In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.

💬 "This course provided me great detail of general aspects that are crucial to understanding #metagenomics covering technical aspects of the use of #ONT platform and interface." Keen to learn about lab and in-field @nanoporetech.com metagenomics? 👉 buff.ly/tCB0Zeu #MAGS #nanopore #eDNA 🧬💻

#photo #photography #photographers #art #picture #artwork #artists #designers #design #pics #photos #funny #memes

Had a walk in the neighbourhood today #Tempelhof #Berlin #park #trees #Germany #photography

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The start of autumn. #Oslo #Norway #photography #square #tree

Carbonatibacter coralli gen. nov., sp. nov., a carbonate-producing and vitamin B12-sharing bacterium isolated from coral Porites lutea, reclassification of Kiloniellaceae and proposal of Aestuariispiraceae fam. nov. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #jcampubs

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Waiting for my train at #Oslo central. #photography #square #Norway

Kaleidoscopic 🪞 A black and white photography series exploring hidden symmetrical patterns unveiled through reflection. 📍 Riverside - Bruntwood - Manchester. #blackandwhite #monochrome #architecture #photography

New blog post! metaMDBG (@gaetanbenoit.bsky.social) and Myloasm (@jimshaw.bsky.social) have had recent releases, so I updated the benchmarks from the Autocycler paper: rrwick.github.io/2025/09/23/a... Both tools improved considerably! Time to update your conda environments 😄

📣 Are you a mid-career veterinary epidemiology expert working for a national authority? Join us as a Seconded National Expert and support animal health by applying your skills in risk assessment, modelling and GIS! ✍️ link.europa.eu/3JjVTW #EFSACareers #AnimalHealth | @efsa-biohaw.bsky.social

Green, green, green and a bit of sky... #photography #Germany #grass #trees #hut

Have a great Sunday! #mushroom #fungi #photography #square #Norway

MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💿 mmseqs.com

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

Extremely proud and a bit jealous that my excellent colleagues @fieldmatt.bsky.social and Inge Kersbergen have won this year's Ig Nobel Peace prize for showing that being a bit tipsy makes you better at speaking Dutch. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Annual Norwegian NORM/NORM-VET report released. Norway’s strict antibiotic policies pay off. Record-low use in humans & animals, and some of Europe’s lowest #AMR rates. But ESBL & VRE are on the rise, so vigilance is vital. www.unn.no/4a675d/sitea...

Why Do Filamentous Actinomycetota Produce Such a Vast Array of Specialized Metabolites? www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... #jcampubs

This www.nature.com/articles/s41... like a useful article to read, sadly it is paywalled. Anybody has access to the pdf for me? #science #paywalled

My colleague create a new rss feed to keep track of new posts at bioinformatics blogs. bioinf-bloggers.com Here is the code behind it, for adding more feeds github.com/novica/bioin... Feel free to give us more suggestions for blogs to follow.

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

I cannot fully put into words what publishing this Review has meant to me, so I leave you with how we closed the paper. "The humble bacterium is still a relevant tool for the study of the underlying mechanisms that are conserved throughout life." 🧪🧫🧬📚 doi.org/10.1093/gene...

Last week we cycled the #Rallervegen, a path along the railway in the Hardangervidda of #Norway. It was a wonderful experience for us.

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading

Change: Opmerkelijk: Miljoenen burgerwetenschappers helpen steeds vaker biodiversiteit in kaart brengen www.change.inc/ict/opmerkel...

🎉 Today marks 10 years since the very first @multiqc.info commit! What started as a simple tool for QC reports has grown into something used by thousands of labs worldwide. It's become a foundational tool in the fabric of #bioinformatics and it's a joy to see it play a small part in global research

Most electricity in the Netherlands now comes from renewables. This is today's @ourworldindata.org Data Insight from my colleague @simonvanteutem.bsky.social. All our Data Insights are here: ourworldindata.org/data-insights

Hi All, @alanderminna.bsky.social just sent out her latest free Europe Dispatch. She breaks down the Trump-EU trade deal and argues that in actual effects, its not a calamity for Europe. It’s good to see such optimism in action. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

In mice HT @aliettejonkers.nl

Cycling around #Berlin today. This is one of my favorite buildings #photography. So colorful.

Is it me, or did the EU just made bad deal for Europe? Especially on the digital services... The Japanese seem to have played their hand better.

Just a few days left to apply for PhD positions in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social. preview-uob.cloud.contensis.com/research/cen... I am offering two projects (on Clostridioides difficile & metagenomics of wastewater and freshwater).

Wow. Scientists have edited mosquito DNA to prevent the spread of malaria to humans "while supporting essential physiological functions... and negligible fitness costs" to the mosquito population. Potentially ending the mosquito-born spread of malaria to humans. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵

Funky street lights #Oslo #Norway #photography

PNAS just asked me to order reprints for our recent commentary. For fun, I thought I'd see how much they cost. 25 prints—of just one page, mind you—646 USD. And then they have the temerity to charge 160 USD for shipping. The for-profit publishers will take all we let them. Choose other journals.

While having a small coffee break I got a visit from this little toad. #Norway #photography #square

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

BIGSdb v1.51.3 has been released. This provides performance improvements to distance matrix calculation in Genome Comparator, by rewriting the pairwise comparison in C. In addition, iTOL and Microreact trees can now be constructed from allelic profiles, not just sequences. github.com/kjolley/BIGS...

yellow bar #Berlin #Kreuzberg #photography #square

Hey i will be in Arnhem, the Netherlands, in the last week of August. I am looking for a co-working office space. Does anybody know where I should search for such office space?

Sunset yesterday at Oberruckersee, Germany.

Had a wonderful weekend in eastern Germany, and managed to spot or hear some nice birds as well.

Why does the solar system not have super-Earths? A thread #exoplanets ☄️

Yesterday evening Victoria park in #Berlin

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

We just got our 1st full-length 16S rRNA PacBio dataset back and it's a game changer (in the context of bacterial isolates)! Do folks have recommendations for archaeal or bac-arch primer sets for PacBio 16S runs?

Excited to share my new preprint: we show that for lab control and skin samples with low microbial biomass, metagenomics significantly outperforms 16S while DNA extraction method has minimal impact. 🧵 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...