1/12 🎉 We're excited to announce our Genome Medicine paper benchmarking 1000+ metagenomes (DNA) and metatranscriptomes (RNA) from infectious intestinal disease patients against pathogen diagnostics. The full dataset is public to accelerate pathogen discovery & surveillance: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

I co-host The Bioinformatics Lab podcast with @kevinlibuit.bsky.social and the other day we had a great chat about our job hunting experiences, the importance of professional networks and making genuine connections. Its on all the podcasting apps & youtube soundcloud.com/the_bioinfor...

A very good article from @cohenjon.bsky.social with lots of hard-hitting quotes, including: “Everyone is acting as though this pandemic didn’t really happen.” … from Van Kerkhove. Spot on. www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e

Five years ago (Saturday 11 Jan 2020), first public announcement and availability of a sequence of the new coronavirus. It was posted by @eddieholmes.bsky.social at 01:05 UTC on Virological, and announced on Twitter at 01:08 UTC. ▫️1/ web.archive.org/web/20200118... archive.is/z880d

Entomologists: stop buying expensive or poor-capability manipulators, and make yourself one out of Legos. Costs about $5 including shipping and better than anything else you will find. Has just the right amount of friction and allows viewing in any position. Modified from doi.org/10.3897/zook...

BBSRC funded PhD - evolution in the early stages of symbiosis, using Arsenophonus as model. tinyurl.com/Edgeofsymbio.... Apply by 30/01/2025. Available for UK and International students. With @brockhurstlab.bsky.social and @acdarby.bsky.social. #symbiosky

Our miRNA story is now in @science.org ! We found a microRNA, not a protein, that finally solved a long-standing evolutionary mystery of wing coloration in butterflies and moths. (1/n) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Professor Matthew Baylis @baylism.bsky.social opens the day once again with a warm welcome, ready for a morning filled with presentations and flash talks #UKVBD2024

Jing Jing Khoo presenting Wolbachia genomic data from Culex pipiens cell lines at the Tick Cell Biobank hosted at @liverpooluni.bsky.social @ukvbd.bsky.social

FAO UK colleagues: french unis are facing massive budget cuts, forced to reduce numbers. They’re are protesting today; the VC of Lille has closed the whole Uni today to protest.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our UK #VDB Hub meeting today. It was really great to have a whole day discussing issues around data. Special thanks to Lauren Cator for leading our team.

Trilobite video's finally done, hope you'll give it a look ☺️ youtu.be/vGcsiJaz9kU?... #sciArt #Trilobite #paleoart #3Danimation #paleontology

Nucleotide Transformer is a series of genomics foundation models of different parameter sizes and training datasets that can be applied to various downstream ta… www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Useful benchmarking study 'Evaluation of DNA extraction kits for long-read shotgun metagenomics using Oxford Nanopore sequencing for rapid taxonomic and antimicrobial resistance detection' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gene regulation involves thousands of proteins that bind DNA, yet comprehensively mapping these is challenging. Our paper in Nature Genetics describes ChIP-DIP, a method for genome-wide mapping of hundreds of DNA-protein interactions in a single experiment. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#PhD Advert: Please share! Are you looking for a PhD studentship in comparative- or population-genomics, using 300+ species of #Drosophila and 1000+ genomes of #melanogaster? #Entomology #Genomics #PopGen #Phylogenetics

Spent some time the other day updating the #beenome100 website! If you’re interested in #beegenomes or #insectgenomes in general, check it out 🐝 beenome100.org

Counted 633 wintering Orange Ladybirds on gravestones under single horse chestnut tree in a wintery Morningside Cemetery, #Edinburgh, this morning. #CemeteryWildlifeWatch recording activity on #iRecord. #Ladybirds

I think more people doing comparative phylogenetics stuff should read this paper.

So here is a Wolbachia starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to join or have other suggestions. go.bsky.app/FTCKEyB