Dr. Sebastian Beier
sebastianbeier.bsky.social
Dr. Sebastian Beier
@sebastianbeier.bsky.social
ELIXIR Co-lead of Plant sciences community | Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | Bioinformatician | Genomics & Data Science in Plants
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The @denbi.bsky.social crew & friends from Germany at #BioHackEU25!
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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🎉Thank you all for joining #BioHackEU25! A special thanks to our online and overseas participants 🙌 staying up late hacking through different projects with us. 👏It has been a great week!! And we look forward to seeing you next year for #BioHackEU26 in Barcelona, Spain!🥳
November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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✨ We're halfway through #BioHackEU25!
This afternoon, all projects will present their 🎯 goals and challenges they’ve encountered and seek expertise from participants.

Keyword of this year: #Data, #Research, #FAIR and #Metadata
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Today, a global community of hackers gathers in Berlin 🇩🇪 for the start of #BioHackEU25. Since 2019, over 2200 participants have gathered together for an intense week of collaboration to advance 275 projects.

Read the news: https://loom.ly/6sE_kdI
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Marie Bolger closes the session at the #SOLRUB2025 with a presentation about the application of Helixer to the annotation of the #Solanaceae genomes.
September 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Hello, Bluesky! We’re AgBioData, a consortium of agricultural databases, researchers, and curators working to make genomic, genetic, and breeding data FAIR.
Follow us for updates on:
🔬 Data standards
📊 Tools & best practices
🌾 Community news
📢 Sustainability

#AgBio #OpenScience #FAIRdata #AgBioData
September 21, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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@denbi.bsky.social is the next days at the #EPPS25 in Bonn. We teamed up with @wggc-de.bsky.social for a workshop and with #phenet for a booth. #plant #phenomics @sebastianbeier.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Is plant single cell/nuc. & spatial transcriptomics your passion? Do you want to understand plant adaptation using cutting edge molecular & bioinformatics tools? Then come and join us to work together with @ceplas.bsky.social & @wggc-de.bsky.social. #plantjobs
www.fz-juelich.de/de/karriere/...
Scientist - Plant Single Cell / Spatial Analysis
The Institute IBG-4 at Forschungszentrum Jülich is a key partner in the Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), one of Germany’s leading plant science research networks. The group of Prof. D...
www.fz-juelich.de
July 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Did you know that you can build pipelines in @galaxyproject.bsky.social?
Check out this talk by Björn Grüning, head of the Galaxy Team @uni-freiburg.de, and discover how #Galaxy how to get started with the platform and create pipelines right away!

🔗 youtu.be/OIzWTd93k5c?...

#usegalaxy #genomics
How to build a pipeline in Galaxy?
YouTube video by ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas
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April 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Yes, there's "accessible" in my group's title. Come at me, Trump!

Just kidding, don't come at me, except if you're looking for a job in biomedical AI. Hiring at all levels, up to 100% of E13.

If you're enthusiastic about science and open source, consider applying! Please help spread the word. :)
March 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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First keynote talk of @denbi.bsky.social Spring School: Sara and @sebastianbeier.bsky.social talked about #RDM and #FAIR basics
March 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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#PlantSciJobs #PlantSciJob

Research Associate / PostDoc: Analysis of Brassicaceae (Camelina) multi-omics data aimed at enhancing plant stress adaptation
In @usadellab.bsky.social 's lab @fz-juelich.de
Deadline: 6 April 2025
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/en/job-openi...
Job Openings
www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de
March 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Today the @denbi.bsky.social spring school started with an introduction to Bielefeld, Bielefeld University, CeBiTec and de.NBI / #ELIXIR_DE as well as an introduction to #Lipidomics.
March 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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📣 BioHackathon Europe 2025 Call for project proposals is now open!
Submit your #bioinformatics project 🧑‍💻 for #BioHackEU25 by 14 April: biohackathon-europe.org
🙌 We welcome proposals that focus on areas supporting the work of ELIXIR, such as #FAIRdata, #metadata standards, #ontologies and more.
BioHackathon Europe
Find out about the 2025 BioHackathon Europe, where hackers get together to make life science research easier.
biohackathon-europe.org
March 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Flash Talk about @nfdi4plants.bsky.social at the #Plant2030 status meeting. Organize and store your plant research data for free as part of the German #NFDI. Check it out www.nfdi4plants.org free as in beer and open source.
March 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It is way to early... On my way to the annual meeting of plant sciences funded by the BMBF in Potsdam. Looking forward to some interesting science and meeting some dear colleagues
March 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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We are pleased to invite you to the International Symposium on Integrative #Bioinformatics co-organised as Gatersleben Research Conference (September 10–12, 2025 @leibnizipk.bsky.social Germany). This symposium is supported by @denbi.bsky.social / ELIXIR-DE. Read more: www.denbi.de/de-nbi-event...
February 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Come visit the @denbi.bsky.social booth at the #CLIB International Conference in Düsseldorf! Our team is excited to connect with you and share insights into #service, #training and #cloudcomputing. See you there!
February 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Applying LLMs to biomedical research today can go one of two ways: we either use a closed-source web app, or we get coding ourselves. Many researchers lack training for the latter, so their only choice is the former. We want to change that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Ich meine das mit dem Aufruf zum Wählen übrigens ernst. Laut Forsa könnten wir 28% (!) Nicht-Wähler_innen haben. Liebe Wissenschaftler_innen, liebe Wissenschaftsinstitutionen: Euch hören viele zu. Erinnert sie, wie wichtig Wählen ist. Für unsere Demokratie. & ermuntert sie, Botschaft weiterzutragen!
27 Tage bis zur vorgezogenen Bundestagswahl. Wissenschaft hat Grund zur Sorge angesichts wissenschafts-, demokratie- & menschenfeindlicher Politik. Was tun? 1️⃣ Relevanz von Demokratie & Menschenrechten betonen. 2️⃣ ALLE, die uns zuhören, auffordern, von Wahlrecht Gebrauch zu machen!⬇️ #LauteWissenschaft
#LauteWissenschaft im Wahljahr 2025: Eure Stimme zählt!
Was können wir tun gegen demokratie- und menschenfeindliche Politik, die auch auf unsere Community abzielt? Wir können — und sollten! — unsere Rolle als Multiplikator_innen nutzen und zum Wählen aufru...
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January 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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📜 One organ to infect them all: the Cuscuta haustorium

🧑‍🔬 Vasili A. Balios, Kirsten Krause, et al.

📔 @annbot.bsky.social

🔗 academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #PlantImmunity #PlantParasitism #ParasiticPlants #Cuscuta #Haustoria
One organ to infect them all: the Cuscuta haustorium
AbstractBackground. Research on the parasitic plant genus Cuscuta has flourished since the genomes of several of its species were published. Most of the re
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January 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Der Rest folgt - schriftlich gleich im Newsletter #ArbeitInDerWiss, dessen Abo sich ohnehin lohnt. arbeitinderwissenschaft.substack.com #IchBinHanna #HannaWählt2025
January 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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@lucasmunnes.bsky.social presenting genomes in the Morelloid clade and drought stress for one member i.e. S.nigrum which we collected just in front of our institute @hhu.bsky.social)
January 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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@angelakranz.bsky.social presenting DataPLAN as part of the @nfdi4plants.bsky.social data management consortium at #PAG32. It makes data management plan generation painless, works online and you immediately see what happens. Try it dmpg.nfdi4plants.org or read about it here doi.org/10.3390/data...
January 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM