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Frederik Bak @fredebak.bsky.social · 7d

A 2-y postdoc position in my former group at University of Copenhagen is available in microbial ecology and bioinformatics.

See more: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Feel free to contact me if you have questions about the environment.

Please share the ad.

Postdoc in Microbial bioinformatics

employment.ku.dk

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Irene Gallego Romero @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social · 7d

I'm stoked to be organising next year's MSS right here in beautiful Melbourne! We know Australia is very far away, and we're working hard to make sure we can support as many ECRs to attend as possible, so please do register and apply for a travel award!

Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance @varianteffect.bsky.social · 13d

📣Call for Abstracts
for the Mutational Scanning Symposium! #VariantEffect26
🗓️ March 25-27, 2026
📍 Melbourne, Australia (and online!)
📝 Submit your abstract (deadline is Nov 2nd, 2025!)
➡️ Registration is also now open!!
ℹ️ www.mss2026.org

#FunctionalGenomics #Symposium #Australia #CallForAbstracts

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 7d

Despite These Times...my department is hiring! I really like my department, we have a good mix of disciplines and organisms and we're really low-drama. We also get pizza at faculty meeting. So if you're a computational and structural biologist, join us! 🧪 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/260...

Assistant Professor - Tenure Track Faculty

The Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is inviting applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The position requires a doc...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Fabian Theis @fabiantheis.bsky.social · 10d

🚀 Excited to share scPortrait! Led by Sophia Mädler & Niklas Schmacke w/ the Mann lab — a new @scverse tool for standardized single-cell image data. Enables ML-ready extraction, >1B cell processing, cross-omics, & cancer macrophage insights.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Martin Smith @martinalexsmith.bsky.social · 11d

If we doubled the allocation of MRFF grants, the fund would break even after 10 years BUT there would be twice as many economic returns from biomedical research innovations, boosting GDP and Australia's highly skilled workforce.
As a reminder, the estimated long term ROI for MRFF grants is $4:$1

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Martin Smith @martinalexsmith.bsky.social · 11d

Given how stingy public research funding is overall, it's shocking that the #MRFF only spends 50% of what is allocated in the budget.
This funds highly impactful, translational research focused fund that can DIRECTLY address the economic burdens of the healthcare system + improved patient outcomes

Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺 @ginaravenscroft.bsky.social · 11d

The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Billions going unspent from Australia’s $24b medical research fund

Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan reveal the government could double how much funding it gives to innovative health research each year.

www.theage.com.au

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Prof Gina Ravenscroft🇿🇦🇦🇺 @ginaravenscroft.bsky.social · 11d

The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Billions going unspent from Australia’s $24b medical research fund

Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan reveal the government could double how much funding it gives to innovative health research each year.

www.theage.com.au

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 15d

Predicting the structural impact of human alternative splicing. #AlternativeSplicing #GenomeBiology
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 15d

Systematic benchmarking of computational methods to identify spatially variable genes. #SpatialTranscriptomics #MethodsBenchmarking #GenomeBiology
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Robert Castelo @robertclab.bsky.social · 19d

#EuroBioC2025 is over and it has been a blast! Thanks to all participants that came to @prbb.org for contributing to make such an enjoyable event and special thanks to the support from our sponsors, the organizing institutions @upf.edu @isglobal.org and the European @bioconductor.bsky.social Society

Group picture with all participants at EuroBioC2025

Vince Carey, Bioconductor project lead, giving the opening keynote lecture.

Audience carefully listening to Vince Carey in the Auditorium.

Christophe Vanderaa giving a workshop on msqrob2, a robust modelling workflow for mass spectrometry-based proteomics

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 17d

We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 17d

If this is right, it should prick the #AI bubble. I wouldn't want to be diagnosed by 'someone' who hallucinates, i.e. makes up stuff that looks like an answer, but isn't.
[ht @goonerismspeek.bsky.social ]

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 18d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Jovana Maksimovic @jovmaksimovic.bsky.social · 23d

Great work by our PhD student @fei-liyang.bsky.social in developing a @bioconductor.bsky.social package for the statistical analysis of barcode counts from clonal tracking/lineage tracing experiments. Preprint out now! 🎉
Catch her at the #EuroBioC2025 and #EMBOlineageTracing conferences.

Alicia Oshlack @aliciao.bsky.social · 23d

BarbieQ: Our new paper outlining our bioconductor package for the statistical analysis of barcode count data. Lineage tracing and clonal tracking. They made us add the Q

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MIG @mig-unimelb.bsky.social · 23d

Happening this Thursday! Don’t miss our workshop!

MIG @mig-unimelb.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 MIG Workshop: Intro to phylogenetics

🔗 events.unimelb.edu.au/MIG/event/44...

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MIG @mig-unimelb.bsky.social · 23d

📢 Join us for the talk this Friday! Don't miss it!

MIG @mig-unimelb.bsky.social · Sep 5

📢 MIG Seminar: Models and Truth in Phylogenomics

🗓️ Fri, Sep 19 | ⏰ 12 - 1 pm AEST
📍 Ian Potter Auditorium (G52), Kenneth Myer Building (144)
🎙️ Prof. Rob Lanfear (ANU)
💻 Zoom available

#Phylogenetics #Evolution #Bioinformatics #MIGseminar

MIG Seminar: Prof. Rob Lanfear, Australian National University

Title: Models and Truth in Phylogenomics Abstract: How do you estimate a good phylogeny? Phylogenetic trees form the backbone of much of ou...

events.unimelb.edu.au

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 24d

This is the graph we show whenever someone talks about how back in the old days there weren't (people who are not whoever the person speaking thinks are the default).

Mostly we do this to underscore that a rise in apparent frequency isn't always a rise in real frequency.

A graph of the US population that is left-handed, by birth year. It drops from about 5% to a low of a little more than 3% from ~1890 to ~1910. It then rises steadily to about 12% around 1950, and stays at 12% out to 2000.

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 29d

minimap2.com is potentially a phishing site. Please don't use anything from that website.
github.com/lh3/minimap2...

Phishing site : minimap2.com · Issue #1316 · lh3/minimap2

Not sure how to label this one, but I have come across a website minimap2.com which appears to be AI generated but is serving it's own copy of the Github repository. If you search the address or em...

github.com

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James Bonfield @jbonfield.bsky.social · 24d

Heads up: ignore samtools dot org, similarly minimap2 dot com and likely others. It's owned by a known phishing site and while the binaries they offer look valid currently (but note they may be serving us different binaries to others), that could change.

Ie: it's not us (Samtools team)! Be warned

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Seqera @seqera.io · 24d

New to @nextflow.io?✨Join us for Nextflow Training all of next week!

Work through instructor-led videos and hands-on exercises at your own pace. Plus, the chance to earn an official completion certificate. 🎓

👉 Register now: hubs.la/Q03Jf_Zp0

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Paul Gardner @ppgardne.bsky.social · 24d

Are you looking for a lectureship in biochemistry, molecular genetics, or bioinformatics? Come and enjoy the greatest place for kayak fishing and a fun research+teaching career.

*there are other fun things to do here too.

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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 24d

Excellent editorial by my friend and colleague @pracheeac.bsky.social:

"Academic Publishing Has Become a Racket"

www.wsj.com/opinion/acad...

Opinion | Academic Publishing Has Become a Racket

Scientists write and review papers without getting paid, and their institutions have to pay for access.

www.wsj.com

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FMI science @fmiscience.bsky.social · 27d

📣The Turco group is seeking a computational biologist to analyze large omics datasets. Work on cutting-edge 3D organoid models of the human placenta and be embedded in our Computational Biology Platform (part of @sib.swiss). Apply here: www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 27d

New blog post – A quick look at Roche's SBX
lh3.github.io/2025/09/11/a...

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 28d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 29d

Now preprinted at arxiv.org/abs/2509.07357

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