Wolfgang Huber

It would be one history‘s great plot twists if Trump has now managed to alert the entire world to why they should transition away from single-use fossils to renewables as quickly as any possible - even while having dismissed global warming.

And Hormuz isn‘t even Asia‘s biggest risk.

Polls have closed in the first of this year's five German state elections, in prosperous Baden-Württemberg. It's looking like a remarkable win-from-behind by the Greens under @oezdemir.de. Full results over the course of the evening.

BaWü!!! 😊

Am heutigen Tag denke ich an all die Frauen in meiner Familie, die geschuftet und gekämpft haben, um sich und ihren Nachkommen ein besseres Leben zu ermöglichen. Sekretärinnen, Heimarbeiterinnen, Fabriksarbeiterinnen. Sie alle kämpften für ein Stück materieller Gleichstellung.

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We Are R-Ladies

200+ chapters. 60+ countries. 100,000+ members.

Since 2012, we've been promoting gender diversity in the R community — building a global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers.

This is who we are.

rladies.org

#RLadiesIWD2026 #IWD2026

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies.

www.ft.com/content/ac77...

Happy International Women's Day!

To mark the occasion, I sat down with ELLE Magazine for a wide-ranging interview on women's economic independence, my career and our @ecb.europa.eu EuroSteps Challenge.

Read the interview www.ecb.europa.eu/press/inter/...

I am glad that Bluesky has now captured all the best parts of #rstats twitter: dank memes, sick burns, hot takes, and flame wars.

Screenshot of an X post by Dan Scavino reading, “Happening Now in the Oval Office at the @WhiteHouse. God Bless the USA!” with prayer, heart, U.S. flag, and eagle emojis. Below is a photo inside the Oval Office showing Donald Trump seated at the Resolute Desk while a large group of men in suits stand around him in a circle with heads bowed and hands extended in prayer. American flags, gold drapes, and framed portraits are visible in the room.

“Iran is run by religious fanatics.”

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

PDF Accessibility and Standards – Quarto Quarto 1.9 brings PDF accessibility and standards support, building on new tagging features in LaTeX and Typst.

If you are interested in PDF accessibility, there has been some big progress in Quarto.

Take a look at the latest blog post: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

#Quarto #Accessibility #LaTeX #Typst

Screenshot ZDF-Politbarometer vom 5.3.2026 mit der Sonntagsfrage zur Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg. Grüne 28 Prozent (+3) gleichauf mit der CDU.

Screenshot ZDF-Politbarometer zur Frage: „Am liebsten als Ministerpräsident…“ Cem Özdemir 47 Prozent, Manuel Hagel 24 Prozent.

Jetzt geht es um jede Stimme! 💚

Neuste Umfragen kurz vor der Wahl zeigen:

Es gibt die große Chance, dass die Grünen in Baden-Württemberg 1. werden. Und Cem @oezdemir.de Ministerpräsident.

Dafür müssen jetzt aber wirklich alle zur Wahl gehen.

Eure Stimme macht einen großen Unterschied!

A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

A visualisation of the rivers of the Danube basin

Did this a while back but forgot to share: the Danube basin.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

The time to register for this is now!

It's a great opportunity for biological / biomedical researchers who want to get better in analysing their own data.

We are one of the potential host labs for a Lecturer position in Molecular Genetics & Genomics — please share, and get in touch for more info! 🧬📣

The core-pivotal index: a geometry-first approach to academic impact The defining goal of the academic endeavor is to establish a single perfect value that completely summarizes entire careers’ achievements. Such an index wo

@russcd.bsky.social ushers in a new era of academic metrics with the core-pivotal author index, which assigns all credit to authors that occupy the exact center of the author list, while non-central peripheral authors receive no credit whatsoever.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag026

#evobio #molbio

Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 June - 3 July.

Deadline for registration Mon 16 March, 23:59 CET.
There are ~10-12 places left.

Goes against the domestic politics unfortunately but more events to show Europe really should lean into the economic value of stability

I was sad to learn that my postdoctoral mentor, David Botstein, died yesterday. I started with David as a postdoc in 1998, and he had a profound effect on both my life and scientific career. He was a giant in the field of genetics, making seminal contributions in both yeast and human genetics. 1/

Und für die in Heidelberg: heute Abend Cem Özdemir und Florian Kollmann im Karlstorbahnhof www.gruene-heidelberg.de/termin/town-...

An alle Follower aus BaWü: am 8.3. rausgehen und eine demokratische Partei.wählen.

rOpenSci News Digest, February 2026 AI policy for software review, champions program, coworking, new packages, package news

February @ropensci.org news! 🗞️ #RStats

💙 Strong Engagement in the Champions Program Call

🤔 Policy Updates for use of Generative AI Tools

🚀 Dashboard for your own R-Universe

📆 Coworking

💓 New packages {Athlytics}, {orgmetrics}

🗒️ Blog posts!

🧰 Package Dev Corner

ropensci.org/blog/2026/02...

the complete lack of backbone from numerous - though not all - academic institutions has been one of the biggest disappointments of the Trump 2 era.

Grid explaining how users of several statistics applications/programming languages see one another

kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

I know I come across as a big fan of Rust, but maybe its time to try `find + mkdir`?

GNU find + mkdir is Turing Complete : arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20762

Russian embassy, Washington DC.

To mark the fourth anniversary of the full scale invasion

Powerpoint slide on what's in and what's out in 2026 What's in includes authoritarianism, nationalism, broligarchy, science denialism, conflicts What's out includes democracy, multilateralism, global solidarity, equity, diversity, respect for human rights, peace

Preparing this slide for a global health lecture this week...

Pretty sad state of affairs in 2026, but that's what we are up against, and that's what we need to plan for and counter

OTD in 2022 Russian warship Moskva was told “go fuck yourself”. A short while later it fucked itself and sank. In a land war. By a country without a navy.

I remain a master strategist.

Next time you doubt you are the right person for a job, remember: Chupa Chups make toothpaste.