Forrest Lefler

Forrest Lefler

@flefler.bsky.social

Cyanobacterial, ecology, taxonomy and systematics, and (meta)genomics.

65 Followers 200 Following 1 Posts Joined Sep 2023
2 days ago
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Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse.

Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors.

πŸ“„ doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

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1 month ago
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What is the question? - Genome Biology Genome Biology -

A great read! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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3 months ago
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Stop Citing AI A response to β€˜But ChatGPT said…’

"But ChatGPT said..." stopcitingai.com

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8 months ago
🧬 SciDB - Anna’s Archive The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.

Scihub stopped uploading new articles. SciDB is a continuing effort which has the entire scihub collection AND new papers.

annas-archive.org/scidb

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9 months ago

HMMER is the bedrock of genomic annotation globally, and now its funding is terminated for no reason.

@cryptogenomicon.bsky.social is now on bsky:

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10 months ago
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Our group photo ❀️. Big thanks to all participants for their contributions.

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1 year ago

" (...) it is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."

(Jennifer Powers, A place for natural history in the 21st century, Biotropica. 2025;57:e13364. doi.org/10.1111/btp....)

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2 years ago

I am guilty of this πŸ˜…
Are most 16S primers (I use 515-926) able to capture archaeal diversity? I, for no good reason, thought they were not

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