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Steven Sutcliffe
@ssutcliffe.bsky.social
Microbiologist turned bioinformatician. Public Health and Pathogen Surveillance
Love love love this album. A perfect piano album for Sunday
November 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In Canada, Alberta and Quebec are charging for the COVID vaccines. Looks like Canada is running a realtime experiment on vaccine access
October 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I haven't settled on my music setup yet, but currently trying to have android, Sonos, apple music, LastFm, and PlexAmp all play nice is a nightmare.
October 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

We're hiring a Research Project Manager to join our #THRiVElab team at U. Manitoba.

📍 Winnipeg or Remote (in Canada)
💰 Up to $85k
🔗 Apply: www.umanitoba.ca/careers (#38881)
🌐 About us: www.thrivediscovery.ca/staff-positi...

Know someone perfect for this? Please boost or share! 🙏
June 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
In my journey of exiting music streaming services, I noticed how much my music habits changed. I feel in love with making playlists: having all the world's music at my fingertips. Back to albums!
September 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Decided to cancel my Spotify and host my pre-streaming days music library on a mini-pc! Might just bust out the iPod classic!
August 28, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Today's commit history show a hilarious spiral of trying to implement a simple feature. Thankfully I have the weekend to flush all the cortisol from my brain and try again on Monday.
July 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sometimes I look at the locations of predatory conference invites and think "well that could be a nice city to visit"
May 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
An interesting and important read. Communicating between agencies and governments is essential for improving surveillance. A paper covering pipelines for genomic surveillance www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multi-country and intersectoral assessment of cluster congruence between pipelines for genomics surveillance of foodborne pathogens - Nature Communications
In the era of global foodborne pathogens’ genomic surveillance, this study shows that large-scale inter-laboratory comparisons are needed and feasible, opening good perspectives for efficient and coop...
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
As a dad, do I make a request for the world war history books or is it granted to me automatically when I turn 40?
April 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anyone using ARM computers for bioinformatics? Tried the other day, but the support for conda/docker was crippling for pipeline development
March 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
When I am not doing science, I make playlists. I've been continuously making one called "the sunday afternoon radio" for that relaxed coffee sipping vibe, take a listen! open.spotify.com/playlist/221...
the Sunday afternoon radio
Playlist · Steven Sutcliffe · 220 items
open.spotify.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Good explainer on measles, immunity and the current Texas outbreak.

As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really?
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really?
Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.
www.npr.org
March 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Some albums creep into my heart -- been listening to caroline's "S/T" debut for three years now. But today, it really sunk its teeth. For fans of post-rock, folk, and midwest emo caroline.bandcamp.com/album/caroline
caroline, by caroline
10 track album
caroline.bandcamp.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Terrific example of how US health is intertwined w/ the rest of the globe.

"Seasonal flu vaccines need to be updated each year bc the virus changes so frequently. But the US hasn't contributed its information on what's spreading there since Jan., a World Health Organization (WHO) official said."🛟🧪
U.S. hasn't sent essential seasonal flu data to WHO ahead of key vaccine meeting | CBC News
Seasonal flu vaccines need to be updated each year because the virus changes so frequently. But the U.S. hasn't contributed its information on what's spreading there since January, a World Health Orga...
www.cbc.ca
February 20, 2025 at 11:39 PM
GenX "music snob" recommendation algorithm: "only the albums before they got big and sold out"
February 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Scarlett fever is going around, and I am so grateful for antibiotics. I will never take them for granted
January 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Been on the building and testing of the pipeline side for a minute, but finally returned the joy of running a big analysis. Go lil' machine, crunch that big dataset!
January 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We asked for climate change action but instead we outsourced meme generation to AI
January 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Discovering we have moved from the era of "make sure you have batteries for toys on Christmas" to "make sure you pre-downloaded the app for Christmas"
December 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Getting my flu/COVID vaccines, meanwhile I have a toddler at daycare
December 1, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Any Canadian Microbiology bluesky starter packs out there?
November 26, 2024 at 9:20 PM
My bluesky feed is finally taking off! Might start using it actively now!
November 17, 2024 at 3:39 PM
In my new position I don't do any data viz, and I feel like all my ggplot skills are silently slipping away...
October 23, 2024 at 12:58 PM