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Heyyy everyone #academicmastadon #academia

I think #biorxiv is sending out a survey link, might be relevant. The survey has issues pertinent to their social media presence (Mastodon, Bluesky, ...).

If you are a publishing scientist I think this might be a good thing to keep an eye out for

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.26.538077v1 Benchmarking of virus detection methods from WGS data. PPR-Meta seems best in environmental samples, while VirSorter2 is best in the gut. Which is good, because VirSorter2 is what we're using at the moment in the @BorkLab 😅

#bioRxiv #microbiome #virome

A new #preprint #OpenScience #PeerReview by @PCI_Infections: Perez, G. et al. The distribution, phenology, host range and pathogen prevalence of #Ixodesricinus in France: a systematic map and narrative review. #bioRxiv #Infections. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.18.537315

New paper from my old group:

Long-read genome assemblies of 33 species of eucalypt (gum tree) from across Australia, encompassing ~70My of evolution. Key finding: macrosynteny is preserved, but microsynteny rampantly disrupted. Cool result given the propensity for inter-specific hybridization and gene flow.

Preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.19.537464v1
Feel free to reach out with any Q's!

#preprint #genome #trees #eucalyptus #genomics #genomeassembly #biorxiv #botany #synteny #structuralvariation

A new #preprint #OpenScience #PeerReview by #PCI_Infections: Fritz M, et al (2023) African #armyants at the forefront of #virome surveillance in a remote #tropicalforest. #bioRxiv, #Infections https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.13.520061

@hauschke @kuf I totally agree on the Mastodon #federatedsearch part. I'm on FediScience.org, signed up with my professional identity and ORCID, and I really want our toots to show up e.g. on #bioRxiv. Both to show that Mastodon is a viable alternative for Science Twitter, and to find interesting people and discussions.

Not every Mastodon instance needs to support search, but at least the "professional" ones should (with opt-out for users, of course).

@FrankSonntag, what do you think?