Abandoned mines are ticking time bombs! @flindersuniversity.bsky.social researchers in #FAME are using geochemistry, mineralogy and #microbiome science to design sustainable, microbiology-driven solutions to stop it at the source. phys.org/news/2025-12...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

And also a fantastic keynote at #ABACBS2025 on this story!

Long read Metagenomics, #phage and #prophage in the gut by Ami Bhatt's group. Beautiful data showing changes in phages over two years #phagesky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

8.1% success= 91.9% of applicants will hear bad news this arvo 😱

🧬 Come check out my poster on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs at #ABACBS2025 Poster #106 • 💻 Github: github.com/Vini2/agtools 📄 Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Perl reference may or may not be on #confBingo but @torstenseemann.bsky.social was the first thing I though of when that language was mentioned. Congratulations? #abacbs2025

Our cornetto work is now published at www.nature.com/articles/s41... It can do near-T2T assembly using @nanoporetech.com adaptive sampling - with less 💸 - reference agnostic, so works for non-humans - not just blood, even saliva Just presented at #abacbs2025 yesterday.

Congratulations Hiruna Samarakoon (yet to be on bluesky) for winning the #abacbs2025 “Torsten Seemann” Outstanding Bioinformatics Software Developer Award!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Perfecting bacterial genome assembly with Autocycler - from the one and only Ryan Wick #ABACBS2025

@rrwick.bsky.social solving all of our problems in long-read bacterial genome assembly with Autocycler. 😃🧬🦠 #ABACBS2025

Loved hearing Dr. Ryan Wick’s talk on genome assemblies with Autocycler. Really amazing hearing from him as I use a lot of his tools in my every day work! #ABACBS2025 ⚫️🔴 🔵⚪️

iplotx by Fabio Zanini supports visualising any network or tree analysis library. Can’t wait to visualise assembly graphs with iplotx! 🤩💻 #ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social

It was great to present TRECA at ABACBS 2025 as a lightening talk. Come find my poster #21. #ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social

With Slorado, now you have more choices for GPUs when basecalling @nanoporetech.com sequencing data. This is a work we collaborated on with AMD, led by PhD candidate @bonson-wong.bsky.social (poster at #abacbs2025) and great to see being highlighted in the AMD blog: www.amd.com/en/blogs/202...

Keeping the naming convention - PholdAPhage - great work Renee github.com/reneegreen81... #ABACBS2025

A great discussion today at #ABACBS2025 on the evolving landscape of research funding in Australia. Insightful perspectives, thoughtful questions, and a much needed conversation for our research community. @abacbs.bsky.social

In case you didn’t know your name badge folds out with more details on the program #ABACBS2025

Time for @zaminiqbal.bsky.social ‘s keynote #ABACBS2025

Great talk from Michael Payne at #ABACBS2025 on DAMPA - tool for designing probe panels for targeted metagenomics using pangenome graphs! Captures all diversity efficiently, uses fewer probes than competitors. Critical for syndromic surveillance! 🧬🔬 #Metagenomics

10 incredible years of bioinformatics and computational biology community building by @abacbs.bsky.social - enjoying catching up with old friends at #abacbs2025 🥂 @aliciao.bsky.social @nadia-davidson.bsky.social @shazanfar.bsky.social @ellispatrick.bsky.social Jean Yang Belinda Phipson Milica Ng

Very excited to be in Adelaide to attend #ABACBS2025 . Australia is a powerhouse of microbial genomics, and indeed of bioinformatics, so am very much looking forward to meeting everyone, old friends and new, and speaking tomorrow!

"anything [in the INSDC] from >10 years ago is such a small blip, it would take you longer to find it and delete it than its worth, you might as well leave it be". Sequence data production is exponential! Dr Joanna McEntyre, EMBL-EBI #ABACBS2025

@ebi.embl.org serves an incredible amount of data to support biological sciences Exabytes of data but the biggest growth nowadays is imaging data Dr Joanna McEntyre. Interim Director, EMBL-EBI #ABACBS2025

Amazing way to start the conference on beautiful Kaurna Country

This is fantastic work #phagesky

I worked with the Australian Science & Maths School to design new Year 10–12 curricula: phage hunting, of course! The students discovered & sequenced a new jumbo phage, and will present their work at @abacbs.bsky.social in Adelaide next week. Proud of these young scientists! #phage #ABACBS2025

Also, hurry up and book a hotel room already!

Only 13 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes, and 5 seconds until #ABACBS2025! Check out the full program and you can still register (dinner & workshops are almost sold out though!) www.abacbs.org/abacbs2025

Expressions of interest are now open to host the @isvm-society.bsky.social #VOM28 conference. Let us know if you'd like to host the world's leading conference on viruses of microbes! isvm.org #phagesky #virus

Day 31, Costume. Phage-inducible chromosomal islands (PICIs) use the proteins of incoming phage that infect the they inhabit. These phage proteins allow the PICI to package its own DNA and infect a new host. www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Congratulations to Dr. @npbhavya.bsky.social and bon voyage. Good luck in your new adventures in Europe (Featuring #phagesky artwork by @elliejameson.bsky.social )

@prczhaoyansong.bsky.social’s deep dive into the dark matter of compost communities is now out 🎉 Genomic islands hijack jumbo phages—whose capsids enable transfer of large tracts of DNA—shedding new light on the scale & scope of phage-mediated gene flow 😎 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Day 21, Secret. Prophages hidden within bacteria can confer genetic gifts on their host and protect them from further phage infection. #Drawtober #SciArt #PhageSky

🔥Late breaking abstract submissions for poster presentations at the COMBINE Symposium and ABACBS Conference are now open! Please note that this call is for posters only! ⏳Deadline: 31 October 2025 🔗Submit your abstract here, please use the provided template: forms.gle/TnEWMMcPz5m9...

Very excited to share the latest work from our lab, which was published today in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41... PhD graduate and now post-doc Sofia Dahlman, along with co-senior author Sam Forster from The Hudson and other researchers from our lab and others.

#SouthAustralia is suffering from an ongoing and expanding harmful algal bloom (#HAB) but @flindersuniversity.bsky.social and @sagenomicscentre.bsky.social are sequencing the genome of the miscreant to help figure out how to control it #microsky #microbiome sahmri.org.au/news/researc...

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Superb news to kick off the week! 🎉 Our new paper is out today in @natcomms.nature.com 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗙𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀

🦠Join the legendary @viromegirl.bsky.social lab Jobs in marine micro, virology & genomics 💻 Viral 'omics in seagrass 🧬 Marine microbial & bioinformatics 🧫 Vibrio phage + iron biogeochemistry 🎓 sea urchin–ciliate diseases 👉 www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app... #MarineVirology #Phagesky #Microbiome

Hi bioinformatics, genomics and CS friends! Please help me spread the word. I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work on cutting edge method development in algorithmic genomics with me and my group at @umdscience.bsky.social! 🖥️🧬

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Day 7, Share. Inoviruses are filamentous single stranded DNA phages that can be produced continuously and exported by their host without lysis and killing their host. They have a single repeating major coat protein that covers their length and specialised spike proteins. #Drawtober #SciArt #Phagesky

Happy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up: doi.org/10.1093/bioi... (1/3)

Really pleased to announce that registrations are open for the two-day series of workshops, immediately following the ABACBS conference in Adelaide this year. Workshops are presented as a combined event between BiocAsia and ABACBS. www.abacbs.org/abacbs-2025-... #Bioconductor #rstats #ABACBS

This is a fantastic thread, can't wait to read the paper. Great work

MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💿 mmseqs.com

Excited to share our latest preprint on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs. (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Bioinformatics #genomics #assembly #assemblygraphs #software

Terrific talk from @motherofphage.bsky.social about the impact of conflicts on the rise of #AMR and how they are using #phage to help save lives in war zones #BSVOM @bsvom.bsky.social

Excited to hear from @surtlab.bsky.social about his work on #phage tailocins