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Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism

‘Science journals retract 500 papers a month. This is why it matters.
A small team of volunteers is tracking thousands of falsified studies, including cases of bribery, fraud and plagiarism’

Ivan Oransky @retractionwatch.com, @alicedreger.bsky.social @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

For the model species for sure!!

Poster of the EM course in Naples with marine samples. The Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples arises from a very strong and active collaboration between the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the EMBL in Heidelberg. The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and practical training on electron microscopy starting from the basics to the preparation of samples with high pressure freezing and image acquisition using TEM and SEM.

If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the

"Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples"

at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.

WIth great teachers from Naples […]

[Original post on biologists.social]

Wow! 167.2 Gb HiFi yield from a PacBio SMRT cell🎉 Are we getting close the record? This run was for the “Genome of Sweden” project, where we're building a national reference dataset from 10 year old biobanked DNA samples🧬🧪

CarpeDeam: a de novo metagenome assembler for heavily damaged ancient datasets - Genome Biology De novo assembly of ancient metagenomic datasets is a challenging task. Ultra-short fragment size and characteristic postmortem damage patterns of sequenced ancient DNA molecules leave current tools…

Dreaming of a de novo assembly of your pesky short ancient sequences? 🧬 A new tool, CarpeDeam, may just help your dreams come true. 🧬🖥️
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#MetagenomicsMonday #ancientDNA #aDNA #paleogenomics #bioinformatics

cool Oleks! Have you tested what those ultra conserved loci are?

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I can only second this. BUT, what people often are not aware of: Frontiers in Zoology does NOT belong to the rest of the Frontiers in journals. It is the official journal of the German Zoological Society, a BMC journal and founded BEFORE the other Front in. We suffer a lot from this hijacking.

Latest RNAcentral update out!
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Permanent Research Group Leader Position, Crete, Greece: Interested to assume long-term responsibilities for the Biodiversity Computing Group www.biocomp.gr I have set up in Crete? Apply now via apella.minedu.gov.gr/en/node/5998 (PDF also in English) - for questions email to stamatak@ics.forth.gr

Awesome two day course on microRNA annotation and differential expression analysis done in Oslo last week (#OsloBioinformaticsweek2025) done.

Participants (and tutors!) were so committed that this turned out a microRNA hackathon and we are drafting a paper!!!!

Thanks for the invite!!

Check RNA, DNA and disease (separately)

so what is it??

Peracarid crustaceans contain multitudes - at least 26000 species. In the open ocean, some have transparent eyes up to half the body size (they see more contrast but less precision). In caves, they lose eyes and enhance their smell processing.

Papers next #Crustmas 🧪🦑

Two days of teaching everything about microRNAs in Oslo (#OsloBioinformaticsWeek) ahead.

WOW❗🤯

The amount and quality of the abstracts we've received have completely blown us away! More than 300 abstracts from researchers at all levels and from 33 countries.

We will communicate the selected talks and open registration soon 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org

#ICP2026 will be UNMISSABLE 😍💪

@projectpsyche.bsky.social is there a way to get samples of Morpho from you?

Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week 2025 - Bioinformatics in Life Science – BiLS December 8th-12th 2025 will see the fourth edition of the Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week at the University of Oslo, Norway. This event is organised by the Trainee Committee of BiLS (Bioinformatics ...

The course is aimed at all levels of researchers with projects and interest in microRNAs and free of charge.
Signup here:

www.mn.uio.no/bils/english...

#check also all the other great courses!! 2/2

#FREECOURSE-announcement
Want to learn about microRNA annotation and differential expression analyses? Within the Oslo Bioinformatics week 2025, we will be teaching a two-day course on the 9th and 10th of December at the University of Oslo. 1/2

Ever seen priapulids?

Revised evolutionary relationships within Brachycera and the early origin of bicoid in flies Mulhair et al. uncover a functional bicoid in non-cyclorrhaphan flies, pushing the gene's origin back by ∼20 million years. Reassessing the Diptera phylogeny using the largest dataset to date permits ...

Latest work out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social

We find the fly development gene bicoid is much older than previously thought (~20 million yrs older!) 🪰🧬

To pinpoint its origins we tackled the Diptera phylogeny, providing some resolution (many open questions remain).

🔗 tinyurl.com/2vyuevpy

Adenine DNA methylation associated with transcriptionally permissive chromatin is widespread across eukaryotes - Nature Genetics Long-read sequencing in 18 unicellular eukaryotes reveals that 6mA is widespread across eukaryotes and is enriched at transcriptionally permissive regions, which are also marked by H3K4me3.

Out today, our take on 6-methyladenine #6mA evolution in Eukaryotes @natgenet.nature.com. We asked a simple question, is really DNA 6mA common across the eukaryotes? The answer is "yes" if you're a unicellular eukaryote 🦠, not so if you're multicellular 🐝🌱🍄. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/9

wow! What is this? Salp?

Forty-thousand-year-old mammoth mummies yield oldest RNA yet found

YouTube video by SciLifeLab The world’s oldest #RNA extracted from #WoollyMammoth: “gives us a completely different picture”

The world’s oldest #RNA extracted from #WoollyMammoth: “gives us a completely different picture” ↓ 🧪⚒️

Woolly mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost for nearly 40,000 years sequenced. 🖥️ 🧬
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHQv...

Weekend reading:
www.scilifelab.se/news/worlds-...

RNA recovered from Siberian mammoth that died 39,000 years ago WASHINGTON :Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth that inhabited Siberia about 39,000 years ago, showing it can last longer than previously known and promising a new path for studying organisms that lived long ago.The RNA, suc

RNA recovered from Siberian mammoth that died 39,000 years ago - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/rna-recovered-siberian-mammoth-died-39000-years-ago-5468461

A Frozen Woolly Mammoth Reveals the World’s Oldest RNA RNA has been extracted from an ancient woolly mammoth, providing insight into its last moments on Earth

Woolly Mammoth Reveals the World’s Oldest RNA www.scientificamerican.com/article/wool...

Scientists pull ancient RNA from a wooly mammoth's body : NPR - News Beep Valerii V Plotnikov

Scientists pull ancient RNA from a wooly mammoth’s body : NPR

https://www.newsbeep.com/250103/

The body of the young wooly mammoth known as Yuka was so well-preserved that scientists were able to…

40,000-year-old woolly mammoth RNA offers a peek into its last moments Ancient RNA from Yuka, a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost, can offer new biological insights into the Ice Age animal’s life.

40,000-year-old woolly mammoth RNA offers a peek into its last moments

Ancient RNA from Yuka, a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth preserved in permafrost, can offer new biological insights into the Ice Age animal’s life.