💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve. Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n

I want to expand on the extent to which IDEAA materials have been purged: I wrote an article last year for women’s history month on the history of women in antimicrobial development….DELETED.

Congratulations DR @cmkobel.bsky.social on the successful defense of your thesis 🙌🏼 Massive thanks to @hairyllama.bsky.social and @manuelkleiner.bsky.social for the time and your style which made the day all the more entertaining.

Coining the term "rumen community types" (RCT)

New preprint out from @cmkobel.bsky.social, @velma-te-a.bsky.social, @microbesrule.bsky.social and many others! 📄 It's been very cool to follow and play a small part in this story: Carl and Velma found two distinct community types across omics layers in the cow rumen that are driven by protozoa 🐮👾

Hi Bluesky! 🦋 I am transitioning to this platform and will start posting here about my own and others' cool science! 🤩 Sad to say goodbye to science Twitter, but I can't keep using a platform that is being used to destroy democracy... I'll be moving my old Twitter posts here in the coming days.

My supervisor, @velma-te-a.bsky.social, is so cool!!! Check out her talk on ciliate multi-omics, taking you through a history of science. jams.org.au/index.php/ja...

Wow what a cool preprint!

CompareM2 is a genomes-to-report pipeline for comparing microbial genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.12.603264v1

Dreaming of a one-stop-shop for analysing microbial genomes using all your favorite tools? Look no further, CompareM2 is out 🤩

Yay new version of CompareM2 (v2.8.2) github.com/cmkobel/Comp... - New "passthrough argument" feature to address any command line argument to any rule in the workflow. #microbiology #bioinformatics #opensource #science #genomics

Microflora Danica: the atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes 10,686 shotgun metagenomes from a variety of environments across Denmark www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So strange this doesn't get any attention. Anyhow, maybe adding an illustration works. This is the exact same model

Holo-omics review is out! There are no animals - Only holobionts. link: doi.org/10.1039/D4MO... @oveoyas.bsky.social @microbesrule.bsky.social @jennymerkesvik.bsky.social @velma-te-a.bsky.social #symbiosis #microbiology #holoomics #bioinformatics #science #openaccess

Currently, we have the following open positions in the Rinke Group for Microbial MultiOmics and Biorecycling (MMOB) @ the University of Innsbruck, Austria: 1x postdoc 3x PhD 1x RA More info @ rinkelab.org/index.php/op...

Which style is better? data %>% mutate(type = "significant") or data %>% mutate(type = "significant")

Wouldn't it be better if R had a non-vector data type, then there would be no doubt distinguishing vectorized and non-vectorized functions?

Data science: Is it bad if I have more comments than code?

Our latest episode is with the amazing @carlbergstrom.com talking all things science studies and 'Calling Bullshit' on mis- and disinformation. Thanks so much to Carl for joining us on the podcast while he was in Melbourne! #STS #MetasSci #HistSTM #PhilSci #SciComm #SocialPsyc🧪

Updated the Kraken 2 index collection to include an updated nt index: benlangmead.github.io/aws-indexes/k2 . It's getting big, folks: tarball is 550 GB and hash.k2d file is 710 GB.

Australian brushturkeys may be common to the point of being a nuisance, but they're stunning to look at and amazing in how they brood their eggs. Rather than sitting on them, they make incubation mounds—compost piles, essentially—the size of VW bugs and regulate the temperature therein carefully.

Found these sunglasses on the bottom of a lake. They will have a new life on BS.

The clade of ridiculous stuffies- that’s what came to me in class. Super useful PVC pipe rotating nodes to teach tree thinking and how to read ancestry

New preprint! 📰 Using metabolic pathway analysis, we enumerated metabolite exchanges in microbial metabolic models and found a surprising hierarchy of formal pathway definitions. Amazing job by Ylva Wedmark getting to the bottom of all this 😀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ich finde eigentlich, dass ich einen einfachen Namen habe. Trotzdem werde ich immer wieder Variationen davon angesprochen, wie z.B.: - Kobler - Kobelt - Koblet - Hobel - Hodel - Vogel Wie geht es euch so mit euren Namen?