I had the privilege to meet artist Mary Griffiths. Mary got inspired by Hi-C maps and over zooms we spoke about Hi-C maps, patterns and drawings. Mary’s Hi-C inspired art has been exhibited eg the Royal Academy. We wrote this piece about this art-science collaboration pubs.aip.org/aip/bpr/arti...

Deutsches Wort des Tages: Sehnsucht

By mapping the meanings of the words used to communicate emotions across more than one-third of the planet’s spoken languages, a study in Science found that there is significant variation in how emotions are expressed across cultures. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4pQGxBB

What was the #ERGACommunity up to in 2025? The answer is: a lot! Head to our website for an overview of the main achievements and ongoing priorities across our community ➡️ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-20... #community #2025highlights #ERGA @ebpgenome.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social

It’s almost time for the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference — happening next week! 🗓️ 29–31 October 💻 Fully online & free of charge Find all the details, including the full programme 👇 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social #genomics #biodiversity

How to represent genomes in 3D? In this paper (and video), we propose Geometric Diagrams of Genomes (GDG)—a visual grammar that aims at emulating the effect ribbon diagrams (Richardson et al 1981) had in protein structural biology. Time will tell.😅 👉🏼 genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Deutsches Wort des Tages: Achterbahn

Later TODAY at 15:00 CEST! Efficient evidence-based genome annotation with EviAnn 🧬 👉 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/efficie... #genomeannotation #genomes #seminar #research #EviAnn @ebpgenome.bsky.social

Our paper Genomic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus was published in Science today! It features inversions, selection in action, museum specimens and putative new ecotypes. doi.org/10.1126/scie...

En el orden del día, también figura la ley que declara el "estado de emergencia del sistema científico" 👇 www.eldestapeweb.com/sociedad/cie...

By the end of 2024, EBP-affiliated projects had publicly released 2'000 high-quality #genome assemblies 🧬, representing more than 500 eukaryotic families. www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci... #biodiversity #genomics

I spy a Goshawk -if I’m not mistaken- (Accipiter gentilis) chillin’ in the Botanical, what a beauty. Genome nicely assembled & curated by the colleagues from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Handy data note here: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/7-1...

Preprint out for myloasm, our new nanopore / HiFi metagenome assembler! Nanopore's getting accurate, but 1. Can this lead to better metagenome assemblies? 2. How, algorithmically, to leverage them? with co-author Max Marin @mgmarin.bsky.social, supervised by Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social 1 / N

Earth BioGenome Project Frontiers Online Forum Deep Dive on September 18, 2025 (07:00 PT | 16:00 CEST), where we will discuss the article and chart next steps for the field. 📌 Register here: events.frontiersin.org/earth-biogen...

Refining Feulgen: low-cost and accurate genome size measurements for everyone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.673164v1

The European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) is a pan-European community initiative to coordinate the generation of reference genomes representing European eukaryotic biodiversity @ergabiodiv.bsky.social #eseb2025

Come find us at the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social stand #eseb2025 exhibition hall

GFFx: A Rust-based suite of utilities for ultra-fast genomic feature extraction. #Genomics #Rust #GenomeAnnotation #GFF #GenomicFeatures @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social 🧬 🖥️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deutsches Wort des Tages: Abstoßend

New #BGE case study! Researchers at UCD are using the #genome for Trifolium dubium to study its evolutionary history and beneficial traits, which could enhance breeding programs for agriculturally important #clover species. 🔗: biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/03/13/a... ergabiodiv.bsky.social #DNA

🧬 Explore the latest from Bioinformatics Advances: "Genome Evaluation Pipeline (GEP): A fully-automated quality control tool for parallel evaluation of genome assemblies"  Full article available: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf147  Authors include: @diegomics.bsky.social, @cmazzoni.bsky.social

📑Latest addition to the #openscience collection of the #European Reference #Genome Atlas (ERGA, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social) presents a the 1st #genome report for a sun spider (order Solifugae). 🔗 Find the report: doi.org/10.3897/arph... 🔍 Explore the collection to date: doi.org/10.3897/rio....

Schluss mit den Kürzungen! Hochschulen sind #unkürzbar!

É sobre respeito e soberania.

BUSCO v6.0.0 has been released. busco.ezlab.org

🚨 Countdown to Deadline! Apply by FRIDAY 14 July 2025 🧬 Passionate about decoding life through genomics and cutting-edge science? 👉 Apply now🧬 bit.ly/4n9AuqN 💻 If you can't join in-person, there is a hybrid option 📍 Wellcome Genome Campus Organised by @eventswcs.bsky.social lnkd.in/ehpwy6Ee

🤍 Con mucha felicidad le damos la bienvenida al nieto 140 a la verdad. El trabajo incansable de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo tiene frutos. Se trata del hijo de Graciela Romero y Raúl Metz, militantes del PRT-ERP, secuestrados en diciembre de 1976 en Cutral-Co.

The Diddy verdict is the latest gruesome marker of a post-#MeToo era | Moira Donegan

📢 It’s time to harmonise practices for assessing genome-wide genetic diversity 🧬 Standardisation is key to meet the needs of stakeholders in biodiversity #conservation. 🔗 New publication by #ERGA @biogeneurope.bsky.social out now in #MolecularEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Deutsches Wort des Tages: Witterungsbedingten

Glad that this old friend has finally seen the light! Much improved V2 is coming 🔜 "Genome Evaluation Pipeline (GEP): A fully-automated quality control tool for parallel evaluation of genome assemblies" url: academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Missed the @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social call but spotted this cunning jackdaw (Corvus monedula) at the airport

Incredibly grateful for the instrumental support Marc provided and all the warmth they showed during that time. Super happy to see this wrapped!

📚 By collating #GenomeReports from ERGA-affiliated projects and members, this collection promotes high standards and supports comparative analyses. 🔗 riojournal.com/topical_coll... Join the #ERGAPlenary to learn how to contribute your genome report to the collection! @pensoft.net @riojournal.com

Struggling to find the tiny microchromosomes in draft bird genome assemblies? Our new #preprint introducing MicroFinder can help: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 below (1/n) @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

Like clockwork, swifts fully swirling in Berlin on May 1st

The rise of end times fascism. An essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

🐍 A new high-quality reference genome of the Western Montpellier snake is here! This #genome will support research into the evolution of #venom and other traits in snakes. 🔗 preprints.arphahub.com/article/1550... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @csic.es @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cnag-eu.bsky.social

🆕 Several Data Papers were added to "The European Reference #Genome Atlas #ERGA Community Genome Reports" #openscience collection: doi.org/10.3897/rio.... 🖱️ to accelerate the generation & sharing of #genomic resources and ultimately conserving European #biodiversity. @ergabiodiv.bsky.social

I have devoted my life to ice age ecosystems, and I feel an acute responsibility to tell the stories of extinct species and to help people to know them better. To see this work being done with such a casual disregard not only for the truth but for life itself is genuinely abhorrent to me.

Another successful assembly! And this nice Ulmus sp. of 35 kilos was done in record time ;P

#Bioinformatics is a powerful tool for #biologists looking to deepen their understanding of #GenomicsData. Our free online courses on bioinformatics workflows are available on demand until February 2026. From 10-30 March 2025, join our educators for a limited facilitation period in the comments 🔽

🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org: We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*. Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past. [New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]

Applying the FAIR Principles to computational workflows. #FAIR #Workflows #Bioinformatics #Genomics #ScientificData 🧬 🖥️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in #pangenomes and their applications for #biodiversity? 🧬 Join us on Monday for the seminar "Structural Variation in the Barley Pangenome and the TRITEX Pipeline for Plant Genome Assembly" @leibnizipk.bsky.social More details➡️ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/structu...

(Musk) seems especially attracted to the far right in Germany precisely because that is where a breach of the cultural firebreak has the most symbolic potency. Getting the AfD over the line into the mainstream is the ultimate stress-test of historical conscience www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For those working with Hi-C data and the Arima workflow, we have rewritten the Arima tools using htslib to speed up the process. Any feedback is welcome: github.com/Genoscope-LB...

And @pacbio.bsky.social updated the ultralow protocol based on our results. Checkout www.pacb.com/blog/new-amp...

It's official: Sandra Díaz & Eduardo Brondízio Win the 2025 Tyler Prize! 💬 "The climate crisis, biodiversity loss & inequalities are all connected." – Díaz & Brondízio Let’s celebrate these changemakers! #TylerPrize #Biodiversity #Sustainability #ClimateAction #GlobalSouth

No worries if you missed our #webinar on 'Introducing the new Ensembl Genome Browser' because the recording is now available on the @training.ebi.embl.org site: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... Let us know what you think of our new site by clicking on the feedback icon or at [email protected] 📧