A photograph of two apes (mother holds her child) and three recolored versions of the same phtograph using three palettes of different quality.

🦧📉 Why are there colorful apes in my #dataviz workshops?

📸 The photo taken years ago by my friend Richard Strozynski has become a tradition in my client projects and courses.

I like to recolor it with different palettes to show how palette design affects perception.

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ABACBS/BioC Asia 2025 Workshops are coming! @ Adelaide 27-28 November.

Join us in November for two days of deep-dive sessions on scalable bioinformatics, spatial omics, AI-driven genomics, and more

blackochrelabs.au/abacbs2025_w...

#Bioinformatics @abacbs.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Reprogramming resistance: phage-antibiotic synergy targets efflux systems in ESKAPEE pathogens | mBio Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest threats to global health. If unaddressed, it is projected to cause over 39 million cumulative deaths globally by 2050 (1). While resistance is a b...

🚨New Review Out🚨
We explore how phage-antibiotic synergy can dismantle efflux-driven resistance in multidrug-resistant ESKAPEE pathogens. By reprogramming bacterial defences, phages offer a precision strategy to restore antibiotic efficacy.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Synteny-aware functional annotation of bacteriophage genomes with Phynteny Accurate genome annotation is fundamental to decoding viral diversity and understanding bacteriophage biology; yet, the majority of bacteriophage genes remain functionally uncharacterised. Bacteriopha...

🚨 New preprint 🚨

My phage annotation tool, Phynteny, finally has a preprint and a brand new version powered by a cool AI transformer architecture and protein language models! #phagesky

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

LeGO-Teknik reveals that the neurogenesis pathway is a clone-specific hallmark of brain metastasis in breast cancer www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07....

PhD Project: Discovering Novel Mechanisms of Phage Genome Evolution We are looking for an awesome PhD student to join our research team to investigate how bacteriophages (phages) generate targeted mutations that enable them to evolve and infect new bacterial hosts. Yo...

PhD opportunities at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in Adelaide, Australia's most liveable city, to study genetics in #phage

We will also have genetics #postdoc positions too!

#microsky #phagesky

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We've folded a lot of proteins! You can see some of them here @linsalrob.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social

Very honoured and excited to have been awarded an ARC Laureate Fellowship today. Exciting things to come!

#FL25

rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

Manuscript out now in Briefings in Bioinformatics!

TaxSEA: rapid interpretation of microbiome alterations using taxon set enrichment analysis and public databases. #microbiome #metagenomics
academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

Snk: A Snakemake CLI and Workflow Management System Wirth et al., (2024). Snk: A Snakemake CLI and Workflow Management System. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(103), 7410, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07410

Excited to share my first JOSS publication 🎉 Snk: A #Snakemake CLI and Workflow Management System joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

Ahh awesome it's live!

GitHub - linsalrob/sphae: NEW!!! Phage annotations and predictions. A spae is a prediction or forete... NEW!!! Phage annotations and predictions. A spae is a prediction or foretelling. We'll foretell you what your phage is doing! - GitHub - linsalrob/sphae: NEW!!! Phage annotations and prediction...

🎉 Excited to introduce #SPHAE! Our new workflow for phage genome analysis generates complete genomes, annotations, & comprehensive summaries of genome features. Check it out: github.com/linsalrob/sphae #phagesky @linsalrob.bsky.social

Do invite codes just accumulate over time?