🎓 PhD scholarship

We are recruiting a PhD student to develop new methods for analysing spatial omics data at the University of Sydney, cosupervised by @shazanfar.bsky.social and me. Ideal for students with backgrounds in statistics, data science, computer science or bioinformatics

Apply by 18 Jan

I’m really chuffed to have been awarded the SUPRA Supervisor of the Year 2025 for the Faculty of Science. Big thanks to my students for nominating me! Your energy, curiosity and drive make supervision the most rewarding part of my role :)

Interested in spatial statistics for spatial omics data? Check out our new resource: pasta.

We show how different technologies lead to different data modalities give and overview of point-pattern and lattice-based spatial analysis. Feedback welcome!

arxiv.org/abs/2412.01561

I'm feeling pretty excited to have a month off over xmas relaxing at the beach.

I just realised this morning that that month off starts in two weeks! There is no way I'm going to be able to leave my laptop at home this year :(

Reupping this since the explosion in members here.

I’m looking to recruit PhD candidates to work with me in #Bioinformatics and thr human #microbiome Details 👇 Please share 😁

www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Kicking off our Bluesky life by announcing our Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar Judith & David Coffey Invited Speaker. Mon 25/11 Professor Stephen Leslie, Indigenous Australian genomes show deep population structure and abundant novel variation. Online and @ USyd spds.sydney.edu.au/event/specia...

Amazing #BiocAsia2024 event! Thanks to all who participated!
Looking forward to next year!
@bioconductor.bsky.social

Had such a great time at EuroBioC2024, awesome talks and met some amazing people! Definitely keeping an eye on #EuroBioC2025!

@bioconductor.bsky.social #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics

Ellis' learning of the day. The base R pipe has a placeholder!

link = " is "
link |> paste("Ellis", "dumb", sep = _)
[1] "Ellis is dumb"

Academic writing — get utilized to it.

Pro-tip for anyone that attended COMBINE yesterday... You can make your name tag double-sided by slotting your COMBINE name tag into the ABACBS name tag. Saves the awkward flick of the name tag when you introduce yourself to someone new! #abacbs23 #abacbs2023

Good morning Brisbane! #ABACBS23 #ABACBS2023

Bioinformatics wisdom of the day:
When there are too many methods for the same task, you know that none of them is very good.