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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · 3h

ASHG Posters: The Agony and The Ecstasy

#ASHG25 🧬🖥️

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ASHG is a huge meeting, probably the second largest I've ever attended after ASCO. ASBMB is similar in size perhaps, though I think a hair ...

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks for the tag advice!

I have a longer bit on the posters being drafted - the one day bit is frustrating!

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Matt Holt @holtjma.bsky.social · 1d

I wish the posters were up for more than a day, easy to miss a bunch

PS, I was told official tag is #ASHG25

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 23h

Ultra-sensitive DNA sequencing maps mutations that precede cancer. #DNAseq #Sequencing #GeneticVariants #CancerMutations #Genomics @nature.com 🧬 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · 1d

PacBio: $300 Genome Via Chemistry Update 🧬🖥️

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PacBio: $300 Genome Via Chemistry Update

ASHG is here in Boston, just down the street from Ginkgo's HQ. I'm in a new role in Ginkgo Automation, trying to convince the NGS world tha...

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · 1d

Find me at #Ashg2025 wearing an #Agbt hat - wonder if I can acquire haberdashery to perform the reciprocal next February in Orlando

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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · 1d

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten quick tips for developing a reproducible #Shiny application | #Bioinformatics #Education #PLOSCBQT #OpenScience #OpenSource 🧬 🖥️ 🧪🔓
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Ten quick tips for developing a reproducible Shiny application

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · 1d

The number of poster abstracts for #ashg2025 is bonkers

Great there is so much information flowing from labs, but going to be hectic trying to even visit the subset with most enticing titles!

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19d

UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 24d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

Brown wood-sided building with a wi Dow and a door. Sign above the door says, “Motus Workshop and Research Laboratory”.

Tiny antenna with a rectangular box on the end. The whole thing is on an open hand and is about 5cm long.

Orange and black butterfly on purple flowers.

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Josh Mattila @joshmattila.bsky.social · 4d

Very cool.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A host-directed adjuvant sensitizes intracellular bacterial persisters to antibiotics - Nature Microbiology

The authors developed a screen to find compounds that modulate intracellular Staphylococcus aureus metabolism and discovered KL1, which sensitizes persisters to antibiotics by reversing host-induced tolerance.

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bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 4d

Whole genome sequencing with AVITI and NovaSeq X Plus reveals comparable performance with contextual biases https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.681584v1

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 4d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 4d

My spouse pulled data from the CDC’s MMWR team on a weekly basis for her company to include with public health reports. That entire team has just been RIFed by Trump.

No more public health reports.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index.h...

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

The MMWR series is the agency’s primary vehicle for ,,,

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · 6d

Omics! Omics!: Ship of ThesION

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Ship of ThesION

A computational biologist's personal views on new technologies & publications on genomics & proteomics and their impact on drug discovery

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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 6d

Some thoughts on the blossoming of genomic medicine stimulated by the excellent @ga4gh.org meeting in lovely Uppsala Sweden. www.linkedin.com/pulse/though...

Thoughts from Uppsala - Genomic Medicine blossoming

I have had a wonderful three days in Uppsala Sweden, at the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health plenary hosted locally by the generous SciLifeLab . It was a meeting of course focused on the standa...

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 12d

Oh look, AMR
warriors, a beer for us.

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Ian Holmes @ianholmes.org · 19d

Missed opportunity to call this movie “And now for something completely typeless”

Jeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social · 20d

It was a real pleasure to speak with @numpy.bsky.social creator Travis Oliphant about NumPy, SciPy, and #Python: the Documentary! New @nature.com 🧪🐍 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Python, the movie! The origin story of the programming language comes to the silver screen

The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Trump administration has deleted all previous National #Climate Assessments from government websites and fired the scientists working on the next report. Now they say they're going to rewrite the previous ones.
This is scientific sabotage and a rewriting of history.

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Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN

Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · Aug 8

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10X Scoops Scale

News broke this afternoon that microfluidics single cell genomics leader 10X Genomics has bought out split-pool single cell company Scale Bi...

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Keith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · Aug 7

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10x Genomics Scales Up, Agrees to Acquire Scale Biosciences

An exclusive interview with Serge Saxonov of 10x Genomics and Giovanna Prout of Scale Biosciences on what the acquisition means for single cell genomics.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 3

My quote of the day

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Warren Bennis

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Chris Greening @handle.invalid · Jul 25

Our article showing energy production from air alone is in PNAS today. This paper provides an ultimate biochemical proof that microbes can survive simply by 'making' energy from air (making two ATP per molecule atmospheric H2 consumed) and has biotech applications. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

ATP synthesis driven by atmospheric hydrogen concentrations | PNAS

All cells require a continuous supply of the universal energy currency, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), to drive countless cellular reactions. The un...

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · Jul 24

After 15 years of controversy, @science.org retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper

After 15 years of controversy, Science retracts ‘arsenic life’ paper

Science has retracted a 2010 paper describing a strain of bacteria that purportedly substituted arsenic for phosphorus, an element present in all known life. Science/AAAS Fifteen years after publis…

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Noel Dickover @noeldickover.bsky.social · Jul 24

"Higher education policy in the United States is now being developed through ad hoc deals, a mode of regulation that is not only inimical to the ideal of the university as a site of critical thinking but also corrosive to the democratic order and to law itself."
#AcademicSky

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