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Helena Klara Jambor

@helenajambor.bsky.social
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Data Visualization in Life and Health Science. PhD biology, trained in art, Associate Prof Writes here: helenajamborwrites.netlify.app Following science & political content, posting mainly science Loc: Chur, Dresden, Lüneburg

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
One of the things that has been on my to do list for a very long time, is building a gallery of all of the charts I've made across #TidyTuesday, #30DayChartChallenge, #30DayMapChallenge, and other miscellaneous projects 📊 And it's finally here! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/viz-gallery/ #DataViz #RStats
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Data Visualisation Gallery
Gallery of data visualisations created by Nicola Rennie.
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 23h
My socials are a veeeery male. I truly treasure all connections, but I still aim for a bit of #GenderParity. I follow a male person only after also finding new female connect. #STEM #WomenInSTEM #WomenInTech #DataViz
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Joshua Stevens @jscarto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of Phosphor updates over the weekend, including: - Automatic colorblind-safe checks - Parabolic curve adjustments for corrected gradients - Preview your palette on a map, plot, or image - Larger library of preset palettes - A new Legend Lab - Support for #RStats www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/
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James Saenz @jamessaenz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’ve finally installed the beautiful cell membrane wall art that Priyanka Oberoi made for the lab…now hanging in its new home @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de in Heidelberg. The move is nearly complete! @anh-nhn.bsky.social @varvarakramkova.bsky.social
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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Looking forward to speaking in New York on Monday, September 21 as part of the "Underground Science. Underground Stories." panel at Narrative Change Summit @ the Climate Film Festival 2026 during #ClimateWeekNYC luma.com/usdw1nsy Come by and say hi in case you are around!
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Very happy about this months #PointsOfView in #NatureMethods - The Graphical Abstract. Co-authored with @simonduerr.eu, with whom I share a long-time passion for #Icons #BioIcons and #CC0 figures - and fuelled by our joint workshop for the @sib.swiss at [BC]2! Here is a 🎁 link lnkd.in/e5ew-E2R
Four ways to use a graphical abstract, as table of content icon, on social media, in talks and on posters.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 01/09/2026
In our August 'Points of View', @helenajambor.bsky.social and Alexander Lex discuss how to reuse, remix and vibe code scientific figures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
You want to code your #biology #science figures? @alex-lex.bsky.social (mainly) and I have a few ideas for you. 🎁- link to our Nature Methods Points of View "Code to plot" #DataViz rdcu.be/fyill
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Nature Methods - Biologists can reuse, remix and vibe code scientific figures.
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Damian Dalle Nogare @damiandn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My fav laptop sticker, courtesy of @helenajambor.bsky.social at CBIAS last year
A laptop with a white sticker of a microscope with the words "this machine kills fascists".
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Mein Student arbeitet in seiner Masterarbeit an UX für die psychologische Aufklärung, surprise, DataVis als Visuelle Hilfe. Ihr könnt ihn unterstützen - Merci für eure 5 Minuten! survey.fhgr.ch/656214?lang=de Triggerwarnung, es geht um Einnahme von Medikation bei Depressionen.
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Digitale Medikamenteninformation 2.0
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 14/07/2026
In our latest Points of View column, @helenajambor.bsky.social and Alexander Lex cover scientific web applications for creating biological data figures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
How scientists simplify their datavis with a few clicks - read more in **Click to plot** article, out in @natureportfolio.nature.com I love these resources, because I know they bridge the experimentalists journeying into advanced plots and coding eventually. Great collab @alex-lex.bsky.social
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Collaborating on Quarto documents can be tricky, especially if you're working with people who don't need to write code 🫂 So I've pulled together some options for collaborating on Quarto documents into a blog post! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/collabo... #QuartoPub #RStats
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Collaborating on Quarto documents – Nicola Rennie
Collaborating on Quarto documents, particularly non-technical collaborators who don’t want or need to edit any code, is hard. This blog post outlines a few different options that might make it a littl...
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am always struck by how much of the spatial inequality within East Germany is obscured when Germany is considered as a whole. The disparities between Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian parts of the same federal state are particularly revealing.
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What a week! My first Points of View was published @natmethods.nature.com Happy to start the series in 🏳️‍🌈 month with "On Color scales and the birth of Viridis" - looks good, allows naming of regions, AND is perceptually uniform 🎁 rdcu.be/fnPhk www.nature.com/articles/s41... #dataviz
A mountain ridge shown in different color sclales. Picture: 
Andres Passwirth - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17166331
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
😎 to have this out! --> stay tuned, this is a series about 📊#dataviz for #science 🧪
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Dave Barry @david-j-barry.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New series of "Points of View" articles on data visualisation incoming in @natmethods.nature.com from @helenajambor.bsky.social! Look forward to reading - will no doubt be a valuable resource. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Points of View, anew - Nature Methods
This month, we reintroduce the Points of View column, with updated practical advice for visualizing scientific data.
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 02/06/2026
So here are the details for the three awards that Voilà: won from the International Institute for Information Design last week in Vienna. 🏆 📊 What projects What awards Who did what Which clients And quotes 🧵
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Voilà: wins three awards from the International Institute for Information Design - Voilà:
Voilà: wins three awards from the International Institute for Information Design
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Happy about our Recommendation Award at the International Institute for Information Design Awards 2026 - the price celebrates #datavis that combine clarity, usefulness, and visual excellence! We will continue to design for #cancer patients who navigate their medical journey ❤️
The logo of the IIID award
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Original post: biologists.social/@Co_Biologis...
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Tiziana Alocci @tiziana.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Who's the #dataviz designer who made you want to be a dataviz designer?
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
BioVis Meetup #15 📊 🧪 🔬 - virtual meetup: Liz Marai will chat about "Recent Trends and Challenges in Biological Data Visualization". Join us! time: Wednesday, April 22 at 17:00 (Berlin) / 16:00 (London) link: biovis.net/2026/meetup/... #BioVis #DataVisualization #Bioinformatics
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BioVis Meetup #15: Recent Trends and Challenges in Biological Data Visualization
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Its official, from April civil servant for "the Ländle" - Congratulations @jamessaenz.bsky.social on becoming professor @uniheidelberg.bsky.social - and I am happy to be back in town. @mpi-cbg.de @bcube-tud.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social
Rektor of Heidelberg University posing with James Saenz in front of a mirror, holding the certificate of his appointment. In the front the official photographer taking a pic too.
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Studierenden-Forschunsprojekt zu Datenvisualisierung - bitte nehmt euch 5 Minuten für Anja's Umfrage, Merci!! 🙏 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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ADV Fragebogen A
In diesem kurzen Pre-Test wird untersucht, wie gut unterschiedliche Diagrammformen die gleichen Daten zur Vollzeit- und Teilzeiterwerbstätigkeit verständlich machen. Du siehst nacheinander drei Visual...
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This article is gold... worth a read. ps. I barely come here anymore, I need to focus on my local community to stay sane; posts like this make it worthwhile tough.
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Friends don't let friends make bad graphs" repo has reached 7000 stars on GitHub! When I created it back in 2022, I'd never imagine it will become this popular. #DataVis github.com/cxli233/Frie...
A screenshot showing the "Friends don't let friends make bad graphs" repo has 7000 stars and 284 forks on GitHub.
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
😍 - also a great outcome of a meeting at #TCTEAC #WoodstockOfBio
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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Mark your calendar! We're proud to sponsor this free webinar from @repro4everyone.bsky.social featuring @doctorzen.net on designing effective scientific posters. Don't miss this great resource for students and researchers! [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
BioVis Meetup time! "Building Explainable AI Tools for Biomedical Applications" Wednesday, 18th of February at 5pm Berlin / 4 pm London, Speaker: Grace Guo, Harvard University link: --> comment/Biovis.net
Headshot of all speakers with dates, same as on website.
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Ah, getting nostalgic while making figures for color education! A former colleague became the new poster child for image tests in computer vision: a test image built in #ImageJ #FIJI If you are interested, read up on #NewLenna #Lenna, the #metoo moment of CS vision research #DataVis
the same image colorized in greyscale, Rainbow color scale, viridis, and plasma - to show the varying effect of applying color to image on interpretation and visual attention.
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shri @shrikhalpada.dev · 06/02/2026
here it is with a bit of extra context 😮‍💨
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
All my students would immediately read the scale!! A 1% increase (if that, do we trust that number..?) .. #GraphCrimes #ChartsAgainstHumanity #DataVis
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Michael Albert @michlalbrt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Das Geld, das Milliardäre seit Jahrzehnten mit Unterstützung der Politik anhäufen, fehlt der Gesellschaft an anderer Stelle. Das sollte man nicht vergessen.
Überschrift:
Entwicklung des Gesamtvermögens von Milliardä*innen 1987 bis November 2025 in Billionen US-Dollar (real).

Grafik:
X-Achse: Jahre von 1987 bis 2025.
Y-Achse: Gesamtvermögen in Billionen US-Dollar (Skala bis 20).

Inhalt:
- 1987 liegt das Gesamtvermögen bei etwa 1 Billion US-Dollar.
- Bis 2025 steigt es langsam, aber stetig an. 
- 2025 liegt der Höchstwert bei rund 18 Billionen US-Dollar.

Quelle: Forbes Annual and Real-Time Billionaires Lists.
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
see you in 1 hour! #BioVis #DataVis meetup
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
💥 First #BioVis meetup of 2026 💥 #DataVis “Crafting visual biomedical stories“ with Laura Garrison, University of Bergen - Virtual, no registration, link/more info: biovis.net/2026/meetup/... - Wednesday, 21. January, 5pm Berlin/4pm London
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BioVis Meetup #12: Crafting visual biomedical stories
Title: Crafting visual biomedical stories
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
💥 First #BioVis meetup of 2026 💥 #DataVis “Crafting visual biomedical stories“ with Laura Garrison, University of Bergen - Virtual, no registration, link/more info: biovis.net/2026/meetup/... - Wednesday, 21. January, 5pm Berlin/4pm London
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BioVis Meetup #12: Crafting visual biomedical stories
Title: Crafting visual biomedical stories
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🤩 someone became a cover girl! (I did win a kids-beauty pageant once, while vacationing in the Netherlands)
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Holger Klein @hol9000.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Paper alert, some news on our #syntheticbiology activities. You can find out paper on the TPP #riboswitch activator at pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/.... And even better, you can order the compound for free on #boehringer 's #opnMe platform at www.opnme.com/molecules/tp.... #science
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Small Molecule-Controlled Gene Expression: Design of Drug-like High-Affinity Modulators of a Custom-Made Riboswitch
Riboswitches are regulatory RNA structures that modulate gene expression in response to a small molecule. Until now, most efforts to design ligand analogs were motivated by their potential antibiotic ...
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
OMG... Worth a read. How, when, and why to use icons - and when NOT. Original post: mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/...
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Welcome #BackToWork folks, here is hoping for a good 2026. PS if you have good news for me, today is a great day for sending it to at least add sprinkles to the pile of dirt :)
Picture of divine door to paradise (imagined inbox) and picture of person standing in a sewer (actual inbox).
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Country girl leaving her countryside: 🥹
Golden Sunrise over a street and field in the countryside in Uelzen
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Als Lehrende (Uni) in 🇨🇭 sehe ich das anders, meine Studierenden sind sehr realistisch, informiert und digital total aufgeklärt.
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Merry Christmas. Love is the answer ☮️
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Best hashtag for Christmas time, THX every year
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Artur Weigandt @arturweigandt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Ich sammle derzeit Spenden für ukrainische Soldaten, die ich persönlich kenne – Männer, die seit fast drei Jahren ihr Land gegen die russische Aggression verteidigen.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Worth answering on main: infantry depth is primarily psychological and only secondarily about replacing losses or changing out ranks. But that psychological factor is so important that functionally all contact infantry fight with depth and usually quite a lot of it (4 to 10 ranks being normal).
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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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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
It is the worst - I just taught the experimental research planning lesson - and this contains only nono's. Could go into exams in January!
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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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How to see the Ursids meteor shower — The Ursid meteor shower, the final celestial event of 2025, will reach its peak between Sunday night and early Monday morning, offering sky-gazers in the Northern Hemisphere an opportunity to obser… https://ranked.news/eng/how-to-see-the-ursids-meteor-shower?u=b
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