Jason McDermott
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biodataganache.bsky.social
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
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
5 seconds of the current news seems to do the trick
October 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Gosh how helpful
September 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
One out of 3 ain't bad Google News.
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Ok. It really is bad.
September 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Knock, knock.
Who is it?
Spi-door dash
September 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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
Well this is weird mashup of Forged in Fire and STTNG
July 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My James Bond villain name is all squared I guess
May 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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)
April 4, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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
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...
March 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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
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
Sure… Sure
February 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Pizza IS my love language
February 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Thanks AI! Another bang-up job done!
February 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Using the bathroom in my hotel room and seemed to just slowly start forgetting everything…
February 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Here's how my morning is going. I'm Alice, the one on the right that is.
January 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I feel like this has to be one of the four horseman of late stage capitalism?
January 29, 2025 at 2:07 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!
January 22, 2025 at 8:35 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...
January 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Gonna tel my kids this was ChatGPT
December 27, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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
🎶 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
Thinking a lot about this profound existential message here
December 23, 2024 at 8:20 PM