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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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📣 Opportunity for Pre-conference Workshops - EuroBioC2026

EuroBioC2026 will host on-site pre-conference workshops on 1–2 June 2026 in Turku, Finland, ahead of the main conference.
If you’re interested in hosting a workshop, submit your interest here by 30 Jan 2026:
docs.google.com/forms/d/16MR...

EuroBioC2025 conference recap – Bioconductor community blog Highlights from the 2025 European Bioconductor Conference in Barcelona

Thank you to all our amazing sponsors, organizers, speakers, and attendees for making #EuroBioC2025 in Barcelona such a success!

Read the full recap blog post here👉 blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-1...

And, see you next year at #EuroBioC2026! 🎉

#Bioconductor #Community #Conference

Do you like theoretical biology, mathematical&conceptual modelling and want to apply yourself to cutting-edge research at all levels of biology, from molecules to ecosystems?

Come to EMBL! Scope includes physics-based models, emergence, statistics, ML/AI
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Group picture with all participants at EuroBioC2025

Vince Carey, Bioconductor project lead, giving the opening keynote lecture.

Audience carefully listening to Vince Carey in the Auditorium.

Christophe Vanderaa giving a workshop on msqrob2, a robust modelling workflow for mass spectrometry-based proteomics

#EuroBioC2025 is over and it has been a blast! Thanks to all participants that came to @prbb.org for contributing to make such an enjoyable event and special thanks to the support from our sponsors, the organizing institutions @upf.edu @isglobal.org and the European @bioconductor.bsky.social Society

EuroBioC2025 group photo on PRBB terrace with sea in background.

EuroBioC2025 welcome in PRBB auditorium by host Robert Castelo, showing slides with conference sticker and sponsor logos.

EuroBioC2025 hexwall banner with the hexwall creator Kevin Rue-Albrecht standing beside it.

EuroBioC2025 carved wooden keyring, a gift for all participants, created by Annekathrin Nedwed.

EuroBioC2025 is in full swing here in Barcelona!

Day 1 was full of great talks, conversations, and that amazing Bioconductor community energy. Excited for what’s ahead today and tomorrow!

#EuroBioC2025 #Bioconductor #OpenScience #Community

Last chance to attend EuroBioC2025 and/or learn about bulk or single-cell RNA-seq in the preceding Bioconductor Carpentry Workshops. Register by August 28th! Do not miss this opportunity at the seafront of Barcelona!!

Pre-print alert 🚨: We have developed 2D and 3D stable iPSC endothelial-differentiation models through dox inducible ETS expression. We demonstrate endothelial identity and used these models for studying malaria pathogenesis research. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tracing colorectal malignancy transformation from cell to tissue scale The transformation of normal intestinal epithelium into colorectal cancer (CRC) involves coordinated changes across molecular, cellular, and architectural scales; yet, how these layers integrate remai...

Going from methods dev to full on cancer bio has been tough. All the more excited to see this out at last—

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@pascual-reguant.bsky.social
@brukerspatial.bsky.social
@hoheyn.bsky.social

This is wild!
Engineering E. coli bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (Tylenol)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bioconductor Training partners with Physalia Courses – Bioconductor community blog A new collaboration to expand access to bioinformatics training through co-branded courses, instructor support, and inclusive access.

🧬 New from the Bioconductor Training Committee:

We’re teaming up with @physaliacourses.bsky.social‬ for co-branded training in bioinformatics and computational biology.

Details here 👉 blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0...

EuroBioC2025 late-breaking poster abstract submission Please fill the form below before the end of Friday July 11th, 2025, to submit an abstract for a poster to be considered for presentation at EuroBioC2025 in Barcelona on September 17-19, 2025…

📣 Late-breaking poster call for #EuroBioC2025 is now open!

Submit by July 11 to present your work in Barcelona this September.
🔗 forms.gle/ewTGdKzB2xyE...
📅 Notifications by July 15

#Bioconductor #Bioinformatics

Two workshops on the analysis of bulk and single-cell RNA-seq with @bioconductor.bsky.social at @upf.edu Campus Mar. Do not miss the opportunity to learn with Carpentry-certified instructors👇

Flyer for EuroBioC2025 Carpentry Workshops in Barcelona, Sept 15–16, 2025. Includes two in-person workshops on bulk and single-cell RNA-seq analysis. Hosted at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Features logos, QR code, and registration link: eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org.

🎓 Sharpen your RNA-seq skills at EuroBioC2025 Workshops!

📍 Barcelona | Bulk & Single-cell RNA-seq
📅 Sept 15–16 | Hands-on training
🎟️ Limited spots. Register now: eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org

#Bioinformatics #EuroBioC2025

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Delighted that our work on positional memory is now published. We asked how axolotl cells 'know' which part of the limb to regenerate after injury.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A joy to work with super team Sarah Plattner, Yuka Sugiura, Francisco Falcon and Elly Tanaka.
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Bioconductor in Africa: Highlights from Our First In-Person Course – Bioconductor community blog A blog for the Bioconductor community!

📝 New Bioconductor blog post!

We’ve just published a recap of our first in-person course in Africa, held in Nairobi this March 🇰🇪
Read about the highlights, feedback, and what’s next:
👉 blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0...

#Bioinformatics #BioconductorAfrica #OpenScience #RStats #CapacityBuilding

registration – EuroBioC2025 The budget EuroBioC2025 is conceived to break even after the conference. As a result, the organization of the EuroBioC2025 is unable to offer individual refunds.

📣 EuroBioC2025 Registration is Open! 🎉

📍 Barcelona, 17–19 Sept 2025

Join us for keynotes, talks, workshops & more on open-source bioinformatics & Bioconductor.
🔗 eurobioc2025.bioconductor.org/pages/regist...

#EuroBioC2025 #Bioinformatics

Participate in the Bioconductor community by sharing your work in a meeting designed to maximize interactivity and productivity at the seafront of Barcelona! 👩‍💻🏖️🧬 #EuroBiocC2025

Bioconductor - Bioconductor 3.21 Released The Bioconductor project aims to develop and share open source software for precise and repeatable analysis of biological data. We foster an inclusive and collaborative community of developers and…

Bioconductor 3.21 is released!

A huge thank you to all developers and community members for your contributions.
Explore what’s new in the full release announcement:
bioconductor.org/news/bioc_3_...

#Bioconductor #RStats

Submission Guidelines Essential details for submitting your abstract to GBCC 2025.

🚀 GBCC2025 Update! 🚀

Abstract deadline extended to April 8, 2025! 🎉

For ~10 min TALKS: Register first (no deposit needed now). Submission guidelines: gbcc2025.netlify.app/abstracts/su...

For ~1.5 hr TRAINING DEMOS: Fill out this form: forms.gle/i34Ag8SHMtBA...

Join us! 🌟

#GBCC2025

Learning and teaching biological data science in the Bioconductor community Modern biological research is increasingly data-intensive, leading to a growing demand for effective training in biological data science. In this article, we provide an overview of key resources and b...

From @csoneson.bsky.social and colleagues in #arXiv | Learning and teaching biological data science in the #Bioconductor community | #Bioinformatics #Education #Rstats #OpenScience #OpenEducationalResources #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenSource 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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arxiv.org/abs/2410.01351

The 'future' package hexlogo

Liberating the future!

Major progress to #Futureverse - new, exciting, frequently-requested features. RC 1 of 'future' package is now available as:

install.packages("future", repos = c("https://futureverse.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Please give it a try🙏

#rstats #parallel

EuroBioC2025 hex sticker design featuring the Sagrada Família in the centre, vibrant mosaic patterns inspired by Park Güell at the bottom, and other Barcelona landmarks like the crane and towers. The Bioconductor logo replaces the "i" in "BioC", and "bioconductor.org" is written across the top left. The overall shape is a yellow-bordered hexagon.

🎉 Announcing the EuroBioC2025 Sticker Winner!

🏆 Chaima Hkimi’s design features the Sagrada Família, Park Güell colours, and a nod to Bioconductor in the text. Pick up the sticker at #EuroBioC2025!

#Bioconductor #Bioinformatics #RStats #StickerContest

Big data to predict response to immunotherapy - El·lipse The study from Hospital del Mar Research Institute and MELIS-UPF within the programme GRIB has focused on bladder cancer.

🔬@maralbalab.bsky.social @jupererabel.bsky.social @oncobellmunt.bsky.social @robertclab.bsky.social team have developed a machine learning algorithm to see how bladder cancer patients respond to immunotherapy.
@grib-barcelona.bsky.social @researchmar.bsky.social @upf.edu
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Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

🎨 Reminder that EuroBioC2025 Sticker Contest is still open! Deadline Mar 10. Don't miss out on the chance to have your design featured at the conference and win free registration ✨
Submit buff.ly/42JiCLN

Abstracts are open for submission too!

#EuroBioC2025 #RStats #Bioinformatics #StickerContest

Given the recent and ongoing service interruptions in PubMed, National Library of Medicine, NIH Reporter, etc., I put together a status page that covers a few key resources and some NIH institute pages.
stats.uptimerobot.com/Zrqh8AhvKn
Let me know what other sites you'd like to see added.

HT to Sean Davis for creating a status page for NIH websites: stats.uptimerobot.com/Zrqh8AhvKn - simultaneous worth sharing and sad.

Our CITE-seq paper analysing 45 BAL samples from (un)treated kids with CF and contrls. BAL is tricky, 44 celltypes dominated by macrophages. Trailblazing analysis led by @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social @melanieneeland.bsky.social @shivanthans.bsky.social and collaborators www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...