Emily Wissel, PhD

gcMeta 2025: a global repository of metagenome-assembled genomes enabling cross-ecosystem microbial discovery and function research Abstract. The rapid growth of metagenomic sequencing has generated an unprecedented wealth of metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), transforming opportuniti

GcMeta - a new global resource of metagenome-assembled genomes and their encoded functions with an easy to use, interactive and searchable website academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

A reminder.

Computational Approaches for Pathway‐Centric Analysis of Protein Post‐Translational Modifications Protein function is dynamically modulated by post-translational modifications (PTMs). Many different types of PTMs can nowadays be identified and quantified at a large scale using mass spectrometry. ...

Our new review paper about Pathway-Centric PTM Data Analysis is out this week in #Proteomics!
We cover databases, enrichment tools, software for pathway reconstruction, and full-fledged platforms that help to interpret high-throughput PTM datasets.
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/pmic...

One throughline in all these AI promises is eliminating subjectivity. We don’t have to trust people’s accounts of their own experiences, because we can trust a magic machine’s *estimates* of those experiences. let ChatGPT write your memoir, act as “synthetic” interview respondents, choose yr dates..

For the avoidance of doubt, this is how the inventor of "vibe coding" actually writes code.

Can we all stop pretending now?

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Bacterial telomeres are common, just not so much in RefSeq 'complete' genomes. But they can be added by the new tool David Faurdal wrote. I am thrilled to see this out as a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @tilmweber.bsky.social @thombooth.bsky.social

One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse.

Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

"Our final defenses are more diffuse, working at a level of norms and attitudes. Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI." (finally reading this)

Microsoft Research AI for Science - Microsoft Research “Over the coming decade, deep learning looks set to have a transformational impact on the natural sciences. The consequences are potentially far-reaching and could dramatically improve our ability to ...

We have multiple senior scientist / engineer positions available across several geos in MSR AI for Science. Ping me or any of my colleagues if you have any questions!
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Preprint and the website by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social are great, and I got inspired to illustrate Bayesian workflow for model checking and comparison *before* model interpretation following their friendship importance example users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions? You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…

A couple recent smart observations I've read bolster this intuition.

First is this piece by David Gerard from May asking where the AI contributions to pretty much any open code base are:

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

Thanks @lukeplunkett.com for making me aware of this must-read piece by @garethwatkins.bsky.social:

newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Time to pick a lane.

CC @11bitstudios.bsky.social

A Systematic Benchmark of High-Accuracy PacBio Long-Read RNA Sequencing for Transcript-Level Quantification. #HiFi #LongReads #Sequencing #Transcriptomics
@pacbio.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

- They were waiting for me when I got off the plane
- They knew (or it felt like they knew) everything about me
- I had cleaned up my online presence expecting ad hoc digital sweeps; I was not prepared for their sophistication
- Sophistication almost certainly facilitated by Palantir

Analyzing your single-cell data by mapping to a reference atlas? Then how do you know the mapping actually worked, and you’re not analyzing mapping-induced artifacts? We developed mapQC, a mapping evaluation tool www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... from the ‪@fabiantheis lab. Let’s dive in🧵

Are you interested in the governance of emergent tech?

Come & work w/ me @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & @cruss.bsky.social

We are looking for 3 Post Docs in
Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp
Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4
Computer Science/AI/ML: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5

Application deadline is June 15, 2025.

Postdoctoral position in bioinformatics of the human gut microbiome - VIB About the Lab Thelab of JeroenRaes(VIB, KU Leuven) is home to a vibrant, dynamic and international group of researchers in the field of gut microbial ecology and its clinical applications

We're hiring a postdoc!🚨

Study human-associated microbial communities in health & disease.

🔬Requirements:
- PhD in bioinformatics, microbiology, or related field
- Expertise in omics
- Strong publication record

Apply now!🌟 jobs.vib.be/j/69697/post...
@vibmicrobes.bsky.social

Hi! are you still recruiting for this role? I see this was posted this past December but want to check since it is Feb now

We are hiring!

In the #IISPrincesa in Madrid we are recruiting the PIs of the future in #HealthResearch 🧪🧬🔬🏥

We search candidates for the @SaludISCIII Miguel Servet programme that in our Institute leads to a permanent position👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

up to 31 January, + Info in www.iis-princesa.org/wp-content/u...

I haven't seen this before, thank you so much for sending it forward!

My dream role would be an integration of my interdisciplinary interests: something at the intersection of data generation & social impacts

but I find a wide variety of life science research very fulfilling as long as it is connected to human health in some way, and would be equally happy in this!

ewissel - Repositories ewissel has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

You can check out my CV here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

or my github here: github.com/ewissel?tab=...

Because I am a data person, it'd be best for my next role to already have data waiting to be analyzed (rather than designing an experiment from scratching and waiting a few months/years for data to come in).

I have experience with metagenomics, metabolomics, and simulation studies.

Hi everyone! I'm looking for next job ✨ I'm looking for a Data Scientist, Data Analyst, or Bioinformatics role.

I'd like to dive deep into multi-omics integration in life science data & focus on using existing tools, rather than building new bioinf tools.

More & my CV below!