First paper from my student Daria Frolova's PhD now on biorxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The key question: plasmids change structurally ~as fast as they mutate, so how can we decide whether 2 plasmids are "the same plasmid" for epi purposes? 1/n

In 1995 computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth wrote "A Plea for Lean Software". Today it is normal to ship simple software as a 350MB package, or with 1600 dependencies. In appreciation of Wirth's legacy, I wrote a Plea for Lean Software, updated for today's computing horrors: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

I'm recruiting PhD students for Oct 24 start at University of Bath. Fully funded for UK students only. If interested in developing data structures/algorithms for bacterial genomics, or exploring plasmid epidemiology, or ML/AI on bacterial/phage geno/pheno data, give me a call!

👩‍🔬New **PostDoc** Opportunity!👨‍🔬 My new Epidemiology & Virus Evolution (EVE) group at SwissTPH is looking for a PostDoc in evolution & phylogenetics of respiratory viruses 🦠🌳 Interested? See here for more details & to apply! jobs.swisstph.ch/Vacancies/92... Please share!😁

Excited to share our preprint introducing MGX 2.0, which adds metagenome (co-)assembly (including binning and bin assessment) as well as de novo metatranscriptome assembly.

Wow. Ok. Normally I feel like it's a bit overplayed to individually comment on #MDPI in the whole #AcademicChatter conversation, but this is really a must-see: A Special Issue where the guest editors are lead or senior author on 27 of the 28 papers it published 🤯 www.mdpi.com/journal/proc...

Breaking news! Time to get the tinfoil out for existing flow cells...

AITA, academic publishing edition. Flashy for-profit journal sends a review back to me for further consideration because as reviewer I did not run the code and replicate the results. My reply is below. Am I the asshole?