Given how stingy public research funding is overall, it's shocking that the #MRFF only spends 50% of what is allocated in the budget. This funds highly impactful, translational research focused fund that can DIRECTLY address the economic burdens of the healthcare system + improved patient outcomes

28km, 7 bridges, 2 family members raising funds for #CancerCouncil In honour of their grandparents. If you can spare a gold coin, please help support my wife and son for a second year in a row 🎗️ www.7bridgeswalk.com.au/fundraisers/... #fuckCancer #cancer #research

Genomics is the future of cancer treatment. The PAGES project is making sure Aboriginal Australians are part of that future. 🎬 Watch now 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRfX... #precisionMedicine #healthEquity #genomics #firstNations

Existential #RNAsky question for the weekend: If two RNA products share the same promoter/TSS, but have different 5' ends (one is processed out of longer transcript) and are differentially expressed, are they different isoforms or distinct genes?

LLM chat bot generated requests for HDR supervision are so generic and obvious, it makes sifting through applications that much easier. I'm concerned for new tenure track academics -- I hope they can sniff out these copy paste requests, maybe by using honeypots on university research profiles?

Don't miss @osvaldoics.bsky.social in the flesh next Tuesday in Sydney

Some exciting #SingleCell events with #ParseBio coming up this month at @ramacgenomics.bsky.social 🧬 9 Sept: SPLiT-Seq Tech Showcase Seminar 🔗 tinyurl.com/bddc5zc3 15 Sept: Application deadline for discounted Parse Evercode WT Mini v3 Kit promotion 🔗 tinyurl.com/yc84zmfm 📩 [email protected]

Congratulations to @hasindu2008.bsky.social form #UNSW Computer Science and Engineering for wearing a tuxedo last night 👏🏻 Also for being awarded the #EurekaPrize for outstanding early career researcher, showcase his pioneering and impacftful research in #bioinformatics software

Prof Cecile King finishing her #ARNASydney2025 talk on biomolecular condensates by promoting the upcoming (free) symposium on the topic in November

@thermofishersci.bsky.social @decodescience.bsky.social @garvaninstitute.bsky.social @ramacgenomics.bsky.social @nanoporetech.com @agrf.bsky.social @revvity.bsky.social Apologies if I missed some sponsor or exhibitor accounts (please let me know if so) #AGTA2025

Early bird deadline extended for #AGTA #AGTA2025 This year will be quite different, with a big focus on tech, low cost Rego, digital engagement, and in a central location. Don't miss the ECR events, exhibitor lounges (à la AGBT) and two lightning talk sessions, open to industry members: agta2025.com

Yesterday we had a brilliant start to #ARNASydney2025. We kicked off with the #RNA in neuroscience & RNA tech, AI & Bioinformatics sessions. Speakers included @sergiuppasca.bsky.social, Mike Clark, @sabaaltaf.bsky.social, Nicole Green and several others #RNASky @unswrna.bsky.social

Prof Nils Walter from U.Michigan back in Sydney, mentions it's his favourite place! Opening up the #ARNASydney2025 structure, chemistry and dynamics session.

#A-RNA2025 off to a great start. @martinalexsmith.bsky.social sharing his views on why lncRNAs should no longer be consider wallflowers.

The annual meeting of the Australasian RNA association is on for the next 3 days at UTS. Possibly one of the longest hashtags ever #ARNASydney2025

Only 3 sleeps until #ARNASydney2025!!! Excited to host two special panels: 💼 Career Development Panel - organised by our outstanding A-RNA EMCR team 💊 RNA Commercialisation Workshop - generously sponsored by BioNTech Australia Register at www.a-rnameeting.org.au #RNASky @unswrna.bsky.social

Glad I saw @ivanliachko.bsky.social present on mind-blowing applications of proximity ligation, including metagenomics--linking plasmids, phages and genomes across microbiomes. I see major impact for precision #phagetherapy (and #onehealth) Godspeed @phasegenomics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yaubcrpt

Glad I saw @ivanliachko.bsky.social present on mind-blowing applications of proximity ligation, including metagenomics--linking plasmids, phages and genomes across microbiomes. I see major impact for precision #phagetherapy (and #onehealth) Godspeed @phasegenomics.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yaubcrpt

Scholarships available for Genome Informatics - just include a brief summary on your open science work plus your conference abstract. If you have already paid to register, we will work with CSHL to refund you the $$$. Apply today! jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-6-... @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social

The microbial composition of metagenomes is identified in seconds by profiling against large databases go.nature.com/3BBVqDC rdcu.be/eCbj4

RNA is far more than a messenger. Its structures regulate, evolve, and catalyze — carrying out functions DNA alone cannot. But predicting #RNA structure from sequence is still extremely difficult. In our recently published paper in @narjournal.bsky.social we present a way forward. 🧵 ⤵️

🥱 Bored during #ScienceWeek2025? 🥼 Want to go on an adventure from the comfort of your pyjamas? 🧪🧬Why not go on an immersive & interactive virtual tour of a #Genomics #Lab? Wander around the @ramacgenomics.bsky.social Centre with impunity here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mr2cj4rj #UNSWscience

The P6 buzzing alone peacefully, discretely filling up hard drives 🧬

Nice @unswbabs.bsky.social UNSW write up of our paper. ✈️ Melbourne now w/ team to present this and other work at #HFSP @hfspo.bsky.social 24th awardee meeting. Looking forward to getting inspired with new biology from interdisciplinary teams across the world. www.unsw.edu.au/news/2025/06...

🌅🐦‍⬛Early bird Registration for #AGTA2025 is live! Submit your abstract 📝 and check-out the awesome 🗓️ program here ➡️ agta2025.org

ABC Radio National Health report on Rosie, featuring @kmichie.bsky.social 📻👂https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport/ai-lung-cancer-syphilis/105376662

The IncaRNAto lab is seeking a motivated #PhD candidate, interested in studying #RNA structural ensemble dynamics in living cells. Here's the link to the vacancy: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor.... Please share!

#MeetTheTeamMonday ~ Get to know Steven, our fabulous Research Assistant who works in the amplicon, Sanger, and ONT sequencing teams! @unswbabs.bsky.social #unsw #ramaciotticentreforgenomics

Is this the catalyst that streamlines clinical AI variant interpretation? Let's go!

AlphaGenome: advancing regulatory variant effect prediction with a unified DNA sequence model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.25.661532v1

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Speed, quality, and purpose. The @ramacgenomics.bsky.social is proud to support users like Paul, who are turning #AI and #genomic science into real-world impact–even for man's best friend. news.unsw.edu.au/en/paul-is-u...

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Join us TODAY for the latest Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Monthly Seminar, where cutting-edge science meets cost-effective innovation. Featuring Ivonne Petermann showcasing Illumina's PIPseq and Tsz (Andrew) Ho Li from UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences. See you soon! #SingleCell #Illumina

Preprint on "Improving spliced alignment by modeling splice sites with deep learning". It describes minisplice for modeling splice signals. Minimap2 and miniprot now optionally use the predicted scores to improve spliced alignment. arxiv.org/abs/2506.12986

25 years of discovery: @ramacgenomics.bsky.social celebrates milestone. One of Australia’s leading genomics research and resource facilities held a special event to mark a quarter of a century of advancing scientific discovery. www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

Something special is brewing at @ramacgenomics.bsky.social

Spaceballs 2 better be called "The Search for More Money" or Yogurt is a fraud!

arm64 compilaiton issues, cryptic dependency errors, uninstall-reinstall, sample/metadata alignment, nasty coercion bugs, transpose hell... Just another day of R coding!

I wish they would rebrand Microsoft Co-Pilot as Clippy 2.0

So satisfying 🤤 #MiSeqi100 @ramacgenomics.bsky.social

#MeetTheTeamMonday ~ Get to know Scott (Research Officer), RNA and robotics expert here at The Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics! @unswbabs.bsky.social

Join @ramacgenomics.bsky.social for today's #Olink lunch seminar at UNSW, 12-2pm Register here ⬇️ forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Really pleased that this paper is out - academic.oup.com/neuro-oncolo... thanks to all our collaborators far and wide who have helped and of course @nanoporetech.com

At this point, I'm fairly certain that Globus file transfer is just teleportation

Opening the inbox on Friday morning after a long week of meetings

Free in-person registration is open for #MLCB2025! Sept 10-11 at @nygenome.org and online at youtube.com/@mlcbconf. Paper/abstract deadline is June 1, more deets including our fantastic invited speaker lineup at mlcb.org! Please RP.

New postdoc opening @ UNSW in RNA biology and T cell immunity 🥼🧬🧫. Use molecular biology, nanopore sequencing, and in vivo models to uncover the regulatory drivers of adaptive immunity. Apply 👉 external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Our new contribution to the quest to find causal GWAS genes! Sam Ghatan from my lab at @nygenome.org led a systematic comparison of eQTLs and CRISPRi+scRNA-seq screens. TL;DR: they provide highly complementary insights, with ortogonal pros and cons. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Bioinformatics seminar this Friday, May 2nd, with Jimmy Breen (Black Ochre Data Labs) — “Large Language Models for Investigating Genomic Variants and Regulatory Activity”. Details: adelaidebioinformatics.org/events/event... #bioinformatics #adelaide #BODL #events #seminar