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Frank Hause
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PhD student at Institute of Molecular Medicine at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Hüttelmaier lab)

Molecular Biology | Complex Systems | Data Science | Bayesianism | Ordinary Language Theory | Liberal Democracy
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The gentle rays of morning hint at summer’s end.
Foggy morning view of a cable-stayed bridge with a tall central pylon and multiple suspension cables, silhouetted against the rising sun shining through the mist, with tram lines and street lamps in the foreground.
October 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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What reading through the reviewer comments feels like.

#AcademicSky 🧪
A Baroque-style painting showing a man in a brown monastic robe looking upward toward three angels who are holding up a large golden tablet inscribed with ornate sacred letters.
September 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Obviously, the system will be there for you—whether you like it or resist it. 🧪 #AcademicSky #PhilSci
Cover of Michel Foucault’s “Power/Knowledge,” featuring a flimsy golden paper crown—symbolizing how authority often masquerades as legitimacy. A book for those who know the system rules you even while you’re critiquing it.
May 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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The Selfish Gene is full of wild ideas—but strangely, the one about memes replicating like genes might just be the sanest of the bunch. 🧪 #AcademicSky #PhilSci
The cover of The Selfish Gene (40th Anniversary Edition) by Richard Dawkins. Dawkins explores evolution from the gene’s perspective, arguing that natural selection favors genes that maximize their own replication, shaping the behavior of organisms, including altruism, as a strategy for gene survival.
May 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Behold the lab rules! 🧪 #PhDLife
A humorous safety sign titled ‘Fortress Health and Safety’ shows a stylized human figure impaled with various swords and daggers all over the body, with the caption: ‘Always use protective clothing. In emergency call surgeon.’ The illustration is a darkly comic warning about neglecting safety precautions.
April 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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In terms of network topology analysis, this weekend has been wildly productive. 🧪 🧬 🖥️ #AcademicSky
Radar plot titled "Metrics for TP53" displaying six centrality-related metrics across twelve biological categories. The metrics—Degree, Betweenness, Closeness, PageRank, Eigenvector, and LFD—are represented by different colored lines. Each axis represents a biological category, and values range from 0% to 100%. Peaks in the plot show how TP53 varies in importance or association across these categories depending on the metric.
March 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Sorry, couldn’t resist…
A hand-drawn anime-style illustration inspired by Studio Ghibli shows Angela Merkel with short, light brown hair, wearing a mustard-colored coat with round buttons. She is mid-scream as several colorful parrots—green with red and blue plumage—perch on her arms, shoulders, and a small cup she’s holding. The scene is set in a lush, green aviary-like garden with soft lighting and a glasshouse structure in the background. This whimsical artwork is a reinterpretation of the famous photograph of Merkel at a bird park, where she was hilariously ambushed by parrots while feeding them.
March 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Some lovely exhibits at the Mathematical-Physical Cabinet in Dresden 🧪
A deconstructed astrolabe. A clock showing the current time of 360 places on earth A moon globe A collection of burning/magnifying glasses
March 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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This somehow reminds me of a very humble German politician.
Bavarian Minister-President Markus Söder is sitting at a wooden table, wearing a dark suit over a light-colored shirt. He is holding a large chocolate Easter egg decorated with a portrait of himself, smiling in a suit and tie against a green outdoor background.
March 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I was never great at math in school or university—but with modern AI and LLMs, I finally have some explanations I need to start approaching complex systems. Today, AI won’t replace a great teacher, but it might just be the tipping point I needed to push further on my own. 🧪 🧬 🖥️ #AcademicSky #PhilSci
Cover of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz, Second Edition—an all-time classic in the study of complex systems. The title is displayed in large serif font, with the subtitle ‘With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering’ in smaller blue text. Below, the author’s name is in blue. The cover features a geometric, fractal-like design of interwoven, arrow-shaped patterns in red and gold against a black background, symbolizing complexity and chaos.
March 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Memes don’t just shape culture—they transcend biological systems, influencing evolution itself. Like genes, they might exploit scale-free networks, steering adaptation across neural, social, and even genomic landscapes. Maybe information, not just life, is what evolves. 🧪 🖥️ 🧬 #AcademicSky #PhilSci
The cover of The Selfish Gene (40th Anniversary Edition) by Richard Dawkins. Dawkins explores evolution from the gene’s perspective, arguing that natural selection favors genes that maximize their own replication, shaping the behavior of organisms, including altruism, as a strategy for gene survival.
March 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Triff mich hier, wo ich mich vor den beunruhigenden Nachrichten unserer Zeit verstecke #Anno1800 #Halle
Screenshot aus dem Spiel Anno 1800: Eine Stadtansicht mit symmetrisch angeordneten Wohnhäusern, Straßen und einer zentralen Marktplatzstruktur. Oben im Bild ist eine Benutzeroberfläche mit Ressourcenanzeige und Stadtinformationen zu sehen. Der Stadtname ist 'Halle (Saale)', mit der Beschreibung 'Originelle Hafenstadt' – eine humorvolle Abweichung von der realen Geografie.
March 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Visualizing multiple GSEA analyses in one figure is tricky! Here’s my proposal for the problem. Better ideas? 🧪 🧬🖥️ #AcademicSky #MedSky
A heatmap displaying GSEA Normalized Enrichment Scores (NES) for hallmark pathways in proteomics data. The x-axis represents three comparisons: KO vs. WT, RE vs. KO, and RE vs. WT. The y-axis lists hallmark pathways. NES values are color-coded, with pink indicating enrichment (positive NES) and turqoise indicating depletion (negative NES).
February 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Maybe gene networks built from paper abstracts via topic modeling are a solid starting point for network topology analysis?! 🧪 #AcademicSky #Bioinformatics
The image contains two bar charts. Left Chart: Most Frequent Tokens After Preprocessing This horizontal bar chart displays the most common words (tokens) after text preprocessing, ranked by frequency. The top words include "gene," "cell," "express," "cancer," "tumor," "regul," "activ," "transcript," and "protein." The x-axis represents the frequency of token occurrences, while the y-axis lists the tokens. "Gene" is the most frequent token, followed closely by "cell." Right Chart: Topic Distribution in Classified Gene Sets This vertical bar chart presents the number of gene sets classified under different biological topics. The x-axis represents topics, including "Molecular Oncology & Biomarkers," "Metabolic Regulation," "Apoptosis & Stress Response," "Hematopoiesis & Immune Response," "Tumor Progression & Metastasis," "Stem Cell Differentiation," "Signaling & Growth," "Genomic Alterations & Epigenetics," "Gene Regulation," and "Gene Expression Analysis." The y-axis shows the number of gene sets per category. "Molecular Oncology & Biomarkers" has the highest number of gene sets, while "Gene Expression Analysis" has the lowest among the listed topics. Both charts use blue bars for visualization, with labeled axes and titles.
January 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The meme features Captain Janeway and Lieutenant Paris from Star Trek: Voyager in a humorous exchange. Janeway looks at Paris and says she heard he has tattoos all over his shoulders and back. Paris confirms this and adds that sometimes, when people are sad, he lets them color in the tattoos. Janeway, appearing puzzled, asks why he would do that. Paris replies with a calm expression, “Sometimes people just need a shoulder to crayon.” The final panel shows Janeway with a sad, close to crying expression.
December 24, 2024 at 8:21 AM
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Just finished Uri Alon’s Introduction to Systems Biology—really inspiring for future projects in #omics Modeling and a should-read for anyone working on biological regulatory networks 🧪
Book cover of U. Alon‘s “An Introduction to Systems Biology“
December 18, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions really shaped how I see science: a journey of paradigms, crises, and chaotic progress. An all-time classic for long winter evenings. 🧪 📖
Book cover of T.S. Kuhn‘s „The Structure of Scientific Revolutions“
December 15, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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Eine mit Duct-Tape auf einer weißen Wand befestigte Banane, die bei einer kürzlich stattgefundenen Kunstauktion Höchstpreise erzielte.
November 30, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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Feldschlachten nur echt mit Kampfmagiern
Foto vom Mönch von Lützerath, der vor im Schlamm feststeckenden Polizisten steht
November 29, 2024 at 7:34 AM
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How do you prefer to receive or share long lists of results, such as enrichment analyses or gene lists? Whether it's in tables, summaries, figures, interactive formats, or something else—what works best for you? #omics #dataanalysis 🧪
Table showing enrichment analysis results with columns labeled as ID, Description, GeneRatio, BgRatio, pvalue, p.adjust, geneID, Ontology, and Module. The table lists biological processes, molecular functions, and pathways with associated statistics such as p-values and adjusted p-values. The table is crowded, dense, and visually overwhelming, making it difficult to comprehend and grasp if many results are presented simultaneously.
November 27, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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A classic.
A scatter plot with random blue data points scattered across the graph, showing no clear pattern or trend. Despite the randomness, a black line is drawn diagonally through the data, suggesting a linear trend. Above the plot, a caption reads “Scientists be like”.
November 24, 2024 at 8:09 PM
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"completely irrelevant"

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Paragraph from a recent paper: "As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although they are completely irrelevant to the present work."
November 17, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Repost with a pic you have saved that you haven't found a use for
A blue road sign on the border between Spain and Andorra with a circle of yellow stars, reminiscent of the European Union flag, labeled "ANDORRA," suggesting EU membership; however, Andorra is not a member of the EU.
December 2, 2023 at 6:47 PM
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Fair …
November 29, 2023 at 9:31 PM
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Geht gar nicht!
Mittelfinger für an Land kriechenden Fisch
November 24, 2023 at 6:20 AM