For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K

This is a love letter to our friends and colleagues, the fantastic team that ran @gigascience.bsky.social until last month, with our thoughts on their unexpected departure. We wish them and the journal's new team the best. May GS continue their critical work as #OpenScience and #OpenData stewards.

Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have uncovered a previously unknown genetic branch of ancient hunter-gatherers local to the Colombian land bridge. Learn more: scim.ag/4mEsGNL

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Dear Bioconductor community, we hope to welcome many of you this summer at #BOSC2025 in Liverpool or online! @bioconductor.bsky.social

Dear Australian BioCommons community, we hope to welcome many of you this summer at #BOSC2025 in Liverpool or online! @ausbiocommons.bsky.social

Dear SACNAS community, we hope to welcome many of you this summer at #BOSC2025 in Liverpool or online! @sacnas.bsky.social

Dear colleagues at EMBL-EBI, we hope some of you and your network of researchers can join us! @ebi.embl.org #BOSC2025

Join us at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, #BOSC2025, July 21-22 in Liverpool, UK (and online) as part of ISMB/ECCB. Abstracts due on April 17! www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-... Talks, panels, posters, and the CollaborationFest are open to ISMB registrants. See you this summer!

Join us in Montréal this summer: 25th Bioinformatics Open Source Conference at the Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. #BOSC2024 #ISMB2024. Abstracts are due in one week! Details at www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...