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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 15/09/2026

🚨 New preprint from the Rendeiro lab! We mapped human tissue aging at single-cell resolution: 3.5 billion cells, 16 organs, 980 donors, spanning the adult lifespan. Led by @e-abila.bsky.social 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 07/08/2026

Excited to share StainX: GPU-accelerated batch stain normalization for histopathology images, with major speedups over standard PyTorch. Led by Samir Moustafa in our lab. 📄 doi.org/10.64898/202... 💻 github.com/rendeirolab/... #ComputationalPathology #DigitalPathology

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 21/07/2026

🚀 We are hiring a computational postdoc at CeMM! Want to work at the bleeding edge of AI for medicine to build a body-scale foundation model of human tissue architecture? Apply to the pre-ERC postdoc program on a ERC funded position: cemm.onlyfy.jobs/job/roa0wi8n #AcademicJobs #Postdoc #Hiring

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CeMM International Postdoc Program (Vienna, Austria) Pre-ERC Postdoc Program (m/f/d)

CeMM International Postdoc Program (Vienna, Austria) Pre-ERC Postdoc Program (m/f/d) We are recruiting a group of postdocs who are eager to pursue ground-breaking biomedical research, and we will help...

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 19/07/2026

Congratulations to Ariadna Villanueva Marijuan on receiving the DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)! I am proud of your hard work and dedication, Ariadna. Congratulations on the well-deserved achievement!

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 27/05/2026

It's that time of the semester: hosting the CeMM journal club! Except this time I wrote down what I usually share with the students beforehand: "Having fun learning together with a journal club" andre-rendeiro.com/2026/05/26/j...

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Having fun learning together with a journal club

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 07/05/2026

Marsilea was spotlighted by GitHub for Maintainer Month! 🎉 A well-deserved recognition for @yimin-zheng.bsky.social , who built and maintains it. Maintainers keep critical infrastructure alive, with little visibility or credit - time to change that! 👉 maintainermonth.github.com/academia/mar...

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Maintainer Spotlight: Marsilea

A Python visualization library for declaratively creating composable visualizations, enabling researchers to efficiently express complex scientific data through a cross-layout diagram approach.

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 17/04/2026

Got asked about ERC grant applications and interviews a few times, so I finally wrote up my perspective and advice as a blog post. Took me two attempts to get mine, so take it with a grain of salt. Hope it's useful to someone out there: andre-rendeiro.com/2026/04/17/e...

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CeMM @cemm.oeaw.ac.at · 20/03/2026

🔍 Can you search a tissue image like a dataset? A new study led by CeMM PI @andre-rendeiro.com & his team introduces #LazySlide, an AI-powered, open-source tool that links whole-slide pathology images to molecular data & even enables natural-language search. ➡️ bit.ly/4jZWLGk 📄 bit.ly/4ujQZEq

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 20/03/2026

🎉 LazySlide published in Nature Methods! Open-source framework bridging computational pathology with the scverse ecosystem. Thanks to @yimin-zheng.bsky.social for leading this, the Rendeiro Lab, and the amazing community support! 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📝 rendeiro.group/p/lazyslide-...

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 27/02/2026

Important insight into recent history, and a provoking thought we should all be having

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 23/02/2026

Grateful to the Experiment Foundation and Navigation Fund for the "Beyond the Journal" award (experiment.foundation/beyond) recognizing our open science practices in our open source lab manual (rendeiro.group/lab-manual)!

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Beyond the Journal Awards — Experiment Foundation

Help us find and celebrate the next generation of open science pioneers.

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 17/02/2026

"we have an obligation to create high context environments" agreed - to me that is already true with conventional workspaces. Research data and derivatives should be organized, open, FAIRified, etc - yet I don't see OpenAI focusing on that ever as it'd go against their business model

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 04/02/2026

🎉 Huge congratulations to Lisa Kleissl on winning the APART-MINT fellowship from the @oeaw.bsky.social ! A shared postdoc in our lab and the labs of @lderooij.bsky.social and Georg Stary, Lisa's ideas and research earned the well-deserved recognition 🙌

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Apply for the Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 Jun-3 Jul 2026 on Monte Verità, Lago Maggiore at the foot of the Swiss Alps. ascona2026.sciencesconf.org

Poster session 2024, with Valentina Boeva, Constantin Ahlmann-Eltze and others

Wednesday afternoon hike incl. swim in the mountain river

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 13/01/2026

Join the AITHYRA-CeMM PhD Open Day tomorrow if you want to join us pushing the boundaries of spatial biology and AI. cemm.at/phd-open-day... #PhD #AcademicSky #CompBio #Bioinformatics #MachineLearning

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Announcing the Ascona Workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems" on 28 June - 3 July 2026 in Ascona, CH www.huber.embl.de/group/events... Reserve the dates!

View from Monte Verità onto Ascona and Lago Maggiore

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AITHYRA Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences @aithyra.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

AITHYRA Global Adjunct Principal Investigator Program: Advancing AI-Driven Life Science Through Global Collaborations Learn more about the Program: aithyra.at/fileadmin/do... Application Deadline, 30 January 2026: application@aithyra.at #AITHYRA #GlobalAdjunctPI

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Silvia Ramundo @sramundo.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

There are a couple of empty chairs at our table — want to sit with us? Reach out to me or any lab member www.oeaw.ac.at/gmi/research... We’ll be hiring two postdocs in 2026. We’re excited about ambitious and creative ideas and are committed to supporting future group leaders 1/2

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 10/11/2025

Warm welcome to Maria and my very best wishes to her as CeMM director - excited for the future of our institute!

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CeMM @cemm.oeaw.ac.at · 10/11/2025

Thank you, Marco Demaria (UMCG), for a great #CeMMinar on heterogeneity in cellular #senescence! He shared how senescent cells can both aid tissue repair & drive aging & dysfunction, & how targeting them could support healthy aging. Thanks to our hosts @lderooij.bsky.social & @andre-rendeiro.com

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CeMM @cemm.oeaw.ac.at · 10/11/2025

CeMM & ÖAW warmly welcome Maria Rescigno as the new CeMM Director. Maria is a highly accomplished researcher specialized in the understanding of the gut–liver–brain axis. Press info: cemm.at/news Photo Gallery: cemm.at/about-cemm/picture-gallerie… #CeMMLife #Director #ÖAW

Heinz Faßmann, ÖAW President, Maria Rescigno, CeMM Scientific Director, Giulio Superti-Furga, CeMM Founding Director (c) Natascha Unkart

Giulio Superti-Furga handing over the CeMM guest book to new Director Maria Rescigno (c) Klaus Pichler

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 04/11/2025

Installed #Rstats for the first time in a year - my laptop ran out of battery before I managed to install 2 libraries... 🤕 After working with `uv` for some time, I don't think I can suffer this experience :pain:

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 27/10/2025

One more reason to love Python! Thank you for staying true to your values ❤️

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Michael Eisen @mbeisen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

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Loan Vulliard @lvulliard.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🧭 Colorectal cancer doesn’t follow a single path. Using spatial proteomics on ~500 tumors, we found distinct trajectories from early to late stage, involving the whole tumor microenvironment and its metabolic state. 📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.05083 #SpatialBiology #CRC #ImageBasedProfiling 1/5

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Robust multicellular programs dissect the complex tumor microenvironment and track disease progression in colorectal adenocarcinomas

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is highly heterogeneous, with five-year survival rates dropping from $\sim$90% in localized disease to $\sim$15% with distant metastases. Disease progression is shaped not only...

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 15/10/2025

New work from Iva Buljan @ivabuljan.bsky.social in our lab! We mapped how human tissue architecture changes with age using ~25k histology slides from 983 donors. This is the first body-wide atlas of human microanatomy. 📄 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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scverse @scverse.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

We will have our next community meeting on Tuesday, 2025-10-14 at 18:00 CEST! Yimin Zheng will be presenting on LazySlide, a Python framework for whole slide image (WSI) analysis. (Zoom registration link and more information in thread!) 🧵

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 02/10/2025

The LBI-NetMed in Vienna is looking for an Administrative Manager to power our research operations. Key role in finance, HR, and partner coordination. Apply here: lbg.ac.at/news/adminis... #ResearchJobs #ScienceAdmin #LBINetMed #Vienna #JobAlert

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Administrative Manager:in (m/w/d) – Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft

Forschung, die beim Menschen ankommt.

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 26/09/2025

Great to be at the 2025 @OeGMBT meeting in Innsbruck and hear the diverse research made by the local community, in particular by the young researchers who presented their work. Thank you to the organizers, and to Markus Mandl for the invitation to talk!

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pauldatlinger.bsky.social @pauldatlinger.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

CAR T cells showcase the enormous potential of cell therapies, but often fail due to lack of evolutionary optimization. Today in @nature.com , we use #CELLFIE to engineer cell therapies at scale and share the largest resource of CRISPR screens in CAR T cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Systematic discovery of CRISPR-boosted CAR T cell immunotherapies - Nature

CELLFIE, a CRISPR platform for optimizing cell-based immunotherapies, identifies gene knockouts that enhance CAR T cell efficacy using in vitro and in vivo screens.

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 12/09/2025

Congratulations to Lisa Kleissl in our group, who won the best short talk award at the FEBS Advanced Course on Immunology, metabolism and ageing in Matrei am Brenner, Austria!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes

Katie Burns is helping reveal the immune system’s role in the long-neglected disease

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 04/09/2025

Thrilled to share that our lab has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for QUANTAGE! 🎉 We will build a quantitative framework of tissue architecture to bridge molecules, cells, tissues & organs — uncovering how aging unfolds and disease begins.

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 03/09/2025

Our group is in Gumpoldskirchen, Austria, for our first lab retreat! It is a fantastic opportunity to get together and discuss our research projects, share ideas, and engage in some team building. A big thank you to everyone in the team, who together make it a privilege and honor to do this job.

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 19/08/2025

Yimin Zheng from our lab presented LazySlide, our framework for whole-slide image analysis, at the Sydney Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar Series 🎉 📺 Watch the talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZAp... 🔗 More from the awesome series: www.youtube.com/@SydneyDataS... Big thanks to the organizers!

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The lazy way of pathological images analysis in the era of large models

YouTube video by Sydney Precision Data Science Centre

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.site · 13/08/2025

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

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Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Have $10M and want to cure some diseases? It costs ~$1B to invent a new medicine…but $10M buys you Project Encore, to see if ANY existing drug might be repurposed for ~100 diseases that have no treatments. Contact me - be a hero for desperate patients! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Images of cells showing protein mislocalization caused by a Noonan syndrome mutation, with the idea to screen drugs to find any that can reverse the unhealthy mislocalization

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 28/07/2025

Join two powerhouses of research driving innovation in artificial intelligence and biomedicine in Vienna! My group will be recruiting a PhD student to continue and extend our work on spatially resolved study of aging via principled computational approaches: rendeiro.group apply.cemm.at

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Caleb Lareau @caleblareau.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab with @ryandhindsa.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by @sherrynyeo.bsky.social, @erinmayc.bsky.social, and friends, we continue our journey to find viral DNA in our favorite place-- the overlooked and discarded reads in existing data! 1/

the treasure trove of all sequencing datasets

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CeMM @cemm.oeaw.ac.at · 21/07/2025

⭐ CeMM is proud to have supported #KinderuniWien together with @oeaw.bsky.social again this year! We created a fun online video, quiz & game to show children how wounds heal & the immune system protects us. Watch it below 👇 🎥 “Die Blutbaustelle - Helfer im Einsatz!” (in German) 🔗

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Die Blutbaustelle − Helfer im Einsatz! - KinderuniOnline

Ein blutendes Knie? Kein Problem, denn in deinem Körper startet sofort der Superhelden-Einsatz! Im kurzen Video „Die Blutbaustelle – Helfer im Einsatz!“ zeigen wir dir, wie Plätti und die weißen…

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Dr. Jean Fan @jef.works · 17/07/2025

I received some old microscopy slides from the 1800s, when at-home microscopes made it possible to look at hidden worlds of diatoms, polycystina, and other teeny tiny things. I made this website so people today can take a look too: microspeci.men Enjoy! #scienceisforeveryone #microscopy #HistSci

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Andre Rendeiro @andre-rendeiro.com · 16/07/2025

LazySlide 🦥 just hit 100 GitHub stars! 🎉 Our free, open-source framework is making whole slide analysis easier than ever. Built on scverse 🐍, it handles everything from tissue segmentation to multi-omics workflows 🤹 & deep learning 🏋️. Big thanks to the community! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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