Eleanor Howe
@eleanorahowe.bsky.social
Founder and CEO, Diamond Age Data Science. PhD bioinformatics. Drug discovery, science fiction, knitting, cats, aquariums. She/her.
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May 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm proud to be a part of building this survey. If you're in the life sciences, please help us understand what publicly available tools and datasets are most important for your work!
www.surveymonkey.com/r/BioITPubli...
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Off to BCBB tonight to watch @johnhutchinson.bsky.social give a lightning talk. Hope to see all of you bioinformatics nerds there!
April 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Off to BCBB tonight to watch @johnhutchinson.bsky.social give a lightning talk. Hope to see all of you bioinformatics nerds there!
I spent my early career on open-source software for science. Come meet me at BioIT World in Boston's Seaport today for a pop-up meeting about free/open scientific software and data resources.
April 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I spent my early career on open-source software for science. Come meet me at BioIT World in Boston's Seaport today for a pop-up meeting about free/open scientific software and data resources.
Is this it? www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
February 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Is this it? www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
I am currently using all of my mental cycles to consider how this applies outside of the arts. Because it clearly does.
I love comics more than anything, and I genuinely, with all my heart, find 90% of comics simultaneously thoroughly unreadable and indispensably vital
to the overall well-being of the medium. People need room to suck.
to the overall well-being of the medium. People need room to suck.
February 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I am currently using all of my mental cycles to consider how this applies outside of the arts. Because it clearly does.
Hope to see you all in Seaport on March 20!
Join us for a panel and networking event in honor of Women’s History Month, sponsored by Lilly, Diamond Age Data Science, and Boston Women in Bioinformatics. This event will bring together mid- to senior-level biopharma executives for an unfiltered conversation www.eventbrite.com/e/boss-moves...
Boss Moves in Bioinformatics: Leading, Lifting, and Legging Up
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February 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Hope to see you all in Seaport on March 20!
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February 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The protest downtown today was well attended. Big thanks to everybody who showed up on a chilly day.
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February 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The protest downtown today was well attended. Big thanks to everybody who showed up on a chilly day.
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This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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February 15, 2025 at 6:48 AM
This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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Just did this to my Senator in as Southern an accent as I could dredge up.
Call your R reps. If you have a regional accent, make the most of it. Tell them you didn't vote for CANCER and ask them what the hell they're gonna do to stop Musk and Trump. reps.fyi
Now under Trump, the NIH says it is cutting ~$9 billion in federal research grants supporting medical research ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's diseases.
“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
February 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Just did this to my Senator in as Southern an accent as I could dredge up.
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I’m putting together a post on what’s going on in the trenches in various parts of the NIH. Anyone who would like to share experiences (anonymously!) can reach me at Dblowe.18 on Signal
January 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’m putting together a post on what’s going on in the trenches in various parts of the NIH. Anyone who would like to share experiences (anonymously!) can reach me at Dblowe.18 on Signal
Yes! Folks, spread the word. You can buy ebooks from indie bookstores now at bookshop.org!
January 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Yes! Folks, spread the word. You can buy ebooks from indie bookstores now at bookshop.org!
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Writing the last bit of a new novel and I came up with what I think is an excellent putdown: "he was two birds short of a turducken"
#amwriting
#amwriting
December 29, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Writing the last bit of a new novel and I came up with what I think is an excellent putdown: "he was two birds short of a turducken"
#amwriting
#amwriting
Anybody trying to market to me should understand that I am extremely aggressive with the "report spam and block" buttons. The best way to make me never hear from you again is to send me unsolicited email.
December 21, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Anybody trying to market to me should understand that I am extremely aggressive with the "report spam and block" buttons. The best way to make me never hear from you again is to send me unsolicited email.
It is cold season here in the States, and also the Holiday season. For both reasons, you need to know that there is such a thing as a portable sauna. It's a little one-person pop-up tent with a steamer attachment.
December 18, 2024 at 6:59 PM
It is cold season here in the States, and also the Holiday season. For both reasons, you need to know that there is such a thing as a portable sauna. It's a little one-person pop-up tent with a steamer attachment.
If I can tell that your AI assistant is reading and (incorrectly) responding to my emails, I will supplement future messages with long, derailing passages from The Lord of the Rings or The Stand.
December 12, 2024 at 2:24 PM
If I can tell that your AI assistant is reading and (incorrectly) responding to my emails, I will supplement future messages with long, derailing passages from The Lord of the Rings or The Stand.
Naomi Kritzer has elevated the snarky gift guide to an art form.
Since 2010, I have been writing a unique gift guide. It's for people who need to buy a present for someone they loathe. Here's this year's!
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Gifts for People You Hate, 2024
Once again, the holidays are upon us, and once again, people are telling me that in this trying time, the one thing I have to offer that they truly need is a hand-picked selection of the absolute w…
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December 9, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Naomi Kritzer has elevated the snarky gift guide to an art form.
Definitely not just a problem for academics!
My biggest shortcoming as an academic is that after answering just a single email I have to take, like, a five minute break.
December 9, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Definitely not just a problem for academics!
It was lovely to catch up with all of my friends and colleagues at the @westorg.bsky.social Women on Wednesdays social.
Their Bsky account is new, but you should follow them if you want notification of their excellent programming!
Job hunters: there are some great events coming up!
Their Bsky account is new, but you should follow them if you want notification of their excellent programming!
Job hunters: there are some great events coming up!
December 5, 2024 at 2:53 PM
It was lovely to catch up with all of my friends and colleagues at the @westorg.bsky.social Women on Wednesdays social.
Their Bsky account is new, but you should follow them if you want notification of their excellent programming!
Job hunters: there are some great events coming up!
Their Bsky account is new, but you should follow them if you want notification of their excellent programming!
Job hunters: there are some great events coming up!
I'm getting lots of inquiries these days about finding a compbio job. This is the worst job market I've seen or heard of, and possibly the worst market since Bioinformatics became a field of its own.
December 2, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I'm getting lots of inquiries these days about finding a compbio job. This is the worst job market I've seen or heard of, and possibly the worst market since Bioinformatics became a field of its own.
The thing that really solidifies the migration to Bluesky for me is the fact that @rikergoogling.bsky.social is here.
November 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM
The thing that really solidifies the migration to Bluesky for me is the fact that @rikergoogling.bsky.social is here.
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I've got 15 people descending on my house today, and we are going to have a blast.
November 28, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. I've got 15 people descending on my house today, and we are going to have a blast.
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A pair of graphs I think about a lot. On the topic of pooled CRISPR screens, the left is "replicate correlation" when simply examining the abundance of guide RNAs, i.e. log-normalized read counts. On the right is taking those same data and subtracting from a common starting point, i.e. pDNA.
November 26, 2024 at 3:31 PM
A pair of graphs I think about a lot. On the topic of pooled CRISPR screens, the left is "replicate correlation" when simply examining the abundance of guide RNAs, i.e. log-normalized read counts. On the right is taking those same data and subtracting from a common starting point, i.e. pDNA.