Jasper Spitzer

⏰Reminder: EuroBioC2026 Call for Abstracts

Submissions are open for short talks, posters, and workshops. We encourage you to share your work at EuroBioC2026.

🗓 Deadline: 30 January 2026

👉 Submit your abstract: openreview.net/group?id=bio...

#EuroBioC2026 #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics

17.12.2025 09:00 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death

"Postdoc in the job market"

16.11.2025 19:51 — 👍 772    🔁 105    💬 17    📌 17

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

19.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 26    🔁 10    💬 3    📌 1

The American Chopper argument meme except it's Tom Bombadil poems vs the other guy saying how out of place those are

One of the best memes ever.

17.11.2024 07:56 — 👍 303    🔁 62    💬 1    📌 1

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

25.04.2025 15:32 — 👍 60194    🔁 20605    💬 593    📌 831

What about the cases where they seem useful? These seem to fall into a few categories:

1) I need to take a set of notes and turn it into a polished document, and I'm in a position to check that it says what I mean.

Ok fine but writing is thinking and you're letting that muscle atrophy.

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24.04.2025 16:55 — 👍 373    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 6

what

20.03.2025 08:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A local synteny visualization with 3 genes across 4 genotypes.

Using my Tidyverse local synteny visualization tools first time in 3 months. This a biosynthetic gene cluster with 2 P450s and a O-methyltransferase. Visualized across assemblies for 4 cultivars.

GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Tidy...

19.03.2025 15:25 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Transformers and genome language models - Nature Machine Intelligence Micaela Consens et al. discuss and review the recent rise of transformer-based and large language models in genomics. They also highlight promising directions for genome language models beyond the tra...

🔥 Unveiling the Future of Genomics with Genome Language Models (gLMs)! 🔥

Our comprehensive review, "Transformers and genome language models," is finally published in Nature Machine Intelligence! ​

Link: nature.com/articles/s42...

17.03.2025 14:57 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Expect more funding programmes and recruitment drives taking this into focus

16.03.2025 09:51 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Digital sovereignty – Huber Group @ EMBL The US is now a mafia-style extortionist you want to stay away from

It's time for individuals and organizations in Europe and other democratic countries to move mission- or life-critical IT services and infrastructure outside the reach of the US government; noting that US tech companies have already largely subordinated themselves.

www.huber.embl.de/group/posts/...

08.03.2025 09:15 — 👍 78    🔁 32    💬 4    📌 2

C. elegans has just 302 neurons

06.03.2025 15:50 — 👍 44    🔁 2    💬 4    📌 1

Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.03.2025 05:34 — 👍 1638    🔁 691    💬 62    📌 143

solution of advent of code day 2: is.safe <- function(VEC){ vec_inc <- sort(VEC) vec_dec <- sort(VEC, decreasing = T) ordered = identical(VEC, vec_inc) | identical(VEC, vec_dec) offset <- lag(VEC)[-1] diffs <- VEC[-1] - offset fine <- all(diffs != 0 & abs(diffs) < 4) safe <- ordered & fine return(safe) } is.safe.damp <- function(VEC){ pure <- is.safe(VEC) if(pure){ return(pure) } dampened <- logical(length = length(VEC)) for (index in 1:length(VEC)) { dampened[index] = is.safe(VEC[-index]) if(dampened[index]){ return(dampened[index]) } } return(F) } map(input_clean, is.safe) %>% unlist() %>% sum() map(input_clean, is.safe.damp) %>% unlist() %>% sum()

I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

02.12.2024 14:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0