Wolfgang Huber
@wkhuber.bsky.social
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)
https://www.huber.embl.de
Textbook: Modern Statistics for Modern Biology https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/ (with @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social)
Here more details on the call, and topics:
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Here more details on the call, and topics:
The Wikipedia page on Simpson's paradox contains a really nice visualisation of it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson...
November 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The Wikipedia page on Simpson's paradox contains a really nice visualisation of it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson...
Beautiful autumn after-work ride to Königstuhl, the 550m hill in Heidelberg
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Beautiful autumn after-work ride to Königstuhl, the 550m hill in Heidelberg
The tidyomics map reminds of Brixen, location of the CSAMA summer schools.
(Participants will recognise Woody Walk, Plosehütte and Rossalm, destinations of the midweek course hike.)
(Participants will recognise Woody Walk, Plosehütte and Rossalm, destinations of the midweek course hike.)
October 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The tidyomics map reminds of Brixen, location of the CSAMA summer schools.
(Participants will recognise Woody Walk, Plosehütte and Rossalm, destinations of the midweek course hike.)
(Participants will recognise Woody Walk, Plosehütte and Rossalm, destinations of the midweek course hike.)
The train I wanted to take is an hour late, but luckily the one from an hour ago is so, too.
October 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The train I wanted to take is an hour late, but luckily the one from an hour ago is so, too.
I regularly get derailed when someone tries to benchmark clustering methods, trying the find the "best" one or the one that agrees with "ground truth".
Which clustering of the below animals is the best or the true one? By row, or by column?
Which clustering of the below animals is the best or the true one? By row, or by column?
October 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I regularly get derailed when someone tries to benchmark clustering methods, trying the find the "best" one or the one that agrees with "ground truth".
Which clustering of the below animals is the best or the true one? By row, or by column?
Which clustering of the below animals is the best or the true one? By row, or by column?
... downhill trail
September 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
... downhill trail
Saturday afternoon mountain bike ride rest stop.
September 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Saturday afternoon mountain bike ride rest stop.
Martin Emons on SpatialFDA - searching for differential colocalization in spatial omics data
September 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Martin Emons on SpatialFDA - searching for differential colocalization in spatial omics data
Luca Marconato at the European Bioconductor Conference 2025 in Barcelona, on advancing spatial biology analysis across programming languages — R, Python, JS.
Important infrastructure for data ingest, representation, visualization, analysis for emerging spatial omics techniques
Important infrastructure for data ingest, representation, visualization, analysis for emerging spatial omics techniques
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Luca Marconato at the European Bioconductor Conference 2025 in Barcelona, on advancing spatial biology analysis across programming languages — R, Python, JS.
Important infrastructure for data ingest, representation, visualization, analysis for emerging spatial omics techniques
Important infrastructure for data ingest, representation, visualization, analysis for emerging spatial omics techniques
Dream job - research software engineer, in one of the most beautiful parts of the world
September 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Dream job - research software engineer, in one of the most beautiful parts of the world
Join EMBL as a research group leader in AI in biology. EMBL AI is our new initiative aiming to exploit the full potential of ML/AI-based approaches to advance our understanding of the most complex system in the known universe - life on Earth.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
(1/3)
September 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Join EMBL as a research group leader in AI in biology. EMBL AI is our new initiative aiming to exploit the full potential of ML/AI-based approaches to advance our understanding of the most complex system in the known universe - life on Earth.
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
(1/3)
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
(1/3)
Happy cows near the EMBL Heidelberg campus
August 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Happy cows near the EMBL Heidelberg campus
The Irish are famous for their croissants and paella.
"Please draw a map of europe, with the name of each country, its capital, and a typical piece of food." chatgpt.com/share/6897ac...
"Please draw a map of europe, with the name of each country, its capital, and a typical piece of food." chatgpt.com/share/6897ac...
August 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The Irish are famous for their croissants and paella.
"Please draw a map of europe, with the name of each country, its capital, and a typical piece of food." chatgpt.com/share/6897ac...
"Please draw a map of europe, with the name of each country, its capital, and a typical piece of food." chatgpt.com/share/6897ac...
After a long, hot day with beloved 6y and 8y in an amusement park, treating myself to a dusk mountain bike ride up Heidelberg's local hill on this perfect summer night.
August 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
After a long, hot day with beloved 6y and 8y in an amusement park, treating myself to a dusk mountain bike ride up Heidelberg's local hill on this perfect summer night.
Everywhere smells of linden flower scent in Heidelberg.
June 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Everywhere smells of linden flower scent in Heidelberg.
Lunch at 2360m
Kuhleitenhütte (South Tyrol)
Kuhleitenhütte (South Tyrol)
June 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Lunch at 2360m
Kuhleitenhütte (South Tyrol)
Kuhleitenhütte (South Tyrol)
A picture from a happy and productive retreat of EMBL's Genome Biology research unit in nearby Heilsbach (Pfalz), last week. Can you spot some people?
May 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A picture from a happy and productive retreat of EMBL's Genome Biology research unit in nearby Heilsbach (Pfalz), last week. Can you spot some people?
The DFG (biggest university-oriented funding body in Germany) just announced the investments it will make over the next 7 years through its "Excellence Strategy", a 3.7 G€ programme. Expect lots of new positions across the country at all levels, from full professor to PhD.
May 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The DFG (biggest university-oriented funding body in Germany) just announced the investments it will make over the next 7 years through its "Excellence Strategy", a 3.7 G€ programme. Expect lots of new positions across the country at all levels, from full professor to PhD.
Isabella Graf kicking off the Theory@EMBL retreat
May 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Isabella Graf kicking off the Theory@EMBL retreat
The first letters of the first names are significantly earlier in the alphabet for females than for males in the Huber lab: www.huber.embl.de/group/people...
April 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The first letters of the first names are significantly earlier in the alphabet for females than for males in the Huber lab: www.huber.embl.de/group/people...
Interested in doing a sabbatical at EMBL, at one of its 6 sites in Barcelona, Cambridge, Grenoble, Hamburg, Heidelberg or Rome?
Funding call with deadline 15 June, decisions in July.
www.embl.org/about/info/s...
Funding call with deadline 15 June, decisions in July.
www.embl.org/about/info/s...
March 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Interested in doing a sabbatical at EMBL, at one of its 6 sites in Barcelona, Cambridge, Grenoble, Hamburg, Heidelberg or Rome?
Funding call with deadline 15 June, decisions in July.
www.embl.org/about/info/s...
Funding call with deadline 15 June, decisions in July.
www.embl.org/about/info/s...