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Daniel Abreu-Acosta
@abracostadani.bsky.social
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Biologist trying to make my way in the world
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catharineaquino.bsky.social
Looking at cheese microbiome using @pacbio.bsky.social sequencing #PRISM by Todd Treangen
May 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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stelkens.bsky.social
We have a 4-year fully funded PhD position available! Research topics include but are not limited to 1) Parallel evolution of climate adaptation in Europe and South America 2) The genetic architecture of temperature adaptation 3) The evolution of pathogenicity su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in Evolutionary Genomics with Yeast
The Department of Zoology of Stockholm University includes ca. 80 employees, including researchers, PhD students, and administrative staff. Research and education at the department occurs in an intern
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March 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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tank-silvia.bsky.social
🧪📣Course alert!📣🧪

Applications are open for the new edition of the @EMBO.org course on Genome assembly and downstream analysis in Florence 🇮🇹. We can’t wait to welcome a new group of participants after the success of🇧🇪 & 🇪🇸 editions.

🗓️ Apply by May 31.

🧪🧬🖥️ #EMBOgenomeSeq #ScienceTraining
Genome sequencing, assembly, curation, and downstream analyses
Advances in long-read sequencing methods such as Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) and scaffolding approaches using chromosome conformation capture have significantl…
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April 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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oskolkov.bsky.social
If you use Kraken for profiling microbial / environmental / ancient metagenomic data, please check this preprint where I benchmark filtering strategies of Kraken outputs on simulated microbial and environmental metagenomic samples, and provide recommendations for optimal filtering thresholds
April 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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ebpgenome.bsky.social
What’s the wildest part of an animal you've used for DNA sequencing?
April 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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adamrutherford.bsky.social
HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES.

Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.

arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Dire wolves remain very extinct
Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.
arutherford.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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kslack.bsky.social
#Academicsky, #Sciencesky, what do you consider to be “threshold concepts” in your discipline? These are concepts that are tricky to learn but transformative on the road to mastering your discipline. Here’s more detail on the concept. I’d appreciate your thoughts! www.prof2prof.com/blog/making-...
Making the Clouds Part
Not too long ago, when my kids were 6 and 11, I recall a conversation we had about their interest in possible careers when they grow up. My youngest was intent on becoming an NBA star, while my oldest...
www.prof2prof.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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elinvidevall.bsky.social
Archaeal diversity in the #microbiomes of four wild bird species. 🐦🦠

Hunter et al. Microbiology Spectrum.
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
March 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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smcgrath.phd
🧪 New studies show paying peer reviewers ~$250 speeds up reviews by 1-33 days without affecting quality. One journal saw acceptance rates rise from 48% to 53%. #AcademicSky
Publishers trial paying peer reviewers — what did they find?
Two journals embarked on efforts to compensate reviewers, with different results.
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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fromphdtolife.com
Your PhD is not a liability. It’s an asset. You just need to know how to communicate it to employers outside academia. That’s what I’ll show you in my free webinar.

#AcademicSky

Watch here:
Free Training for PhDs - From PhD to Life
Leaving academia? You want a new career as a PhD without wasting time applying for the wrong jobs, but don’t know where to start. Get clarity with Dr. Jen Polk in this free training.
fromphdtolife.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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markscherz.bsky.social
Blown away by this paper on body size variation among 11,264 (!!!) measured plethodontid salamanders over an elevational gradient. Super surprised to see that it is not temperature that has the main explanatory role, but mostly humidity and precipitation 🧪🦎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The Structure Equation Model (a fancy kind of Path model) from the paper, constructed of four factors influencing body size: elevation, which acts indirectly via its effect on temperature and precipitation; temperature, which acts directly only weakly, but more strongly via a direct effect on humidity; precipitation, which acts directly on body size but also has a significant relationship with humidity; and humidity, which has a direct influence. It's an elegant figure. There's a salamander representing body size, illustrated by one of the coauthors, Fleming.
March 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
abracostadani.bsky.social
Ecstatic to have been accepted into the master’s programme in biology, ecology, and conservation at @uu.se !!! There’s still some road ahead before I can make this dream a reality, but hopefully I’ll be starting this fall.

#AcademicSky 🧪
March 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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elixir-europe.org
Do you have a #bioinformatics project idea that needs a little stimulus⚡?
Submit your project proposal for #BioHackEU25 to get the chance to meet with experts 💨 to drive the project forward.

📥 Submit your proposal by 14 April: biohackathon-europe.org/projects/
March 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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ebpgenome.bsky.social
🚨 Arthropod Genomics Symposium Event 🚨

Join top researchers, industry leaders, and innovators at AGSx 2025 with i5k and USDA ARS to explore the latest breakthroughs in insect and arthropod genomics.
March 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
abracostadani.bsky.social
"there is no other way to tackle the largest tasks in life other than in the increment of work available to you"

For me this is the letter's most practical advice. To breakup projects into outlines, to eat the whale "one forkful at a time".
March 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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martmichaelis.bsky.social
Catchy titles for objective, unemotional research articles... #AcademicSky 🧪 #EconSky
Catchy, clear, concise: three-part phrases boost research paper citations
Memorable ‘tripartite’ phrases in titles make studies more likely to be read and cited.
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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nicolasdussex.bsky.social
I am looking for a Postdoc (3 years, start Mid-2025) to work on conservation genomics of ringed seal in the Baltic.
The project will use genomic data for 100s of individuals, SDM and genomic simulations.
#conservationgenetics
#consgen

Apply here:
recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...
ringed seal photo 1 ringed seal photo 2
March 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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kguschan.bsky.social
I was recently interviewed by Maia Garde for #UppTalk, the @uu.se outreach program. We talked about the spectacular work of @axeljensen.bsky.social on guenons, the true Rebel #Monkeys, and a bit about tracking mountain gorillas. Listen in if you like #primates & #genomics youtu.be/91zFERdT3oQ?...
UppTalk: What can primates teach us about adaptation and survival?
YouTube video by Uppsala universitet
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March 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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academicabuse.com
You don’t need permission to succeed. Skipped a step? Took longer? Went the nontraditional route? It’s still your path. You aren’t behind. Academia’s timeline isn’t the only one.

🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #HigherEd #PhDChat
March 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Happy International Women's Day! Despite the efforts, while much more women enter scientific fields, due to numerous factors, few manage to remain in the field or secure senior positions. Support your coworkers, call out harmful systemic behaviour. 😘
"Scissor Graph" showing men overtaking women in proportional representation in sciences after doctorate
March 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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kamilsjaron.bsky.social
5 days left to register for the #k-mer workshop! 🧬 I would strongly recommend for anyone doing large scale biodiversity genomics. tinyurl.com/register-for...
March 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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nicholaswu.bsky.social
New paper in @nature.com led by @patricepottier.bsky.social! We demonstrated global vulnerability of amphibians to warming, threatening 10% of >5,000 species examined. How did we do it? See thread🧵

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 6, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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March 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM