Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · 22hwhy would I need infinite personalized music when I can already do this by making up silly songs about my cat with the power of my mind 000
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Running for president as a single-issue candidate: Requiring websites to make Boolean searches work again 1123527
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The world is bereft to have lost Dolly Parton 413670369
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors. 312382567
Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026“Distinct society” only if we consider the Albertan impulse to do the Cadillac ranch at any large gathering 100
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026STOP ATTACKING BIORXIV SO I CAN DOWNLOAD PDFs OF PAPERS I WILL NEVER READ 413414
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiMark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on an NSF-funded project developing new models of trait evolution for phylogenetic comparative methods! Info about the lab here: mhibbins.github.io Applications to our grad program are due December 1. Please share!mhibbins.github.ioHibbins Lab 15665
Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026iCloud sync might be what puts me over the edge as a longtime Mac/iOS user. 010
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiElla Brockway @ellabrockway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026What is in Fifa's 25-page sales pitch: a reference to more than doubling the number of global tournaments held each year, from 200 to 450 What is not in Fifa's 25-page sales pitch: a single reference to women's footballtheguardian.comFifa’s sales pitch revealed: more tournaments, more debt … but no mention of women’s gameFifa’s sales pitch to persuade members to approve the sale of the World Cup’s commercial rights clearly states that their plans for financial growth will be achieved by staging more tournaments, havin... 7255108
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiMateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments. 3558911659
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiStar Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social · 09/05/2026 161183277
Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Highly amusing that people think the hantavirus outbreak 'doesn't line up' because they don't believe someone would go birding at a landfill 060
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiThomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 20/04/2026I am excited beyond description to lift the veil on what we have been working on in 2026: Please meet ggsql! A new extension of the SQL language for creating visualisations using the grammar of graphics. Read all about it in the blog post or visit the website at ggsql.orgopensource.posit.coggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQLIntroducing ggsql, a grammar of graphics for SQL that lets you describe visualizations directly inside SQL queries. 1338786
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiHelen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a rare but fatal side effect of #measles infection, which manifests years after a kid recovers. This story of a family who lost a 10-year old to it is heartbreaking. Renae was too young to be vaccinated when she caught measles. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know. 09651
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiJeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/02/2026This isn't shortread data, but alignments of genome assemblies with N50 > 100Mb. The plot is the # of bp per 100Kb window that are dropped because of missing data -- because those bp physically are not there in one of the other 25 genomes. This is what normal plant genomes look like, folks. 86217
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiCatherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025This is a big part of why basically every archaeologist who gets asked "when in the past would you want to have been alive?" will answer "the present please and thank you" 123586
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiAaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/nquinlanlab.orgIntro to Bedder – The Quinlan Lab 5298151
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiNiklas Wahlberg @lepphylo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025One of the most exciting projects I have ever been involved in: Project Psyche! Read all about our ambitions and aims. It's ground breaking stuff, just mind blowing and even surreal (27 years ago we did single genes for lep phylogenetics)! @projectpsyche.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...cell.comProject Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in EuropeProject Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t... 04817
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiJoshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 26/11/2025We've got a really cool preprint out in collaboration with @lpachter.bsky.social's awesome student Cat Felce. Using biophysical models and RNA-seq data, we explore the mechanisms of selective constraint on mRNA abundance, finding constraint on decay rate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgBiophysical constraints on mRNA decay rates shape macroevolutionary divergence in steady-state abundancesEvolutionary changes to gene expression are understood to be a major driver of phenotypic divergence between species. Researchers have investigated the drivers of this divergence by fitting evolutiona... 1288
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/11/2025It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it. 8755871573
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiDr. Arun Sethuraman @arunsethuraman.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Aaah! New preprint from the Sethuraman Lab has dropped! Tamsen and I have been working on this for a while, and we can’t wait for your feedback. Short thread on our swanky new polyploid genome simulator, DemographiKs, and its functionality. 1199
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiAndrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 14/11/2025More really cool science news: Scientists have extracted the oldest known RNA! This is a particularly amazing feat because RNA degrades very quickly. (Also, we learned that Yuka here was a male, not a female as previously thought.) 🧪 (by @humbertobasilio.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)scientificamerican.comA Frozen Woolly Mammoth Reveals the World’s Oldest RNARNA has been extracted from an ancient woolly mammoth, providing insight into its last moments on Earth 28529
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Every ad now 8271363078
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiJanice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social · 12/11/2025No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next? 801796556
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiJedidiah Carlson @jedidiahcarlson.com · 06/11/2025bro are you fucking kidding me 1352225475
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...thinkglobalhealth.orgTo Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global HealthOnline platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new 7967358
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/10/2025At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.rollingstone.comOpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial SlursOpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails. 691874697
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiJeff Groh @jeffgroh.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Sharing our new paper, "Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts". Genomics & evolution of a mating type system involving two morphs with alternating sexes in walnut relatives www.cell.com/current-biol...cell.comDistinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnutsIn most species within the walnut family, two genetically determined morphs alternate between male and female flowering phases in time. Groh et al. identify a distinct locus for this dimorphism in two... 03815
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiMark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Happy to chat with any potential applicants who want to work in plant phylogenomics!simonsfoundation.orgSimons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant BiologySimons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation 074
Reposted by Bianca M. Sacchialex krokus @alexkrokus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025tfw you think you're missing out on something but you're actually not 031046
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiMatt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 14/10/2025probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation. 2635048
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiErol Akcay @akcay.theoretical.bio · 08/10/2025Most chromosomes of any animal on Earth so far!media.tenor.combart simpson from the simpsons says this is the worst day of my lifeAlt: bart simpson from the simpsons says “this is the worst day of my life” and homer replies “the worst day of your life so far” 1377
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiJanet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Look at her go! #invertebrates 🌿 361351324
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiShawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Look the mayor of Vaughan and the Premier of Ontario have said drivers are hard done by. Give them a break. 68823
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiBuffalo Bills @buffalobillsnfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Ornithology is all about the process. #GoBills | #BillsMafia 821444
Reposted by Bianca M. Sacchiderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/10/2025being a cat person is so crazy bc you live with someone who is undeniably annoying and you're always thinking "maybe i should get another cat" 2538811858
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91 1246280787539
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2025This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here. 102171777
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2025The new XKCD has to be a reference to the ant paper where ants just casually lay eggs of a different species, yes? Maybe? There are so many weird bugs its hard to know. 1137295
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiStephen I Wright @stepheniwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Please share broadly: I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on a collaborative project on the temporal population genomics of invasive Capeweed (using contemporary and herbarium genomics), with @shaky-dingo.bsky.social and colleagues 35290
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiJay @duniagamemaster.bsky.social · 25/08/2025It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category! 123123433632
Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · 19/08/20258 years of notes from research meetings, lab meetings, seminars, brainstorming sessions and to-do lists from 4th year undergrad to now. For most of this period finishing this PhD felt mostly impossible and overwhelming, glad to have made it through with the help of my slightly illegible scribbles. 050
Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · 18/08/2025even more on the flight attendants' side after spending an hour on AC's website trying to rearrange my travel days 110
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 18/08/2025Air Canada consoles stranded passengers with pictures of their executive bonusesthebeaverton.comAir Canada consoles stranded passengers with pictures of their executive bonusesOTTAWA - With thousands of passengers still facing travel delays as flight attendants strike for fair working conditions, Air Canada executives have decided to comfort customers by sending photos of t... 8567209
Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I'm a Dr. now!!! Very grateful to my supervisor, committee, labmates and everyone else who helped me get to this stage! 2200
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiNew Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 08/08/2025#Viewpoint: Measuring #NaturalSelection on the transcriptome John R. Stinchcombe & John K. Kelly 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #LatestIssue 02412
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Legend says the ancient Babylonians once tried to sequence and annotate God's own genome, and for their ambition and hubris they were forever cursed to have different annotation formats and standards so they could never do genomics with ease again. 514635
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiLaurie Belcher @lauriebelch.bsky.social · 16/07/2025OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 112673
Reposted by Bianca M. SacchiMarisa Ingemi @mingemi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025chat are we cooked 4342647
Bianca M. Sacchi @bmsacchi.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Wrote a whole thesis, and not once did I spell 'dioecious' correctly on the first try 2170