"Bioconductor Spatial Data and Image Analysis Hackathon" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/9ej32_v1 "We report the outcomes of the Bioconductor Spatial Data and Image Analysis Hackathon, held in Venice, Italy in April 2026. Twenty-seven researchers and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Excited that the {anndataR} 📦 publication is out academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🎉! I hope this makes it easier to move single-cell data between R and Python and encourages people to take advantage of both languages. Check it out on @bioconductor.bsky.social bioconductor.org/packages/ann....

We did something cool … 😁 @lucamarconato.bsky.social

BioHackrXiv@biohackrxiv.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

"2nd SpatialData Hackathon: Frameworks, Formats and Interoperability" https://doi.org/10.37044/osf.io/s6bph_v1 "The event gathered experts to advance spatial omics through four hackathon tracks: (i) R interoperability, (ii) accessibility and performance of […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Ioannis Vlachos (Associate Professor of Pathology, Director of the Spatial Technologies Unit, Harvard Medical School) will be speaking at #FOGBoston! He’ll join a panel discussion on Spatial Technologies: What’s Real, What’s Hype, What’s Missing. More info: hubs.la/Q044gKQm0 @ioavlachos.bsky.social

@helucro.bsky.social at CSAMA 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu

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....

Wolfgang Huber@wkhuber.bsky.social · 2mo ago

@helucro.bsky.social at CSAMA 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu

📢 CSAMA 2026: Biological Data Science Summer School registrations are open for its 22nd edition, taking place in: 📍 Bressanone–Brixen, Italy 🗓 24–29 May 2026 🔗 Learn more and register: csama2026.bioconductor.eu #CSAMA2026 #Bioconductor

🚀 We're looking for people to join Malva! 🧬 @danilexn.bsky.social Malva is the first search engine for single-cell genomics: we process massive amounts of sequencing data to enable ultrafast analysis of millions of cells. (1/4)

We are hiring a Research Software Engineer to enhance and maintain the SpatialData framework. We will work together with colleagues at EMBL, DKFZ, GSK, and across the scverse community. 🔗 Deadline: 15/02/2026 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...

Research Software Engineer - Spatial-omics

The Oliver Stegle team and the Bioimage Analysis Support Team at EMBL Heidelberg are looking for a research software engineer to contribute to the development and maintenance of highly-used open-sourc...

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Registration now open for CSAMA! 📜 csama2026.bioconductor.eu Highly recommend for learning data science with a scenery, plus a fantastic crowd of students and faculty alike! 📸 from the traditional mid-week hike during last year’s edition.

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

Thanks to the authors for sharing all components of this beautiful mouse embryo spatial transcriptomics data from cell gene counts to per-molecule coordinates: www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.... So I vibe coded an app to explore the 3D subcellular transcript organization: jef.works/CellCarto-Mo...

📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇 🔗 www.hellodata.science #rstats #datascience #tidyverse

“Analysis of Biological Data with Python” started today for biology bachelor students 🧬🐍 Want to learn Python for data analysis? Slides are freely available: github.com/bpucker/teac... #Python #DataAnalysis #Biology #OpenScience #BigData #Bioinformatics #DataScience @puckerlab.bsky.social

CSAMA 2026 - Biological Data Science Summer School Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy 24-29 May 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.

We are looking for a Software Developer to work on R/Python interoperability for single-cell and spatial omics methods. 🔗 Apply here: jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1683...

Software Developer - Interoperability for Single-Cell and Spatial Omics Methods

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Every year, I give my lab (+myself) a "mini-sabbatical" to pursue independent learning. This year, I'm learning to use AI tools. So I made a short film to reflect on life/death + create art in an era where it can feel like AI has usurped the value of self-expression: youtu.be/YJjmKRlmI1Q

Come Take A Portrait With Me | a short film

YouTube video by Prof. Jean Fan

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Amazing opportunity, we thank #Helmholtz ScienceServe Initiative for helping us recruit talented people to develop FAIR Software for spatial omics. You will also have the chance to join hackathons and workshop we organize with developers across @scverse.bsky.social and @bioconductor.bsky.social.

Stegle Lab@steglelab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are looking for a Software Developer to work on R/Python interoperability for single-cell and spatial omics methods. 🔗 Apply here: jobs.dkfz.de/en/jobs/1683...

Join us to the last #GESTALT seminar the year! Free for all GESTALT member. If you are interested in anything #spatialbiology come be part of our growing community GESTALT Seminar Series globalspatial.org/seminar-seri... December 19 10am EST @ioavlachos.bsky.social @lgmartelotto.bsky.social

scverse conference 2025 done ✅ Really engaging week at Stanford with scPerturb-seq work, agentic models in biology, and strong interest in scaling software to millions of cells. Organizing alongside the rest of the @scverse.bsky.social team was a blast! Hope attendees found it productive 😄

We are excited to share our online book and preprint on “Orchestrating Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis with Bioconductor”!

Helena Lucia Crowell@helucro.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA. Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions). It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!

Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA. Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions). It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!

bioRxiv Bioinfo@biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Orchestrating Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis with Bioconductor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.688607v1

Orchestrating Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis with Bioconductor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.688607v1

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

After years of hard work we're thrilled to announce our new Nature Methods paper: Giotto Suite: a multiscale and technology-agnostic spatial multiomics analysis ecosystem. Another milestone for everyone working with Giotto! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Giotto Suite: a multiscale and technology-agnostic spatial multiomics analysis ecosystem - Nature Methods

Giotto Suite provides a comprehensive, flexible and scalable platform for technology-agnostic spatial omics analysis using R.

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🚀 Excited to share scPortrait! Led by Sophia Mädler & Niklas Schmacke w/ the Mann lab — a new @scverse tool for standardized single-cell image data. Enables ML-ready extraction, >1B cell processing, cross-omics, & cancer macrophage insights. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#EuroBioC2025 just started at @prbb.org in beautiful Barcelona. Looking forward to meeting friends and collaborators to discuss new generation of data structures and file formats for spatial/single-cell biology.

Very honored to receive the 2025 ISCB Innovator Award at #ISMBECCB2025 and present our lab’s journey—from mapping cells to modeling their future. Thanks to my amazing team and collaborators—this is our award! 🙌 📽️ Keynote: Atlases, AI & virtual cells 📝 doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

🚀 Reminder: Bioconductor Developer Forum is this Monday! 🧵 Topic: R & Rust in Bioinformatics 🗓️ July 28 | 🕚 11am EDT / 5pm CEST 🔗 Details + Zoom: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0... #Bioconductor #RStats #RustLang #OpenSource

Exploring R and Rust in Bioinformatics – Online Developer Forum, 28 July 2025 – Bioconductor community blog

A blog for the Bioconductor community!

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