Andy Jones

@andrewrobertjones.bsky.social

Prof Bioinformatics at U Liverpool & Director of Comp Biology Facility. Works on omics and public databases. Likes pathogens, plants, fungi and humans :-) https://strava.app.link/7JIsoUyzzOb #proteomics #genomics #bioinformatics #datascience #TeamMassSpec

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

A good summary of what's going on. If you have the means, you can donate already to the Cambridge side. If you can spread the word, please do. FlyBase touches every field of bio research: cancer, neurology, development, immunity, genetics, evolution, etc... www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations

The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

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Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · last yr.

URGENT: FlyBase has lost practically all its funding overnight; even user fees are tied up in denied grant funding. 🤬🤯 Any lab using @flybase.bsky.social please donate using the link in post below. This incredible community, on whose backs our #Drosophila labs depend, can't be left out to dry.

Hotel booking has no map function. So needed to look each one up on separate browser. For women this is & H&S issue. And no where on list of reasons of why we didn't choose cheapest flights/hotels was *our agenda* or SAFETY. Yes I'm still cross.

Bernadette Moore@themoorelab.bsky.social · last yr.

22% mark up on our most recent booking. As this was my first in new Uni I didn't know (not in any of 3 different pages of requirements, instructions & supposed benefits) need to call or email to prove better price for them to match. I'm still cross.

VEuPathDB conducted a survey at the end of 2024 to assess the importance of our resources and to explore potential funding strategies following funding changes. We got 1,862 responses! Huge thanks to everyone who took this survey! We will share the results and survey report this week.

The image shows some descriptive characteristics of the 1,862 respondents of the VEuPathDB user impact and sustainability survey. 90% were from academic institutions; 35% were principal investigators/ lab heads while 50% were students/postdocs; respondents were from 81 countries and 80% were frequent users (daily/weekly use) of VEuPathDB resources.

People often ask about this and worth reiterating: there are individual PI's labs that cost more than bioRxiv, which serves the whole world. We are working towards a long-term, stable, distributed funding strategy. It's trival $$. Reminder: Research $10^5 journal paper $10^3, preprint $10^1.

Richard Sever@richardsever.bsky.social · last yr.

I'd also add that in the grand scheme of things it is not a huge cost ($ millions not billions) - there are individual PI labs that operate on a bigger budget. So the community should easily be able to find the resources collectively. It is a rounding error on the research spend. 2/2

At #ECFG17, like at all major scientific conferences worldwide, the talks highlight how science thrives on global collaboration. Borders don’t define discovery - diversity and cooperation do. Meanwhile, U.S. policies seem to be moving in the opposite direction.

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Thank you to all submitting user comments on #FungiDB record pages. This is a great way to share your expertise with others & showcase relevant PubMedIDs. Submit a user comment & pick up a free "Got fungus?" mug. Submit more than 1 to get a chance of winning a T-shirt! @ecfg172025.bsky.social

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No job ad yet, but I'll be hiring a postdoc at Purdue in population genetics/quantitative genetics/genomics in plants. DM if you have relevant experience and are potentially interested.

Most universities will take on someone with outside funding, and many will automatically give them a TT position at the end (in my school this applies to 5 year fellowships www.sheffield.ac.uk/science/rese...). Schemes like the Wellcome Trust or MRC CDA are open to all irrespective of nationalty.

Externally funded Research Fellowships

Our programme of support for externally funded Independent Research Fellowships is designed to establish you as a research leader in an ambitious, vibrant and supportive environment.

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Seeing US science being vandalised is devastating 💔 For anyone in need of a new job: we have several postdoc and PhD positions in computational genomics, cancer epigenetics and immunology available here in Oxford, UK. We still care about DEI, offer 3y+ contracts and do cool science - get in touch!

🎉 I'm starting my own lab at EMBL-EBI (Cambridge, UK; June 2025) 🎉 We will focus on identifying and characterizing chemical hazards to humans and ecosystems using computational biology methods. I am beginning the search for two postdocs now - stay tuned for more details! ewaldlab.org

Ewald Lab

@ EMBL-EBI. We identify and characterize chemical hazards to both humans and ecosystems with cell profiling data, machine learning, and integrative data analysis.

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