Open postdoctoral position (3-years) in Machine Learning and Computational Biology!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Job conditions are great 🏥💶
The scientific environment is top-notch 🧬
Oslo is a fantastic place to live ⛷️🏔️ ☀️ 🌲
Please, get in touch if you have questions
Nature research paper: Oxygen metabolism in descendants of the archaeal-eukaryotic ancestor
go.nature.com/4rSfRRw
Our new review on genome annotation just appeared in @naturerevgenet.bsky.social, with a particular focus on the human genome, with Hayden Ji and Mihaela Pertea: rdcu.be/e4mI1
Happy to announce that CarveMe is now running online at usegalaxy.eu and usegalaxy.no 🙂
We are hiring!
Seeking two ambitious postdoc to work at intersection of math modeling and machine learning for personalize breast cancer treatment.
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Great conditions, top-notc scientific environment and a fantastic place to live.
Please, get in touch for more
They can hide, censor, and deny #climate change science but that doesn't change the #science.
They can try to repeal the #Endangerment Finding but that doesn't change the danger.
Reality will always win and history will never forget what they're doing and who is doing it.
We’re hiring: Research Group Leader in computational biology.
Are you generating more research ideas than you can explore? Lead cutting-edge AI & biology research at EMBL-EBI.
Apply by 11 April 2026: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ScienceCareers @ewaldlab.org @embl.org
Only a few days left to apply for this interesting PhD position in biostatistics at OCBE: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
@jmgran.bsky.social
Breast milk isn't just nutrition – it delivers live bacterial strains that colonize the infant gut and persist for months.
Happy to share our new paper, where we used metagenomics to track bacterial strains between 195 mother-infant pairs over the first 6 months of life:
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
From #NCBI Insight | Updated Bacterial and Archaeal Reference Genome Collection is now available | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2026/01/13/a...
New paper up - inspired by the periodic table of the elements, we attempted to organize bacterial diversity in genome-inferred trait space academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
A database of over 15.000 strain design publications reveals a conserved set of metabolic engineering targets across microbial hosts and products https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694291v1
Nature research paper: Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary interventions
go.nature.com/4oODWqv
Our new genome-scale model for R. cellulolyticum is out on mSystems:
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Very proud of the hard work of my PhD student, Idun Burgos 😊
Microflora Danica: What can you learn from collecting and sequencing 10,000+ samples from a single country? Check out our new paper in @nature.com to find out. Incredible work led by Caitlin Singleton, Thomas B. N. Jensen, and Mads Albertsen from @aau.dk. 🦠🧫🧬
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Our results enable us to reject mitochondrion-early scenarios of eukaryogenesis, instead supporting a complexified-archaean, late-mitochondrion sequence for the assembly of eukaryote characteristics"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Revealing the dynamical time course of physiological changes before, during and after menopause. This revealed sudden changes at menopause in nearly all physiological systems. (2/2)
arxiv.org/abs/2511.05906
Gift link for NY Times article on cuts at NIH and NSF:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I am very excited to announce that a fully funded PhD position is available in my group.
Topic: Synergistic coevolution in mono-specific and multi-species microbial consortia
Please RT or forward this information to interested candidates.
Deadline: 11.01.26
More info:
shorturl.at/f1TuF
Don't miss out on our free virtual symposium (Dec. 12th) focused on microbial metabolites and their effects on the host.
Sponsors: @amiposts.bsky.social, Pendulum, & Liv (@zymoresearch.bsky.social)
Registrants will receive free memberships to Applied Microbiology International.
Details below 👇
📢 Our Dept. of Systems Biology at Columbia University has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the broad area of quantitative biology. Come join our awesome department in NYC! Please circulate.
apply.interfolio.com/177622
Suggested deadline: 12/15/2025.
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A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.
A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.
The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:
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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
You can’t really blame arXiv for the decision to stop publishing computer science stuff (given the flood of slop) but this is also a textbook example of a global public good being gratuitously degraded www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Great to see this finally published!
Metalog: curated and harmonised contextual data for global metagenomics samples
now out in @narjournal.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
Definitely a good use of AI!
Finally got my tool published!
Very happy to introduce jsPCA, a fast and interpretable computational framework for spatial transcriptomics that simultaneously identifies spatial domains and variable genes across multi-slice and multi-sample data.
