✨ 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲?

📢 Call for new members is 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡!

🌈 Help us make science more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

🔗 Apply now: www.smbe.org/call-for-new...

#SMBE2026 @official-smbe.bsky.social #AcademicSky

✨ 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲! ✨

👤 Name: Epifanía Arango-Isaza

📩 Contact: @epifaniaarango.bsky.social

👔 Role: Cochair

🌎 From: 🇨🇴 Colombia - 🇪🇸 Spain

🏛️ Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison

🔬 Research: Indigenous genetic history in South America

@official-smbe.bsky.social

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
#TransDayOfVisibility
#TDOV
#AcademicSky

📢 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀!

💬 We meet monthly to discuss strategies, select and fund initiatives, and advise the SMBE Council on inclusion, diversity, equity, and access in molecular biology and evolution.

✨J𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗡𝗢𝗪! 🔗 www.smbe.org/call-for-new...

@official-smbe.bsky.social #AcademicSky

I've been staring at these two pigeons on a tree outside my window and I can't help but wonder how Cinderella and Snow White got all those animals doing work for them. 🐦

#AcademicSky #Bioinformatics

The SMBE IDEA Task Force stands with all women doing science: cis and trans, in every country, under every condition. In war zones, under authoritarian regimes, where their existence is an act of resistance.

March 8 carries weight. Science is only as strong as who it includes.

#WomenInSTEM #March8

Just remembered that time peer reviewers told me to remove "surprisingly" and "unexpectedly" from my paper.

Apparently I was not allowed to have feelings about my own results.

#AcademicSky

Charles Darwin once wrote: "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

The father of evolutionary theory was just as done with everyone's shit as we are. #AcademicSky

Just a few more days to submit abstracts to #SMBE2026 in beautiful Copenhagen.

🗓️Deadline 3nd February

We are organizing
S01: Evolutionary-informed management of vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world.

Hope to see many of you there!

👋 Hi #AcademicSky!

Together with @smbe-idea.bsky.social I’m organizing a symposium at #SMBE2026 (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰

🌈 Our mission is to 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

📣 Call for abstracts 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡
⏰ Deadline: 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟯

✨ Hope to see you there! 😉

@official-smbe.bsky.social

Antifa is short for anti-fascist. It’s ridiculous that we even have to explain this. Turning a word that literally means opposition to fascism into a scare label only works because so many idiots don’t bother to check the basics. Open a book that isn’t the fucking Bible.

ALWAYS ANTI-FASCIST.

Rejection is redirection. Unless they’re rejecting your paper. Then it’s just money for your therapist. #AcademicSky

SMBE2026 IDEA Symposium: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Molecular Biology and Evolution

SMBE2026 IDEA Symposium: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Molecular Biology and Evolution

@smbe-idea.bsky.social

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026

Updating #RStudio is always the greatest wrong decision you can make if you care about ever having a life again. #Bioinformatics #AcademicSky

VSC Success Story | Discoveries from Sint-Truiden YouTube video by Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum

🚨 New VSC Success Story!
Ancient DNA from Sint-Truiden reveals 1,000 years of ancestry, migration & community life — including evidence of 14th-century plague unseen in historical records.

Powered by VSC supercomputing.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/cciqwPZMkfk

#VSC #HPC #AncientDNA #Genomics #History

November is Native American Heritage Month - a time to elevate the histories, cultures, and contributions of Indigenous peoples.

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

On the SMBE IDEA Task Force we aim to support efforts to remove the barriers that have historically excluded many voices from science 🗣️

I'm truly confused 🤔

I asked #ChatGPT to summarize a series of notes I had on a statistical interpretation. It then asked me if I wanted a visual summary of the topic (again, statistics, numbers, etc.). I said yes, just yes. This is what it created:

#AcademicSky #Bioinformatics

Pro-level advice right there! 🏆✨

Can we all agree that clothes stay on the drying rack until someone’s coming over? 👕🧺

That's suspicious, don't trust it. Surely it's a virus.

😑 I just can’t today. My script kept crashing over and over, and in the end, it was just a damn indentation error. Falling into the same mistakes after all these years feels like a loop that can only be broken with swearing 🤬 #Bioinformatics #AcademicSky

💚 Today is 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝘿𝙖𝙮!

Let’s take a moment to care for ourselves and each other 🌱

The 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 and @official-smbe.bsky.social support mental well-being in science 🧠✨

💬 Share your favorite self-care tip below & let’s support our community! #WorldMentalHealthDay #AcademicSky

🤝 In 2024, the 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Boris Armel Olou, Jean Legeay, Jean Evans Israel Codjia & Roël Dire Houdanon for their project strengthening African researchers in Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics.

✨ Excited about the impact so far!

🤝 In 2024, the 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Rori Rohlfs and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for their podcast ScienceWise!

✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project!

🎙️ @sciencewisepod.bsky.social

🔥 Time's ticking! Share your vision for inclusion & equity in science!

⏰ Deadline: 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟭𝟬

@official-smbe.bsky.social
@smbe-idea.bsky.social
#AcademicSky

❗REMINDER - the call for proposals for SMBE IDEA initiatives for 2025/2026 will close soon - apply by October 10th

Categories:

💡 IDEA ($25k)
🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
🗣️ Outreach ($10k)

More info
smbe.org/idea-initiatives
@smbe-idea.bsky.social

🔥 Don't miss the opportunity! Submit your proposal 𝙉𝙊𝙒! 🌈

#AcademicSky #IDEA #SMBE2026
@official-smbe.bsky.social

a woman in a suit says everything hurts and i 'm dying . ALT: a woman in a suit says everything hurts and i 'm dying .

Moving to another country for a few months. #academiclife #academicsky

Excited but also:

thanks 🩷✨

✨ In my latest paper, I used 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 instead of “pregnant women", because pregnancy is not exclusive to those who identify as women 🤰

📢 Using inclusive language is part of our responsibility as scientists to fight erasure of transgender and nonbinary people 🏳️‍⚧️ #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM