Empowering biological knowledgebases: advances in human-in-the-loop AI-driven literature curation url: academic.oup.com/bioinformati... @elixiruknode.org @biocurator.bsky.social

Empowering biological knowledgebases: advances in human-in-the-loop AI-driven literature curation

Abstract. Biological knowledgebases facilitate discovery across the life sciences by structuring experimental findings into human-readable and computable f

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“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World

Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

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@defendpublichealth.bsky.social is asking people to show up at town halls between now and when Congress reconvenes at the end of the month. We need to push back against NIH cuts and political interference. 1/

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

This is a must-read piece by @math-rachel.bsky.social about AI evaluation, and how the system of reward and apportioning credit in AI research is broken rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0.... TL;DR -- we need deep fact checkers!

Rachel Thomas, PhD - Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

an AI researcher going back to school for immunology

rachel.fast.ai

"a fascinating case study on the limits of AI in biology and the harms of current publishing incentives" rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0...

Rachel Thomas, PhD - Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

an AI researcher going back to school for immunology

rachel.fast.ai

FlyBase, a crucial resource for drosophila research, has lost its funding because its grant is awarded to Harvard. The team is scrambling to find other sources of funds, including donations from labs. Read more: www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl... @flybase.bsky.social

FlyBase funding squashed amid Harvard grant terminations

The team behind the Drosophila genetics database is now requesting donations from labs to keep the resource afloat.

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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

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Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

The realignment of research in our group @fmiscience.bsky.social is beginning to bear fruit. Proud of our captain @merleskribbe.bsky.social and the whole team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A comprehensive Schizosaccharomyces pombe atlas of physical transcription factor interactions with proteins and chromatin

Transcription factors (TFs) are key regulators of gene expression, yet many of their targets and modes of action remain unknown. In Schizosaccharomyce…

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This work is not only an amazing resource for the community, it is also a total masterclass in code reusability, data FAIRness and reproducibility. Hopefully, this is the future!

Merle Skribbe@merleskribbe.bsky.social · last yr.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I am very excited to share our latest work on the protein and chromatin interactomes of transcription factors! 🧬 Huge thanks to everyone who contributed, especially @csoneson.bsky.social and @mbstadler.bsky.social for driving this story with me! 🙌

THE PAN-GO #FUNCTIONOME IS LIVE! Read our brand new #openaccess @nature.com paper and explore the PAN-GO Functionome, our most accurate and complete resource ever! Paper links, press release, how to contribute and more on the @alliancegenome.bsky.social Forums: community.alliancegenome.org/t/8343

82% of human protein-coding genes now have robust, consistent functional annotations, thanks to the combined efforts of biocurators across the GO consortium, Model Organism Databases, SwissProt/UniProtKB, all based on explicit evolutionary modeling via PANTHER families!

Gene Ontology@geneontology.bsky.social · last yr.

THE PAN-GO #FUNCTIONOME IS LIVE! Read our brand new #openaccess @nature.com paper and explore the PAN-GO Functionome, our most accurate and complete resource ever! Paper links, press release, how to contribute and more on the @alliancegenome.bsky.social Forums: community.alliancegenome.org/t/8343

@pombase.bsky.social is proud to have contributed annotation to this extensive effort. Along with @flybase.bsky.social we also played a crucial role in improving annotation across species. Over 7 years, PomBase submitted ~600 PAINT update requests. @cambiochem.bsky.social

Gene Ontology@geneontology.bsky.social · last yr.

THE PAN-GO #FUNCTIONOME IS LIVE! Read our brand new #openaccess @nature.com paper and explore the PAN-GO Functionome, our most accurate and complete resource ever! Paper links, press release, how to contribute and more on the @alliancegenome.bsky.social Forums: community.alliancegenome.org/t/8343

Our director @dessimoz.bsky.social signed the GBC Open Letter calling for support to sustain global biodata resources. 👉 Read the letter: globalbiodata.org/open-letter-... #BioDataCounts

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

The Gulf of America is now the name for the northern portion of the Gulf of Mexico which sits on the Mexico Basin. Now is the time to be as pedantic as you can and journalists are dropping the ball. Sheinbaum already explained this in her morning press conference.

From the 52 Biodata resources listed on the GCBR website globalbiodata.org/what-we-do/g... 24 exist in the US, and of those, 12 are NOT mirrored, officially. Of these 52 resources, 29 are supported by the NIH. If Trump/Musk continue, we are FUBARed! #Bioinformatics #Genomics #SciPo 🧬 🖥️ 🧪

Since April, we have been busy curating pathways using GO-CAM pathway modelling. So far, 466 proteins (33 pathways) have been modelled. We have modelled signalling pathways, metabolic pathways, and other processes. The full list is here: www.pombase.org/documentatio..., and will increase weekly!

If you are using bots to scrape SGD, please stop. You are overloading the database and adversely affecting other users.

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🚀 If you're passionate about Open Source in Bio, check out #ShareYourCloning! 🧬✨ It's a web app to plan and document molecular cloning & genetic engineering. We're looking for contributors and testers – every bit helps! 🙌🔬 🔗 try it: shareyourcloning.org 🎞️ demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0he...

Oops, I thought maybe I should join since I'm pestering everyone else to do it! @pombase.bsky.social