Sign in

Michael Love

@mikelove.bsky.social
7.1K followers 1.8K following 604 posts

Genetics, bioinformatics, comp bio, statistics, data science, open source, open science!

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Michael Love
Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cuttlefish 3.0.3 is out! github.com/COMBINE-lab/... Fun little jaunt with Opus 5.5 to substantially reduce the memory requirement (especially at moderate thread counts). Now it's both non-trivially faster *and* more memory-frugal than the initial C++ implementation!
github.com
Release 3.0.3 · COMBINE-lab/cuttlefish
Release Notes Colored builds use far less memory at low and moderate thread counts. On 149,998 Salmonella assemblies at 16 threads, peak RSS falls from 22.4 GB to 8.9 GB (C++ Cuttlefish 3: 11.5 GB...
1134
Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Presenting Dr. Rachel Sharp @rrsharp.bsky.social Congrats Rachel!!
Rachel in front of a podium, with title slide, "Genetics and Social Risk for Bipolar Disorder"
2150
Reposted by Michael Love
Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What excites me most about gravlax is that it breaks the dichotomy between tiny but *very limited* count matrix data that is shared and reanalyzed on a near constant basis and huge and compute intensive raw read/bam artifacts that are often too inconvenient for people to routinely reuse.
1142
Reposted by Michael Love
Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's here! new preprint: Gravlax, an annotation-independent molecular evidence archive for scRNA-seq. A count matrix freezes one annotation. Molecules never change. Instead, gravlax keeps the evidence. Requantify, query, and discover under any annotation. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
33413
Reposted by Michael Love
medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Selection bias in Mendelian randomization studies with adjustment for medication use www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
021
Reposted by Michael Love
Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🧬 New paper in Bioinformatics Advances: "Loopcity: An R package for the detection of chromatin loop communities from Hi-C data"  Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag269 Authors include: @jpflores.rbind.io
1103
Reposted by Michael Love
American Society for Cell Biology @ascbiology.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congratulations to Stephanie Gupton of the University of North Carolina on being named a 2026 ASCB Fellow! www.ascb.org/society-news/fifteen-v…
1173
Reposted by Michael Love
Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New preprint led by Zoe Rudnick: bramble 🌿 RNA-seq quantification makes you pick a side. Align to the transcriptome and your quantifier is happy, but reads from unannotated transcripts get misassigned to annotated ones. Align to the genome and you keep discovery, but limit quantification choices.
12913
Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote a post about how slice_sample() and other slice_* functions work in #tidyomics #Bioconductor tidyomics.github.io/tidyomicsBlo...
tidyomics.github.io
Slicing in tidyomics – tidyomicsBlog
How to use dplyr-style slice operations on omics data objects in the tidyomics project.
02113
Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New paper from Rachel Sharp @rrsharp.bsky.social (UNC Neuroscience and BCB) exploring social and genetic risk for bipolar disorder.
172
Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just got 4 auto-generated GitHub issues on a package I maintain, 2 requesting changes in behavior and 2 requesting additions to the NEWS/documentation. The first 2 were not useful/relevant and the last 2 were just wrong (the changes were already documented). No thanks for auto-generated issues!!
0100
Reposted by Michael Love
Sean Bresnahan @seantbres.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our new preprint introduces ✨ICONIC✨: an R package making causal inference accessible for observational omics. It unifies genetic instruments (Mendelian randomization) and negative controls (proximal inference) for mediation analysis under unmeasured confounding. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
medrxiv.org
ICONIC: An R Package for Integrating Instrumental Variable- and Negative-Control-Informed Causal Discovery and Diagnostics in Multiomic Studies
Unmeasured confounding threatens causal inference and replicability in observational multi-omic studies across variable environments. Genetic instrumental variables (Mendelian randomization) and negat...
1115
Reposted by Michael Love
Lada Isakova @ladaisa.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Excited to share that my first paper is finally out in @pnas.org! We ask what limits the exploration of protein sequence space and find that shared ancestry and divergence time play a much larger role than selection or epistasis. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
pnas.org
Descent from a common ancestor restricts exploration of protein sequence space | PNAS
How functional protein sequences are distributed in sequence space is fundamentally important for evolutionary theory and protein design, particula...
1216
Reposted by Michael Love
Lada Isakova @ladaisa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A great summary of our summer school! Many thanks to all our faculty and fellow organizers for making it happen! We’re already looking for teachers for UBDS³ 2027 — reach out if you’d like to lead a short research project with some of the brightest Ukrainian students next summer!
063
Reposted by Michael Love
Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I wrote up a short blog post about this year's Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School, which took place over two weeks in July: www.huber.embl.de/group/posts/... @mikelove.bsky.social @helucro.bsky.social @ladaisa.bsky.social
huber.embl.de
Ukrainian Biological Data Science Summer School 2026 – Huber Group @ EMBL
Uzhhorod, 11 - 25 July 2026: the fourth edition
2229
Reposted by Michael Love
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hello, human geneticist here. There is no scientific basis for attempts to define people in terms of “good” or “bad” genes - these are discredited views in service of racist ideologies. For consensus & concerns of experts in our field, see e.g. this 2020 statement from @geneticssociety.bsky.social:
Statement from the American Society of Human Genetics in 2020, countering the myth of "good genes". It reads as follows:
"Genetics demonstrates that humans cannot be divided into biologically distinct subcategories or races, and any efforts to claim the superiority of humans based on any genetic ancestry have no scientific evidence. Moreover, it is inaccurate to claim genetics as the determinative factor in human strengths or outcomes when education, environment, wealth, and health care access are often more potent factors. There is no factual basis for attempts to define communities or regions of people with "good" or "bad" genes and a century of science has debunked such claims, which can feed discredited views and racist ideologies. Unchecked, unethical application of false genetic "theories" have resulted in past atrocities from forced sterilizations to the Holocaust and can still fuel unethical social policies worldwide today. Over the decades, our field also has reflected on its own role in such now-condemned ideas, and we speak out vocally as a community and as individuals to combat their resurgence.
We must protect and advance the ethical use of genetics and genomics knowledge for the profound good it can realize, including better, more precise healthcare that leverages what we are discovering about human genetic commonality and diversity. The human genetics community dedicates itself to this goal each day, and today we are improving and saving hundreds of thousands of lives. As the ASHG community focuses on realizing the benefits of human genetics and genomics research for people everywhere, we also urge societal attention to address profound educational, economic and health inequalities that fuel differences in human experience and well-being. By pursuing all of these activities, humans can celebrate our common heritage as one people, embrace and fully tap our valued diversity, and help achieve optimal life outcomes for all."
2208102
Reposted by Michael Love
Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Calling PhD students & postdocs! Join the BioDATA ASCENT Code-a-Thon, Nov. 3–4 at CSHL right before #cshldata26. Explore NIH datasets, build with AI and cloud tools, and connect with mentors. No project or prior AI/cloud experience needed. Learn more: biodata-ascent.github.io
032
Reposted by Michael Love
Project Jupyter @jupyter.org · 04/08/2026
@posit.co Positron Server is now free for academic JupyterHub with a teaching license. Students get a full data science IDE (Python/R, debugger, data viewer) in-browser, no install needed. blog.jupyter.org/positron-ser...
0218
Reposted by Michael Love
Stirling Churchman @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
RNA-seq tells us how much RNA is present in the cell. But to understand gene regulation, we need to easily measure the synthesis and decay rates driving this abundance. We introduce AIR-seq: analog intrinsic recoding sequencing. (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
biorxiv.org
Analog intrinsic recoding measures RNA dynamics without chemical conversion
Steady-state RNA abundance measurements mask the synthesis and decay rates that shape gene expression. Analog intrinsic recoding sequencing (AIR-seq) repurposes the base-pairing properties of N4-hydro...
215361
Reposted by Michael Love
Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 27/07/2026
A new release of mcptools, an #rstats package implementing the Model Context Protocol, is now on CRAN! It's a patch release with several security-oriented fixes. github.com/posit-dev/mc...
github.com
Release mcptools 1.0.1 · posit-dev/mcptools
This release includes several security-oriented fixes, in addition to a couple quality of life improvements for multi-user and multi-session workspaces: The server now chooses its R session at too...
0173
Reposted by Michael Love
Janusz M. Bujnicki @jmbujnicki.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Exciting news for the RNA research community! The Human RNome Project has been launched: a global effort to map all human RNAs and their chemical modifications. Proud to support it and contribute to the article in Genome Biology doi.org/10.1186/s130... #RNA #bioinformatics #RNAstructure #modomics
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
Unlocking the regulatory code of RNA: launching the Human RNome Project - Genome Biology
The human RNome, the complete set of RNA molecules in human cells, arises through complex processing and includes diverse molecular species. While research traditionally focuses on four canonical nucl...
06022
Reposted by Michael Love
Luca Pinello @lucapinello.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
1/ I'm excited to share that we're launching NECB 2026, the inaugural New England Computational Biology Symposium. Oct 1-2 at Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge. Two days of keynotes,talks, and posters to bring our community together across institutions.Space is limited. newenglandcompbio.org
11710
Reposted by Michael Love
Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
4974912713
Reposted by Michael Love
PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
100211625268
Reposted by Michael Love
bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Region-Level Design and Analysis of CRISPR Perturbation Screens with FRACTEL www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
031
Reposted by Michael Love
Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 07/07/2026
Silhouette score is unsuitable as a metric for single-cell data integration go.nature.com/4fcQzZr rdcu.be/fpOKP
go.nature.com
Shortcomings of silhouette in single-cell integration benchmarking - Nature Biotechnology
Silhouette score is unsuitable as a metric for single-cell data integration.
0122
Reposted by Michael Love
Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Our new genome annotation method relies almost entirely on transcriptome and alignment evidence, and as a result outperforms pretty much all other de novo pipelines. Check out the just-published paper led by Aleksey Zimin: rdcu.be/frSOg
rdcu.be
Efficient evidence-based genome annotation with EviAnn
Nature Methods - EviAnn surpasses existing genome annotation methods by leveraging gene expression and protein sequence homology evidence to achieve higher accuracy and efficiency.
04420
Reposted by Michael Love
Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Last thing I did before vacation was submit a public comment on the destructive OMB proposal through @standupforscience.net and e-mail my reps again! Comments close July 13th
0337
Reposted by Michael Love
Danwei Huangfu @danweihuangfu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New preprint with @kanishkadey.bsky.social's group. We asked: can you connect what happens to beta cells under nutrient stress in a dish to T2D genetics and dietary patterns in ~46K people? We built a "dish-to-biobank" framework to find out. #StemCells #UKBiobank www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
biorxiv.org
A dish-to-biobank framework links β-cell nutrient-stress programs to genetic and dietary risk for Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) arises from genetic susceptibility and chronic metabolic stress, but whether these converge on shared molecular programs in human populations remains unclear. Here, we develop a ...
1126
Reposted by Michael Love
Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Air 0.10.0 is out now! - Enforce `<-` or `=` throughout your #rstats code (only one of these is correct though 😉) - Tighter Positron and RStudio integration - pre-commit / prek support - stdin support - Install with uv, mise, or pixi Read all about it! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06...
opensource.posit.co
Air 0.10.0
Air 0.10.0 is here! This release rounds up everything new since 0.8.2: a new `assignment-style` option, tighter Positron and RStudio integrations, installation via uv and friends, pre-commit support, ...
07217
Reposted by Michael Love
Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
📣 Postdoc opportunity in the StatDivLab (aka the Willis Lab) at the University of Washington. Amy Willis is doing the some of the most exciting/impactful work in microbiome biostats right now. Highly recommend. Job ad below👇 apply.interfolio.com/188571
apply.interfolio.com
Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio
084
Reposted by Michael Love
Ben Langmead @benlangmead.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Movi 2 has appeared (as an advance article) in Bioinformatics 🧬 Faster, leaner pangenome queries — half the memory of Movi 1, ~30% faster. Paper: academic.oup.com/bioinformati... Code: github.com/mohsenzakeri/Movi (1/6)
academic.oup.com
Validate User
34317
Reposted by Michael Love
Anna A Monaco @annaamonaco.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
First week back to regular scheduled work has been crazy, but I want to once again thank the organisers for selecting my talk and everyone who came to the session!
085
Reposted by Michael Love
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Program managers would normally rush to inform potential and current grantees about such dramatic changes. But the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut. 'This information is highly confidential...Please do not communicate anything to PIs.'” www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say
Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year
78474
Reposted by Michael Love
SciPy Conference 2026 @scipyconf.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
🧩 Talk Spotlight: @hadley.nz shares 20 years of tidyverse lessons; data grammar that shaped how we think about wrangling. Plus, his take on AI's impact on future data science workflows 🚀 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org
0156
Reposted by Michael Love
Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · 31/03/2025
Computational analysis of DNA methylation from long-read sequencing go.nature.com/3RqrPlc #Review by @yileifu.bsky.social, @timp0.bsky.social & @sedlazeck.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social @jhu.edu
go.nature.com
Computational analysis of DNA methylation from long-read sequencing - Nature Reviews Genetics
Long-read sequencing technologies can directly profile methylation modifications across the genome. In this Review, Fu et al. overview the long-read computational tools to identify and compare methyla...
13313
Reposted by Michael Love
Kaur Alasoo @kauralasoo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Happy to share that this work led by @mihkeljesse.bsky.social has now been published at PLOS Genetics! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics... A couple of thoughts below.
journals.plos.org
Ultra-fast genetic colocalisation across millions of association signals
Author summary Over 90% of human genetic variants associated with human traits and diseases lie in non-coding regions of the genome, making it difficult to interpret the mechanisms by which these vari...
2219
Reposted by Michael Love
mihkeljesse.bsky.social @mihkeljesse.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
After 1.5 years of work in @kauralasoo.bsky.social’s lab, we finally published my preprint! We introduce gpu-coloc, a GPU-accelerated implementation of coloc, show comparability to CLPP and aim to provide practical guidelines. Now accessible on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
biorxiv.org
Ultra-fast genetic colocalisation across millions of traits
Colocalisation is a powerful approach to assess if two genetic association signals are likely to share a causal variant. However, association analyses in large biobanks and molecular quantitative trai...
0253
Reposted by Michael Love
Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Aggregating many experiments into one zero-shot protein language model score obscures that current models cannot meaningfully rank a set of fit mutations or prioritize new-to-nature functions @clauswilke.com www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
0216
Reposted by Michael Love
Ensembl @ensembl.org · 10/06/2026
Ensembl 116 + Ensembl Genomes 63 are out! Explore new pig, cattle, and oat genomes, updated alignments and new VEP plugins It’s a milestone! Our last on the current platform. New data from here on is via beta.ensembl.org More info on our blog: zurl.co/MrJ2A
1175
Michael Love @mikelove.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If you don't know David Hockney, check out his work. I especially love the winter -> spring transitions with a focus on light
091
Reposted by Michael Love
Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Jeremy Wang developed rammap, a minimap2 rewrite in Rust. It achieves comparable or better performance than minimap2 and produces identical output to minimap2. During rewrite, Jeremy found two long-existing bugs in minimap2 which are fixed in v2.31. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
biorxiv.org
310944
Reposted by Michael Love
Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Having a visual component when you are teaching a new concept is always something I value. I went back and redid some old diagrams as animations This website has all mp4, gif and code for you to use yourself in slides of websites! emilhvitfeldt.github.io/tidy-animati... #rstats #quarto #dataBS
1495
Reposted by Michael Love
Ewout Groen @ewout.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Very excited to share our new review on the complexity of SMA genetics, now online @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social! General interest in complex genetics? Want to know more about long-read sequencing? Segmental duplications? ✅✅✅ Have a look! www.cell.com/trends/genet...
cell.com
The SMN locus in the T2T era: Structure, gene conversion, and clinical implications
Long-read sequencing, paralog-aware variant calling, and telomere-to-telomere (T2T) human genome assemblies now enable the resolution of copy-, haplotype-, and nucleotide-level complexities in segment...
1116
Reposted by Michael Love
Johannes Köster @johanneskoester.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
#rustbio 4.0 has been released. It harmonizes the error handling, improves the API, makes gap-open/extend behavior in pairwise alignment more intuitive and in-line with the literature, improves GFF parsing, and allows incremental building of the rank-select datastructure. github.com/rust-bio/rus...
github.com
Release v4.0.0 · rust-bio/rust-bio
4.0.0 (2026-06-12) ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES Replace anyhow with typed thiserror errors (#674) Change Phase conversion methods to use TryFrom for better error handling (#625) for pairwise alignment, only...
0197
Reposted by Michael Love
Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The recently-released rammap from Jeremy Wang and @lh3lh3.bsky.social is, indeed, looking like a strong contender to replace minimap2-rs in oarfish!
2277
Reposted by Michael Love
Will Macnair @willmacnair.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
One way we made it fast was by mapping with simpleaf (github.com/COMBINE-lab/...) 🥳 This gives a ~50x speed-up over CellRanger, and natively produces spliced vs unspliced reads. Percent spliced reads is IMO *the* most important QC metric for single nuclei data (link.springer.com/article/10.1...).
github.com
GitHub - COMBINE-lab/simpleaf: A rust framework to make using alevin-fry even simpler
A rust framework to make using alevin-fry even simpler - COMBINE-lab/simpleaf
273
Reposted by Michael Love
Will Macnair @willmacnair.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New preprint! Our workflow for processing single cell and nuclei data, called 🎉 scprocess 🎉 We have been working on it for ~18 months now, over which time we have processed at least 2k samples with it, so it has had a decent amount of testing.
Cute logo for the package scprocess, showing a cartoon of 3 cells being unpacked from a box labelled with a barcode, and loaded onto a conveyor belt. The colour scheme is purple, dark blue and mustard.
23814
Reposted by Michael Love
Mark Robinson @markrobinsonca.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This was a fun effort from our lab retreat (!) to recreate a "arms-length" benchmark (i.e., one that someone else created) using our Omnibenchmark framework. We all learned a lot in the process ..
1138
Reposted by Michael Love
Josh Weinstock @joshweinstock.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Here's our R package for interacting with WGS derived GWAS summary statistics with many rare variants (from e.g. UKB or AofUs). It uses duckdb underneath so it's fast. Includes some helpful tie ins to Open Targets / Encode Screen / Ensembl APIs for annotation. weinstocklab.github.io/gwasplot/ind...
weinstocklab.github.io
High Performance GWAS Plotting And Annotation
More about what it does (maybe more than one line). Continuation lines should be indented.
02414