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Ana M Rojas

@amrojasm.bsky.social
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Scientist. Evolution, Comp. Biol. 3DBioinfo. ISCB Function COSI. Also singer & composer. A 🥁, 🥋,🏄‍♂️, 🐠 lover. A proud mom. www.bioinfocb.es

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Gen Z and Millennials: In ten years when we’re still without a cure and you’re caring for your parents, remember what he did.
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Neil Stone (@DrNeilStone
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Friday SCOOP: DOGE is now at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where a DOGE operative appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency's systems, among other proposals. If you're a gov/tech worker and want to talk, I'm on Signal at vittoria89.82 www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
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Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs
A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals.
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Jalview @jalview.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
💡Curious about intrinsically disordered regions in your proteins? Jalview's got answers - FOUR of them, infact! Many disease-associated proteins, including those involved in neurodegenerative disorders (e.g., Alzheimer's and Parkinson's) and cancer, contain IDRs.
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“Virtually no one thinks that we are making the best use of scientists’ time.” DOGE, however, isn’t fixing that—it’s cancelling grants, firing scientists, and causing chaos. If efficiency were the goal, we wouldn’t be here, argues @stuartbuck.bsky.social. buff.ly/Pairzxt
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Science Under Threat in the United States: How to make science more efficient
DOGE needs to completely rethink its efforts to increase the efficiency of the federal agencies that fund research in the US.
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This is unconscionable! Subjecting eminent scientists to this uncertainty is crazy!!! How can DOGE with their ‘coding errors’ be in charge of the US economy?! I hope each of these actions will be the subject of a punitive lawsuit collectively and individually
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Etche_homo @etche.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"more than 100 million people have died of tuberculosis because the drugs are not widely available in many parts of the world. The most proximate cause of contemporary tuberculosis deaths is not M. tuberculosis, but Homo sapiens." 🧪 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... bookshop.org/p/books/unti...
theatlantic.com
The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse
By retracting foreign aid, President Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again.
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Dr. C. L. Schneider @stardusttostarfish.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Add: the mass extinction of species, including key species, which could lead to extinction of the human species. No amount of survivalist training will make up for lack of resources. No billions of dollars can rewild a key species if it has no habitat. We can adapt, but we have our limits. 🌎🧪
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🧪⚛️ My obituary for Sam Edwards, published in PNAS is open access www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Samuel Frederick Edwards: Founder of modern polymer and soft matter theory | PNAS
Samuel Frederick Edwards: Founder of modern polymer and soft matter theory
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A puntito de empezar la 2da Asamblea de la Conexión @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social !!!! Nos esperan 3 días intensos de encuentros, ciencia y planes para una Biología Computacional y Bioinformática en expansión!! @csic.es @csic-vaact.bsky.social
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Aureliano Bombarely @bombarelya.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Second meeting for the @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social starts with an introduction by @anaconesa.bsky.social. Three wonderful days in front of us to enhance the wonderful #bioinformatics and #computational_biology community at @csic.es.
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Kickking off the second day our @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social meeting with scientific sesions with Victor Sánchez Gaya, presenting POSTRE, a tool to predict the funcional impact of pstructural variants @hitseq.bsky.social @ibv-csic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Next, Ana Martinez and Carmen Gil from @cib-csic.bsky.social presenting how to use a consortium of AI tools for drug design, with múltiple applicatons in the clínic @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social #2AsambleaBCBHub
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Patricia Mingo, from INIA-CSIC now explaining their lipidomics and transcriptomics work to find new treatments to combat West Nilo Virus, a growing threat in Spain. @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @i2sysbio.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social #2AsambleaBCBHub
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Enjoing the next talk by @ramalok.bsky.social from @ICMCSIC exploring the diversity of sea microorganism at Mediterranean trajectories by metagenomics-based population genomics @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @hitseq.bsky.social @longtrec.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
insightful talk by Juan Fdez Recio: “using molecular dynamics is better than static models to predict the impact of mutations on Protein Protein Interactions” @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social #2AsambleaBCBHub
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The picture of the @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social, the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology family of @csic.es @csic-vaact.bsky.social @i2sysbio.bsky.social @ibv-csic.bsky.social @iscb.bsky.social
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Ana Conesa @anaconesa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I love this talk by Alejandro Dominguez from @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social who explains how to predict microbial metabolite -host protein interactions @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @csic-vaact.bsky.social
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
¿Aún no conoces al Grupo de Nutrigenómica del IATS del CSIC? Te invitamos a conocerles en nuestro Canal de YouTube youtu.be/S9VsVHHDsys
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¿Quieres conocer al Grupo de Nutrigenómica del IATS?
YouTube video by Conexión CSIC BCB
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Followed by Javier de las Rivas (IBMCC) describing in detail his approach to single cell and deconvolution in cancer samples.
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Daniel Rico (CABIMER) shows a very nice introduction to epigenetics landscapes in cancer cells with focus on cell identity.
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Second day of the second BCB.hub meeting. A very intense day full of interesting stuff. First in the morning Victor Sanchez from IBBTEC showcasing the performance of their POSTRE tool to diagnose TAD-related disease.
TADs, BCB.hub tools
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The last session started with (Gonzalo Colmenarejo, IMDEA FOOD) about computational design of metabolites to create new drugs
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
then the (online) description of approaching food allergens by Mónica Carrera (IIM).
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
And the closing talk by Arnau Montagud (I2SYSBIO) describing how multi-scale approach modeling can lead to understand complex biological processes.
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The flashtalks sessions provide an interesting overview of very interesting approaches to a variety of topics.
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BCBHubCSIC @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Summary: #2ndBCB.HUB meeting, a great day full of nice scientific presentations with lots of interactions and networking. A picture of the big computational biology community at CSIC @csicdivulga.bsky.social, and the Executive board of the Hub.
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Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Rise your hand if this has happened to you! 🙋🏻‍♀️
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David A Knowles @davidaknowles.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Hearing from a source: "A friend at NCI lost 3 outstanding staff (their words) and tweeted about it. She was suspended for 2 days. No idea how her tweet was flagged." This is for all the people asking us why it's hard to tell what's happening at NIH. Retaliation is real.
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is what NCI scientists now have to face approval and probably censorship for by the DOGE twinks if they want to publish. www.propublica.org/article/nati...
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Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
It is raining a lot in Seville
Weather report for March the 10th
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
'What those of us not cocooned in our corner offices see is that Musk let a bunch of Dunning-Kruger kids — too incompetent to realize that they’re incompetent — loose on federal agencies, where they began firing workers without trying to understand what these workers do' @pkrugman.bsky.social
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Anonymous @youranonnews.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Have FUN!!!!! #Anonymous
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Some federal workers are going back to work. The USDA has been ordered to temporarily give over 5,000 workers their jobs back. Dozens of CDC scientists have been reinstated after being illegally fired. The National Science Foundation has rehired half of the workers it fired.
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Alfonso Valencia @alfonsovalencia.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Sobre el delicado momento de la conservación de los datos biomedicos en tiempos inciertos "Es imperativo completar los sistemas y procesos que eviten dependencias críticas, adoptando tecnologías que permitan la creación de entornos colaborativos y descentralizados" elpais.com/ciencia/2025...
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La fragilidad de la información científica en la incierta situación actual
La descentralización de los datos emerge como un elemento crucial en el panorama internacional actual, marcado por la incertidumbre y la volatilidad
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Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Check it out! The #TED functional domains are now at @pdbeurope.bsky.social , ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u..., @nbordin.bsky.social
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Quality and function at a glance: The role of TED in the AlphaFold Database
The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) now integrates The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED), a resource designed to systematically identify and classify structural domains within AlphaFold-predic...
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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Imposter Syndrome & The Perfectionist Trap 🎭 More in Alt Text. #ImposterSyndrome #Perfectionism #PhDLife #AcademicWriting #Research #Productivity #WorkSmart #MindsetMatters #GradSchool #ScienceCommunication 🧪
I see so many PhD students struggling with imposter syndrome, often fuelled by perfectionism. As a self-confessed former perfectionist, I’ve learned an important lesson: the effort it takes to go from 50% to 95% “perfection” is the same as it takes to go from 95% to 99%. And that last 1%? It’s nearly impossible—because there will always be room for improvement.

The key is knowing when 99% is necessary (e.g., for a thesis or scientific paper 📑, where the content matters most) and when 95% is good enough (e.g., for a formal report 📄 that just needs to be clear and complete).

One thing, however, must always be 100% accurate: your data and results 🔬.

Letting go of that last elusive 1% can make a huge difference to how you manage your workday ⏳, day after day, and help you avoid getting hyperfixated on one thing at the expense of everything else ⚖️.
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Torsten Schwede @torstenschwede.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Looking for a PhD fellowship at one of the leading life science research institutions of the world? The Biozentrum provides a stimulating and inspiring research experience for experimental and computational life scientists. #lifesciences 🧪 #switzerland #basel
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In case you were wondering, ASM did NOT sign, AISES and SACNAS did sign. Disappointed , not surprised 🧪🦠
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Against the Odds: Women Pioneers of Science by John Gribbin & Mary Gribbin - if you’re not going to read the book that highlights how women have been considered unsuitable as researchers for reasons other than their ability then read this book review 🧪 #WomeninSTEM www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Against the odds: 12 women who beat bias to succeed in science
A book deftly highlights how women have been considered unsuitable as researchers for reasons other than their ability and commitment.
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Jeffrey Townsend @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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Verónica Lloréns-Rico @verollorens.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We are hiring! Our lab is recruiting a bioinformatician with experience in microbiome data analysis. More details here: jobrxiv.org/job/centro-d... Deadline for applications is April 1st. Please share!
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Bioinformatician / microbiome data analyst
Post a job in 3min, or find thousands of job offers like this one at jobRxiv!
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Tom @tomrees.eurosky.social · 02/03/2025
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/02/14/w...
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What if We Can't Rely on PubMed? - Absolutely Maybe
PubMed is incredibly reliable. And a lot depends on it. It’s an ecosystem built around MEDLINE, the steady feed of new publications…
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Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The ~100 NIH study sections cancelled so far. Musk, Milei et al. We are witnessing a scary global trend: a war declaration to Science. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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2025 Study section tracking
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Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#yeah!!! This great lab keep on delivering tools for the plp. Thx!! t.co/XB2M1voL3a
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https://github.com/RosettaCommons/RFantibody
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ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas @ergabiodiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🦋 The #genome of Coenonympha oedippus, the false ringlet butterfly, is here! This new reference genome provides crucial insights into ecological adaptation and conservation of this #endangered species. 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Genomics #Biodiversity @biogeneurope.bsky.social
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Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
¿Quién fue Margaret O Dayhoff? En el centenario de su nacimiento, recupero una pieza que escribí hace unos años sobre ella. www.upo.es/diario/11-fe...
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Margaret O. Dayhoff: pionera de la Biología Computacional – DUPO – Diario de la Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Calling all bioRxiv affiliates - bat signal is up as we have a big backlog. If you have time to screen some papers, we'd be eternally grateful! 🙏
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Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Recommendations by Acs about using #AI for scientific writing pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Best Practices for Using AI When Writing Scientific Manuscripts
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Ana M Rojas @amrojasm.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This also, very interesting www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Local structural flexibility drives oligomorphism in computationally designed protein assemblies - Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
This study reports unexpected structural diversity in computationally designed protein assemblies due to subunit flexibility. Fixing flexibility in one design restores the intended architecture, sugge...
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