Welcome @isvm-society.bsky.social to bsky, the International Society for the Viruses of Microorganisms. Check the new look website isvm.org and become a member for free! #phagesky #microsky

Huge opportunity, Josie is amazing

The @scilifelab.se ancient DNA unit is looking for an bioinformatician placed at Uppsala University. This is a great way to be part of diverse #aDNA research projects as a staff scientist with permanent (!!) employment: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

Slightly diminish a band: Manganese Maiden

I think this should act as a cautionary tale for anyone thinking of using ChatGPT for anything even remotely important. They probably asked “PhD level” ChatGPT 5 to create this joke of a graph, and, predictably, it failed in a miserable and misleading way.

"I asked the AI" is not research. clauswilke.substack.com/p/i-asked-th...

Happy RNA Day to those who celebrate! 🧪 It’s AUG 1: the day we Met 🤓

I was today years old when I learned there is an Uncle Fester protein. Lol. www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/F5...

For the first time since the Princeton Geniza Project began in 1986, we have published our metadata collated from over 30,000 Geniza documents and the People, Places, and histories of the Middle East and premodern Jewish communities found therein! zenodo.org/records/1583...

The #ismbeccb2025 CollaborationFest is starting 11:20. Come join us in room 2F near the coffee break lounge and hear all about our exciting projects! Thanks to @hmenager.bsky.social @dcgenomics.bsky.social @bosc.bsky.social

Damien Goutte-Gattat gave a thought-provoking talk about how to deal with ontology censorship. #BOSC2025 / #BOKR2025

@biodataganache.bsky.social is now up. VaLPAS: Leveraging variation in experimental multi-omics data to elucidate protein function. #ismbeccb2025 #ProteinFunction #bioinformatics

Me trying to breathe at ACC Liverpool #ismbeccb2025 #moreoxygenplease

Now up: Semi-Supervised Data-Integrated Feature Importance Enhances Performance and Interpretability of Biological Classification Tasks Jun Kim & @rbaltman.bsky.social #ProteinFunction #ismbeccb25 #bioinformatics

From the #BOSC2025 organising committee chat during Christine Orengo's keynote:"it was a very good idea to start BOSC with a TED talk ;)"

@nomiharris.bsky.social kicking off #BOSC2025 at #ISMBECCB2025

The 26th annual #Bioinformatics #OpenSource #Conference starts in just ONE WEEK! 🍐 If you're attending #BOSC2025 (in person or virtually), please join us on Slack for more conversation: join.slack.com/t/obf-bosc/s... (1/2)

Toughie 🐗 Animal #712 🐼 I figured it out in 13 guesses! 🟧🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 11 metazooa.com #metazooa

How a hidden brain circuit fuels fibromyalgia, migraines, and PTSD www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

I'm worried that AI is not subject to the Cycle, will never move to the Trough of Disillusionment and simply keep training itself and us on its own slathers of low rent untruths until we happily live in an endless loop of distractions and irrelevance. www.media.mit.edu/publications...

CASP's funding woes. 😢 www.science.org/content/arti...

Sometimes, the headlines just write themselves: California fireworks warehouse catches fire and explodes The warehouse caught fire and blew up in Yolo County www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

PhD position: Bioinformatique appliquée à la protéomique (Centre du Recherche du CHU de Québec) bioinformatics.ca/jobs/phd-pos...

If EMBL-EBI managed data resources have ever saved you time & effort, this is your chance to give back! Fill in a 15-minute survey to help us: 🌍Demonstrate the real-world impact of our resources 🤓Understand your needs 🌟Secure continued funding Closes 16 July www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8?ch...

❝Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.❞ arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

"a fascinating case study on the limits of AI in biology and the harms of current publishing incentives" rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...

I'm a co-author on this preprint, and I thought of posting something about it. But Chris beat me to it & he did a much better job than I could do. Unfortunately supprting flashy machine learning models over data is baked into our tech / academia ecosystem. 🧵👇

Flybase lost all of the NIH support overnight - it is a disaster for the community. Please consider donating. I just did! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

a history of the floppy disk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_... #retrocomputing #floppydisks #history #wikipedia

If anyone in the US is being affected by the new NIH foreign subaward policy, I could use some discussion points and advice. DM or email me

When is the promotion tour?

@grnfluoresceblg.bsky.social I'm the very model of a modern day co-editor, I process manuscripts in a manner most expeditor, The journal I work for is absolutely not a predator, And has a higher impact factor than any other competitor

Latest release of DrOn (the Drug Ontology) is now live! 🤓🎉

Seeing all the great abstracts pouring in is one of our favorite times of the year! 🍐 There's still time to submit your #BOSC2025 abstract before the end of the day (Anywhere on Earth, UTC-12). No extensions, but there's also a late poster round. Submit here: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...

Two days left! #bioinformatics 🧬💻👇

Now would be a great time to submit your abstract on protein function prediction to the Function track at #ISMB2025 Deadline: this Thursday 2025-04-17 www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025... Also we are fortunate to have @marcrr.bsky.social as our keynote speaker! Come be part of an exciting track at #ISMB

Now would be a great time to submit your abstract on protein function prediction to the Function track at #ISMB2025 Deadline: this Thursday 2025-04-17 www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025... Also we are fortunate to have @marcrr.bsky.social as our keynote speaker! Come be part of an exciting track at #ISMB

CRISPR is amazing.

Next, An Phan, on the impact of delays in curation #Biocuration2025

Back from break for Parnal Joshi talking about contributions of cross-species function annotations to understanding uncharacterized human genes #Biocuration2025

Human-in-the-loop pipelines make humans go loopy.

I go to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social , upload a PDF, and in two days have a nicely formatted paper. Free! I got to (insert journal here) work a fortnight to upload my manuscript in cuneiform clay, figures in 3.45x10^6 pixel-per-dunam, and pay my body weight in gold to see half the equations mangled.

De novo design of self-assembling peptides with antimicrobial activity guided by deep learning www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bioinformatics Yoga poses: Binary tree Download facing data Code warrior 1 Python pose cat file pose Happy BAM Local alignment pose The sparse matrix Corrupt table pose

"Today, in our podcast, we will feature survivor bias and hindsight bias" Every science podcast 😅

Journals that don't accept LaTeX: WHY? Better yet, if @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social can make a nicely formatted online paper from just a PDF, why can't you?

Note to self: if your script writes a few thousand output files that look nice in the directory listing, and the logfile says that all is OK, check to see that they are not, in fact, zero sized 😬

New laptop. I name them after bacteria. Which one should I choose?

Coding in Vim grows new synapse connections in your brain. Unlike all those newfangled AI autocomplete environments that accelerate apoptosis. Now get off my lawn.