Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬
Statistician,Mother,Prof,Grandmother(she/her)🇫🇷🇵🇹🇺🇸🧪.
🖋️with @wkhuber.bsky.social:Modern Statistics for Modern Biology (https://www.huber.embl.de/msmb/) #stats,#rstats.OSS,arXiv, microbial ecology,cytof,multi-omics,Bioconductor:phyloseq, DADA2
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬this @kjhealy.co banger came up in Facebook memories and it deserves to live here too
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬🚨We are hiring a Bioinformatician who will be embedded in our lab and work with members of the NCCR Microbiomes at ETH Zurich, as well as the Institute of Microbiology.🚨 nccr-microbiomes.ch jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬'A crucial innovation lay in the invention of ‘timelines’ (...) In 1765, the scientist-philosopher Joseph Priestley, best known for co-discovering oxygen, invented what was arguably the world’s first modern timeline.' aeon.co/essays/when-...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬16-Part Epoxy xkcd.com/3194/
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇 🔗 www.hellodata.science #rstats #datascience #tidyverse
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Rather applaud JOSS's revised approach to deal with AI-based submissions. blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/prep... , particularly with 'starting open' and at least 'six months developer history'. More of scholarly pub could benefit from such policies methinks.
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Crocheted Christmas tree, Medelim, Portugal, created by 50 female textile artists who came together from all over the country for the project #WomensArt #ChristmasEve 🎄 ❄️
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by @aloctavodia.bsky.social and Noa Kallioinen while I was on vacation). The video links are listed in the schedule at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Excellent news:
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬What an amazing way to visualize early human migration. Lovely map by @HarvardCGA. A great colour scheme and an appropriate map projection! Source: buff.ly/3lbxonJ
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬I enjoyed this more than I expected to: youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬NOW OPEN! CANSSI's postdoctoral fellowships offer a comprehensive research and training experience centred on statistical sciences. Apply by January 16: loom.ly/GvcQVII bsky.app/profile/sfu.ca | bsky.app/profile/pims.math.ca | amstatnews.bsky.social | nissorg.bsky.social
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬APPLY BY NOVEMBER 25! Planning to do a #PhD in #statisticalsciences? Come to a #Quebec university and you could get a supplement of $7,000 during the first two years. Learn more: loom.ly/5Zegs20
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬📣 join in my team 🤗! 👇 - #rstats software development - contribute to @bioconductor.bsky.social and @galaxyproject.bsky.social - large-scale #MassSpectrometry #metabolomics and #proteomics data analysis - hiking ⛰️ 📍 Bolzano, 🇮🇹 ⏲️ 3 year position 🔗 full description: bit.ly/4pyXi3V please share
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Wellcome LEAP spokesperson says there’s little debate that more research is needed. Actually, we do query that viewpoint!
- Valuable reporting here from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for @science.org, adding context and other important voices to our perspective piece (linked further below, with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social) www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Valuable reporting here from @cathleenogrady.bsky.social for @science.org, adding context and other important voices to our perspective piece (linked further below, with @wiringthebrain.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social) www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/... I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Hi! Florence Hommais, @nicolasparisot.bsky.social , and I are looking for a postdoctoral candidate to investigate the molecular dialogue between three weevil species and their endosymbiotic bacteria #symbiosis! Please see the #post-doc offer for more information. #SymbioSky #Bioinformatics
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬6 hours 30 mins they could do from this December, with one change in Badajoz or Elvas - but they're likely not going to do though So 🤷♂️ Whenever I hear about these long term plans for ES-PT rail, I wonder why they're not doing the basics with what they have right now? #CrossBorderRail
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Spread the word! There is a professor position opening at our University @upcite.bsky.social. There are several possible (great) labs to join, but if you are interested in DNA methylation and epigenetics in mammals, don't hesitate to contact me directly!
- #JobOffer 💼 Un poste susceptible d’être vacant de Professeur en stabilité des génomes devrait s’ouvrir pour la rentrée 2026 au sein de l’Institut Jacques Monod ➡️ Informations concernant ce poste et la procédure de candidature 🔗 www.ijm.fr/poste-de-pro...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬My fantastic department at CU Boulder is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor! This is a broad search spanning nearly all areas of biology. Applications are due Nov 13, 2025. Feel free to reach out to me with questions, and please share widely. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬The Data Science team at EMBL is hiring for two open positions! First, for a Scientific Community Manager, focusing on community aspects and training on data science. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University. Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics. See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment. Please share the ad.
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share. duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬#Exposition #Peluchologie 🧸 | L’exposition invite petits et grands à plonger dans l’univers des ours en peluche à travers un regard à la fois scientifique et historique 📆 du 22/09 au 13/11 📌 Médiathèque Émile Zola, Montpellier 🔗 infos : www.umontpellier.fr/agenda/expos...
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- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬I feel like I should be able to crochet elliptic curves 🧶 Has anyone done this yet?
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬As someone who came to R from computer science a lot of this post resonates Also, I had not previously connected the inconsistencies of the base R API to the same philosophy that makes CRAN work
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬This xkcd is utterly brilliant and should be shared more: Vaccine research: xkcd.com/2515/ Rollover text: Honestly feel a little sheepish about the amount of time and effort I spent confirming "yes, the vaccine helps protect people from getting sick and dying" but I guess everyone needs a hobby.
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬I keep stumbling when, in biological data analysis, someone uses the word "noise" as if it represented an objectively existing, tangible thing. It is not. Noise is just another word for ignorance. Complicated but in principle deterministic stuff that ... (1/2)
- New paper with Sourav Chatterjee and Persi Diaconis: Estimating the size of a set with cascading exclusion, see arxiv.org/abs/2508.05901 and a whole github repo of examples in R spholmes.github.io/SetSize/, thank you #rstats and #quarto.
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬#Formation | Présentation des 148 projets lauréats des appels à projets "Formation" de l'Université de Montpellier #PedagoNUM #COMP en 2024 et 2025 en faveur de la réussite étudiante, du numérique, de la formation à l'IA ou à la transition écologique, des équipements pédagogiques innovants...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Join EMBL as a research group leader in AI in biology. EMBL AI is our new initiative aiming to exploit the full potential of ML/AI-based approaches to advance our understanding of the most complex system in the known universe - life on Earth. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... (1/3)
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Please do not forget that some scientists were cozying up to Epstein long long long after his horrific behavior was known. Five of them are featured in the Birthday Book. Gerry Edelman. Murray Gellman. Steve Kosslyn. Martin Nowak. Lee Smolin. See docs: oversight.house.gov/release/over...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Still possible to apply to this #post-doc position at CESAB #Montpellier. Application closing date: September 15th 2025 (12:00 PM CET) How taking intraspecific diversity and evolutionary processes into account in translocation-based programs. Please share widely #PopGen #NbS #Biodiversity
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬We are recruiting two biomedical data scientists as part of a new Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) in Exposome Immunology hosted jointly by @fbmh-uom.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬Congratulations, @arambaut.bsky.social !!! royalsociety.org/news/2025/08...
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats
- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬#Pieces of Trash 2025 Porto, Portugal 📍 Artwork by Bordalo II #portugal #porto #Gaia #rabbit #Bunny #dourovalley #visitportugal #travel #oporto #portoportugal #visitporto #streetart #portuguese #winelovers #ButroTravel #streetphotography #urbanphotography #BlueSkyArtShow
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- Reposted by Susan Holmes🎲🖥️🧬My lab is going to be imminently looking for a computer scientist or a biologist with deep understanding of R to develop and give bioinformatic education to postdocs. This is perfect for someone who likes teaching. You'd need to be in the Pittsburgh area. Feel free to reach out with questions.
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