Cheong Xin (CX) Chan

Thanks for the shout-out @bradweilerdives.bsky.social - it was a pleasure learning about your work!

The fatal shore The search for a scientific explanation for South Australia’s unprecedented algal bloom – which decimated marine life, perhaps irreparably – is being frustrated by a political desire for easy answers

A balanced, evidence-based piece about the ongoing harmful #algal #bloom #hab in South Australia. A good long read about how it all began, what do we know, what have been (and not been) done, and where do we go from here.

www.themonthly.com.au/december-202...

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Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences Xmas party time 🎄💃🍻🌈😎 @chancx.bsky.social @fabianruperti.bsky.social

New postdoc opportunity in #marine #microbial #genomics and #bioinformatics at UQ and @ace-uq.bsky.social !

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Don't miss out on the 3rd West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium @ UQ Brisbane, 25–28 Nov.

Reg & abstracts open: tinyurl.com/wpmbs2025
Early-bird regos now extended to 14 Oct, so you can still secure discounted registration rates!

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UQ Centre for Marine Science

Join us at the 3rd West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium @ UQ Brisbane, 25–28 Nov. Take advantage of this heavily subsidised joint UQ-CNRS international conference!

Reg & abstracts open: tinyurl.com/wpmbs2025
Early bird ends 30 Sept
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UQ Centre for Marine Science

Structural insights into light harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea - Nature Microbiology Uncultured open-ocean Asgard archaea can harvest light energy using rhodopsins and diverse hydroxylated carotenoid antennas.

OUT NOW:

Structural insights into light harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine #Asgard #archaea

@bejalab.bsky.social @labinoue.bsky.social

#microsky 🦠🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

Fantastic work led by @stevenjrobbins.bsky.social @ace-uq.bsky.social describing the most comprehensive (to date) microbial genomic resources from the Great Barrier Reef FINALLY, powered by @nanoporetech.com!

Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released!

(Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs)

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data
#protists #protistsonsky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.

Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice

https://go.nature.com/42UuoT3

GTDB release 10 based on RefSeq 226 (R10-RS226) is live at gtdb.ecogenomic.org. This release covers 732,475 genomes (22% increase) and has 143,6141 species clusters (37% increase). Release notes at: forum.gtdb.ecogenomic.org/t/announcing.... Release statistics at: gtdb.ecogenomic.org/stats/r226.

Screenshot of the @SciGuardians bio on Twitter/X: https://x.com/SciGuardians/with_replies It reads: ScienceGuardians @SciGuardians Empowering academia with tools, training & transparency 🌐 First fully verified journal club & post-publication peer review 🔎 http://scienceguardians.com | Nonprofit Educationscienceguardians.comJoined September 2024 115 Following 597 Followers

On Twitter/X, @SciGuardians, ScienceGuardians, is promising to 'uncover' some big conspiracy of fraudulent @pubpeer.com users.

But in reality, the account appears to be run by a disgruntled scientist with dozens of problematic papers.

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1 trillion species, 3 billion years: how we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

We used Great Oxidation Event as a planet-sized "fossil" to add ancient dates to the Bacterial tree of life. @theconversation.com and @science.org articles show oxygen was used by non-cyanos before that cataclysm, surprisingly. theconversation.com/1-trillion-s... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...