Latest blog post on Copernicus and moth 😃 jiadongm.github.io/blog/posts/C...

Heard about Fisher's attidude towards post-mortem statistical analysis before. But this is still very fun to read: 'Biological workers were shy of mathematics and certainly to begin with felt that the statistician should only be called in after the data had been collected.' (from Fisher's biography)

📢 MIG Workshop: Single cell RNA-seq analysis 🗓️ Thu, Apr 16 | ⏰ 9:30 am - 12:00 pm AEDT 📍 Zoom (registered participants only) 🎙️ Xiaochen Zhang 💰 $25 (fully refunded upon attendance) #scRNAseq #Bioinformatics #Rstats #Genomics

MIG Workshop: Single cell RNA-seq analysis

About the Event This workshop will give you the necessary foundations to get started with single cell RNA-seq analysis, using the R programming...

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Very cool idea, might be useful to help players with hearing problems to play in an ensemble? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Great work! Congratulations Team.

Fendt Lab@fendtlab.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Where do the lipids come from & how do lung metastases benefit from them? Congratulations Dr Xiao-Zheng Liu @teenyl.bsky.social & Dr Ming Liu! Amazing collaboration with Prof. Yuneva and Prof. Altea-Manzano @alteamanzanolab.bsky.social Read more bit.ly/4lBSN7N @wcrf.org @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social

📣 Registrations and Abstract submissions are now open for Cancer Bioinformatics Australia 2026! Symposium Info: cancerbioinformatics.au Registrations (closes May 22nd): cancerbioinformatics.au/register Abstract submission (closes March 27th): cancerbioinformatics.au/abstracts

My Year 1 daughter thinks my job is a combination of what she learns from ICT, science and art classes. A clever summary. Here is a plot of spatial cell niches on a lung cancer slide she drew 😆

Have a look at new software paper on integrating >=3 omics using DIVAS. DIVAS is a unique method that finds jointly shared, partially shared and individual variations in multiomics data. If you've heard of JIVE: this is the newest generation from the same lineage. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Great to have Prof Shihua Zhang from Chinese Academy of Science. A humble person passionate about science. Impressed by their tools for spatial omics. Had a delightful evening talking to him. We agree that there should be more occasions like this in the coming year 👍🏻

E B Ford told us one of his colleagues lamented that today's knowledge is but tomorrow's error. Another colleaugue corrected the former, saying that today's knowledge is tomorrow's special case. This is a wonderful scientific version of the 'is the class half empty or half full' expression.

Melbourne airport T1 is evacuated because of 🔥alarm. We’re the 13th flight queuing to enter the airport … Dramatic ending of #ABACBS2025 for Melbournians 😫

Took the opportunity to visit Darwin’s greatest student 😃 Besides, if you’re interested in old buildings, St Peter’s Cathedral in Adelaide is definitely worth visiting

We need more conference front line reporters like @sagrikachugh.bsky.social and @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social 😄 Didn’t attend the conference but felt I did

Sagrika Chugh@sagrikachugh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Did my best to help a bit to get academic twitter back. Hopefully we can continue. Thanks and congratulations to @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social too. Thanks @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025 for an amazing conference.

The diffusion of CellDiffusion is non stoppable 😄

@sheldonzhang.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The conference fun continues at the main #ABACBS2025! I'll be at the poster session this Wednesday (Nov 26th). Come say hi! My spot is easy to remember: I'm Poster No. 1!

Another reason to plan a Brisbane trip in 2026

Cancer Bioinformatics Australia@cancerbioinfoau.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Cancer Bioinformatics Australia was proud to be a supporting partner at #abacbs2025 and sponsor the Cancer and Molecular Medicine session. For more cancer bioinformatics, follow us for updates on CBA which will be held in Brisbane in 2026

Got these for $30. The smaller one is a concise version of the larger. Ford is a key figure in modern synthesis. He reviewed field observations for his theory on supergene and polymorphism. Ford’s dense style reminded me of his close ally RA Fisher, both in denial of the importance of genetic drift

Galton’s Hereditary Genius, a reprint of 2nd ed. First book to use the term eugenics. Galton’s cousin Darwin respected his abilities, citing Galton’s work in eg The Descent of Man. Darwin seems to have been unenthusiastic about eugenics, sparing him from having his reputation ruined a century later

📢 MIG Seminar: End-to-end spatial transcriptomics analysis with VR-Omics 🗓️ Fri, Oct 31 | ⏰ 12 - 1 pm AEST 📍 Agar Theatre (G003), Biosciences 4 (147) 🎙️ Prof. Mirana Ramialison (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute) 🧍‍♂️In-person only #MultisliceDatasets #DataVisualization #VirtualReality

MIG Seminar: Prof. Mirana Ramialison, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

Title: End-to-end spatial transcriptomics analysis with VR-Omics Abstract The field of spatial transcriptomics (ST) is progressing rap...

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We’ll have a shorter version of our Spatial Transcriptomics workshop at ABACBS as part of the BiocAisa stream. See you in Nov in Adelaide 😃 blackochrelabs.au/abacbs2025_w...

I find it disrespectful when people, such as Pauline Hanson, wrap themselves in our flag and treat it as a cheap theatrical prop to push their political agenda. Anne Maki, Alphington @theage letters

Habits taught physicists to look for elegant laws in biology. But biology’s only rule is: whatever works. Whatever that works, regardless how inelegant, will be embedded in organisms via evolution. This reminds me of the recent Themis to Workday mayhem at unimelb. Don’t change what already works!

A very successful workshop on spatial transcriptomics! Great fun working with @bhuvad.bsky.social & Melody Jin. The audience were most engaged 🥰 Out materials covers QC, normalisation, cell states annotation, niche identification and differential genes in ST data: bhuvad.github.io/CosMxSpatial...

Very very excited to have mixOmics shortlisted as a finalist! 🥳 A great recognition of our contribution to research software in #Rstats @mig-unimelb.bsky.social

Australian Museum Eureka Prizes@eurekaprizes.bsky.social · last yr.

@mixomics.org is a finalist in the @ardc.edu.au Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software. Learn more: youtu.be/L4btQW32Ei0 #EurekaPrizes

Amazing opportunity to work at the cutting edge of statistics and omics with us at Melbourne Integrative Genomics @mig-unimelb.bsky.social, University of Melbourne. Closes: 29th August. Contact: Prof Kim-Anh Le Cao (director of MIG) Junior to mid career level Apply here: tinyurl.com/yu97nrws

Great to be part of the ambitious project to marry metabolism and lineage tracing in cancer 😃

Fendt Lab@fendtlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Will it be a turning point? I recently came back from a research sabbatical funded by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social & #KULeuven in the lab of @mafdawson.bsky.social @petermaccc.bsky.social and I am happy to share my experience @natcancer.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s43... @vib-ccb.bsky.social

Come and join national experts and local colleagues learning spatial transcriptomics data analysis 😃 I expect a lot of inspiring conversations and mutual learning.

MIG@mig-unimelb.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 MIG Spatial Transcriptomics Workshop 🗓️ Aug 13 - 14 📍 Kenneth Myer Building, Education Room 👩‍🏫 Dr @bhuvad.bsky.social (Frazer Institute) Dr @jiadongm.bsky.social (MIG) Ms Melody Jin (WEHI) 🎟️ $125/150 registration #SpatialRNAseq #Bioinformatics #Normalisation #CellStateIdentification

First time giving talk in a chapel(-like venue)

Great to have talked about PhiSpace at WEHI. I think we have the coolest team member photos.

PhiSpace has 7 case vignettes now, covering bulk RNA-seq, single-cell multiomics and spatial RNA-seq. Particularly surprised by the performance of PhiSpace when applied to quantify T cell state changes caused by genetic perturbations. jiadongm.github.io/PhiSpace/art...

A new test for LLM? 😂 Seems that the newest Claude 4.0 has no clue about violin finguring. It says the openning bar of violin part here is played using 1st position, but it should be 3rd. I tried a few pieces. Seems that Claude has no difficulty understanding other aspects but finguring