Week 13: Wrapping up my Outreachy internship with BugSigDB Illustration by Tosin Adeshile from canva It’s hard to believe that my Outreachy internship is already coming to an end. The past few months passed faster than I expected, and looking back, I feel …

Today marks the end of my Outreachy internship with BugSigDB under the @bioconductor.bsky.social community 🎉

I curated 12 oral microbiome studies for cMD and microbial signatures into BugSigDB.

Full report: tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/w...
#Outreachy #OpenScience #BugSigDB

Chioma Onyido and I are happy to be part of #IBC2026 where we will share our #BugSigDB (@bioconductor.bsky.social) experience.

I just published my Week 6 #Outreachy mid-internship blog reflecting on my experience so far as an intern working on #BugSigDB within @bioconductor.bsky.social

👉 tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/w...

Huge thanks to my mentors for their guidance, a special thanks to @svetlanaup.bsky.social

EVERYONE STRUGGLES Struggle in a project like BugSigDB is rarely loud or dramatic. It shows up quietly, in the moments where familiarity meets responsibility. As I continued to review and curate articles in BugSigDB,…

Everyone struggles even in open science.

While contributing to #BugSigDB through @bioconductor.bsky.social and #Outreachy, I learned that asking questions, slowing down, & embracing uncertainty are part of meaningful work

I wrote about this in the blog: tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/e...

✨ Big news! ✨

I’ve been selected to join the @bioconductor.bsky.social community, where I’ll contribute to the #BugSigDB project for the next three months through #outreachy 🧬🔬

I’m so grateful to see my persistence and consistent efforts recognized by my mentors💙. I so love being here 🚀

Over a year with the Bioconductor Community (BugSigDB) HOW MY JOURNEY TO THE COMMUNITY BEGAN: My Journey began when i was fresh out of school as a biochemistry graduate as someone who had completed several internships in the field but still was not con…

I finally wrote about my experience contributing to Bioconductor and BugSigDB over the past year. If you’re interested in joining an open-source science community, this blog is a great place to start.

tosinadeshile.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/o...

#opensource #outreachy #bugsigdb #bioconductor

Quick #BugSigDB update: I added 10 new papers (biliary disease, cholecystectomy, arthritis, acute HIV/ART etc) & I have been supporting new contributors via calls/video/step-by-step guides.

I intend to help fix bugs and work on the exploratory analysis in R
Curations: bugsigdb.org/Special:Cont...

Special:Contributions/Tosin

Curious how scientists track microbes across diseases!🧫

That's #BugSigdb an open, community-edited database of microbial signatures.

I contributed through #Outreachy, curating studies💙.Thanks @svetlanaup.bsky.social & all my mentors🙏

🔗 bugsigdb.org/Special:Cont...
💻: github.com/waldronlab/B...

mikrobiokosmos2025

NEXT WEEK -> #mbkceesme2025 🇬🇷

Drop me a line if you want to chat over ☕ about open science and open source: #BugSigDB #curatedMetagenomicData @microbiomevif.bsky.social #Outreachy @nsurp.bsky.social #microbiomedigest

👋 @mikrobiokosmos.bsky.social

Welcome Anne-Marie Sharp and @toriaburah.bsky.social as our #Outreachy interns! Thanks to all applicants for your contributions to #Bioconductor, #BugSigDB, and #OpenScience.

outreachy interns 2025

🎉 Delighted to announce that @bioconductor.bsky.social welcomes Anne-Marie Sharp and @toriaburah.bsky.social as our June-August #Outreachy interns!

Heartfelt thanks to all applicants who demonstrated excellence during contribution period. You are the driving force behind #OpenScience and #BugSigDB!

Outreachy December 2024 Interns with Bioconductor – Bioconductor community blog Bioconductor participated in the Outreachy Internship program for the December 2024 to March 2025 cohort. Our interns share their experience working on their various projects and Bioconductor in…

📝 New Bioconductor blog post on Outreachy internship experience by Kate Rasheed
and Aleru Divine, mentored by the #bugsigdb team. Check it out here: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0...

#Bioconductor #Bioinformatics #Outreachy #Internship #OpenSource #OpenScience

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at @microbiomevif.bsky.social

you can meet @bioconductor.bsky.social #bugsigdb people & #outreachy contributors:

@toriaburah.bsky.social will handle the opening and Q&A moderation,

@katerasheed.bsky.social, Victoria & I will manage the live social media coverage,

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Here are links to the #bugsigdb (@bioconductor.bsky.social), #NSURP, @microbiomevif.bsky.social and Scholastica's talk that I mentioned:

bugsigdb.org/Main_Page

nsurp.org

www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGwT...

my mentees

Next week, on February 5, I'll be sharing my experience mentoring with #outreachy. See you at ☕ chat!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiOm...

P.S. Thanks to @bioconductor.bsky.social, @cibiocm.bsky.social, @leviwaldron1.bsky.social and HUGE #BugSigDB community I have a lot to share.

So far, So good. It’s week 6 of my Outreachy internship with Bioconductor. So much has been learnt from microbes living in/around me. Popular opinion says microbes are harmful to the body, due to the infectio…

. @katerasheed.bsky.social, an #outreachy @bioconductor.bsky.social intern, wrote more about her #BugSigDB experience so far.

katerasheed1.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/t...

Kate Rasheed and Divine Aleru

🎉 Thrilled to announce @bioconductor.bsky.social welcomes Kate Rasheed and Divine Aleru as our Dec-March #Outreachy interns!

Massive kudos to ALL applicants who shined during our Oct-Nov 2024 contribution period.

You're the true stars of #OpenScience #BugSigDB!

Proud mentor here 👋

Victoria Poromon, a #bugsigdb curator, will open #MVIF 33 next week and moderate discussion with the #microtalks speakers.

Scholastica Urua at #MVIF.31🌏: African microbiome data in #BugSigDB

svetlana and scholastica

Looking fwd to the next week 2 events:

1. Mon on Sept 16 #AfricanMicrobiomeDay h3africa.org/index.php/af...

2. Tue on Sept 17 #MVIF www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US/-/futu...

Scholastica will talk about African Microbiome Data in #BugSigDB, work done during her #outreachy internship w/ #Bioconductor

Happy to share that Scholastica's work >> African microbiome data in #BugSigDB << is accepted to be presented as a poster at #AfricanMicrobiomeDay (Sept 16).

Scholastica also submitted this work for an #MVIF talk on Sept 17.

What a fantastic end of her #outreachy internship!

nsurp

Hello, here's a #proudmentor!

Jacob A de Jesus Candelario just gave an amazing talk on his #bugsigdb work as part of the #NSURPorg internship program.

👏 Scholastica Urua, Chloe Mirzayi @leviwaldron1.bsky.social #Bioconductor

Today until Friday, I'm virtually at #BioC2024!

Drop me a line if you want to chat about open science and open source: #BugSigDB #curatedMetagenomicData @microbiomevif.bsky.social #outreachy #NSURPorg!

And, do not miss my talk at:
15:05 (US/Eastern), Tomatis Auditorium/virtual

Outreachy-Bioconductor survey Dear Outreachy-Bioconductor contributor, Thank you for participating in the Outreachy-Bioconductor program. In order to improve the experience for future contributors as well as to spread the word abo...

To all our #outreachy #Bioconductor contributors:

we would appreciate if you can share your experience with us by filling in this short survey forms.gle/brqH5M2uTYMK...

Thank you for your AMAZING #BugSigDB #sweave2rmd #BSgenomeForge #miaverse contributions!

The everyday chronicles

Read a very first blog by Esther Afuape, a #BugSigDB intern:
kunmiwrites.wordpress.com

Much more to come from Esther and her #BugSigDB curations!

#proudmentor
cc @leviwaldron1.bsky.social

Outreachy Was The Validation I Needed: My BugSigDB-ing experience at Bioconductor For many months, I toyed with the idea of applying to the Outreachy internship program. My worry was probably the same as anyone else’s…

David Princewill, an Outreachy candidate, wrote a story on his #BugSigDB contribution experience!

medium.com/@davidprince...

Outreachy | Internships Supporting Diversity in Tech An internship program that supports diversity in free and open source software. Learn more by visiting our website!

Together with Outreachy, #BugSigDB is supporting & CELEBRATING* diversity in open source & open science!

Right now, >30 applicants are active in curating microbiome studies during contribution stage www.outreachy.org/apply/projec...

👏Outreachy, congrats on >1000 successful internships!

October 13, 2023 Today's digest features the Chinese Gut Microbiome Resource, plate readers in the anaerobic chamber, seasonal stability of sponge microbiomes, and more. Also, you can support the outreachy bugsigdb pr...

NEW #microbiomedigest (by @elisabethbik's team) microbiomedigest.com/2023/10/13/o...

Chinese Gut Microbiome Resource
plate readers
sponge microbiome

+ invitation for @microbiomevif.bsky.social

& Outreachy #bugsigdb!

Happy reading!