Wolfgang Huber
@wkhuber
Computational Biology and Statistics Spatial Omics, Precision Oncology R, Bioconductor, Open Science Textbook: Modern Statistics for Modern Biology (with @sherlockpholmes.bsky.social)
Optogenetics equivalent of the "IBM written in atoms" AFM image: hinderling.github.io/assets/pertz... (from hinderling.github.io)
With @helucro.bsky.social, @mikelove.bsky.social and Robert Gentleman at the Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School
EMBL's new AI unit is recruiting. We are seeking a machine learning scientist to establish their independent research group bridging innovations in machine learning/AI with modern biology. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Many results, new or improved packages, and future directions in this report on the Bioconductor Spatial Data and Image Analysis Hackathon that took place in Venice in April 2026. osf.io/preprints/bi...
An apparently legit website that sells LIDAR-guided LASER guns to kill midges and moskitos, in LATIN.
and to satisfy @rafalab.bsky.social, my obligatory picture on the horse at Rossalm.
View from the room this week, for the Bioconductor spatial hackathon in Venice.
I want AI to do my email and admin so that I can do science and writing, not for AI to do my science and writing so I that I can do email and admin.
Apple Mail started to try to be helpful by auto-computing mathematical expressions in an email. The problem is, it is often wrong, e.g., gives a nonsensical number with two decimal points, none of which in the right place. Weren't computers once good at numbers? How did we get here?
Job offer: PhD-level biostatistician with ML&omics experience to work on prediction models for CAR T cell therapy, in an exciting clinical trial - spatial omics - data science consortium (LOOP/INTeRCePT3.0 centered in Zurich; this position in Heidelberg) embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/EMBL/j...
LOOP / Intercept retreat with lots of scientific talks in a mountain hut in Grisons, and early-morning snow hiking theloopzurich.ch/en/projekte/...
For many years, Peer Bork organised Bio-IT retreats to bring together the bioinformaticians across EMBL, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and later Feldberg. Days out on the mountain followed by forward-looking and meta-science oriented sessions in the hut that fueled many projects and careers.
Apply for the Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 Jun-3 Jul 2026 on Monte Verità, Lago Maggiore at the foot of the Swiss Alps. ascona2026.sciencesconf.org