#jobalert We have open position/s in genomics and explainable/generative AI @mdc-bimsb.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social
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More info also on linkedin:
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🚀 WE ARE HIRING 3️⃣ Independent Group Leaders for #mdcBerlin's new cutting-edge Bioengineering Cluster within our Biomedical Engineering Program.
Lead cutting-edge research at the interface of biology, engineering, and medicine in Berlin.
👉 Apply now: www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...
Dusa’s study is on the cover of this month’s #CellGenomics! Check it out if you haven’t had the chance yet!
www.cell.com/issue/S2666-...
☎️ Berlin Calling: Your Research. Our City. A Perfect Match. The Einstein Postdoctoral Grant for early career researchers or the Einstein Visiting Fellowship for distinguished scholars – our funding opportunities offer pathways into Berlin’s research landscape.
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Awesome work by @prauten.bsky.social who persevered to find out why evaluations looked so strange, where it came from, and how it can be fixed.
(3/3)
We found -70 affected papers in Nature journals alone. So the likely number is in the 100s.
How much it affects conclusions depends on which reliable metrics were also used.
Please stop using it. Choose proper metrics to help you understand whether your tool is doing what it is supposed to!
(2/)
To evaluate computational models, we rely on trusted benchmark data and metrics
So what if a metrics is widely used… but plain wrong? It means that evaluations in dozens of papers are meaningless.
This has happened in single cell genomics…
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20 year lab anniversary and local reunion last Friday!
Finally!!
“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue” Harvard president Alan M. Garber
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Destroying things takes days. Rebuilding things takes decades.
There is only the present moment to prevent the worst.
A friend at NIH received notice that the National Library of Medicine is terminating its bioinformatics program
PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity.
We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry.
plos.io/3D4O8cH
European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities ALLEA Statement Responding to Recent U.S. Restrictions on Academic Freedom: allea.org/allea-publis...
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🤔 We want your thoughts on the initiative, whether you are a user, developer, newcomer or veteran.
✏️ Fill out this short and anonymous <5min survey to help us guide the community! seqera.typeform.com/2025-nf-core
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Many of the NCBI resources and eRA Commons were run by contractors. However, many of these folks were apparently converted to Fed positions at the end of last year to protect them.
This means that many of them were probationary NIH employees...
Trying to run this down...
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On his album “Da Questa Parte Del Mare” Gianmaria Testa stated:
“Being rooted means not separating yourself from others. If you know where you come from, you can open yourself up to others. That's exactly the opposite of what political parties like [insert local choice] tell us.”
Will share the occasional piece of music that I am listening to. Who knows, maybe someone will discover a new favorite this way…
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: weact.campact.de/petitions/sa...
Im Podcast "In aller Ruhe" mit @emcke.bsky.social habe ich über Forschung, Fakten & politische Verantwortung gesprochen – und drei Vorschläge für die nächste Bundesregierung gemacht. 🎙️👇 www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/podc...
Deadline in 10 days!! @mdc-berlin.bsky.social
In which employees of a private company gain total access to files of every citizen, and government offices are stacked with ‚loyals‘.
It makes me wonder, dear friends in the US: do you see it differently? Because from here, it does look like a coup. With a lot of added noise for distraction. 2/2
Tonight, the US correspondent of Austrian public broadcasting expressed consternation at the laissez faire of the American public that they are essentially victims to a coup. Not a military coup but one in which a billionaire‘s employees take over the government and fire public servants at will. 1/
Klingt dieses Video etwas zu aufgeregt? Für mich ja. Ist es höchste Zeit, das von den Rechten gelenkte Narrativ gerade zu rücken? Absolut.
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Important study from Pia @prauten.bsky.social in the lab: some popular evaluation metrics for #singlecell analysis #benchmarking are intrinsically flawed and report near optimal scores even when methods completely fail. This issue is found in dozens of papers. Read her thread for the whole story!
This is an amazing opportunity for graduate students in #PlantScience who consider a postdoc. 3-day, all-expenses-paid program from July 23-25, 2025 in
San Diego! Check it out and spread the word!
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It’s different for Bezos and Zuckerberg. Both have companies that billions use, both have supported science in sometimes amazing and possibly altruistic ways. It’s harder to disengage. EU laws may help a bit, but are there any alternatives to the Australian model to ban social media for minors?
I would distinguish between X and Meta. Twitter was always a niche medium and has been even more so since turning X. Bluesky shows that we are not dependent on the ego that Jimmy Kimmel called ‘the Kramer to Trump’s Seinfeld’. 1/
