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...

Not impressed by snow day...

Deadline for applications is Monday 5th January!

📊 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...

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...

Job links for those posts with our team: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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....

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...

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!

If I wanted to make sure a bunch of universities went belly up, this would seem a pretty solid plan. 🫠

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...

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!

Any Italian speakers who might have a little time to proofread some llm-generated pkgdown translations? github.com/r-lib/pkgdow...

Are there any Hindi speakers who could help proofread some LLM-generated translations for pkgdown? github.com/r-lib/pkgdow...

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

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

📢🚨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

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).

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...

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

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!

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.

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...

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.

FAQs on the #DecodeME #MECFS results www.decodeme.org.uk/faqs/

🚨New pre-print🚨 Natural DNA variation can slash CRISPR gene drive efficiency by up to 54% in Culex quinquefasciatus, a major West Nile virus mosquito vector. <10% mismatch at the target site disrupts copying. #GeneDrive #CRISPR (with Tim Harvey-Samuel and Alphey Lab) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Out now in @molbioevol.bsky.social with Michelle Liu (co-first), Ryan Frost, Matthew Lindsay, Malak Bayoumi, Martin Brengdahl, @ruxmolnar.bsky.social and @aneil-agrawal.bsky.social, we evolved ~40% of the D. melanogaster genome under male-limited inheritance, ... academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Every time a new edition of this course starts, I get a little nervous. Even though it always gets great feedback, this is a labour of love, and I want everyone to get the confidence in statistics that is essential for good science. We start today, let’s go! #rstats

We are still looking for a motivated student to join us in the wonderful world of mosquito microbiome genomies! Funding unfortunately only for UK students for this one. If interested, please send CV & letter of motivation (email in image below) #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬 🧪Please share widely😊 1/2

I'm really looking forward to delivering this talk about creating data for teaching and testing using the {messy} package for the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social Manchester Group! 📅 Thursday 10 July 2025 ⌚ 1 - 2PM BST 📌 Online (everyone welcome!) Register: rss.org.uk/training-eve... #RStats #StatsEd

⁉️Why are students at UEA supporting members of staff on strike? 📽️Watch this video to hear from the amazing students who came to join lecturers and professional services staff on the picket line. 📣Stop the cuts! #SaveUEA

As seen on LinkedIn😂 Learning R in 2025...

💬 “Europe and the UK have in general been very good at recognising the need for FAIR data and #metadata, so I would say we are in a very strong position.” 📄 #AI and life sciences: why #FAIR #data is essential 💻 🗃️ 🧬

"The authors also found that the effect size — the magnitude of the observed impact in the experiments — was, on average, 60% larger in the original papers than in the experimental follow-ups" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A new gene drive in Anopheles gambiae - nice work from @sebaldv.bsky.social @nikiwind.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm really interested in connecting with people who teach or engage with open science in undergraduate education in the biosciences. If you have resources to share or want to connect please reach out! #highereducation osf.io/74x2e/

Introducing the brand new Starter Pack of staff, PhD students and related accounts, from the School of Biological Sciences, UEA. Follow us... #UEAScience go.bsky.app/PLSJXMz

New paper out! Assessing the ability of 4 RNA Pol III promoters to bias the inheritance of a gene drive element in Anopheles stephensi www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new study in An. stephensi: Variable gene drive efficiency across 4 Pol III promoters (but up to 99.8%) - building essential knowledge for next-gen drives. Key challenges remain - maternal Cas9 causes high rates of early somatic editing. #genedrive www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a short lecturer contract at UEA. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

Here's the always-updating British universities redundancy map, so you can keep up day by day. ☹️ goo.gl/maps/x1k3a6R...

What happened? Lots of people showed up on Blue sky today

Open code and software encourages collaboration between code users, developers and researchers. What are your experiences with sharing your code and software? #OpenResearch #Research #OpenCode #OpenSoftware

🚀 Got your sights set on an Independent Fellowship? Our 2025 Independent Fellowship Support Scheme is now open—offering tailored support for fellowship applicants. We’re a dynamic, friendly department in one of the world’s best cities to live and work 🌍✨ 🔗 Curious? tinyurl.com/49k2fe76

Uber are a terrible company, and I hope we can support local businesses instead... www.bbc.com/news/article...

We're on strike tomorrow at UEA. Nearly 200 jobs are currently targeted for redundancy. Over 600 staff will have been cut since 2023 if these redundancies go ahead. Fewer staff = heavy workloads, poor morale, more stress & burnout & bigger classes. We can't do more with less @uea-ucu.bsky.social

There is power in coming together and acting as a collective in moments of crisis, and we need to act together to support all our colleagues who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy. Join us on the picket this Weds 26th. #SaveUEA www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uea-sta... @ucu.org.uk

Really excited to see this book published today which includes a chapter from me on Belonging within the Biosciences. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a hard copy of the whole publication! @biouea.bsky.social #belonging #biology #studentbelonging

🚩Nadine Zubair, UEA UCU co-chair, writes for the BBC: 📣"We will use our strike day to celebrate staff, to remind the employer that we are the university, that we matter, and that we have a clear and unified voice." ✊Join us on Weds 26th March. #SaveUEA www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The PCR machine in the corner called "Bess" that has outlived every contender machine brought into the lab for over 25 years.