🚀 #BioHackathon Germany 2026: Call for Projects! 🧬
Submit your innovative life science project ideas!
📅 Deadline: 15 July 2026
📝 Max 500 words
🔗 Align with #deNBI (ELIXIR Germany) topics
Join us to solve bioinformatics challenges! 💻✨
Read more: www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event...
#Bioinformatics
Slowly going through all the checks for a new version of kuva to be releases. Probably going to take another few days. But i'm up to 59 plot types now (with lots more sub variants).
There is one more plot in a PR, don't worry i'll make it an even 60
#HelmholtzKLIMA -Datenbank - Expertise im Überblick: Digitalisierung für nachhaltige Wertschöpfungsketten
Stefanie Kunkel beschäftigt sich am @rifs-potsdam.bsky.social mit der Frage, wie sich die globale Digitalisierung sozial-ökologisch und gerecht gestalten lässt.
Zum Profil: t1p.de/ojvod
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First complete genome loaded onto a quantum computer Researchers encode the tiny hepatitis D virus in an early step toward “quantum genomics”
The genome of the hepatitis D virus, with just 1700 bases of RNA, was squeezed onto a quantum computer.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4mCifuv
#EarthDay2026: Wir haben es in der Hand, unseren Planeten zu gestalten!
Ihr habt Interesse an neuesten Forschungsergebnisse & Lösungen für einen lebenswerten Planeten von @helmholtz.de? Dann schaut ins online Programm der Earth Week vom AK Forum Nachhaltigkeit!
▶️ t1p.de/vp7pm
#OurPowerOurPlanet
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.
Bezahlbarer ÖPNV statt Tankrabatt – 29-Euro-Ticket jetzt! EU-Kommission empfiehlt günstigere Tickets, um sofort Sprit zu sparen. Tankrabatte dagegen verschärfen die Krise. Bei geringerem Preis nutzen mehr Menschen den ÖPNV und lassen dafür das Auto stehen. mitmachen.duh.de/deutschlandt...
⭐️PhD Cognitive/Computational Psychology ⭐️ Use Reinforcement Learning + computational modelling to study how we form beliefs in the face of unreliable information (with me +Tali Sharot). Full funding for those eligible for UK home fees. Deadline 18/5. Please share!
@queenmarycbb.bsky.social
Weekend reads: Half of social science ‘doesn’t replicate’; ‘Scientific ghosts: Life after retraction’; multisensory learning paper retracted
If you need the feature, I just made the code public, if you want to use or add it:
github.com/maflot/cran-...
Was actually just building this to check the downloads from my own packages. For this use case the download baseline is so low, that I did not think normalization was needed xD
No normalization, you are totally right about this! Just check the overall matplotlib vs ggplot2 downloads.
So you're telling me Claude functions by screaming at itself "WRITE GOOD CODE NO BUGS SECURE VERY STABLE", mashes compile button, reads back the error and yells ONLY GOOD CODE NO BUGS at itself again while crying and copying random things from Stack Overflow until it compiles?
it just like me fr fr
In March, we had the pleasure of welcoming the Universitätsbund to HIRI for one of their board meetings. In addition to their own agenda, our guests received a brief introduction to the institute & joined a tour of our construction site.🧬👷 Thanks for visiting! 👉 www.helmholtz-hiri.de/en/newsroom/...
I thought software only moved one way: into Rust for speed.
stMCP: Spatial Transcriptomics with a Model Context Protocol Server www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
ggdiceplot 1.2.0 is now on CRAN. It fixes the 1.1.0 bug where no pips were rendered.
Lesson learned: we need better visual testing. Any recommendations for checking, in an automated way, that plots not only compile but also render as expected in R?
github.com/maflot/ggdic...
#CRAN #Datavis #testthat
🔬 PSH Core Facility Tech Talks Recap: High-Resolution Microscopy Core Facility
Last week, we got an in-depth look at imaging techniques, access procedures & a Pretubulysin research project. More TechTalks to follow!
👉 https://psh.digital/xwgcl Photo PSH
Built a small open-source template to manage multiple SSH nodes with tmux, track Claude Code/Codex sessions, and keep context in sync.
Hope this helps someone else building across multiple machines.
github.com/maflot/multi...
#opensource #ssh #tmux #claudecode #codex
Applications close today. ⌛👇
Coconuts
ggdiceplot v1.1.0 is now on CRAN 🎲
New pip_scale controls pip size: less white space, clearer plots, adjustable layout.
github.com/maflot/ggdic...
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
#CRAN #Datavis #diceplot
Don’t miss our next #HMC Open Office Hour! Talk directly to metadata experts and get tailored advice. Participation is free and open to everyone.
Don’t miss our next #HMC Open Office Hour!
Talk directly to metadata experts and get tailored advice. Participation is free and open to everyone.
📅 When: 19/03/2026
🔗 Registration: helmholtz-metadaten.de/events/hmc-o...
We look forward to welcoming you!
#HMC_OpenOffice
@helmholtz.de @kit.edu
We’re excited to announce the 2nd edition of the Health Privacy Challenge. 🍅🫐
What started last year as a CAMDA community challenge has grown into a benchmarking study of generative models for biologically useful and privacy-preserving synthetic omics, focusing on trade-offs across evaluation axes.👇
🧬 5th BioHackathon Germany – Save the Date!
📍 Göttingen | 📅 Dec 7–11, 2026
Mark your calendars! We’re bringing together life scientists, bioinformaticians, and data stewards for an intense week of hacking. 💻✨
🚀 Mid-April: Project applications open
🔗 www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event...
#BioHackathon
You might have noted that we visualize constituencies and their winners as cartogram.
We do this with a similar technique that @driven-by-data.net has already used last year.
The method is based on centroids, Delaunay tessellation and a force directed graph layout.
In a competitive field like academia, everyone feels like a fraud sometimes, whether it’s a scathing peer review, a bad comment from a student, or being shooed away by campus security when you get caught eating apple cores and chicken bones out of the dining hall dumpster at 3 a.m.
We will have our next community meeting on Tue, Feb 17, 2026, 11AM CST/ 9AM PST !
Kexin Huang, will be presenting on Biomni: a general-purpose biomedical agent.
Details in 🧵
Giving science a boost. ⚡🔬
We're partnering with @anthropic.com to design and deploy custom AI agents that will help scientists turn big data into scientific discoveries faster.
🔗 alleninstitute.org/news/partnering-with-ant...
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