The dubious phrasing of "Falling short of significance" and the discutability of setting hard p-value thresholds aside, I wonder how one can observe a non-significant trend? 🙃 #pvalues #significance

There should be a yearly competition for coming up with the shortest exact definition of N50. #assembly #MAGs #metagenomics #genomics

I'll be attending #ISMB2024 in Montreal (July 12-16th) to present a workflow to better estimate microbial community composition by identifying novel species and better-than-reference MAGs. #Microbiome #Metagenomics #Bioinformatics

#lichen #metagenomics #hackathon at Hinxton Hall Conference Centre kicking off! #treeoflife Wellcome Sanger Institute

🌿🧬Excited to share new research from our team on moss-microbe interactions in boreal forests!🚀 This was a team🤝effort, with lots of challenges, camaraderie, & discoveries along the🛣️ Ready to dive in? 🧵 (1/9) JoRondo @MariaFaticov @MicrobLuvrSarah nature.com/articles/s4159…

Who says art and science can’t mix?! We’ll be blending the two on Nov. 19 with a fungal themed art night - beer brewed with chanterelles, a silent auction, sculptures, and more! En plus , the fungi build the hype themselves - we just gotta take the time to appreciate them!

JoRondo Wonderful chat today at lunch with bright bioinformatics minds #luckyme #CSHLmbiome Jacob Nearing JoRondo Ataberk Donmez & missing Johanna von Wachsmann who had already left Such a privilege to talk about cool projects, visas complications, travels, and statistical consensus 😂

Had an absolutely fantastic time at #CSHLmbiome with Pr. & Dr. Isabelle Laforest-L. (she/her/elle) and dozens of wonderful scientists. Mind-blowing science, beautiful community, awesome location, perfect weather and so many new connexions. Can't wait for next year!

The importance of peer-reviewed bioinformatics methods: a short rant about a recent paper by some leading scientists in my field. Most scientists would agree that well-engineered computational methods are critically important in genomics... 1/8

Yeah. Not good. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Screen time is linked to lower brain development in kids. 🧵1/10

The irony

I mentioned "microbial dark matter" to a non-microbial ecologist and he pointed out that dark matter is hypothetical, whereas unknown microbes are real. How about we call it what it is : the Unknome. *micdrop* #microbiome #microbes #metagenomics #sequencing

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Looking to improve your #microbiome data analyses skills? Hope to see you at #STAMPS2025 at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Applications Due: March 11, 2025 go.mbl.edu/STAMPS

Master & PhD positions opening in our lab! Plant-insect trophic network resilience from the perspective of microbiomes.🐞🐛🦟🌿🌲🪴🦠🧬 Share if you know someone who knows someone, a great team to work for! laforestlab.com/positions

Very important work IMO ! The generalized tendency to omit justification for methodological choices in microbiome studies has always bugged me. Great article Amy Willis 😻 amydwillis.bsky.social and David ! nature.com/articles/s4156…

I'll be in the UK for #ISMBECCB2025. Who else is going? So excited!