Isaac Buabeng

PhDing @UVMplantbio

views all mine!
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[PhytoKeys @PhytoKeys]

🌱 A new plant species from China, Vaccinium fangianum, has been named in honour of the influential botanist Professor Rhui-Cheng Fang.

📖 Discover how this specimen was distinguished from lookalike species through detailed photographic plates: https://t.co/Cgb67J3eYD

[FAYALORRRD @faya_lorrrd]

Ghana tells its children to pick science. Then it builds no labs, funds no research, creates no jobs, and watches biology graduates beg for relevance in a market never built to need them. The course was never useless. The system made it look that way.

[FAYALORRRD @faya_lorrrd]

KNUST, UG and our other public universities are producing Biological Science graduates into a job market that essentially tells them their degrees are decorative
The research institutions, biotech firms and public health labs that should absorb them simply do not exist at scale in Ghana.

[Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology @KNUSTGH]

Researchers at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi have identified 101 bird species across the KNUST campus.

We’ve recorded some of these bird calls from around campus.

Can you identify them?
Drop your guesses and tell us where you’ve heard them before.

Learn more here ⬇️
https://t.co/He9E0flpyl

🎙️ | Emmanuel Kwasi Debrah

[James Hall @hallaboutafrica]

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

[Bento Lab 🧬 @theBentoLab]

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.
https://t.co/nml8vEr8fY

Images copyright Alan F. Scott.

[Santa17 Official @officialsanta17]

⚫⚪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: https://t.co/6aa9lZsPLo
#adisadelcollege #playup

[Methods in Ecology and Evolution @MethodsEcolEvol]

📖 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:https://t.co/HxwXaV7olx

[Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution @FrontEcolEvol]

New Research: Assessment of three removal methods for an invasive lizard, Peters’ rock agama (Agama picticauda) https://t.co/uPImuNgyup #FrontiersIn #AmphibianReptileScience

[EMBL @embl]

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!

🔎 https://t.co/EYfcVvlHFT

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Good News: Scientists discover a way to regrow cartilage, stop arthritis
https://t.co/cinGY0QSAI

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

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: https://t.co/iVyXt180Oh

[Isaac Buabeng @thisisikb]

@ImSh4yy Tema, Ghana

[Torsten Seemann @torstenseemann]

💾 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
https://t.co/YmY2tyYONC

[Vonn @itsthewealth4me]

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: https://t.co/wOXcr0MYzH

[Stephen Turner 🦋 @stephenturner.us @strnr]

ColabPCR: A validated Google Colaboratory Notebook for Reproducible and Precise Primer Design. https://t.co/jIJPC2NMNV 🧬🖥️🧪 https://t.co/1h6cNruWtO https://t.co/GhljdlAlWU

[Evolutionary Genomics @evol_genomics]

PhyloJunction: A Computational Framework for Simulating, Developing, and Teaching Evolutionary Models https://t.co/M0N6N965MK @systbiol

[Dr. Laura Bertola @LauraDBertola]

Chromosome-Level Genomics and Historical Museum Collections Reveal New Insights Into the Population Structure and Chromosome Evolution of Waterbuck
https://t.co/7B3eaYIrux

[Trends in Ecology & Evolution @Trends_Ecol_Evo]

Online now: Pangenomes: new tools for ecological and evolutionary genomics https://t.co/hbE8EV18Hc

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Semantic design of functional de novo genes from a genomic language model

https://t.co/vB53a2eIGM