MFTorresJ
@mftorresj.bsky.social
Evolution, bioinformatics, GIS.
Plants, insects, fungi (now) and ajíes🌶️🌶️🌶️
PI at Vilnius University GMC EvoChromics
Plants, insects, fungi (now) and ajíes🌶️🌶️🌶️
PI at Vilnius University GMC EvoChromics
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🚀🧬 MY former colleague @micamer.bsky.social who I worked with in the early years of my career has released a BLAST service (GUI + API options) which replicates the NCBI services but with faster response times.
We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com
Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable
Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable
March 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
🚀🧬 MY former colleague @micamer.bsky.social who I worked with in the early years of my career has released a BLAST service (GUI + API options) which replicates the NCBI services but with faster response times.
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Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....
February 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....
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In 1825, a skilled Black artisan taught a young medical student, Charles Darwin, how to preserve animal specimens via taxidermy, a skill he used in his exploration of the Galapagos.
John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
February 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
In 1825, a skilled Black artisan taught a young medical student, Charles Darwin, how to preserve animal specimens via taxidermy, a skill he used in his exploration of the Galapagos.
John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
John Edmonstone was born a slave in Guyana, but freed when the family who owned him moved back to Scotland.
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Try our new in silico PCR (sPCR) tool sharkmer- github.com/caseywdunn/s.... You give it primers and fastq reads, it gives you sequences that would be amplified by PCR. Works in minutes on a laptop for high copy regions like rRNA, great for species id etc. Feedback welcome. #bioinformatics #ngs
GitHub - caseywdunn/sharkmer
Contribute to caseywdunn/sharkmer development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Try our new in silico PCR (sPCR) tool sharkmer- github.com/caseywdunn/s.... You give it primers and fastq reads, it gives you sequences that would be amplified by PCR. Works in minutes on a laptop for high copy regions like rRNA, great for species id etc. Feedback welcome. #bioinformatics #ngs
Honest question to all the #botanists out there.
Frontiers in Plant Science. Is it predatory? Aye or nay? What are our thoughts nowadays?
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Frontiers in Plant Science. Is it predatory? Aye or nay? What are our thoughts nowadays?
🌱
January 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Honest question to all the #botanists out there.
Frontiers in Plant Science. Is it predatory? Aye or nay? What are our thoughts nowadays?
🌱
Frontiers in Plant Science. Is it predatory? Aye or nay? What are our thoughts nowadays?
🌱
Sengires Fondas (Ancient Woods Foundation) in Lithuania wrote about our collaboration in discovering insects🪲 and fungi 🍄in deadwood. Spoiler alert: Metabarcoding!
Go check out their facebook post
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9...
Go check out their facebook post
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9...
Redirecting...
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January 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sengires Fondas (Ancient Woods Foundation) in Lithuania wrote about our collaboration in discovering insects🪲 and fungi 🍄in deadwood. Spoiler alert: Metabarcoding!
Go check out their facebook post
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9...
Go check out their facebook post
www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9...
SaproXDNA's new toy! We are building a DNA collection of (initially) deadwood-associated #coleoptera #diptera and friends 🐞🪰🐝🕷🦟 in #Lithuania 🇱🇹 (going ⬇️ to -80)
December 11, 2024 at 6:59 PM
SaproXDNA's new toy! We are building a DNA collection of (initially) deadwood-associated #coleoptera #diptera and friends 🐞🪰🐝🕷🦟 in #Lithuania 🇱🇹 (going ⬇️ to -80)
Bottom row 😀
Since XKCD’s “Types of Scientific Paper” is making the rounds again, here’s the Entomology one I made a few years ago.
November 22, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Bottom row 😀
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Coming up in December, @datavizsociety.bsky.social's reading club is focusing on papers instead of books. Come chat all about Visual Villainy - thinking about the ways #dataviz can be used to mislead intentionally or unintentionally. www.eventbrite.com/e/dvs-reader...
DVS Readers' Club: Visual Villainy in Data Viz
Join us for a lively discussion about visual villainy and dark patterns in data visualization!
www.eventbrite.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Coming up in December, @datavizsociety.bsky.social's reading club is focusing on papers instead of books. Come chat all about Visual Villainy - thinking about the ways #dataviz can be used to mislead intentionally or unintentionally. www.eventbrite.com/e/dvs-reader...
At Utena 🇱🇹, @evogytis.bsky.social is giving a talk about his virus research: "genome detectives"
Pretty cool science labs for schoolers in the area!
Pretty cool science labs for schoolers in the area!
November 22, 2024 at 3:31 PM
At Utena 🇱🇹, @evogytis.bsky.social is giving a talk about his virus research: "genome detectives"
Pretty cool science labs for schoolers in the area!
Pretty cool science labs for schoolers in the area!
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I couldn’t find a starter pack for POCs working in STEM, so I started one myself - my network here is still small and I didn’t want to assume how people identify, so please reply or DM me if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/BJkKQVR
go.bsky.app/BJkKQVR
November 16, 2024 at 11:07 AM
I couldn’t find a starter pack for POCs working in STEM, so I started one myself - my network here is still small and I didn’t want to assume how people identify, so please reply or DM me if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/BJkKQVR
go.bsky.app/BJkKQVR
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I’m recruiting 2 fully funded PhD students for October 2025 to investigate multiple stressors in wetlands: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come join our lab! 🧪🌍
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come join our lab! 🧪🌍
November 13, 2024 at 2:29 PM
I’m recruiting 2 fully funded PhD students for October 2025 to investigate multiple stressors in wetlands: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come join our lab! 🧪🌍
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Come join our lab! 🧪🌍
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Genomics, evolution, and more starter pack!
Help build community with this starter pack.
This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that!
go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU
Help build community with this starter pack.
This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that!
go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU
November 10, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Genomics, evolution, and more starter pack!
Help build community with this starter pack.
This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that!
go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU
Help build community with this starter pack.
This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that!
go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU
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November 12, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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The Chromosome Biology Department of @raphmercier.bsky.social here at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne (@maxplanck.bsky.social) is looking for a new group leader!
jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #GroupLeader #NewPI #PlantChromosomalBiology
jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #GroupLeader #NewPI #PlantChromosomalBiology
Group Leader Position in Plant Chromosome Biology (m/f/d)
jobs.mpipz.mpg.de
November 5, 2024 at 8:20 AM
The Chromosome Biology Department of @raphmercier.bsky.social here at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne (@maxplanck.bsky.social) is looking for a new group leader!
jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #GroupLeader #NewPI #PlantChromosomalBiology
jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/8...
#PlantScience #PlantSciJobs #GroupLeader #NewPI #PlantChromosomalBiology
Right. I enjoyed the mental peace of leaving X for >1yr. It is time to build my community here by asking for help!
I can't seem to reach the UNITE database (fungal spp). Is it just me? Am I dreaming? Should I wait a few days? what's going on?
Answers and follows are welcome!
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I can't seem to reach the UNITE database (fungal spp). Is it just me? Am I dreaming? Should I wait a few days? what's going on?
Answers and follows are welcome!
🍄
November 5, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Right. I enjoyed the mental peace of leaving X for >1yr. It is time to build my community here by asking for help!
I can't seem to reach the UNITE database (fungal spp). Is it just me? Am I dreaming? Should I wait a few days? what's going on?
Answers and follows are welcome!
🍄
I can't seem to reach the UNITE database (fungal spp). Is it just me? Am I dreaming? Should I wait a few days? what's going on?
Answers and follows are welcome!
🍄
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Honeybees understand the concept of zero, or "null set", putting them in the same cognitive class as parrots, dolphins and primates in that regard.
What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT.
The experimental design is what I want to focus on:
What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT.
The experimental design is what I want to focus on:
October 15, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Honeybees understand the concept of zero, or "null set", putting them in the same cognitive class as parrots, dolphins and primates in that regard.
What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT.
The experimental design is what I want to focus on:
What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT.
The experimental design is what I want to focus on:
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Fascinating life story of Colombian physician scientist Francisco Lopera 🧪
GIFT LINK 🎁 🔗
GIFT LINK 🎁 🔗
The ‘Country Doctor’ Who Upended Our Understanding of Dementia
Francisco Lopera defied rebels, cartels and vampire bats to become a pioneering researcher of Alzheimer’s disease.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Fascinating life story of Colombian physician scientist Francisco Lopera 🧪
GIFT LINK 🎁 🔗
GIFT LINK 🎁 🔗
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Some people may be wondering—if the collections are going to end up in another herbarium, what is the big deal? The specimens and their data will still be protected, right? But that isn't the whole story... 1/n
I was just forwarded communications from Duke admins that this is true: one of the largest and most active herbaria in the United States is being closed in the middle of an extinction crisis, because Duke leadership does not wish to support the infrastructure costs.
sad news - Duke University decided to dump their herbarium, which has over 800,000 plant specimens, one of the largest among in America, and includes many type specimens of Lady Gaga ferns. What a shame. Please stop Duke admins for making this horrible mistake!!
February 18, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Some people may be wondering—if the collections are going to end up in another herbarium, what is the big deal? The specimens and their data will still be protected, right? But that isn't the whole story... 1/n
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New paper in PLOS Biol with @graciellehigino.bsky.social et al.: "Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work". We argue that ensuring that post-docs receive proper credit for ALL their labour would benefit all academia.
Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work
Post-doctoral scientists are effective mentors for graduate students. This Perspective discusses how failures to properly credit them for this role has negative consequence for everyone and suggests p...
journals.plos.org
November 2, 2023 at 5:56 PM
New paper in PLOS Biol with @graciellehigino.bsky.social et al.: "Postdoctoral scientists are mentors, and it is time to recognize their work". We argue that ensuring that post-docs receive proper credit for ALL their labour would benefit all academia.
If you are attending Botany 2024 next year (US) there are five days left to propose a cool workshop to help level up the skills of your fellow botanists! 🪴
Botany 2024 Workshop Submission Deadline is November 1, 2023! Share your expertise at this vibrant conference with hands-on sessions like software demos, data analysis tutorials, botanical drawing, and more.
For details, visit: botanyconference.org
For details, visit: botanyconference.org
October 25, 2023 at 12:03 PM
If you are attending Botany 2024 next year (US) there are five days left to propose a cool workshop to help level up the skills of your fellow botanists! 🪴
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Botany 2024 Workshop Submission Deadline is November 1, 2023! Share your expertise at this vibrant conference with hands-on sessions like software demos, data analysis tutorials, botanical drawing, and more.
For details, visit: botanyconference.org
For details, visit: botanyconference.org
October 24, 2023 at 4:18 PM
Botany 2024 Workshop Submission Deadline is November 1, 2023! Share your expertise at this vibrant conference with hands-on sessions like software demos, data analysis tutorials, botanical drawing, and more.
For details, visit: botanyconference.org
For details, visit: botanyconference.org
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Our researcher @koltai.bsky.social spoke to Insider News recently about the misinformation circulating online around the current Israel-Hamas war and how our team at Bellingcat works to verify claims. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9h...
Decoding Fake News About The Israel-Hamas War In Gaza | Insider News
Experts say there has been an unprecedented number of fake claims about the Israel-Hamas war circulating online. Bellingcat’s open source investigators showe...
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October 25, 2023 at 10:24 AM
Our researcher @koltai.bsky.social spoke to Insider News recently about the misinformation circulating online around the current Israel-Hamas war and how our team at Bellingcat works to verify claims. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c9h...
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Hey plant people of the Sky, do you know someone contemplating applying to graduate school? The BSA is hosting a "how to apply to grad school" panel on Sept. 26th 3pm eastern. Register here: uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
September 20, 2023 at 12:36 PM
Hey plant people of the Sky, do you know someone contemplating applying to graduate school? The BSA is hosting a "how to apply to grad school" panel on Sept. 26th 3pm eastern. Register here: uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...