How strange that Claude.ai adds references which stem from previous, completely unrelated prompts, like a Streptomyces reference on an mpox prompt. Anyone else observed/been annoyed by this?
So, I know birds can swallow large prey. But this was pretty wild. At Yolo Bypass, near LotG, I witnessed a juvenile pied billed grebe catch, struggle with, and then eat a crawfish. And the crawfish, relative to the grebe, was quite big. #birds
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...
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Our study into the incredible genome of Embleya australiensis has been published in Microbial Genomics.
We've shown that Embleya carry gigantic secondary chromosomes around 4 - 6 Mb in size!
Enjoy reading and don't hesitate to reach out!
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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The nvidia dgx spark is a cool box but you get more @nanoporetech.com basecalling for your money with one of the other options (github.com/Kirk3gaard/2...)
see the clusterblast tab here: antismash.secondarymetabolites.org/upload/bacte...
