Really fun and accessible workshop on sketchnoting today by @felibe444.bsky.social at the start of #iOSDevUK Great way to open a conference by helping people take entertaining notes to look back at.

Today's BBC article about the merger of Greenwich and Kent universities cheerily says "students will be able to use libraries and access wellbeing services across the campuses in Greenwich, Medway and Canterbury" and also notes that the campuses are 54 miles apart www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Greenwich and Kent 'super-university' created amid funding squeeze

The London and South East University Group (LASE) will be the third largest higher education institution in the UK.

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Lecturer in Bioinformatics job at University of Bristol! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

I am hiring in this round – please do apply if you are interested in: machine learning (protein/genome/gene language models), methods for pathogen data analysis, pangenomes (or share with any students who might want to work with us)

EMBL@embl.org · 6d ago

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 📣 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 Read more and apply here: bit.ly/4x9Edss

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations doi.org/10.59350/5zt... 🧪

Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations

Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics

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We confirmed previous research that sex chromosomes have evolved repeatedly in geckos. However, our genome-scale data let us move beyond just XY vs ZW. We observed different chromosomes in the genome acting as sex chromosomes in different species.

Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In a new article, Dr Jenny Mathers explains how declining public support for both the war and Vladimir Putin appears to have left the Russian leader increasingly unsettled. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/mr2anumt @jgmaber.bsky.social @interpolaber.bsky.social

As part of my PhD project at Aberystwyth University, I'm investigating the interactions between European starlings and livestock farmers across Wales. I have launched a survey to help understand farmers experiences with starlings. Survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/aber/engli...

Never seen so many people on the promenade in Aberystwyth before. All watching the eclipse on a wonderfully warm evening. I’m very lucky to live and work here.

You will notice that the image has some unusual artefacts. This is because it takes separate picture for each filter with a couple of seconds' gap in between, and it's hard to keep still! We only did 3 filters here - the camera has 11. 🧵4/4

Part 2 … after we reset the telescope after we knocked the tripod. This covers the longer part with the maximum coverage. An excellent evening. Interesting colour change during the maximum period - we had about 90% eclipse. loving the photos from those who were in totality…

Not got glasses for the eclipse? Our fabulous Outreach Officer, Tally, has this great set of instructions for you how you can build a viewer to watch the eclipse. If you are in Aberystwyth, come to bandstand from 5:30pm where our Physics dept has session to watch eclipse.

Aberystwyth Uni Computer Science@abercompsci.bsky.social · 4w ago

Getting ready for the eclipse? 👀 Build Your Own Solar Eclipse Viewer English: outreach-hub.aber.ac.uk/Physics/Astr... Ydych chi'n paratoi ar gyfer yr eclipse? 👀 Adeiladu Gwyliwr Eclips yr Haul Eich Hun Cymraeg: outreach-hub.aber.ac.uk/Physics/Astr... @aberuni.bsky.social @prifaber.bsky.social

Trying to get my head around this a bit more doi.org/10.59350/spc... Now I have the full picture — you're right to push back, and that's on me 🤦. The load-bearing tapestry of language is the smoking gun I should have been aware of 🧠.

Codon usage bias for prose

Anthropic is now watermarking Claude's output. The mechanism is statistical (not lexical) and a detection hit doesn't mean what most people will assume.

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Stop codon reassignment to tryptophan in members of the bacterial phylum Actinomycetota www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #jcampubs

Partial Social Eclipse Viewing - Wednesday 12 Aug - Join members of the Department of Physics to witness one of the most dramatic solar eclipses visible from Wales in decades!

Edrych ymlaen at eclips rhannol yr haul dydd Mercher (12.08.26)? Dyma ddiagram a wnaeth Thomas Evans, Hendreforfudd, Glyndyfrdwy, yn 1596, yn esbonio sut mae'r eclips yn gweithio (Peniarth 187 @librarywales.bsky.social)

Come work with us, we're really cool people to hang out with 😁 You'll get to do interdisciplinary research exploring microbial metabolisms during the Archean Eon by investigating the deep biosphere in high-CO₂ ecosystems hundreds of meters below ground. Please retweet and spread the word! 🧬 💻

The Probst Lab@probstlab.bsky.social · last mo.

We're looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) for the ERC Synergy project “Archean Park”! 📍 Location: Essen, Germany ⏱ Duration: 36 months (Full-time | EG 13 TV-L) 📅 Start Date: As soon as possible ⏰ Application Deadline: September 2, 2026 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...

Congratulations to our 2026 graduates and prize winners // Llongyfarchiadau i’n graddedigion ac enillwyr gwobrau 2026

Significant update to the AllTheBacteria paper, including discovering new antimicrobial peptides and testing in vitro and vivo. This has grown into a fantastic collaboration!

César de la Fuente@delafuentelab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Biology has plenty of data—the challenge is making it usable. AllTheBacteria transforms 2.44 million public bacterial and archaeal genomes into an open, uniformly processed, searchable, AI-ready resource. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

1/ Excited to share the newest tool in the pangenome MUMiverse: Shredtools! Shredtools enables a user to navigate the pangenome coordinate system with multi-MUMs. More in the thread🧵 Code: github.com/vikshiv/shredtools Interactive tool for querying HPRC assemblies: vikshiv.github.io/shredtools

Navigating the pangenome coordinate system with Shredtools

Existing notions of pangenome coordinates rely on hard-to-compute multiple sequence alignments. On the other hand, pangenome-wide exact unique matches (multi-MUMs) can be computed efficiently, and rep...

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Does anyone has long-reads genome for the Van-0 accession of Arabidopsis? Thanks

They're a lovely bunch, the students of Aberystwyth Computer Science. They will be doing amazing things in a couple of years time. This is what uni offers: to be part of a group like this, learning and growing. Among all the gloom about UK uni finances+futures, this experience is what matters.

Aberystwyth Uni Computer Science@abercompsci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our computer science finallists in 2026, along with our staff and research students. We wish you all the best in your future careers as you leave Aberystwyth and head off into the rest of the world. We hope you stay connected with us and with all the friends you have made at @aberuni.bsky.social

"Genome sequence data underwent quality control using FastQC [13]" means "We ran FastQC on all our data, but we didn't really look at, or understand the reports, and we certainly didn't remove any samples from our study." #bioinformatiocsr #humour #reality

This is wild

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

so if AI is so amazing, why don’t articles and books written with it have huge “proudly made with AI” banners and stickers on it we all know why

Come and work @downingstreet as a data scientist! We're hiring for a data scientist working on health and education. You'll be right at the heart of UK policy making and (IMO) working with the best tech stack in the UK public sector. Link: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Special issue of Phil Trans A on Statistical Workflow royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3...

Volume 384 Issue 2321 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the physical mathematical and engineering sciences.

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A Mars rover camera is one of a host of robotic devices landing at Aberystwyth Bandstand on Saturday 6 June for the science extravaganza, BeachLab. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/5fphx56u