When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

Got a perfect score for the first time 😎 enclose.horse Day 33 💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

An opportunity to run the greatest little RNA Databases that can, Rfam & RNAcentral: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... The only downside is you have to live near Cambridge in the UK.

Limited value of Nanopore adaptive sampling in a long-read metagenomic profiling workflow of clinical sputum samples https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.25.645176v1

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Our new GenSpectrum.org dashboard has finally launched! Using Influenza H5N1, RSV and SARS-CoV-2 data from INSDC and West Nile virus data from @pathoplexus.org, it enables fast and interactive analyses of genome sequencing data similar to CoV-Spectrum. 1/5

Great three-part blog post by James Fellows Yates about adding software to bioconda: ubinfie.github.io/2024/08/16/a...

Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Snakemake workflows for long-read bacterial genome assembly and evaluation in @gigabytejournal.bsky.social: gigabytejournal.com/articles/116

New paper about a nosocomial outbreak of Pandoraea commovens: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...