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...
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#Exposition #Peluchologie 🧸 | L’exposition invite petits et grands à plonger dans l’univers des ours en peluche à travers un regard à la fois scientifique et historique
📆 du 22/09 au 13/11
📌 Médiathèque Émile Zola, Montpellier
🔗 infos : www.umontpellier.fr/agenda/expos...
📆 du 22/09 au 13/11
📌 Médiathèque Émile Zola, Montpellier
🔗 infos : www.umontpellier.fr/agenda/expos...
October 1, 2025 at 9:05 AM
#Exposition #Peluchologie 🧸 | L’exposition invite petits et grands à plonger dans l’univers des ours en peluche à travers un regard à la fois scientifique et historique
📆 du 22/09 au 13/11
📌 Médiathèque Émile Zola, Montpellier
🔗 infos : www.umontpellier.fr/agenda/expos...
📆 du 22/09 au 13/11
📌 Médiathèque Émile Zola, Montpellier
🔗 infos : www.umontpellier.fr/agenda/expos...
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Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬
I feel like I should be able to crochet elliptic curves 🧶 Has anyone done this yet?
September 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I feel like I should be able to crochet elliptic curves 🧶 Has anyone done this yet?
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As someone who came to R from computer science a lot of this post resonates
Also, I had not previously connected the inconsistencies of the base R API to the same philosophy that makes CRAN work
Also, I had not previously connected the inconsistencies of the base R API to the same philosophy that makes CRAN work
Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages
jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...
jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...
If all the world were a monorepo
The R ecosystem and the case for extreme empathy in software maintenance
jtibs.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
As someone who came to R from computer science a lot of this post resonates
Also, I had not previously connected the inconsistencies of the base R API to the same philosophy that makes CRAN work
Also, I had not previously connected the inconsistencies of the base R API to the same philosophy that makes CRAN work
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This xkcd is utterly brilliant and should be shared more:
Vaccine research: xkcd.com/2515/
Rollover text: Honestly feel a little sheepish about the amount of time and effort I spent confirming "yes, the vaccine helps protect people from getting sick and dying" but I guess everyone needs a hobby.
Vaccine research: xkcd.com/2515/
Rollover text: Honestly feel a little sheepish about the amount of time and effort I spent confirming "yes, the vaccine helps protect people from getting sick and dying" but I guess everyone needs a hobby.
![[White Hat is talking to Cueball.]
White Hat: I've been hearing about vaccines.
White Hat: But I decided to do my own research.
[In a frame-less panel White Hat continues to talk to Cueball.]
White Hat: So I spent months on the Internet reading hundreds of studies.
[Close up of White Hat as he speaks to Cueball, who replies from off-panel.]
White Hat: And wow, I gotta say,
White Hat: these vaccines are pretty good.
Cueball (off-panel): Oh, really.
[Zoomed back out, to White Hat and Cueball talking.]
White Hat: Yeah, seems like it'd be great if lots of people got them.
White Hat: Is anyone working on that?
Cueball: There's been some effort.
White Hat: Okay, cool.
Brilliant ALT text from: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2515:_Vaccine_Research](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dcug5hr3622ym4zaueassqao/bafkreifpyph3vquc5ivszpehxpjhn6hvtqdwzhzvonbpzbrx3kb4bk3dka@jpeg)
September 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This xkcd is utterly brilliant and should be shared more:
Vaccine research: xkcd.com/2515/
Rollover text: Honestly feel a little sheepish about the amount of time and effort I spent confirming "yes, the vaccine helps protect people from getting sick and dying" but I guess everyone needs a hobby.
Vaccine research: xkcd.com/2515/
Rollover text: Honestly feel a little sheepish about the amount of time and effort I spent confirming "yes, the vaccine helps protect people from getting sick and dying" but I guess everyone needs a hobby.
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I keep stumbling when, in biological data analysis, someone uses the word "noise" as if it represented an objectively existing, tangible thing.
It is not. Noise is just another word for ignorance. Complicated but in principle deterministic stuff that ...
(1/2)
It is not. Noise is just another word for ignorance. Complicated but in principle deterministic stuff that ...
(1/2)
September 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I keep stumbling when, in biological data analysis, someone uses the word "noise" as if it represented an objectively existing, tangible thing.
It is not. Noise is just another word for ignorance. Complicated but in principle deterministic stuff that ...
(1/2)
It is not. Noise is just another word for ignorance. Complicated but in principle deterministic stuff that ...
(1/2)
New paper with Sourav Chatterjee and Persi Diaconis: Estimating the size of a set with cascading exclusion, see arxiv.org/abs/2508.05901 and a whole github repo of examples in R spholmes.github.io/SetSize/, thank you #rstats and #quarto.
Estimating the size of a set using cascading exclusion
Let $S$ be a finite set, and $X_1,\ldots,X_n$ an i.i.d. uniform sample from $S$. To estimate the size $|S|$, without further structure, one can wait for repeats and use the birthday problem. This requ...
arxiv.org
September 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New paper with Sourav Chatterjee and Persi Diaconis: Estimating the size of a set with cascading exclusion, see arxiv.org/abs/2508.05901 and a whole github repo of examples in R spholmes.github.io/SetSize/, thank you #rstats and #quarto.
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM