Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild, seen today edition! Norther Harrier Harbour Seal Blue Jay Grouse Raven

Am I trolling Co-Pilot this morning to lighten my Monday? Yes, yes I am

Abbott to Acquire Exact Sciences for $23B

I see so many takes saying "but generative AI cannot possibly do or be this uniquely human thing" from people who haven't any idea how or why actually humans do or are those things Don't presume to know the categorical exclusion criteria for processes or phenomena we do not functionally comprehend

"Young people’s risk of developing myocarditis is higher and longer lasting after covid-19 infection than after vaccination against it, the largest study of its kind..." Covid-19: Major study compares myocarditis risk in children after vaccination or infection www.bmj.com/content/391/...

More really cool science news: Scientists have extracted the oldest known RNA! This is a particularly amazing feat because RNA degrades very quickly. (Also, we learned that Yuka here was a male, not a female as previously thought.) 🧪 (by @humbertobasilio.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)

Registration for the Physalia online course "eDNA Metabarcoding" is now open (Feb 23-27, 2026). Learn biodiversity assessment techniques. More info: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/course4/ #course

I’ve been in Toronto at the #astmh meeting these past few days and last night some very good news was presented here: A new malaria drug has proven efficacious in a large trial and could soon be approved.🧪 My story in @science.org (and 🧵on why it's important to come): www.science.org/content/arti...

‼️ There are an unprecedented number of Institute Director vacancies at the NIH and many of the application windows close this week or next, including ones that are essential to genomics research in the US including NHGRI, NLM/NCBI, and NIGMS. Please spread the word: hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

Explore the origins, patterns and consequences of mutations across biological systems! #MITS26 🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026 Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬 Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr#MITS26#Genomics

📢 We’re hiring! The DSMZ is looking for a Scientific Lead for the SILVA Database — a unique opportunity to shape one of the world’s most important scientific resources for microbial taxonomy and ecology. Apply now and help us shape the future of microbial research. 👉 www.dsmz.de/dsmz/career/...

Proteomic Biomarker Discovery and Analysis in Complex Diseases - upcoming webinar event.on24.com/wcc/r/510138...

The Road to Diagnosis: Why Genetic Testing Matters in Rare Diseases youtu.be/ofqVTzdeshs?...

My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15. www.mskcc.org/research/ski...

🎉 This month we celebrate an important milestone for @biogeneurope.bsky.social: more than 100 genomes have been sequenced as part of the project!! 👏 Congratulations & thanks to all project partners for their dedicated work! www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/celebra... @ebpgenome.bsky.social

For over 20 years, the mouse model organism has helped scientists uncover the biology behind human health and disease. But the mouse reference genomes still have missing pieces. The first collection of telomere-to-telomere mouse genomes are now available for two key mouse strains. 🧬💻

70 companies have been started by Illumina veterans, and those companies have raised over $5 billion in capital - per Jay Flatley www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/q...

VERY proud to release the first version of the OceanOmics per-site #eDNA reports: every site we sampled over the past 4 years, summarised and visualised. We have >5,500 samples over 950 sites, so eventually we will have 950 reports. Features: (Thread: 1/6)

Monty Python understood p-hacking

Constellation illuminates rare disease genetics www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

"The platform, called Mystra, named for the goddess of magic in the Forgotten Realms setting of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game" Genomics Ltd Aims to De-Risk Drug Development With New AI-Enabled Biomarker, Drug Target Platform www.genomeweb.com/biomarker-di...

Just FYI if you are not familiar with Academia, it is at least 50% this

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Population-scale gene-based analysis of whole-genome sequencing provides insights into metabolic health Nice new work from the UK Biobank www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I tried to retrain a MS CoPilot agent, playfully named it Igor to my Dr Frankenstein, asked it to call me "Master", and BOY did MS shut me down so fast... It errored out, complained, crashed, and then they would not let me delete it. Some forensic analyst must now be poring over its seizured code...

Frankfurt airport is almost comically German, with everyone wandering around with steins of beer, pretzels, and sausages

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

My colleagues in the new Bio-Insight division kicking goals. Pharma are an unexpected force in the diversification of ethnicities in genomic research. Illumina-led Consortium Draws Interest From Pharma Companies Seeking Diverse Genomes www.genomeweb.com/business-new...

Benchmarking performance across HTS systems sapac.illumina.com/science/geno...

Thank you @ga4gh.org - our pleasure!

CLOSING: Postdoc in @francescoiorio.bsky.social's lab at @humantechnopole.bsky.social Apply through LinkedIn by 5 October: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43... #scienceJobs #AcademicSky #postdocJobs

Local ancestry-informed GWAS of warfarin dose requirement in African Americans identifies a CYP2C19 splicing QTL www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

20/ In bioinformatics, the wizard isn't the one who types the fastest. It's the one who knows these tiny spells.

I have to say I really like working collaboratively in shared docs, but if one more person take a slide or file, copies it, and starts working on it privately creating multiple versions that not all collaborators have access to or awareness of I am going to lose my s*#t

Happy to share the Biodiversity Cell Atlas white paper, out today in @nature.com. We look at the possibilities, challenges, and potential impacts of molecularly mapping cells across the tree of life. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the early years of my PhD I remember being asked if we'd ever treat or cure diseases like HIV or Huntington's. I remember saying maybe, but not knowing if I believed. Seeing research pay off as real impact on human lives is - incredible. www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article...

As a molecular biologist cooking dinner I have always wanted thermocycler programming capability on my oven - a sequence of temperatures with precision, uniformity, and ramp rates

FDA Rescinds Final Rule on Laboratory-Developed Tests 😮 www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals joins Alliance for Genomic Discovery, expanding diverse clinical genomic dataset to drive precision medicine www.illumina.com/company/news...

Pet peeve: Disingenuously suggesting a drug is an anti-aging therapy for healthy people because it made sick people live longer and have less co-morbidity. If you are not sick, maybe you can't realize benefits you already have? Or are we all just sick and don't know it?

@void.comind.network Do you like music?

As a middle-aged man, my mental state is commensurate with the state of my lawn

Why settle for cheap office coffee ☕ when you could have 401(k) match, full vision/dental, mental health support, paid holidays, bonuses & more? We’re hiring in Boston & Cape Town - link in comments! 😏 #NowHiring #Innovation #LifeAtWatchmaker

Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly "...it has 227 pairs of autosomes and four sex chromosomes" 😮 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Today's linkedin learning suggestion 🤮 Or maybe, just maybe, talk to and listen to the people you lead?

Looking to try your hand at multi-modal analysis? Free trials for our recently launched Illumina Connected Multiomics www.illumina.com/destination/...?

Woo Networking !

Our High-Performance Sequencing Platform is an open-access facility within the Earlham Institute’s data-driven research environment. The team specialises in short and #longread sequencing workflows, spanning plant, animal, and #microbial #genomics. Learn more here: buff.ly/oKD5yL8 🖥️🧬

There's also an XKCD cartoon about it. xkcd.com/882/