@rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
Director, Environmental Bioinformatics Group at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss. Chair, European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA, @ergabiodiv.bsky.social). #biodiversity #genomics www.rmwaterhouse.org
Day 2 of our #Genomics for #Biodiversity conference is opened by Pier Luigi Buttigieg www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7I... an inspirational insight into the global biodiversity data ecosystem ... followed by the amazing plethora of @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Case Studies
30.10.2025 19:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It's finally time! The #Genomics for Biodiversity Conference goes LIVE today at 15:00 CET with an incredible line up of talks!
▶️Join the livestream: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
🌍More info: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social #genomes
➡️ First Keynote Talk happening now: Christina Hvilsom - #Genomes in action for conservation
www.youtube.com/live/rP0Xe-h...
#conservation #genomics @biogeneurope.bsky.social
🔔We are back for the 2nd session of case study presentations!
www.youtube.com/live/rP0Xe-h...
#Genomics for #Biodiversity Conference
It's almost time for day 2️⃣ of the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference. Today we start at 10:00 CET.
➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq17...
Check out the programme: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
#genomes for #biodiversity @biogeneurope.bsky.social
🌍 We are back for the 2nd case study session of the day! Genomics for #Biodiversity conference - from genomes to impact. A really biodiverse set of @biogeneurope.bsky.social case studies are presenting today 🔽
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7I...
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... #conference
We are live with DAY 2️⃣ - Genomics for Biodiversity Conference
Join us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7I...
Join our interdisciplinary online workshop on the Galaxy platform! Nov 6, 2025 | 13:30–16:05 (CET)
Learn how to build reproducible data analysis workflows using Galaxy, a powerful, user-friendly platform. The session is intended for the Swiss rsrch community.
Register forms.gle/Y3vxW1u62FLM...
Today we kicked-off our #Genomics for #Biodiversity conference in Porto, Portugal www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0X... with two keynotes and our first tranche of @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social Case Studies in reference #genome applications for conservation or bioeconomy
29.10.2025 18:52 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Starting tomorrow, broadcast online: #Genomics for #Biodiversity Conference - from #genomes to impact ... join us! www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
28.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
#Reportage📺 | Découvrez le reportage "ATLASea, à la poursuite des génomes marins" et partez à la rencontre d'Emilie Martin, photographe scientifique, travaillant pour le programme @atlasea.bsky.social 🐟
⏰ Vendredi 24 octobre à 12h45
📺 Ushuaïa TV
In October 2025, Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) reached a milestone: over one hundred genomes have been sequenced and publicly released as part of the project. biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/10/27/c... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
27.10.2025 17:33 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Attending World Biodiversity Forum in Davos next year and involved in literature management? Then consider submitting an abstract to our session "Biodiversity Evidence: A roadmap for liberating biodiversity knowledge from literature" deadline meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
27.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🎙️ We're excited to welcome Dr. Christina Hvilsom as a keynote speaker at the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference!
Don’t miss her talk “Genomes in Action for Conservation” 🌍
💻 Online & free | 29–31 Oct
🔗 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... @biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social
The Genomics for Biodiversity Conference will feature 4 exciting keynote talks exploring the connections between #biodiversity genomics, policy, and society.
Don’t miss the opportunity to join us next week! erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...
🗓️ 29–31 October, fully online
@biogeneurope.bsky.social
Last summer, the Madeiran Insect Bioblitz Project #MIB brought together citizens & scientists to explore the Madeira's incredible diversity of insects & generate reference #genomes 🐝🐜🪲
Learn more about this project supported by @biogeneurope.bsky.social www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/madeira...
a yellow gorgonian from Marseille. Picture by Frédéric Zuberer
The genome of the yellow gorgonian Eunicella cavolini has been sequenced thanks to @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social This reference genome will be very useful to work on speciation and adaptation in Mediterranean Eunicella.
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-323
This October @biogeneurope.bsky.social reached a #milestone: over one hundred #genomes have been sequenced and publicly released as part of the project.🥳
Want to know more? 👉 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/10/27/c...
@iboleurope.bsky.social @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @horizoneu.bsky.social
🧬 The #BGE continent-wide network behind the sequencing and assembly of these genomes includes @genoscopeumr.bsky.social opeumr.bsky.social, @cnag-eu.bsky.social u.bsky.social, @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, @scilifelab.se b.se, Università degli Studi di Firenze, and Università degli Studi di Bari.
27.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
🎉 This month we celebrate an important milestone for @biogeneurope.bsky.social: more than 100 genomes have been sequenced as part of the project!!
👏 Congratulations & thanks to all project partners for their dedicated work!
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/celebra... @ebpgenome.bsky.social
Your favourite single-cell gene signature scoring method now in Python #scverse and much faster!
pypi.org/project/pyuc...
For European species we offer a template for Genome Reports for publishing machine-readable manuscripts with no hype no fuss riojournal.com/topical_coll...
25.10.2025 22:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0LLMs still underperform on understanding evolution
Specifically, evolution when represented as a Newick tree file. Rerooting, tree perturbations, etc, still remain challenging for these algorithms
Picture of MEME students on the beach
Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu
24.10.2025 09:04 — 👍 59 🔁 65 💬 0 📌 2
Learning about iChatBio at #LivingData2025
24.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At #LivingData2025, our editor @cabbageleek.bsky.social presented @onestop-project.eu as a tool for scaling #invasivespecies checklist workflows
24.10.2025 16:42 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
#genomic DSI session at #LivingData2025 with @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and @biogeneurope.bsky.social what is DSI and what are non-monetary benefits
24.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Moments from #LivingData2025, held this week in Bogotá, Colombia! Presentations, knowledge exchange, task groups, strategies, and new insights for the ongoing discussion about research projects and their sustainability plans. Well done!, everyone! @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org
24.10.2025 15:39 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Day 3 highlights from #LivingData2025 🌿
We started the day by attending the second part of the “Long Live Biodiversity Data: Knowledge Transfer and Continuity Across Research Projects” symposium.
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