Biological Databases are critical infrastructure - not projects. As so much effort is put into harnessing AI to solve all our problems, we are allowing the foundational data resources crumble. Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

This 👇, and Europe should also have more scheme to finance those essential "infrastructures" (rathen than implementing 10 millions single person grant...) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Treat biological databases as infrastructure, not projects www.nature.com/articles/d41... We're quietly defunding the infrastructure modern biology runs on. PomBase, FlyBase, HGNC. have faced, or facing, existential funding crises since 2024. Curation expertise, once lost, is difficult to rebuild.

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

So nice to see this out in print, and thanks to @microbiologysociety.org for the smooth publish process! Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts - www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Single-cell sequencing reveals unexpected genetic diversity among Bodo spp. flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts

Bodo is a cosmopolitan genus of free-living bacterivorous single-celled flagellates in the class Kinetoplastea. Genus Bodo is considered the closest free-living lineage to the parasitic lineages Trypa...

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🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for a Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Chris Quince based at the Quadram Institute and @earlhaminst.bsky.social in the Food, Microbiome and Health programme 🔬 💷 £37,500 to £45,350 🗓️ Apply by 30 November 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/E19Nd83

A fantastic talk from @andrewmillar.bsky.social for our Dame Janet Thornton Lecture - some fascinating considerations and insights across science and societal impact, refocusing research questions, and the urgent pull factors beyond the lab presented by global threats. @neilhall.bsky.social

📣 Applications have just opened for our 2026 #PhD programme as part of the @nrpdtp.bsky.social and @aries-dtp.bsky.social! Begin your academic career with the expert scientists, technology, and facilities at the Earlham Institute in Norwich. buff.ly/327FNrX #genomics #findaphd #AcademicSky

🚀 The BioFAIR Fellowship launched today! Leaders in data & workflows, working together to advance FAIR practices for the life sciences. 👉 full details: biofair.uk/updates/2025... #FAIR #OpenScience

BioFAIR Fellowship Launches to Empower the Next Generation of FAIR Leaders - BioFAIR

We are delighted to announce the official launch of the BioFAIR Fellowship, starting on 1 October 2025. This new programme is designed to build a vibrant and skilled community of researchers and profe...

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The BBC are usually so keen to give us Reform news. Can’t imagine why this isn’t featuring prominently on their website…

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Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Scientists at the Earlham Institute and @quadraminstitute.bsky.social are part of a new collaboration looking at how different land uses impact #soil #microbes and their contribution to carbon storage. buff.ly/lKP3kGW #microbial #genomics

New project explores potential of soil microbes to achieve UK net zero goals

Researchers are combining the latest science in climate forecasting and soil science to understand how land use management could enable soil carbon storage.

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It was a delight to have Guillaume Delhaye and Torda Varga (@rbgkew.bsky.social) at @earlhaminst.bsky.social last week, talking to a packed Norwich Research Park audience about mushroom-forming and mycorrhizal fungi from molecule to ecosystem! 🍄🧬🌳 @neilhall.bsky.social @norwichmicro.bsky.social

🧬 Are you looking to establish and lead an internationally recognised programme of innovative research in #engineeringbiology? ⚙️ Join our Research Faculty as a new Group Leader: buff.ly/7uI1FQL #EngBio #Biotech #SynBio

Group Leader - Engineering Biology

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🧬 Are you looking to establish and lead an internationally recognised programme of innovative research in #engineeringbiology? ⚙️ Join our Research Faculty as a new Group Leader: buff.ly/VGQNod7 #EngBio #Biotech #SynBio

Group Leader - Engineering Biology

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Our paper on phylogenetics of fungal Starship TEs is now on the cover of the June issue of Genetics @genetics-gsa.bsky.social 🙂 academic.oup.com/genetics/iss... @mcmullan0.bsky.social @earlhaminst.bsky.social @rothamsted.bsky.social

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Starship giant transposable elements cluster by host taxonomy using k-mer-based phylogenetics. #TransposableElements #TEs #Kmer #Phylogenetics #Genomics #Bioinformatics #G3 🧬 🖥️ academic.oup.com/g3journal/ad...

Register to join our #singlecell and #spatial symposium next month! We're bringing the community together to discover the last science and technologies in: 🦠 Environmental microbes 🧠 Healthy human development and ageing 🌱 Plant development 🧬 Human pathology ↔️ Cell dynamics 🖥️ 🧬 🧪

Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium

Now in its eighth year, and extended to a two-day event, the Norwich Single-Cell and Spatial Symposium at Earlham Institute covers single-cell and spatial genomics technologies and their application…

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A great morning of talks at our Scientific Advisory Board Symposium, exploring key research outputs from our #Cellular #Genomics research programme, as well as the expertise and research applications of our technology platforms. #genomics #datascience #engbio 🧬🖥️ @neilhall.bsky.social

📃 A new publication from @mcmullan0.bsky.social and the Hall Group studies pathogen genetic diversity to uncover how #crop #pathogens may be evolving in wild reservoirs. 🌱 buff.ly/I17w6p8 @neilhall.bsky.social

Developing a crop- wild-reservoir pathogen system to understand pathogen evolution and emergence

Evidence for those pathogen genes selected specifically for success on crops.

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Applications are open for an exciting new PhD project with @sarah-guiziou.bsky.social in collaboration with the Earlham Biofoundry. The project will focus on #engineeringbiology and the plant root #microbiome developing applications for sustainable #agriculture.

Sentinel bacteria: engineering a soil bacteria to sense and record soil health

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High-quality metagenome assembly from nanopore reads with nanoMDBG www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/GaetanBenoit...

Applications are open for a #Postdoc Researcher to join @whaerty.bsky.social at the Earlham Institute. As part of a HorizonEU funded consortium, you'll undertake analysis of functional implications of variation within #noncoding #sequences in relation to cardiovascular disorders.

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

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DoorDash will let users buy now, pay later for fast food, a possible worrying sign for the economy | CNN Business

Buy Now, Pay Later services are typically used on large purchases, like furniture. But now one service is branching out into fast food.

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🆕 Fully funded #PhD with @neilhall.bsky.social and @mcmullan0.bsky.social analysing genetic diversity in the genomes of potential crop invasion pathogens and plant hosts associated with resistance. 📆 Apply by: 21 April ➡️ buff.ly/RpmTSFN #plantscience #agritech

Host-pathogen environmental genetic surveillance: pathogen emergence and crop protection

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💬 “Being in Norwich, at the heart of UK #plantsciences, will allow me to build strong collaborations and contribute to the development of resilient, sustainable #crops capable of meeting the challenges of a growing population and a changing climate.” - @willshaw.bsky.social buff.ly/FQEQcIP #synbio

New Career Development Fellows enhance data-driven bioscience at the Earlham Institute

The Earlham Institute has appointed two new Career Development Fellows, supporting their journey towards establishing independent research groups.

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Great to welcome collaborators to the Earlham Institute today for a meeting of the National Bioscience Research Infrastructure in Transformative Genomics. The NBRI unites specialist facilities and expertise in scalable genomics, #longread sequencing, and #singlecell. @drkarimgharbi.bsky.social

The final version of our paper on genomics of understudied fungal root pathogens/endophytes of wheat is now out! The result of close ongoing collab between @earlhaminst.bsky.social (@mcmullan0.bsky.social @greymj.bsky.social @neilhall.bsky.social et al) and @rothamsted.bsky.social rdcu.be/edlB9

💬 “LITE2 really shines when coupled with ultra-high-throughput #sequencing on the #Illumina #NovaSeqX, this has brought affordable whole-#genome sequencing to a new level.” 🧬 🖥️

LITE2 takes affordable genome sequencing to a new level

The Earlham Institute's improved Low Input, Transposase Enabled (LITE) protocol is a low-cost method for high-throughput whole genome sequencing with reduced DNA input.

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🔬 Discover how #SpatialTranscriptomics is unlocking insights into the ageing brain with @parker-aim.bsky.social (@quadraminstitute.bsky.social) at the NBRI Transformative Genomics User Meeting. 📅 Register:

NBRI Transformative Genomics - Annual User Meeting

A one-day meeting of the bioscience community to hear the latest updates and applications from the BBSRC-funded National Bioscience Research Infrastructure in Transformative Genomics at the Earlham…

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