Isaac Buabeng

Ghana's national flower is a drought-resistant lily. Many African nations have different types lilies as their national flowers. Ghana's Impala Lily is also known as the Desert Rose because of its survival skills in the water-challenged savannah, just like Ghanaians are survivors

Genome sequencing goes off-grid! 🚐🧬 Researchers from Johns Hopkins successfully sequenced the Red Coachwhip snake (Masticophis flagellum piceus) genome using a mobile lab in a camper van. Using a ONT Nanopore P2 Solo sequencing and Bento Lab, they show that genomes can be assembled at relatively low cost and without the need for a large laboratory! 🐍 Nuclear & mitochondrial genomes of Masticophis flagellum piceus sequenced 🐍 BUSCO completeness score better than most current snake genomes 🐍 All work done in field- or field-simulated settings A great step toward decentralising and democratizing genomics, especially for research in remote locations! You can read the article here: Scott & Mohr (2026). A Nanopore-Only Assembly of a Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome of a Red Coachwhip (Masticophis flagellum piceus). Genes, 17(3), 307. doi.org/10.3390/genes1… Images copyright Alan F. Scott.

⚫⚪FALL IN!!!⚪⚫ Membership is open to all Old Boys of Adisadel College who either completed in the year 2017 or had not less than two years studentship duration within the period 2014-2017. 📝Registration link: forms.gle/p5ivWJ3BLEXGWm… #adisadelcollege #playup

📖 Published! An elementary guide to quantum computing, introducing core concepts such as qubits, superposition, entanglement and quantum advantage to give ecologists the foundations needed to appreciate its relevance and potential🖥️ 📏 🌀 Read more:buff.ly/xKwpZee

New Research: Assessment of three removal methods for an invasive lizard, Peters’ rock agama (Agama picticauda) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #FrontiersIn #AmphibianReptileScience

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open!🔊 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 tinyurl.com/4jdt2ra5

Good News: Scientists discover a way to regrow cartilage, stop arthritis notthebee.com/article/good-n…

About a decade ago, a baker in a small mountainous village in southern Austria noticed his cow doing something unusual. When Veronika had an itch, she would grab a stick in her mouth and use it to scratch her body. Over the years, the brown bovid’s technique improved. She could pick up objects as large as a broom or rake and move them around with her prehensile tongue, changing their length and orientation to ensure the best possible scratch. The behavior isn’t just a clever trick: It’s the first documented case of tool use in cattle, scientists report. And, it turns out, one of Veronika’s skills has only been seen in humans and chimpanzees. Learn more: scim.ag/3LHywjF

@ImSh4yy Tema, Ghana

I forked this repo and had Opus 4.5 optimize the code and Gemini 3 to create more themes. Give me a few cities to generate. github.com/originalankur/…

💾 any2fasta 0.8.1 is released! The FASTA format is now 40 years old (Pearson & Lipman) and any2fasta makes it easy for your pipelines that accept FASTA to to work with other formats, inc. compressed! eg. .gbk.gz #bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomcs github.com/tseemann/any2f…

The Black in AI Safety & Ethics (BASE) Fellowship is a 12 week, part time remote program beginning in April 2026, designed to develop Black researchers, practitioners, and leaders in AI Safety, AI Security, AI Governance Link to apply: baseresearch.org/base-fellowshi…

ColabPCR: A validated Google Colaboratory Notebook for Reproducible and Precise Primer Design. biorxiv.org/content/10.648… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/maurijlozano/C… colab.research.google.com/github/maurijl…

PhyloJunction: A Computational Framework for Simulating, Developing, and Teaching Evolutionary Models academic.oup.com/sysbio/article… @systbiol

Chromosome-Level Genomics and Historical Museum Collections Reveal New Insights Into the Population Structure and Chromosome Evolution of Waterbuck onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Online now: Pangenomes: new tools for ecological and evolutionary genomics dlvr.it/TQ1T0d

Nature research paper: Semantic design of functional de novo genes from a genomic language model go.nature.com/485SnAh

What if we could autocomplete DNA based on function? Today in @Nature, we share semantic design—a strategy for function-guided design with genomic language models that leverages genomic context to create de novo genes with desired functions.🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Nature research paper: Whole-genome landscapes of 1,364 breast cancers go.nature.com/48LdBVv

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more. wired.com/story/a-simple…

Vultures help prevent rabies and anthrax from spreading in Ghana. But here we are eating and destroying their habitats. 😒 accramommy.com/ganyobinaa/vul…