Peer-reviewed & published! Work with @ModuloJames @steph_mcgimpsey F. Ashari-Ghomi, @sinanugur @aleksandrana @AGbioDS & @mikblacknz genomebiology.biomedcentral.… 1/n

Assessing the robustness of human ncRNA notation at HGNC biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_genomic

science.org/content/article/… Time to migrate folks...

Postdoc position focused on RNA degradation biology, CRISPR gene editing and Nanopore long read sequencing in my laboratory in Copenhagen: please spread to great candidates. candidate.hr-manager.net/App…

In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis. Others were being treated by being placed on an extremely strict diet, which inevitably led to starvation. These children were essentially in their death beds, awaiting what was at that time, certain death. The scientists moved swiftly and proceeded to inject the children with a new purified extract of insulin. As they began to inject the last comatose child, the first one to be injected began to wake up. Then one by one, all the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room that was full of death and gloom, suddenly became a place of joy and hope. In the early 1920s, Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin under John Macleod at the University of Toronto. With the help of James Collip, insulin was purified, making it available to successfully treat diabetes. Both Banting and Macleod earned Nobel Prizes for their work in 1923. In the same year, Banting, Collip, and Best decided to sell the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for $1. Banting famously went on to say, "Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world."

People usually think replication attempts in science are rare. Journals don't publish replications, so scientists don't do them. In reality there are countless replication attempts (and failures), it's just PhD students assume they did something wrong journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Researchers find nearly 30% of papers “that stated significances (or their absence) are based on the presence of a single influential data point.” biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Early bird registration closes Tue 5th November #OHA2024 The 10th #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 📅3-4 December 2024 📍University of Otago Wellington 💻#AntimicrobialResistance, climate change, Te Ao Māori & more! Link: otago.ac.nz/conference/one-h…

This looks like another poor ML method. No mention of correcting for seq similarity when splitting data & no mention of negative data (e.g. shuffled or non-genic). No wonder the accuracy metrics look impressive. doi.org/10.1093/bioinformati…

In a world of everlarger datasets and accessible ML/AI I would expect #biocurators of reliable & robust to be in high demand. Curious to know if this is reflected at Genbank/ENA, PDB, GEO, PRIDE, Rfam, Pfam, etc.

New Zealand Geographic has been an icon of environmental journalism for 35 years, but times are changing, and we need your help to survive. nzgeo.com/stories/we-need-yo… 🧵(1/3)

I'm off to learn Thai -- English is already too hectic for me.

"Studies from around the world show bike lanes ease congestion, reduce emissions and are a boon to businesses" cbc.ca/news/science/bike-lan…

I'll reject excessive extrapolations from limited data very quickly!

Nowhere. It doesn’t appear on any maps I’ve looked at recently.

🧵 Bioinformatics faces a critical challenge: despite its importance, software quality often falls short due to the lack of proper development practices. In our latest paper, we advocate for improving software quality in bioinformatics through teamwork. doi.org/10.1093/bioinformati…

The punishment for science misconduct is …. nothing. All these men are still running labs / paid professors.

💥💥💥New preprint 💥💥💥on the EuPRI resource. Where we reconstruct the motifs for 34,736 RBPs and study their function and evolution. Joint work with @ProfTimHughes (Toronto), Matt Weirauch, @LXandR_, Deb Ray, Kaitlin Laverty and many more. More details to come

For just 2% of GDP we can make significant progress on all of NZ's major challenges: economy, health, transport, inequality, education, ... an absolute bargain! @MBIEsci @NZNationalParty @nzlabour @nzscientists #GrowGERD

Not too late to submit an abstract to #crispr2025 meeting in NZ! Please share! We can’t wait to see all you crispr enthusiasts in Christchurch.

The Department of Computational Biology at Cornell is seeking applicants for a new faculty member to serve as departmental chair! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…