Patricia Palagi 🐙🐱🦒-🇨🇭🇧🇷

🎉 The ELIXIR-GOBLET Train-the-Trainer handbook is now openly available! Practical guidance for anyone who trains others. Huge thanks to Allegra Via, @elixir-europe.org Training Platform, GOBLET & all contributors 💙 elixir-europe-training.github.io/ELIXIR-TrP-G... #TrainTheTrainer #OpenScience

From @gbouras13.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Thirteen quick tips for bacteriophage genome annotation | I like all Tips, but particularly TIP | #Bioinformatics #Education #PLOSCBQT #Virus #Genomics #Biocuration | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓🦠 🇦🇺🇨🇦 🇪🇬🇺🇸 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

From @alexbateman1.bsky.social in #OUP 's @bioinfoadv.bsky.social journal | Peer Bork (1963-2026): pioneer of #ComputationalBiology, architect of #Bioinformatics #Resources, and visionary #Microbiome researcher | #OpenScience CC/ @embl.org @ebi.embl.org | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓❤️ ⬇️ academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Le 1er octobre marque le début d’Octobre rose, une campagne de sensibilisation sur le cancer du sein, de plus en plus mal vécue par des femmes ayant elles-mêmes fait face à la maladie. Pour regarder notre émission 👉‍ https://l.mediapart.fr/z1U

Update to @golobor.bsky.social message: distortion-free Bonsai trees >> umaps > quick trees Picture shows realistic simulated scRNA-seq data and how well Bonsai represents its structure, while another tree-representation does not. It shows that a tree is not all you need. You actually have to

“You don’t have to stretch to paint this picture: OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company.”

Today, science became a target for Russia. My heart goes out to the heroes searching for people trapped inside Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences. As well as to the families and loved ones of the victims of horrific attacks across the country.

I'm not writing in the NYT and I won't word it carefully: it's clear that AI companies are stealing researchers' work (and why wouldn't they? they steal artists' and journalists' work with no consequences), and I warned my group about it this morning.

Personal essay, weekend edition. My relationship with AI is changing. 1.8k words, 8 min reading time. doi.org/10.59350/bh7...

"The bioinformatician is not being replaced. The job is what it always was: understand the biology, know where the tools fail, and trust output only as we understand and can measure what it is generating. " read 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-...

Happy to see this one out in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for suggesting reviewers during a paper submission | #Education #PLOSCBTSR #Writing #Reviewing #Rule10PayItForward | 🧪🔓 🇺🇸🇨🇭🇧🇷🇨🇦 CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social @fmacg.bsky.social ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

y a des chances assez largement >0 qu'iel crève de faim ou de froid dans les semaines qui suivent... et ce, même sans exécution pour homosexualité dans le milieu.

From Greg Wilson in arXiv | Twelve Quick Tips for Managing IT Disasters in Small Research Software Teams | #Informatics #OpenScience #Research #IT #DisastersPlanning #NotYetAPLOSCBQT | 🖥️🧪🔥🔓 ⬇️ arxiv.org/abs/2608.27196

Another AI agent swarm cooperation example discovered on a wiki. That these things are not atracting more public discussion is beyond me. collusion.wiki

ECCB ended yesterday with tutorials & workshops on a range of bioinformatics topics: eccb2026.org/tutorials-wo... Thank you organizers, speakers and participants for the demonstrations, discussions and exercises. #ECCB2026

Bioinformatics communities continued discussions and advances today, in satellite ECCB events, including on: - pathogen data sharing; - best practices for single-cell and spatial omics; - FAIRification at scale. See the programme: eccb2026.org/communities-... #ECCB2026

From #OUP s @bioinfoadv.bsky.social journal | Usage and impact of global biodata resources | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #OpenData #GlobalBiodataCoalition | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 CC/ @ebi.embl.org @elixir-europe.org ⬇️ academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

I am thrilled to share that today I was promoted to Professor of Cancer Bioinformatics at @bihatcharite.bsky.social! It's been an emotional day reflecting on everyone who dedicated their time, energy, and trust in me. So much to be grateful for, and so much excitement for the adventures ahead.

This morning we remembered four computational biology pioneers, who the world sadly lost over the past year. Thank you to all speakers for your moving tributes at ECCB. #ECCB2026 #Bioinformatics

I’m on my way to #ECCB2026 in Geneva, by bus ☺️. So nice to have such a conference at home. Pass by the @sib.swiss booth to say hello and talk about #training if you are around!

Canada’s response - © Chappatte in @nzz.ch am Sonntag, Zürich - 👉 chappatte.com

Adapting to climate change without ending the fossil fuel industry.

Congratulations to our former Director, Dame Janet Thornton! @royalsociety.org has awarded Janet the Croonian Medal and Lecture for her pioneering work in protein & structural bioinformatics. The award recognises the key role of big data & bioinformatics in the life sciences. tinyurl.com/3sdr3xhp

From @plosone.org | Diamond Open Access publishing practices among researchers in #Ghana | #OpenScience #OpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccess #DOA #OA #Research | 🧪 🔓 🇬🇭 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Eleven quick tips for Biomedical Federated Learning | #Bioinformatics #Education #PLOSCBQT #ML #FL CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

From #NCBI Insight | NCBI Taxonomy Has a New Home | #OpenScience #OpenData #Bioinfornatics #Genomics #Proteomics #Taxonomy #TaxID #Taxon | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2026/08/19/n...

🧬 Les partenaires se ressemblent davantage que ce que le hasard présagerait, ce qui laisse des traces dans le génome de leurs enfants. Des scientifiques @fbm-unil.bsky.social @sib.swiss ont développé une nouvelle méthode permettant de déduire ce phénomène. Lire la suite 👉 www.unil.ch/news/fr/1786...

Claude designed protein binders for 14 of 15 targets. The most capable protein designer in commercial use is also the one most restricted in virology. Here's what that means for pandemic preparedness. #Claude #Binders #Pandemicpreparedness #Virology artificialscience.org/2026/08/clau...

The #Datarium exhibition, organised by @sib.swiss, had its official opening event on 12 August 2026 🎉 👉 Read more: www.sib.swiss/news/datariu... Check out the BMD poster live at Rotonde du Mont-Blanc, Geneva until 30 August or online at datarium.ch/en/environme... 🌱

Officially launched today in #Geneva, #Datarium is a free open-air exhibition explaining #bioinformatics and its little-known contributions to society through engaging #Swiss examples. www.sib.swiss/news/datariu...

From @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Twelve quick tips for applying deep learning to animal sounds | #Bioinformatics #ML #Acoustics #Sounds #Education #PLOSCBQT | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

From @jfy133.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy @maxibor.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social et al., in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | De novo assembly and authentication of ancient DNA metagenomes with nf-core/mag | #Education #Genomics #Microbes | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Get your calendars, because the new 2027 EMBL Annual Poster has arrived: s.embl.org/2027-poster Whether you'd like to enhance your skills in a practical course or engage with the latest research at one of our conferences, we've got you covered. See you at EMBL in 2027! 🙌 #LifeSciences #EMBL

Meet our partners: @lifewatcheric.bsky.social 🌿🇪🇺 LifeWatch ERIC will lead the design, development and operation of BMD’s Biodiversity Explorer and maintain the BMD data catalogue. They will also host the BMD training materials. 📚 Their research here: bmd-project.eu/resources/li... #BMDpartners

Coming to #Geneva for @eccb-europe.bsky.social ? Register by August 14th eccb2026.org #GenevaLovesData

Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.

OPINION. En adoptant le Programme d’allègement budgétaire 2027, le parlement veut couper dans la formation et la recherche au moment où la Suisse aurait le plus besoin de ses compétences pour affronter les transitions....

From @biologyjoe87.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Eight quick tips for data-model integration in ecology | #Bioinformatics #Education #DataModel #Ecology #PLOSCBQT CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Al-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

Because of course, AI is breaking citizen science 😠 #citizenscience #genAI #iNaturalist https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/20/ai-slop-manipulated-fake-images-birds-citizen-science-aoe

L'été en replays

Starting in about one hour, the first #ISMB @iscb.bsky.social town hall event for pathogen-related datasets. Come learn about new tools and approaches, and share in an interactive discussion on what the community needs to keep pace. Jefferson East/11:00am. #ismb20206 pathogendatanetwork.org/network

📈 During 2025, ELIXIR supported over 140 research publications and preprints. This support 🙌 included ELIXIR-funded internal projects, funding received by ELIXIR Nodes at the national level and funding through ELIXIR-coordinated EU projects. Read the news: https://loom.ly/vAMQF8I #OpenScience

Ten quick tips to SNIFF out sustainable and secure scientific software journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... 🧬💻🧪

Climate.us 💥🌪️☀️❄️🌬️💦💧🌊🍀

@nypost.com is breaking down PETA Asia's newest investigation into the cruelty hidden behind badger hair makeup, paint, & shaving brushes. An eyewitness visited eight badger farms & documented disturbing abuse at every single farm. What they found will shock you ⤵️ https://www.peta.vg/47ya

A badger may have suffered for your brush 💔 An eyewitness went undercover to expose where some paint, makeup, and shaving brush bristles come from. What they found was so disturbing that we had to blur the footage. See it to believe it!

🎉 ELIXIR 2025 Annual Report is out! The annual report highlights 🙌 infrastructure development and international collaboration during the second year of the 2024–28 Scientific Programme: 👇 Read on to discover more about #ELIXIR in 2025: https://loom.ly/DvTxKHY

“Plato observed that a state characterized by significant wealth disparity is not a state at all but rather two states, the one of poor, the other of rich men, and they are living on the same spot and always conspiring against one another.” D. Williams @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/o...