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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 16d

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Aug 14

A reminder you/your lab can support FlyBase at Cambridge through the following link. Every bit helps. Please share if you yourself can't donate.

www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

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Andy Jones @andrewrobertjones.bsky.social · Aug 1

Good luck Helen with whatever you decide to do next! You'll be really missed at the University

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Susan Schlimpert @s-lab.bsky.social · Jul 10

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions.

Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity for an Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions has arisen at the John Innes Centre. To read the full job description for this role…

www.jic.ac.uk

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British Society for Proteome Research @ukbspr.bsky.social · Jul 7

Next up is the structural and functional proteomics with @scheltemalab.bsky.social opening the session with his talk crosslinking for the masses

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British Society for Proteome Research @ukbspr.bsky.social · Jul 7

Our first plenary session starts with @slavov-n.bsky.social telling us about single cell proteomics and moving it to biological function

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British Society for Proteome Research @ukbspr.bsky.social · Jul 7

We are kicking off with the bioinformatics session. Georg Kustacher talks to us about protein covariation to advance the functional annotation of the human proteome. #BSPR2025

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Yasset Perez-Riverol @ypriverol.bsky.social · Jul 7

Andy talking about PTMeXchange at #BSPR2025. A collaboration between multiple teams PRIDE, Andy's Group, Uniprot and PeptideAtlas.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Jun 6

A good summary of what's going on. If you have the means, you can donate already to the Cambridge side. If you can spread the word, please do. FlyBase touches every field of bio research: cancer, neurology, development, immunity, genetics, evolution, etc...
www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

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Faculty of Health and Life Sciences @livunihls.bsky.social · Mar 20

Meet us online from Monday 24 - Friday 28 March to find out more about the professional master’s degrees and research opportunities available at Liverpool. Book now ➡️
www.liverpool.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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Bernadette Moore @themoorelab.bsky.social · Mar 9

Hotel booking has no map function. So needed to look each one up on separate browser. For women this is & H&S issue.

And no where on list of reasons of why we didn't choose cheapest flights/hotels was *our agenda* or SAFETY.

Yes I'm still cross.

Bernadette Moore @themoorelab.bsky.social · Mar 9

22% mark up on our most recent booking. As this was my first in new Uni I didn't know (not in any of 3 different pages of requirements, instructions & supposed benefits) need to call or email to prove better price for them to match.

I'm still cross.

Brendan Palmer @bapalmer.bsky.social · Mar 9

"It turns out that travel agencies charge far more than it would cost an academic to arrange their own travel and accommodation—sometimes staggeringly more"

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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · Mar 4

VEuPathDB conducted a survey at the end of 2024 to assess the importance of our resources and to explore potential funding strategies following funding changes. We got 1,862 responses! Huge thanks to everyone who took this survey! We will share the results and survey report this week.

The image shows some descriptive characteristics of the 1,862 respondents of the VEuPathDB user impact and sustainability survey. 90% were from academic institutions; 35% were principal investigators/ lab heads while 50% were students/postdocs; respondents were from 81 countries and 80% were frequent users (daily/weekly use) of VEuPathDB resources.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Mar 4

People often ask about this and worth reiterating: there are individual PI's labs that cost more than bioRxiv, which serves the whole world.

We are working towards a long-term, stable, distributed funding strategy. It's trival $$.

Reminder: Research $10^5 journal paper $10^3, preprint $10^1.

Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Mar 4

I'd also add that in the grand scheme of things it is not a huge cost ($ millions not billions) - there are individual PI labs that operate on a bigger budget. So the community should easily be able to find the resources collectively. It is a rounding error on the research spend. 2/2

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mb_bucherlab @mb-bucherlab.bsky.social · Mar 4

At #ECFG17, like at all major scientific conferences worldwide, the talks highlight how science thrives on global collaboration. Borders don’t define discovery - diversity and cooperation do. Meanwhile, U.S. policies seem to be moving in the opposite direction.

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Andy Jones @andrewrobertjones.bsky.social · Mar 4

Come visit the FungiDB booth at #ecfg17 and meet the @veupathdb.bsky.social team

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Andy Jones @andrewrobertjones.bsky.social · Mar 4

This looks great, looking forward to trying it out for our genome annotation projects 😀

Alexey Nesvizhskii @nesvilab.bsky.social · Mar 4

One of the most significant and challenging projects of my career so far. PepCentric: a scalable computational platform utilizing novel 2-D fragment indexing for rapid peptide-centric searches, enabling proteogenomics searches against billions of spectra in seconds. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · Mar 3

Thank you to all submitting user comments on #FungiDB record pages. This is a great way to share your expertise with others & showcase relevant PubMedIDs. Submit a user comment & pick up a free "Got fungus?" mug. Submit more than 1 to get a chance of winning a T-shirt! @ecfg172025.bsky.social

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veupathdb.org @veupathdb.org · Feb 25

🎉 Grab Your Free #FungiDB "Got Fungus?" Mug! 🎉
Attending @ecfg172025.bsky.social?
Want to get your hands on this stylish mug? It’s easy! Simply share your knowledge about your favourite gene, and this fabulous mug is yours! Don’t miss out! fungidb.org/fungidb/app/...

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ProteomicsNews (Ben Orsburn) @proteomicsnews.bsky.social · Mar 3

Feedly just ranked The Proteomics Show as the top Proteomics Podcast of 2025! The fact it is the only proteomics podcast…they…umm… list on their platform doesn’t make it less cool. @benneely.com Thanks @us-hoop.bsky.social for continuing to sponsor the show! Might be a season 7 announcement soon?

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Andy Jones @andrewrobertjones.bsky.social · Feb 28

3rd March deadline!
1 post = G8
2 posts = G7 (postdoc)

Join us to work, using AI for genome annotation

Please RP!

Andy Jones @andrewrobertjones.bsky.social · Feb 13

Come join us!

3 new posts, using AI, structural bioinformatics and genomics. To work with me, @danielrigden.bsky.social and @veupathdb.bsky.social team.

3 years initially, extendable to 5. Please RP.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLT944/b...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU064/s...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU969/b...

Bioinformatics Research Associate (Structural Bioinformatics) - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Bioinformatics Research Associate (Structural Bioinformatics) - Grade 7 on jobs.ac.uk!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · Feb 15

Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.

Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · Dec 12

Spread the word that I have a postdoc opening right now, and am also open to PhD applications evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi.... We have lots of follow up ideas! 15/15

https://evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/PostDocs//UArizona.AminoAcidSubstitutionModels

Postdoc position: amino acid substitution models A postdoc position is available with PI Joanna Masel (https://www.masellab.org/) at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Tucson is a vibrant city of n...

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Angela Hancock @ahancock.bsky.social · Feb 15

No job ad yet, but I'll be hiring a postdoc at Purdue in population genetics/quantitative genetics/genomics in plants. DM if you have relevant experience and are potentially interested.

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Ian Sudbery @iansudbery.bsky.social · Feb 15

Most universities will take on someone with outside funding, and many will automatically give them a TT position at the end (in my school this applies to 5 year fellowships www.sheffield.ac.uk/science/rese...). Schemes like the Wellcome Trust or MRC CDA are open to all irrespective of nationalty.

Externally funded Research Fellowships

Our programme of support for externally funded Independent Research Fellowships is designed to establish you as a research leader in an ambitious, vibrant and supportive environment.

www.sheffield.ac.uk

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · Feb 14

My university currently has a significant recruiting initiative fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk

125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs | University of Birmingham

This is 125 years of NobelPrize-winning research.This is your opportunity to become one of our 125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs.

fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk

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Benjamin Schuster-Böckler @dagams.bsky.social · Feb 14

Seeing US science being vandalised is devastating 💔

For anyone in need of a new job: we have several postdoc and PhD positions in computational genomics, cancer epigenetics and immunology available here in Oxford, UK. We still care about DEI, offer 3y+ contracts and do cool science - get in touch!

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