Aya
@ayalan.bsky.social
🧙♀️ Cyberwitch. Science + Design. Ex-COO Basset Inc, acquired by Mercari. Now working on building bio lab spaces at Athanor Scientific 🧫 🔬
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If @anthropic.com could fix one thing with the claude.ai interface it would be to stop throwing away half completed reponses on error. The responses were captured in the UX; surely also in SOME other server state? Couldn't we gather this and submit as a partial Assistant response to be completed?
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
If @anthropic.com could fix one thing with the claude.ai interface it would be to stop throwing away half completed reponses on error. The responses were captured in the UX; surely also in SOME other server state? Couldn't we gather this and submit as a partial Assistant response to be completed?
Very interesting to see tools like n8n being used in spaces like bioinformatics. Meant to work between the gaps together with NextFlow and other pipeline tooling; not to replace it.
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n8n for Bioinformatics Data Prep and Notifications
Learn how n8n brings lightweight automation to bioinformatics—streamlining ETL, file handling, and complementing tools like Nextflow and Snakemake.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Very interesting to see tools like n8n being used in spaces like bioinformatics. Meant to work between the gaps together with NextFlow and other pipeline tooling; not to replace it.
evo-byte.com/n8n-for-bioi...
evo-byte.com/n8n-for-bioi...
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Hooray for an introvert!
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Hooray for an introvert!
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So many reasons 2B upset with recent moves by Alberta gov whose current leader benefited from the very #EDI initiatives they intend to dismantle.
As academics, we need 2B vocal- EDI initiatives must remain firmly embedded in academia. @cdnwomenstem.bsky.social
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...
As academics, we need 2B vocal- EDI initiatives must remain firmly embedded in academia. @cdnwomenstem.bsky.social
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The Mintz Report is wrong on EDI - University Affairs
Demanding ‘institutional neutrality,’ Alberta’s report on the post-secondary system risks silencing equity.
universityaffairs.ca
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
So many reasons 2B upset with recent moves by Alberta gov whose current leader benefited from the very #EDI initiatives they intend to dismantle.
As academics, we need 2B vocal- EDI initiatives must remain firmly embedded in academia. @cdnwomenstem.bsky.social
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...
As academics, we need 2B vocal- EDI initiatives must remain firmly embedded in academia. @cdnwomenstem.bsky.social
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...
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New rule: no copy/pasting LLM output into documents or emails. If you use generated text, you have to type it out letter by letter yourself, even if you're just transcribing it without changing
I think if people do that, a lot of the cringe will go away--inevitably you'll change the tone & details
I think if people do that, a lot of the cringe will go away--inevitably you'll change the tone & details
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New rule: no copy/pasting LLM output into documents or emails. If you use generated text, you have to type it out letter by letter yourself, even if you're just transcribing it without changing
I think if people do that, a lot of the cringe will go away--inevitably you'll change the tone & details
I think if people do that, a lot of the cringe will go away--inevitably you'll change the tone & details
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Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
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October 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
The markdown-to-PDF tool that Manus likes to default to does not parse - formatted lists very well. Asking it to use WeasyPrint yields much better results.
October 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The markdown-to-PDF tool that Manus likes to default to does not parse - formatted lists very well. Asking it to use WeasyPrint yields much better results.
Dr. Marignani's example has had a profound influence on me and countless others who have benefited from her generosity, mentorship, and passion for science. Congrats @pmarignani.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social for being selected as a finalist for the Discovery Award Science Champion! 👩🔬
September 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dr. Marignani's example has had a profound influence on me and countless others who have benefited from her generosity, mentorship, and passion for science. Congrats @pmarignani.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social for being selected as a finalist for the Discovery Award Science Champion! 👩🔬
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🍁👩🔬 Are you seeking wet lab space for your biotech startup or commercialized venture? We're exploring a pilot program to support 'biotech startups in residence,' offering reduced-cost resources and lab space to scientists and researchers. Share your requirements with us!
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Need wet lab space? Take this survey about our pilot Biotech Startup in Residence program.
Thank you for your interest in our biotech wet lab space survey. We are exploring the establishment of a shared wet lab facility on the campus of an independent grade-school in British Columbia, Canad...
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August 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🍁👩🔬 Are you seeking wet lab space for your biotech startup or commercialized venture? We're exploring a pilot program to support 'biotech startups in residence,' offering reduced-cost resources and lab space to scientists and researchers. Share your requirements with us!
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People doubted me when I said researchers were moving from #Twitter to #Bluesky. Then @altmetric.com showed early data supporting the claim, and now @whysharksmatter.bsky.social & @drjuliawester.bsky.social confirm it with their research. The trend is real. Switch now! #SocialMedia #X #ResearchSky
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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August 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
People doubted me when I said researchers were moving from #Twitter to #Bluesky. Then @altmetric.com showed early data supporting the claim, and now @whysharksmatter.bsky.social & @drjuliawester.bsky.social confirm it with their research. The trend is real. Switch now! #SocialMedia #X #ResearchSky
🍁👩🔬 Are you seeking wet lab space for your biotech startup or commercialized venture? We're exploring a pilot program to support 'biotech startups in residence,' offering reduced-cost resources and lab space to scientists and researchers. Share your requirements with us!
forms.gle/iZiFFjMUZDrP...
forms.gle/iZiFFjMUZDrP...
Need wet lab space? Take this survey about our pilot Biotech Startup in Residence program.
Thank you for your interest in our biotech wet lab space survey. We are exploring the establishment of a shared wet lab facility on the campus of an independent grade-school in British Columbia, Canad...
forms.gle
August 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🍁👩🔬 Are you seeking wet lab space for your biotech startup or commercialized venture? We're exploring a pilot program to support 'biotech startups in residence,' offering reduced-cost resources and lab space to scientists and researchers. Share your requirements with us!
forms.gle/iZiFFjMUZDrP...
forms.gle/iZiFFjMUZDrP...
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10/
Your code may be brilliant.
But if users can’t figure out what to run, on what data, and what they’ll get…
It might as well not exist.
Your code may be brilliant.
But if users can’t figure out what to run, on what data, and what they’ll get…
It might as well not exist.
August 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Your code may be brilliant.
But if users can’t figure out what to run, on what data, and what they’ll get…
It might as well not exist.
Your code may be brilliant.
But if users can’t figure out what to run, on what data, and what they’ll get…
It might as well not exist.
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1/ I’ve reviewed hundreds of bioinformatics GitHub repos in my career.
Here’s the brutal truth: most tool documentation fails the people it’s meant to help.
And it’s not because the algorithms are bad.
Here’s the brutal truth: most tool documentation fails the people it’s meant to help.
And it’s not because the algorithms are bad.
August 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
1/ I’ve reviewed hundreds of bioinformatics GitHub repos in my career.
Here’s the brutal truth: most tool documentation fails the people it’s meant to help.
And it’s not because the algorithms are bad.
Here’s the brutal truth: most tool documentation fails the people it’s meant to help.
And it’s not because the algorithms are bad.
The journey of curiosity is evolving 🦠
Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias
June 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The journey of curiosity is evolving 🦠
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After months of designing and making demos, just built a better mouse house that is stainless steel inert, reusable and safe for 🐭.
Which housing would you prefer? The red house or the stainless steel custom design housing?
#ScienceIsFun #SafeHousing #MouseHouse
Which housing would you prefer? The red house or the stainless steel custom design housing?
#ScienceIsFun #SafeHousing #MouseHouse
May 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
After months of designing and making demos, just built a better mouse house that is stainless steel inert, reusable and safe for 🐭.
Which housing would you prefer? The red house or the stainless steel custom design housing?
#ScienceIsFun #SafeHousing #MouseHouse
Which housing would you prefer? The red house or the stainless steel custom design housing?
#ScienceIsFun #SafeHousing #MouseHouse
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Happy Neil day to all who celebrate
April 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Happy Neil day to all who celebrate
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Starting experimenting with the compounding error rate of agents that make small errors in small numbers of cells when "chatting with data" using LLMs, and the results are.... not good (if you care about accuracy).
April 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Starting experimenting with the compounding error rate of agents that make small errors in small numbers of cells when "chatting with data" using LLMs, and the results are.... not good (if you care about accuracy).
Insightful comments from @pmarignani.bsky.social about opportunities and relation to the research funding ecosystem in Canada.🍁
“This is a brilliant strategy for Canada to lead in discovery, innovation, and biotech commercialization," says a scientist at Dalhousie University.
Learn how UHN's 'Canada Leads' initiative is making history.🍁
Read more with @avisfavaro.bsky.social and CTV News: www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Learn how UHN's 'Canada Leads' initiative is making history.🍁
Read more with @avisfavaro.bsky.social and CTV News: www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Canada’s top hospital is hoping to attract world’s top scientists
In what some observers are calling an 'impressive' move, the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto is launching a first-of-its-kind Canadian program to recruit 100 early career scientists, many f...
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April 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Insightful comments from @pmarignani.bsky.social about opportunities and relation to the research funding ecosystem in Canada.🍁
"To our knowledge, this is the first time a fully AI-generated paper was good enough to pass a standard scientific peer-review process like the one described." By @sakanaai.bsky.social
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Papers generated by the AI-Scientists are public to read at github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
Papers generated by the AI-Scientists are public to read at github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
Sakana AI
The AI Scientist Generates its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication
sakana.ai
March 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"To our knowledge, this is the first time a fully AI-generated paper was good enough to pass a standard scientific peer-review process like the one described." By @sakanaai.bsky.social
sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
Papers generated by the AI-Scientists are public to read at github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
Papers generated by the AI-Scientists are public to read at github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...
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New blog post: Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/
Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's …
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/
Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's …
Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?
Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's nothing dodgy in them. Left is upper-case HTTPS://EDENT.TEL/ and right is lower-case https://edent.tel/ You can clearly see that the one on the left is a "smaller" QR as it has fewer bits of data in it. Both go to the same URl, the only difference is the casing. What's going on? Your first thought might be that there's a different level of error-correction. QR codes can have increasing levels of redundancy i…
shkspr.mobi
February 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New blog post: Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/
Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's …
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/
Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's …
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Hey all! 📣 WSC currently has an open call going on right now! We are looking for speakers, monthly workshops (all domains, both technical and non-technical), volunteers, and more. 🔗 Please complete the Training Event Details form: womenscyberjutsu.org/TRAINDETAILS
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December 5, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hey all! 📣 WSC currently has an open call going on right now! We are looking for speakers, monthly workshops (all domains, both technical and non-technical), volunteers, and more. 🔗 Please complete the Training Event Details form: womenscyberjutsu.org/TRAINDETAILS
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke)
What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?
What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?
November 26, 2024 at 5:35 AM
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke)
What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?
What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke)
What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?
What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?
November 26, 2024 at 5:35 AM
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke)
What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?
What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?
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On echo chambers I think you really can make yourself dumber if your follows are too narrow or your blocks too wide.
I want a feed that gently exposes me to contrary opinions, while somehow measuring the temperature of my piss to make sure it doesn't boil over and drag me into stupid arguments
I want a feed that gently exposes me to contrary opinions, while somehow measuring the temperature of my piss to make sure it doesn't boil over and drag me into stupid arguments
November 24, 2024 at 11:59 PM
On echo chambers I think you really can make yourself dumber if your follows are too narrow or your blocks too wide.
I want a feed that gently exposes me to contrary opinions, while somehow measuring the temperature of my piss to make sure it doesn't boil over and drag me into stupid arguments
I want a feed that gently exposes me to contrary opinions, while somehow measuring the temperature of my piss to make sure it doesn't boil over and drag me into stupid arguments
Pixel art is my forbidden timesuck hobby, but sometimes it turns into something that other people can enjoy. "HAIRPEPE Super Shine" is a simple puzzle game developed for the PICO-8 system. Free to play at retro.hair/supershine.h...
November 24, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Pixel art is my forbidden timesuck hobby, but sometimes it turns into something that other people can enjoy. "HAIRPEPE Super Shine" is a simple puzzle game developed for the PICO-8 system. Free to play at retro.hair/supershine.h...