ERC grants are the most prestigious funding schemes for basic science in Europe.

While most successful ERC applications are guarded as business secrets, this site includes a series of openly available proposals: https://www.ffg.at/europa/heu/erc/published-proposals

#Sociology #Funding #ERC #Grants #AcademicChatter

Having run my own test mastodon server, I can tell you that boosting is REALLY important. That's how posts propagate between servers that are not federated together.

I may get a bit technical, and it can be hard to describe but it's something like this:

Let's say that you have 2 servers, A and B that are not connected. They have their own federated timelines that is vastly different.

let's assume they have their users @a@A and @b@B that are mutuals. If user @a@A sees something interesting on theirs federated timeline and boosts it, user @b@B will see that on their own home page. But more importantly server B will now know about and download that post, and everyone else on B server will be able to see that post on their own federated timeline!

And that's why you boost, guys! It helps posts to spread.

#FediTips

Some intriguing news from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory about new way to use the betalain-based RUBY marker in Arabidopsis and poplar.

Check "Split selectable marker mediated gene stacking in plants" in @biorxivpreprint
👉https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.19.517202

btw if you want to know more about RUBY marker see here
👉https://zhaolab.biosci.ucsd.edu/ruby/

⁉️Want to learn how to apply deep learning methods in Population Genomics and Phylogeography⁉️

👀Then, have a look at our course with Manolo Perez and @MatteoFumagalli in February: https://physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/deep-learning-in-popgen/

#popgen #MachineLearning #Genomics #Bioinformatics #DeepLearning

#NewPaper — how does #HGT affect #microbiome dynamics and stability?

Using models + experiments we show that mobile resistance genes generally increase microbiome stability. But effects can differ markedly for donors and recipients of mobile genes and also depends on how species interact — sometimes causing entirely opposing effects on the stability of different species

#AMR #Plasmid

@PLOSBiology

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001847

*slendr*
Very cool tool for spatio-temporal population genomic simulations on geographic landscapes, just out this sept2022 by Petr et al.
bioRxiv article https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.20.485041v3

Then, look at the cool R-lib associated : https://www.slendr.net/