I'm fairly indifferent to Culvers, but I'm pretty sure I've eaten at In-n-Out twice in one day. No regrets.

Well I’m gonna read for fun even HARDER now😤

Big and very shallow = very, very bad.

NSF grantmaking update Two weeks ago (6/8) New grants: 1,471/4,407 — 33.4% of avg. Obligations: 1.70/2.52 billion — 67.4% of avg. Now (6/22) New grants: 1549/4481 — 32.6% of avg. Obligations: 1.8/2.82 billion — 63.8% of avg. Data from: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

A good theory bsky.app/profile/shad...

good to see this. Musk is clearly getting visibly angry at the rising awareness of how many hundreds of thousands of people his DOGE wilding spree has already killed, millions more if this stays in place into the future. Everyone can participate in spreading the word about all the blood on his hands

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

Should be a penalty for Ghana

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

Minibwa is a hybrid of bwa-mem and minimap2 and the successor of bwa-mem for short-read mapping. ~4X/2.5X as fast as bwa-mem/bwa-mem2 for WGS reads at comparable accuracy. Native support of directional bisulfite-seq. Applicable to long reads. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2606.15357

God I love Dutch football fans

I thought the world cup was going to be a nightmare, but I forgot that we actually love when people like us

multiculturalism is pretty great

Who should I follow on here for world cup clips? I had to leave the room and missed Vini Jr's goal.

Fearless stuff from the Scots.

I fucking love birthright citizenship

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Still all quiet on the #NSF front. No new awards in the past week. REMINDER: We still are hearing of trickles of terminations, suspensions, and money being held back from grantees, which NSF isn't reporting. We need your help - please report! 🧪 grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

New blog post! I analyse the new [email protected] basecalling model from @nanoporetech.com and discuss the conspicuous lack of a new sup model: rrwick.github.io/2026/06/11/d...

New: NSF is tightening its conflict of interest rules in what could be a headache for the understaffed agency. Starting in August, reviewers will no longer be able to participate in a panel with any proposals from their own institution. My reporting for @science.org:

📄 OrthoFinder: improved phylogenetic orthology inference with enhanced accuracy and scalability 🧬🖥️ ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

FIFA showing that their "Let's Kick Racism Out of Football" campaign is a farce when the perpetrator is the Trump regime. This referee's only issue is that he's Somali, and that's enough to get him barred from entering the US for the World Cup. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

🇸🇴 A Somali referee has been dropped from the World Cup after he was denied entry to the United States, reigniting concerns about how Donald Trump's immigration crackdown could disrupt the tournament. ➡️ u.afp.com/SD9U

We have been growing, but you have to have dorms for students to live in. Also the number of students in AL who defect to far-away states will not be double digit %. Universities are ocean liners; they move slowly and not wrecking them would be way easier than rerouting to pick up iceberg survivors.

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Doing a linear stretch on these images shows how dramatic the "edits" were, revealing the deception in clear terms. This should be a complete scandal for Thermo Fisher and more people in the biosciences should be talking about it.

There are few researchers for whom an entire field is so clearly distinct before and after their work. The gap between evolutionary biology "before Joe" and "after Joe" is just awesome. It is a measurably different enterprise, and the reach of his influence doesn't end at the phylogeny. Hats off!

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Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social). We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT) 1/n 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’ll end there (there’s a bunch more in the paper), but please try out DAFT. And if you have any problems with the software, let us know! github.com/smishra677/D... 11/11

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This is awesome, and I knew before looking that Andrew Kern would be one of the authors. Did he ever come to Blue Sky?

Wow

Yo; @lh3lh3.bsky.social is in on the AI-assisted RIIR. The future is, literally, now :). Can't wait to try this out!

We criticize people on the right for sharing pseudoscience that coincides with their world view, and we should. But we shouldn't pretend that doesn't happen on the time on the left, also. Here's a clear example of exactly that.

A small 🧵 about frustrations and opportunities w/ open-source research software for the social sciences: Came across a new paper in a top methods journal, explaining/demo'ing a new R package. Sounded v. cool, so was excited to dig in. What I found was largely a mess...

San Diego style burritos, and it's not even close.

This is awful to hear, describing how Sean Eddy (HMMER, infernal, pfam, rfam) has been defunded. The letter said his work "had been determined to be of absolutely no value to the US taxpayer, and therefore it was being specifically terminated," www.npr.org/2026/05/21/n...

However appalled you are by this, it’s not enough. It’s a frank statement that Trump and Trumpists are above the law and need not even plausible excuses to loot your tax dollars. It’s a total failure of our civic institutions.

What search engines do folks recommend (not Bing)? I know of DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, and Kagi, but I haven't used them much, so don't know their pros/cons (especially if Kagi is worth the subscription cost)

NSF grantmaking update Last week (5/11) New grants: 903/3637 — 24.8% of avg. Obligations: 1.5/2.06 billion — 72.8% of avg. This week (5/17) New grants: 1027/3772 — 27.2% of avg. Obligations: 1.8/2.12 billion — 84.9% of avg. Data from grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

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With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

Happy Mother's Day

This why you should subscribe to Volts!

When did coffee shops become full of unaccompanied middle-schoolers? I'm traveling and trying to get work done, and Starbucks is literally full of yelling tweens. WTF.

I need a job asap. Who's hiring?