Ernst Haeckel was a biologist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher and physician. He was also a racist who ranked “the diverse types of mankind” according to their relative “value”. My review @natureportfolio.nature.com of The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A fever dream of jellies and slugs

A celebration of Ernst Haeckel’s sketches of life forms, from microscopic to majestic.

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Thrilled to share our team's work from years of #CELLxGENE curation! 🎉 Finally documented many lessons learned from building a #SingleCell data corpus that is both HIGH-QUALITY and LARGE (+still growing 📈) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A collaborative submission model for building high-quality data resources at scale through partnership

Community data resources that aggregate datasets across studies are critical infrastructure for modern biomedical research, enabling large-scale analysis and the development of Artificial Intelligence...

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Almost time again for the Single Cell Genomics Day - Fri June 12th. The Satija Lab always puts together a great day of talks. satijalab.org/scgd26/

How can researchers access and build on IGVF resources?  In this workshop presentation, Michael Love, PhD, highlights the IGVF data portal, catalog, APIs, and computational tools supporting reproducible functional genomics research. youtu.be/W6Mr7O7gUNY

Accessing and Building on the IGVF Data Portal and Catalog

YouTube video by Impact of Genomic Variation on Function

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Woah woah woah. Let me fix that title - "Knock knock, no one’s there. Study finds scientists’ jokes 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 mostly fall flat" #letmecook

Knock knock, no one’s there. Study finds scientists’ jokes mostly fall flat

Survey examines how often academics attempt jokes during conference talks — and how these attempts at comedy land.

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Been a minute since I visited the @bioimagearchive.bsky.social. Lots of fun new features in beta. Be sure to check it out if you need somewhere to share your imaging data w/ publication.

Very exciting to see the commitment to the Global Biodata Coalition and the important work that they do.

🦠 This #PictureOfTheWeek is spirulina alga, a type of cyanobacteria. They've been around for 3.5 billion years, survived countless world changes, and helped oxygenate the planet through photosynthesis. Listen to our last broadcast to find out what they can teach us about resilience. buff.ly/NoEML3k

Have you signed up for the AI in Biocuration workshop on Feb. 9th? This is free to all, you don't need to be an ISB member to attend. See more details: www.biocuration.org/events/biocu...

Really excited for this paper come out. Very impressive to see this community come together, and I would love to see others use it as a framework to address these common issues.

Defining breast epithelial cell types in the single-cell era

Single-cell studies on breast tissue have contributed to a change in our understanding of breast epithelial diversity that has, in turn, precipitated …

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FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

First, a quick guide to visiting Lexington, KY: 1. Wear blue, not red 2. Visit my sister-in-law's coffee shop The Greenery (Erin's the one feeding the Governor Alanis lyrics)

Governor Andy Beshear@govandybeshear.bsky.social · last yr.

I love a coffee shop that brings a community together like The Greenery. It was great to stop by this new Lexington favorite that put my coffee-making skills to the test. youtu.be/JItFj9Tw7kY

Congrats @tiagolubiana.bsky.social !

International Society for Biocuration@biocurator.bsky.social · last yr.

Exceptional Contributions to Biocuration - Early Career Award winner: Tiago Lubiano. Tiago's a passionate and motivated scientist interested in linked open data, ontologies, the semantic web, and their application in modeling cells and cell types. He is active in many curation projects & with ISB.

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Fund scholars who tackle urgent issues — from misinformation to error spotting

Scientists who are not tied down by fixed research agendas can pivot nimbly to work where they are most needed. It’s time to build career paths with these researchers in mind.

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@cmungall.bsky.social had me at "structured data nerd". Great perspectives from Chris & @anshulkundaje.bsky.social

Chris Mungall@cmungall.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow, AlphaGenome is a huge deal, 1mb context windows, and prediction of a variety of features, with cell and tissue specificity! Read @anshulkundaje.bsky.social's excellent thread for the details. I want to additionally highlight one additional thing for my structured data nerd friends...

Highly recommend Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari. Refreshing take on the potential of AI by relating it to innovations, movements & information systems throughout history. ...so read that, watch The Mitchells vs the Machines, and you should be all set for the Age of AI

Another fun CELLxGENE update from this week: We now support ATAC-seq fragments files. You can download the fragments file for all unpaired scATAC-seq datasets and many multiome datasets. More ATAC-seq features (and data) are coming. Happy #DNADay!

Big CELLxGENE news! No longer just human & mouse data. Now supported: #celegans #zebrafish #drosophila #rat #pig #rabbit and several non-human primates Please see info on how to contribute data: cellxgene.cziscience.com/docs/032__Co...

Cellxgene Data Portal

Find, download, and visually explore curated and standardized single cell datasets.

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"Fortunately, cellxgene classes follow an ontology, a robust structure that defines relationships among the labels." 😍 Very cool to see how they leveraged the ontological relationships to refine many labels!

Jeremie Kalfon 👨‍💻🧬🤖🚀@jkobject.com · last yr.

I am super happy to annonce that after 9 months under review the first paper of my PhD: scPRINT is finally available on Nature Comms! 🎉🧬 www.nature.com/artic...

So thrilled to see this incredible study published today. Led by some brilliant & amazing people and without these types of studies, any "human <fill in the blank> cell atlas" is destined to just be a "European/white human <fill in the blank> cell atlas".

Asian diversity in human immune cells

The Asian Immune Diversity Atlas (AIDA) is a 5-nation single-cell reference atlas of circulating immune cells from healthy donors in diverse populations. AIDA highlights the impact of sub-continental ...

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The #GENETICS issue is now live! You'll find updates from 6 model organism databases & other knowledgebases including AgBioData Consortium, Candida Genome Database, @yeastgenome.bsky.social, SpudDB, Unified Phenotype Ontology, & @zfinmod.bsky.social. What's on the cover? ⬇️🧵

A new chapter has begun for two of the world’s most popular preprint platforms, bioRxiv and medRxiv, with the launch of a non-profit organization that will manage them https://go.nature.com/4iCVnHL

Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence

The popular repositories, where scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.

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At #ASHG, we recognize the power of #humangenetics & genomics research in advancing rare disease diagnosis, treatment, and advocacy. In celebrating #RareDiseaseDay, let's push the boundaries of discovery and support the millions of people living with rare genetic conditions.

💜🌍 It’s Rare Disease Day! 🌍💜 Tonight, let’s shine a light for the 300 million people living with a rare disease, including Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT). Join the #LightUpForRare movement @ 7 PM 📸 Share a photo of your lights and tag #LightUpForRare to raise awareness! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvq...

The Global Biodata Coalition is running community webinars on 26 & 27 Feb to discuss their recent White Paper on biodata resource sustainability and seek feedback. View the White Paper and register for the webinar here bit.ly/40PyQ4p. #biocuration #database #knowledgebase

White Paper - Global Biodata Coalition

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Prior to the #Biocuration Careers workshop at the #Biocurtation2025 conference, we are conducting a survey of biocurators and data stewards about their jobs. Please respond here: forms.gle/DJ7irabs27em...

Biocuration Community Survey 2025

This survey aims to gather and analyze information about the field of biocuration. This survey is being conducted by the International Society for Biocuration (ISB) to identify potential gaps or ineq...

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Embarrassed & ashamed to only just now learn it's #LoveDataWeek. Promise to do better next year. Until then, a corpus of 100M+ cells (and growing) of single-cell expression data, all with raw counts & standardized metadata, and all openly available? That's a lot to love. cellxgene.cziscience.com

Chan Zuckerberg CELLxGENE Discover

Find, download and visually explore curated and standardized single-cell datasets

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Wonderful to see @kendraturkkubo.bsky.social & other friends and colleagues from my grad lab get recognized for their incredible work.

American Association for the Advancement of Science@aaas.org · 2y ago

A team of researchers has won the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for their work identifying a new organelle win single-celled algae that converts nitrogen gas into ammonia. The prize is awarded annually to the author(s) of an outstanding paper published in Research Articles or Reports in Science.

Thrilled to share PERFF-seq in its final form, where we expand on its sensitivity, applicability, and more! I’m so grateful for the all-star crew (brought together by @caleblareau.bsky.social) that made this happen!! Read thread below for more! 🎉

Caleb Lareau@caleblareau.bsky.social · 2y ago

Out today in @naturegenet.bsky.social -- PERFF-seq! With @tsionabay.bsky.social , @ronanchaligne.bsky.social, Bob Stickels, Meril Takizawa, + Ansu Satpathy, we describe this new assay to study rare populations with programmable nucleic acid cytometry. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open science, data sharing, standards, etc. posts will come. But for now, I just gotta say that the fam has been loving Overcooked 2 on the Switch. Highly recommend, especially if you're looking for a safe space to throw tortillas at your spouse & yell at your kid for burning the rice.