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Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · Jul 23

Come to the BOKR session at 2:20 and see Charlotte Tumescheit @schnamo.bsky.social give a super interesting talk about improving prediction of molecular properties by incorporating ontologies. #ISMBECCB2025

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Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · Jul 22

Come and see me in the ice rink if you want to plot phylogenies in matplotlib! Poster 206. GitHub.com/KatyBrown/plot_phylo #ISMBECCB2025

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Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · Jul 21

Excited for the ISMB/ECCB conference! I have two posters A520 today about an endogenous and exogenous virus I found in nematodes - and B206 tomorrow about my tool plot_phylo for drawing phylogenies in matplotlib. #ISMBECCB2025

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Charlotte Tumescheit @schnamo.bsky.social · Jun 23

New Review Paper Alert! Are you interested in how to use AI to decode RNA? Check it out here
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Decoding the interactions and functions of non-coding RNA with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Studying RNA function is constrained by limitations of traditional methods. This Roadmap discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the study of how non-coding regions of mRNA regulate its...

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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology @natrevmcb.nature.com · Jun 19

New Online! Decoding the interactions and functions of non-coding RNA with artificial intelligence

Decoding the interactions and functions of non-coding RNA with artificial intelligence

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Published online: 19 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41580-025-00857-wStudying RNA function is constrained by limitations of traditional methods. This Roadmap discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the study of how non-coding regions of mRNA regulate its function, and suggests how to use AI to harness publicly available data towards that goal.

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Charlotte Tumescheit @schnamo.bsky.social · May 28

🧬 Are you into endogenous viral elements? If yes (and you should be, they are pretty cool) I highly recommend getting in touch with the amazing Katy via the sign up sheet! 🦠

Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · May 27

I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics

EVE Meeting Expression of Interest

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Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care (IfIS) UZH @uzh-ifisuzhch.bsky.social · Mar 6

#Wanted: Our Medical Knowledge and Decision Support Group #IfIS seeks a PhD candidate in #AI for #Metabolism (80%) to join the MetaboLinkAI project jointly funded by @snsf-ch.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social
📩 Apply by 31 March 2025 ➡️ jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... @jannahastings.bsky.social

UZH: PhD Position in AI for Metabolism

The Medical Knowledge and Decision Support Group at the University of Zurich is seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate to join the MetaboLinkAI project, jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Fou...

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Mar 6

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.

At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · Feb 4

My tool plot_phylo is now available through @pyopensci! Used to plot a phylogenetic tree using matplotlib functionality, so mpl can be used for additional annotation. Very smooth and helpful process with lots of useful feedback. www.pyopensci.org/python-packa... github.com/KatyBrown/pl... 🧪🧬🖥️

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jan 22

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · Jan 22

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.

Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Charlotte Tumescheit @schnamo.bsky.social · Jan 23

Hello Bluesky community :)
Would like to take this opportunity to draw your attention to some selected bioinformatics work I did together with @thekatybrown.bsky.social, if you are dealing with multiple sequence alignments it might be useful!
peerj.com/articles/129...

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Charlotte Tumescheit @schnamo.bsky.social · Jan 23

Check out our recently published paper about evaluating AI-generated images! Wonderful work together with @jannahastings.bsky.social @muhrlizza.bsky.social and more!
www.cureus.com/articles/308...

Evaluating Text-to-Image Generated Photorealistic Images of Human Anatomy

Background: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) models that can produce photorealistic images from text descriptions have many applications in medicine, including medical education and the generat...

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jan 22

“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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