How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...

Breaking News: A research program at the National Institutes of Health released the world’s largest database of human genomes, officials said, paving the way for a new era of study in personalized medicine.

I'm hiring a #postdoc 🥳 and applications are open 🤩 Candidates with interests in EITHER statistical methodology or microbial ecology / microbiome are welcome to apply. The position / projects will be tailored to the candidate 🌟📈🎤 Thank you for sharing widely! apply.interfolio.com/188571

Consider this. By carbon biomass, bacteria and other microbes outweigh all humans by about 1300:1. Earth is microbial. Humans are microbial. Let's build a better world with microbes. Happy #WorldMicrobiomeDay from @psumbiome.bsky.social Volume on for learning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gw0...

Bonus content for the #WorldMicrobiomeDay 🌐🦠 We asked microbiome researchers about the impact of Artificial intelligence on their research. Here's what they had to say: rdcu.be/fqEkp #MicrobiomeSky #MicroSky

posterior R package has now JOSS paper you can cite, too joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21... with @paulbuerkner.com , Jonah Gabry, @mjskay.com

BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

New preprint from @saramitri.bsky.social and me: tinyurl.com/3dsjnm4d The headline result - we derive a general way to connect mechanistic ecosystem models to the gLV equation. This reveals that strengthening cooperative mechanisms can make effective gLV interactions increasingly competitive. Weird!

Two recommendations for cmdstanr in case studies: 1) use sample(..., refresh=0) to avoid 80 lines of MCMC progress reporting 2) cmdstanr::print_stan_file() in Quarto with output asis to get color formatting ``` #| output: asis print_stan_file(stan_file) ``` e.g., avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor...

You can find a 20% discount code in our Bayesian Workflow book website avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor...

From @leviwaldron1.bsky.social & colleagues in #OUP 's #DATABASE journal | Large-scale manual #Curation & harmonization of metadata from #MetaGenomic & #Cancer #Genomic repositories: challenges and solutions | #Bioinformatics #OpenScience #Biocuration #LLM | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1093/data...

Tekoäly ja tekijänoikeudet puhuttavat. Kopioston tj. Valtteri Niiranen kirjoitti Hesariin viikonloppuna (www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...), Kansalliskirjaston konsultti Pekka Heikkinen eilen (www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...). @elinkeinoelama.fi on kannattanut EU-tason ratkaisua kansallisen eriytymisen sijaan.

Keskustelu näemmä jatkuu, tällä kertaa tekoäly- ja tekijänoikeusprofessorien @antagomir.bsky.social, @tainapih.bsky.social ja @jiemakel.bsky.social toimesta: www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

The island biology of the host microbiome: Trends in Microbiology www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Roadmap for integrated #OneHealth #AMR surveillance in Nordic countries doi.org/10.1016/j.pu...

QuitGPT: quitgpt.org

Join us as Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Computational Biology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) / @leidenscience.bsky.social / @unileiden.bsky.social Application deadline on 15 March 2026 👇 careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

Metax looks really nice for taxonomic profiling: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

One more day to submit an abstract (talk / poster / demo / workshop) at the European Bioconductor conference EuroBioC2026 in Finland, June 1-5. DL Feb 13!

If you study microbiome Time series (gut, soil or mangroves -> like me) you want to know this... #miaTime (new on #Bioconductor3.22) gives you: 🟢 Divergence 🟢 Short-term change 🟢 Bimodality Thanks to the devs: @antagomir.bsky.social @tuomasborman.bsky.social #RStats #Microbiome #Bioconductor

Posterior-SBC now also with peer-review stamp in Statistics and Computing doi.org/10.1007/s112... (update your bib files)

A Bayesian approach to differential prevalence analysis with applications in microbiome studies ("DiPPER") arxiv.org/abs/2602.05938

Digitaalinen itsenäisyys – Suomen seuraava kohtalonkysymys 🇫🇮 Suomi on riippuvainen yhdysvaltalaisista teknologiajäteistä. Riippuvuus ei lähitulevaisuudessa vähenny vaan syvenee. #DigitaalinenItsenäisyys #Suomi #Kansalaisaloite 1/

🚀 We’ve just kicked off the first edition of the course ORCHESTRATING MICROBIOME ANALYSIS WITH @bioconductor.bsky.social ! Excited to dive deep into microbiome data analysis using powerful Bioconductor tools with @antagomir.bsky.social & @tuomasborman.bsky.social #Microbiome #Bioinformatics

Suomi kiristäisi avoimen koodin sääntelyä haitallisesti - vastusta ylimääräistä uhkasakkoa avoimelle koodille ja allekirjoita vetoomus coss.fi/uutiset/suom...

Are you working with #microbiome data and looking for a clear, practical way to analyse it in @bioconductor.bsky.social? Last places available for our online course with @antagomir.bsky.social @antagomir.bsky.social @tuomasborman.bsky.social 2–6 February www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Cost of being female lead/corresponding author in biomedical sciences: "[T]he median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles" even in disciplines where women well-represented. #AcademicSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi has open call for postdocs (DL Feb 9) www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr... There are 45 PIs to choose from, and you can apply to work also with me on computational Bayesian modeling and Bayesian workflow!

Rarefaction is better than robust Aitchison PCA and other compositional data analysis methods at controlling for uneven sequencing effort www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

🚀 New release: Metabonaut v1.4.0 is here! 1️⃣ New integration with the notame package for robust feature selection. 2️⃣ Added GNPS2 FBMN export for molecular networking. Explore the updates: rformassspectrometry.github.io/Metabonaut/ #Metabolomics #RStats #OpenScience #MassSpec #Bioconductor

Reproducibility is key to science. In computational biology, we routinely manipulate high-dimensional data (spatial, single-cell, bulk) through filtering, normalisation and transformation. Capturing those steps clearly improves reproducibility and transparency. tidyomics.github.io/tidyomicsBlo...

Master #microbiome analysis with R/ @bioconductor.bsky.social ! Join our live online course Feb 2–6, with @antagomir.bsky.social & @tuomasborman.bsky.social Dive into data import, diversity metrics, differential abundance, and multi-omics integration. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

We Made It! 🎉 25 days. Complete modern R package development workflow. From usethis automation to CRAN submission. You have everything you need! #rstats #CRAN #RPackageAdvent2025 #ThatsAWrap

CSAMA 2026 - Biological Data Science Summer School Bressanone-Brixen, South Tyrol / Italy 24-29 May 2026 csama2026.bioconductor.eu Statistical & computational methods for single cell and spatial omics, with lectures and hands-on exercises in R/Bioconductor.

Benchmarking TCR-pMHC structure prediction: a unified evaluation and CDR3-based functional insights https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.11.30.691400v1

New preprint out now! Comparative Assessment of Large Language Models for Microbial Phenotype Annotation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join our online course Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with @bioconductor.bsky.social (2–6 Feb 2026)! Learn hands-on microbiome data analysis, diversity metrics, and multi-omics integration with @antagomir.bsky.social & Tuomas Borman . www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

We have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany! Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇 anvio.org/workshops/20...

Sisäministeri Rantanen saa oman ICE:n? Ei säännöksiä eduskunnan osallistumisesta, oikeasuhtaisuudesta, välttämättömyydestä. Ei tarvittaisi edes hallituksen päätöstä vaan sisäministeri päättäisi itse. Poliisilakiin ehdotetun uuden 15k §:n 3 mom. antaisi avoimen harkintavallan lähettää ICE kaduille

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor. #Microbiome #DataAnalysis #Bioconductor @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685036v1

Greetings from Brisbane, Int'l Data Week #IDW2025, SciDataCon25 & CODATA ExComm this week - - Looking fwd to catch up! Also check this one: "Open data science and responsible research" summarizing the national policy work on open methods in #Finland (Wed 2pm) lnkd.in/d7zBrNNn

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… 🧵

Just published an interactive article about a magical algorithm known as the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, which powers sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa: sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt It's also notoriously unintuitive so I'm hoping this article helps you build that intuition.

🎉 The Nordic CompBio Conference is coming soon to Tallinn, Estonia 🇪🇪 📅 Thursday-Friday 23-24th of October (10:30-17:15 EEST) 📢 Abstract submissions and registration are open 🔗 nordic-compbio.org/ncb-week #NordicCompBio #ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics #Nordics

Come join us 2-4th March 2026 for a cracking #microbiome conference in Hinxton UK! Speaker line up is AMAZING and lots of opportunities for ECRs for selected talks, flash talks and posters. Bursaries are also available! See details below 👇

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n

New ERC funded computational postdoc position in my lab! We are looking for someone who will study the genomics of bacterial evolution using samples from experimental evolution and clinical trials. Lots of opportunities for interesting and fun collaboration! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...