Reposted by Sébastien GuizardCharlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 28/10/2023Someone sent me this meme about peer reviewer comments and it is 👌🏻 #PhDSky #AcademicSky 3596183
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 12537932367
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardIsabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Join us tomorrow on the Data Science Lab where the awesome @richmeister.bsky.social will demonstrate live how to build automated validation pipelines and automated data reports with pointblank (mostly #RStats but some #python too!)! See you there: pos.it/dslab 0133
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardBioFAIR @biofair.bsky.social · 20/07/2026🎙️ Episode 2 of the BioFAIR Community Podcast is live! Host Sam Haynes is joined by Nicola Soranzo, Robert Andrews & Evan Troendle to discuss the unique FAIR challenges they're tackling to improve the UK's life sciences infrastructure. 🎧 Listen here: biofair.uk/biofair-comm...biofair.ukBioFAIR Community Podcast - BioFAIRAdvancing Open Science, One Conversation at a Time. Welcome to The BioFAIR Community Podcast, your inside look at the people, tools, and ideas transforming how data is managed across the UK life scien... 031
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardTricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Emily Bender and Nanna Inie: "all LLM output is probabilistically produced synthetic text". AI is not "intelligent". The chatbot does not have a clue what it just said to you. It does not *understand* the text it generates. So here's how to talk about it without making it sound like a living being 25319
Reposted by Sébastien Guizardnf-core @nf-co.re · 23/06/2026Pipeline release! nf-core/differentialabundance v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - 2026-06-23! Please see the changelog: github.com/nf-core/differentialabun…github.comRelease v2.0.0 - 2026-06-23 · nf-core/differentialabundanceWhat's Changed Template update for nf-core/tools v2.14.1 by @WackerO in #273 Show >10 contrasts in report by @pinin4fjords in #272 Fix pagination on samples table by @pinin4fjords in #274 Fix gpro... 022
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardCrystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Using headers at the start of your code files provides a helpful introduction to your project. One way you can standardize this information is through code snippets in R! Once the snippet is created and named ("header" in this case), just enter the name and press tab and voila! 2407
Sébastien Guizard @bioinformaticus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026@anthropic.com I think I might have offended your model xD 010
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardWellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Scientists have developed a new tool that makes bird genomes faster and easier to assemble — including tiny pieces of DNA that are usually missed. 🐦⬛ The new tool, known as MicroFinder, could help improve research into bird evolution, biodiversity and conservation. 👇 bit.ly/4wG023Csanger.ac.ukNew tool helps accurately assemble notoriously difficult bird genomesMicroFinder can be used to assemble bird genomes much quicker and more accurately than ever before. 14714
Sébastien Guizard @bioinformaticus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026@gooseworx.bsky.social Ready for the last episode @ the Dominion in Edinburgh! 000
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardEarlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Be part of a supportive and engaged community of #singlecell and #spatial scientists! 🧬💻🔎 Early-bird registration is open for the Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium! Discover the latest methods across diverse living systems. 🌱🧠🐟️ buff.ly/2KvQ3Zv @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social #EISingleCell26 195
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardDr Pyviv @pyviv.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Mediapart parle du problème des ZRR avec un cas de refus d'une postdoc porté devant le tribunal administratif. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...mediapart.frÀ Bordeaux, une chercheuse engagée pour l’écologie se voit interdite de laboDe plus en plus de centres de recherche sont soumis à un régime administratif spécial, qui conditionne leur accès à une autorisation. Les refus – jamais motivés – sont de plus en plus nombreux. 2125
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardDefakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Le "ministère de la guerre" US publie les "UAP files" (UAP=Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, autrement dit les PAN, autrefois appelés OVNIs). Par exemple, cette photo de la mission Apollo 12 avec des "zones d'intérêt" signalées dans le ciel lunaire ! Regardons d'un peu plus près. [1/8] 67727
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardKai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I'm not looking forward to a future where all the tools are being vibe-rewritten into languages people don't want to learn. Who will maintain all this? The original maintainers won't. It's not the language they were comfortable with. Does the prompter understand the tool well enough? 3206
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardCarlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 06/04/2026And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)quarto.orgWhat’s next: Quarto 2 – QuartoWe’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust. 1019254
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026We are so, so small. #Artemis 12390471653
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardNick Leigh @niche-leigh.bsky.social · 02/04/2026New tool from the lab...check out Novabrowse: An interactive and customizable tool for interpreting BLAST results in genomic context! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Does your favorite gene seems to be missing from your species of interest? Are you sure? 🧵👇 1/n 4238
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardPhil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Super excited to be launching two things today: #RustQC 🦀🧬 and rewrites.bio 🚀 I used AI to rewrite 15 RNA-seq QC tools into a single Rust binary (I've never written any Rust). It ended up being over 60x faster. Here's the story 🧵 seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/seqeralabs.github.ioWelcome to RustQCFast quality control tools for sequencing data, written in Rust. 38536
Sébastien Guizard @bioinformaticus.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Github now use your interaction with copilot to train their models, unless you disable this feature. Here is how to do: Go to GitHub Account Settings > Select Copilot Settings > In Privacy, Set Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training to "Disable" Don't work for free. 000
Reposted by Sébastien Guizard#SingleCell preprints @prepub-singlecell.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Integration of large, complex single-cell datasets with Harmony2 #SingleCell 🧪🧬🖥️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 053
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardEarlham Institute @earlhaminst.bsky.social · 09/03/2026New for 2026, register your interest for our course 'Single-cell long-read bioinformatics: from data generation to visualisation', providing comprehensive end-to-end training on how to perform and analyse data from #longread #singlecell #RNA-seq experiments. 📅 17-19 November 2026buff.lySingle-cell Long-read Bioinformatics: from Data Generation to VisualisationHands on training in long‑read single‑cell RNA‑seq, from experimental design to data interpretation 022
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardAlejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 01/03/2026"Here, we present SPAtial Cell Exploration (SPACE), a spatial CRISPR screening platform that integrates whole-transcriptome profiling (~18,000 genes), multiplexed protein detection (~68 markers), and CRISPR perturbation mapping at subcellular resolution" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 02012
Sébastien Guizard @bioinformaticus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Amazing music, Amazing animation, thanks Gorillaz! youtu.be/ucRulNQsuYQ?...youtu.beGorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad GodYouTube video by Gorillaz 000
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardIsabella Velásquez @ivelasq3.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I'm beyond excited for tomorrow's Data Science Lab with @davisvaughan.bsky.social! dplyr 1.2.0 is now out. There are many new functions in this release, and you will see them in action, live. You won't want to `filter_out()` this info 😉 Join us, we can't `replace_*` you 🧡 pos.it/dslab 4317
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 16/02/2026Creating Polished, Branded Documents with Quarto www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVMg... (R/Pharma 2025 #Rstats)youtube.comCreating Polished, Branded Documents with QuartoCreating Polished, Branded Documents with Quarto - Isabella Velasquez Resources mentioned in the workshop: * Workshop site: https://bit.ly/rpharma2025-quarto * Exporting Quarto slides to PDF:… 1185
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 17/02/2026anndataR: converting single-cell data, from R to python and back tomsing1.github.io/blog/posts/a... #Rstats 084
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 16/02/2026Pick a License, Not Any License doi.org/10.59350/98n... #Rstats #databs 012
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardRob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I feel it quite possible that those relying on AI from the very start may form a different skill set that will accelerate some software, but result in key regressions (without the expertise to address them) in other types. combine-lab.github.io/blog/2026/02... see the caveats section here…combine-lab.github.ioCOMBINE-lab - The skeptic’s guide to generative AI assisted codingAn easy-to-use, flexible website template for labs, with automatic citations, GitHub tag imports, pre-built components, and more. 1124
Sébastien Guizard @bioinformaticus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026@gmilgram.bsky.social J'utilise la même méthode pour analyser mes séquences ADN. Je réserve une salle de réunion et je les fait défiler sur l'écran. 🤓 000
Sébastien Guizard @bioinformaticus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Une fois encore, la science se fait piétiner. Heureusement que @gmilgram.bsky.social est la pour la défendre auprès du grand public youtu.be/2jdZbag21xQ?...youtu.beNike et sa chaussure qui booste votre cerveau. Ah ? 😑YouTube video by G Milgram 000
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardAlbert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 12/02/2026#bioinformatics #statistics #memes #bluesci 310624
Sébastien Guizard @bioinformaticus.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I'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... 001
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardAcermendax @acermendax.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Une annonce tonitruante sur un remède au cancer aurait-elle été faite sans vérification de la qualité de la publication ? 1243
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardCédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 11/02/2026I just opted out of a workshop with a heavy heart when I learned it's a collab with DataCamp. No matter what, I'll maintain my boycott — why? Here is a detailed overview: dnlmc.medium.com/dont-use-dat... There are soooo many other options that value you, the community, and the instructors!dnlmc.medium.comDon’t use DataCampA timeline of transgressions & community response 13512
Reposted by Sébastien Guizardcharpentiermyriam.bsky.social @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social · 11/02/2026My lab at the JIC is recruiting 3 PDRA: 🔹 Bioinformatics / AI 🔹 Molecular Biology / Genetics 🔹 Proteomics Programme funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. 📅 Closing date: 27 February Apply via JIC website: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/ Please share with outstanding candidates. 🙏jic.ac.ukPostdoctoral Researcher (Charpentier Group) | John Innes CentreAn exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Charpentier Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of plant calcium signalling. 03337
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardAdam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026New tool from @alexsweeten.bsky.social to find and classify all your satellites: "AniAnn's: alignment-free annotation of tandem repeat arrays using fast average nucleotide identity estimates" 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 📦 github.com/marbl/anianns 44419
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardMujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Emmanuel Macron’s softly-softly approach to Donald Trump is over, it appears. As you'll see below, the Elysée Palace has published a gif of Trump labelled with one of the US president’s own favourite slurs: “Fake news”. 1/ 5309102
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardOlivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 22/01/2026European senior diplomats are (indirectly) comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler 114938
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 22/01/2026[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it 100123444174
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardOlivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 12/01/2026Opening Bluesky in the morning these days is basically a variation of thinking “what the hell did Trump do AGAIN” and spending a few minutes researching what actually happened (This is not a criticism of Bluesky, this is a criticism of Trump) 1302
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardDefakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 07/01/2026A Minneapolis l'ICE a tué une manifestante anti-ICE. Elle était dans sa voiture, arrêtée en travers pour bloquer la route. 2 policiers lui disent de sortir, elle refuse et démarre pour s'en aller. Sans rouler vers eux... mais un policier tire à bout portant. Or, Trump raconte un autre récit. [1] 821074
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardAlex Music @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social · 07/01/2026NEW: My research has found that 17 of the 200 highest-ranked U.S. colleges have removed references to gender identity, gender expression, and/or sexual orientation from their nondiscrimination policies. See the full list here: medium.com/prismnpen/to...medium.comTop U.S. Universities Are Quietly Removing LGBTQ+ Discrimination ProtectionsFrom the Ivy League to elite state schools, this list might surprise you 13937
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardScience Magazine @science.org · 06/01/2026Evolution doesn’t always take thousands or millions of years. Sometimes it happens right before our eyes. Such is the case with the Anna’s hummingbird, a species that has undergone a dramatic transformation in a few generations, thanks to the advent of hummingbird feeders: scim.ag/3YMuQQu 310141
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardDefakator (Officiel) 🧆 @defakator.bsky.social · 06/01/2026La soirée Twitch d'hier : "Defakador : c'est vous qui defakez sur les fakes !" est dispo en replay. youtu.be/KPG1Sct9juMyoutu.be🧆 DefaKADOR #12 : Entraînement au defake - 05/01/2026YouTube video by Defakator [Replays Twitch] 3346
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardEuropean Conference on Computational Biology @eccb-europe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026📣 Still 11 days to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials for #ECCB2026! Don't miss the opportunity to be an active part of one of Europe's leading conference in #Bioinformatics and #ComputationalBiology. Deadline: 16 January 2026 🔗 eccb2026.org/call-tutoria... 033
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardThijs J. G. Ettema 🦠🔬🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 @ettema.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...wur.nlPostdoctoral researcher Phylogenomics and metagenomicsAre you just as excited as we are about the fascinating world of microorganisms? Do you want to contribute to exploring and genomically characterize novel prokaryotic lineages? Do you have a PhD degre... 04348
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Canadian officials are correct, and it’s truly a tragedy.theguardian.comCanadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate informationMisinformation from the Trump administration is cited as fuelling Canadians’ concerns over childhood vaccinations 241546537
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardCameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Troubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubsnature.comTroubleshooting common errors in assemblies of long-read metagenomes - Nature BiotechnologyLong-read sequence assemblies from metagenomes contain frequent errors. 03614
Reposted by Sébastien GuizardArjun Raj @arjunraj.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Blog post: Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...open.substack.comJust quitQuitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. 1218550
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