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The UCSC Genome Browser is on BlueSky! Follow them at @genomebrowser.bsky.social for the latest updates on new features, and help spread the word 🧬

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IMPACTT is on Bluesky! We are a pan-Canadian microbiome research core aiming to harness the power of microbes to improve human health. Follow us for microbiome news, training and mentorship opportunities, and for updates about our Having IMPACTT Symposium: www.impactt-microbiome.ca/impactt-symp...

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Trying to convert this to a joke... a bioinformatician, a geneticist and a computer scientist walked into a bar...

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From @bioinfoadv.bsky.social | A bioinformatician, computer scientist, and geneticist lead bioinformatic tool development--which one is better? | #Bioinformatics #SoftwareDevelopment #ABioinformaticianAComputerScientistandaGeneticistWalkIntoaBar | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

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From NPG's Scientific Data | Applying the FAIR Principles to computational workflows | #FAIRPrinciples #Workflows #FAIR #FAIRData #FairSoftware 🧬 🖥️ 🧪🔓 ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This will devastate so many of our young bright students. I work with lots of high school students and they are very aware and concerned about the future of science in the U.S.

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🌎 New article form Bioinformatics Advances: "mapPat: tracking pathogens evolution in space and time" Find it here:

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If anyone (scientist or not) thinks the money “saved” from cuts being proposed to NIH indirects will simply be added to NIH direct costs, hence “increasing” the amount of research, then I’ve a super looking bridge to nowhere to sell to you.

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An article from “La Presse”. à Montréal paper. Trudeau has a great historical opportunity… let us see if he takes it! lp.ca/3wzha3?shari...

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From #OUP's #FEMS #Microbiology Letters | A modular inquiry-based semester theme that integrates data science education and bioinformatics in protein structure function courses | #Education #Bioinformatics #DataScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/femsle/artic...

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From OUP's #Bioinformatics #Advances | The ISCB competency framework v. 3: a revised and extended standard for bioinformatics education and training | #Education #Training #Bioinformatics CC/ @iscb.bsky.social 🧬 🖥️ 🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

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an advert for a quebec beer on a national news page … i invite my anglo friends to use their favorite translation tool … #MadeInCanada #BuyCanadian #FaitAuQuebec #NoUSABeereHere

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It feels good to be part of an organization determined to stand behind its mission, values and principles. plos.io/3D4O8cH

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Do you deliver training and/or professional development aimed at supporting life science research or education? Join our slack and monthly calls. The next set are tomorrow at 2 glob-friendly time zones.

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Discover Pathways with Ease! Explore biological pathways like never before with the React-to-Me AI Chatbot. We’d love your feedback to improve it! Try it now and share your experience through our short questionnaire. Link: reactome.org/chat/ 🧬🖥️ 🧪

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"...biocuration is hugely significant for how wider research in the biosciences is thought about and can be developed..."

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Under our recent 70 cm of snow in Montréal, homebound, I made my first raisin bread (recipe from Ricardo, "Pain aux raisins et à la cannelle") ... It tasted pretty good! #HomeBread #RaisinBread #Bread #Food

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From @plos.org #Blogs: Absolutely Maybe, Evidence and uncertainties about medicine and life | What if We Can't Rely on #PubMed? | #LifeSciences #MEDLINE #EuropePMC #OpenAccess #AlternativesToPubMed 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 | ⬇️ absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...

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From Sarah R Davies in OUP's #DATABASE | Working in biocuration: contemporary experiences and perspectives | #Biocuration #Bioinformatics #CareerOption #Perspective #Opinion 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 | ⬇️ academic.oup.com/database/art...

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From OUP's #DATABASE | Building resource-efficient community databases using open-source software | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 #Bioinformatics #OpenSource #OpenAccess | ➡️https://academic.oup.com/database/article/doi/10.1093/database/baaf005/8010488

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They followed a court order to restore CDC web pages. But the DISCLAIMER. 🤮 www.cdc.gov/hiv-data/ind... “Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59PM ET, February 11, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate…” 🧵 1/3

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From @mrillig.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs | I like Rule 10: Lead by example | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 #OpenScience #OpenAccess ➡️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Google maps (in Canada and in UK where i was last week) shows Gulf of America and Gulf of Mexico, but Apple Maps only shows Gulf of Mexico < 👍 … I may switch from always using Google maps :-(

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🚀 #TIER2 Pilot 8 introduces “The Editorial Reference Handbook” to help editors and publishers promote responsible practices for research. It assists in operationalising a set of checks to help with #FAIR principles and support reproducibility. 🔗 Learn more: tier2-project.eu/news/tier2-p...

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BoG (biology of genomes) was my 1st genomics/bioinformatics international conference i ever attended (1994) … it is still a great conference… here is an opportunity to go pretty cheap(er)!

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Tomorrow is the deadline for applications for JXTX Scholarships for the CSHL Biology of Genomes! The application is lightweight - just a couple brief statements about your work! @cshlmeetings.bsky.social @jxtxfoundation.bsky.social jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-2-...

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Bgee has been featured this week by the Global Biodata Coalition! Bgee is a database for retrieval and comparison of gene expression patterns across multiple animal species. Read more here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/bgee-g...

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The Canadian Bioinformatics Hub is preparing to launch Training and Community activities across Canada. We need you to participate in a 5-10 minute survey by Feb. 3 to shape the activities in your region! Fill out your region’s survey here: bioinformatics.ca/about/needs-... Thank you!

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Big news - part 1 of the 2025 Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop Series has arrived! Learn more and apply here: bioinformatics.ca/workshops/cu...

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That the White House feels the need to push back on this is good news. It means they are feeling the heat, and it's not just being seen as an inside baseball issue. Because it's not. Keep pushing! Keep calling! Keep fighting!

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For those who aren't accustomed to the normal style of these NIH notices, here's claude.ai's analysis: There are several unusual aspects to the language and style of this notice: 1. The tone is notably argumentative and reads more like a policy argument or position paper than a typical NIH notice.

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Do the math!

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Been thinking a lot today about the words of this NIH researcher, speaking about morale at the agency: “Every day there’s something new, some new curveball… I think a lot of people are worrying, what is my backup plan?” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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There must be a weak point we can act upon.

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From the 52 Biodata resources listed on the GCBR website globalbiodata.org/what-we-do/g... 24 exist in the US, and of those, 12 are NOT mirrored, officially. Of these 52 resources, 29 are supported by the NIH. If Trump/Musk continue, we are FUBARed! #Bioinformatics #Genomics #SciPo 🧬 🖥️ 🧪

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I was honoured with a @genomecanada.bsky.social societal impact award tonight. Genome Canada/AB/BC give key support to sing-canada.ca, Indigenous researchers who do genomics for Indigenous communities. Tonight was bittersweet while Indigenous scientists across the border are in triage mode.

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New NIH funding policy rattles medical researchers .The U.S. National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disperse for costs such as equipment and administration, by Rob Stein www.npr.org/sections/sho... via @npr.org

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For U.S. science, I could not imagine much worse, but if history repeats itself, I suspect this is just the start. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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