If you are interested in 💻🧬⛰️ we are looking for a bioinformatics intern at
@basecamp-research.bsky.social
- come join us to learn about bioinformatics, metagenomics, and biodiscovery basecamp-research.homerun.co/bioinformati...

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✅ Training, Working Groups and CoPs
✅ Outreach (AfSHG, ISCB Africa, DS-I Africa)
✅ Governance & leadership roles

📅 Thursday 10 July 2025, 12:00-13:00 CAT zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#ABI #Bioinformatics #AfricanScience

Think we don't have a union at CU Boulder? We do! It's not too late to join!

A project five years in the making, we've now published complete "T2T" genomes for six additional ape species! It turns out that finishing (and analyzing) six genomes is slightly more work than one... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Published an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.”
A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

First up is @adaigle.bsky.social's preprint where we use Drosophila genomes that have been sequenced with both short and long reads to train a machine learning method to more accurately detect and genotype transposable element insertions: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

Genetic ancestry and population structure in the All of Us Research Program cohort https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.21.629909v1 🧬🖥️🧪

A story of transposons, innate immunity, and how human (and primates) possess an endogenous system to tune interferon response through the relative expression level of a signaling receptor and its alternatively spliced decoy.

All the credit for this discovery goes to postdoc @giuliapasquesi.bsky.social , who first noticed the isoform in her 2020 Lockdown Sideproject (tm). Her perseverance, creativity, and talent made this study possible and it was an honor to be a part of it. Watch out for her--she's on the job market! 😉

For anyone hesitant on submitting grad apps, DO IT‼️

The worst possible outcome is “apply again next year”. But the best is that YOU GET ACCEPTED ✨

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I applied to 4 grad programs and was rejected from all except one. But they still call me Dr. now 😏

ALL YOU NEED IS ONE 🙌🏾

Oxford Nanopore and UK Biobank to create world’s first epigenetic dataset targeting the causes of cancer, dementia, complex disease

Wondering if transposable elements are dysregulated in your RNA-seq data? Use the Gale-Hammell lab (@mollygale.bsky.social) softwares to find out! Informative and easy to implement, I'm a big fan.

A gentle introduction to pangenomics. #Pangenomics #BriefingsInBioinformatics 🧬🖥️🧪
academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

Blackbird: structural variant detection using synthetic and low-coverage long-reads https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.17.624011v1 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/1dayac/Blackbird

Self-care week.