Three word horror story: End Road Work

The BBC archive is full of gems youtu.be/zgpK5YxqmDo

@bestqualitycrab.bsky.social you inspired me with that talk about Daversity years ago, now I'm playing around with Australian board members names and other things. Dave still going strong.

A meme for #phylogenetics people.

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths. This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻 A little background 🧵 1/ yle.fi/a/74-20174831

Building pangenomes for domesticated and wild tree species: genomic complexity and strategies. #Pangenomes #TreesGenomes @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This course is so good, thanks @missphilbin.bsky.social! thecrashcourse.com/courses/cras...

it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow! here's the table of contents:

#auspol Petition opposing Scott Morrison's Order of Australia www.change.org/p/stop-scott...

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...

Just told ChatGPT it sounded like a boomer

Excited to share our latest work on comparing and visualizing multiple genome assemblies to identify conservation and structural variation in pangenomes with Mumemto! Check out poster 250 at #bog25 if you are here. New preprint coming very soon 👀

whan antony green says you've lost before 8:30 without working computers

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

I saw @kejames.bsky.social make a comment. I realized that unlike the normal pithy “just code it!” comments, this one had a ton of weight behind it. A website that addresses a need at a pivotal moment in history? And the API is easy to call? Yeah, she was right.

Peter Dutton made a new election ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol

Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'

⏰ Only 5 days left! ⏰ Submit your abstract for GBCC2025 by April 1st. Don't miss the chance to share your research and expertise at Cold Spring Harbor! Learn more, submit your abstract, and register: gbcc2025.bioconductor.org

I want the life all the hot young people in my French workbooks were living. Go to the cafe, ask how Arnaud is doing.

Quantum Wordle! I'm just posting this to look smart. github.com/matttavares9...

Reminder: tomorrow (March 26, 1:00 EDT) is a BRC-Analytics/Galaxy webinar where we will update you on what's new in Galaxy and BRC-Analytics, including demonstrations of running transcriptomics and surveillance analysis workflows. Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/j/93960440173 See (1/2)

Washing machine detergent compartments are usually labelled "I" for prewash and "II" for main wash. But sometimes it's the reverse. Either could be the larger one. How would one know? Somebody should do something @linny123.bsky.social

easily delete all your old tweets and unfollow everyone: github.com/lucahammer/t...

Indus Valley script may have evolved from Sumerian? youtu.be/dClYybZLF4o?... #specialinterest

Wednesday afternoon

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Mitochondrial DNA and the largest nuclear-mitochondrial DNA in Arabidopsis can be separated by their methylation levels (Yuyang Zhong, Miki Okuno, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Shin-ichi Arimura) doi.org/10.1093/plph... @ASPB #PlantScience

Dolphin Spends Amazing Vacation Swimming With Stockbroker theonion.com/dolphin...

Everything you need to know on the return of the Pebble smartwatch. 👀 ⬇️ ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...

sorry I was aloof, but I'm cross about when you threw a huntsman at me (in my dream).

Excited to share our recent paper, which is one of the first phylogenomic analyses of copepods 🧪 TLDR: the order Harpacticoida should be split, with 2 families forming their own new order—Canuelloida doi.org/10.1016/j.ym...

i've just become aware that neocities still exists and if I didn't have 300 other things to do, I would immediately migrate my website from github to neocities why do we not have academic websites on neocities? neocities.org

this is the face of a man who is about to end the bird flu epidemic by eating every infected bird

I noticed someone mentioning that they couldn't afford "How Git Works" right now. we have a "buy one give one" program where we give away 1 free copy for every zine sold. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy of How Git Works if $12 is a lot for you. wizardzines.com/zines/git/

Transposon-triggered epigenetic chromatin dynamics modulate EFR-related pathogen response @manavellalab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am thrilled to share our new review on holocentric chromosomes. It was a lot of fun to write it together with Ines Drinnenberg! Same but different: Centromere regulations in holocentric insects and plants doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

This is so cool!! Congrats @roneilllab.bsky.social and team! 🦀🧬 academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

I re-ran previous ONT basecalling benchmarks using the latest version of Dorado (thanks, @vellamike.bsky.social), and the RTX 40 series GPUs show an impressive speed boost! Check out the updated benchmark results at the bottom of this post: rrwick.github.io/2024/08/16/s...

Call for Trainers and Helpers for the Galaxy Training Academy 2025 Read more at https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/news/2025/02/14/gtn2025-call-trainer.html @galaxyproject.bsky.social

Well what do you know, turns out there is a corruption issue in the Robodebt referrals worth investigating. NACC independent reviewer says all six people referred should be investigated for possible corrupt conduct. The NACC gets to do the investigation, of course. www.nacc.gov.au/news-and-med...

Know any good alternatives to google docs? Need to de-google due to corruption and nazis etc.

With @katiejenike.bsky.social and a bunch more of our fellow k-mer enthusiasts, we put together a manuscript on k-mers in biodiversity genomics. A guide if you will, that covers k-mers from basics to some really funky stuff... genome.cshlp.org/content/35/2...

#Pangenome graphs from sets of high-quality genomes help reduce representation bias by incorporating data from multiple #genomes within a population, species, or genus 🧬 Join the #ERGAPlenary on Monday to learn more about their applications ➡️ www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/pangeno...

Happy Valentine's Day from char-rnn, a tiny neural network I trained in 2018 on a few hundred candy heart messages. www.aiweirdness.com/candy-heart-...

Not the night to finish watching Threads

Telomere-to-telomere genome and resequencing of 254 individuals reveal evolution, genomic footprints in Asian icefish, Protosalanx chinensis. #AsianIcefishGenome #ChromosomeLevelAssembly @gigascience.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

1984 in demand

Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....