Andrea Telatin
@telatin.bsky.social
Head of bioinformatics at the Quadram Institute - https://github.com/telatin/
COSMOS: A FAIR-aligned infrastructure for clinical trial data validation, warehousing, and interactive discovery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.16.738871v1
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
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Why archiving is important part 451. web.archive.org/web/*/https:...
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Jason Scott@textfiles.com · last mo.I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
'‘Infection control becomes almost impossible’: four doctors on the NHS heatwave crisis' Intersection of climate change, infectious diseases and AMR www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
‘Infection control becomes almost impossible’: four doctors on the NHS heatwave crisis
Frontline medics describe extreme heat conditions they feel are unsafe and lacking in dignity for patients
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🚨 New research by us! 📣 Most British drivers don't know how dangerous SUVs are to other road users, but adding information to SUV marketing materials seems to do almost nothing to change people's plans to buy SUVs Here's a 🧵 on why harder action is going to be needed 1/10
🧬 New preprint! We clustered 5.6 million bacterial genomes into genomically cohesive units (GCUs) 500× faster than existing tools. (In just 14 hours, 16.5 GB RAM using 48 CPUs). 🦠🐙Meet gemsparcl 💎✨! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records
Palantir wins £9M contract to run UK firearms licensing: CIA-backed biz to hold gun, bomb, and poison records
Pips Accenture and NEC to bag decade-long deal for cops across England, Wales, and beyond
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Introducing nail - a Rust implementation of profile HMM sequence alignment for proteins. Near-HMMER sensitivity, but a lot faster: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... github.com/TravisWheele...
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Reproducibility in bioinformatics is broken because software environments silently change over time. Luca Alessandri presents REBEL, an open-source tool that detects dependencies, archives locally and rebuilds identical environments on any machine. #Bioinformatics #BITS2026 #ReproducibleResearch
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UKRI are recruiting for a new Exec Chair for Research England (£160k-£170k). It is a crucial role including QR funding and the REF. I hope they get a great field. But I worry a bit. It's hard to find on their website (see link below) fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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The University of Oxford's 'Head of Staff Immigration Team' is a Reform candidate. Goodness grief.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 3mo agoOxford University says its staff are “entitled to participate in civic and political life in a personal capacity” after the head of its Staff Immigration Team, James Baker, stood as Reform UK’s candidate in Littlemore. Around 40% of Oxford’s research and teaching staff originate from outside the UK.
Tired of long lists of possible bacteria with little statistical support in metaproteomics? Wu et al. developed MetaUmbra which provides statistically evidence on which bacteria are present in a microbiome. doi.org/10.64898/202... #microbiome #metaproteomics #bioinformatics #proteomics
MetaUmbra: Statistically Controlled Genome-Level Presence Inference from Metaproteomic Peptides https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.29.721689v1
I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more
OpenAI {bot}@openaibot.bsky.social · 4mo agoIntroducing GPT-Rosalind, our frontier reasoning model built to support research across biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine. Video: https://twitter.com/openai/status/2044861690911850863
UK Biobank temporarily suspends access to the RAP in response to UKB data being found for sale in China www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/a-messa...
A message to our participants: UK Biobank data security update
We would like to inform you about an incident involving UK Biobank data. We apologise to our participants for the concern this will cause, and we hope to provide reassurance by outlining the serious a...
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How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...
Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study
The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it
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Just out in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance @natureportfolio.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44... We looked at what actually happens to AMR on pig farms when you reduce antimicrobial use through real-world, coaching-based interventions.
Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions
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This is from 7 years ago (merenlab.org/2019/02/24/f...). We are talking about the same things today. We will be talking about the same things 7 years from now. There is no one to blame for this apart from ourselves. I find it very depressing.
Comprehensive benchmarking of metagenomic binning tools reveals key factors for improved genome recovery www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Comprehensive benchmarking of metagenomic binning tools reveals key factors for improved genome recovery - Nature Communications
Benchmarking metagenomic binning tools with simulated and real datasets reveals factors affecting genome recovery and provides practical guidelines for improving metagenome assembled genome reconstruc...
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Big win for South Norfolk: we’re getting HALF of England’s new dental training places. I’ve raised this in Parliament and directly with ministers. After years of being overlooked, we are now front of the queue. South Norfolk voted for change in 2024 and Labour has listened. More to come.
Systematic detection of abnormal samples reveals widespread mislabeling in metagenomic studies | bioRxiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.22.713545v1?rss=1
Systematic detection of abnormal samples reveals widespread mislabeling in metagenomic studies
The human microbiome plays a critical role in health and disease, and its dynamic nature has made longitudinal sampling a key strategy for elucidating microbiome disease relationships. Although the gut microbiome generally stabilizes over time, a subset of samples frequently shows marked deviations from an individual baseline profile. We refer to these as abnormal samples. To analyze these abnormal samples, we developed a three stage workflow to identify and classify these abnormal samples to figure out the underlying causes of these abnormal samples. Moreover, we systematically investigated abnormal samples across 16 publicly available metagenomic datasets, comprising a total of 5,171 metagenomes. Our analysis revealed that abnormal samples are often the result of mislabeling during sample collection, processing, or sequencing. Of which, fecal samples from family are more likely mislabeled. We found evidence of mislabeling in 75% of longitudinal datasets, involving up to dozens of samples per study, and in 25% of randomly selected cross sectional datasets. Additional factors such as disease status (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease), sampling intervals, and sampling density may also contribute to sample abnormalities owing to true biological variations. These findings highlight that mislabeling is a common yet underrecognized issue in microbiome research. Our work underscores the importance of identifying and correcting abnormal samples to ensure data integrity in microbiome studies and provides a practical solution for quality control in large scale metagenomic datasets. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. National Key R&D Program of China, 2024YFC3405800 General Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province, 2023Y9116, 2024J01577 Government of Fuqing city, 2019B003 High-level Talents Research Start-up Project of Fujian Medical University, XRCZX2020037, XRCZX2022001, XRCZX2023030, XCRZX2023004, XRCZX2023005
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