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Rob Edwards
@linsalrob.bsky.social
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Bioinformatician and microbiologist at Flinders University in Adelaide. @linsalrob on all your socials
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@ebi.embl.org serves an incredible amount of data to support biological sciences

Exabytes of data but the biggest growth nowadays is imaging data

Dr Joanna McEntyre. Interim Director, EMBL-EBI

#ABACBS2025
Every 10 minutes some one publishes a paper citing the EMBL-EBI, every months 300 patents cite them, and every year 40 million visitors
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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I worked with the Australian Science & Maths School to design new Year 10–12 curricula: phage hunting, of course! The students discovered & sequenced a new jumbo phage, and will present their work at @abacbs.bsky.social in Adelaide next week. Proud of these young scientists!

#phage #ABACBS2025
A newpaper clipping from the Adelaide Advertiser showing high school students discovering new phages.
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Congratulations to Dr. @npbhavya.bsky.social and bon voyage. Good luck in your new adventures in Europe

(Featuring #phagesky artwork by @elliejameson.bsky.social )
A photo of the post's author with newly appointed Dr. Bhavya. In the background is a piece of art by @elliejameson.bsky.social depicting a bacterium being lysed by phages.
October 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Terrific talk from @motherofphage.bsky.social about the impact of conflicts on the rise of #AMR and how they are using #phage to help save lives in war zones

#BSVOM @bsvom.bsky.social
@motherofphage.bsky.social getting ready to tell us about the rise of amr in warzones
September 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Excited to hear from @surtlab.bsky.social about his work on #phage tailocins
@surtlab.bsky.social getting ready to talk tailocins
September 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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The @isvm-society.bsky.social is at the #phage protein meeting in Ghent.

Fantastic meeting, beautiful city, wonderful colleagues
ISVM leadership at the Phage Protein Meeting in Ghent 2025
September 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Welcome @isvm-society.bsky.social to bsky, the International Society for the Viruses of Microorganisms. Check the new look website isvm.org and become a member for free!

#phagesky #microsky
The ISVM logo for the International Society for the Viruses of Microorganisms
August 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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New in @asm.org #MMBR Computational function prediction of bacteria and phage proteins. How to annotate your #phage and #bacteria genomes

by @susiegriggo.bsky.social @bedutilh.bsky.social @gbouras13.bsky.social and Bob

#phagesky #microsky

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Examples of protein annotations across functional classification schemes. Yellow: hierarchical classification schemes, red: orthologous/homologous groups, and blue: methods using protein domain information. Protein structures were generated using the ColabFold Alphafold MMseqs2 interactive notebook (version 1.5.2) (57) and visualized using ChimeraX (58). (A) Functional labels associated with the glycogen synthase protein in Escherichia coli (UniprotKB P0A6U8). (B) Functional labels associated with Kehishuvirus sp. tikala major capsid protein (NCBI WEU69752.1).
August 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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The 10th anniversary #ABACBS conference will be held in Adelaide from Nov 24-28. If you're thinking of coming, get in quick, as it's going to be a big week: A fantastic #bioinformatics conference with outstanding national and international speakers, and we're wrapping up the ABACBS week an AC/DC gig
The view of the Adelaide Oval, site of the 2025 Australian Biology and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) conference, from across the River Torrens. The conference will be held in Adelaide from 24 to 28 November and celebrates 10 years of ABACBS.
July 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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I received way too many emails this year, and unfortunately there is no longer a skew towards getting emails earlier in the week (sigh, Fridays used to have a lot fewer emails). Averaging ~50 emails per weekday now.

Data extracted from Outlook, so only work related emails.
A violin plot overlayed with a scatterplot. Each point is an email I've received this year. The violin plots are sorted by day of the week, and I've shaded the time between 17h00 until 09h00 in grey. Most of the emails are received during the morning of working hours.
December 18, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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Great new #ABACBS25 logo for the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference to be held in Adelaide, Australia, in November 2025 (yes, it's spring, so warm, sunny, and the best food and wine in Australia).

#ABACBS #COMBINE
The #ABACBS2025 #ABACBSAdel25 new conference logo shows a picture of the Torrens River and the Adelaide Oval with the words "ABACBS Conference 2025" and the tag line "Celebrating 10 years"
November 27, 2024 at 1:58 AM
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Those of us waiting for #AustralianResearchCouncil DP announcements that are due _sometime_ this week, today is most likely, tomorrow is the least likely.

Does it really need to be a mystery?

Historic DP announcement dates from @arc-tracker.bsky.social
A graph of historic ARC DP Announcement days. Most grants are announced on Wednesday, fewest on Thursday. 7 were announced on Monday. 9 were announced on Tuesday. 10 were announced on Wednesday. 2 were announced on Thursday. 5 were announced on Friday.
November 21, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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Hi ChatGPT, based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like.

Apparently I need to grow a beard
A bald headed smiling scientist wearing a white lab coat surrounded by bacteria, viruses, and computers
November 10, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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Sarah from #pawsey sharing how to access amazing HPC resources in Aus. A crash course in HPC ... But hope it doesn't crash.

#abacbs2024
Sarah B. From Pawsey standing in front of a slide titled "a crash course in HPC"
November 6, 2024 at 11:37 PM
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Jingyi Jessica Li demonstrates how to use permutations to test the accuracy of tSNE and UMAP

#ABACBS2024
Jingyi Jessica Li with a slide describing scDEED and mcRigor to permute data
November 5, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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Two amazing keynotes from Hongyu Zhao and Sarah Kummerfeld to start #abacbs2024 looking forward to the rest of the conference!
How AI can help you do bioinformatics
November 4, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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Australia has poisonous snakes and spiders, and our cyanobacteria are also more toxic than anywhere else in the world!

Brett Neilan at #AusME2024
Brett Neilan explaining how terribly toxic Australian cyanobacteria are
November 1, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Lone Hoj described meticulously painstaking probiotic testing to save coral recruits at AIMS and described the National Sea Simulator, the most advanced aquarium facility anywhere

#AusME2024
Lone Hoj introducing the National Sea Sim at the Australian Institute of Marine Sciences
October 31, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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@xrefugee13.bsky.social accepting the ASM AusME award for outstanding microbial ecologist from @tomjeffries.bsky.social before giving a belter of a recap about how he's fixed microbial taxonomy for all!

#AusME2024
Phil Hugenholtz intro slide with his title "You cannot B. cereus the necessity and absurdity of microbial taxonomy" Phil receiving the medal from Tom Phil starting his talk
October 31, 2024 at 7:10 AM
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Amazing talk from @khowell.bsky.social about how the oral microbiome affects our taste and perception of food and wine. Yummy!

#AusME2024
Photo of Kate Howell presenting to a room of scientists
October 30, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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Procrastinating by exploring the improvements in ChatGPT's ASCII art capabilities. Getting better at viruses!
Two screenshots from chatGPT, both asking chatGPT to draw a virus in ASCII art. On the left, with legacy GPT-4, it drew a smiley face. On the right, with the current GPT-o1 model, it drew a bacteriophage
September 23, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Shark microbial ecology and networks from @microbemike.bsky.social at #asm2024 #microsky
July 2, 2024 at 6:56 AM
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The first of many appearances by @jeremyjbarr.bsky.social on the Qld stage this month!

Congrats on the Frank Fenner Award
July 1, 2024 at 5:14 AM
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The Australian Society for Microbiology 2024 meeting kicks off in Brisbane today

#asm2024
July 1, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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Hecatomb: a new way to cull the potential viruses from your dataset and generate cool plots like this one

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A panel of plots of "alignment length" versus "percent identity" for amino acid sequences from 12 phage families, showing some well known families, and some new discoveries.
June 5, 2024 at 6:26 AM