I think it’s ok to acknowledge sadness, grief, anger and know emotions and state of experience aren’t permanent. That love and kindness and compassion is a limitless ocean that is always open to swim in. It doesn’t disappear just because suffering exists

🚨On Monday July 27 at 2pm AEST, every phone in Australia will get very loud. 🚨 If you are vulnerable, with a phone as part of your escape plan, please make sure that you take steps to protect yourself. If you aren't vulnerable, please help get the word out to protect those who are.

Until Friday, Australia was the only continent free from HPAI H5N1. Sadly, this is not the case - a 2344b confirmation in a Brown Skua, and a suspected case in a Northern Giant Petrel which turned up in WA. 👉 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06... (1/x)

For anyone doing ONT Microbial Genomics, please take 1 minute (less?) to tell us which assembly metrics you care most about when evaluating whether an assembly is "good". We are doing a benchmark of different QC tools (barcode/adapter trimming and QC filtering). microbial-qc-survey.streamlit.app

Woohoo, Martin Shkreli (yes that Martin Shkreli!) has given me a new business card!

Want to easily put your publication data into tables and plots? Then try out the newest version of the R Shiny tool ScholarPlot github.com/alegione/Sch...

Great to see this one published. An incredible overview of the impact of HPAI on wildlife, with data from WAHIS, EMPRES and the literature. Also case study on Sandwich tern integrating mortality, ecological, serological + genetic data 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Summary of our surveillance during spring 2025, including recently arriving shorebirds and seabirds, as well as some marine mammals. All negative for HPAI. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A reminder that when investors build houses to rent, they build cheap, badly-designed, energy-inefficient generally terrible houses that cause problems for the community for decades. People building homes to live in build properly.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Have you heard about the disease outbreak on a cruise ship caused by #hantavirus? Prof Glenn Marsh provides an explainer about these viruses and the research we do at the #CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness 👇👇👇 www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...

Our new preprint is out! We train a transformer on gene order and gene content of bacterial pathogens, applying it to a range of epidemiological and evolutionary analyses (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is like when the government tries to scare us saying our taxes mostly go to welfare on the annual tax return statement, but neglect to highlight that the majority of this is the pension, not poor folks looking for jobs.

The point midway through when he realises if he's lying he may as well go all in

Correlation bw HPAI anitbodies + iris changes in gannets. Here, uveitis in 77% of affected birds - melanin deposition and disorganisation, including loss of a distinct anterior layer of melanocytic cells and hypertrophy of melanocytes within the iris stroma 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Here is an easy solution: Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves. Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled. Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.

ggCallaroo v0.1.0 is now out! This snakemake pipeline predicts, clusters and annotates bacterial genes using ggCaller, Panaroo and Bakta. It generates Panaroo files with functional annotations already integrated, which can then be used with the usual downstream tools. github.com/samhorsfield...

recapped the most stunning tank-off in NBA history

gbdraw v0.9.1 is out now on Bioconda! Easily visualize microbial genomes and enjoy the #gbdraw web app completely offline. 📦 Install via Bioconda: bioconda.github.io/recipes/gbdr... 🌐 Try the online app: gbdraw.app #bioinformatics #genomics #microbiology #visualization

Has anyone ever been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after threatening genocide? Asking for a not friend.

An extraordinarily clear-eyed examination of the University of Melbourne's decision to attack those protesting against genocide rather than taking a stand against the genocide itself overland.org.au/2026/03/cond...

Roses are red Melbourne has green trams

Bioinformaticians of Melbourne, the next ABACBS-Melbourne Bioinformatics Coffee Catch Up is this Thursday, 2 April. (Please note the new time/day for 2026!) Everyone is welcome. Details in the attached image. See you there!

Trust me, none of these places are reducing their asking price after nobody bids, most are increasing it!

A tiny Vitamin K jab into every newborn's heel will prevent death & disability from brain hemorrhage (individual risk is unknowable). Now refused by anti-vaxxers, tho not a vax. A simple fix; a brilliant medical discovery due to so many lives lost & family grief. Please help tell parents the truth.

Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

The fuel crisis punishes welfare recipients in ludicrous ways Work for the Dole participants only get $10.40/week, which is supposed to cover fuel & travel Many thousands of poor people are forced to use their limited income on fuel to attend useless job agency bullshit

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

NEW MARSUPIALS

This story is nuts The journal ‘Pediatrics and Child health’ has been published an article type, for case reports, that are made up and fictional without having any clear notice 😱 retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

Explains why so many shitholes are currently on the market that have been rentals for a decade with absolutely zero maintenance. Sad thing is they are still going for +1 mil

I started a new dataviz project recently, integrating the Principal Diagnosis for Hospital Separations data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). My dataviz collects their yearly "datacubes" (Excel spreadsheets), currently covering the period from mid-2010 to mid-2024. 🧵

I was recently doing some basic word doc template stuff, needed to add a heading to the doc 12 times between two other repeated headings, tried copilot, it plopped the heading in completely incorrect places whilst telling me it did the job. A consistent theme of AI, fails at the most simple tasks

Do beer drinkers pay more tax than gas companies? Yes, they do! Beer excise > PRRT Beer drinkers' income tax > gas company income tax Thread below, full details here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/tax-b...

Really proud of this amazing work by PhD student Dr Jack Wheelahan - his first paper from his work looking at improved in-clinic diagnostics for Zoos. Jack used Bayesian Latent Class Modelling to identify the best molecular testing method for Chlamydia in koalas doi.org/10.1016/j.pr...

If you are teaching any kind of statistics, probability or modeling classes, you'll love this website. Contains dozens of interactive simulations of random processes, with sliders, different visualizat options, and full numeric log ouput: www.randomservices.org/random/apps/...

I'm especially happy I managed to sneak an 1802 satirical cartoon from my son's GCSE history course into an editorial on Avian Influenza communications bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Oooh look at Canberra press gallery salivating over another pitiful 'horse race' filled with 'winners & losers' & 'personalities' to focus on rather than talking about that piffling stuff like climate, welfare, cost of living, social policy. It's all just a sad little game.🙄

If we are going to ban symbols and phrases because of 'social cohesion' then we really should start banning some moustaches too.

Something about white blokes with short hair and moustaches gives off a real 👌 vibe...

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

This is one of the most upsetting and infuriating medical/scientific pieces I have ever read. #PedSky #MedSky #ToxSky #PharmSky 🧪

"Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Baby’s Poisoning?" by Ben Taub is our pick from the February 2, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/02?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick

🃏🔀 Let me shuffle that deck of cards for you! printf "%s\n" {2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K,A}{♠,♥,♦,♣} | shuf | xargs -n 9 K♣ 5♣ 6♠ 4♠ 3♦ J♦ 7♦ 8♣ 9♠ 2♠ 9♥ J♥ 9♣ 10♠ J♣ Q♥ 7♠ Q♠ 6♥ A♠ 8♠ 10♥ K♥ 10♦ 4♣ A♣ A♥ 5♦ 5♥ 6♣ J♠ Q♣ A♦ 3♣ 4♥ 3♠ 4♦ 3♥ K♠ 7♥ 6♦ 8♦ 7♣ K♦ 8♥ 9♦ 2♥ 5♠ 10♣ Q♦ 2♦ 2♣

New blog post with some thoughts on @nanoporetech.com and their recent announcement that the P2 Solo will be discontinued: rrwick.github.io/2026/01/21/p...

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

A more user friendly press release version of the koala retrovirus paper www.izw-berlin.de/en/press-rel...