Wolfgang Huber

@wkhuber.bsky.social

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Statistician, Computational Biologist, R |> Bioconductor
https://www.huber.embl.de

Textbook: Modern Statistics for Modern Biology https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/ (with @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social)

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Wolfgang Huber is a prominent German theologian and ethicist. Huber served as bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia until November 2009. Huber succeeded Manfred Kock as Chairperson of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) in November 2003 and was succeeded by Bishop Margot Käßmann, the first woman in that position, in October 2009. .. more

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · Aug 24

In July we had the 3rd edition of the Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School.
Now a regular, it has created a sense of community: young people eager to learn new topics, network across the country&world. Seeing how science is a positive&optimistic force.

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

Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School 2025 – Huber Group @ EMBL

Uzhhorod, 19 July - 1 August 2025: the third edition

www.huber.embl.de

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 18h

Biologist finds a CRISPR hit in a cell line screen and rushes to call it clinically relevant.

Reposted by Rob Marchant, Wolfgang Huber, Jack Stilgoe , and 2 more Rob Marchant, Wolfgang Huber, Jack Stilgoe, Aleksandra Urman, Jason Williams

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 20h

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!

We are uniting two research powerhouses.

For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.

Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

Reposted by Wolfgang Huber

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 1d

Born #OnThisDay in 1914 was actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. As well as acting in 30 films, during the Second World War she co-developed a frequency-hopping guidance system for American torpedoes, the principles of which are used in Bluetooth and WiFi technologies today. #WomenInSTEM

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 2d

Hard to draw the line. Ultimately, everyone is contingent. But he got the Nobel prize in 1921 for the photoelectric effect, as the committee apparently found Special (1905) & General (1915) Relativity still too speculative. Many of his contemporary colleagues refused relativity till the (their) end.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Awful lot of people seem to think houses used to fall off trees, jobs were well paid and lovely, people were lovely to each other, and everyone could afford holidays every day.

Of course life isn't perfect now. But it never was. And in many ways it is much better.

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 3d

The individual impact (à la ablation study) of someone who is propelled by the stream of the zeitgeist, and whose actions aim to deny a lot of other people to participate in the scientific enterprise may well be: negative.

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 3d

IMHO, Einstein is a plausible example for the hero view, whereas in many other cases, zeitgeist applies: Newton/Leibniz, Darwin/Wallace, Schrödinger/Heisenberg, Bell/Gray ...

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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 3d

There are two complementary views of scientific advance: the "heroes" view, individual geniuses driving unique one-of-a-kind advances, and the "multiple discovery" or zeitgeist view, that the time is ripe for a discovery, and the details of who makes it first, where, and how are, well, details.(1/3)

Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, Rebecca Williams, Wolfgang Huber , and 1 more Gavin A. Schmidt, Rebecca Williams, Wolfgang Huber, Carly D. Ziter

Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 3d

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 3d

Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday, trailblazers! ✨

Black-and-white portrait of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, 1903. She is seated in a chair, wearing a dark dress with a light, patterned collar, resting her head on one hand and looking directly at the camera. public domain

Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. She is wearing a long dress and a hat, standing among large plants and looking to the side. public domain

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 4d

The advances we've made in statistics, experimental study design, and causal inference over the past century are remarkably useful for understanding our world. But there is never been a push to make people use them like we are seeing with generative AI. Perhaps take a moment to consider why.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 4d

Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n

openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...

Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv

Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...

openrxiv.org

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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 5d

🎓 Upcoming Online Course: R/Bioconductor for Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics

📅 November 17–19, 2025

Join Dr Laurent Gatto for a hands-on course on mass spectrometry–based proteomics analysis using R and Bioconductor.

👉 Register & learn more: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

R/Bioconductor for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics

Dates 17-19 November 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online

www.physalia-courses.org

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 5d

It's time to start to thinking about Christmas presents, isn't it?

I have an idea, that costs just £22 a month. 📰

subscribenow.economist.com

a little boy is sitting in front of a pile of christmas presents and a stuffed animal .

ALT: a little boy is sitting in front of a pile of christmas presents and a stuffed animal .

media.tenor.com

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EMBO @embo.org · 5d

“An EMBO #Fellowship really opens your possibilities,” says Nikolai Klena, EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Human Technopole in Milan, #Italy. 🧪

Read more:
www.embo.org/people/peeki...
#LifeSciences #research #funding #opportunity

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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · 6d

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Genome Biology. We are particularly interested in researchers investigating the molecular and biophysical mechanisms underlying genome function and regulation. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3t7vvdct

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 6d

#rstats #dataviz
Thrilled to announce a major release 1.0.0 of the {candisc} 📦 for canonical discriminant and correlation analysis and visualization.
Now includes methods for linear/quadratic discriminant analysis.
CRAN is upload down, but you can get it from
friendly.r-universe.dev/candisc

candisc: Visualizing Generalized Canonical Discriminant and Canonical Correlation Analysis

friendly.r-universe.dev

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 6d

In an ideal world, these #dronesightings would be free training for our counterdrone measures

#Brusselsairport

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 7d

Yes. I tried to write this (and some other points) up here: www.huber.embl.de/group/posts/...
It's a Sisyphus task but keeps me happy :)

Scientific writing tips – Huber Group @ EMBL

An eclectic and subjective list

www.huber.embl.de

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ML for Science @ml4science.bsky.social · 7d

We are looking for several postdoctoral researchers to join our Norms & Practices Lab! This is an exciting opportunity for scholars of #philosophy, #law, #culturalanthropology, and (qualitative) #socialscience: uni-tuebingen.de/en/128980#c2... 1/2

The Tübingen AI Research Building, where the Cluster of Excellence "Machine Learning: New Perspectives for Science" is based: A four-story, beige-colored building with numerous window fronts. In front of it stand four trees with autumn leaves.

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Victor Javier @vjsanchez.bsky.social · 8d

Have you tried @murena-com.bsky.social docs. It is based on onlyoffice and works great.

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 8d

My favourite pastime is going through manuscript drafts and replacing all instance of leverag and utilis with us.

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 8d

Writing several pages of coherent-looking text used to be a measurable investment of a person's time, and thus "expensive". For better or worse, now it no longer is, and places like arXiv need to find other ways of defining what a preprint is.

Reposted by Graeme S. Cumming, Karen R. Lips, Evelyne de Leeuw , and 10 more Graeme S. Cumming, Karen R. Lips, Evelyne de Leeuw, Philip N. Cohen, Smith, Robert Wolfe, Aaron Sojourner, Margot C. Finn, Scott A. Imberman, Paul Nightingale, Wolfgang Huber, Julie Novkov, Kristina McElheran

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 9d

Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 9d

I think it depends on size& pace of the project. For grants where writing is hectic& all over the place in the last days, you may be right. For books (e.g. mine with Susan Holmes, or Bioconductor's OSCA, OSTA) it works well, merge conflicts have not really be an issue, and has no real alternatives.

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, am also trying this out! The editor still looks a bit basic (no track changes, no tables?), but it looks very promising.

As with all of these, authentication is a crunch point. There'll be the activating energy of moving people from having a google-ID to having a proton-ID

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Colan Schwartz @colan.pro · 9d

I'm surprised that nobody mentioned Proton Docs yet! proton.me/blog/docs-pr...

Introducing Docs in Proton Drive – Collaborative document editing that’s actually private | Proton

Create docs and collaborate in real time on documents knowing they are end-to-end encrypted.

proton.me

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 9d

git+quarto is the best. By far.

Google workspace works very well for non-technical, short documents, but as a big tech product, is not great for those who like living in a liberal democracy.

Currently trying to gather more experience with onlyoffice & owncloud.

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 9d

I want collaborative document editing that just works. Basic functionality but correct.

No grammar hallucinations from LLM-spellchecker, no freeze when internet is patchy, no randomly jumping figures, no random line spacing, indenting, font.

Just a 10 page document with some sections and figures.

Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 9d

Not having to use Teams, Sharepoint, MS365 could be a big competitive advantage for collaborative research teams.

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