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Jovana Maksimovic
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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
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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
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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
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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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
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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...
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
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The {colorize} 📦 now on CRAN
github.com/friendly/col...
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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
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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. 🚀
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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And also a fantastic keynote at #ABACBS2025 on this story!
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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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.
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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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
Thanks to the Adelaide Bioinformatics SUPERHEROES for making #abacbs2025 a massive success!
November 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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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
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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
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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
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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!
November 21, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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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.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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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!
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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
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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
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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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.
November 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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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.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM