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Bioinformatic pipelines

Fellow freshwater scientists/bioinformaticians. We have recently completed a large-scale metagenome project and are keen to get more people involved. Details below. igb-berlin.de/en/news/using-… @GrossartHans IGB Berlin (now on Bluesky) #OpenScience #Collaboration #FreshScience

My visit to Turkey showed how far we still have to go before women are treated as equals. Always. Everywhere. My story made headlines. But there are so many stories of women, most of them far more serious, that go unobserved. We have to make sure these stories are also told!

Tipping in America VS in Germany 📹 @calvinknie @timhaber (calvinandhabs | IG)

We have now assembled over 900 metagenomes, just a few left to go and the binning is well underway. Starting to get really exciting seeing ideas for analysis coming from, in particular, female led Junior research groups. We are still keen for more people to get involved.

Excited to share our preprint on sequencing extracellular/cellular rRNA to determine lysis in ~17k prokaryotic taxa, led by Kevin X. Zhong. Rare taxa show high lysis, consistent with "kill-the-winner". Would love your comments biorxiv.org/content/10.110….

The Biomass forest sensing satellite 🛰 has started testing of the P-band radar qualification model which will look through forest canopies 🌳 to provide global maps of carbon stored in woodland – a key climate change driver. Next step: flight hardware manufacture. #SpaceMatters

A perfect answer to a question that popped in my mind a few weeks ago, during a summer evening walk

So Google now have the best variant caller and the best protein folding algorithm. Really hope they don't get into metagenomics 😬

Hey science twitter, any ideas/tools/systems available to suck up small amounts (<1 µL) of liquid from an egg capsule? I have looked at micro-injection systems but am unsure if they can suck liquid up. Suggestions?

In our new paper, we introduce an advanced method, called RiboRid, to remove ribosomal RNA. This method is an efficient and low-cost alternative to commercial counterparts for wide range of bacterial transcriptomics like RNA-Seq and ribosome profiling. bit.ly/3akrUl2

Our comprehensive guide to #COMETS (Computation Of Microbial Ecosystems in Time and Space) is out at Nature Protocols. Read at rdcu.be/czjo9. We hope you will find it useful for #modeling the dynamics of #metabolism in microbial communities. #dFBA #microbiomes. 1/6

#HEARTBREAKING: Only around 330 critically endangered North Atlantic right whales remain after their population declined nearly 10% last year. Without aggressive action, they will continue toward extinction. Speak up for the #RightWhaleToSave: bit.ly/3BITALG

Revised preprint of our #MovileCave #Thiovulum! 𝗗𝗿. 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗰 Traian Brad & me as equal contributors. Many changes since v1! Cave Thiovulaceae form a freshwater clade genomically and functionally different than their marine cousin! Serban M. Sarbu Luca z doi.org/10.1101/2020.1…

When it comes to the giant bacterium Achromatium, everything is everywhere TheScienceBreaker thesciencebreaker.org/breaks/evoluti… #thesciencebreaker #polyploidbacteria #giantbacteria #heterozygousbacteria #functionaccumulation

Happy to report that #VSC5 is well underway! The room is prepared for the final installation steps of the new system, all racks are built & mostly equipped with compute nodes. We’re currently testing the network connections & basic functionalities necessary for node deployment.

7/7 Thank you Haruo Suzuki, Cinzia Corinaldesi and Shady Amin for your critical and productive reviews – even testing our code – that really helped sharpen and focus the paper. Thanks also HFSP for funding this fun collaboration!

In the workshop on the creative scientific process at NYU, we discussed how to search for new questions (particularly by finding contradictions), how to use anthropomorphisms and interdisciplinary thinking to generate new ideas, and how hypotheses can be a liability.🧵of 🧵's ⬇️

#Aktuell zu #W1503 Die Direktion Staatsschutz & Nachrichtendienst erlangte Hinweise, dass ein islamistisch motivierter Anschlag in Wien geplant ist. Aufgrund einer Gefährdungseinschätzung der DSN sowie mehrerer LVT wurde als Vorsichtsmaßnahme eine verstärkte Überwachung und 1/3