November is Native American Heritage Month - a time to elevate the histories, cultures, and contributions of Indigenous peoples. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth On the SMBE IDEA Task Force we aim to support efforts to remove the barriers that have historically excluded many voices from science 🗣️

I'm truly confused 🤔 I asked #ChatGPT to summarize a series of notes I had on a statistical interpretation. It then asked me if I wanted a visual summary of the topic (again, statistics, numbers, etc.). I said yes, just yes. This is what it created: #AcademicSky #Bioinformatics

Can we all agree that clothes stay on the drying rack until someone’s coming over? 👕🧺

😑 I just can’t today. My script kept crashing over and over, and in the end, it was just a damn indentation error. Falling into the same mistakes after all these years feels like a loop that can only be broken with swearing 🤬 #Bioinformatics #AcademicSky

💚 Today is 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝘿𝙖𝙮! Let’s take a moment to care for ourselves and each other 🌱 The 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 and @official-smbe.bsky.social support mental well-being in science 🧠✨ 💬 Share your favorite self-care tip below & let’s support our community! #WorldMentalHealthDay #AcademicSky

🤝 In 2024, the 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Boris Armel Olou, Jean Legeay, Jean Evans Israel Codjia & Roël Dire Houdanon for their project strengthening African researchers in Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics. ✨ Excited about the impact so far!

🤝 In 2024, the 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Rori Rohlfs and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for their podcast ScienceWise! ✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project! 🎙️ @sciencewisepod.bsky.social

🔥 Time's ticking! Share your vision for inclusion & equity in science! ⏰ Deadline: 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟭𝟬 @official-smbe.bsky.social @smbe-idea.bsky.social #AcademicSky

❗REMINDER - the call for proposals for SMBE IDEA initiatives for 2025/2026 will close soon - apply by October 10th Categories: 💡 IDEA ($25k) 🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k) 🗣️ Outreach ($10k) More info smbe.org/idea-initiatives @smbe-idea.bsky.social

🔥 Don't miss the opportunity! Submit your proposal 𝙉𝙊𝙒! 🌈 #AcademicSky #IDEA #SMBE2026 @official-smbe.bsky.social

Moving to another country for a few months. #academiclife #academicsky Excited but also:

✨ In my latest paper, I used 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 instead of “pregnant women", because pregnancy is not exclusive to those who identify as women 🤰 📢 Using inclusive language is part of our responsibility as scientists to fight erasure of transgender and nonbinary people 🏳️‍⚧️ #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM

🌍✨ SMBE IDEA 2026 – Call for Proposals! We support initiatives that tackle inequities in evolutionary biology. Funding available: 💡 IDEA ($25k) 🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k) 🗣️ Outreach ($10k) 📅 Deadline: Oct 10, 2025 🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/1we2...

Genotype imputation from low-coverage data for medical and population genetic analyses genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/SABiagini/GDI

🧬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "DNPcall: A new pipeline for accurate double nucleotide polymorphism calling" Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf209  Authors include: @eugeniadat.bsky.social

Neanderthals lived ~350,000 years without governments, capitalism, or wrecking ecosystems. We Homo sapiens, in just 300,000 years (and especially the last 200), have trashed the planet. Just saying.

Anything to promote my new paper (and yes that includes this photo). I put six years of my mental health into this one 😅🧬🔥 📝 Go read it! ⬇️ 🔗 genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9... #AcademicSky

🚨 My new paper is out in the latest issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social! 🧬 🧵 Check out my thread from yesterday for the details ⬇️ 👨‍💻 Open source codes also available on my #GitHub page! #AcademicSky

🚨 Did you know that non-invasive prenatal screening (𝗡𝗜𝗣𝗦🤰) data can be repurposed for large-scale genomics? 🧬 Our new study shows how to turn low-coverage data into valuable insights, analyzing >32,000 genomes from Belgium. #genetics #imputation #NIPS #AcademicSky genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9...

Great experience this year at #ISBA11 amazing talks and posters ✨👏

Let's talk about legends coming true at poster 8! 🧬☠️ #ISBA11 @isba11.bsky.social

I’m from Southern Europe. We are built for quiescence in August.

Earth is a truly complex escape room.

The Moon moves 4 cm farther from Earth each year. Honestly, can’t blame her.

📝 New research rewrites Roman genetic history: Eastern Mediterranean ancestry appeared 200 years before the Empire, likely via early East to West movements in the Late Republic through Southern Italy or Eastern ties @eugeniadat.bsky.social 🧬 #AcademicSky 👇 academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

🏖️ On vacation, but still excited about my latest paper! 🧬 📌 Sharing it again in case it slipped past your feed 👇 ✍️ Looking forward to diving into the details once I’m back! #AcademicSky #imputation #NIPS #PGS #PopulationGenetics #QUILT

📝 Pedigree reconstruction from genetic data is challenging, especially in endogamous populations. This method uses a haplotype score to distinguish second-degree relatives and assign generations. Validated in Himba, BAGS, and Quebec datasets. #genomics #IBD #populationgenetics #AcademicSky 🧬

🚨 Excited to share my new paper! We imputed 32,769 ultra-low coverage genomes from #NIPS 🫃and show how our custom filtering (GDI) impacts ancestry and PGS analyses. Big thanks to the team behind this long and rewarding work! 🧬 📝 Now on @genomeresearch.bsky.social 👇 genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

No expat here. I am an #immigrant. I left because my country failed me. Italy talks about brain drain as if it's a tragic accident. It is not. It is the direct result of years of neglect and political incompetence. I did not leave by choice. I was pushed away. No expat here. I am a proud immigrant.

Didn't see that coming, but I'm rolling with it 😅 www.idrlabs.com/jock-nerd-pr...

Love how editors ask me for ultra high res figures, 600 dpi, vector fonts, "labels must be legible when printed". Then I open other people’s papers and need NASA grade image reconstruction to guess what the axis labels say. #AcademicSky

Italy’s universities are no longer safe spaces for free thought. Under Art. 31 of the new “Security Decree” (DL 7/2024 → Law 79/2025), secret services can demand from any university information on students’ & professors’ political or ideological views, no refusals allowed.

Fight with pride 🥊 Live with pride 🌈 Vote with pride 🗳️ Fuck with pride 🔥 Love with pride ❤️ Dream with pride 💫 Act with pride ✊ #Pride2025 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #AcademicSky

Impostor syndrome is working in data analysis your whole life, then seeing a ‘Data Analysis 101’ course and thinking: ‘Wait… this might actually be useful.’ #AcademicSky

I was really hoping your email wouldn't find me today. #AcademicSky

🚨 Excited to share our new paper! 🧬 #aDNA from Sint-Truiden (BE) reveals 1,000 years of change from diverse medieval roots including Scottish and Irish ancestry to modern Limburg-like genetics. 🧫 Yersinia pestis found in 5 of 58 XIV-century burials. #AcademicSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Five days of national mourning for the Pope in Italy, head of a foreign state, feels absurd and politically strategic. It's a clear attempt to overshadow the 25th of April, a day of liberation from fascism, and a worrying move to manipulate public attention. #25Aprile #antifascismo

April 25 is Italy’s Liberation Day: the end of Nazi-Fascist rule in 1945. We honor the partisans and all who fought for freedom. It’s not just history, it’s a living commitment. Long live anti-fascist Italy, always. Viva l'Italia antifascista, sempre. #25Aprile #antifascismo

🚨Excited to share our new paper on the genetic legacy in the modern Spanish population,revealing North African ancestry and positively selected genes tied to immunity and diet. Kudos to @jgarcia-cal.bsky.social and the team led by @ebosch1972.bsky.social & @francesccalafell.bsky.social #AcademicSky

The last thing I needed today was to argue even with ChatGPT, but here we are. #AcademicSky

I was actually managing to stay mentally stable today… then I moved an image in a Word document. #AcademicSky

Offered any time between 10am and 2pm. They picked 2pm. Nothing like scheduling a meeting at the exact moment my availability expires. Next time I’ll offer "between 10am and 1:59pm" and see what happens. #AcademicSky

If someone’s a jerk, you can’t call them stupid; they might start thinking that’s an upgrade.

🚨 Hey #AcademicSky, if you care about #DEI in science, check this out! ✨

I went to work in a café. Seemed like a good idea. My headphones died, a child has been crying for 20 minutes, another spilled a glass of water near my table while their Montessori mother watched, smiling. I smiled back, falsely, as social rules dictate. #AcademicSky

What's your organisation doing to support trans+ people? #AcademicSky 🏳️‍⚧️

My mobile provider just gifted me a 50-minute bonus call to Morocco. It feels like when someone recycles a gift they didn’t want.

In 2023, thanks to @sciencequeers.bsky.social, I had the chance to talk about how genetics shows we’re one species, far from the social construct of "race." Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to share it again. #AcademicSky youtu.be/mTg1lFpme90?...

In that limbo of "Reply All" where you reply to yourself and 8 other people who, without you knowing, are out of office. So for every email you send, you get 9 back. All completely useless. #AcademicSky

I told myself I’d finish my presentation today. Adorable how I forgot how ridiculously picky I am. #AcademicSky