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James Galbraith

@gulbruth.bsky.social

Evolutionary biologist, Luddite, coffee addict. Postdoc at University of Edinburgh researching the evolution of weird chromosomes and sex determination in insects, opinions my own, he/him.

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David Milner@davemilbo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here's my story from Pine Gap. "The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world)" It's a photo-essay this time because I took a tonne of pics, the country being this stunning, to help convey the Arrernte's struggle.

The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The Shot

For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...

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Andrew Carroll@acarroll.bsky.social · last mo.

How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...

The Best of Both Worlds - Assessing MiniBWA

Recently, Heng Li released MiniBWA (GitHub) alongside a paper by Heng Li and Nils Homer describing the method (paper). MiniBWA builds on the approaches in Minimap2 (also by Heng Li), but falls back on...

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Katie Abson@katieabson.bsky.social · last mo.

Our paper is out! 📣 we find that molecular measures of genetic variation do not predict heritable genetic variation across species - important implications for the application of genomic data for conservation! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nucleotide diversity is a poor predictor of short-term adaptive potential | PNAS

The capacity to adapt is essential for a population to avoid extinction in a changing world and is recognized as a global conservation priority. Ad...

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Heng Li@lh3lh3.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Minibwa is a hybrid of bwa-mem and minimap2 and the successor of bwa-mem for short-read mapping. ~4X/2.5X as fast as bwa-mem/bwa-mem2 for WGS reads at comparable accuracy. Native support of directional bisulfite-seq. Applicable to long reads. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2606.15357

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Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · last mo.

Ask how many more shifts they’d let a surgeon work after a week in which they severely harmed 12-15% of their patients

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last mo.

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

Clément Goubert@clementgoubert.bsky.social · last mo.

Major development in the #Transposon world! Repbase is joining the Dfam project and becomes open-access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Unifying Repbase and Dfam: a new open foundation for transposable element research - Mobile DNA

Repbase and Dfam, the two foundational resources for transposable element annotation, are being unified into a single, fully open access framework, with Repbase released under CC-0 and its core curati...

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Dfam Database of Transposable Elements@dfam.bsky.social · last mo.

A New Open Foundation for TE Research: GIRI is transitioning the full Repbase collection to an open-access license and joining the Dfam effort to help build a unified open resource for transposable element research. Full announcement: tinyurl.com/48665xss

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

Over the moon! It's an incredible honour to be named a Lister Prize fellow. And excited to begin this project! We will be building genetic tools (esp. GAL4/UAS) in #Drosophila testacea, a non-model mushroom-feeding fly with a *natural balancer chromosome* to study immune evolution 🧬🪰🍄 1/2

The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine@thelisterinstitute.bsky.social · last mo.

Our congratulations to 👉️ @chrisgreene.bsky.social at RSCI University of Medicine and Health Sciences 👉️ @hansonmark.bsky.social at @exeter.ac.uk 👉️ @anjalihinch.bsky.social at @dunnschool.bsky.social 👉️ @lautenschlagerlab.bsky.social at @ucl.ac.uk lister-institute.org.uk/news/our-lis...

Head and shoulders photo of Lister Prize 2026 winner Anjali Hinch. She is wearing a long-sleeved, dark, V-necked top and a silver pendant necklace. She is wearing dark-rimmed glasses and is looking directly at the camera with her arms loosely crossed. She is in front of an out-of-focus blue background.
LIB@leibnizlib.bsky.social · last mo.

Biodiversity doesn’t always arise through isolation. Genomic analyses of sailfin silversides from Sulawesi reveal that ancient and recent gene flow fueled their adaptive radiation, contributing to the evolution of unique forms within a single lake system. #LIBresearch © De Keyzer et al., CC BY 1/3

Map showing the Malili Lakes system location on Sulawesi on the left and a detailed map of Lake Matano with inflow river Lawa and outflow river Petea on the right, six sampling sites along the lake and one in the inflow marked, images of six fish species from the sharpfin and roundfin clades labeled with letters at top right and bottom right.
Nature@nature.com · 2mo ago

Nature research paper: A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone go.nature.com/4v1yiFk

A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone - Nature

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insight into deep-ocean biodiversity and whale evolutionary history.

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