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ScyllaDB @scylladb.com · 11h

How can you achieve 40x faster binary search? @curiouscoding.nl's #P99CONF talk will dive into everything that modern CPUs have to offer in order to gain 40x increased throughput over the Rust standard library implementation. Save your spot here > www.p99conf.io?latest_sfdc_...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Antoine Limasset @npmalfoy.bsky.social · 1d

Il faudrait que l'ANR investisse dans un raspberry pi 5 pour IRIS la ce n'est plus possible

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 2d

Right on.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3d

“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’”

www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...

‘There is no clear boundary between science and activism’ | NWO

If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 2d

From a professor of math and engineering at Penn

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think people have updated enough on the capability gain in LLMs, which (despite being bad at math a year ago) now dominate hard STEM contests: gold medals in the International Math Olympiad, the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics, International Informatics Olympiad...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 3d

AI is apparently already accelerating science as a co-intelligence.

Measuring academic publications of authors: “we find that productivity among GenAI users rose by 15 percent in 2023 relative to non-users and further increased to 36 percent in 2024” and the quality of publications also went up.

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Travis Wheeler @wheelerlab.org · 4d

I mean, one way to approach this is: when a paper is published under a closed license, and there isn't even a copy on a preprint server, it doesn't need to be cited (or read).

(with all apologies to the authors of this particular paper)

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 5d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 6d

Have you recently completed (or finishing soon) a PhD in CS or a related discipline? Do you want to do research advancing the theory & practice of algorithmic genomics & build tools that people love to use? I'll be looking to hire a postdoc! Official ad coming soon:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Postdoc Description.docx

Title: Postdoctoral Associate Summary statement: The postdoctoral research associate is responsible for developing novel computational methodology for high-throughput sequence genomics tasks, as well ...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 6d

I think people are still unprepared for a world where you cannot trust any video content, despite years of warning.

Even when Google & OpenAI include watermarks, those can be easily removed, and open weights AI video models without guardrails are coming. www.404media.co/sora-2-water...

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

www.404media.co

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Ben Langmead @benlangmead.bsky.social · 7d

I've added 7 videos to my Burrows-Wheeler indexing playlist (www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...), rounding out the r-index series and adding a 5-part series on the move structure. Now 27 videos in that playlist. I aim to add videos on prefix-free parsing, PBWT, Wheeler languages/automata in the future.

Burrows-Wheeler Indexing - YouTube

Videos on : (a) the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT), (b) the FM Index, which uses the BWT to construct a full-text index, (c) Wheeler graphs, (d) r-index, an...

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 7d

A new paper from the lab! Work led by
@drtamermansour.bsky.social and others not here on bsky. "We propose the Great Genotyper, a population-scale genotyping workflow to address the N+1 problem."

The Great Genotyper: a graph-based method for population genotyping of small and structural variants

Long-read sequencing (LRS) enables high-quality structural variant (SV) discovery. SV genotypers utilize these precise call sets to improve the recall and precision of genotyping in short-read sequenc...

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Bede Constantinides @bedec.bsky.social · 8d

"OpenZL is our answer to the tension between the performance of format-specific compressors and the maintenance simplicity of a single executable binary."
engineering.fb.com/2025/10/06/d...

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Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo.bsky.social · 11d

A closed-loop method for precise genome size estimation using HiFi reads. #GenomeSize #HiFi #LongReads #Genomics #Bioinformatics #BMCgenomics 🧬 🖥️
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Roland Faure @rfaure.bsky.social · 11d

Our preprint on our new metagenomic HiFi assembler Alice is out 🥳 Based on a *new sketching method* (🧵1/6)
👉 Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 Github github.com/rolandfaure/...

Alice: fast and haplotype-aware assembly of high-fidelity reads based on MSR sketching

We introduce Mapping-friendly Sequence Reduction (MSR) sketches, a sketching method for high-fidelity (HiFi) long reads, and Alice, an assembler that operates directly on these sketches. MSR produces ...

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Signal @signal.org · 11d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 14d

Alice: fast and haplotype-aware assembly of high-fidelity reads based on MSR sketching https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679204v1

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RECOMB Conference Series @recombconf.bsky.social · 12d

#RECOMB2026 is now accepting submissions and we'd love to see your best work!

📌 Abstract registration: Nov 7, 2025
📌 Full paper submission: Nov 14, 2025

📜 More info: recomb.org/recomb2026/call_for_papers.html

RECOMB 2026 | CALL FOR PAPERS

Call For Papers

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 13d

I got my first "I object to you saying in class that there is no biological basis for a sex binary because the current political situation and also my religious views" email for the term.

Fun times.

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 15d

Do you know ~60% of human SVs fall in ~1% of GRCh38? See our new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.23057 and the companion blog post on how we started this project and longdust: lh3.github.io/2025/09/29/o.... Work with Alvin Qin

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Antoine Limasset @npmalfoy.bsky.social · 15d

What the heck is that ???????

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Ryan Wick @rrwick.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up:
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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Autocycler: long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes

AbstractMotivation. Long-read sequencing enables complete bacterial genome assemblies, but individual assemblers are imperfect and often produce sequence-l

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RECOMB Conference Series @recombconf.bsky.social · 18d

#RECOMB2026 will be in Thessaloniki, Greece on May 26-29, 2026. Satellites on May 24-25. Save the date!

Το συνέδριο #RECOMB2026 θα πραγματοποιηθεί στη Θεσσαλονίκη, στις 26-29 Μαΐου 2026. Οι δορυφορικές εκδηλώσεις θα διεξαχθούν στις 24-25 Μαΐου 2026. Σημειώστε την ημερομηνία!

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David Monniaux @monniauxd.bsky.social · 19d

Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'ESR :
participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...

Les marchés publics de voyagistes - Contributions - 2025 - Aidez-nous à enrichir notre programme de travail - Plateforme de participation de la Cour des Comptes

Corps de la contributionLes administrations et opérateurs publics, notamment ceux de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, fond appel à des agences de voyage (FCM, TravelPlanet…) pour l'hôtelle...

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