The fatal shore
The search for a scientific explanation for South Australiaβs unprecedented algal bloom β which decimated marine life, perhaps irreparably β 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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@chan
Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences Xmas party time πππ»ππ @chancx.bsky.social @fabianruperti.bsky.social
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Don't miss out on the 3rd West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium @ UQ Brisbane, 25β28 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
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Join us at the 3rd West Pacific Marine Biology Symposium @ UQ Brisbane, 25β28 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
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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.
22.05.2025 12:42 β π 287 π 232 π¬ 37 π 47
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!
22.05.2025 08:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
IQ-TREE 3: Phylogenomic Inference Software using Complex Evolutionary Models
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...
10.04.2025 14:13 β π 178 π 96 π¬ 2 π 6
Eukfinder: a pipeline to retrieve microbial eukaryote genome sequences from metagenomic data
#protists #protistsonsky journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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GTDB - Genome Taxonomy Database
The Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB) is an initiative to establish a standardised microbial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny.
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.
18.04.2025 19:13 β π 27 π 17 π¬ 0 π 2
Screenshot of the @SciGuardians bio on Twitter/X:
https://x.com/SciGuardians/with_replies
It reads:
ScienceGuardians
@SciGuardians
Empowering academia with tools, training & transparency π First fully verified journal club & post-publication peer review π 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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18.04.2025 18:52 β π 276 π 69 π¬ 9 π 8
1 trillion species, 3 billion years: how we used AI to trace the evolution of bacteria on Earth
Until now, itβs 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/...
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Evolutionary molecular biologist/biochemist | Postdoc @ UQ, Brisbane | former PhD @ EMBL, Heidelberg | Sponges, other non-Bilaterians and proteomics
Exploring the secrets of sponge symbionts | Molecular microbiologist in the Degnan Lab, University of Queensland
The Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), a moonshot for biology, aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth's eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of ten years.
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Postdoctoral fellow in the Keeling Lab @ UBC studying marine protistan symbionts. Previously: del Campo Lab & Coral Reef Futures Lab π πͺΈπ𧬠He/Him π³οΈβπ
A leading UK marine biology research institute, promoting scientific excellence and representing the marine biology community since 1884.
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phylogenetics, molecular evolution, some genomes, kids, dogs, and eclectic hobbies none of which I am much good at but I think for me that's the point
Coral reef ecologist at the University of Queensland. Marinespatialecologylab.org
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The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) is a non-profit volunteer-run organization that supports #OpenSource #bioinformatics. Member projects: #BioPerl, #BioJava, #BioRuby and #Biopython. We run an annual meeting, the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
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Genome Taxonomy Database (GTDB; https://gtdb.ecogenomic.org) is an initiative to establish a standardised microbial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny.
Virologist at the University of Queensland. #virology #virusevolution #rnavirology
Microbial Ecology and Evolution Lab at IBE Barcelona led by @fonamental.bsky.social. Studying marine animal holobiontsπ¦ πͺΈπ
Australian Research Council funded research centre bringing together #plant scientists, mathematical modellers, crop breeders, and legal experts to achieve #PlantSuccess π±π§¬ππΎ
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Conference for all things microbiology and sequencing for Australasian ERCs & PhD students. Supported by @aussocmic.bsky.social @ausvirologysoc.bsky.social #MGen
GBE publishes leading original research at the interface between evolutionary biology and genomics.
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#genome #evolution #science #biology #societyjournal
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Research Fellow team leader at UQCCR, Brisbane, Australia. All things bacterial genomics, HAIs, MGEs, evolution
Assoc. prof. in Biological Sciences at Alabama & Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the ALMNH. #invertebrates #aplacophora #systematics #genomics #blacktshirts #beer #faceblindness. He/him/his. π³οΈβπ