ALT Fig 1. Diagram of the 10 rules organized into 3 groups: foundation rules (Rules 1 to 3), design rules (Rules 4 to 9), and a continuity rule (Rule 10). The overall diagram depicts an arrow from left to right containing all the rules. In the left column, under the first label “Foundation,” there are 3 text boxes in light blue: “1. Vision,” “2. Safe environment,” and “3. Organizing Team.” In the middle column, under the label “Design Rules” there are 6 light green boxes with Rules “4. Counter bias,” “5. Virtual/hybrid,” “6. Accessibility,” “7. Language,” “8. Communication,” “9. Finance.” To the right, below the arrowhead labeled “Continuity,” is the 10th Rule in a light pink box “10. Pass the torch.” https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010164

ALT Fig 2. Five “Margot the marmot” with colorful scarves. From left to right: a marmot with a dark and light green scarf of the MiR community is looking at her tablet, a marmot with the purple and gray scarf of R-Ladies is stepping on a rock and watches the horizon, a marmot with an orange and purple AfricaR scarf is sitting on a couch watching a film on her laptop with popcorn, a yogi marmot with a rainbow LGBTQIA+ scarf does the warrior pose on her blue mat, and finally, a marmot with a scarf with the pink, light blue, and white color of the transgender pride flag waves her hand. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010164

ALT Upcoming webinar on Nov 2, 11a EST. Scalable inference of phylogenetic networks. Claudia Solis-Lemus, PhD. Abstract in the bit.ly link in the tweet. Logos of EvolCompGen and SMBE are shown on top.

ALT Logo of EvolCompGen -- Evolution and Comparative Genomics with a grey tree and an overlaid blue/red heatmap.

ALT Screenshot of the ISCB website announcing the 2021 ISMB/ECCB virtual conference. Dates: July 25–30, 2021.