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"Much as granaries and refrigeration transformed food markets, storage will turn electricity from perishable to persistent, unlocking a new era of energy abundance."
Silos for Sunshine: we've mastered harvesting the sun, but storage is the gamechanger | Ember
The shift to renewables represents an agricultural revolution for energy, moving from searching and extracting scarce fuels to harvesting abundant sunlight in place.
ember-energy.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Much as granaries and refrigeration transformed food markets, storage will turn electricity from perishable to persistent, unlocking a new era of energy abundance."
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Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Group Leader – AI in Biology
Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in AI for Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a visionary scientist to establish their own independent research group bridging innovations in machine...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Are you an AI expert who wants to stay in academia and change the world by understanding the most complex things we know - living organisms? Want to lead your own group, based in Heidelberg DE, working language English? @embl.org is hiring in AI embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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NATO isn’t ready yet for Russia’s drones.
More than three years after the war in Ukraine started, allies don’t have cost-effective counter-measures to deal with cheap Russian attacks. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
More than three years after the war in Ukraine started, allies don’t have cost-effective counter-measures to deal with cheap Russian attacks. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
NATO isn’t ready for Russia’s drones
Allies don’t have cost-effective counter-measures to deal with cheap Russian attacks.
www.politico.eu
September 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
NATO isn’t ready yet for Russia’s drones.
More than three years after the war in Ukraine started, allies don’t have cost-effective counter-measures to deal with cheap Russian attacks. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
More than three years after the war in Ukraine started, allies don’t have cost-effective counter-measures to deal with cheap Russian attacks. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
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My generation had to deal with datasets where Excel had autocorrected gene names to dates. Future generations are going to have to deal with the hallucinations of slopbots.
Prompt-based bioinformatics: a new interface for multi-omics analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41... read free: rdcu.be/eAnf4
Vibeoinformatics... computational vibeology... 🧬🖥️🧪
Vibeoinformatics... computational vibeology... 🧬🖥️🧪
Prompt-based bioinformatics: a new interface for multi-omics analysis - Nature Reviews Genetics
Prompt-based methods, which involve the careful design of inputs to guide large language model (LLM) outputs, are beginning to reshape bioinformatic analytical workflows. The authors compare prompt-dr...
www.nature.com
August 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My generation had to deal with datasets where Excel had autocorrected gene names to dates. Future generations are going to have to deal with the hallucinations of slopbots.
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Na de 'pauze' in juli gaat het in augustus weer crescendo met mijn 'verzameling' negatieve stroomprijzen. Inmiddels het RECORD van 2024 gepasseerd.
Het raadsel van de verdwenen negatieve prijzen in juli blijft nog even. Eind deze maand ga ik analyseren. Of heeft u het antwoord al?
#grafiekvandedag
Het raadsel van de verdwenen negatieve prijzen in juli blijft nog even. Eind deze maand ga ik analyseren. Of heeft u het antwoord al?
#grafiekvandedag
August 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Na de 'pauze' in juli gaat het in augustus weer crescendo met mijn 'verzameling' negatieve stroomprijzen. Inmiddels het RECORD van 2024 gepasseerd.
Het raadsel van de verdwenen negatieve prijzen in juli blijft nog even. Eind deze maand ga ik analyseren. Of heeft u het antwoord al?
#grafiekvandedag
Het raadsel van de verdwenen negatieve prijzen in juli blijft nog even. Eind deze maand ga ik analyseren. Of heeft u het antwoord al?
#grafiekvandedag
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In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇
Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants - Nature
A study reports whole-genome sequences for 490,640 participants from the UK Biobank and combines these data with phenotypic data to provide new insights into the relationship between human variation a...
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
In another milestone for human genetics, the world's largest set of whole-genome DNA sequences now encompasses data from nearly half a million people, described in this new @nature.com paper from @ukbiobank.bsky.social: 🧪👇
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9 million years ago, a romance between tomato-like plants and potato ancestors (Etuberosum) in South America led to the birth of the potato as we know it! This ancient hybridization resulted in tuber formation allowing potatoes to thrive in harsh Andean environments! 🧪
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
August 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
9 million years ago, a romance between tomato-like plants and potato ancestors (Etuberosum) in South America led to the birth of the potato as we know it! This ancient hybridization resulted in tuber formation allowing potatoes to thrive in harsh Andean environments! 🧪
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Fascinating! I foresee that battery storage will strongly increase (which combined with strong battery price decreases means ~100x more batteries in the coming 10 years) and this will support solar+wind and reduce grid investments.
www.iea.org/reports/worl...
www.iea.org/reports/worl...
August 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Fascinating! I foresee that battery storage will strongly increase (which combined with strong battery price decreases means ~100x more batteries in the coming 10 years) and this will support solar+wind and reduce grid investments.
www.iea.org/reports/worl...
www.iea.org/reports/worl...
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Longdust, a new tool to identify highly repetitive STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions (LCRs). Similar to SDUST but for long regions.
github.com/lh3/longdust
github.com/lh3/longdust
GitHub - lh3/longdust: Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome
Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome - lh3/longdust
github.com
July 31, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Longdust, a new tool to identify highly repetitive STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions (LCRs). Similar to SDUST but for long regions.
github.com/lh3/longdust
github.com/lh3/longdust
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Postdoc position opening in my group! Research projects: pangenomes for diverse organisms, genome evolution, biocomputing, language models. Please reach out if interested!
July 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Postdoc position opening in my group! Research projects: pangenomes for diverse organisms, genome evolution, biocomputing, language models. Please reach out if interested!
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Minna Alander:
"In Europe, late is nevertheless better than never, so my advice to all European countries is: if you can’t be like Finland, then be like Denmark."
"In Europe, late is nevertheless better than never, so my advice to all European countries is: if you can’t be like Finland, then be like Denmark."
A great new European Dispatch Column (all free) by @alanderminna.bsky.social just appeared. Its message is clear--Be Like Denmark--a state which is being more responsible in its defense policies than almost any other in Europe. Quite some praise coming from a Finn. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Small State Power: Be Like Denmark
In this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander writes about how Denmark is showing that even small states can punch far above their weight and lead by example.
open.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Minna Alander:
"In Europe, late is nevertheless better than never, so my advice to all European countries is: if you can’t be like Finland, then be like Denmark."
"In Europe, late is nevertheless better than never, so my advice to all European countries is: if you can’t be like Finland, then be like Denmark."
Join our team as a Scientist Bioinformatics at BASF | Nunhems in the south east of The Netherlands. Collaborate with leading experts to enhance gene discovery and develop innovative vegetable varieties using cutting-edge bioinformatics techniques.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
BASF hiring Senior Bioinformatics Scientist in Haelen, Limburg, Netherlands | LinkedIn
Posted 9:07:10 PM. At BASF | Nunhems, it is our ambition to make healthy eating enjoyable and sustainable. Together…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
www.linkedin.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Join our team as a Scientist Bioinformatics at BASF | Nunhems in the south east of The Netherlands. Collaborate with leading experts to enhance gene discovery and develop innovative vegetable varieties using cutting-edge bioinformatics techniques.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
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Solar generated a RECORD 22% of EU electricity—overtaking all other sources —for the first time last month 🏆☀️
As heatwaves swept the region, the surge in #solar eased pressure on Europe’s grids ⚡
ember-energy.org/lat...
As heatwaves swept the region, the surge in #solar eased pressure on Europe’s grids ⚡
ember-energy.org/lat...
July 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Solar generated a RECORD 22% of EU electricity—overtaking all other sources —for the first time last month 🏆☀️
As heatwaves swept the region, the surge in #solar eased pressure on Europe’s grids ⚡
ember-energy.org/lat...
As heatwaves swept the region, the surge in #solar eased pressure on Europe’s grids ⚡
ember-energy.org/lat...
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Today was the day when Europe announced that it is moving on:
The Franco-British agreement to establish a nuclear supervision group, and a permanent headquarters for the Ukraine coalition of the willing can become contours of a new European security architecture - this time without the US.
The Franco-British agreement to establish a nuclear supervision group, and a permanent headquarters for the Ukraine coalition of the willing can become contours of a new European security architecture - this time without the US.
Contours of European Strategic Autonomy
Europe is moving on without the US, and the US does not seem to like it after all.
open.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today was the day when Europe announced that it is moving on:
The Franco-British agreement to establish a nuclear supervision group, and a permanent headquarters for the Ukraine coalition of the willing can become contours of a new European security architecture - this time without the US.
The Franco-British agreement to establish a nuclear supervision group, and a permanent headquarters for the Ukraine coalition of the willing can become contours of a new European security architecture - this time without the US.
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Preprint on "Finding easy regions for short-read variant calling from pangenome data": arxiv.org/abs/2507.03718
July 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Preprint on "Finding easy regions for short-read variant calling from pangenome data": arxiv.org/abs/2507.03718
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🚨 Our GW paper is out in Nature Methods!🥲
GW is a fast genomics browser (up to 100x faster!)
github.com/kcleal/gw
Also, just released a Python interface for GW
github.com/kcleal/gwplot
📝 nature.com/articles/s4159…#Genomicsc#Bioinformaticscs
GW is a fast genomics browser (up to 100x faster!)
github.com/kcleal/gw
Also, just released a Python interface for GW
github.com/kcleal/gwplot
📝 nature.com/articles/s4159…#Genomicsc#Bioinformaticscs
GitHub - kcleal/gw: Genome browser and variant annotation
Genome browser and variant annotation. Contribute to kcleal/gw development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🚨 Our GW paper is out in Nature Methods!🥲
GW is a fast genomics browser (up to 100x faster!)
github.com/kcleal/gw
Also, just released a Python interface for GW
github.com/kcleal/gwplot
📝 nature.com/articles/s4159…#Genomicsc#Bioinformaticscs
GW is a fast genomics browser (up to 100x faster!)
github.com/kcleal/gw
Also, just released a Python interface for GW
github.com/kcleal/gwplot
📝 nature.com/articles/s4159…#Genomicsc#Bioinformaticscs
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🧬🖥️ Just released Dysgu v1.8 which now supports phasing of structural variants when using long reads. Makes SV calling much more sensitive - see PacBio benchmark 👉 github.com/kcleal/SV_Be... dysgu repo github.com/kcleal/dysgu...
February 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🧬🖥️ Just released Dysgu v1.8 which now supports phasing of structural variants when using long reads. Makes SV calling much more sensitive - see PacBio benchmark 👉 github.com/kcleal/SV_Be... dysgu repo github.com/kcleal/dysgu...
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AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.
Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.
Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.
Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
July 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.
Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.
Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.
Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
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Grayson Perry exhibition in Cambridge UK
July 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Grayson Perry exhibition in Cambridge UK
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This striking transformation of the Royal Palace's original Green Room was the vision of artist Jacob van der Beugel. 60,000 miniature bricks ("each handmade, to allow a certain humanity to shine through") arranged on the walls to match sequences of DNA, 3 years to prepare & 3 weeks to install...2/3
June 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This striking transformation of the Royal Palace's original Green Room was the vision of artist Jacob van der Beugel. 60,000 miniature bricks ("each handmade, to allow a certain humanity to shine through") arranged on the walls to match sequences of DNA, 3 years to prepare & 3 weeks to install...2/3
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For various reasons, photos/videos of this meeting are doing the rounds on news & social media. But my eye is drawn to the background; this is the "DNA salon" installed in the Dutch Royal Palace in 2019, including art representing the sequence of FOXP2, a gene for which I have a certain fondness. 🧬🗣️
June 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
For various reasons, photos/videos of this meeting are doing the rounds on news & social media. But my eye is drawn to the background; this is the "DNA salon" installed in the Dutch Royal Palace in 2019, including art representing the sequence of FOXP2, a gene for which I have a certain fondness. 🧬🗣️
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The first draft of the human genome turns 25 today! 🎂
On 26 June 2000, the UK & US announced the first full map of the 3 billion DNA base pairs that make us human.
🌍 A milestone for humanity, powered by global collaboration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnWA...
#HumanGenome #ScienceHistory 🖥️🧬
On 26 June 2000, the UK & US announced the first full map of the 3 billion DNA base pairs that make us human.
🌍 A milestone for humanity, powered by global collaboration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnWA...
#HumanGenome #ScienceHistory 🖥️🧬
The Human Genome Project at 20 - interview with Ewan Birney
YouTube video by European Bioinformatics Institute - EMBL-EBI
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The first draft of the human genome turns 25 today! 🎂
On 26 June 2000, the UK & US announced the first full map of the 3 billion DNA base pairs that make us human.
🌍 A milestone for humanity, powered by global collaboration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnWA...
#HumanGenome #ScienceHistory 🖥️🧬
On 26 June 2000, the UK & US announced the first full map of the 3 billion DNA base pairs that make us human.
🌍 A milestone for humanity, powered by global collaboration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnWA...
#HumanGenome #ScienceHistory 🖥️🧬
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Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
June 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
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AlphaGenome from DeepMind - seems to be a new state-of-the-art DNA functional variant effect predictor, predicting the impact of DNA variants on several genomic measurements. Outperforms other general (Borzoi model) and some specific task predictors.
Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
June 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
AlphaGenome from DeepMind - seems to be a new state-of-the-art DNA functional variant effect predictor, predicting the impact of DNA variants on several genomic measurements. Outperforms other general (Borzoi model) and some specific task predictors.
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FastGA: Fast Genome Alignment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 www.github.com/thegenemyers...
June 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
FastGA: Fast Genome Alignment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 www.github.com/thegenemyers...