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Anna Syme
@annasyme.bsky.social
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Bioinformatics, evolution, genomes, and the Galaxy platform. Also special interest of the day: the undeciphered Harappan script
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mfmazuecos.bsky.social
A meme for #phylogenetics people.
September 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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hannuoskala.fi
HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND

Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.

This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻

A little background 🧵 1/

yle.fi/a/74-20174831
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
yle.fi
July 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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jsantoyo.bsky.social
Building pangenomes for domesticated and wild tree species: genomic complexity and strategies. #Pangenomes #TreesGenomes @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
annasyme.bsky.social
This course is so good, thanks @missphilbin.bsky.social! thecrashcourse.com/courses/cras...
Crash Course Computer Science Preview
Carrie Anne Philbin will be hosting Crash Course Computer Science! In this series, we're going to trace the origins of our modern computers, take a closer look at the ideas that gave us our current ha...
thecrashcourse.com
July 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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b0rk.jvns.ca
it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow!

here's the table of contents:
1. SHELL cast of characters meet the shell PATH PATH tips history job control filename tips stdin/stderr/stdout redirects 2. TERMINAL EMULATOR meet the terminal emulator escape cdoes colours the mouse copy & paste TERM 3. PROGRAMS types of programs less editing text in REPLs keyboard shortcuts 4. TTY DRIVER meet the TTY driver stty canonical mode
June 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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auskoz.bsky.social
#auspol
Petition opposing Scott Morrison's Order of Australia
www.change.org/p/stop-scott...
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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rrwick.bsky.social
New blog post!
In it, I benchmark the new version of Dorado from @nanoporetech.com, which comes with new DNA basecalling models. Short version: big accuracy gains for hac, small improvements for sup.
Check it out for the full results:
rrwick.github.io/2025/05/27/d...
Dorado v1.0.0 and the v5.2.0 basecalling models
a blog for miscellaneous bioinformatics stuff
rrwick.github.io
May 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
annasyme.bsky.social
Just told ChatGPT it sounded like a boomer
chatgpt being offended
May 13, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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vikramshivakumar.bsky.social
Excited to share our latest work on comparing and visualizing multiple genome assemblies to identify conservation and structural variation in pangenomes with Mumemto! Check out poster 250 at #bog25 if you are here. New preprint coming very soon 👀
May 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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credittodubois.com
whan antony green says you've lost before 8:30 without working computers
May 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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nihildev.bsky.social
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.

www.ourhealthroi.com
Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
www.ourhealthroi.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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nihildev.bsky.social
I saw @kejames.bsky.social make a comment. I realized that unlike the normal pithy “just code it!” comments, this one had a ton of weight behind it. A website that addresses a need at a pivotal moment in history? And the API is easy to call? Yeah, she was right.
Comment thread on bluesky - Karen James - free idea: a website where you enter the name of your disease/injury/condition/procedure and get shirts, stickers, signs, etc with “NIH grant # saved my life.” MB Brown - excellent Idea! A few more examples: my kid’s life was saved by NIH grant [number]
April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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thejuicemedia.com
Peter Dutton made a new election ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol
Honest Peter Dutton Ad
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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April 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
theshot.net.au
April 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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galaxyproject.bsky.social
⏰ Only 5 days left! ⏰

Submit your abstract for GBCC2025 by April 1st. Don't miss the chance to share your research and expertise at Cold Spring Harbor!

Learn more, submit your abstract, and register: gbcc2025.bioconductor.org
March 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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tomorrowx3.bsky.social
I want the life all the hot young people in my French workbooks were living. Go to the cafe, ask how Arnaud is doing.
March 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
annasyme.bsky.social
Quantum Wordle! I'm just posting this to look smart. github.com/matttavares9...
GitHub - matttavares9/quantum-wordle: A quantum computing twist on the classic word-guessing game Wordle!
A quantum computing twist on the classic word-guessing game Wordle! - matttavares9/quantum-wordle
github.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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galaxyproject.bsky.social
Reminder: tomorrow (March 26, 1:00 EDT) is a BRC-Analytics/Galaxy webinar where we will update you on what's new in Galaxy and BRC-Analytics, including demonstrations of running transcriptomics and surveillance analysis workflows. Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/j/93960440173

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March BRC Analytics infographic
March 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
annasyme.bsky.social
Washing machine detergent compartments are usually labelled "I" for prewash and "II" for main wash. But sometimes it's the reverse. Either could be the larger one. How would one know? Somebody should do something @linny123.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
annasyme.bsky.social
easily delete all your old tweets and unfollow everyone: github.com/lucahammer/t...
GitHub - lucahammer/tweetXer: Delete all your Tweets for free
Delete all your Tweets for free. Contribute to lucahammer/tweetXer development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:40 AM
annasyme.bsky.social
Indus Valley script may have evolved from Sumerian? youtu.be/dClYybZLF4o?... #specialinterest
Indus Valley Script's Ancestor found using AI
YouTube video by Peter Revesz
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March 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
annasyme.bsky.social
Wednesday afternoon
text for chatgpt
March 12, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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adrianaguatame.bsky.social
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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plantphys.bsky.social
Mitochondrial DNA and the largest nuclear-mitochondrial DNA in Arabidopsis can be separated by their methylation levels (Yuyang Zhong, Miki Okuno, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi, Shin-ichi Arimura) doi.org/10.1093/plph... @ASPB #PlantScience
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February 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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theonion.com
Dolphin Spends Amazing Vacation Swimming With Stockbroker
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Dolphin Spends Amazing Vacation Swimming With Stockbroker
February 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM