KamilSJaron.bsky.social

Got to say, this does not bother me. What gets to me is fundamental misunderstanding of word "random" which gets further propagated by common speech where it is used as "unexpected". In 9/10 cases when a scientist say non-random, they mean non-uniform.

And this is my favourite figure, nicely illustrating diversity and turnover of oligocentromeric satelites. Look at Carol and Sandra - one invaded the other at least 2x, which I find particularly amusing.

Very proud of @jamesimcc.bsky.social to submit his first PhD paper about evolution of genomes and centromeres in taxa with oligocentromeric organisation. Lots of interesting discoveries including possibly the first reported re-evolution of monocentricity.

🔬 Recruiting a Postdoc!!!!
I’m looking for a motivated postdoc to join my lab and work on characterizing the role of a heterochromatin protein involved in a sex-ratio meiotic drive system in Drosophila.
If you know someone who might be interested, please share widely!

Excited for this. Teaching popgen is one of my favourite parts of my job and I've wondered about doing an online version of the class for sometime. Teaming up with @jrossibarra.bsky.social to do this is wonderful.

Last two weeks to apply for a senior faculty position at the Tree of Life. Great environment, amazing colleagues and the world's biggest genome engine... Come to join us at the Tree of Life @sangerinstitute.bsky.social

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Peer review is broken because papers that are entering the process are so often sooo bad, just because academics are submitting to the peer pressure and feel that’s what they need to do for their careers and grants.

How can one submit 5 papers in 3 month period? I understand that’s not what the article is about but maybe it kind of relates to why the system is so clogged…

Join our Tree of Life Programme as a Group Leader in Biodiversity Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Lead ambitious, large-scale genomics research to understand life’s diversity on Earth.

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📅 Closing date: 8 February 2026

The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge is seeking a talented Postdoctoral Research Associate to work in the group of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira (www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-gro...)

➡️For Further details see the link www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

Open postdoc position at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Tree of Life to contribute to the Biodiversity Cell Atlas, with a focus on spatial transcriptomics.

Apply by January 4
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Please share with anyone who might be interested!

The Biodiversity Cell Atlas: mapping the tree of life at cellular resolution - Nature The Biodiversity Cell Atlas aims to create comprehensive single-cell molecular atlases across the eukaryotic tree of life, which will be phylogenetically informed, rely on high-quality genomes and use...

please share this postdoc job alert! come join the budding Biodiversity Cell Atlas initiative as a postdoc or senior postdoc at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social working closely with @arnausebe.bsky.social and me to make progress on what we cover in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you interested in biodiversity genomics? Fantastic opportunity to join us as a Group Leader at the Tree of Life Programme, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social.
👇
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Project Psyche: reference genomes for all Lepidoptera in Europe Project Psyche is a transnational initiative to generate and study chromosome-level reference genomes of all ~11 000 species of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) found in Europe. Here, we describe t...

(1/5)Thrilled to announce our paper on #ProjectPsyche is out! 🦋We describe how we’ve generated 1000+ high-quality genomes for European Lepidoptera, providing an unprecedented resource for biodiversity, conservation, and evolutionary research.
#Genomics #Biodiversity
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Smudgeplot of tetraploid Saccharomyces data

Forgot to add a showcase of the new version...

Look at this beautiful polished visuals

Big shoutout to Sam Ebdon who made tons of work on this, and Gene Myers too who wrote the backend to the experimental feature :-)

Release Skylight · KamilSJaron/smudgeplot What's Changed Lots of bugfixes in the interface and documentation (@samebdon and @KamilSJaron ) Add JSON report and PNG default plot format to output by @jgrg in #215 Fix bug in estimation of err...

I very excited we finally made a new version of #smudgeplot: Skylight. Much faster, improved inference and interface and finally, we have a new experimental features that might be fun toying with.

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final week to apply for @sangerinstitute.bsky.social PhD programme (due Nov 27th) -- free to apply, open to anyone anywhere, and a superb training opportunity for students interested in genomic approaches applied to biodiversity, pathogens, vectors, and of course us pesky humans.

Photo of Bradysia coprophila by Sam Ebdon

Does anyone have a photo of Charles W. Metz by any chance? He originally isolated the Holo2 line of Bradysia coprophila we still use after more than 100 years after their original capture.

This, except I think we can take leadership in our hands, we don’t need funders to do it for us…

All of us can avoid publishing and reviewing for for-profits and it does not have to be too much of a sacrifice (plenty of flashy society/nonprofit journals out there). Be the change.

This looks so good!

I guess I just don’t want to believe that your experience (from how many departments and how many countries?) generalises enough to give people impression that they should publish in Nature branded journals. I have some (very limited) but opposite experience.

I am yet to see a scientific evidence that it actually helps to have a Nature branded journal on your CV to get a job… till then i will see these statements as speculations that are just causing panic

Understanding life is starting! Looking forwards to the new following days of talks on biodiversity genomics!

new publication by @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social who mined arthropod reference genome data for hidden microsporidia reads and then did a whole lot of assembling and sleuthing! great job @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social !

Really, really happy that our work on microsporidian genomes is now out in @plosbiology.org! A huge thank you to my coauthors, my supervisors @mblaxter.bsky.social & @marakat.bsky.social, the editors @roliroberts.bsky.social & Joseph Heitman, and the reviewers ❤️ plos.io/48HsAQJ

This is a really interesting story. Microsporidia have genome architecture as no other creatures! Congrats @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social

Retrocopy formation and domestication shape genome evolution in sloths and other xenarthrans Xenarthrans, comprising sloths, anteaters, and armadillos, represent one of the most morphologically and physiologically specialised mammalian clades, yet the genomic basis of their adaptations remain...

Preprint Alert! 🦥
We produced complete genomes for 2 Xenarthra and placed them in a mammalian comparative framework. We found that Xenarthra harbour the largest number of retrocopies in mammals! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What an achievement. I am so excited ATLASea is going strong!

Release v2.1.0 · tbenavi1/genomescope2.0 This version have small improvements to niceness of the code (removing global variables) and minor improvements to the installation script. The biggest improvement is the option to generate reports...

We have a new small GenomeScope based on @jgrg.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy's pull request. Thanks James!

Main new feature --json_report will generate a json formatted list of all the inputs and outputs which will make automatic processing of genomescope results easier.
github.com/tbenavi1/gen...