Save the date for phylogenetics! RNA virus Journal Club returns ( @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) with @evogytis.bsky.social intro to his "Baltic" - python module to visualise phylogenetic trees. January 15th (Thu) - EEST Vilnius Time 3:00 PM Join slack for updates: join.slack.com/t/rdrp-io/sh...

Loved this brilliant biography of Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social But what struck me from the start: it's also a portrait of a lost time in science: no grant applications or teaching, big travel budgets: the job only to think, talk & get science done. Future scientific biogs will be so different.

It's today! December 11th Finding endogenous viral elements in genomic data 🧑‍💻 by Sebastian Lequime (University of Groningen @rug.nl ) Time: 2pm EST🇺🇸 / 8pm CET 🇪🇺 / 4am JST 🇯🇵 Join @rdrpsummit.bsky.social RNA Virus Journal Club talk & discussion: oregonstate.zoom.us/j/9164101918... #rdrpsummit

Expressions of interest are now open to host the @isvm-society.bsky.social #VOM28 conference. Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes! isvm.org #phagesky #virus

RNA Virus Journal Club – Upcoming Talk - this thursday (Nov 6th !) With @rdrpsummit.bsky.social - excited to announce talk and discussion with Dr Sanguu Kim about HF nanopore sequencing strategy for virology :) calendar.app.google/oyRVP6v5Tvjg... CET: 14:00–15:00, Format: 30 min + 30 min

We are looking for mentors for the Sci.STEPS program! Please apply if you want to help your junior colleagues around the globe navigate their career path in any science related field.

Assembling MAGs from Amazonian soils is a challenge, but it has become one of our most useful tools to understand these complex communities. Check out our new paper at MRA @asm.org doi.org/10.1128/mra.... in collaboration with @louberrios.bsky.social @jubgontijo.bsky.social @mykophile.bsky.social

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

While Logan has been wonderful for quite some time - I just recently have played with logan-search! Such a time saving tool! 🔥 Thank you to the whole team with @rayanchikhi.bsky.social at the forefront of it 💎! 🙏🏼

This is the absolute beauty coming from @rayanchikhi.bsky.social et al! 🔥😍 If you don't quite yet fully know what Logan is and what it is capable of: check the 🧵 and most importantly the updated preprint 📑. One of those things to print and simply admire 🧠🩷

what a phenomenally beautiful people group has @evogytis.bsky.social and @mgabrielaite.bsky.social assembled! Thx for the invite! Had a 3-day-blast talking virology and afterwards dreaming while sleeping about all my virus metagenomics people enjoying their time in Monaco 😁 (too much F1 recently...)

Already tomorrow! @rdrpsummit.bsky.social starts with journal club - be there from the start! ..be it for the Unicore publication ( @dongwookkim.bsky.social ) or joining / enjoying the community of virus discovery (& annotation). September 4, 2025, from 14:00 to 14:45 CEST rdrp.io/journal-club...

Happy world RNA day! AUG1 🎉 🎉 🎉 While RNA is a magnificent molecule - world is still lacking the understanding of this diverse molecule! This is why a bunch of us, RNA enthusiasts, wrote the book "Code: RNA" to Lithuania's general public. #RNAday

This is quite late but our lab has a preprint out about a SARS-CoV-2 situation we had in mink in Lithuania back in 2021. It's a doozy with re-emergence of extinct lineages, a country-wide test of all mink farms in Lithuania & some interesting dynamics in mink. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5🧵

One of the small life joys is how Macs with M chip batteries basically never die. You travel, forget your chargers etc - never a problem. Apple switching to ARMs MX chips is actually a reason I finally made a transition from my non-apple computer to mac. Happy weekend!

how many 21-mers are shared between different species genomes at the genus level? #sourmash

Not just great k-mer content but some important historical facts (: Thanks @rayanchikhi.bsky.social !

This is for sure my fav book. This is why I am going through it slowly. Thanks to Bluey (: can read it for a bit on a Saturday morning:). "Promoting opportunity depends not only upon an open road, but upon an equal start" / R.H. Tawney "Equality" 1930.

And founding ARTIC member @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social (@uniofcam.bsky.social) will build innovative portable and low-cost laboratory solutions and training packages to accompany them, now working with new ARTIC investigator Jenny Molloy who will develop open-source wet lab reagents for sequencing

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

Wellcome Genome campus started to feel like home :) back for some bioinformatics talks, information, discussions... on microbes and public health. #ABPHM25 last week: info on RNA viruses, then: all viruses at ViBioM2025, today: microbes :) 🎊 90 countries >600 attendees! Science is global! 🌏🌍🌎

What turns a virus spillover into an epidemic? 🌍🦠 Join leading experts to explore how AI, genomics & ecology shape epidemic forecasting. 📍Oxford Martin School & Online ⏰ May 19 5–6:15pm Register here: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-turns-spillovers-into-epidemics

I will be recruiting new postdocs with start dates end 2025 - early 2026. If you'd like to work at the Pasteur Institute in the heart of Paris surrounded by amazing scientists, reach out to discuss possible projects on SynBio / Bacterial Immunity!

🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

Even the event photographer seems interested in @thekatybrown.bsky.social talk :)) Great start of the #ViBioM2025 !

You can find RdRpCATCH here github.com/dimitris-kar...

Detecting endogenous viral elements in characterized proteins by Katy Brown

Our sponsor @peercommunityin.bsky.social is here to talk all about shunting the exploitative publishing culture. #RdRpSummit2025

And it's a wrap! The second @rdrpsummit.bsky.social RdRp Summit has ended, endless discussions, collaborations and friendships have started! :) All of this wouldn't be possible without the organisers: thank you, it was a pleasure! Everyone - join our slack, join the next committee :) #rdrpsummit

Absolutely loved @lukehillary.bsky.social talk! Much needed for the field and seemed very balanced requirements :)

Introducing RdRpCATCH- mining RNA viruses using RdRp HMMs! Dimitris Karapliafis is here to talk about the community project we took up during the 2023 RdRp Summit! #RdRpSummit2025

Manual curation of your virus group is like #Tinder, you get to know them and become intimate.. :D Rachid simply being iconic at the #RdRpsummit2025 :D

Excited for #RdRpSummit2025 and #ViBioM2025! Just starting off now in Lisbon.

Can't wait to meet everyone today at the RdRp summit! Bringing something to the table myslef 🙃 #rdrpsummit

So greit to have Xin as one of our speakers! Definitely one of the most important publications in the last 2 years in the field!

I am very happy to announce that #VUGENE has received 1mln EUR #investment 🥳🥳🥳 Whole #multiomics is amazingly growing field and pure joy for data obsessed bioinformaticians 🙋🏼‍♀️, company would still be just an idea without the brilliant team. We care about each other's and our clients' well being!

To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.

Trump's proposed NIH cuts are partly based on potential NIH complicity in the covid pandemic as a lab leak, a conspiracy theory NIH head Bhattacharya promoted. But evidence indicates the pandemic as a lab leak is extremely unlikely, as I've summarized: www.physicsforums.com/threads/rece...

The previous RdRp summit manifested in the consensus statement. What the second @rdrpsummit.bsky.social brings us?:)

Still can register especially for the remote!

Introducing our invited speaker for the session on 'Viral Dark Matter' we have Rachel Seongeun Kim from the Seoul National University!!!! The registrations for on-site & remote participation are still open! More info: RdRp.io #RdRpSummit2025

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

This is amazing and makes a very obvious point! Perfect art igniting conversations!

Why #science #communication is so important? We need general public to be onformed about latest innovations and reaearch. Today I had joy in talking about #multiomics and #vugene at Lithuanian National Broadcaster (LRT). Thank you Karolina Panto and LRT for doing cutting edge-science journalism!

If you use Kraken for profiling microbial / environmental / ancient metagenomic data, please check this preprint where I benchmark filtering strategies of Kraken outputs on simulated microbial and environmental metagenomic samples, and provide recommendations for optimal filtering thresholds

just finished filming/recording the last episode of "Future architects" educational/ science communication series where we discussed how personalised medicine is going to be in the future and where we are now. More #bioinformatics and #sciencecommunication ! #outreach #VUGENE #VULSK

If anyone is still not registered or still considering to come - now you have some motivation!

Kudos to hybrid meetings!

The last day of the #WomensHealth2025 inspirational event at the Wellcome Genome Campus . If you have any omics data / analysis related questions - this is how I look :) - happy to chat! If you have done x-omics & interested in adding y-omics - at #VUGENE we are here to help.

I spoke to the BBC World Service about all things longevity, from science, to policy, to social implications to skin cream! Check out the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmRJ... or the podcast version (which is slightly longer—more words, less of my face!) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...