Ian Holmes
@ianholmes.org
Berkeley professor (Bioeng, Compbio). Visiting Scientist at Calico. JBrowse genome browser / Apollo annotation editor, ML for gene regulation / molecular evolution / synbio. Occasional music, games, jokes
It’s not on topic for the OP but you reminded me I keep meaning to actually record this
![THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS THAT NEVER GO OUT - THE SMITHS / JEAN-LUC PICARD
Dm F G
Am G6 Am G6 F C G
Send me out tonight
Am G6
where there's weapons and Cardassians
Am G6 F C G
(they’re uncivilized)
Am G6 Am G6
Piloting your craft
F C
I never never want to go home
G Am G6 Am G6
because I haven't got one
F C G
any more
Send me out tonight
because I want to save people and I
want to see lights
Piloting your craft
oh please don't drop me home
because it's not my home, it’s theirs, and I’m
A pris’ner of war
[Chorus]
Dm F G
C Am
And if a trap is sprung on us
F
by a torturer
G C
To die by your side
F Dm G
Is such an Enterprise way to die
C Am
And if a ne-bu-la
F
kills the both of us
G C
To die by your side
F Dm G
The red shirt, the red shirt is mine
Take me out tonight
oh take me anywhere, I don't care
And in the dark of Celtris three
I thought Oh God, they’re gonna torture me
(but then a strange fear gripped me and I
just couldn't see)
Tell me there’s five lights
could be anywhere, I don't care, I don’t care, I don’t care
Just piloting your craft
I never never want to go home
because I haven't got one, oh I haven't got one
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November 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It’s not on topic for the OP but you reminded me I keep meaning to actually record this
Any chance you can identify the cultivar from this photo? It looks on the lighter side of the range you posted
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Any chance you can identify the cultivar from this photo? It looks on the lighter side of the range you posted
Bought a Durian because I’ve always wanted to try one fresh and man, this fruit is a practical joke on *multiple* levels
October 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Bought a Durian because I’ve always wanted to try one fresh and man, this fruit is a practical joke on *multiple* levels
Ok, here it is in the methodology. Divisions within Haitian and Cuban diaspora, and Gaza-connected antisemitism.
September 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ok, here it is in the methodology. Divisions within Haitian and Cuban diaspora, and Gaza-connected antisemitism.
Even “left wing violence is on the rise” is dubious when the supposed year-on-year increase is smaller than the annual fluctuations. This figure from the report pretty much condenses these points. (Though I am not sure why “ethnonationalism” doesn’t get counted as right wing here.)
September 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Even “left wing violence is on the rise” is dubious when the supposed year-on-year increase is smaller than the annual fluctuations. This figure from the report pretty much condenses these points. (Though I am not sure why “ethnonationalism” doesn’t get counted as right wing here.)
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Huh. I thought it was from Fallout
September 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Huh. I thought it was from Fallout
Say what you like about Disney, their ACIP coverage has been great
September 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Say what you like about Disney, their ACIP coverage has been great
Apart from all the racism, the tikka->ticket misspelling and the creative use of the word “immigration” and other grammar innovations here are quite something
September 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Apart from all the racism, the tikka->ticket misspelling and the creative use of the word “immigration” and other grammar innovations here are quite something
As if calculus wasn’t hard enough already
August 31, 2025 at 10:40 PM
As if calculus wasn’t hard enough already
Arya should have stabbed him
August 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Arya should have stabbed him
Harrowing and beautiful
August 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Harrowing and beautiful
Right as Mr C is resurrected…
August 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Right as Mr C is resurrected…
Birnbaum… memories. I’m guessing some of those spiral bound books are BBC manuals too. Lovely stuff. But how much mileage did you actually get out of “Advanced QL Machine Code”… be honest
August 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Birnbaum… memories. I’m guessing some of those spiral bound books are BBC manuals too. Lovely stuff. But how much mileage did you actually get out of “Advanced QL Machine Code”… be honest
Tired:
Getting tenure used to be a lot easier in the olden days
Wired:
Getting tenure used to be a lot easier in the olden days
Wired:
July 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Tired:
Getting tenure used to be a lot easier in the olden days
Wired:
Getting tenure used to be a lot easier in the olden days
Wired:
Secrets of Evo-Devo blown wide open
July 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Secrets of Evo-Devo blown wide open
What a fascinating and unsettling story. Benjamin Franklin also invented a synthetic phonic alphabet but (to my knowledge) never ran an uncontrolled unethical experiment teaching it to thousands of children. Maybe Robert Lowth’s prescriptivist grammar textbook is in the same ballpark
July 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
What a fascinating and unsettling story. Benjamin Franklin also invented a synthetic phonic alphabet but (to my knowledge) never ran an uncontrolled unethical experiment teaching it to thousands of children. Maybe Robert Lowth’s prescriptivist grammar textbook is in the same ballpark