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Well, I'll be damned, it really is a cubic.

Code for Science and Society (Code for Science & Society) opened its first call for applications for virtual #openscience event grants! Awards range from $5K-20K. Read more and apply here: eventfund.codeforscience.org

If you've ever used FASTQE for summarising quality scores as emoji, and wished you could also see individual sequences or VCF as emoji 🥑 🍇 🌽 🍅 , then I have good news: github.com/fastqe/biomoji… Use biomojify😀 for outreach, education or any other purpose you can think of!

LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink and had a lot of fun last week analysing the design of them all. Here's what I learned: designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Inte…

The origin of this story is one of my colleagues asked for an immunity explainer, and I said, "GOD NO, have you any idea how complicated immunology is, that would kill me," but then I realized that I am already dead inside, and wrote the piece. theatlantic.com/health/archive…

The latest version of QIIME 2 (2020.8) is now available! This version includes several breaking changes in q2-diversity (please update your scripts!), and a few improvements and bug fixes. This is a smaller release, to get us back on schedule. forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-2020…

Our paper on Compositional Tensor Factorization (CTF) an extension of Robust Aitchison PCA that allows for the factorization of repeated-measure data is out now in Nature Biotechnology! nature.com/articles/s4158…

A very exciting paper from cameron martino et al. Building on RPCA to identify group-associated features in a compositionally aware way via tensor factorization (aka, more or less how netflix recommendations work, but more complicated)

If you missed Neil Sheldon's brilliant talk "We need to talk about statistics" at RSS Glasgow then you can watch it on YouTube bit.ly/2FfoF28 or view Neil's slides bit.ly/3hbCqfm . Well worth your time!

Whoever named frogs got it 100% right. Those things are frogs

The latest version of QIIME 2 (2021.8) is now available! Changes include: a new API for Semantic Validation of data, a "cast-metadata" CLI tool, q2-diversity and q2-phylogeny improvements + misc fixes and tweaks from our community. Thanks for your support! forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-2021…

The latest version of QIIME 2 (2021.11) is now available! There is a new API for defining Usage examples, plus supporting tools for building and displaying them. Methods for t-SNE and UMAP are also here, check them out! Thanks for your support! forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-2021…

The latest version of QIIME 2 (2022.2) is now available! We have new Jupyter Book based tutorials, q2galaxy updates (incl. pre-installed docker image), and PacBio CCS denoising in DADA2. As always, thanks to everyone involved in making this happen! forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-2022…

The latest version of QIIME 2 (2022.8) is now available! This release includes new plugins, a new Community Distribution, and we will be uploading this release on the Galaxy Project Tool Shed for the first time! We're excited to have you try it out! forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-2022…

We have finished uploading our Galaxy Project tools to the Toolshed for QIIME 2 2022.8! More info can be found here: forum.qiime2.org/t/qiime-2-2022…