Thanks @albertvilella.bsky.social for the detailed overview - it's great to see some more competition arising here.

I might have hoped that they revive some old 454 tech though! RIP.

We're delighted to host North-western Europe's premier meeting on ants, bees, wasps and termites on December 16th at QMUL.

🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜🐝🐜

Registration closes on the 8th: bit.ly/2024-iussi-q...

Supported by QM's Centre for Biodiversity & Sustainability: bit.ly/QMUL-Biodive...

Great GPT prompt: "Based on what you already know about me, draw a picture of what you think my life currently looks like"

(it definitely got some things right!... and others very wrong!)

Autumn sunset is surreal

I wish I'd known about these a while back!

We had a camera trap running for a week last summer in Tuscany... lots of fun to see what roams at night.
Now to settle a debate with his classmates, my (just barely turned) 7 year old wants to set up camera traps in our house at x-mas to figure out if Santa is real.What strategy should I take?

R is stupid (or perhaps it's simply me)
it considers `_` to be a letter between `A` and `z`

We just wrapped up two lovely weeks guiding our new MSc students on a journey from using the command line and the cluster to read-cleaning, assembling/annotating genomes, and performing GWAS.

It's super gratifying to see the new students gain new powers. But holy crap it was really exhausting too!!