IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.
Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s
Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ
The Treasury Committee is reviewing whether the student loan system is fair and wants to hear from doctors and medical students. But you only have a short window to tell them what it’s actually like.
Why do medical students remember rude mnemonics decades later? The answer reveals something fascinating about how all of us learn and remember.
🚨Bookings for our @uniofhull.bsky.social AND @york.ac.uk Open Days are now open!
💬Chat with Medicine staff and students
🩺Find out about the application process
🏫Take a tour of our medical facilities
Visit our website to check dates and secure your place: www.hyms.ac.uk/medicine/ope...
Rust 1.95.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨
This release includes cfg_select!{}, if-let guards in match,
Vec::push_mut, VecDeque::push_{front,back}_mut, std::hint::cold_path, and more!
Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/16/R...
gbdraw v0.9.1 is out now on Bioconda!
Easily visualize microbial genomes and enjoy the #gbdraw web app completely offline.
📦 Install via Bioconda: bioconda.github.io/recipes/gbdr...
🌐 Try the online app: gbdraw.app
#bioinformatics #genomics #microbiology #visualization
I posted on LinkedIn about my reflections on the genome, 25 years on. www.linkedin.com/posts/ewan-b...
⚠️ An active phishing attack is targeting crate owners by asking them to "confirm that your email address is still active". These messages are not from crates.io, and should be ignored. (We will never ask you to confirm that your e-mail address is still active.) ⚠️
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.26.2@latest $ go1.26.2 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 63701324 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (31850662 / 63701324 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (63701324 / 63701324 bytes) Unpacking go1.26.2.linux-arm64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.26.2' $ go1.26.2 version go version go1.26.2 linux/arm64
🥳 Go 1.26.2 and 1.25.9 are released!
🔐 Security: Includes 10 security fixes for the standard library and the toolchain.
📢 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/0uYb...
⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.26.2
#golang
For two decades, S3 has been an object store, but today it's broader. S3 Files lets you mount any bucket as a file system—Andy Warfield tells the full story; no copies, no sync scripts, no choosing between file and object. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/s3-f...
Rust 1.94.1 has been released.
This point release fixes a few regressions that slipped into in Rust 1.94.0: an internal compiler error in Clippy, a small security issue in Cargo, and two issues in the standard library.
See the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/26/1...
You asked, we listened. Millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures are now available in the #AlphaFold Database.
This spans homodimers from 20 of the most studied species, including humans, as well as the World Health Organization’s priority pathogens list.
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
This is a step forwards into the world of accurate complex models by AI m, at scale, openly distributed. Excellent work by the consortium here !
New chapter for Agentic Engineering Patterns: I tried to distill key details of how coding agents work under the hood that are most useful to understand in order to use them effectively simonwillison.net/guides/agent...
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲
👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest
This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!
Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚
🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
I spoke about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit last month, in a fireside chat hosted by Eric Lui - here's the half hour video plus highlight quotes and extra notes from our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/14/...
Rustup 1.29.0 has been released! 🦀
Rustup, the tool for installing and updating Rust, will now download files concurrently and unpack them in parallel, which makes updating Rust much faster. ✨
See the blog post for all the changes to rustup: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/12/R...
Rust 1.94.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨
A few highlights are array_windows() and element_offset() on slices, Peekable::next_if_map(), LazyCell::get and friends, and the new `include` key in config.toml to include other toml files!
Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/R...
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.26.1@latest $ go1.26.1 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 64661384 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (32330692 / 64661384 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (64661384 / 64661384 bytes) Unpacking go1.26.1.linux-riscv64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.26.1' $ go1.26.1 version go version go1.26.1 linux/riscv64
🎉 Go 1.26.1 and 1.25.8 are released!
🔏 Security: Includes security fixes for the standard library (CVE-2026-25679, CVE-2026-27137, CVE-2026-27138, CVE-2026-27139, CVE-2026-27142).
📢 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-ann...
📦 Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.26.1
#golang
Not quite ready to launch, but if you're a decentralized identity and/or AT proto nerd, you might want to take an early peek at this freeq.at
Excited to build cutting-edge web tools for genomic research? Join us at @ensembl.org as a Web Developer. Apply here: www.ensembl.info/2026/03/04/...
Closing date: 25th March 2026
The results of the 2025 State of Rust Survey are now available! 📊
blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2...
it's almost time for SRECon26, which means it's been less than a year since @ferd.ca and i were delivering the closing keynote at SRECon25.
my perspective has changed A LOT since then, and the advice i would give has changed too. i wrote it up here.
charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/my-hypothe...
Exciting opportunity to join our team!
Job: Genomics Technology Infrastructure Team Leader
Please follow the instructions in the ad to apply (www.ensembl.info/2026/02/17/...).
Closing date: 25/03/2026
Rust 1.93.1 has been released.
This point release fixes three regressions that slipped into in Rust 1.93.0: an internal compiler error affecting rustfmt, a false positive in a clippy lint, and an issue with the wasm32-wasip2 target.
See the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/02/12/R...
Ensembl release 116 & Ensembl Genomes release 63 are coming in April 2026!
Read more in our declaration of intentions blog:
www.ensembl.info/2026/02/12/...
From summer 2026, ensembl.org redirects to beta.ensembl.org. Previous versions remain in Ensembl Archives.
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.26.0@latest $ go1.26.0 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 63102509 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (31551254 / 63102509 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (63102509 / 63102509 bytes) Unpacking go1.26.0.openbsd-arm64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.26.0' $ go1.26.0 version go version go1.26.0 openbsd/arm64
🎆 Go 1.26.0 is released!
🗒️ Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.26
⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.26.0
#golang
🎉 Go 1.26 Release Candidate 3 is released!
🔒 Security: Includes an update for crypto/tls (CVE-2025-68121).
🏖 Run it in dev! Run it in prod! File bugs! go.dev/issue/new
📢 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-ann...
⬇️ Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.26rc3
#golang
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.25.7@latest $ go1.25.7 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 56776808 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (28388404 / 56776808 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (56776808 / 56776808 bytes) Unpacking go1.25.7.openbsd-arm64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.25.7' $ go1.25.7 version go version go1.25.7 openbsd/arm64
🎊 Go 1.25.7 and 1.24.13 are released!
🔏 Security: Includes a security fix for cmd/cgo (CVE-2025-61732) and an update for crypto/tls (CVE-2025-68121).
🔈 Announcement: groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/K09u...
📦 Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.7
#golang
