Reposted by Thomas HaverkampNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 181141056479
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Happy to share our new essay in @nature.com Nature Health @gidmk.bsky.social & I offer 7 suggestions to improve observational epidemiology and build trust rdcu.be/fCbVp 04113
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampEU Partnership on Animal Health & Welfare @eupahw.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Now available: our Norway film from the Animals & Us series. ▶️ Watch now on our @EUPAHW YouTube page 🌐 Learn more at www.eupahw.eu #AnimalsAndUs #EUPAHW #OneHealth #AnimalHealth #BBCStoryWorks #Innovation This video was produced for EUP AH&W by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions 043
Reposted by Thomas Haverkampnf-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 Thomas HaverkampCrystal 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
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampVicki @vickiboykis.com · 15/06/2026new post: how I develop recently using local models. the tooling is now good enough to do agentic workflows and everyone should give them a try! vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/r...vickiboykis.comRunning local models is good nowLocal agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months 1825637
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampMichael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇 5435871430
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampDMartin @drddom.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This just keeps getting worse. For non-science people, we use commercial antibodies on a daily basis to detect proteins of interest using many methods. Bad antibodies mean bad results, which means a lot of medical research was wasted. I can't imagine the costs to trainees (their time), labs, etc. 24829
Thomas Haverkamp @thomieh73.bsky.social · 20/05/2026As a scientist i need to write and read, and make sure to be organized to follow different projects. I now realized how my dyslexia is making that a daily struggle, because text for context is not helping me with changing projects all the time. Now i wonder how to get that sorted in my head.static.klipy.comColin Mochrie: I've Lost Track of the StoryALT: Colin Mochrie: I've Lost Track of the Story 000
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me. 161300428
Thomas Haverkamp @thomieh73.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Hey here is a question for #metabolome researchers? For your #metabolomics papers, what are the guidelines you follow when reporting on your datasets and make them useable using #FAIR ? I get the impression it is currently vague how to report your data in articles. 010
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 14/05/2026“Ich komme regelmäßig nach Deutschland und werde seit Jahrzehnten von meinen Freunden und der Familie gemobbt, mit welch komischen Viren ich mich beschäftige. Jetzt plötzlich haben sie mich verstanden.” Sehr gutes Interview von @florianschumann.bsky.social und Anna Carthaus zum Hantavirus-Ausbruchzeit.deHantavirus: »Das Virus braucht engen Kontakt, aber offenbar geht es auch anders«Der Ausbruch auf der »Hondius« habe sie erschreckt, sagt Hantavirus-Forscherin Nicole Tischler. Man müsse nun verstehen, warum sich so viele Menschen angesteckt haben. 15617
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampRichard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 11/05/2026New book "A Primer for Experimental Evolution" with coauthors Michael Rose, Margarida Matos, and Joe Graves. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook... A compact primer for students and colleagues interested in planning and designing experiments to address questions in evolutionary biology.worldscientific.comA Primer for Experimental Evolution 511348
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampOxford Nanopore @nanoporetech.com · 01/05/2026Undetected drug-resistant TB doesn’t disappear. It survives, spreads, and comes back harder to treat. At #nanoporeconf, Carla Apaza will show how nanopore sequencing reveals hidden resistance, before it spreads. Check out the full agenda: bit.ly/4cSGe5c 021
Reposted by Thomas Haverkamprichard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026#MaintenanceHoleMonday Stapleford 0655
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampCameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Phage host range: determinants, dynamics and applications www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubsnature.comPhage host range: determinants, dynamics and applications - Nature Reviews MicrobiologyComprehensive assessment of the host range of phages is a prerequisite for their safe and effective use in multiple applications but is rarely undertaken. This Review outlines the molecular and ecolog... 061
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampMichelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 23/04/2026euBB in black-headed gulls and common terns in Germany - multiple independent incursions, high adult mortality in both species in 2023 + significant breeding pair declines in 2024 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 031
Thomas Haverkamp @thomieh73.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Visiting the city of Tallin. I am lucky with the weather, which makes the city even nicer. 020
Reposted by Thomas Haverkampnf-core @nf-co.re · 15/04/2026Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi! Please see the changelog: github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/rele…github.comRelease v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi · nf-core/taxprofilerAdded #682 Added metacache classifier and improved nf-tests (added by @sofstam) #559 Profiling of long reads with motus (added by @LilyAnderssonLee and @sofstam ) #591 Add options to enable the ab... 011
Thomas Haverkamp @thomieh73.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Visiting Bergen for a workshop from Elixir #norway #photography 040
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampAdela @adelapazos.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Toward the light 📷 Kevin Nkrumah #monochrome #bnwphoto #bwlovers #noiretblanc #blancoynegro #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #monochromephotography #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #bnw_captures #blackandwhitephotography #fineartstreetphotography #streetphotography #conceptual 117621
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I don’t game at all, but I write from this gaming chair Wheezy’s camo’d because it’s more comfortable than an office chair. 112019
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampMihail Zdravkov @mzdravkov.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026Dear Nanopore folks, could you give an advice about an issue that my lab has with direct RNA sequencing on MinION. We're doing RNA004 sequencing of various samples and again and again, there's a staggering amount of reads with just repetitive AAG triplet. This happens for weird IVT RNA and […]mastodon.greenOriginal post on mastodon.green 005
Thomas Haverkamp @thomieh73.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The Teltow kanaal in the southern part of #Berlin was foggy in the morning light. #photography #square 1102
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/04/2026Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly! 1/🧵 16552154
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampÁkos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Nimrod de Wit (RIVM): Calibrating for absolute microbiome abundances without spike-ins See their bioRxiv here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #NIME2026 161
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampMichelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 08/04/2026In Denmark, frequency dependant models, risk of HPAI from birds > cattle near German border. W density-dependant model, \regions with higher cattle densities. High risk period Dec - March, below 0.35 infections per week. No evidence of HPAI in Danish cattle. 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 042
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampMichelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 08/04/2026In addition to Holstein cows, experimental infections demonstrates Jersey cows are susceptible to H5N1 infection and their potential as an experimental model 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44... 132
Thomas Haverkamp @thomieh73.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Hey, who knows what kind of #fossil this could be? The length is about 3 cm. We found it on a beach on the #Polish coast of the Baltic Sea. 142
Thomas Haverkamp @thomieh73.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Evening walk on the beach in #Poland #photography 0121
Thomas Haverkamp @thomieh73.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Started my Easter weekend with a nice coffee in the sun. #photography 020
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampAdela @adelapazos.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Verticality 📷 Kai Ziehl (Lisbon) #monochrome #bnwphoto #bwlovers #noiretblanc #blancoynegro #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #monochromephotography #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #bnw_captures #minimalphotography #blackandwhitephotography #fineartstreetphotography #streetphotography #conceptual 851044
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampOxford Nanopore @nanoporetech.com · 31/03/2026Struggling to get complete microbial genomes at scale? Join the webinar to see how a nanopore‑only solution delivers reference‑quality assemblies — resolving plasmids, repeats and AMR genes in a single workflow. bit.ly/4lElUYe 132
Reposted by Thomas Haverkamplaurenmlui.bsky.social @laurenmlui.bsky.social · 31/03/2026What happens when you use a strain-resolved assembler on 720 Gbp of Nanopore metagenome sequence? Simultaneous strain-level resolution of multiple co-occurring lineages from hundreds of single contig high-quality genomes, including 78 Pelagibacter. @tnn1.bsky.social and myself: 2164
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampNandita Garud @nanditagarud.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I am excited to share our latest paper, Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut, now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/n) 27032
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/03/2026PopMAG: A Nextflow pipeline for population genetics analysis based on Metagenome-Assembled Genomes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/daasabogalro... 071
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampZamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 21/03/2026For those writing code with agents, this *excellent* article by Timo Bingmann (who wrote COBS, for kmer geeks) is super interesting on how one can conceptualise it in terms of dependencies, and how it affects development. V fun analogies (QWERTY, cooking, money) panthema.net/2026/0318-Vi...panthema.netVibe Coding, QWERTY, and US Healthcare - or: The Future of Software Engineering? - panthema.net 0145
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampZamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Madness. A bacterium with a 10kb genome, lost replication initiation, translation.., relies on symbiotic host. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comConvergent extreme reductive evolution in ancient planthopper symbioses - Nature CommunicationsSymbiotic bacteria can have exceedingly small genomes. This study finds that ancient bacterial symbionts of planthoppers have repeatedly evolved the smallest known genomes, losing most biosynthetic fu... 712029
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampPeter Siegel @duurzamedocent.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Rijd wat langzamer. youtube.com/shorts/DiiPu...youtube.com11 March 2026YouTube video by hazza244spe 032
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampSullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · 18/03/2026🚨NEW PAPER @isme-microbes.bsky.social on phage-bacteria dynamics. Collab between us and @joshuasweitz.bsky.social labs. "Density-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamics". 👉 doi.org/10.1093/isme...doi.orgDensity-dependent feedback and higher-order interactions enable coexistence in phage-bacteria community dynamicsAbstract. Diverse phage-bacteria communities coexist at high densities in environmental, agricultural, and human-associated microbiomes. Phage-bacteria coe 13014
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampThe Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 19/03/2026New research article Lineage dynamics of invasive Escherichia coli isolates in the Netherlands from 1975 to 2021: a retrospective longitudinal genomic analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA 01010
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 16/03/2026𝗔𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗥𝗦𝗩 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝘀. To support this work, we have launched a call for experts to join a new Scientific Expert Panel on RSV vaccination in adults. #RSV #Vaccination #Immunisationbit.lyCall for experts for Scientific Expert Panel on RSV vaccination in adultsECDC has launched a call for experts to join a new Scientific Expert Panel (SEP) to support the development of an EU/EEA technical guidance on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination to protect ... 1125
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampTitus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 12/03/2026Do people have any recommendations for in silico PCR command-line software? I need to look at a bunch of relatively small genomes. Would prefer not to roll my own... 001
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampPascal Volk @pvo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026S7 Ahrensfelde #Berlin #HackesMarket #RapidTransit #SBahn #train #station #UrbanGaze #people #StreetPhotography #HumansOfBluesky #35mm #BlackAndWhite #ClassicMono #photography #art 📷: #EOSR3 ISO: 100 ⭕: #RF35mmF14LVCM @ƒ/5.6 ⏱️: 1/30 sec 📆: 2026-03-03 🔗: flic.kr/p/2rZr1wi 1417
Reposted by Thomas HaverkampHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Bacterial Schlafen proteins mediate phage defence (new work from @anemudraia.bsky.social and @artemnemudryi.bsky.social labs) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Schlafens are an ancient, mechanistically conserved family of tRNA-targeting immune effectors.nature.comBacterial Schlafen proteins mediate phage defence - Nature MicrobiologyThis study highlights that Schlafens are ancient, mechanistically conserved immune effectors that mediate antiviral immunity in organisms ranging from humans to bacteria. 13211
![[Four full-width panels arranged vertically, each with a label for number of hours elapsed, with a title above the stack of panels.]
Title: As a project wears on, standards for success slip lower and lower.
[Megan is standing behind Cueball, watching him as he sits at a desk working on a desktop computer on the desk.]
Label: 0 hours
Cueball: Okay, I should be able to dual-boot BSD soon.
[Cueball is on the floor fiddling with the open tower in front of him. Megan is not shown in the panel, but may be off-panel unless Cueball is talking to himself.]
Label: 6 hours
Cueball: I'll be happy if I can get the system working like it was when I started.
[Cueball is standing in front of the computer, which now has a laptop plugged into the tower. Megan is still not shown in the panel, but may be off-panel again.]
Label: 10 hours
Cueball: Well, the desktop's a lost cause, but I think I can fix the problems the laptop's developed.
[Cueball and Megan are swimming in the sea; an island and a beach can be seen in the distance.]
Label: 24 hours
Cueball: If we're lucky, the sharks will stay away until we reach shallow water.
Megan: If we make it back alive, you're never upgrading anything again.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:okljgdokn3l3ktknrhmdo3ny/bafkreiaaycygxmuoeji3roewjpar5oc2tv6zbvl3mlnhrxvk52v3gf7flm)