Two weeks left to apply! We're recruiting a PhD student with @brianfclarke.bsky.social and @junyanlu.bsky.social through HIDSS4Health - see below for details. 👇 Looking forward to your application.

Brian Clarke@brianfclarke.bsky.social · last wk.

Our division is recruiting a PhD student through the Helmholtz Information and Data Science School for Health (HIDSS4Health). The supervision will be joint between me, @oliverstegle.bsky.social and @junyanlu.bsky.social. www.hidss4health.de/application/ → Project ID03 Deadline August 18

📢 Join BioC2026 online! Although in-person registration for BioC2026 is now closed, you can still join the conference virtually from anywhere in the world. 💻 Virtual registration closes: August 12 Secure your virtual ticket today: 🎟️ ti.to/nf-projects/...

Pro tip: when giving a (research or teaching) talk, do not mention "imputation" unless you are absolutely willing to talk about missingness not at random, and addressing it.

All you Trump backers who lie about supporting Ukraine…this is what you actually support. These Ukrainians are being killed partly through the policy choices of the Trump administration. The USA could have saved many of these lives but chose not to. www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/e...

Russian attack kills 17 in Kyiv region, Zelensky says | CNN

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital and nearby areas have killed 17 people and wounded dozens of others overnight, officials said, as both sides step up attacks on facilities that underpin daily life...

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"Linux is More Expensive than Apple Now" Exact numbers will vary in different markets, but the fact that this even plausible would have been crazy a short while ago. Apparent reason: the hardware scarcity caused by the data centre bubble. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGec...

The Russian economy is rapidly transitioning to the cloud.

Behind every great scientist is a great community! @lisamaierlab.bsky.social, EMBL's 2026 John Kendrew Award recipient, reflects on how mentorship and support at EMBL shaped her journey into pioneering microbiome research. Read more about her journey 👉 www.embl.org/news/people-...

A journey through the microbiome, shaped by growth and support | EMBL

EMBL alumna Lisa Maier, recipient of the 2026 John Kendrew Award, discusses her scientific achievements, the importance of science engagement, and how she carries on the ‘EMBL spirit’

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I appreciate Clément's modesty ("What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice"). However, this is one of the most reasonable advices I read on the topic ⬇️

Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io · 4d ago

"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

The latest release of #Positron went out last week, and I am so pleased to share what's in it! 🥳 Some big features we've been working on for a while (the editor for `.ipynb` notebooks, the Packages pane, Posit Assistant) all came out of preview this month: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

The number of injured in Kyiv following Russia's massive attack has risen to 33. Nine people were killed. 📹: Horrifying footage of Russian strikes on Kyiv overnight (Sound on, if you can)

I just realized that I have a higher h-index than Richard Feynman. In case you were tempted to believe that the h-index is a good way of judging who is an influential scientist.

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Japan has officially become Horizon Europe's 23rd associated country, giving its researchers direct access to EU funding in Pillar 2 consortia. It is the most populous nation to join the programme so far, following New Zealand, Canada and South Korea: sciencebusiness.net/news/horizon...

Japan and EU sign off Horizon Europe association

Japan has officially signed off a deal that associates the country to Horizon Europe, allowing Japanese researchers to apply to some of the programme on an equal basis to Europeans. The deal is the la...

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I actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.

How do researchers tackle big amounts of malaria data? Prisca Kweyamba, EMBL-UNESCO fellowship awardee, uses AI to analyse these datasets and investigate how mosquitoes interact with malaria parasites and adapt to insecticides, advancing malaria control research. Check the video for more! #EMBL_AI

EMBL and collaborators have developed spatialproteomics, an open-source package that helps researchers analyse how cells are organised within tumours. In lymphoma samples, it revealed spatial patterns that distinguish indolent from aggressive entities. www.embl.org/news/science...

New software helps researchers decode the cellular architecture of lymphoma | EMBL

EMBL scientists and collaborators developed spatialproteomics, an open-source tool that helps researchers analyse how cells are organised within tumours.

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Spatialproteomics: an interoperable toolbox for analyzing highly multiplexed fluorescence image data By @matthiasmeybe.bsky.social et al. Great collaboration with the group of Sascha Dietrich and Peter-Martin Bruch. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Have to sort some of my dad‘s affairs, and my God was I right with this column. economist.com/finance-and-...

Germany has a lawyer problem

Its endless bureaucratic rules trap would-be reformers

economist.com

This. We'll need a notion of 'trivial papers', mass-produced, basically correct, would have been legit science even a few years ago, but now not worth credit. And, more importantly, a notion of what a non-trivial research output will be. See also www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · last wk.

it’s not quite the same problem — academics can’t enter self-published books in the REF — but I do wonder how many more cycles we have left of the research exercise, before it gets absolutely drowned in the quantity of papers that someone could produce with a table full of data and some prompts.

This is funny. Putin celebrates Russian Navy Day with a poster depicting the sea and a submarine. The tradition of Potemkin villages continues,

Ich lass das mal hier stehen, als Erinnerung zu dieser schweren Stunde: www.zdfheute.de/politik/deut...

Anschläge in Deutschland: Auffällige russische Suchanfragen

Vor Europa- und Bundestagswahl gab es mehrere tödliche Anschläge in Deutschland. Auffällige russische Suchanfragen im Netz werfen nun Fragen auf.

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Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

The American mind can’t comprehend

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

Don't know if folks who use Teams in their organisation realise the difficulties those from outside then have in joining a simple call...

Optogenetics equivalent of the "IBM written in atoms" AFM image: hinderling.github.io/assets/pertz... (from hinderling.github.io)

Am at an AI workshop today, and it sounds like the next bottleneck in the field is natural and computer scientists needing to catch up with their training in philosophy. Plato, Locke, Hume, Kant, Nietsche etc.