Joanna Malukiewicz

Vibe Coding Kills Open Source arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494

Forget the bunch of White people who mostly still support him, I really want to hear from the 7% of immovable Black Protestants that seems like an interesting group to talk to

And a convicted felon let’s not forget

Also the chestnut history and importance of citizen science in this line of research is biologically and socially compelling. Besides adding to my professional development I am glad to have made a contribution to work that makes a real social difference.

Although marmosets remain my main model, I wanted to lead a functional genomics project to learn a new skill. This will be applied in my forthcoming marmoset work.

Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...

American chestnuts were iconic but got wiped out by a foreign pathogenic fungus. Hybrids are key for chestnut restoration. As second author I led parts of the evolutionary and functional work

Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Calling Community Pilots: 14 New Open Science Lessons for Library Carpentry The Lessons for Librarians in Open Science Principles and Methods project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), has reached an exciting milestone. Over the past two years, we...

📢 The Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee is calling for instructors to run pilot workshops for 14 lessons currently in Alpha status. To move them toward Beta and then adoption as Library Carpentry lessons, they need the Carpentries community to test the lessons in real-world settings. 🙏

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

I am one of the guilty ones 😅

YouTube video by NFL Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

For anyone who missed the whole thing. Gloriously joyful and spot on youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?... #BadBunny #SuperBowl

Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

I hope to see some of you in Bielefeld for this upcoming workshop on measuring and modeling plasticity. ECRs in and around Germany with a penchant for statistics should consider applying while spots remain available!

Diagram of the consumer-resource vaginal microbiota model. The authors track the dynamics of two vaginal microbiota types (CST I and CST IV associated bacteria; C1 and C4) and the shared (Rs) and private resource (Rp) utilised by the two communities. The arrows among compartments represent density-dependent interactions including resource-mediated bacterial growth; lactic-acid-mediated density regulation (self-regulation and antagonism); resource supply; sialic acid cleaving; and background clearance of microbes and resources. The representative species and, or molecules for each model component are listed. The corresponding mathematical model based on ordinary differential equations is detailed in the Methods section of the paper.

The #vaginal #microbiome is shaped by bacterial access to specific nutritional resources. This study uses a resource-based model & clinical data to identify key ecological mechanisms underlying #microbiota composition & potential #BacterialVaginosis interventions @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3NY2ssu

Don’t talk science, play science: translate your data into music to improve its reach Data sonification helps researchers to build connections and communicate their science to a broader audience.

This is a growing movement of scientists transforming their raw data into sound or music

go.nature.com/3NXJMcm

SLiM 5: Eco-evolutionary Simulations Across Multiple Chromosomes and Full Genomes Abstract. Evolutionary simulations of multiple chromosomes, even up to the scale of full-genome simulations, are becoming increasingly important in populat

Slim 5 can now simulate genomes with multiple chromosomes like autosomes, sex chromosomes, mitochondria and chloroplast dna academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Mapping targetable sites on the human surfaceome for the design of novel binders | PNAS The human cell surfaceome, integral to cell communication and disease mechanisms, presents a prime target for therapeutic intervention. De novo pro...

Hit parade
" In this study, we systematically analyzed the entire human surfaceome, identifying approximately 4,500 targetable sites and introducing potential binding seeds for initiating protein design applications."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Introgression under linear selection on continuous genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.30.702779v1

👋 Hi #AcademicSky!

Together with @smbe-idea.bsky.social I’m organizing a symposium at #SMBE2026 (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰

🌈 Our mission is to 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

📣 Call for abstracts 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡
⏰ Deadline: 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟯

✨ Hope to see you there! 😉

@official-smbe.bsky.social

Now published: our work using phylodynamics from surveillance data to quantify and experimentally validate the fitness impact of antibiotic resistance determinants & how this changes with patterns of antibiotic use: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing

Upcoming training courses The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an academic not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead and coordinate the field of bioinformatics in Switzerland.

Pre-announcement ... keep an eye out for news of our upcoming #Biodiversity #Bioinformatics Summer School 21-26 June in Germany co-organised by @sib.swiss & @denbi.bsky.social ... sign up to the mailing list to be sure not to miss it! www.sib.swiss/training/upc...

1.5 million and counting. Thank you.

From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High‐Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe High-quality reference genome assemblies have become essential for deepening our understanding of biodiversity, yet obtaining them for many species remains surprisingly challenging. Drawing on experi...

🔊NEW ERGA @biogeneurope.bsky.social Publication in Molecular Ecology Resources!
From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High-Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe 🌍🧬
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Deadline for #SMBE2026 abstract submission is coming up (Feb 3)!

Consider symposium S14 "Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age", organized by @jcwinternitz.bsky.social, @arcova.bsky.social, @michalvinkler.bsky.social and @diyarhamidi.bsky.social.

Introduction to deep learning: Carpentries-style hands-on lesson material for introducing researchers to deep learning van der Burg et al., (2026). Introduction to deep learning: Carpentries-style hands-on lesson material for introducing researchers to deep learning. Journal of Open Source Education, 9(95), 307, https...

We're excited that The Carpentries Lab lesson "Introduction to Deep Learning" has been accepted to the Journal of Open Source Education! 🎉

The lesson is a practical intro to deep learning, intended for researchers who are familiar with (non-deep) machine learning: jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21....

Patrícia Izar Interview with Patrícia Izar, who studies the behavioral ecology, plasticity, and cognition of Platyrrhine primates at the University of São Paulo.

Q&A with Patrícia Izar, who is a Professor of Ethology at the University of São Paulo, where she studies the behavioral ecology, plasticity, and cognition of Platyrrhine primates, especially robust capuchin monkeys (Sapajus). www.cell.com/current-biol...

Blind, slow and 500 years old – or are they? How scientists are unravelling the secrets of Greenland sharks Described by one researcher as looking ‘already dead’, the enigmatic creatures are one of the least understood species on the planet

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DZG Graduate Meeting 2026 DZG Graduate Meeting 2026

Join the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Hamburg, March 25-27, 2026. Theme: Interactions and Coevolution. PhD students & early postdocs can register. More info: https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/evolutionaere-immungenomik/dzg-meeting.html #conference

SMBE 2026 - Virtual registration

Can’t travel to Copenhagen this summer? 🚗 ✈️ 🚄

🖥️ We’re pleased to offer virtual registration for SMBE 2026, giving you access to all parallel sessions live during the conference.

Please note that the full conference experience, networking, and discussions are best enjoyed in Copenhagen. 🇩🇰