Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

Objects, for me, are one of those things that are conceptually easy to understand, but once you have to write your own this understanding breaks down so quickly

We'd love to hear from all Australian researchers who can benefit from a centralised web platform for managing, launching and monitoring their Nextflow bioinformatics pipelines! www.biocommons.org.au/seqera-service

The dog when you return home after leaving for 27 minutes

Our team at SIH are looking for a Senior Bioinformatician! Please repost and share with anyone that might be interested. More details: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... #bioinformatics #jobs #hiring

Post the best ways to wish someone a happy new years, I'll start:

if you are having dinner with a phylogeneticist it is rude to order basil

Want to use your #statistics, ML/AI or #bioinformatics skills to solve problems in #agriculture? We are seeking 3 postdocs (up to 3 years) to join at ANU Biological Data Science Institute as part of Analytics for 🇦🇺 Grains industry by 📅 19 Jan We now also have a (WIP) website! 🌐 anu-aagi.github.io

New year, new assemblies! I'm excited to announce Autocycler, my new tool for consensus assembly of long-read bacterial genomes! It's the successor to Trycycler, designed to be faster and less reliant on user intervention. Check it out: github.com/rrwick/Autoc... (1/5)

Amazing. Meanwhile I still can't get the bootloader working on an Arch install

We're hiring a Research Computing Engineer for my team at WEHI: wehi.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WEHI/j.... Please send this to anyone you know who might be interested! #rse

🐍🌲 piqtree: IQ-TREE2 meets Python via cogent3! 🤝⚡️ The developers of IQ-TREE2 and cogent3 have joined forces to bring the power of IQ-TREE2 to Python users as piqtree. piqtree exposes selected IQ-TREE2 capabilities within Python, using the cogent3 library as the interface...

New release of Canu - first one in over 3 years! github.com/marbl/canu/r... The notes say this will be the very last release. Many thanks to its devs Brian Walenz and @sergek.bsky.social. Canu may be a bit old and it's certainly not fast, but it makes good assemblies and so I still use it!

Jobortunities: Shortly advertising for 2 positions, both working on the Breast Cancer Atlas, in Sydney. - Wet lab research assistant: mol bio +/- pathology desirable - Comp. Research Assistant: scRNA-Seq, spatial transcriptomics and ML Details to follow, DM or email if you are a great fit.

What started off as @katherinecaley.bsky.social and I seeing peoples github contributions and being like "wow, so coool...", turned out to become a year (mostly) of developing (mostly) good version control/software engineering habits.

Last month 18 keen 🇦🇺🧪 scientists gathered to work into the night to join ELIXIR's #BioHackEU24 Read how they got stuck in shaping global #bioinformatics advancements while networking locally and abroad 👇 www.biocommons.org.au/news/biohack... #genomics #FAIR #usegalaxy

🎉 Join us for our final R-Ladies Sydney event of 2024! 📅 When: Wednesday, December 18, 5:30 PM 📍 Where: Moore College, 1 King Street, Newtown 🎯 What: A casual social catch-up to network with fellow R enthusiasts, celebrate the year, and build new connections. 👉 RSVP here: bit.ly/3BaR32J

Huge. Congrats @rpodonnell.bsky.social!!

Intro to @nextflow.io training done and dusted - thanks for having us, AMSI! @ausbiocommons.bsky.social

Come join us!