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Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈
@sabiagini.bsky.social
Human Population Geneticist 💀🧬 #aDNA | Bioinformatician 👨‍💻 | Diversity&Inclusion in Academia 🌈 | Member of the SMBE IDEA Task Force @smbe-idea.bsky.social ✨ | Theater 🎭 | he/him | 🗣️🇮🇹🇬🇧🇪🇸🏳️‍🌈
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🚨 Did you know that non-invasive prenatal screening (𝗡𝗜𝗣𝗦🤰) data can be repurposed for large-scale genomics? 🧬

Our new study shows how to turn low-coverage data into valuable insights, analyzing >32,000 genomes from Belgium. #genetics #imputation #NIPS #AcademicSky

genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9...
Genotype imputation from low-coverage data for medical and population genetic analyses
An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms
genome.cshlp.org
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Just a few more days to submit abstracts to #SMBE2026 in beautiful Copenhagen.

🗓️Deadline 3nd February

We are organizing
S01: Evolutionary-informed management of vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world.

Hope to see many of you there!
January 23, 2026 at 12:59 PM
👋 Hi #AcademicSky!

Together with @smbe-idea.bsky.social I’m organizing a symposium at #SMBE2026 (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰

🌈 Our mission is to 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

📣 Call for abstracts 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡
⏰ Deadline: 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟯

✨ Hope to see you there! 😉

@official-smbe.bsky.social
Join us for the IDEA Symposium at SMBE 2026 (June 28–July 2) in Copenhagen! We celebrate SMBE’s commitment to inclusion, equity, and diversity by addressing systemic inequities in molecular biology and evolution.

💬 Like to participate? Abstract deadline is February 3rd!
smbe2026.org/symposia/
January 30, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Antifa is short for anti-fascist. It’s ridiculous that we even have to explain this. Turning a word that literally means opposition to fascism into a scare label only works because so many idiots don’t bother to check the basics. Open a book that isn’t the fucking Bible.

ALWAYS ANTI-FASCIST.
January 26, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Rejection is redirection. Unless they’re rejecting your paper. Then it’s just money for your therapist. #AcademicSky
January 12, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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SMBE2026 IDEA Symposium: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Molecular Biology and Evolution

@smbe-idea.bsky.social

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026
January 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Updating #RStudio is always the greatest wrong decision you can make if you care about ever having a life again. #Bioinformatics #AcademicSky
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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🚨 New VSC Success Story!
Ancient DNA from Sint-Truiden reveals 1,000 years of ancestry, migration & community life — including evidence of 14th-century plague unseen in historical records.

Powered by VSC supercomputing.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/cciqwPZMkfk

#VSC #HPC #AncientDNA #Genomics #History
VSC Success Story | Discoveries from Sint-Truiden
YouTube video by Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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November is Native American Heritage Month - a time to elevate the histories, cultures, and contributions of Indigenous peoples.

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

On the SMBE IDEA Task Force we aim to support efforts to remove the barriers that have historically excluded many voices from science 🗣️
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm truly confused 🤔

I asked #ChatGPT to summarize a series of notes I had on a statistical interpretation. It then asked me if I wanted a visual summary of the topic (again, statistics, numbers, etc.). I said yes, just yes. This is what it created:

#AcademicSky #Bioinformatics
October 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Can we all agree that clothes stay on the drying rack until someone’s coming over? 👕🧺
October 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
😑 I just can’t today. My script kept crashing over and over, and in the end, it was just a damn indentation error. Falling into the same mistakes after all these years feels like a loop that can only be broken with swearing 🤬 #Bioinformatics #AcademicSky
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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💚 Today is 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝘿𝙖𝙮!

Let’s take a moment to care for ourselves and each other 🌱

The 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 and @official-smbe.bsky.social support mental well-being in science 🧠✨

💬 Share your favorite self-care tip below & let’s support our community! #WorldMentalHealthDay #AcademicSky
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🤝 In 2024, the 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Boris Armel Olou, Jean Legeay, Jean Evans Israel Codjia & Roël Dire Houdanon for their project strengthening African researchers in Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics.

✨ Excited about the impact so far!
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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🤝 In 2024, the 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Rori Rohlfs and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for their podcast ScienceWise!

✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project!

🎙️ @sciencewisepod.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔥 Time's ticking! Share your vision for inclusion & equity in science!

⏰ Deadline: 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟭𝟬

@official-smbe.bsky.social
@smbe-idea.bsky.social
#AcademicSky
⏳ Don't miss out! Submit your proposals by 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟭𝟬 and help shape a more inclusive science community!

@official-smbe.bsky.social #AcademicSky
October 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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❗REMINDER - the call for proposals for SMBE IDEA initiatives for 2025/2026 will close soon - apply by October 10th

Categories:

💡 IDEA ($25k)
🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
🗣️ Outreach ($10k)

More info
smbe.org/idea-initiatives
@smbe-idea.bsky.social
📢 Call for proposals - SMBE IDEA 2026

@smbe-idea.bsky.social invites all SMBE members to propose initiatives for 2025/2026 to reduce inequities in our field.

Categories:

💡 IDEA ($25k)
🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
🗣️ Outreach ($10k)

Deadline: Oct. 10 2025

More info: smbe.org/idea-initiatives
October 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🔥 Don't miss the opportunity! Submit your proposal 𝙉𝙊𝙒! 🌈

#AcademicSky #IDEA #SMBE2026
@official-smbe.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Moving to another country for a few months. #academiclife #academicsky

Excited but also:
a woman in a suit says everything hurts and i 'm dying .
ALT: a woman in a suit says everything hurts and i 'm dying .
media.tenor.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
✨ In my latest paper, I used 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 instead of “pregnant women", because pregnancy is not exclusive to those who identify as women 🤰

📢 Using inclusive language is part of our responsibility as scientists to fight erasure of transgender and nonbinary people 🏳️‍⚧️ #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM
September 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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🌍✨ SMBE IDEA 2026 – Call for Proposals!

We support initiatives that tackle inequities in evolutionary biology.

Funding available:
💡 IDEA ($25k)
🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
🗣️ Outreach ($10k)

📅 Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/1we2...
IDEA Initiatives
SMBE, through the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Task Force, aims to address systemic racism, sexism, colonialism, and other exclusion in our society. SMBE DIVERSITY STATEMENT Our goa...
smbe.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Genotype imputation from low-coverage data for medical and population genetic analyses genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/SABiagini/GDI
September 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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🧬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "DNPcall: A new pipeline for accurate double nucleotide polymorphism calling"

Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf209 

Authors include: @eugeniadat.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Neanderthals lived ~350,000 years without governments, capitalism, or wrecking ecosystems.

We Homo sapiens, in just 300,000 years (and especially the last 200), have trashed the planet.

Just saying.
September 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Anything to promote my new paper (and yes that includes this photo). I put six years of my mental health into this one 😅🧬🔥

📝 Go read it! ⬇️

🔗 genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9...

#AcademicSky
September 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🚨 My new paper is out in the latest issue of @genomeresearch.bsky.social! 🧬

🧵 Check out my thread from yesterday for the details ⬇️

👨‍💻 Open source codes also available on my #GitHub page!

#AcademicSky
September 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM