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Looking forward to @humancellatlas virtual town hall shortly, please come and join at humancellatlas.org/hca-wide-town-…

Rocky Balboa to German soccer team: ‘It ain’t how hard you hit… it’s about how much you can take and keep moving forward.’ Too early?

Looking for a #postdoc at the intersection of spatial transcriptomics & machine learning @HelmholtzMunich and @TU_Muenchen, within fun international consortium @WellcomeLeap focusing on the prediction of tissue state changes. Please DM and/or apply here: jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/9ce…

CellGen @sangerinstitute retreat 2022 - great seeing everyone, impressive science and people!

Joining @sangerinstitute’s CellGen retreat, with impressive results from @teichlab and many others; biggest fun though is meeting up with friends @OliverStegle @Muzz_Haniffa @BertieGottgens!

Excited to see that Germany is finally addressing renewing our migration laws. Embassies are to become ‘Welcome Centers’, demand companies - strong support for this also from academia! spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soz…

Advice: always formulate a hypothesis. @xkcdComic xkcd.com/2703/

1/n Upcoming cell atlases @humancellatlas @_hubmap will easily contain thousands of samples; we ask how to integrate & query these efficiently. Led by Carlo De Donno & w. @Mohlotf, we propose scPoli for population-level integration & multi-scale analysis. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

1/n Single-cell data analysis is complex with many tools to choose from - but which ones work best and should be used when? Led by @lukasheumos and @AnnaCSchaar, we wrote a free online book that aims to guide single-cell data analysts: sc-best-practices.org

Big showing, great insights and discussion @CompHealthMuc ‘STEM Tisch’ origin story by @dana_peer. Key recipe for good science: ask a good question!

Me to student: I used to be quite good at programming, you know? Student to me: What, using punch cards?

Bavarian dinner with @dana_peer, the lab and friends @HelmholtzMunich - was a fun day of talk and discussions!

Really excited to have @dana_peer visiting @HelmholtzMunich and presenting her work on single cell analysis towards gene programs and tissues!

Lab planning and organisation meeting, where we discuss how to improve how we interact in the lab. Important topics being raised, from communication to work-life balance and mentoring. Any tips, life/lab hacks or so anyone can share?

Interested in a PhD in data science @TU_Muenchen eg in my or other labs? Munich Data Science Institute is offering Linde/MDSI Doctoral Fellowships in that direction, apply at mdsi.tum.de/mdsi/forschung…

Artemis 1 - back to the moon and beyond 🙂 Well done @NASA @esa!

Congrats to @Mohlotf for the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI) „Best Paper of the Year Award“ @TU_Muenchen, for our scArches paper (nature.com/articles/s4158…) - well deserved! mdsi.tum.de/en/mdsi/latest…

Opportunities for AI in medicine - a nice review earlier this year from @EricTopol lab @NatureMedicine with some really interesting outlooks eg when moving from comparisons of AI vs human towards AI-human interactions. nature.com/articles/s4159…

My personal highlight of the day was listening to & meeting an old hero of mine, Joschka Fischer, in person and hearing his realistic if slightly grim outlook on Europe’s position in the next decade - strong need for tech development, so need for AI in Europe @ELLISforEurope!

Mini @ELLISforEurope unit heads meeting at @MatthiasBethge’s AI Entrepreneurship workshop - great fun to hang out physically again! @samikaski @bschoelkopf Alex Ilic @ETH_AI_Center Josef Sivic @CIIRCCTU #FallingWalls

@annachristmann at Sciencepreneurship forum @aicampusberlin talks about political angle and how Germany supports AI and data environments. Exciting outlook towards ideas for research&entrepreneurship support for data access and sharing across German industries #fallingwalls

@RichardSocher talking at today’s Sciencepreneurship forum @aicampusberlin about future of AI and role of VCs with focus on NLP - with fun demo of his you.com. #fallingwalls

Excited that our work on learning cell-cell communication in spatial transcriptomics is finally out @NatureBiotech! Led by @davidsebfischer & @AnnaCSchaar, we setup a graph neural network to estimate niche composition on expression in unbiased fashion. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Kicking off our @helmholtz_en international lab @causal_cell @Mila_Quebec, with Yoshua Bengio talking about how experimental design with deep learning and leveraging causal models for our-of-distribution prediction. Very much looking fwd to this collab!

Visited @mcgillu today with @helmholtz_en delegation to learn about cool science happening at the interface of biomed and AI, amongst others. Plus fun talk&discussion @QLSMcGill, thx for hosting me!

Congrats @MariusLange8 for successful PhD defense @TUM_Mathematics @CompHealthMuc, with tough but nice examination board Donna Ankerst, Sam @morris_lab and @dana_peer. And: lovely PhD hat with cool CellRank sculpture!

What was #SCG2022 take-home? Attached a word cloud from my notes - not really informative - but personally I felt excitement about multimodal atlases eg. for the brain, some cool lineage models and interesting spatial data and modalities. What was your favorite 'hot' topic?

Adding real time and lineages to single cell genomics: Great paper by Arne @Arnollo1 from Schroeder lab on combining live-cell imaging and scRNA-seq @BloodJournal. ashpublications.org/blood/article/…

#SCG2022 slowly coming to an end, but not without some last highlight talks; here Amos Tanay calling for quantitative single cell references in 2023!

Running break with Peter @KharchenkoLab and Ido @IdoAmitLab at #SCG2022 to make up for all the nice food.