I've complained on here a few times about synteny plots that are harder to read than they need to be. I decided it was time to actaully do something about it: introducing SynTangle, a tool for untangling whole-genome synteny plots github.com/Hanliconius/... 1/

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What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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how about the dodgers huh? check out this paper www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Wanted to share a new preprint where we use #MALDITOF not just for species ID, but rapid Sequence Typing 🧬 Even without DNA sequencing we can determine strain lineage 🦠, enabling rapid + cheap outbreak detection Amazing work led by Hoai-An Nguyen #IDSky #MicroSky www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The @savesciencenz.bsky.social election policy scorecard is out. Responses were requested from every party invited to the SSC pre-election forum. We think it makes for pretty clear reading. A PDF copy and a recording of the forum itself are linked at the top of our website - scientists.org.nz

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