What a banger

Your daily reminder that the government continues to commercially support an individual who wants to destroy it through fascist violence.

I am delighted to be a co-investigator on this newly funded Wellcome Discovery Award. Excited to begin work with the team (including those not on Bluesky!) @jayhinton.bsky.social @roygoodacre.bsky.social @lisamaierlab.bsky.social @blancaps.bsky.social

Around 10% of your Nanopore reads (SQK-RBK114) are incorrectly trimmed. Here is why, and how our new tool Barbell solves it: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Want to get started? github.com/rickbeeloo/b...

This remarkable therapy uses an approach the Trump administration just cancelled funding for.

Has anyone given this a go? Tempted to let Reviewer 2 weigh in on my hobbies..

A great reminder of why it's important to consider the shape of your data before diving into microbiome analysis!

🧬Viromics🧬 = using (meta-)genomics to study uncultivated viruses has yielded unprecedented insights into the diversity and global distribution of viruses @jgi.doe.gov's @simrouxvirus.bsky.social and Clement Coclet review the state of the field, available tools, and remaining challenges

Thank you to everyone who has used pyani over the years (I know it's thousands of people!) but we have now archived the repository. But we have replaced it with a completely rewritten and extended implementation: pyani-plus! github.com/pyani-plus/p... 1/

Yesterday was my last day after an exciting four years in @acdarby.bsky.social's lab at Liverpool. The lab photo below was taken in Birmingham, where I’ll soon be working! Excited to join @wvschaik.bsky.social, @pathogenomenick.bsky.social, @halllab.bsky.social to work on Public Health Genomics.

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

@andywatson on the NGS Sequencing market and the prisoner's dilemma

Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy, and McSweeney @teamlabouruk.bsky.social should take note if what they really want is growth.

Announcing myloasm, a new long-read (ONT R10/PacBio) metagenome assembler that I've been working on during my postdoc in the Heng Li lab (@lh3lh3.bsky.social). myloasm-docs.github.io

🧵 You’re not behind in bioinformatics. The field just evolves faster than anyone can follow. 1/ It’s not you. Bioinformatics evolves too fast. And not just from new algorithms— But from how fast technology itself changes.

1/12 🎉 We're excited to announce our Genome Medicine paper benchmarking 1000+ metagenomes (DNA) and metatranscriptomes (RNA) from infectious intestinal disease patients against pathogen diagnostics. The full dataset is public to accelerate pathogen discovery & surveillance: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

It’s Black Inclusion Week this week. If you are a Black microbiologist we would recommend connecting with the Black Microbiologists Association. They are working hard to increase visibility and facilitate connections: blackinmicrobiology.org #BlackInMicro #BIW2025

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Delighted to share this preprint on the mosquito #virome with some excellent collaborators 🦠🦟

Great to see the Pseudomonas sp. PP3 genome published in @asm.org journals, and to be included based on sequencing I did during my PhD @cardiffuni.bsky.social! journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... PP3’s genome reveals how microbes adapt to (and help clean up) halo-organic pollutants. 🌱🧬

Really delighted to see this out in npj antimicrobials and resistance! @emmabeansworth.bsky.social @blancaps.bsky.social & @edcoakes.bsky.social have done a fantastic job with this 🤩

Delighted to have to have contributed to this alongside excellent scientists! @emmabeansworth.bsky.social @blancaps.bsky.social. As a scientific community, it’s currently more important than ever to continue advocating for EDI. Please read our thoughts in the context of AMR (link in quoted post).

Our preprint on the bystander effect of antibiotics on the microbiome in severely ill adults with sepsis in Blantyre, Malawi 🇲🇼 is out! doi.org/10.1101/2025... We used metagenomics 🧬 + Bayesian modelling 📊 to track microbiome & resistome changes pre-, during, and post-treatment. (1/2)

I am delighted to share our work describing how we implemented #EDI at the @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference, published today in Microbiology: doi.org/http://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001527 This paper and provides a framework for those wishing to do the same and future perspectives.

Shame on you @asm.org, shame on you.

I’m particularly proud of the work that is being done by @microbiologysociety.org. We have a duty as a scientific community to advocate for diverse science.