Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Wow. 95% of people online get the Hebrew New Year's greeting wrong. 000
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When your h-index increments a day before your annual productivity review. 000
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Redshirts was the first @scalzi.com book I read. I would like to warn you: don't do it. It's a gateway book! Before you know it, you'll be like me: i finished this book, then read all 6 books of "Old Man's War" series , and then The Collapsing Empire. There's no end in sight. 000
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I've watched Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time in two decades. I have new insights. It really is an elaborately produced training video about the consequences of not following lab safety protocols, including IRB, proper PPE use, and new personnel training. 010
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...carlsonlab.bioThe only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson LabOver the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la... 361563629
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Wow. There are still journals that require you to register for their review system just to decline a review request. No thanks. 020
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 07/08/2026So, somebody finally creates a sorely needed framework to design phage therapy. Social media: "We're all going to die!" 000
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-... 16431350
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 01/08/2026That's exactly what a stochastic parrot would say. 120
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.nytimes.com‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts. 172299682
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Somebody pitched Universal studio the latest installment in the Jason Bourne franchise. It was called "The Bourne Again Shell". The studio rejected it because the script was deemed too slow and unintelligible.static.klipy.comMatt Damon Jason BourneAlt: Matt Damon Jason Bourne 031
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 13/07/2026If you stick around to the end of #ISMB2026 drop by the Bioinformatics in the USA track Thursday after lunch to hear my talk. Why chickens? Why corn? Why is a plant hormone made by bacteria? What is the difference between Amazon turking and undergraduates? What's with the patriotic tractor? 020
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 04/07/2026youtu.be/JZ3EdI5mz08?...youtu.be200YouTube video by Vince Collins 100
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 30/06/2026"Springer Nature was nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95 until this story was published" www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgWhy have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame 000
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) @bosc.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The #OpenSource in the Age of #AI panel will be the second of two panels at #BOSC2026. Find more info, including names and bios of panelists, here: www.open-bio.org/events/bosc-...open-bio.orgBOSC 2026 PanelsFor the first time ever, BOSC will include two panel discussions featuring perspectives from across the open science, bioinformatics, policy, and AI landscapes. Panel 1: Policies and Strategies for Re... 074
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 20/06/2026The Longitudinal Assessment of protein Function Annotation (LAFA) is live! LAFA compares contributed models to each other and to baselines. If you have a model you would like to upload to LAFA, please let us know! FunctionBench.net 000
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Nethack 5.0 dropped last month. I think I'll take a sabbatical. 1134
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 22/05/2026As I'm going to see the Mandalorian & Grogu tonight, here's my take on the rest of the Star Wars franchise: 1977: the best. Han shot first ESB: Excellent. ROTJ: where things started to go bad. 100
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Congratulations to Dr. Parnal Joshi! Onward to your next adventure! 020
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Want to find #prophage in your #bacteria genomes? We built PhiSpy a long time ago, and now we've created a new web page for it: linsalrob.github.io/PhiSpyWeb/ Best of all, the data never leaves your computer! #phage #phageskylinsalrob.github.ioPhiSpyWeb – Browser-based Prophage PredictionBrowser-based prophage prediction using PhiSpy, Pyodide, and WebAssembly 06827
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Excited to share: Advances in Protein Function Prediction from the Fifth CAFA Challenge. 📈huge increase in participation, due to @kaggle.com 🤔 New "partial-knowledge" score reveals major open challenges 🗨️ Protein language models are driving progress doi.org/10.64898/202...doi.org 001
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Doodle now have an infinity symbol in their logo, to underscore how long it takes to coordinate a meeting. 000
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I forgot that yesterday was World DNA Day. At least I didn't forget my DNA. 000
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 22/04/2026When writing the NIH Current & Pending (CPOS Common Form) via SciENcv it omits the "in kind" section when I try to fill it out. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a way around it? 000
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Have you developed a new #bioinformatics tool to understand #phage or #virus? Make sure you add it to #awesome-virome github.com/shandley/awe... 13414
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 05/04/2026It does make space flight very relatable, though... www.404media.co/artemis-2-as...404media.coArtemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither WorkIn space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software. 120
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Want to annotate a bacterial genome with structures? @oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phagesky #microsky #microbiomeskybiorxiv.org 08237
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅James Fellows Yates @jfy133.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026X-post from Bluesky: 🧑💻Satellite Hackathon at #ViBioM2026! Join the #Virus #Bioinformatics + @nf_core Hybrid Collaborative #Hackathon & collaborate on bioinformatic tools and ideas & contribute to reproducible workflows & research infrastructure. Want to […] [Original post on genomic.social] 011
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026How Not to be Seen: Predicting Unseen Enzyme Functions using Contrastive Learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 011
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Call for the first 2026 round of the OBF Event Fellowship & overview of the overall round of 2025 www.open-bio.org/2026/03/05/e...open-bio.orgCall for the first 2026 round of the OBF Event Fellowship & overview of the overall round of 2025.The call for applications for round 1 of the OBF Event Fellowship for 2026 is now open. The deadline for this round is 1 April 2026. You can submit your application through this Google Form. We have p... 000
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 25/02/2026"This phosphodiesterase from E. coli has presented us with a poser. We do not know which node on the EC tree it is on. But we will soon find out." How Not to be Seen: Predicting Unseen Enzyme Functions using Contrastive Learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 021
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 21/02/2026I love curling. curl -X POST -L -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" -d '{"key":"value"}' api.example.com/data -o response.json --verbose 000
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 12/02/2026The AI of wordle as a grant reviewer: "This proposal isn’t one of the projects I think will be funded based on what I’ve learned from doing science". 010
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 04/02/2026New @kaggle.com competition, which I am happy to co-host Can you extract the metadata of mass-spec experiments from scientific papers? Thanks to the NSF National Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS) for sponsoring. www.kaggle.com/competitions...kaggle.comHarmonizing the Data of your DataExtract crucial experimental metadata from scientific publications into sample data relation format files. 022
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 16/01/2026very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...embl.orgIn remembrance of Peer Bork | EMBLEMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General. 1014581
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅It's FOSS @itsfoss.bsky.social · 16/01/2026You made the right choice by opting for Linux and I am proud of you for that. 🥹 3383
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 02/12/2025We are deeply saddened to share the passing of Amos Bairoch, pioneer of bioinformatics and co-founder of SIB. His lifelong commitment for high-quality, open data transformed global research. We honour his legacy by continuing to build the future of bioinformatics.sib.swissAmos Bairoch, Swiss pioneer of bioinformatics, passes awayWe are deeply saddened to announce the passing of our co-founder and Group Leader Amos Bairoch. Emeritus professor at the University of Geneva, he shaped the development of bioinformatics over more th... 43516
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/11/2025My quote of the day For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. H. L. Mencken 19613
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Ian Potter @ianzpotter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate. 121177706871
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching 5245201434
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Physicist Lise Meitner died on this day in 1968 just before her 90th birthday, having discovered fission, having been excluded from the Nobel Prize for her own discovery, and having paved the way for women in science anyway. This is her remarkable story: www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/27/l...themarginalian.orgHow Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep joy and awe that the natural order o… 03521
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 23/10/2025🧬The 6th Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation #CAFA6 #CAFA is growing fast! We now have 295 participants! Join for the love of science🧬machine learning, and 🏆 💵. Please repost. #BIOINFORMATICS #machinelearning www.kaggle.com/competitions...kaggle.comCAFA 6 Protein Function PredictionPredict the biological function of a protein 011
Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅 @iddux.bsky.social · 23/10/2025🧬The 6th Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation #CAFA6 #CAFA is growing fast! We now have 295 participants! Join for the love of science🧬machine learning, and 🏆 💵. Please repost. #BIOINFORMATICS #machinelearning www.kaggle.com/competitions...kaggle.comCAFA 6 Protein Function PredictionPredict the biological function of a protein 011
Reposted by Iddo Friedberg 🏁 𐤏𐤃𐤅Kaggle @kaggle.com · 16/10/2025📣 Competition Launch Alert! CAFA 6: Protein Function Prediction hosted by @iastateresearch.bsky.social 🎯 Predict protein function from amino acid sequences 💰 $50,000 Prize Pool ⏰ Entry Deadline: Jan 26, 2026 163
