James Fellows Yates
jfy133.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy
James Fellows Yates
@jfy133.genomic.social.ap.brid.gy
Bioinformatician in #Metagenomics, #Palaeogenomics / #aDNA, #Microbiomes. Loving #nextflow and #OpenScience. @MPI_EVA_Leipzig / @LeibnizHKI. Core team member of […]

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🙏 I want to acknowledge @NFDI4Microbiota @deNBI cloud, @seqeralabs @nextflowio Ambassador Program, and WorkAdventu.re for their various infrastructure support of the event

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December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
@joeroe Looking forward to meeting you!

My recent train trips have been some of my most productive/enjoyable 😅.
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Reposted by James Fellows Yates
It might seem intuitively more empowering to generate a thing that works without issues, but it's not! It's empowering to make a thing you understand.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Reposted by James Fellows Yates
Spicy take:

Normal people shouldn't self host.

From an energy use perspective, the users per watt are WAY higher in a data center.

People are already awful at running patches and doing security updates.

OMG are people awful at doing backups.

From an ewaste POV, consumer electronics just […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
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October 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM