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Corey Holt @coreyholt.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking for a PhD student to dive into some protist genomes and maybe find some cool parasites like this (very flexible) apicomplexan.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please do reach out if you're interested. And APPLY EARLY! The advert will be taken down when a suitable candidate is found.🪱🦀🐟

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 19h

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 20h

This is wonderful to play with, highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand the BWT

Robert Aboukhalil @robert.bio · 23h

Just published an interactive article about a magical algorithm known as the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, which powers sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa: sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt

It's also notoriously unintuitive so I'm hoping this article helps you build that intuition.

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ilastik-team.bsky.social @ilastik-team.bsky.social · 1d

Segment large images without tiling artifacts: sharing our work that should have been presented at ICCV in 2 weeks - the brilliant first author Elena can’t go because of visa issues.
The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19545 1/🧵

Large images have to be broken into tiles both for training and inference with neural networks. The tile predictions then need to be merged to produce the final volume prediction.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

One might argue that a violent insurrection began on Jan 6 2021.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

PhD studentship in beautiful Bath, open to all humans from across the globe!
Tom is lovely and Bath has a deep bench of evolutionary biology talent.

Tom Williams @tweethinking.bsky.social · 1d

There's a PhD position now available with me in Bath, on the evolution of symbiosis. www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... The supervisory team also includes @anja1.bsky.social @phil-donoghue.bsky.social and others. NB, this is open both to UK-based students *and* to international students :)

The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - The genomic basis of symbiotic integration at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”

Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 1d

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

There's no way they have permission to use this tune.

Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, I'm sorry, "The Base"? Like, Al Qaeda? ayfkm

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

Barreleye fish with a transparent head that resembles this postal van.

Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

Omg nature is so weird and amazing

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 1d

Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Torsten! In your set-up, would it be possible to stretch or compress cells while imaging them?

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

When you have more than 99 browser tabs open on my Samsung Galaxy, Chrome just gives you a smiley face instead of a number.

Closeup of the top of the phone browser window, where there is a little box that goes from 1 to 99 to :D

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

Ha, I got them all wrong. They were all pretty mid though, to be fair. Most human-written fiction isn't Nabokov.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Cnn edited out this part but fortunately, we've got Dave.

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”

… but what is plenary authority?

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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels!

Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology?

I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics.

🔗: clarkelab.com/join/

Please repost!

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 1d

Pictures of mushrooms is BY FAR my most popular skeet ever. Like orders of magnitude. You people love yourselves some fungi.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's $100,000 skilled worker visa fee gives Britain a golden opportunity to attracted global talent. Needless to say, we're going to piss it away because we're scared of upsetting Nigel Farage.

inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Trump's migrant obsession offers Starmer a rare win - but Farage has scared him off

We have a golden opportunity to kick-start the British economy

inews.co.uk

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, the niche skills of expressing thoughts and arguments in writing; critically reading texts; researching history and meta-context; slogging through abstruse theory; telling stories and creating art ... what could an English degree possibly be useful for?!

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Wokey42 @wokey42.bsky.social · 2d

Some leading UK politician needs to have the balls to say that education is a public good, and like almost every other European state, it should be funded by the state, tuition fees scrapped, and the money recouped from the benefits conferred on the economy and culture.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf is wrong with some people? Fuck you Trevor.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 2d

You are crafty as hell, though; can confirm an inspired aesthetic sense and deft hand with the fancy dress.

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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, babes! It's awful when a teacher has a beef with you - dreadful position and abuse of power, honestly. I had a ballet teacher who told my mom that I reminded her of her brother who she didn't like. I was also not that great at ballet, so you can imagine how fun her class was. Totally sucks!

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 3d

2026 PhD recruitment is now open.

As well as our main PhD recruitment, which is open to all, we are pleased to be offering scholarships for candidates of Black or mixed Black heritage. Learn more and apply on our website:

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

PhD student recruitment

PhD recruitment information.

www.crick.ac.uk

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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