Jovana Maksimovic
@jovmaksimovic.bsky.social
Senior Research Associate in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology in the Oshlack Lab @petermaccc.bsky.social Australia. Mum. Sci-fi nerd. Cat person. Really loves cheese. And dancing.
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Client-side bioinformatics workshop done ✅ massive thanks to legends @lonsbio.bsky.social @lfeatherstone.bsky.social @torstenseemann.bsky.social #ABACBS2025
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Client-side bioinformatics workshop done ✅ massive thanks to legends @lonsbio.bsky.social @lfeatherstone.bsky.social @torstenseemann.bsky.social #ABACBS2025
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To add context, part of why there were so many more applicants is because they moved DECRA back six months, effectively skipping funding the scheme for a year. They had to extend eligibility as a result, so this was essentially two years in one. But with no adjustment to number of grants awarded.
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
To add context, part of why there were so many more applicants is because they moved DECRA back six months, effectively skipping funding the scheme for a year. They had to extend eligibility as a result, so this was essentially two years in one. But with no adjustment to number of grants awarded.
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Wonderful week at ABACBS and BioCAsia conferences in Adelaide, Australia.
Thanks everyone who joined the workshop on Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor, you made it awesome!
@abacbs.bsky.social
@bioconductor.bsky.social
#ABACBS2025
#BioCAsia2025
Thanks everyone who joined the workshop on Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor, you made it awesome!
@abacbs.bsky.social
@bioconductor.bsky.social
#ABACBS2025
#BioCAsia2025
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Wonderful week at ABACBS and BioCAsia conferences in Adelaide, Australia.
Thanks everyone who joined the workshop on Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor, you made it awesome!
@abacbs.bsky.social
@bioconductor.bsky.social
#ABACBS2025
#BioCAsia2025
Thanks everyone who joined the workshop on Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor, you made it awesome!
@abacbs.bsky.social
@bioconductor.bsky.social
#ABACBS2025
#BioCAsia2025
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That’s a wrap! Huge thank you to everyone who joined us for #ABACBS2025 & a big shout-out to the Adelaide bioinfo community who worked their butts off. Couldn’t have asked for a better crew or a better venue than Adelaide Oval. @wessidepraxis.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 5:58 AM
That’s a wrap! Huge thank you to everyone who joined us for #ABACBS2025 & a big shout-out to the Adelaide bioinfo community who worked their butts off. Couldn’t have asked for a better crew or a better venue than Adelaide Oval. @wessidepraxis.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social
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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...
#phagesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Long-read metagenomics reveals phage dynamics in the human gut microbiome - Nature
Complex prophage integration dynamics, including low-level induction, cross-family host range and transposase-mediated mobilization, challenge existing paradigms and deepen our understanding of phage–...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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...
#phagesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Woot! The mim preprint is live now. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Cc @curiouscoding.nl
Happy Thanksgiving!
Cc @curiouscoding.nl
mim: A lightweight auxiliary index to enable fast, parallel, gzipped FASTQ parsing
The FASTQ file format is the lingua franca of primary data distribution and processing across most of bioinformatics. Over time, the compression, storage, transmission, and decompression of gzip compr...
www.biorxiv.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Woot! The mim preprint is live now. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Cc @curiouscoding.nl
Happy Thanksgiving!
Cc @curiouscoding.nl
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The {colorize} 📦 now on CRAN
github.com/friendly/col...
github.com/friendly/col...
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The {colorize} 📦 now on CRAN
github.com/friendly/col...
github.com/friendly/col...
This is wonderful ❤️
I was lucky enough to inherit a bunch of racks where a graduate student had labelled all of them with Rack jokes 😂, perfect. I am dead at Racksputin.
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is wonderful ❤️
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The first conference for our Lab! Amazing environment at #ABACBS2025! 🙏
Congrats, Mengyuan, Chen and Galen, for the great posters, and Haroon for being a finalist with his talk on the democratisation of foundational models. 🚀
Congrats, Mengyuan, Chen and Galen, for the great posters, and Haroon for being a finalist with his talk on the democratisation of foundational models. 🚀
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
The first conference for our Lab! Amazing environment at #ABACBS2025! 🙏
Congrats, Mengyuan, Chen and Galen, for the great posters, and Haroon for being a finalist with his talk on the democratisation of foundational models. 🚀
Congrats, Mengyuan, Chen and Galen, for the great posters, and Haroon for being a finalist with his talk on the democratisation of foundational models. 🚀
It's time... theconversation.com/how-the-war-...
How the war was won: the campaign to stop medical research cuts
One day in April, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research director Douglas Hilton called his communications manager, Penny Fannin, into his office. “He said he’d heard significant cuts wer...
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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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...
#phagesky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Long-read metagenomics reveals phage dynamics in the human gut microbiome - Nature
Complex prophage integration dynamics, including low-level induction, cross-family host range and transposase-mediated mobilization, challenge existing paradigms and deepen our understanding of phage–...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
And also a fantastic keynote at #ABACBS2025 on this story!
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The success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The success rate for NHMRC Ideas Grants announced yesterday was just over 8%. That means 11 of every 12 people who applied got rejected. This is a culture changing level of rejection and frankly a point of national shame. This is a crisis for research.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
I will not rest until we see this resolved.
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Ok — here's the current version of the mim preprint: bit.ly/4pygyyc! Hopefully it will make it to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social soon, but who knows with the holiday week. Anyway, by the time it hits, we'll probably already have interesting updates to share. Happy to answer questions :).
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ok — here's the current version of the mim preprint: bit.ly/4pygyyc! Hopefully it will make it to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social soon, but who knows with the holiday week. Anyway, by the time it hits, we'll probably already have interesting updates to share. Happy to answer questions :).
Thanks to the Adelaide Bioinformatics SUPERHEROES for making #abacbs2025 a massive success!
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Thanks to the Adelaide Bioinformatics SUPERHEROES for making #abacbs2025 a massive success!
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A purpose built solution to Australia’s biomedical funding crisis….. release the #MRFF = invest in our future scientists & their discoveries. #DiscoveriesNeedDollars www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
September 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
A purpose built solution to Australia’s biomedical funding crisis….. release the #MRFF = invest in our future scientists & their discoveries. #DiscoveriesNeedDollars www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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You know if the scientists are protesting en masse something is broken. We did this in Aus for #discoveriesNeedDollars #Rally4Research in like 2011? When it leaked the research budget was gonna be cut. It was not cut. Honestly probably need to think about a repeat situation is so poor here now
November 7, 2024 at 10:02 PM
You know if the scientists are protesting en masse something is broken. We did this in Aus for #discoveriesNeedDollars #Rally4Research in like 2011? When it leaked the research budget was gonna be cut. It was not cut. Honestly probably need to think about a repeat situation is so poor here now
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this is unsustainable, the $600M underspend of the #MRFF could be funnelled, or at least partially funnelled, to supporting excellent #NHMRC applications that fall below the funding cut off because there is too little money in the pot #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #SaveOzScience
An abismal 8% success rate for this year’s #NHMRC #IdeasGrant scheme. Must be an all time low. Congratulations to those successful, you really earned it! Commiserations to the NINETY TWO percent of applicants who didn’t get it… #australianresearch #discoveriesneeddollars 🥼🧪🔬🧫 🇦🇺
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
this is unsustainable, the $600M underspend of the #MRFF could be funnelled, or at least partially funnelled, to supporting excellent #NHMRC applications that fall below the funding cut off because there is too little money in the pot #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #SaveOzScience
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I am very excited to share this book! It has been so much to collaborate on the project. We hope you find it useful!
Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA.
Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions).
It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!
Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions).
It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I am very excited to share this book! It has been so much to collaborate on the project. We hope you find it useful!
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Did my best to help a bit to get academic twitter back. Hopefully we can continue. Thanks and congratulations to @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social too.
Thanks @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025 for an amazing conference.
Thanks @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025 for an amazing conference.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Did my best to help a bit to get academic twitter back. Hopefully we can continue. Thanks and congratulations to @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social too.
Thanks @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025 for an amazing conference.
Thanks @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025 for an amazing conference.
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Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA.
Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions).
It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!
Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions).
It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA.
Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions).
It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!
Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions).
It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!
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Australian #NHMRC Ideas grants are out. 8.1% success rate. Lowest since the scheme began. Congrats to the successful few, as it looks like less than 200 were funded. 🧪
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Australian #NHMRC Ideas grants are out. 8.1% success rate. Lowest since the scheme began. Congrats to the successful few, as it looks like less than 200 were funded. 🧪
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If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
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The ARC will soon be overhauling its entire grants system. They've never undertaken such a huge set of changes. Doing it while sacking existing staff and restructuring … I just … 🤯😡
ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The ARC will soon be overhauling its entire grants system. They've never undertaken such a huge set of changes. Doing it while sacking existing staff and restructuring … I just … 🤯😡
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Melbourne Integrative Genomics, UniMelb @mig-unimelb.bsky.social at #ABACBS2025
Amazing to have a big representation at @abacbs.bsky.social held in Adelaide.
Amazing to have a big representation at @abacbs.bsky.social held in Adelaide.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Melbourne Integrative Genomics, UniMelb @mig-unimelb.bsky.social at #ABACBS2025
Amazing to have a big representation at @abacbs.bsky.social held in Adelaide.
Amazing to have a big representation at @abacbs.bsky.social held in Adelaide.