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Open Bioinformatics Foundation @openbio.bsky.social · 8d

An open letter about the recent cuts at GigaScience: www.open-bio.org/2025/09/30/2...
(open for signatures until the end of October)

#OpenScience #OpenData #GigaScience

Scott Edmunds cuts the cake at the 2025 GigaScience birthday party at ISMB/ECCB 2025

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 4d

Three pigeons would serve the purpose

Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 6d

a cartoon girl is holding a cardboard box

ALT: a cartoon girl is holding a cardboard box

media.tenor.com

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 6d

Dr Beckett,

I missed class today. Can you explain metagenomics to me?

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 6d

Few know that "Apple Intelligence" started as the security service used by The Beatles.

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 7d

Only for little old meetings, old short meetings, and little short meetings. For little old short meetings, I do think it's necessary.

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Iain Thomson @iainthomson.bsky.social · 7d

The Jane Goodall Institute threatened to sue Gary Larson over this cartoon.

Goodall told them not to be so stupid, sold it on a tshirt, and wrote the introduction to The Far Side Gallery 5. Absolute legend.

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 8d

דיאגרמה לא ממש מדויקת. החלוקה איננה ע"פ אב קדמון משותף. Slime molds למשל.

Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 10d

That's the spirit!

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 10d

Set-upping, not up-setting.

Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 11d

Unannotated translation products are widespread in model E. coli

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Unannotated translation products are widespread in model E. coli

Genomes contain orders of magnitude more open reading frames (ORFs) than known protein coding genes, and recent work suggests there may be unannotated proteins present in even the best studied organis...

www.biorxiv.org

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 12d

I guess I blue it.

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 12d

Water isnt blue. It's blue only because the sky is blue. And the sky isn't blue either. As a matte of fact, Nothing is blue except for what grows in your fridge.

xkcd.com/1145/

Sky Color

xkcd.com

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 13d

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

www.science.org

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 13d

I mean...
www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q9...

Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 14d

Obviously not a biochemist.

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 19d

A simple d6 roll should solve that.

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 21d

Sinners is too good to be watched on a flight.

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 25d

As a resident of Iowa, and an employee of a college of veterinary medicine, select literature regarding poultry and other livestock lies well within my interests.

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 25d

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 25d

FORTH. I used it to write a leapfrog clone on my C64. Reverse Polish is built in.

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · 27d

I wouldn't say it was all bad. You did manage to grow a tail, after all. It's those serendipitous events that drive science.

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · Sep 1

מאיפה זה?

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Iddo Friedberg 💔 עידו @iddux.bsky.social · Sep 1

Don't get the one from the display. It has a bad motivator.

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · Aug 23

Welcome @isvm-society.bsky.social to bsky, the International Society for the Viruses of Microorganisms. Check the new look website isvm.org and become a member for free!

#phagesky #microsky

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