There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

I’ve written a post about my recent experiences (successes) with AI coding models; the experiences that caused me to re-evaluate my initial judgements, the surprise I had at what can be accomplished, & some fears I have about these tools. Discussion welcome! combine-lab.github.io/blog/2026/02...

Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.

Playing with sandbox.bio. This was remarkably cathartic.

A succinct and useful list of rules for teaching data science, including some of my favourites: "teach with real data" and "have students do projects". #databs #datasky

I've just released #rust-htslib 1.0. After a long time with a pretty stable API usage of rust-htslib in production, it feels like the right time to finally move to 1.0. Most important change is probably a switch to thread-safe pointers in BAM record handling. github.com/rust-bio/rus...

Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework? Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.

vibe coding is the new doom scrolling?

Super-pangenome analyses across 35 accessions of 23 Avena species highlight their complex evolutionary history and extensive genomic diversity doi.org/10.1038/s415... Common oat=Avena sativa

Once more unto the breach: A fast introduction to snakemake, in 5 examples.

🚀 Our new paper on Alignoth just published in Bioinformatics! Alignoth generates self-contained interactive HTML read alignment plots from BAM files – Rust-based, portable, and ideal for headless workflows. 📄 doi.org/10.1093/bioi... #bioinformatics #genomics #rust @johanneskoester.bsky.social

With population genetics on deck for #BI111 this week, preparations for HWE exercises for 1100+!students means lots of card-sorting!

I've slowly been reformatting notes from my population and conservation genetics course at Montana State University into a web book—a rough draft is now live here: elinck.org/popgen_conge...

🧬 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: “tskit arg visualizer: Interactive plotting of ancestral recombination graphs.”  Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf302 Authors include: @kitchensjn.bsky.social, @yanwong.bsky.social

New special issue in Molecular Ecology on Conservation Genomics #popGen #evolution 🧪🧬🖥️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1365294x...

Announcing bamdam: a new open source tool for studying ancient DNA 🧬 It shrinks massive metagenomic files by 10x and helps distinguish ancient sequences from contamination. Tested on the oldest DNA yet uncovered (2M years) link.springer.com/article/10.1... @bdesan.bsky.social @russcd.bsky.social

What a beautiful paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@cademirch.bsky.social @erikenbody.bsky.social TB Sackton & @russcd.bsky.social introduce Callable Loci And More (clam), a tool that leverages callable loci to accurately estimate population genetic statistics (π, dxy, and FST). 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf282 #evobio #molbio #compbio

The changed code is a small fraction of an open source contribution. Your commitment to understand the issue, how your proposed solution fits with the project, and be ready to own and push the review process forward is the biggest chunk of the work. Your effort is the contribution, not the code.

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Want to help shaping the future of #Snakemake? Then participate in the Snakemake hackathon 2026 in Munich! There's still room as the maximum number of participants is not yet reached. You can register here: indico.cern.ch/e/snakemake-... #sciworkflows #reproducibility

Check out the latest paper from the CCGP on California Quail and the ecological and anthropogenic factors that impact genomic variation. Led by Phred Benham and the Bowie group: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Want to make publication-ready figures come straight from Python without having to do any manual editing? Are you fed up with axes labels being unreadable during your presentations? Follow this short tutorial including code examples! 👇🧵

Just published an interactive article about a magical algorithm known as the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, which powers sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa: sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt It's also notoriously unintuitive so I'm hoping this article helps you build that intuition.

Monthly Snakemake developer meeting: Tuesday, Sept 30th at 6am PST! Open to all - developers & users. We discuss issues/PRs and cowork on Snakemake projects. DM me to join! #snakemake #workflows #opensource #bioinformatics #oss

Preview of an important slide:

snkmt 0.2.0 is out! New features: 1. Multi-database support - switch between dbs via ctrl+p (like VSCode) 2. Workflow filtering - hide/filter by snakefile, status, or date for cleaner navigation github.com/cademirch/sn... #snakemake #bioinformatics #workflow #opensource #python #cli #tui

Recording of the tutorial now up on the @scipyconf.bsky.social YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AYp...

Link to the new documentation pages: - conda-forge.org/docs/mainta... - conda-forge.org/docs/mainta...

Some great tips on making better #dataviz 👇 In my experience, the final point—feedback—is invaluable Funny how another person might focus on something completely different to what you intended 🙃 Adjusting from this feedback always makes for a clearer visual message📊🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share the #Snakemake monitoring tool I've been working on: snkmt (Snakemate) - a CLI utility for real-time workflow monitoring. Basically solves the "is my pipeline still running?" problem and makes debugging failed jobs much easier. #bioinformatics #workflow #opensource 1/3