We're recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow at ANU to help strengthen Australia's preparedness for wheat blast. The project spans plant pathology, genetics, breeding and biosecurity, with collaborators in Australia and Brazil. Apply here: tinyurl.com/25zcj9yy #PlantScience #Postdoc #Biosecurity

Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $91,546 - $114,906 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full-Time, Continuing (Contingent Funded) Note: This position will be primarily based at the N...

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I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...

The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center

The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity

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I filled out the census and the website only crashed twice. Not bad!

Ran into a frustrating issue with nf-core/pacvar today: it crashed saying the bam file was malformed. Took a minute of digging but pbalign depends on pbbam, which has a hard-coded check for instrument names that hasn't been updated in years. We have Vega data that wasn't included in the check...

Kids school asked for scientist-parents to come in and talk to kids about science and im sitting here thinking, what's the point? What STEM career could these kids have with the way science funding has depleted and unis are being defunded across the world?

Weekend book haul at Bella Books while my son had class! All in on the dad-core

Hmm looks like my bluesky account was taken over and auto-locked. Thanks! From what I can tell, there were two posts tagging random accounts in replies to 'send me money pls' scam posts. Anything else?

I'll have you know that I found a beautiful significant clean 1.4 fold-change last week, followed dose level and everything that was purely due to one transpose too much. Where's my prize

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2w ago

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

A great new resource for future comparisons across model systems, species, and disease states, on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social: a consensus atlas of human brain development, identifying cell type-specific maturation trajectories across the lifespan 🧪🧬🧠📈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A consensus atlas of human brain development defines cell type-specific maturation trajectories across the lifespan

Human neurodevelopment is a continuous process that begins prenatally and extends into postnatal life. Current transcriptomic datasets are limited, fragmented across analytical frameworks, precluding ...

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Im going to watch The Odyssey like any other parent! On my mobile phone in approx. 700 blocks

HPRC2: A human pangenome reference with near-complete coverage of common genetic variation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.21.739710v1

The lack of funding is absolutely the driving problem here. Everything is secondary, by a very large margin. ARC needs to be funded 3 times more than it is now. Anything less is just not serious.

First reaction: seems like they just renamed the old grants? Initiate Fellowship seems identical to DECRA at first glance

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 2w ago

The ARC's new grant scheme table, in case you don't want to read through the details (which are here: www.arc.gov.au/system/files...)

Fun kanji of the day: 冗談, joudan, じょうだん. by the kanji it literally means 'superfluous talk', but it means 'joke'

Well done on getting this out @drjulieb.bsky.social!! A product of Julie's visit to Perth more than a year ago. I'm very happy this is out www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Predicting phenotypes with one step genetic decision trees

Genomic prediction of complex traits is limited when phenotype records are restricted and when using linear models. Increasing the amount of phenotypic data with high-throughput, image-based phenotypi...

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When I hear the term 'decelerationist' I remember what 'Accelerationism' means and realise that these people are Too Online

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2w ago

apparently we are headed for "full AI communism" www.reddit.com/r/Artificial...

periodic reminder, perhaps more for myself, that no-one is coming to rescue you or me or anyone

I am #hiring! In my group 📍Universität Zürich | University of Zurich & Eawag I have #two open #Postdoc #Positions, with application deadlines in early August 2026. 🧬 🦐 🐠🌐🌍 Here a quick reminder & 🧵with all details, thanks for 🔄 redistributing to interested candidates.

Yes, Linus; yes.

An important read clarifying truths about the Ocean Cleanup and why enormous planetary issues require many collaborative, community efforts, not one single, magic, silver bullet approach. Always listen to experts over influencer-types buoyed by social media who claim too-good-to-be-true quick fixes.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 3w ago

When I was writing this piece about the Ocean Cleanup, I had a surreal experience: They assured me that they only kill invasive species, and sent me a published paper to demonstrate that. But the paper said the opposite! I wonder how many journalists just took their word for it and didn't check?

I'll say it again: if the US had English translations of Stanislaw Lem a few decades earlier, like we in Germany had translations of Lem since the 60s, this would all look very different

Aeon Magazine@aeon.co · 3w ago

Tech billionaires like to claim their work is inspired by science fiction, but in truth, they are using its ‘chrome-plated aesthetic’ as a fig leaf to further what the social theorist Ali Rıza Taşkale labels ‘reactionary futurism’

Litte git-tip: $ git config --global pager.branch false now when you type `git branch`, it won't open a viewer like less, it will just print the branches.

TRIDENT (Taxonomic Resolution and IDentification using Environmental dNa Traces): An Optimized Algorithm for Vertebrate Taxonomic Assignments in eDNA Metabarcoding, Integrating Molecular, Taxonomic, and Ecological Criteria www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

TRIDENT (Taxonomic Resolution and IDentification using Environmental dNa Traces): An Optimized Algorithm for Vertebrate Taxonomic Assignments in eDNA Metabarcoding, Integrating Molecular, Taxonomic, a...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has become a powerful approach for large-scale biodiversity assessment, yet taxonomic assignment remains one of its most critical error-prone steps. Current bioi...

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sometimes I still love the internet cdrom.ca/games/2026/0...

I remember reading the 'bootleg-notes' of Borges' lectures on literature to his students and coming out confused - where was the 'difficult' interpretation? Where the reading? Borges just brought infectious love of beauty in literature to the students, quoting endlessly. I loved it

kinda neat how you can see me switching employers/fields in my Github contributions

They're making the frogs polyploid biblio.ugent.be/publication/...

My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.

Andy Lee, PhD@andylee.bsky.social · 4w ago

In our Viewpoint (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...) we synthesize the gametic definition (outlined by Janicke et al below) and other definitions of sex (e.g., multivariate definition). We contend that is NO consensus on “biological sex” (maybe a consensus isn’t actually necessary…)

this is a good thread

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)@jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 4w ago

okay fine i'll read the thing based on the first skim i did i'm not holding my breath, but since we're cited repeatedly i'll engage in good faith.

!!!!!!! I still have the VHS of the first movie somewhere in my parent's attic. One of my favourite movies. (The later SAC is also absolutely amazing, but anything after that was meh) www.polygon.com/ghost-in-the...

The new Ghost in the Shell creators explain why they refused to reinvent the series

Science Saru treated Masamune Shirow's manga as a blueprint instead of trying to channel previous adaptations.

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