We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Ever wondered how DNA metabarcoding compares to traditional methods for assessing diet? Curious whether these techniques could help inform the management of introduced deer in Australia? Then our latest research is for you! @janstrugnell.bsky.social @coatiben.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

@zoologistedel.bsky.social wowing the crowd about her genomic research on Heard and McDonald Islands #pintofscience

Joe Perkins entertaining the audience in his precompletion PhD seminar on Ecology, detection, and impacts of benthic toxic dinoflagellates in Qld: a focus on #ciguatera poisoning. @marine-omics.bsky.social 🧬

New blog post! In it, I benchmark the new version of Dorado from @nanoporetech.com, which comes with new DNA basecalling models. Short version: big accuracy gains for hac, small improvements for sup. Check it out for the full results: rrwick.github.io/2025/05/27/d...

Is there a core response to heat stress in #abalone? You bet there is. Check out this fantastic new meta-analysis of heat stress studies across abalone led by Roy Barkan. @marine-omics.bsky.social @iracooke.bsky.social 🧬🧬 rdcu.be/elVL2

Putting Structural Variants Into Practice: The Role of Chromosomal Inversions in the Management of Marine Environments. New @marine-omics.bsky.social paper by Nadja Schneller with @janstrugnell.bsky.social, @mattfield100.bsky.social and Kerstin Johannesson out today doi.org/10.1111/mec....

Big thanks to the fabulous crew, deck officers and all the expeditioners onboard RSV #Nuyina on our voyage to the Denman Glacier, East #Antarctica. @arcsaef.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social @marine-omics.bsky.social @lausally.bsky.social 🐙🇦🇶🧬 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAhD...

We @marine-omics.bsky.social are hiring. We're looking for a postdoc in population genomics. @janstrugnell.bsky.social careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

Raise a test tube for the brilliant, courageous young scientists who organized today’s #standupforscience rallies. You are my heroes. Well done! @standupforscience.bsky.social 🧪

Still time to submit an Abstract for the @embl.org symposium on the Wild Frontiers of Model Systems ! If you’re into unconventional, non model systems, bringing more ecology in our understanding of biological processes, Lab-field interface this is for you. www.embl.org/about/info/c... #protistsonsky

To support genome structure studies in non-model systems, we developed SyntenyFinder, a synteny analysis pipeline combining OrthoFinder and RIdeogram. Learn more on our GitHub: github.com/symgenoevola...

Some years ago I wrote a simple R app to explore colors in HCL space. While it's clunky, it still is my preferred way of selecting colors, because it offers features other color selectors don't normally have. Today, thanks to shinylive, the app is available standalone. 🧵

A great year for Marine Omics! www.marine-omics.net

🤯 "perhaps most great whales have an unrecognized potential for great longevity that has been masked by the demographic disruptions of industrial whaling. This unrecognized longevity has profound implication for basic biology and conservation of whales." Astonishing stuff.

🚨New Preprint🚨: A Single-cell Atlas of Coral Bleaching! 🪸🦠🔥. We show the microbial ecology of coral bleaching from the gene expression of host and symbiont cells to the shifts in the bacterial and protist communities within the holobiont! #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🧪

Lot's of neat tricks here 👏

📢New Paper Alert📢 on corals and climate change in Science Adaptation via natural selection could determine whether Acropora corals persist under expected levels of global warming Hyperlinks & explainer thread below ⬇️ (1/12)

Divergent reference genomes compromise the reconstruction of demographic histories, selection scans, and population genetic summary statistics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.26.625554v1

New publication from the amazing Joe Perkins explores #dinoflagellate abundance & diversity in Hervey Bay, Qld using #DNAmetabarcoding. First-time identification of some #toxin-producing species in Australia!🧬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I just ran my 1.5 hour HTML+SVG+JavaScript+D3 workshop at ResBaz Victoria 2024. Touched on hopefully most of the important ideas needed for an interactive web-based data visualization. #resbaz #resbazvic #resbazvic2024 pfh.github.io/jsfoot/

Very timely!! #Pangenome construction from short-read sequences: benchmarking for population and conservation genomics www.authorea.com/users/616600...

Misinformation Laws Not Necessary, Says Meth Addict Peter Dutton

looks like it’s time for altimetric to skip twitter and include Bluesky or maybe even better just add Bluesky - would be nice to see where more science dissemination occurs!

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

Prepping an EOI for DP 2025 without knowing the 2024 outcome. RMS is warning me that I will be over the grant limit if I am successful and asks me to nominate a grant that I would withdraw from. I don't want 3 grants. I just want to reapply for the one I might not get. @arc-tracker.bsky.social

Many coral 'species' may, in fact, be separate 'cryptic' species! We found that up to 68% of #popgen studies in corals had putative cryptic taxa!! Check out the ms in Peer Community Journal! @peercommunityin.bsky.social #corals #crypticspecies peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Top work Nikki Rodewald taking hope the best poster prize at the Australian Antarctic Research Conference #AARC2024 for her PhD research on #Labidiaster ⭐🧬🇦🇶

First post and a new paper. The importance of genomics to the future of life in the tropics with @iracooke.bsky.social @mattfield100.bsky.social and a bunch of others who aren't here yet. globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Maybe the ARC could just let those of us that definitely didn’t get DPs know the outcome? Would sure be good to know outcomes before writing again…… @arc-tracker.bsky.social

BLUESKY! Twitter is awful and so is social media - what can everyone do instead? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Refs this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... which describes new mycoplasma-related symbionts of coral with strange, reduced genomes

Great new review by Joe Perkins on ecology & detection of the #dinoflagellates that cause #ciguatera @marine-omics.bsky.social 🐠 🐟 🧬 🎣 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unveiling the First Tropical #Abalone #Genome: chromosome level! 🧬🧬🧬 Top work by Roy Barkan communities.springernature.com/posts/unveil...

Great to see so many marine scientists already on Bluesky - to help get you find some of them here is a starting list list of a few marine biologists If you want to be added (or deleted), or know other I have missed (many for sure) - just contact me and I'll sort it go.bsky.app/RS5zQHv

Here is a coral reef science starter pack! go.bsky.app/Qo5Gh2H

Our paper on chromosomal inversions in the coral Acropora kenti is out today in Molecular Ecology. @janstrugnell.bsky.social @marine-omics.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Job offering at Monash University: Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Well done Eva Paulus on a great PhD confirmation! Here espousing the benefits of Whole genome sequencing for investigating #dugong populations. @marine-omics.bsky.social @iracooke.bsky.social

One of the big improvements in the new version of #ggplot2 are related to legends. Teun van den Brand lays out all the detail in this blog post. Get ready for the legend extension extravaganza #stats

Inversions are likely to be common in corals as they are in many taxa but have mostly been overlooked so far because they can be challenging to find. Our work highlights the need to improve our understanding of SVs as a component of genetic variation, and hence adaptive capacity🧵3️⃣

We found five large inversions in this species on the GBR, and rates of potentially deleterious mutations were higher within inversions than in the genomic background. 🧵2️⃣

Our preprint on chromosomal inversions in Acropora kenti is finally out. Work with @janstrugnell.bsky.social, many others not on BlueSky, and of course Jia Zhang who did the majority of analyses. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1️⃣

New paper out now in Science! 🐙🧬 Historic animal migrations as paleoproxy indicating Last Interglacial West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, when temp was +0.5-1.5°C than preindustrial with @janstrugnell.bsky.social @iracooke.bsky.social @nick-golledge.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Analyses of allele age and impact reveal human beneficial alleles are older than neutral controls https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.09.561569v1

Decrypting corals: Does regulatory evolution underlie environmental specialization of coral cryptic lineages? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.11.561896v1