Olga Botvinnik

Very excited to check this out!

Soviet Stories: Babushka Nina's Wartime Childhood Three hundred Rubles separated life from death in Soviet Russia

At 3, she fled Hitler's invasion by train. By 8, she'd lost her baby sister and mother.

Our founder @olgabot.bsky.social shares her grandmother's haunting story of survival in the Soviet Union during WWII.

blog.seanome.org/p/soviet-sto...

So cool! Thank you for sharing!

Wondering how to win the next #Longevity x #AI #hackathon? Check out our winner breakdown
here! open.substack.com/pub/seanome/...

Hosted by #FrontierTower, sponsored by #ForesightInstitute

Building Better Genomics Tools Together Returning home to a community of genomics tool builders at the 2025 Nextflow Summit in Boston

What invisible magic 🪄 keeps Biotech running? @nextflow.io! Without , a global community of pipeline builders, 99% of #genomics research would be stalled by reinventing the wheel.

Write-up of the super fun #Nextflow Summit hosted by @seqera.io in Boston!

open.substack.com/pub/seanome/...

Grateful for the opportunity to host a #hackathon for #Longevity x #AI at Frontier Tower in SF! Thanks to Foresight Institute for the $10k sponsorship, the judges for their expertise, and the participants for their hard work!

@olgabot.bsky.social, CEO & Founder at @seanome.bsky.social, just gave an insightful talk on her vision to create the best protein annotator for any organism using @nf-co.re, supporting efforts to better understand global biodiversity through large-scale sequencing. 🌍🧬

Grateful to share progress on @seanome.bsky.social's open-source software for unlocking the breakthrough potential of 43 billion ocean animal genes with the talented researchers at @stanford.edu University's Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG)!

🌶️ Spicy take: #AI in #biology is overhyped.

Had so much fun on the Nextflow podcast! Great reminiscing about the early days of #nfcore and talking about how we're building the best #protein annotator for #biodiversity at @seanome.bsky.social

Really happy to get stuck in to the #Nextflow #Podcast again for 2025! 🎙️🎉

First episode is with @olgabot.bsky.social, we chat about just how little we really know about proteins out in the natural environment.

See below for links + writeup + transcript, listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts 🎧

Spicy take: #AI in #biology is overhyped.

Manubot - Manuscripts, open and automated A tool set and workflow for scholarly publishing that is open, collaborative, continuous, automated, reproducible, and free.

#Academic friends, what's the current best practices for writing openly available papers? Is Manubot (manubot.org) still the best thing? Living Papers (idl.uw.edu/living-paper...) looks cool but seems fairly new and untested

💪 Career milestone achieved: First podcast appearance!

So grateful to Rob Kalwarowsky for the opportunity to share my vision of @seanome.bsky.social as building open genomics tools to unlock access to 43 billion molecular solutions from #ocean #biodiversity when we've only catalogued 8,000 🤯

I love @notion.com and I love sharing Notion tips even more! Check out this post for a note taking evolution from #pag32

Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) 32 Conference Recap Genomes rule! Especially when they're not from humans ;)

Seanome's first conference #PAG32 is in the books! We dove into #genome annotation, #biodiversity #sequencing, and feeding the world. Our founder + CEO @olgabot.bsky.social presented a talk and poster on annotating proteins of unknown function. Catch the recap here! https://buff.ly/3CfKxYY

Loved running into @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social at #PAG32! So grateful for @carpentries.carpentries.org friends

@gigascience.bsky.social ed-board member @mikeschatz.bsky.social about to speak in the comparative genomics session here at #pag32 come learn about solanum pan genomics

It was great fun to present some of my research into functional redundancy in wheat at the IWGSC workshop at #PAG32 😄🌾🧬

Here's one from northern California (not as nice as your photos!)

Hooded mergansers are the best!

It's not fair ... imaging is inherently cool looking. With #genomics, the best we have are sequence logos

Had so much fun learning about bird genomics, what the "RIO" movie got right, and how mammals have model organism #privilege (haha) from Taylor Haines (UChicago/Field Museum) at @nanoporetech.com's ORG.one session #PAG32

Rest of the photos (can only do 4 at a time)

Loved this awesome talk by Daniel Chaves about biodiversity and conservation genomics in Ecuador (performed *in-country* -- providing opportunities for local scientists) with
@nanoporetech.com's ORG.one program at #PAG32! Here are some photos

I am!

Excited for day 1 of #pag32!

📢 Behind the Scenes: Preparing a talk for #PAG32

https://buff.ly/3Pq6ZBl

Check out our latest blog post for an inside look at preparing for a conference presentation. Featuring a @Notion.com template you can use for your next talk!

#SciComm #PublicSpeaking