Rob Syme
robsyme.bsky.social
Rob Syme
@robsyme.bsky.social
Scientist of sorts. Australian, living in Quebec, working for a Spanish startup.
Interested in crop genomics, data, reproducibility, provenance, and data publishing. Big Nextflow fan.
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The @nextflow.io training is in full swing in Durham, North Carolina!🌟 Excited to have you all here

Missed out? Next week we're hosting our final Nextflow Training Week of 2025!🎓 Free, online, and self-paced. Plus a chance to earn a completion certificate! 📃 hubs.la/Q03T1Qpb0
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Oh big deal, it's not like soybean is *checks notes* the 2nd biggest crop in the US and is *turns page* currently under threat by a major pest
June 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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We are looking for a postdoc in #EvolutionarySystemsBiology.
Exciting science, amazing team, wonderful city!
landrylab.ibis.ulaval.ca/research-opp...
#evolution #synbio #systemsbiology #genomics
Research opportunities | Landry Lab
landrylab.ibis.ulaval.ca
February 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
An absolute pleasure to chat all things @nextflow.io with the CSHL teams. There are very few places with such a rich history of high quality science and education. We really appreciated the invitation, Jason 🙏
Starting our very first @nextflowio @SeqeraLabs training @CSHL hosted by @DNALC
January 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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WE DID IT. My new zine “How Git Works" is out now!

You can get it here for $12: wizardzines.com/zines/git/
May 31, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"
November 12, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Was brainstorming with my partner on an abstract for an upcoming (legal) conference. I provided Claude with our discussion and two abstract drafts and asked it to turn it into an executable python script. It makes more sense than an executable conversation about legal materiality has any right to!
November 12, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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Highlights from the 2024 Nextflow Summit and nf-core hackathon in Barcelona blog.stephenturner.us/p/nextflow-s...
Nextflow Summit Barcelona 2024
Highlights from the 2024 Nextflow Summit and nf-core hackathon in Barcelona
blog.stephenturner.us
November 4, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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This week's recap highlights protein design with RoseTTAFold, surveillance with wastewater sequencing, T2T human genomes, Vitessce for visualization of multimodal spatial single-cell data, and Taxometer for taxonomic classification of metagenomics contigs... blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec... 🧬🖥️
Weekly Recap (Oct 2024, part 4)
Protein design with RoseTTAFold, wastewater sequencing T2T human genomes, single-cell spatial transcriptomics, taxonomic classification, ...
blog.stephenturner.us
October 25, 2024 at 10:07 AM
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I'm thrilled to share that our department, UMD CS, is hiring. We are looking for folks broadly across all areas (including bioinformatics / comp bio!) and ranks! Please feel free to reach out if you're interested. Posting below: ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124...
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA is recruiting to fill multiple tenure-track faculty positions, with starting dates on or after July 1, 2025. The...
ejobs.umd.edu
October 17, 2024 at 6:30 PM
The first community Advanced
Nextflow
training sessions come out today! Starting in a few hours, registrations here: nf-co.re/events/2023...

Huge thanks to the
@nf-co.re team. See you there!
September 27, 2023 at 10:20 AM