Again, everyone who looks like me, everyone who looks like Mamdani, etc. has been experiencing this type of casual racism for decades now. I won't hold my breath waiting for any politicians to condemn this blatant racism given how normalized it is 🤷 Representation matters

Hi bioinformatics, genomics and CS friends! Please help me spread the word. I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work on cutting edge method development in algorithmic genomics with me and my group at @umdscience.bsky.social! 🖥️🧬

Happy (a^2, b^2, c^2)! www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...

Accurate genome assemblies just got better. DeepPolisher improves base-level accuracy, cutting errors by 50%+ and indels by >70%, applied to 180 HPRC assemblies. Uncover the science behind it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is not just HHMI. All Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding calls are CLOSED. The Gates Foundation has no Grand Challenges funding opportunities. I've never seen anything like this. Private foundations have just decided to stop supporting biomedical research.

Actually wild how it’s been free and accessible for over two decades... 🎉🎉

Recently said goodbye to a home away from home after almost a decade (in exchange for a title only in writing). Now moving onto greener pastures!

HHMI made the decision to discontinue the Hanna Gray Fellows program (indefinitely, presumably). There is, of course, something to be said about the volatile nature of academia (re: funding) in the US, but the flipside is that this is actively pushing away international scholars. 1/

I survived my defense (the snake was of substantial size)! Huge thanks to my advisor Bonnie (@bergerlab.bsky.social), committee members Rayan (@rayanchikhi.bsky.social) at Pasteur and Srini and Ronitt from MIT, and friends and colleagues who attended. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

Preprint on hifiasm Nanopore-only assembly. Led by Haoyu Cheng: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest paper, in which @brinda.eu (along with @zaminiqbal.bsky.social and others) introduces phylogenetic compression for storage and search of enormous microbial genome libraries, was published today in @naturemethods.bsky.social: rdcu.be/eg4OA 1/