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En Tunisie, la cochenille ravage les figues de Barbarie : "c'est un désastre pour les agriculteurs" YouTube video by Les Observateurs France 24

En Tunisie, la cochenille ravage les figues de Barbarie : "c'est un désastre…” youtu.be/BMq8UjmHrO0?...

Africa features heavily here, yet African researchers are not in the lead, and instead relegated to a couple of middle-authorship. Thoughts?

ViroiDoc MSCA Doctoral Network announces workshop:

What: Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper

When: Thursday, 2 April 2026, 9:30–12:30 CET

Where: online, Webex

This event in English is open free of charge. Registration will open soon.

www.viroidoc.eu/b/dont-peris...

Quiz time!

Attending @micronorwich Annual Conference? ReSay Podcast organising micro-quiz / mega-impact. You can register here buff.ly/uP2iWNI

There are prizes on offer, £2 entry fee will go toward
@getgenome.bsky.social supporting researchers across global south. Donations are matched too!

#GGFungi2026 Call For Projects is now open for applications getgenome.net/callforproje...

We will be holding an information session today 3rd March at 14:00 CET (08:00 Eastern US; 18:00 PKT). To sign up please complete this short form - forms.office.com/e/DssYYkkY9Z

GetGenome Newsletter -- February 2026

✔️#GGFungi2026 now open for applications!

✔️ECR Symposium: Open for abstract submission and virtual attendance

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The Microbial Genomics ECR Symposium will return again this summer!

Co-organised by @norwichmicro.bsky.social and @getgenome.bsky.social the symposium will take place on 15th July 2026 at the John Innes Conference Centre.

Please register here: web.novogene.com/2026TheMicro...

Last newsletter of 2025 highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.

Graduate Scholarships | Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford Discover the graduate funding and collaboration opportunities at EIT Oxford. There are currently two pathways for full funding to pursue a DPhil/PhD at the University of Oxford. Doctoral students play...

Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) provides fully funded scholarships forDPhil/PhD study at University of Oxford, where students directly aim to solve some of humanity’s most enduring challenges. Applications now open! www.eit.org/scholars/gra...

GetGenome in 2025: onward and upward 2025 was a big year for GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify…

I just published: GetGenome in 2025: onward and upward

2025 was a big year for @GetGenome. We doubled down on our mission to democratize genomics, connect early-career researchers, and amplify microbial voices from every corner of the planet.

medium.com/p/getgenome-...

7 random unsolicited tips for students and early career researchers You might not want to hear them, but here they are anyway.

More unsolicited advice for early career researchers:

8. Just do it!

Just keep moving, keep taking initiative, and good things will follow. It’s the only sensible way to spend our limited time on this planet and value life. kamounlab.medium.com/7-random-uns...

Battling crop diseases without borders | John Innes Centre DEWAS is one of the world’s largest crop pathogen surveillance and advisory systems, protecting wheat productivity in food vulnerable areas of East Africa and South Asia.

GetGenome is proud to partner with @johninnescentre.bsky.social , @cimmyt.bsky.social , @gatesfoundation.bsky.social and #DEWAS to advance a bottom-up, equitable approach to access genomics 🌾 🧬

“Battling crop diseases without borders” www.jic.ac.uk/blog/battlin...

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GetGenome October 2025 newsletter highlighting a few of GetGenome’s recent activities.

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Hela Gargouri kicking off the Tunisian Bioinformatic Congress #Tbio2025 in Sousse 🇹🇳

@GetGenome is proud to support this event!

GetGenome Newsletter -- September 2025 getgenome.net/network

🌍 Early Career Researcher from an Arab or African country? Fellowships available for 3–12 months at Nanjing Agricultural University. Apply by Oct 15 — don’t miss out!

Warmest congrats to Nourelhouda Abdelkafi and colleagues at University of Sfax 🇹🇳 for their paper "Comparative genomics of three rhizobacteria strains indicate functional complementarity for inoculum development" #GGTunisia2022 #GetGenome doi.org/10.1016/j.rh...

Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has triggered seven pandemics, with the seventh pandemic emerging in 1961. The success of seventh pandemic El Tor (7PET) V. cholerae as a human pathogen is linked to its acquisition of mobile genetic ...

Excited to share my latest review, now published in the Royal Society theme issue on ‘The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems' (available OA):

Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Clustering of plasmid genomes for genomic epidemiology by using rearrangement distances, with pling Integration of plasmids into genomic epidemiology is challenging, because there are no clearly defined evolving-units (equivalent to species), and because plasmids appear to evolve as much by structur...

For anyone who has used pling for comparing plasmids using rearrangement distances ("how many structural events apart are these plasmids"), here's how to tweak parameters, and integrate it with typing info, and the host phylogeny
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
github.com/iqbal-lab-or...

Cape to Carthage - An African AI Journey | Full award-winning documentary YouTube video by Decisive Agents

#MustWatch Cape to Carthage—AI across Africa @instadeep.bsky.social youtu.be/8i-_zepmkxA?...

August 2025 newsletter t.co/Ipf6GoFZDf

Vector choices, vector surprises - Nature Methods Vectors can be the ultimate vehicle for transporting material into cells. Except when they’re not so ultimate.

Cool: for free. And here is story that is related becasue you might not want vector surprises of the less positive kind. This is free with registration...and here is a quasi open-access link. rdcu.be/eAfnP
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing 🤩 Thank you 🙏

This is a genuinely great thing. Please boost it.

Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free) Through GetGenome, scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing — removing barriers, improving quality control…

We just published: Why you should sequence your plasmids (and how to do it for free)

Through @getgenome.bsky.social scientists in 100 countries can access free whole-plasmid sequencing —giving researchers the confidence to move their experiments forward.

medium.com/p/why-you-sh...

Data vs hypothesis driven research: the false dichotomy This post is adapted from a talk I gave at the Plantae Presents webinar More Money, More Data: Data-Driven versus Hypothesis-Driven…

I just published: Data vs hypothesis driven research: the false dichotomy

This post is adapted from a talk I gave @plantae_org Find out more 👇
medium.com/p/data-vs-hy...

Yesterday we presented our work on the impact of 🌳🌲 conversion to 🥑 orchards on soil microbial communities at #ISMELat2025.

If you're in Mérida and want to know more about how pathogens modulate the 🥑 rhizosphere #microbiome, I'll give a talk tomorrow in the "host-microbiome" session.

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