This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane www.science.org/content/arti...

Group photo with the last survivors of the Genome Assembly using @pacbio.bsky.social long-reads! @marcelauliano.bsky.social s contagious passion for ´genome assembly made the week fly by, and we learned so much from her. Huge thanks to Joao for keeping everything #bioinformatics running smoothly!

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

Excited to recruit a new PhD student for Fall 2026 in my lab at Cornell! Looking for someone interested in evolutionary genomics + fisheries/conservation applications. Quick timeline this year—reach out soon. More details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html

Our 1-day course Integrating Large Language Model Tools into R Workflows organised in conjunction with the The Wales Ecology & Evolution Network (WEEN) Conference is now full! #SoldOut #Rstats #AI #LLMs #DataScience www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Interested in #GenomeCuration? Join this course with the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Curation team in 2 week! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social

An update about the courses in November!

Registrations are now closed! #Soldout Thanks everyone and see you in December!

📝 Want to turn your research into a publishable paper? Join our Academic Paper Writing course (12–14 Jan 2026, online) and draft your manuscripts with us! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

“Bin Chicken” is now published in Nature Methods! It substantially improves genome recovery through rational coassembly 🧬🖥️. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, we recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 new phyla. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @benjwoodcroft.bsky.social @rhysnewell.bsky.social 🧵1/6

Thank you @liomys.mx and all participants for making the first edition of Integrating Large Language Model Tools into R Workflows a success! Great discussions, great coding — onward! 🚀 #Rstats #AI #LLMs

Fantastic energy this week in our #Metabolomics in R/Bioconductor course! Big thanks to Pietro Franceschi and our wonderfully international group of attendees. #Rstats #Bioconductor #Metabolomics

Do not miss this opportunity if you want to get up to speed with single-cell RNA sequencing analysis using R and Bioconductor. We have the last seat available! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

The #RNAseq #dataanalysis with R and Bioconductor is going to an end. Many thanks to Ludwig and all attendees who have joined us over the last 2 weeks! If you want to join us for the next edition, check it out: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Rstats

It’s almost full — only 2 seats left! If you’re interested in learning about adaptation genomics, make sure to register soon before it’s too late! #AdaptationGenomics

Always love doing this course! Great really interactive environment and lots of engaging questions that keep me on my toes!

Are you a biologist eager to boost your #programming skills? 🧬 Learn how to handle your NGS data using #Python in our upcoming course with @passdan.bsky.social — including an intro to coding in the age of ChatGPT and AI tools! 🚀 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

We’ve just started our 5-day course with @marcelauliano.bsky.social & Joao on assembling eukaryotic genomes with @pacbio.bsky.social long reads and Hi-C! Attendees are learning how to handle raw data, run assemblies, scaffold chromosomes & assess quality.

Join our online course Statistical Methods for #Metatranscriptomics (27-29 Apr 2026)! Learn advanced R/ @bioconductor.bsky.social techniques for microbial gene expression analysis & multi-omics integration. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Join our online course LiDAR Data Analysis in R (26–28 Jan 2026) with @micheletorresani.bsky.social ! Learn to process & analyze 3D ecological data using the lidR package. #lidar #Rstats #remotesensing www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Only 2 seats left for the #SpatialStatistics with R course! #Rstats

Just launched: our Developing Shiny Apps with AI course! 🚀 Learn to build interactive web apps using R, Shiny & powerful AI tools. Level up your coding game from 9–13 Feb 2026. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Rstats #Shiny #AI #DataScience

After a week on stats and #Bioconductor intro, today we started #RNAseq analysis with R/Bioconductor! We have covered RNA-seq data characteristics and how to store/analyse it using #SummarizedExperiment.

🚀 New course! RNA-seq Analysis for Absolute Beginners with Dr. Lei Guo. 7 days of hands-on learning — from raw reads to publication-ready results. No coding experience needed! 💻 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #RNAseq #Bioinformatics

Into #MassSpectrometry & #Proteomics? Ready to master data analysis with R & Bioconductor? 🚀 Join our course starting next week and level up your skills — there’s still time to register!

We’ve just kicked off the @nextflow.io course with @passdan.bsky.social 🚀 Over the next 3 days, participants will learn how to build, run, and scale reproducible workflows for big data and #bioinformatics — from basics to advanced concepts — using Nextflow across any computing environment. 💻⚡

Good morning everyone 🌞 There is only 1 seat left for the #Phylogenomics course in December! If interested, check it out before it is too late!

This has been a fantastic course, very well done @valentinapeona.bsky.social and @ritarebollo.bsky.social ! 🙌 Looking forward to continue diving into the field 😊

🎓 Upcoming Online Course: Single-cell RNA-seq Analysis with R/Bioconductor 📅 November 17–21, 2025 This course offers hands-on training in scRNA-seq data analysis, from preprocessing & quality filtering to cell cluster exploration. 👉 Register & learn more: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

🌍 Master #GIS the R way! Join our online course “Using R as a GIS: Mapping & Spatial Operations in R” (online, 9–13 March 2026) with @ambarbosa.bsky.social Learn to collect, analyse & visualise spatial data — all reproducibly in R 📍 Live + hands-on sessions www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Our method for genome size estimation from long-read overlaps is now published 🥳 academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

What a course!🧬🦣 Thanks to this amazing team of instructors @claudiafontsere.bsky.social @jazminrm.bsky.social & @hernmoral.bsky.social for delivering such a great first edition of the #Museomics course. Thanks to everyone who has joined us this week and good luck with your data!💯

🧬 Working with #omics data? Want to learn how to apply Machine Learning methods to your data? 🚀 Registrations are now open for our course taking place in February 2026! 👉 Learn more and secure your spot here: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Rstats #MachineLearning #NGS #Omics #AI

🎓 Upcoming Online Course: R/Bioconductor for Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics 📅 November 17–19, 2025 Join Dr Laurent Gatto for a hands-on course on mass spectrometry–based proteomics analysis using R and Bioconductor. 👉 Register & learn more: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Join our online #ComparativeGenomics course with Ingo & @sedlazeck.bsky.social , 23-27 Feb 2026! Learn genome assembly, variant detection (SNVs & SVs), and functional impact analysis with hands-on sessions. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Bioinformatics #Genomics

Just kicked off our 2-day course “Integrating Large Language Models into R Workflows” with @liomys.mx & an enthusiastic group eager to boost their R coding with AI! 🚀 From APIs to coding assistants, we’re diving deep into LLM-powered data analysis. #rstats #AI #LLMs #DataScience

We’re currently running our first online ABM and IBM with @netlogo.bsky.social course after two in-person editions in Berlin & Łódź! Huge thanks to Volker Grimm, Steve Railsback & Jacob Kelter for their expert guidance Thank you to everyone who joined us on this journey!

Excited to announce our online course “Multimodal AI for Systems Biology” with Dr. Himel Mallick, March 2–6, 2026! Learn multimodal data integration, causal AI, and uncertainty quantification using R & Python. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Bioinformatics #AI #RStats #Python

Learn how to do bioinformatics at scale! Nextflow is incredibly powerful for processing vast datasets in a reproducible way. @nextflow.io

2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/... In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈

This week we're running the Transposable Elements course with @valentinapeona.bsky.social and @ritarebollo.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #TE25 #Bioinformatics #Genomics

🚀 Only a few seats left! Join our “Introduction to @nextflow.io” course (🗓️ 10–12 Nov) and learn how to build, run, and share scalable bioinformatics workflows with @passdan.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Registrations are open for the Introduction to Analyzing Animal Movement with R Learn to import, clean, and analyze movement data, calculate key metrics, and explore home-range analyses — perfect for beginners with basic R skills: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #MovementEcology #Rstats

🚀 The 4th edition of our #DeepLearning for Biologists course is now live with Filippo and Nelson! 😎Turning biological data into powerful insights with AI!

We are extremely happy to have kicked off this first edition of the #Museomics course with @hernmoral.bsky.social @claudiafontsere.bsky.social & @jazminrm.bsky.social and a great group of participants working on very different systems! #Museomics #aDNA #Bioinformatics

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

🌍🧬 Interested in #evolution #genomics & #adaptation? Join us online this Dec for our course #AdaptationGenomics— a hands-on dive into the genomic basis of adaptation, from variant calling to genotype–environment associations & structural variation analysis www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Join our online course "Genomic Data Visualisation with R" on Dec 15-17. Learn to create impactful visuals for genomics. More info and registration: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/genomic-data-viz/ #course

Join me for "Mastering Quarto CLI: From Authoring to Publishing" 📈 5-6 Feb 2026 I'll help you master: - Reproducible documents - Multi-language workflows - Beautiful publishing Let's transform your data projects! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #DataScience #Quarto

Registrations are now closed for the course on Marine Spatial Data in R! Thanks everyone and see you in November. #soldout #Rstats #GIS #MarineSpatialData www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...