SAMtools / HTSLib / BCFTools 1.23 has been released. See the releasenotes on GitHub and www.htslib.org for details.

A lovely collection of fungi from WildlifeTrustBCN's Gamlingay Woods. #fungi

Silver Beech at the Cleddau River - Milford Sound, New Zealand. #photography #landscape #nz

Valley Highlights - Te Mata Peak, Hawke's Bay, NZ. A collaboration between the rising sun and moving clouds to highlight the Tukituki river and green valley. #photography #landscape #nz

Motherfucking wind farms…

Release 1.22.1 of HTSlib and SAMtools is now available from GitHub. This fixes crashes that could happen when reading malformed CRAM files, or when writing files with very long secondary alignments as CRAM 3.1. See htslib.org/download/ for links to tarballs and release notes.

Release 1.22 of HTSlib, SAMtools, and BCFtools is now available from GitHub. See htslib.org/download/ for links to tarballs and release notes. 🧪 #samtools #bcftools #htslib #bioinformatics

Alright, @sarahebond.bsky.social in her cruelty has made me aware of this remarkably incompetent talk Malcolm Gladwell gave and so I am going to inflict it on all of you by going through all of the mistakes he makes here in the hope that none of you will ever take him seriously again. 1/

Something I try to explain to tech peeps/investors is the danger of seeing yourself as the outcome, rather than the enabler. It leads to creating 'value' that isn't valuable to the user. It just complicates their journey to the outcome you are meant to deliver. Facebook is speed-running that. /1

Penshaw Monument looking incredible in the fog today Photo by Steven Lomas

Boxing day Seaham.

DATELINE: MARCH 1981. Shakin' Stevens is top of the charts, Tom Baker is leaving Doctor Who and Clive Sinclair is bringing computers to the masses. Britain is finally moving into a new age, and one object above all heralds its arrival. This is the story of the ZX81...

Whenever I have a bad pain day, I rewatch my favorite fanvid ever made (Starships, a multifandom fanvid by bironic) and it cheers me up. Since I've shared it a billion times on The Site That Shall Not Be Named, it's past time I share the glory of this vid here, too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTGd...

Pallantium, the Legendary Greek City the Romans Believed Existed Where Rome Was Later Founded - www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/09/p...

The Knife Angel in Haverhill.

Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily? Join a union. https://t.co/yiq1jamHIT

It’s meant to be.