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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 12h

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We seek to recruit a visionary scientific leader in fundamental biology in one of four priority areas: Immunotherapy, Precision Oncology, Data Science, or Viruses and Vaccines (we interpret these areas broadly). We anticipate hiring at the senior Associate Professor level or higher.

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This University of Chicago business school professor has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far). statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/27/2...

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This University of Chicago business school professor has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far). | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle (@isbscience.org) is recruiting faculty across all ranks. Are you a systems-level thinker who is interested in tackling ambitious problems in biomedical research? Come and join us! isbscience.bamboohr.com/careers/71

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Faculty (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor)

The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) seeks a highly motivated andtalented Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor to join our faculty and leadtransformative efforts in AI, machine learning, and com...

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Anna Nagurney @annanagurney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What a wonderful article about an inspiring collaboration of female mathematicians across the ages. Thanks to @nytimes.com for publishing it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...

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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just published in JOSS: 'fwb: An R package for the fractional weighted bootstrap' doi.org/10.21105/joss.08880

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

For many years, it was assumed that the prehistoric cave paintings of people, mammoths and hunting scenes were created by men. Analysis of the handprints often used to "sign" these paintings now suggest that most of the artists were women. #CelebratingWomen

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 19/08/2026

Columna | "Aquí, en España, quizá por tenerlo tan cerca, nunca fuimos conscientes de la importancia que este hombrecillo de pelos largos y gritos locos tiene para los magos de todo el mundo", por Luis Piedrahita social.elpais.com/u6n…

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UC Berkeley MCB @berkeleymcb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

MCB is hiring Assistant Professors across 3 divisions!: 🧪BBS: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05483 🧬GGED: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 🦠IMM: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05486 🗓️ Application Deadline: October 19, 2026 🔗 Click the links or scan the QR codes to learn more and apply

MCB is hiring 3 Assistant Professor positions across 3 divisions:

Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BBS); Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development (GGED); and Immunology and Molecular Medicine (IMM)

BBS application link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05483

GGED application link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481

IMM application link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05486

Assistant Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine (IMM). IMM application link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05486

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology (BBS). BBS application link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05483

Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development (GGED). GGED application link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bayesian computation meeting in France in May, 2027 statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/12/b...

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Bayesian computation meeting in France in May, 2027 | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026

Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...

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12 Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 09/08/2026

More continuing positions at the Australian National University! 🇦🇺🦘🐨 ⭐ Biostatistician - apply by 4 Sep 2026 23:55 AEST: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc... ⭐ Senior Data Scientist - apply by 23 Aug 2026 23:55 AEST: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/senior-... #Statistics #StatsJobs

jobs.anu.edu.au

Research Fellow (Biostatistician) - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $124,638 - $141,317 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full time, Continuing Opportunity to undertake high-quality independent research in Biosta...

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Público @publico.pt · 06/08/2026

Há 11 anos que Campo Maior não recebia a festividade em que a população faz milhões de flores para decorar cerca de 100 ruas da vila. Festas do Povo começam no sábado. Até lá, tudo é segredo.

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Em Campo Maior, é ano de as ruas ficarem revestidas de flores de papel: “Aqui, é quando o povo quer”

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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Learn about new tools for summarizing a probability distribution more effectively than independent sampling during the #JSM2026 IMS Medallion Award & Lecture III at 2:00 p.m. in CC-210B. Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research New England) will present “Better-than-i.i.d. Sampling.” tinyurl.com/z2km2mtp

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.

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Alessandra Carbone @alecarbone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What if protein language model embeddings could collaborate to reveal what proteins do and which residues determine their function? Applied to thioredoxins, visual opsins, cold-shock proteins from environmental diatoms in #TaraOceans. In bioRxiv: lnkd.in/eaAFAYJW #ProteinScience #MarineGenomics

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Australian National University (ANU) is hiring: Postdoctoral Fellow (Academic Level A) #postdoc #statistics #statisticallearning

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Mathematician Levent Alpöge found a counterexample to the Jacobi conjecture using Claude Fable! This conjecture claims that if F: ℂⁿ→ℂⁿ is a polynomial map whose Jacobian is invertible at each point, F has a polynomial inverse. Open since 1939. But no more! (1/n)

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Jacobian conjecture - Wikipedia

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Be Giant @be-giant.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@utoronto.ca math prof Jacob Tsimerman is one of the frontrunners for the Fields Medal. To be announced next week, it’s one of the highest honours a mathematician can earn. (It’s often called the Nobel Prize of mathematics.) Luc Rinaldi’s longread profile: www.begiant.ca/stories/peop...

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What I learned locked inside an escape room with one of the world’s most brilliant mathematicians

Jacob Tsimerman is a frontrunner for the prestigious Fields Medal. He‘s also handy with the occasional dragon’s egg

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Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 18/07/2026

Begging mathematicians to learn the basics of how websites work.

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Someone discovered four Fields Medal laureate lecture fields marked "HIDDEN" in the front-end code of the ICM 2026 official schedule. A single curl command

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Peter Kenny @pwk2024.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Opportunity for statistician at University of Oxford (UK) ref: 186976 | duration: 2 years | closing: 03-Aug-2026 #statistics 🧪 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Job Details

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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

📣 Call for Workshop Proposals: BioCAsia 2026 BioCAsia 2026 will take place on 19–20 November 2026 in Melbourne, Australia, and the call for workshop proposals is now open. 🗓️ Submission deadline: 21 August 2026 🔗 www.abacbs.org/workshops-20... #BioCAsia #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics

abacbs.org

Workshops - Call

Website of the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society Inc (ABACBS, pronounced \u02C8ab\u0259k\u0259s).

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

With @helucro.bsky.social, @mikelove.bsky.social and Robert Gentleman at the Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School

Wolfgang Huber, Robert Gentleman, Helena L Crowell and Mike Love during a coffee break at the Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School in Uzhhorod

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INRAE Département MICA Microbiologie et Chaîne Alimentaire @inrae-dpt-mica.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🧬 CroCoDeEL: a powerful tool for detecting cross-contamination between samples 🧫 Researchers from #INRAE (MetaGenoPolis, #MaIAGE units) and #IRD have developed CroCoDeEL, a software programme designed to detect and quantify contamination (CroCoDeEL is freely available on #GitHub). 🔗 see below 👇

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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Bioconductor Developers' Forum | July 30, 2026 | 4:00 PM GMT Join us to discuss the design, maintenance challenges, and future of the Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books in Bioconductor. Topic: The Orchestrating Single Cell Analysis books Presenter: Aaron Lun Register here: bit.ly/4gApqlU

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Manuel Kleiner @manuelkleiner.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The type and amount of bacterial DNA carried by virus-like particles in the gut microbiome is simply mind-boggling. Amazing work by PhD candidate Jessie Maier in my group and collaborators @duerkoplab.bsky.social and Ben Callahan www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Perturbations shift the composition of bacterial DNA carried by virus-like particles in the murine gut microbiome

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a driving force in microbial evolution that allows community members to rapidly evolve to cope with environmental stressors and competition. Despite the importance of...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats

aeet.org

Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed

This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

jobbnorge.no

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 03/07/2026

"Word is built for high schoolers to write book reports." 😂 Couldn't agree more. What's particularly shocking is Word has not made meaningful progress in the last 20 years. Most of the things that didn't work well back then still don't work.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The Leonard Cohen estate is objecting to President Trump's planned use of the song "Hallelujah" ahead of tonight's Freedom 250 rally on the National Mall here in Washington.

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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

📢 New package submissions to Bioconductor now go through BiocContributions. The new system uses GitHub Actions and R-universe to provide a more automated, reproducible, and streamlined review process for package authors. 📖 Read more: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2026-0... #Bioconductor

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New Package Submission Process – Bioconductor community blog

The Single Package Builder (SPB) previously used for new Bioconductor package submissions has been replaced.

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Ben Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

new diamond open-access Journal of Statistical Ecology launched 🎉🎉🎉 jse.centre-mersenne.org @fredbarraquand.bsky.social @oaggimenez.bsky.social @marieaugermethe.bsky.social @vianeylb.bsky.social (apologies to any Bsky editors I missed)

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Journal of Statistical Ecology Journal of Statistical Ecology

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thanks to input from @helucro.bsky.social, Daria Lazic, Hugo Gruson, Artür Manukyan and many others, there is now a whole new level of maturity and ease-of-use for spatial omics data, see helenalc.github.io/SpatialData....

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csama – SpatialData

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

So this is apparently happening

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markwright12002.bsky.social @markwright12002.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Bee-eaters Alentejo, Portugal

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

See also addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Do you know any students who are planning to apply to graduate school this cycle? Encourage them to apply to the Biology Preview Program! We provide intensive workshops to help students w/ their applications + 1:1 mentorship.

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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🎉 JOSS turns 10 today! Ten years, 3,500+ papers, 11,000+ authors, 4000+ reviewers, and a community that built something remarkable together. Thank you to everyone who's reviewed, edited, authored, or cheered us on along the way 💚 joss.theoj.org #openscience #opensource

joss.theoj.org

Journal of Open Source Software

Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) is a developer friendly, open access journal for research software packages.

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Earlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Scientists have developed a new software tool - nanoMDBG - to advance metagenome assembly from #nanopore #sequencing. 🧬💻 The team demonstrated strong results compared to current leading nanopore-based assemblers, and comparable results to those from PacBio data. buff.ly/m4lSmXW #metagenomics

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Metagenomic software advance boosts research into microbial diversity

Researchers studying the diversity of microbes in environmental samples now have access to a new tool that opens the door to cheaper, more accessible analysis of their samples, thanks to a major…

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 27/04/2026

The FT @financialtimes.com is hiring a new data journalist to join our US data and visuals team in New York. Great job, great team, great place to work. Apply here 👉 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io

US Data Journalist

New York; Washington DC

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Registrations to the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Medicine and Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine MSc course 2026-2028 are still open. There is an open day on May 5th and a Q&A on May 7th where we show the institute and facilities and try to answer your questions.

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Manuel Barbosa @manuelbarbosa.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Hoje celebramos a nossa Revolução. Celebramos os cravos e as utopias; celebramos Liberdade, Igualdade, Fraternidade. Celebramos Abril, a mais bela das revoluções! Viva o 25 de Abril! 25 de Abril, sempre! [Não celebramos teatro, primavera ou o crlh que os foda a todos]

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.com · 22/04/2026

I managed to install panache (panache.bz) and for now I only got it to do one thing, but it is one thing that is really nice to do with a one liner: put every sentence in a quarto document on a newline. So the economy of a paragraph is visible at a glance. #writing #quarto

panache.bz

Panache: Language Server, Formatter, and Linter for Pandoc, Quarto, and R Markdown

Panache provides authoring tools for Pandoc, Quarto, and R Markdown: a language server, formatter, and linter to help you write better documents, more efficiently.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/04/2026

In our book Calling Bullshit, we talked about some of the ways people create misleading narratives by judiciously choosing how to calculate percentages. "Making up utterly nonsensical shit" was not among the methods we addressed. Gift link,

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RFK Jr. Defends Trump’s Mathematically Impossible Drug Discount Claims

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