The new diatom Tiberius parameters for unmasked genomes illustrate the gain in accuracy that we often observe compared to parameters for unmasked genomes. #geneprediction #genomeannotation #diatoms #bacillariophyta github.com/Gaius-August...

We have a new insect parameter set for unmasked genomes and a new fungal parameter set for unmasked genomes. Both deliver accuracy superior to previous models for insects and fungi. #genomeannotation #geneprediction github.com/Gaius-August...

What we more recently learnt about Tiberius: the models trained on softmasked genomes are very sensitive to how the genome was masked for inference. It seems safer to use models trained on unmasked genomes. #genomeannotation #geneprediction github.com/Gaius-August...

I am very, very happy! I got a pull up bar for x-mas, and today, my dear husband installed it. It’s so much easier to grip than those cheap gymnastics rings that I have used until now. Can I do a pull up? No. But the pathetic-looking attempts have changed my life. Pain is gone since I started trying

This article is now published! academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... We’ve added a few new analyses. First off, we show that, while gene presence absence variation (PAV) scales with evolutionary distance in both plants and animals, the base level and rate of accrual are both twice as high in plants.

#ProtistsOnSky no 'swimming' by 𝘝𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢, definitively no 'staying still'. just a relaxed walk towards the lunch...

Tiberius parameters for fungi incertae sedis will soon be available on Github.

"Once you get to the top, you get to ski all the way back down the mountain!" Read @lsubiosci.bsky.social PhD student @jacobcarignan.bsky.social's interview with Quantitative Ecologist Michelle Stantial about her ski mountaineering hobby: thelattinlab.com/beyond-the-b...

These orb-weaver spiders build FAKE SPIDER DECOYS in their webs, potentially to deter predators 🤯 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We ended the day on Wednesday with a computer lab session on gene expression analyses with Rachel Steward 💻📊 #evomics2026

Morning lecture by Maliheh Mehrshad (@mehrshmali.bsky.social) on metagenomics and metatranscriptomics! 🧪🧬🦠 #evomics2026

Rosa Fernández (@rosafernandez.bsky.social) introducing the field of Phylogenomics to our participants 🙌🏽🧬🌳💻 #evomics2026

Last computer lab session of the workshop we are back in the Genomics Adventure, with Guy Leonard (@guyleonard.bsky.social)!! 🙌🏽💻🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Our closing lecture given by Nathan Clark, on Evolutionary Adaptation and Comparative Genomics 🌳🧬🙌🏽 #evomics2026

The 2026 Workshop on Genomics comes to an end! It has been two intense and inspiring weeks of Genomics in Český Krumlov. We hope everyone is going back home with a renewed excitement for science and new friends and collaborations around the world! 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬 #evomics2026

This happens if you take your kid to an art & science event one summer night. Proud of you, kid. www.instagram.com/reel/DT5IOEE...

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍 📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration? 💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models? 🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town? Come and join us at KIT! Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

I worked all through x-mas break to get the Basidiomycota parameters for Tiberius for #PAG33 - but I did not get the GPU nodes in time. Here they are, Tiberius parameter for Basidiomycota, benchmarked with gffcompare on CDS exons only. Appearing on Tiberius github, soon.

On Saturday afternoon we had a session led by Dag Ahrén (@dagahren.bsky.social) on Best Practices in Bioinformatics 💻📑 #evomics2026

Surprisingly, a local town cat decided that they wanted to learn some pop gen too!! 😸

Evening practical session with Madeline Chase on Population Genomics 🐦🐦🧬💻 #evomics2026

Morning lecture on Single Cell Transcriptomics by Arnau Sebé-Pedrós (@arnausebe.bsky.social) in the Town Theatre of Český Krumlov! 🧫🧬💻 #evomics2026

Practical session in the House of Prelate on Comparative Genomics, led by Nathan Clark 🧬🌳💻 #evomics2026

This afternoon, we have Claire Mérot (@clairemerot.bsky.social) teaching structural variants with a computer lab, in the House of Prelate 🧬🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

For today's evening we have two parallel sessions! 🙆🏻‍♀️ On one side we have Introduction to R, with Miloš Duchoslav (@milosduchoslav.bsky.social) 💻📊 #evomics2026

On the other side, we have the Genomics Adventure, with Guy Leonard (@guyleonard.bsky.social) 🤩🧬💻 A tutorial that anyone can try at home! 🙆🏻‍♀️ Link: share.google/Tkfu8Ji6WaCJ... #evomics2026

Brian Haas (@brianjhaas.bsky.social) introducing transcriptomics to our participants today 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬 #evomics2026

We continue with an afternoon session on Using LLMs in Bioinformatics, by Scott Handley! What are LLMs? How can we use them to our advantage? But what things should we be aware of? He covers it all! 🤖💻🧬 #evomics2026

After one day of well-needed rest, we start the second week of the 2026 Workshop on Genomics with Evan Eichler, with a lecture on structural variants in the Town Theatre 🧬👤💻 #evomics2026

Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration? Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor! Deadline for applications is February 19. Please spread the word. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

This Saturday morning we have Chris Wheat (@chriswheat.bsky.social) on stage, with Lies, damn lies... and genomics! 📊📉⁉️ Can we trust the results we are generating? Always good to doubt yourself and be aware of your biases and possible errors 🧐

Olga Vinnere Pettersson giving a lecture on everything one has to take into account when planning a sequencing project 🧪🧬🗒📦 #evomics2026

We continue the day in the Town Theatre with Genome Annotation, a lecture by Katharina Hoff (@katharinahoff.bsky.social) 🙌🏽🧬🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

From theory to practice, we move on to the lab on Genome Annotation with Katharina Hoff (@katharinahoff.bsky.social) 👩🏻‍💻🙌🏽 #evomics2026

We ended the day with a practical on genome assembly, with @camillemrcht.bsky.social and @npmalfoy.bsky.social in which participants can try different assemblers with different types of sequencing data! 🧬💻👩🏻‍💻 #evomics2026

We finish the day with another practical session by Petr Daněček (@petrdanecek.bsky.social) on Variant Calling 🧬💻🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Thank you @pbaldrich.bsky.social for the opportunity to present my primary PhD results at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference #PAG33

I am looking for a postdoc to develop high-performance algorithms in computational genomics. Email or DM me if interested. For more information, see hlilab.github.io/vacancies. RTs appreciated!

We had an informal lunch session to discuss Alternative Career Paths to Academia! Very popular, with 45 participants joining 🙆🏻‍♀️ always good to have a plan B 😅 and understand your options! 🤗 #evomics2026

Exercise time! 🤩 Participants generating their own de Bruijn graph! 📝👩🏻‍💻

A classic of the Workshop on Genomics, the Genome Assembly lecture by Camille Marchet (@camillemrcht.bsky.social) and Antoine Limasset (@npmalfoy.bsky.social), teaching us about overlapping sequences and genome assembly graphs 🧬💻 #evomics2026

First sessions in our computer lab location, the House or Prelate of Český Krumlov 🙆🏻‍♀️ Starting with an introduction to the AMIs, the cloud, and computing, by Guy Leonard (@guyleonard.bsky.social) ☁️💻 #evomics2026

We continued with an Introduction to Unix, by Mercè Montoliu Nerin (@mmontonerin.bsky.social), to make sure all the participants get comfortable in the computer environment in which they will spend many hours in the coming days! 👩🏻‍💻 #evomics2026

We end day 2 with an evening session by Petr Daněček (@petrdanecek.bsky.social) on Essential File Types in Genomics. Very important to understand the format and structure of the files we will analyse! 🙌🏽💻👀 #evomics2026

Chang-Hung Chen dives into OMICs guided genome annotation - how can we achieve more correctness? #PAG33

Cynthia Webster explains how Easel and EnTaP work for structural and functional genome annotation. Btw, Easel was our inspiration for the HC pipeline in Tiberius. #PAG33

Now at #PAG33 @katharinahoff.bsky.social is introducing Tiberius Deep Learning genome annotation tool !

Juhyun Kim introduces Verkko-Fillet for resolving complex structural features in assembly graphs. The giraffe genome is such an impressive example! #PAG33 Bioinformatics session.

Bioinformatics session continues with Dmitry Antipov about resolving conplex regions in the assembly graph. #PAG33

Haoyu Cheng tells about the latest advances in T2T assembling ONT only genomes in the Bioinformatics session at #PAG33 in Pacific A