Guppy Stott is looking for a postdoc position
@guppy-stott.bsky.social
(they/e) Bioinformatics PhD student @ UGA studying influenza phylodynamics. CWA-UCWGA Union member. Scicomm, phylogenetics, segmented genomes, and public health are all pretty nifty. All views stated are my own and do not represent UGA.
glstott.github.io
glstott.github.io
The absurdity of not being able to use a .gov site as a reliable source anymore.
Weaponization of the premier public health agency in the country for personal clout and gain. The CDC website should not be trusted given the fact that it is controlled by people who will profit from spurious and false attempts to link vaccines to autism.
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
Autism and Vaccines
Answers to common questions about vaccine safety and autism.
www.cdc.gov
November 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The absurdity of not being able to use a .gov site as a reliable source anymore.
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resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists"
linktr.ee/apply_heat
linktr.ee/apply_heat
@apply_heat | Linktree
Show up for our neighbors
linktr.ee
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists"
linktr.ee/apply_heat
linktr.ee/apply_heat
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“Data available upon reasonable request” is academic language for you can get my data OVER MY DEAD BODY
November 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Data available upon reasonable request” is academic language for you can get my data OVER MY DEAD BODY
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Both Texas A&M and Indiana University should lose accreditation.
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Both Texas A&M and Indiana University should lose accreditation.
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Cornell has folded to the fascists.
Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding:
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
statements.cornell.edu
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Cornell has folded to the fascists.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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GISAID has been a terrible repository from day one. Any database with owners that act capriciously against researchers for sharing their opinions is a bad database. As things continue to get worse, we probably need to consider when it becomes irresponsible to promote GISAID by using their data.
I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
GISAID has been a terrible repository from day one. Any database with owners that act capriciously against researchers for sharing their opinions is a bad database. As things continue to get worse, we probably need to consider when it becomes irresponsible to promote GISAID by using their data.
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🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...
To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health
Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...
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Covering this as a national ban is absolutely correct, and is the only framing that it needs to be. Its horrifying. There's no reason to think they'd stop at kids too.
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Covering this as a national ban is absolutely correct, and is the only framing that it needs to be. Its horrifying. There's no reason to think they'd stop at kids too.
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Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny - Communications Biology
Phylogenetic and machine learning analyses reveal that bats (order: Chiroptera) are not a group with uniform viral epidemic potential: virulence, transmissibility, and death burden cluster within dist...
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
This Saturday and Sunday, the International Society of Nonbinary Scientists will be hosting its first symposium. Check out these three public flash talk events where nonbinary researchers from across scientific disciplines will present their work. Join us to learn about enbies doing cool science!
October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This Saturday and Sunday, the International Society of Nonbinary Scientists will be hosting its first symposium. Check out these three public flash talk events where nonbinary researchers from across scientific disciplines will present their work. Join us to learn about enbies doing cool science!
Final committee meeting... DONE. Defending in the first week of April, so if you're looking for postdocs or know someone who is, let me know!
October 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Final committee meeting... DONE. Defending in the first week of April, so if you're looking for postdocs or know someone who is, let me know!
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Does anyone have a textbook recommendation for teaching genomics (including recent technologies for genome assembly and annotation) to undergraduate/graduate students?
October 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Does anyone have a textbook recommendation for teaching genomics (including recent technologies for genome assembly and annotation) to undergraduate/graduate students?
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Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats
A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.
www.dispatch.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
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“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.”
— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog
— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog
October 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.”
— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog
— Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog
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i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
September 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in
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This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation
www.nytimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...
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Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization.
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
September 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization.
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
Honestly, the fact a 1/2 semester ethics course was considered sufficient for my PhD is appalling. Having talked to many a scientist, I'm pretty confident that all of us need at least a couple years of *just* humanities.
My esteemed colleague who has suggested the universities drop that humanities has also previously written about how he doesn't think his grants should have to cover maternity leave, so I feel that perhaps, I am going to not even touch this one 😇
August 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Honestly, the fact a 1/2 semester ethics course was considered sufficient for my PhD is appalling. Having talked to many a scientist, I'm pretty confident that all of us need at least a couple years of *just* humanities.
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Re: sci-comm you ingest: how much open condemnation of administration & anti-science American culture is helpful?
I debate this constantly, *trying* to inform & not alienate the people who need to hear it MOST but I have also fucking HAD it. Frog pot is at a roiling boil & some ppl won't listen
I debate this constantly, *trying* to inform & not alienate the people who need to hear it MOST but I have also fucking HAD it. Frog pot is at a roiling boil & some ppl won't listen
August 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Re: sci-comm you ingest: how much open condemnation of administration & anti-science American culture is helpful?
I debate this constantly, *trying* to inform & not alienate the people who need to hear it MOST but I have also fucking HAD it. Frog pot is at a roiling boil & some ppl won't listen
I debate this constantly, *trying* to inform & not alienate the people who need to hear it MOST but I have also fucking HAD it. Frog pot is at a roiling boil & some ppl won't listen
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Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.
August 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.
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The sort of energy I bring to the workplace:
August 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The sort of energy I bring to the workplace:
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Some great new features and updates from the awesome Pathoplexus project. This is a new open pathogen genome database that can provide access to your sequences under a use-restricted license but also feed directly in to INSDC (EBI, Genbank etc) when you are ready. pathoplexus.org/news/2025-07...
Pathoplexus | Pathoplexus July Update
Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering global collaboration and public health response.
pathoplexus.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Some great new features and updates from the awesome Pathoplexus project. This is a new open pathogen genome database that can provide access to your sequences under a use-restricted license but also feed directly in to INSDC (EBI, Genbank etc) when you are ready. pathoplexus.org/news/2025-07...
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
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I think it's worth bringing up this site again for those who are job hunting in bioinformatics. github.com/lskatz/aweso...
GitHub - lskatz/awesome-bioinformatics-jobs: Resources for bioinformatics jobs
Resources for bioinformatics jobs. Contribute to lskatz/awesome-bioinformatics-jobs development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I think it's worth bringing up this site again for those who are job hunting in bioinformatics. github.com/lskatz/aweso...