The scientific system we built, being driven by awards & publications, favours & selects for those who are successful early on in their careers. But those who struggle early on have an advantage, they learn how to deal w/ failure, one of the most important skills for a scientist.

Here's the job ad for a Postdoctoral position with my new group @IGCiencia. Please feel free to share and contact me (DM/email) if you have any questions! jobrxiv.org/job/instituto-…

Let me introduce you to the Anaeramoebae. This was a fun collaboration with Petr Táborský, Eric Salomaki @eme_laura Martin Kolisko, Tomas Panek, Jon Hultqvist,Miluše Hradilová,Čestmír Vlček, Andrew J. Roger (@andrewjroger.bsky.social) Ivan Cepicka. Out now in Current Biology. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We combined #AlphaFold and #cryoEM to build a new model of the nuclear pore complex, the largest complex in the human cell! The structure covered by the model is 15x bigger than the human ribosome and 2x bigger than old nuclear pore models. 1/7 Read how: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How often have #eukaryotes transitioned between saline and non-saline habitats? We did #longread #metabarcoding and combined with existing #envseq data to find out! With Fabien Burki @CharlieBiwer @daniel_vaulot A.Obiol Ramon Massana H.Jing @shpeura. Pre-print out biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now in print, with a new title and more analyses. But the conclusions remain: Picozoa are archeplastids without plastids. Thanks to all the authors for a very enjoyable collaboration, especially Max Emil Schön for leading the analyses nature.com/articles/s4146…

The RNA world hypothesis - that life on Earth began with a simple RNA molecule that could copy itself - just got a huge boost! 🚀 "Evolutionary transition from a single RNA replicator to a multiple replicator network" nature.com/articles/s4146…

Super excited for sharing the preprint of our NASA funded work on horizontal gene transfer between #viruses and the marvelous algae from the #Symbiodiniaceae family! It was a huge odyssey, and I thank Timothy Stephens and Debashish Bhattacharya for carving this work with me here at Rutgers University

There is no such thing as “the” bias in face processing. The authors are deciding to automate *someone’s* bias & we can all see whose bias that is. Surprised by enthusiastic responses to this problematic work. I assume the rest of us may be too appalled to engage (I was, too)

If you're doing a lot of remote #bioinformatics (on an HPC cluster or cloud node) I can't recommend VisiData enough. It's a lovely terminal-based "spreadsheet" viewer for Excel/CSV/parquet etc, which you can use to poke at your tabular data without needing to open R or Python.

Final version out at Current Biology! A look at how using species whose genomes have been annotated by different tools can affect how many lineage-specific genes there seem to be. (Punch line: you get more, sometimes by a lot.) tinyurl.com/34k6adsb

So pleased to see our paper out today in nature Micro! We compared bacterial microbiomes of microscopic marine invertebrates from 21 phyla! nature.com/articles/s4156… UBC Science UBCBiodiversity Hakai Institute PS let’s make inflatable polychaetes for car dealerships

RT if you’re a PhD student and your salary doesn’t cover your basic needs so you have multiple jobs to make ends meet. I’m so tired of feeling stretched. Academic Chatter™

I will be at #ICML2023 from Tuesday to Saturday and will be presenting our *latest* GNNome Assembly improvements and results at ICML-Compbio-Workshop workshop. A lot has happened since the last year, so make sure to stop by. Or let me know if you just want to chat about AI in genomics!

Our preprint is out! We hacked the Oxford Nanopore sequencer to read amino acids and PTMs along protein strands. This opens up the possibility for barcode sequencing at the protein level for highly multiplexed assays, PTM monitoring, and protein identification! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of eLife - the journal for retweeting a The Onion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.

Absolutely DELIGHTED to see our new paper out in Nature Communications today! nature.com/articles/s4146… We added new transcriptomic data from the early branching dinoflagellates, including a new group of free living heterotrophs, the eleftherids; three MALV-I isolates; and two psammosids!

NEW Publication (& I'm last author!)😊 We discuss #phylogenomic methods🌲 for leveraging reticulate #evolution🧬 to elucidate the timing of evolutionary events⏱️, like disentangling #introgression from ILS So happy to see my fantastic mentee Saelin get this work out!

Does the aggregation of complex multicellularity follow a universal developmental pattern across the eukaryotic tree of life? Thrilled to announce that we found a convergently evolved transcriptomic hourglass pattern in brown algal development. nature 👉nature.com/articles/s4158…