Morning lecture on Single Cell Transcriptomics by Arnau Sebé-Pedrós (@arnausebe.bsky.social) in the Town Theatre of Český Krumlov! 🧫🧬💻 #evomics2026

Practical session in the House of Prelate on Comparative Genomics, led by Nathan Clark 🧬🌳💻 #evomics2026

We ended the day on Wednesday with a computer lab session on gene expression analyses with Rachel Steward 💻📊 #evomics2026

Morning lecture by Maliheh Mehrshad (@mehrshmali.bsky.social) on metagenomics and metatranscriptomics! 🧪🧬🦠 #evomics2026

Rosa Fernández (@rosafernandez.bsky.social) introducing the field of Phylogenomics to our participants 🙌🏽🧬🌳💻 #evomics2026

Last computer lab session of the workshop we are back in the Genomics Adventure, with Guy Leonard (@guyleonard.bsky.social)!! 🙌🏽💻🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

I worked all through x-mas break to get the Basidiomycota parameters for Tiberius for #PAG33 - but I did not get the GPU nodes in time. Here they are, Tiberius parameter for Basidiomycota, benchmarked with gffcompare on CDS exons only. Appearing on Tiberius github, soon.

This is so fantastic!! Thanks for sharing your experience. I don't teach the same topics you do but I do a nano version of this in my classes and set a unique AI policy with each class each term. I wrote about it here:

Eukan: a fully automated nuclear genome annotation pipeline for less studied and divergent eukaryotes academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... #protists

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This afternoon, we have Claire Mérot (@clairemerot.bsky.social) teaching structural variants with a computer lab, in the House of Prelate 🧬🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Evening practical session with Madeline Chase on Population Genomics 🐦🐦🧬💻 #evomics2026

Surprisingly, a local town cat decided that they wanted to learn some pop gen too!! 😸

🗜️⚡ If you use gzip/gunzip a lot in your pipelines, switch to the faster"libdeflate" versions instead! They use modern CPU capabilities to achieve a 2-3x speedup. libdeflate is in conda, and "libdeflate-gzip" and "libdeflate-gunzip" are drop-in replacements. #unix github.com/ebiggers/lib...

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Brian Haas (@brianjhaas.bsky.social) introducing transcriptomics to our participants today 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬 #evomics2026

On the other side, we have the Genomics Adventure, with Guy Leonard (@guyleonard.bsky.social) 🤩🧬💻 A tutorial that anyone can try at home! 🙆🏻‍♀️ Link: share.google/Tkfu8Ji6WaCJ... #evomics2026

For today's evening we have two parallel sessions! 🙆🏻‍♀️ On one side we have Introduction to R, with Miloš Duchoslav (@milosduchoslav.bsky.social) 💻📊 #evomics2026

We continue with an afternoon session on Using LLMs in Bioinformatics, by Scott Handley! What are LLMs? How can we use them to our advantage? But what things should we be aware of? He covers it all! 🤖💻🧬 #evomics2026

After one day of well-needed rest, we start the second week of the 2026 Workshop on Genomics with Evan Eichler, with a lecture on structural variants in the Town Theatre 🧬👤💻 #evomics2026

On Saturday afternoon we had a session led by Dag Ahrén (@dagahren.bsky.social) on Best Practices in Bioinformatics 💻📑 #evomics2026

This Saturday morning we have Chris Wheat (@chriswheat.bsky.social) on stage, with Lies, damn lies... and genomics! 📊📉⁉️ Can we trust the results we are generating? Always good to doubt yourself and be aware of your biases and possible errors 🧐

I have a PhD in Microbiology. I work on understanding fungal and protist pathogens, their function, how the environment they live in shapes them especially under stress. Also I like to communicate science and train the nex gen of experts. 🧪🧫

From theory to practice, we move on to the lab on Genome Annotation with Katharina Hoff (@katharinahoff.bsky.social) 👩🏻‍💻🙌🏽 #evomics2026

We continue the day in the Town Theatre with Genome Annotation, a lecture by Katharina Hoff (@katharinahoff.bsky.social) 🙌🏽🧬🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Olga Vinnere Pettersson giving a lecture on everything one has to take into account when planning a sequencing project 🧪🧬🗒📦 #evomics2026

We finish the day with another practical session by Petr Daněček (@petrdanecek.bsky.social) on Variant Calling 🧬💻🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Morning lecture by Marcela Uliano-Silva (@marcelauliano.bsky.social) on Wonders of Genome Assembly! How does a de novo genome sequencing project looks like? What are the steps to follow to get the best genome assembly possible? She covers it all! 🙆🏻‍♀️🧬💻 #evomics2026

Camilla Santos takes over after the genome assembly sessions, to cover Genome Assembly Curation, the session includes a live demo on how to manually curate a genome assembly 🧬💻🖱lots of cool Hi-C map plots! 📉 #evomics2026

The great regurgitation engine is only a paradox if you haven't stopped to actually think for more than 20 seconds.

Analyses of hundreds of thousands of papers in the natural sciences reveal a paradox: scientists who use AI tools produce more research but on a more confined set of topics go.nature.com/458k7Ub

Exercise time! 🤩 Participants generating their own de Bruijn graph! 📝👩🏻‍💻

A classic of the Workshop on Genomics, the Genome Assembly lecture by Camille Marchet (@camillemrcht.bsky.social) and Antoine Limasset (@npmalfoy.bsky.social), teaching us about overlapping sequences and genome assembly graphs 🧬💻 #evomics2026

Sequence alignment lecture at the Town Theatre this morning! 🧬💻💎 #evomics2026

We end day 2 with an evening session by Petr Daněček (@petrdanecek.bsky.social) on Essential File Types in Genomics. Very important to understand the format and structure of the files we will analyse! 🙌🏽💻👀 #evomics2026

We continued with an Introduction to Unix, by Mercè Montoliu Nerin (@mmontonerin.bsky.social), to make sure all the participants get comfortable in the computer environment in which they will spend many hours in the coming days! 👩🏻‍💻 #evomics2026

First sessions in our computer lab location, the House or Prelate of Český Krumlov 🙆🏻‍♀️ Starting with an introduction to the AMIs, the cloud, and computing, by Guy Leonard (@guyleonard.bsky.social) ☁️💻 #evomics2026

Do you want to hear about our recent progress in training gene finder Tiberius and integrating extrinsic evidence into genome annotation? Don’t miss my talk today at 11:30 in Pacific A at #PAG33

Kick-off lecture with Olga Vinnere Pettersson, covering sequencing technologies 🧬🧪💻 #evomics2026

Our town coordinator, Daniel Kintzl, introducing everything one needs to know about Český Krumlov, the wonderful location where we will spend the next two weeks 🤗☃️ #evomics2026

The workshop director, @josieparis.bsky.social introducing the 2026 Workshop on Genomics to our participants! 🙆🏻‍♀️ #evomics2026

Our TAs are ready in the Zlaty Andel hotel reception to hand out badges and direct our participants to the dinner reception! Looking forward to meeting all of you!! 🤗 #evomics2026

The workshop team is on site, testing labs and getting everything ready for the 2026 Workshop on Genomics! 🙌🏽👩🏻‍💻 #evomics2026

Four new entries in my collection of A.I.-generated images 🤖🎨 in academic journals: bit.ly/academic-slop, version 2.

Cerveza Polar, Venezuela, c1950.

I rarely get this angry, but this pisses me off. Just because a bunch of fools started calling what they do "cognitive science" when it isn't science, doesn't mean that what we do as cognitive scientists isn't. Go read Von Eckhardt's "What is cognitive science?" if you doubt me.

The subtitles on the BBC news feed for the new year are clearly AI. There were terrible. #stoptheslop

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

A good time of year to remember some who said no to a royal Honour: David Bowie Albert Finney Alan Rickman Ken Loach Michael Sheen Paul Weller Danny Boyle John Lennon LS Lowry John Cleese CS Lewis Stephen Hawking Jim Broadbent Francis Bacon Alan Bennett Feel free to add ✊️

Even more reason to like her!