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Steve Moss
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Dad, husband, and PhD 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒👨🏻‍🎓 Scientist, technologist, and engineer 👨‍🔬📱👨‍💻 Bibliophile 📚 Philomath 🤓 Mental health advocate 💚

Passionate about #bioinformatics, #evolution, #genomics, #medicine, and #sre 🧬🩺💻

Homepage: https://www.gawbul.io
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I've put together a blog post on local continuous development tooling for Kubernetes that allows you to shorten the feedback loop and iterate much more quickly.

See here gawbul.medium.com/optimising-k...

#kubernetes #skaffold #development #deployment #helm #testing #verification #tooling
Optimising Kubernetes deployment with local continuous development tooling
Using Skaffold to make local Kubernetes development simpler and more scalable
gawbul.medium.com
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Learn about #OpenTelemetry 's new #eBPF based agent that offers no-code instrumentation and observability
👉 horovits.medium.com/unveiling-op...

@grafana.bsky.social
Unveiling OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation
New open source automatic instrumentation in OTel in Java, .NET, Go, Python, Ruby, Node.js, C, C++, and Rust, with Grafana Beyla donation
horovits.medium.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/ob...

Instrumenting code for observability can be tedious. There is a lot of boilerplate and manual work. You can use auto-instrumentation but this isn't supported for many cases. OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation may be able to help. (1️⃣/3️⃣)

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OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation Marks the First Release
Following a significant collaboration between Grafana Labs, Splunk, Coralogix, Odigos and many other community members, we are thrilled to announce the first alpha release of OpenTelemetry eBPF Instru...
opentelemetry.io
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Cilium is ready for #KubeCon Day 2! Don't miss these sessions today 🐝

Liz Rice will discuss how OSS ecosystems and businesses can thrive together.
Giri Kuncoro & Joseph Pallamidessi from TikTok will share their IPv6 journey to #Cilium

Come chat with us in the Project Pavillion at booth 16B.
November 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Cilium is ready for #KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Day 1! Don't miss these sessions today featuring Cilium, Tetragon, & eBPF 🐝

Come chat with us in the Project Pavillion at booth 16B. We're around all day to answer questions, chat about issues, and hear how you're using Cilium!
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Learning more about eBPF (or is it just BPF) from the fantastic @lizrice.com 🤓🐝
November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Join us tomorrow to explore Ensembl resources for pangenomes! Leanne Haggerty is presenting on Ensembl annotation for human, model organism, livestock & crop plant pangenomes.

Free registration: zurl.co/3sSUJ 

Full series:zurl.co/XrVdc
#Pangenomes #Ensembl
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Inspired by the AI conference hosted by the Danish Presidency of the EU I've written a probably too long piece about my own shift from a multi-variate/bayesian genomicist to an AI aligned genomicist / biologist.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/though...
Thoughts on AI, Take 2
Further thoughts about AI brought together for me by the AI Science Summit organized by the European Commission and the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU 2025 - in lovely Copenhagen - this ti...
www.linkedin.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the millions of viral genomes coming in overwhelmed traditional methods for data analysis.

Find out how SPRTA, a new tool, provides a fast, scalable way to measure confidence of phylogenetic trees, helping scientists track outbreaks.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
SPRTA: a smarter way to measure evolution uncertainty
A new method from EMBL-EBI and collaborators offers fast, easy-to-interpret confidence scores for phylogenetic trees for pandemic preparedness.
www.ebi.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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As new human assemblies become available on beta.ensembl.org - which human reference genome will you choose? This article explores the question with insights from Ensembl’s own Fergal Martin - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#HumanGenomics #Pangenomes #ReferenceGenomes
Choose your human genome reference wisely - Nature Methods
Scientists can choose between multiple human genome references, and a pangenome reference is coming. Deciding what to use when is not quite straightforward.
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Last day to add your input for #phytopathogen genome resources! Complete the survey before it closes: qualtricsxmpy46tq866.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Looking forward to going to York on Friday, giving a talk at the York Biomedical Research Institute www.york.ac.uk/biomedical-r...
Genomics, Imaging and AI : three technologies changing research and healthcare
Professor Ewan Birney (EMBL) presents his work on genome biology and biomedical genome analysis. Hosted by Prof Gavin Wright.
www.york.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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We are hiring!
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Ensembl Beta 14 is now live! We've added many more genomes, including Uroteuthis edulis, the Swordtip squid from the Aquatic Symbiosis Project. Find out if your favourite species is available with Ensembl Beta's Species Selector: zurl.co/BRLSE

#Ensembl #NewRelease
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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FungiDB/VEuPathDB + Ensembl are teaming up to enhance fungal & oomycete genome resources — and we need your input!

Complete the survey by Nov 1st, 2025: 
zurl.co/gKjC1

Your feedback will help guide decisions on genome curation, annotation & data integration.
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zurl.co
October 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Introducing Ada: the new AI assistant from EMBL-EBI Training. We created our training chatbot, Ada, to make it easier and more engaging for users to find the right on-demand training resources from our broad catalogue of training: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/ada

#AdaLovelaceDay #bioinformatics

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October 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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No data, no AI, no progress. My @AmazonScience article explores how multi-layered mapping + petabyte-scale cloud infrastructure helps save lives in time of crisis. Building AI without addressing the fundamental data divide means solving the wrong problems. amazon.science/blog/why-ai-...
Why AI for good depends on good data
New technologies are helping vulnerable communities produce maps that integrate topographical, infrastructural, seasonal, and real-time data — an essential tool for many humanitarian endeavors.
amazon.science
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Notice for users of Ensembl Rapid Release - this site has been archived and is now accessible at rapid-archive.ensembl.org. Any saved URLs will now redirect to the latest data on our new site- beta.ensembl.org

Learn more on our blog: www.ensembl.info/2025/10/13/...
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Cool update in Ensembl VEP (release 115):
You can now annotate structural variants with @gnomad-project.bsky.social allele frequencies AND ClinVar clinical significance

Perfect for filtering & interpreting SVs!
More info on our blog (zurl.co/3lZjy)
#genomics #bioinformatics
Cool stuff Ensembl VEP can do: annotate structural variants with gnomAD allele frequencies and ClinVar clinical significance – Ensembl Blog
zurl.co
October 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
Staff Scientist
About EMBL-EBI EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute is a data powerhouse, utilised on a global scale to advance scientific discovery through bioinformatics and solutions to some of the world’s mos...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...
Application – EMBL International PhD Programme
www.embl.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Thank you very much Manovikas Kendra Kolkata for hosting our Ensembl Genome Browser and Train the Trainer workshops!

I enjoyed learning about the neurodiversity research done here and it was great to see how it is readily applied to improving patient's lives!
September 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Ensembl VEP makes variant annotation easy with access to key reference data for filtering and interpretation. Now includes MAVE results, offering further insights across nearly all possible variants in targeted regulatory or coding regions. More on our blog (zurl.co/Aj9HH)
#bioinformatics #genomics
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Postdoc in genomics or X-ray imaging - broadly defined? Want to run your own lab? PI in Cell biology and want to lead an area of science, hiring faculty and setting direction of an area? Want work in Europe's leading life science laboratory, working language English? Check out the jobs below!!
embl.org EMBL @embl.org · Aug 7
We’re looking for curious, innovative science leaders at EMBL Heidelberg! 🔬🧬🦠

Join a vibrant, interdisciplinary community where collaboration and innovation are nurtured at all levels.

Take a look at these four open positions 👇
September 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM