Jason McDermott
@biodataganache.bsky.social
Computational biologist, sometime candy maker, dad jokes, some artwork too. Opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer. See also: @redpenblackpen.bsky.social
ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-2961-2572
ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-2961-2572
5 seconds of the current news seems to do the trick
October 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
5 seconds of the current news seems to do the trick
Gosh how helpful
September 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Gosh how helpful
One out of 3 ain't bad Google News.
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Ok. It really is bad.
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Ok. It really is bad.
September 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
One out of 3 ain't bad Google News.
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Ok. It really is bad.
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Ok. It really is bad.
Knock, knock.
Who is it?
Spi-door dash
Who is it?
Spi-door dash
September 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Knock, knock.
Who is it?
Spi-door dash
Who is it?
Spi-door dash
Oh nothing, just me in my microbiology office, preparing to do microbiology stuff, in my new microbiology fit
August 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Oh nothing, just me in my microbiology office, preparing to do microbiology stuff, in my new microbiology fit
Well this is weird mashup of Forged in Fire and STTNG
July 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Well this is weird mashup of Forged in Fire and STTNG
My James Bond villain name is all squared I guess
May 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
My James Bond villain name is all squared I guess
qrt with your favorite and/or most creative scientific poster
Here's one that I just made to connect comptuational tools I'm developing or helping to develop for a recent workshop. Hand drawn (except the obvious parts that aren't)
Here's one that I just made to connect comptuational tools I'm developing or helping to develop for a recent workshop. Hand drawn (except the obvious parts that aren't)
April 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
qrt with your favorite and/or most creative scientific poster
Here's one that I just made to connect comptuational tools I'm developing or helping to develop for a recent workshop. Hand drawn (except the obvious parts that aren't)
Here's one that I just made to connect comptuational tools I'm developing or helping to develop for a recent workshop. Hand drawn (except the obvious parts that aren't)
Oh yeah: our new Persistence Landscape preprint has fun figures too! These are ala @redpenblackpen - though you note they are not *simply* red and black, but also contain OTHER *wild* colors.
April 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Oh yeah: our new Persistence Landscape preprint has fun figures too! These are ala @redpenblackpen - though you note they are not *simply* red and black, but also contain OTHER *wild* colors.
Read about some cool stuff @sargoshoe.bsky.social and I are doing! Biology’s “dark matter” is proteins & molecules whose roles are not understood. At PNNL, we use network biology to map hidden interactions, illuminating it for medicine, bioengineering, and bioeconomy
www.pnnl.gov/news-media/u...
www.pnnl.gov/news-media/u...
March 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Read about some cool stuff @sargoshoe.bsky.social and I are doing! Biology’s “dark matter” is proteins & molecules whose roles are not understood. At PNNL, we use network biology to map hidden interactions, illuminating it for medicine, bioengineering, and bioeconomy
www.pnnl.gov/news-media/u...
www.pnnl.gov/news-media/u...
My poster for the AFOSR Advancing Space Biotechnology through Whole-Cell Models and Functional Annotation Workshop today. A great day of working on big science problems with a bunch of very smart people. Viva la scientia!
March 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
My poster for the AFOSR Advancing Space Biotechnology through Whole-Cell Models and Functional Annotation Workshop today. A great day of working on big science problems with a bunch of very smart people. Viva la scientia!
Well, it happened. Simplified and now human and machine readable. The years of puns have finally paid off. IYKYK
March 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Well, it happened. Simplified and now human and machine readable. The years of puns have finally paid off. IYKYK
Pizza IS my love language
February 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Pizza IS my love language
Thanks AI! Another bang-up job done!
February 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thanks AI! Another bang-up job done!
Using the bathroom in my hotel room and seemed to just slowly start forgetting everything…
February 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Using the bathroom in my hotel room and seemed to just slowly start forgetting everything…
Here's how my morning is going. I'm Alice, the one on the right that is.
January 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Here's how my morning is going. I'm Alice, the one on the right that is.
I feel like this has to be one of the four horseman of late stage capitalism?
January 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I feel like this has to be one of the four horseman of late stage capitalism?
Well thank you Delta - I will be sure to set my travel plans by .... <checks notes> ... absolute-garbage-groupings-determined-by-the-arrangement-of-stars-in-the-time-I-was-born in the future!
January 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Well thank you Delta - I will be sure to set my travel plans by .... <checks notes> ... absolute-garbage-groupings-determined-by-the-arrangement-of-stars-in-the-time-I-was-born in the future!
Shout out to Hot Tub concocted papers at #psb2025! Our Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Comics arose from a hot tub hypothesis with @yanabromberg.bsky.social - "Hey, I bet we could write a paper on scientific comics!" @pacsym.bio
Do you have any 'hot tub' papers?
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Do you have any 'hot tub' papers?
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
January 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Shout out to Hot Tub concocted papers at #psb2025! Our Ten Simple Rules for Scientific Comics arose from a hot tub hypothesis with @yanabromberg.bsky.social - "Hey, I bet we could write a paper on scientific comics!" @pacsym.bio
Do you have any 'hot tub' papers?
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Do you have any 'hot tub' papers?
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Gonna tel my kids this was ChatGPT
December 27, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Gonna tel my kids this was ChatGPT
Final #ArtAdventCalendar is a drawing I did just now from the mountains in Colorado. Happy holidays and see everyone next year! (iPad/Procreate)
December 26, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Final #ArtAdventCalendar is a drawing I did just now from the mountains in Colorado. Happy holidays and see everyone next year! (iPad/Procreate)
🎶 Christmas (eve) Twin Falls Idaho is her oldest memory, she was only two - it’s the first time she felt blue 🎶 - kids and I making a Built To Spill pilgrimage - 🎶 Cafeteria Harrison Elementary… 🎶
December 24, 2024 at 3:34 PM
🎶 Christmas (eve) Twin Falls Idaho is her oldest memory, she was only two - it’s the first time she felt blue 🎶 - kids and I making a Built To Spill pilgrimage - 🎶 Cafeteria Harrison Elementary… 🎶
Thinking a lot about this profound existential message here
December 23, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Thinking a lot about this profound existential message here