Philip Leftwich
@philipleftwich.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @uniofeastanglia
Scientist
Biology / Genetics / Rstats
Scientist
Biology / Genetics / Rstats
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Reproducibility is key to science. In computational biology, we routinely manipulate high-dimensional data (spatial, single-cell, bulk) through filtering, normalisation and transformation. Capturing those steps clearly improves reproducibility and transparency.
tidyomics.github.io/tidyomicsBlo...
tidyomics.github.io/tidyomicsBlo...
Omicslog – tidyomicsBlog
Providing logging capabilities for SummarizedExperiment objects.
tidyomics.github.io
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Reproducibility is key to science. In computational biology, we routinely manipulate high-dimensional data (spatial, single-cell, bulk) through filtering, normalisation and transformation. Capturing those steps clearly improves reproducibility and transparency.
tidyomics.github.io/tidyomicsBlo...
tidyomics.github.io/tidyomicsBlo...
Not impressed by snow day...
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Not impressed by snow day...
Deadline for applications is Monday 5th January!
Please share 📢
We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
January 2, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Deadline for applications is Monday 5th January!
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📊 Start the new year learning statistics in R!
Our online course Introduction to Statistics in R (19–22 Jan) with @philipleftwich.bsky.social is perfect for beginners and combines theory with lots of hands-on practice in R.
🚨 Last seats available!
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Our online course Introduction to Statistics in R (19–22 Jan) with @philipleftwich.bsky.social is perfect for beginners and combines theory with lots of hands-on practice in R.
🚨 Last seats available!
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
January 2, 2026 at 10:03 AM
📊 Start the new year learning statistics in R!
Our online course Introduction to Statistics in R (19–22 Jan) with @philipleftwich.bsky.social is perfect for beginners and combines theory with lots of hands-on practice in R.
🚨 Last seats available!
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Our online course Introduction to Statistics in R (19–22 Jan) with @philipleftwich.bsky.social is perfect for beginners and combines theory with lots of hands-on practice in R.
🚨 Last seats available!
www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Job links for those posts with our team:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Job links for those posts with our team:
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Come and join us at Imperial College to work a project looking at mechanisms in Long Covid and ME/CFS
We're looking for:
A keen, experienced Research Nurse
A gifted molecular immunologist with a strong bioinformatics background
www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript....
www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript....
We're looking for:
A keen, experienced Research Nurse
A gifted molecular immunologist with a strong bioinformatics background
www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript....
www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript....
www.imperial.ac.uk
December 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Come and join us at Imperial College to work a project looking at mechanisms in Long Covid and ME/CFS
We're looking for:
A keen, experienced Research Nurse
A gifted molecular immunologist with a strong bioinformatics background
www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript....
www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript....
We're looking for:
A keen, experienced Research Nurse
A gifted molecular immunologist with a strong bioinformatics background
www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript....
www.imperial.ac.uk/.../descript....
Please share 📢
We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
December 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Please share 📢
We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...
Always a great meet-up. Squint and I'm at the back with my party hat on!
Such a great group of people - with a passionate commitment to improving open research. Great stuff planned for 2026!
Such a great group of people - with a passionate commitment to improving open research. Great stuff planned for 2026!
Such a great @ukrepro.bsky.social meeting yesterday in Manchester. Hugely productive, focused, and what an outstanding example of collaborative working for the greater good! Sorry I cannot be there for day 2
December 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Always a great meet-up. Squint and I'm at the back with my party hat on!
Such a great group of people - with a passionate commitment to improving open research. Great stuff planned for 2026!
Such a great group of people - with a passionate commitment to improving open research. Great stuff planned for 2026!
If I wanted to make sure a bunch of universities went belly up, this would seem a pretty solid plan.
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i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If I wanted to make sure a bunch of universities went belly up, this would seem a pretty solid plan.
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Want to build a solid stats foundation using R? Join our online Introduction to Statistics in R course with @philipleftwich.bsky.social, 19–23 Jan 2026! Perfect for beginners wanting hands-on practice and confidence in data analysis.
More info & registration: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
More info & registration: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Want to build a solid stats foundation using R? Join our online Introduction to Statistics in R course with @philipleftwich.bsky.social, 19–23 Jan 2026! Perfect for beginners wanting hands-on practice and confidence in data analysis.
More info & registration: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
More info & registration: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
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Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies.
Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!
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Any Italian speakers who might have a little time to proofread some llm-generated pkgdown translations? github.com/r-lib/pkgdow...
Add Italian translations by jayhesselberth · Pull Request #2929 · r-lib/pkgdown
After potools::po_create("it")
Prompt:
You are an experienced translator. Create new a new translation for Italian in po/R-it.po. These are GNU gettext translations for pkgdown, a tool us...
github.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Any Italian speakers who might have a little time to proofread some llm-generated pkgdown translations? github.com/r-lib/pkgdow...
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Are there any Hindi speakers who could help proofread some LLM-generated translations for pkgdown? github.com/r-lib/pkgdow...
Add Hindi translations by jayhesselberth · Pull Request #2931 · r-lib/pkgdown
After potools::po_create("hi")
Prompt:
You are an experienced translator. Create new a new translation for Hindi in po/R-hi.po. These are GNU gettext translations for pkgdown, a tool used...
github.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Are there any Hindi speakers who could help proofread some LLM-generated translations for pkgdown? github.com/r-lib/pkgdow...
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Last week on Wonkhe: What looks like efficiency in UK higher education often masks systemic injustice. Jim Dickinson explores how policies around reassessment quietly entrench inequality
For students, the costs of failure are far too high
What looks like efficiency in UK higher education often masks systemic injustice. Jim Dickinson explores how policies around reassessment quietly entrench inequality
buff.ly
October 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Last week on Wonkhe: What looks like efficiency in UK higher education often masks systemic injustice. Jim Dickinson explores how policies around reassessment quietly entrench inequality
Reposted by Philip Leftwich
📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
September 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
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A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
A new paper in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost peer reviewed medical journals, estimates that USAID prevented 91 million deaths across 133 countries over 20 years.
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
The paper estimates that Elon Musk’s DOGE funding cuts to USAID will lead to 14 million deaths by 2030 (4.5 million children).
Excited to be a part of this new paper with Alphey Lab- out in pre-print.
Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Excited to be a part of this new paper with Alphey Lab- out in pre-print.
Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Multiplexing overrides resistance for #genedrive in Anopheles stephensi
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona!
Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025.
Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n
Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025.
Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n
August 18, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This week, the capital of Evolution is Barcelona!
Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025.
Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n
Over 1900 evolutionary biologists are gathering for the biennial meeting of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, coorganised with its Spanish sister #ESEB2025.
Over 540 of us are on Bluesky! You can use these starter packs to connect: 1/n
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Folks going to #ESEB2025 : To help people connect on Bluesky, I've started making starter packs. Here is a first one with the names that were available when I started.
Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!
Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!
August 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Folks going to #ESEB2025 : To help people connect on Bluesky, I've started making starter packs. Here is a first one with the names that were available when I started.
Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!
Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!
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Let’s talk about career change. I loved listening to @minecr.bsky.social on The Test Set this week.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
She intially trained as an actuary, determined that she didn’t love that, and decided to do a PhD in statistics.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
She intially trained as an actuary, determined that she didn’t love that, and decided to do a PhD in statistics.
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel: Teaching in the AI era — and keeping students engaged
Podcast Episode · The Test Set by Posit · 08/11/2025 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Let’s talk about career change. I loved listening to @minecr.bsky.social on The Test Set this week.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
She intially trained as an actuary, determined that she didn’t love that, and decided to do a PhD in statistics.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
She intially trained as an actuary, determined that she didn’t love that, and decided to do a PhD in statistics.
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A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
August 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...
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Devastating and idiotic.
It is a no-brainer for the UK to provide emergency funds to host the entirety of FlyBase out of Cambridge and pick up the bill on these salaries. Every individual in FlyBase is an international treasure any country would be lucky to have.
It is a no-brainer for the UK to provide emergency funds to host the entirety of FlyBase out of Cambridge and pick up the bill on these salaries. Every individual in FlyBase is an international treasure any country would be lucky to have.
I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.
August 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Devastating and idiotic.
It is a no-brainer for the UK to provide emergency funds to host the entirety of FlyBase out of Cambridge and pick up the bill on these salaries. Every individual in FlyBase is an international treasure any country would be lucky to have.
It is a no-brainer for the UK to provide emergency funds to host the entirety of FlyBase out of Cambridge and pick up the bill on these salaries. Every individual in FlyBase is an international treasure any country would be lucky to have.
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