@martinlercher.bsky.social
Researchee & Night Scientist
EMBO Young Scientists Forum 2025 in Vilnius wrapped up today. Huge thanks to fellow organisers, volunteer teams, @itaiyanai.bsky.social for a wonderful Night Science workshop & all speakers & attendees. Here's fellow organiser Stephen Jones taking YSF attendee entertainment to the next level.
26.09.2025 19:29 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Discovery happens less when you're trying to be the expert and more when you're trying to be the learner.
27.08.2025 03:23 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
Grant Tips - Oliver Bogler
@oliverbogler.bsky.social
oncodaily.com/blog/oliver-...
#OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews
Today we announced the launch of the Night Science Institute over on LinkedIn - check it out and why not send it to your friends? Follow us on LinkedIn or even better join the growing Night Science Community at www.night-science.org! www.linkedin.com/posts/night-...
29.07.2025 18:45 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Ever heard a #scientist telling a #story like a Moth story slam? Well - look no further than the Making Waves event by @transom.bsky.social that took place a few weeks ago. It was incredibly fun and now you can watch or listen to the stories here: transom.org/2025/making-...
30.07.2025 17:47 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A cool article in Nature about Night Science at Woodstock Bio2 with @itaiyanai.bsky.social - check it out! Focused on #collaboration and #creativity in #science!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Key takeaways:
✅ Use Count or GLOOME with maximum parsimony for accurate HGT inference;
⚠️ Gene trees introduce noise;
📌 If donor info is needed, use ALE with high stringency.
#HGT #genomics #evolution
Genes transferred together often remain neighbors, so we use genomic data to test real-world accuracy.
Fig. 2 is key:
🔺 Implicit methods (GLOOME, Count) vastly outperform others.
🔻 Explicit methods relying on gene trees show fewer co-transferred neighbors, suggesting higher false-positive rates.
How can we best infer horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in prokaryotes?
Our new study finds a surprising winner: gene presence–absence patterns beat explicit phylogenetic approaches!
📄 Mishra & Lercher (2025), Mol Biol Evol
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molb...
So excited to launch the Night Science Institute with @itaiyanai.bsky.social and @oliverbogler.bsky.social !
30.07.2025 05:35 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!
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