Selene FeRNAndez
@selfdz.bsky.social
Genomics, bioinformatics & non-coding RNA PI of the #RegRNALab @unswrna.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social Board member @iscb.bsky.social Visited #Antarctica in 2025 as part of #HBTransform ARC Future Fellow 🇲🇽/🇭🇲 #Latina Opinions == mine
Hive mind - Carolina Puente-Lelievre (@cpuentelelievre.bsky.social) asks: How should we call homologs that are contained within the same protein? a. Plurilogs b. Polilogs c. Multilogs d. Perilogs Thoughts? Cool talk! #GSABrisbane26 @geneticsaus.bsky.social
Our beautiful special issue on plant evolution is out @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
Super interesting talk by @stevenbrenner.bsky.social in the #Bioinformatics session at #RNA2026. Calling attention to the fact that many students are using AI and allowing it to make decisions where they don't even know there is a decision to be made. #RNASky #Education #RNA26 1/2
kuva v0.2.0 Now over 60 plots! New plot types: Gantt, Network, Waffle, Horizon, PopulationPyramid, Joint, Clustermap, ROC, PR, Lollipop, Survival, Raincloud, Slope, Venn, Parallel, Mosaic, Streamgraph, Radar, Treemap, Sunburst, Bump, Funnel, Rose, Calendar, Legend, Text github.com/Psy-Fer/kuva
Exciting new work on parallel #evolution: — genetic variants across butterflies are located in similar noncoding regions in ivory and optix. — in … more distant moths, a large inversion containing ivory, closely mirroring the supergene architecture of Heliconius. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
First #RegRNALab lunch of 2025! We welcomed our three new honours students: Bryan Chen, Winston Tan and Byron Escudero. We enjoyed some Thai food while discussing languages, and music and foodie interests. Lovely to hang outside the lab 🌱🧡 @unswrna.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social #RNASky
I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition) Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers. medium.com/p/dont-peris...
Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition)
Great science deserves to be read — not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing…
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First fully Aussie made NGS #RegRNALab dataset is here!!! Rebuilding a lab is hard but seeing things moving forward is priceless 🌱 @unswrna.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social
a little girl with pigtails and a bow on her head says so excited !
ALT: a little girl with pigtails and a bow on her head says so excited !
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📢 Sydney #RNA scientists: our next #SydneyRNASalon event is coming up! 🧬 ECR, student, or just RNA-curious? This one's for you! 📅 Thu 30 April · 2:10–4:30pm 📍 Room G07, Biosciences Building D26 UNSW 🥐 Refreshments sponsored by @rnasociety.bsky.social, Lexogen & @ramacgenomics.bsky.social
Closing #SMP2026 with a conversation with Prof Hon Bill Shorten. He highlights that it is important to create safe spaces for true discussion to happen between people who disagree, without necessarily having to destroy each other. Considers that Universities could play that role.
We are now in the Collaborating with Community session at #SMP2026. Listening to the insights from Prof Joanne Jamie and A/Prof @azurehermes.bsky.social on their work engaging with Indigenous communities to design and conduct research relevant to them.
Now at #SMP2026, panel flags clean energy, supply chain resilience, and plastic pollution as some of the key priorities under the #AmbitiousAustralia R&D framework. Building coalitions and trust in science is crucial to creating sustained influence networks that can drive real impact.
Summary thread 🧵 on this morning's Parliamentary Forum at #SMP2026, an informative discussion with 🇦🇺 MPs (Mascarenhas, Webster, Faruqi) & Senators (Pocock, Kovacic) on what Science means to them and their party. Discussion chaired by Prof @renaeryan.bsky.social
Selene FeRNAndez@selfdz.bsky.social · 4mo agoStarting Day 2 of #SMP2026 with a call to scientists to become involved in guiding government priorities. Also, lots of discussion on 🇦🇺's dependency on supply chains and how STEM can help reduce dependency & increase resilience. Panel aware such advancements require adequate funding & less admin.
Did you know that kelp forests cover 1/3 of the 🌎's coastlines & support millions 👣? Did you know they are disappearing? Dr Aaron Eger from @unswbees.bsky.social, tells us about his advocacy and research work to understand and protect kelp forests at #SMP2026 Find out more: kelpforestalliance.com
Starting Day 2 of #SMP2026 with a call to scientists to become involved in guiding government priorities. Also, lots of discussion on 🇦🇺's dependency on supply chains and how STEM can help reduce dependency & increase resilience. Panel aware such advancements require adequate funding & less admin.
We are now getting a refresher on 🇦🇺's Parliamentary and Government structures Parliamentary inquiry submissions can be made as part of an institution but ANY individual can make a personal submission! This means we can all contribute & help inform bills related to our scientific expertise #SMP2026
Our first panel is Science Meets the Economy - Bench to Boardroom. Key messages: - Who needs the answers doesn't know the answers exist - find them & engage with them - The future is deeply uncertain, one way to approach it is to create it -> opportunity in Blue Sky research #SMP2026
"Accountants will save the world" (but they need help to do this) Today, Science Technology Australia launches its new program "Science meets the Economy". Designed to help scientists communicate better to business and industry. #SMP2026 scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/what-we-do/s...
Science Meets the Economy Program | STA
Science Meets the Economy equips STEM professionals with an understanding of the business world and the economy.
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Excited to be at Science Meets Parliament #SMP2026! >400 of us discussing with parliamentarians how science can help us solve key challenges for 🇦🇺 & the 🌏 Here to share how #RNA technology can help us protect 🇦🇺's livestock, agriculture & biodiversity 🧬🌾🐄 @unswrna.bsky.social @unswbabs.bsky.social
🎉📣 #TAIR12, the latest reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome, is now available under accession number PRJEB100887 on ENA and NCBI! Thank you all the volunteer researchers whose hard work has made this possible! #plantscience #plantbiology 🧪 bit.ly/3ZHtneT
Announcing the publication of TAIR12: Consult the fully reannotated genome on the European Nucleotide Archive - Phoenix Bioinformatics
TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource), together with our nonprofit host Phoenix Bioinformatics, is pleased to announce the public release of TAIR12
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The #RegRNALab is now LEAF certified! LEAF, is an internationally recognised green lab accreditation that aims to build a culture of sustainable practice in laboratories around the 🌎♻️ We are currently just 🥉 but we have our eyes on🥇! Props to Billi Ilkovski & the whole team for getting this done!
Last Friday, Irving Jair García López became the latest PhD graduate of the #RegRNALab. His work focused on characterising lncRNAs in response to light stress in Arabidopsis 🌓🌱 and was jointly advised by Stewart Gillmor. Huge congratulations Dr García López!!! 🎉🎓
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Sperm whale Spider monkey Bull shark Weddell seal Adelie penguin
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 8mo agoIntroduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Black Bear Brown Bear Polar Bear Whatever species of monkey likes to hang out around the Taj Mahal The asshole wild horses of Assateaugue Island
