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Rob Finn

@robdfinn.bsky.social

Senior Scientist, Section Head, Team Leader at EMBL-EBI. PI of MGnify and co-lead of Ensembl, passionate about microbes and microbiome research. Bit of a tech geek too.

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Rob Finn @robdfinn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I got the chance to feature on this week’s BBC More or Less podcast with the excellent Tom Colls, talking about how scientists count life on Earth, specifically the microbes. Have a listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

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BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Has a company really discovered a million new species?

Investigating whether Basecamp Research found hundreds of thousands of bacteria species

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Johanna von Wachsmann @johannavw.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Gave my first conference talk at #ISMBECCB2025. Presented *gemsparcl* 💎✨, my PhD tool for clustering millions of genomes into species-level clusters - fast. So grateful to have been selected for a talk and enjoyed connecting with so many great people! Preprint hopefully coming later this summer! ☀️

A pictures of Johanna presenting at ISMB

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Ensembl @ensembl.org · 23/07/2025

Did you attend @iscb.bsky.social's #ismbeccb2025 🇬🇧? @ebi.embl.org colleagues (including reps from #Ensembl, @deciphergenomics.bsky.social, @training.ebi.embl.org, @pdbeurope.bsky.social and @expressionatlas.bsky.social) surely did! 🧬 We snapped some pics of @malloryfreeberg.bsky.social in action 🎤

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A photograph of an EMBL-EBI booth at a conference.

A photograph of a speaker on stage with a screen projecting presentation slides and an audience looking towards the stage.

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Rob Finn @robdfinn.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Now we have what I call the big three biomes represented in @mgnifydb.bsky.social, soil, marine and human. We are constantly looking for MAGs to add to our catalogues. Talk to @tgurbich.bsky.social if you have data you want to contribute.

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Rob Finn @robdfinn.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Great to see jackhammer is back! If you have not tried it please give it a go. We would welcome constructive feedback. We are still adding features.

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GigaScience Journal @gigascience.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Phill Read presenting RO-Crate in #BOSC2025, we’ve been increasing numbers of papers with associated RO-Crates, and have a summer internship working on it at the moment #ISMBECCB2025

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mgnifydb.bsky.social @mgnifydb.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

MGnify are at ISMB/ECCB 2025 this week! Catch our talks on Wednesday to learn about our latest services and tools. 👇 #ISMB2025 #ISMBECCB2025

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Rob Finn @robdfinn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Attended a meeting on AI and biological research at the Alan Turing Institute, convened by the UK Cabinet Office. Interesting discussions on the benefits, risks and challenges. A big challenge for @ebi.embl.org will be delivering data slices, moving it to HPCs and then on to the GPUs efficiently.

The enigma machine on display at the Alan Turing Institute, London.

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Rob Finn @robdfinn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Celebrating 25 years of @ensembl.bsky.social - the first announcement from @ewanbirney.bsky.social, milestone 1 was ensembl.org - thanks to all have worked on the resource, and the scientists who use it. Many exciting developments to present pangenomes, capture biodiversity and scale for the future

Email announcing the first release of Ensembl

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