In the @hopkinsengineer.bsky.social magazine: “The soil is the most biologically active environment on the planet, and yet we’ve sampled only a tiny fraction of life within it,” says senior author @jhu-bdps.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social.

Our previously preprinted study "Influence of cis-regulatory elements on expression divergence in human segmental duplications" is now published in @genomeresearch.bsky.social! Please check it out: genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

Friday was my last day at NHGRI. After 10 wonderful years, my lab is headed to Johns Hopkins University genomeinformatics.github.io/movingday/

Evan Eichler on using near-complete human genomes to more fully understand mutational processes #MITS2026

Join GTA2026 and hear from guest speaker Aaron Quinlan, a leader in computational genomics and open-source bioinformatics tools like BEDTools and Mosdepth. Join us May 18–22 for a free, virtual week of learning, and stay tuned for more guest speaker reveals. Learn more: gxy.io/GTA2026-info

#PlantScienceClassics #13: Floral Dip. ~25 years ago, in 1998, Steven Clough & Andrew Bent published their ingeniously simple Arabidopsis transformation protocol in #ThePlantJournal: Dipping a plant upside down into Agrobacterium solution - et voilà! doi.org/10.1046/j.13...

Are you ready? #2026MMM

1/ Excited to share my first first-author preprint from my PhD! We introduce Perseus, a lineage-aware confidence estimation framework for taxonomic classification in long-read metagenomics. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Code: github.com/matnguyen/Pe...

JHU Friends! Living legend Vint Cerf is presenting on Tuesday Feb 10 @ 10:30. Vint is widely recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet" and will be presenting on where the internet came from, what’s happening to it now, and where it will go in the future: www.cs.jhu.edu/event/gerald...

AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬 📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm... Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc

Interesting in the CSHL Biology of Genomes conference, but need support attending? The @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social will provide support to 3 students in genomics and data sciences to attend. The deadline is Jan 31, 2026 and just takes a short bio and abstract: jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-12...

Pregnancy loss is common in humans, and chromosomal abnormalities are the leading cause. Using genetic data from ~140,000 IVF embryos, we show that maternal variation in meiosis genes influences recombination and aneuploidy risk. First authors: @saracarioscia.bsky.social & @aabiddanda.github.io

Consider applying for the Robert E. Chason Endowed Chair in Translational Research at the UC Davis MIND Institute! Join a vibrant community of colleagues studying neurodevelopment conditions like autism. UC Davis is an excellent place to work and live. Find more details here: lnkd.in/gZRyViNa

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n

“I’m currently involved in a study where we’re using these technologies to study pancreatic cancers,” says @jhu-bdps.bsky.social @mikeschatz.bsky.social. We’re finding things that are only possible because of this new genome and these new technologies.”

I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026! Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.

@benlangmead.bsky.social kicking off the start of Genome Informatics! #gi2025 @cshlnews.bsky.social

Ben Langmead @benlangmead.bsky.social delivers the official opening for this year's Genome Informatics Conference #GI2025 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. List of talks and posters: meetings.cshl.edu/abstracts.as...

On the last day of #ASHG25, attending a telomere session entitled "end results" seems fitting. It's been a great meeting talking with vibrant young geneticists, and on this note, I'm hiring a postdoc! thejacksonlaboratory.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/External_JAX...

🚨Don't miss the GREGoR Consortium's Ancillary Session at #ASHG25 on Thursday at 11:45 am. Featuring: Dr. Ben Heavner, Dr. Alex Wagner (@alexphd.bsky.social) & Dr. Mike Schatz (@mikeschatz.bsky.social) #RareDisease #Research

Getting excited for #ASHG25. The must see talk is tomorrow at 1:30 by Qiuhui (Iris) Li presenting the first large-scale integration of long-read genome sequencing with electronic health record data across >1000 All of Us participants meetings.ashg.org/event/ASHG25...

Have you recently completed (or finishing soon) a PhD in CS or a related discipline? Do you want to do research advancing the theory & practice of algorithmic genomics & build tools that people love to use? I'll be looking to hire a postdoc! Official ad coming soon: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

After vibe coding a little swift this summer, I feel totally validated by this post! holdtherobot.com/blog/xcode-i...

This is amazing

after a long effort, gathering a lot of input from many people, we finaly put it all together: Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (and Why They Are Wrong!) https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202509.0823 Thank you very much to all people involved !

minimap2.com is potentially a phishing site. Please don't use anything from that website. github.com/lh3/minimap2...

🎉 Big news! Galaxy Training Network workflows are now automatically registered on WorkflowHub. Easier discovery, citation, & direct Galaxy execution → boosting FAIR & accessible training! training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...

Please repost! We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

Scholarships available for Genome Informatics - just include a brief summary on your open science work plus your conference abstract. If you have already paid to register, we will work with CSHL to refund you the $$$. Apply today! jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-6-... @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social

📢🚨📢🚨 Genome Informatics deadline extended to September 8! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp.... Please spread the word. If you are like me and had at least one abstract that wasn't quite ready by last week's deadline, you get another swing. See you there!

Genome Informatics abstract deadline now Sept 8! h/t @benlangmead.bsky.social meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

Checking out the new JHU student center! Super impressive inside! @jhu.edu

Johns Hopkins researchers including @mikeschatz.bsky.social & @vikramshivakumar.bsky.social have developed Uncalled4, a new software toolkit that can detect epigenetic changes—chemical modifications to normal DNA and RNA that control which genes are turned off and on—with unprecedented accuracy.

🎉 Galaxy has passed 21,000 citations on Google Scholar! A huge thank you to the global community of researchers who use and advance Galaxy for open, reproducible science.

Just started! openai.com/live/

Missed GBCC2025? Want to rewatch your favorite talks? All session recordings (including Galaxy Live!) are now available on our YouTube channel. Revisit the presentations, explore new tools and workflows, and catch up on sessions you may have missed. Watch here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Just failed a CAPTCHA challenge to join a MS Teams call, but I cant decide if this is a feature or a bug

Congratulations @benlangmead.bsky.social!

Congratulations to @benlangmead.bsky.social on his promotion to full professor! 🎉 Prof. Langmead is recognized across the computational and life sciences fields for his innovative methods helping to transform how biomedical researchers and other life scientists access and use DNA sequencing data. 🧬

www.cell.com/patterns/ful... #bioconductor #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0 is coming soon, and is moving some of the internals from S3 to the new S7 OOP system. This is worth a read if you're developing packages with ggplot2 (bioconductor or otherwise) blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0... #Rstats

Love this CoFest energy! Great to see Galaxy and Bioconductor developers working side-by-side at #GBCC2025, exploring, coding, and learning from each other 💻💙 @galaxyproject.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social

Awesome time closing out GBCC with our hands on CoFest! Lots of fun writing code, updating trainings and building out the ecosystems- I submitted my first PR to the core Galaxy repo. Special thanks to Chris Mason for hosting us at Weill Cornell. @galaxyproject.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social

That’s a wrap on GBCC2025! It was incredible to see all the awesome developments, science, and training coming from the community - the future is bright for Galaxy and Bioconductor! @galaxyproject.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social @cshlnews.bsky.social

Getting into computational biology this summer? 🏖️ 📖 Check out “Beyond the Human Genome Project: The Age of Complete Human Genome Sequences and Pangenome References” by @arun-das.bsky.social‬, @mikeschatz.bsky.social, and more for a great introduction to the field:

The first Galaxy / Bioconductor joint conference #GBCC2025 starts next week at CSHL! If anyone wants to connect feel free to reach out here. Lightning talks signup form coming soon...

Awesome first night of the Galaxy and Bioconductor community conference at CSHL. The GBCC Live demo was the star showing off how to connect the communities through a detailed spatial omics tumor analysis. #GBCC2025 @galaxyproject.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social @cshlmeetings.bsky.social

🎉 GBCC2025 kicks off today! We’re gathering at Cold Spring Harbor to welcome attendees, reconnect with colleagues, and gear up for an exciting week of science, training, and community. Stay tuned! gbcc2025.bioconductor.org

Kicking off the GRADS-4C symposium to advance genomics and genomic data science for all! @ncatsuaggies.bsky.social @blueyedgenes.bsky.social

Very excited to share I’ll be starting my own group at University of Utah in the Department of Human Genetics in the new year! Reach out if you are interested! vollgerlab.com