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Mihai Todor
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Software Engineer interested in computational biology / *omics 🧬. Cambridge, UK. He / Him.
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mihaitodor.bsky.social
FOSDEM 2026 added a developer room for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: fosdem-bioinformatics.github.io/cfp.html 🧬
Call for Participation: 1st Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Developer Room at FOSDEM 2026
A minimal website for the FOSDEM Bioinformatics and Computational Biology community
fosdem-bioinformatics.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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martinsteinegger.bsky.social
End-to-end protein design in the browser through evedesign. Generate and interactively explore designs in 2D/3D and export them as codon-optimized DNA. The underlying open source framework (released soon) is build to easily add new methods, more on that soon.
🌐 evedesign.bio
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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burntsushi.net
ripgrep 15 is out! Mostly a host of bug fixes, particularly around gitignore. Some minor perf improvements. A couple small features. And (partial) Jujutsu support for gitignore.

github.com/BurntSushi/r...
Release 15.0.0 · BurntSushi/ripgrep
Sponsorship is appreciated! ripgrep 15 is a new major version release of ripgrep that mostly has bug fixes, some minor performance improvements and minor new features. In case you haven't heard of...
github.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:33 AM
mihaitodor.bsky.social
My project coordinator, Jennifer Fleming, did a detailed podcast on AlphaFold: www.linkedin.com/posts/artifi...
AlphaFold: AI's Biggest Breakthrough 🧪🤖 We're thrilled to welcome Dr Jennifer Fleming, Coordinator at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) le...
AlphaFold: AI's Biggest Breakthrough 🧪🤖 We're thrilled to welcome Dr Jennifer Fleming, Coordinator at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) lead, for ...
www.linkedin.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
mihaitodor.bsky.social
Very insightful research into social networks
seanmcarroll.bsky.social Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Sep 29
Mindscape 330 | Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com on the Dynamics of (Mis)Information. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Petter Törnberg
October 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode on Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse.
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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dereklowe.bsky.social
The latest in a long series of Nobels for work in immunology - and it won’t be the last (!)
T-reg Cells: The 2025 Medicine Nobel
www.science.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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ebi.embl.org
Do you study proteins?
The new PDBe entry pages make it easier to explore protein structures.

🟢 Visualise ligands & macromolecules with improved 3D viewers
🟢 Get background info from AI-based annotations
🟢 Add your own annotations to viewers without leaving the browser

@pdbeurope.bsky.social
🧬🖥️
September 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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pdbeurope.bsky.social
Making structural biology data accessible to everyone — from specialists to first-time explorers.

✨ Discover the new interactive, personalised & mobile-ready PDBe Entry Pages.
📖 Read more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

🔍 Try it: www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/p...
New PDBe entry pages: Interactive, personalised, and mobile-ready
Explore molecular structures with new interactive 3D viewers and AI annotations
www.ebi.ac.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
mihaitodor.bsky.social
Spot on and really well written!
August 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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pdbeurope.bsky.social
Thanks for the visit Nobel laureate John Jumper & colleagues Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and Lindsay Willmore from Google DeepMind.

Always interesting to hear and discuss #AlphaFold and protein structure predictions.
ebi.embl.org EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · Aug 11
Great to welcome John Jumper, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, and Lindsay Willmore from Google DeepMind to EMBL-EBI last week.

John gave a brilliant talk on building #AlphaFold, and both spent time with our @pdbeurope.bsky.social team exchanging ideas.

Always a pleasure to see you!

🧪 💻🧬
August 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics. We go on for a while. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode with Jacob Barandes
July 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 320 | Solo: Complexity and the Universe. Our cosmos was once simple, and someday will be simple again. We currently live in the complicated, exciting era of universal history! Enjoy it while it lasts. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for podcast episode on complexity and the universe.
June 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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xkcd.com
Laser Danger

xkcd.com/3108/
3-panel comic. (1) PERSON WITH SHORT HAIR to Person 2: Shining laser pointers at planes is a federal crime. It’s incredibly dangerous. PERSON 2: Oh, because it can blind the pilot? SHORT HAIR: That’s one reason… (2) [Laser pointed at flying airplane] (3) [Cat close to the size of the plane pouncing on airplane and taking it down]
July 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 318 | Edward Miguel @tedmiguel.bsky.social on the Developing Practice of Development Economics. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape podcast episode with Edward Miguel.
June 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
This week's episode opens with a joke about control groups that I took from @girlgenius.bsky.social by @kajafoglio.bsky.social and @thephilfoglio.bsky.social. Here is the joke in its original context:

www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?da...
June 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 317 | Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social on Why Neuroscience Hasn't Solved Brain Disorders. Or, why Bench to Bedside is harder than it sounds. #MindscapePocast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for podcast episode with Nicole Rust.
June 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
mihaitodor.bsky.social
Near Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin
Black kitty next to a wall with graffiti which says “be happier 4 feck sake”
May 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
mihaitodor.bsky.social
@sheabelsky.bsky.social was kind enough to interview me for his podcast. I was nervous about doing this, but I'm glad I took the offer. Thank you again! ❤️ open.spotify.com/episode/0SLQ...
Coding Interviews, ADHD, and Staying Focused with Mihai Todor
Autistic Techie · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 316 | Niayesh Afshordi @nafshordi.bsky.social and Phil Halper on The Big Bang and Before. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape episode with Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper.
May 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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thisismissem.social
This only has 36 reposts, but on the Fediverse it has 1.7k, are you really going to let them show more support on banning conversion therapy?

A practice that is massively harmful to the LGBTQIA+ population.

We need one more country past the threshold (we're at 6/7) and another 452,000 votes.
thisismissem.social Emelia @thisismissem.social · May 14
Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide.

It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.

It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

#europe #lgbtq #germany
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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thisismissem.social
Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide.

It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people.

It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban!

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

#europe #lgbtq #germany
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
May 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 314 | Karen Lloyd @karenlloyd.bsky.social on the Deep Underground Biosphere. Full of surprises for us surface-dwellers! #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for podcast episode with Karen Lloyd.
May 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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astrokatie.com
“The political environment in Russia made it hard to do science because everything was unpredictable. […] That type of uncertainty is incompatible with science, which requires the ability to plan what type of experiments and research you will do a year into the future.”
leafwarbler.bsky.social Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.bsky.social · May 13
Beautiful piece of science writing from an immigrant scientist who moved to the US to escape persecution as a dissident in Russia, only to end up in ICE detention. Gorgeous images too!

🎁🔗 #AbolishICE
Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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acollierastro.bsky.social
I forgot to post the video:
a target data story
YouTube video by Angela Collier
youtu.be
May 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM