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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

nf-core/genomeqc: a best-practice pipeline for comparing genome and assembly quality www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 29/05/2026

Become a Nextflow Ambassador in 2026!🌍 The ambassador program recognizes dedicated volunteers who contribute their time and expertise to foster collaboration & knowledge sharing across the Nextflow community. Applications close June 14, so don't wait! Apply now: hubs.la/Q04jlhr-0

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My talk from the #NextflowSummit is on YouTube! youtu.be/LbA_d4oOpDQ I talked about my recent odyssey with AI-written software, including #RustQC, rewrites.bio, Trim Galore and a FastQC rust rewrite 👀 This was honestly one of my favourite talks to date. I hope it's interesting for folks 😊

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Phil Ewels: Bioinformatics in the agentic age: Practical tips learnt from RustQC and rewrites.bio

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Katharina Hoff @katharinahoff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Post 1/2 Our new preprint is out! 🧬 We’ve extended #Tiberius for accurate ab initio gene prediction across the eukaryotic tree, including Plants, Fungi, Insects, and Diatoms. doi.org/10.64898/202...

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Seqera @seqera.io · 23/04/2026

In the run up to #NextflowSummit, we wanted to shoutout to all 143 of our #Nextflow Ambassadors.🌍 The Ambassadors have such a big impact growing the Nextflow community, mentoring new users, creating training materials, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.👏

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

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Jon Udell @jonudell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Nothing requires us to cede autonomy to our freakishly talented LLM assistants. We direct their efforts, and they learn from us. As we do the work they wield tools on our behalf. We can, if we choose, learn from them how best to use those tools, even as we often delegate the use to them.

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Mahesh Binzer-Panchal @arcane-mahesh.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I finally fixed a few things in my Nextflow daisy chaining proof of concept and added a couple others. github.com/mahesh-panch.... Thanks to the Seqera team for spotlighting it in a recent podcast. seqera.io/podcasts/epi...

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GitHub - mahesh-panchal/nf-cascade: A proof of concept daisy-chaining Nextflow workflows

A proof of concept daisy-chaining Nextflow workflows - mahesh-panchal/nf-cascade

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phy_papers @phypapers.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

OrthoGarden: a Pipeline for Propagating Phylogenetic Trees for Non-Model Organisms from Short Reads and de novo Genome Assemblies pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41755752

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Wei Shen 沈伟 @shenwei356.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Can't wait to release a 10-year-old birthday version for SeqKit! - 10 years - 2 papers, 3500 citations - 20 contributors - 40 subcommands - 880 commits - 500 issues - 685.5K Bioconda total downloads Thank you all, dear contributors and users! I'll keep maintaining it. github.com/shenwei356/s...

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Release SeqKit v2.13.0 (10-year-old birthday version) · shenwei356/seqkit

Changelog SeqKit is 10 years old! SeqKit v2.13.0 - 2026-02-28 seqkit: add support for reading and writing LZ4 compression format. new command: seqkit sample2: improved seqkit sample by @stahiga....

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Anna Niehues @anna-niehues.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Keeping your research software metadata in sync across repositories and registries just got easier. We’ve developed a bidirectional bridge between GitHub and bio.tools, helping you keep metadata up to date automatically. Check out our BioHackrXiv preprint: doi.org/10.37044/osf...

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

@wytamma.bsky.social 's WASM tools have transformed my experience of teaching Python to first year undergraduate biologists this year. Since last year, I've been teaching ~400 undergrads how to code (functions, lists, dictionaries, loops) over (one hour intro lecture +) two 2-hour practicals. 1/n

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Boas Pucker @bpucker.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Are you passionate about computational biology and the evolution of specialized plant metabolism? More details and contact information: www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/conta... #Bioinformatics #Genomics #ResearchInGermany @puckerlab.bsky.social

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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This paper started as an exchange here in late 2024 and evolved over the next year into a tidy set of recommendations for labs hoping to build more collaborative coding communities. 🎉 Would love to hear if any of these (really not so "simple") rules resonate with you, and what else you've tried.

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James Ferguson @psy-fer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Building a new plotting library in pure Rust. Making themes and colourblind mode available on every plot type from day 1. What other accessibility options can I add?

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 23/02/2026

Ten common misconceptions about Galaxy (and why they are wrong!) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 22/02/2026

Metax looks really nice for taxonomic profiling: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 19/02/2026

Interesting post on electricity and water use from AI agents from @simonpcouch.com: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

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Camille Marchet ⚡ @camillemrcht.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Were you aware that these are available for the community: - an efficient fasta/q parser in Rust - a quick rolling hash library - a minimizer library All in Rust 🦀

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

How would you design a *multithreaded*, *concurrent* & *dynamic* hash table if you are focused specifically on common k-mer workloads, where streaming query & insertion are common? Jamshed, Prashant and I explore this in kache-hash, a cache-friendly k-mer hash table! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

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GitHub - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding

A Claude Code skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding - DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities

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ELIXIR Europe @elixir-europe.org · 16/02/2026

📣 BioHackathon 2026 will be held on 9-13 November 2026 in Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸! Call for project proposals will open on 16 March and close on 15 April at midnight. More information on project proposal scopes: loom.ly/m6hEBcM Check the #BioHackEU25 highlights: loom.ly/AfKwtZA

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BioHackathon Europe

Find out about the 2026 BioHackathon Europe, where hackers get together to make life science research easier.

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I’ve written a post about my recent experiences (successes) with AI coding models; the experiences that caused me to re-evaluate my initial judgements, the surprise I had at what can be accomplished, & some fears I have about these tools. Discussion welcome! combine-lab.github.io/blog/2026/02...

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COMBINE-lab - The skeptic’s guide to generative AI assisted coding

An easy-to-use, flexible website template for labs, with automatic citations, GitHub tag imports, pre-built components, and more.

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Sébastien Guizard @bioinformaticus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I'm using #Nexflow almost daily. It is such a time saviour for analysis by suppressing job management. Here is the Hello-Nextflow playlist for those who want to join the Nexflow family. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

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Davis Summer Population Genomics Program

Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

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Dr Elodie Chabrol @eloscicomm.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🔬 C'est la Journée des femmes et filles de science ! #FemmesEnSciences #11février Envie de découvrir (ou faire découvrir) des femmes scientifiques ? J'ai rassemblé plein de ressources ici ⬇️ www.linkedin.com/pulse/envie-... Et mon starter pack de chercheuses sur bluesky go.bsky.app/TBEzKC

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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 20/01/2026

Nextflow Ambassador Nour Mahfel shares her journey from complete beginner to @nf-co.re contributor with support from @seqera.io. Learn how she shifted her mindset to think in dataflow, upstream modules, and embrace working in the open.📚 hubs.la/Q03_gcw_0

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nf-core @nf-co.re · 17/01/2026

New blog post! Running nf-core pipelines on ARM nf-co.re/blog/2026/arm-pipelines

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 18/01/2026

nf-core/crisprseq: a versatile pipeline for comprehensive analysis of CRISPR gene editing and screening assays academic.oup.com/nargab/artic... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/nf-core/cris...

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Now published in Algorithms for Molecular Biology: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Key message: a tiny CNN model with 7k parameters can capture main splice signals across vertebrates+insect and halves the minimap2 & miniprot junction error rate. I always use this new feature now.

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CATALYST Project @catalyst-reproducibility.eu · 18/12/2025

🎉 The full TIER2 Reproducibility Training Course is now available on OpenPlato. 💡 It provides researchers, publishers, and funders with both theoretical foundations and practical tools to support reproducible research practices. 🔎 Explore it here: openplato.eu/login/index....

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...

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James Fellows Yates @jfy133.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

🎉 Huge shout out to everyone who instructed and participated in yesterday's online Meta-*omics #Nextflow Pipeline Community Exhibition Day! 🧑‍🏫 Over 9 hours, we had 15 different pipelines demo'd by their lead developers, and giving an international cohort of […] [Original post on genomic.social]

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Meta-*omics Nextflow pipeline community exhibition day

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Supported by NFDI4Microbiota, Nextflow Ambassador program, and deNBI

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Mile Sikic @msikic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I’m recruiting a postdoc to work on algorithms for cancer genome reconstruction. We have access to a rich set of tumour samples sequenced across multiple technologies. If interested, feel free to DM. Please share.

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Duke University School of Medicine @dukemedschool.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Researchers say they’ve uncovered a key pathway behind age-related muscle loss. The surprising part: exercise helps reset the cellular system that keeps muscles young. 🔗 Read more: medschool.duke.edu/news/why-muscles… #AcademicSky #MedSky

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Hasindu Gamaarachchi @hasindu2008.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Cornetto v0.2.0 is now released for using programmable selective nanopore sequencing for genome assembly. GitHub: github.com/hasindu2008/... Paper: nature.com/articles/s41... Datasets: hasindu2008.github.io/cornetto/doc... ... and a banner made by Ira Deveson referring to ‘no boring bits’.

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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The Sanger Prize 2026 is open for applications. A fully funded three-month placement for undergraduate students from low and middle-income countries. 🔗 Apply now: www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/... 📅 The closing date for applications: 9th January 2026 at 5pm GMT

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nf-core @nf-co.re · 03/12/2025

🧑‍💻 Need help with #nfcore #nextflow #bioinformatics pipelines, running or developing? We are merging the 🌍 Eur/M.E./Afr and the 🌎 Americas weekly helpdesk. Please join our nf-core maintainers, this Thursday at 14:30 CET | 08:30 ET on play.workadventu.re/@/nf-core/nf...

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