The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) now has a Mastodon account genomic.social/@OpenBio #TwitterMigration

Grr. I woke up yesterday with a crick in my neck and it is still bugging me. I am thankful though that I did not get a Watson.

We are so sad to share the news that our key architect and lead engineer has passed away. Simon Gladman was as smart and generous as they come - a role model for us all. Deepest condolences to his many friends and much loved family biocommons.org.au/news/simon-gla…

BOSC now has a Mastodon account at genomic.social/@BOSC along side our OBF account at genomic.social/@OpenBio #TwitterMigration #BOSC2023 will be in Lyon, France as part of ISMB/ECCB 2023 iscb.org/ismbeccb2023

I see questions like, "Can I just post stuff on preprint servers instead of submitting to journals?" on Quora pretty regularly. Sure - if you don't care about having a full-time paid career in research.

If you are a college student who likes to nod intently at your professors while they're talking in class, just know that all of them adore you and think you are the absolute greatest

The Universitetet i Oslo now imposing a two-factor authentication without asking for any feedback from the scientific community. We now need to have our phone to validate the login with ssh for instance! Every freaking time... It is very annoying IMO. Also imposed on email, calendars, etc.

Universal masking linked to fewer covid cases in schools, study finds - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

If you want to automatically follow on 🐘 the people that you follow on 🐤, Debirdify is a good way to do it. Do it now while you still can. debirdify.pruvisto.org

Just a reminder that you have one body to last forever so you can wear a mask wherever you feel like it and fuck anyone who pressures you to take it off

(eccentric) GSV

Great work by Peter Cock @Llewelyn68 and Pete Thorpe, finally getting this one into the public eye! My personal takeaway from working on this is that accurate metabarcoding is much harder than most people, or publications, let on. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I have banged on at length about this problem, in the context of this project, before. figshare.com/articles/poste…

Do people have favorite genome similarity matrix viz examples that they would suggest we implement in sourmash? Think "have N genomes / samples, want to cluster & display comparison of them all." Pointers to papers and tutorials v. welcome! cc Peter Cock ref github.com/sourmash-bio/s…

I've only logged into my dormant Twitter account to check for any messages etc (I no longer have a working Twitter client). Nowadays I am on Mastodon, see fediscience.org/@pjacock - Thanks.

Delighted to be at the BOSC 2023 #cofest. Looking forward to a productive couple of days! #BOSC2023

We're super-excited for our 24th annual BOSC, #BOSC2023, starting on July 24! Don't miss the opening keynote by Sara El-Gebali (Dr. Sara El-Gebali 🦥 [email protected]), after a brief "Welcome to BOSC" session including OBF News and #cofest overviews. open-bio.org/events/bosc-20… 🍐

If you’re not at the pre-#BOSC2023 #cofest, you’re missing out on the interesting discussions, fruitful collaborations, and amazing lunches provided by our local hosts, @ENSdeLyon / @RDPlab (thank you, Jérémy Just!)