As always, we end our Bachelor's practical class with an agar art contest using the bright colis from @atinygreencell.bsky.social. As always, lots of beautiful images were created. Meet the winner, the Coli Cougar, our next year's class lab book cover.
So cool! I watched this 10x in a row.
New blog post!
I analyse the new [email protected] basecalling model from @nanoporetech.com and discuss the conspicuous lack of a new sup model:
rrwick.github.io/2026/06/11/d...
New NIH Request for Information regarding capping the number of Research Project Grants allowed per investigator.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
Open for comments until August 3rd, 2026
Hurrah, my account is back after being locked/deactivated for a few weeks.
I presume I got hacked. This is a good reminder to stop using your old weak passwords.
The largest ebola outbreaks to date started in 2014 and 2018. Sadly given this trend, the continuing limited testing capacity and everything we know about the virus, I would be very surprised if this does not end up worse.
Excited to have Alex Crits Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social join the lab today as a staff scientist!
I had a hunch it was good time to find an experienced computational microbiologist to join the lab, but still feel very lucky to have him joining us. Looking forward to cool science!