a5R brings the A5 pentagonal geospatial index to R.
Equal-area pentagonal cells across 31 resolutions, encoded as 64-bit integers, with millimetre-level precision at the finest scale 🗺️
R package by Hugh Graham; a5 by Felix Palmer
github.com/belian-earth...
#rstats #rspatial #dggs
still can’t believe that given the choice between “bountiful, free, clean energy from the earth, wind, and sun” and “poisonous dead animal sludge price sensitive to global politics” we keep choosing the latter
A flock of scientists standing on San Servolo island, with a view of Venice
Bioconductor Spatial Omics Hackathon in Venice, 19-22 April 2026.
One of the best pieces of editing advice, ever, comes from Spooky Grandpa: your new draft is your old draft minus 10% of the word count.
It's hard, but it really does transform things
Nothing good is going to come from AI written applications that in turn get judged on the basis of AI summaries.
Tuapse oil refinery. Holy smokes... literally.
view over Venice laguna
View from the room this week, for the Bioconductor spatial hackathon in Venice.
#OTD 27 Feb 1910 Joe Doob b (d 7 Jun 2004) Pioneer in the study of mathematical foundations of probability theory; best known for theory of martingales & stochastic processes, & instigator of the term 'random variable' /2
So, OpenAI, whose entire business model relies on some overhyped dudebros using vast amounts of stolen data and stolen labour, is releasing a specialised GPT for the life sciences. And naming it, apparently without any sense of irony or self-awareness. Rosalind.
Excited to announce Physics of Living Matter 19! To be held in Cambridge 24-25th September 2026:
www.plm-symposium.org
King's College London are seeking a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics (Quantitative Modelling) to "develop an independent research programme in applied mathematics, mathematical modelling, or a closely related area" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRG116/l...
The UK rejoining Erasmus is the best science news for a while! #AcademicSky
www.gov.uk/government/n...
This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win
Dear academics:
You don't need to outline every project you're currently working on at the start of your presentation.
We're here for the presentation, not your schedule.
Unless the title of your presentation is "My Schedule".
The true secret to getting a lot done is not caring about the quality of the work. Most people won’t tell you this*
*because it’s a terrible imposition on everyone else
From biological principles to AI and back again 🤖🧬
✒️ Read about the highlights from the EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'AI and biology' in our latest blog post by the event reporter, Ananta Kapoor: https://s.embl.org/ees26-02-report
#EESAIBio #AI #AIinBiology #AIforScience
@embo.org @embl.org
Here's an answer for Toad:
rdcu.be/fdnLY
(for one data type, and certain use cases, and not a result that I liked, but it is what it is)
France is switching from Microsoft to Linux
"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."
Screenshot of the announcement by Simon Urbanek regarding Tomáš Kalibera’s untimely passing. It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tomáš Kalibera on 1 April, a valuable member of the R core team for close to 10 years and a good friend, after a short but aggressive illness. Tomáš brought in fresh perspective and knowledge, enabling him to improve many aspects of R, including performance and reliability. He created many tools aimed at aiding package authors to make their packages more reliable, and was instrumental in modernizing the Windows build of R. He was an active member of CRAN and the R community, providing help to package authors, and he was the most prolific writer on the R core blog. He will be remembered for his profound contributions to R by millions of users. He is survived by his wife and 1 year old son. A full obituary will be posted in due time. Respectfully, Simon Urbanek
RIP Tomáš Kalibera. #rstats lost a huge contributor today. Condolences to his young family.
stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-...
Not directly related, but an academic like me couldn't post shit like this on LinkedIn
This intersection between expertise and shitposting is only possible on Bluesky
Other specialties:
A block of experimental designers
A stratum of survey samplers
A realization of probabilists
An ensemble of data scientists
A cohort of epidemiologists
A coherence of subjectivists
A chain of Bayesians
It’s World Homeopathy Awareness Week. The less aware of it you are, the more good it will do you.
Mürren, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Move slow and fix things
Not autistic, just German german.millermanschool.com
For PhD students or postdocs who start out wanting to analyse their own high-throughput data:
