Oliver Levine 🏳️⚧️
@oliverlevine.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Bioinformatics. Wife guy, cute animal aficionado, board gamer, TTRPG GM, transing my gender (any/all).
Can someone explain to me how I managed to misplace a six foot ladder between Monday and today
July 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Can someone explain to me how I managed to misplace a six foot ladder between Monday and today
Is there an exchange policy on bodies? The whole hypermobility thing sounded cool on paper but I've decided I'd like one that doesn't throw its shoulder out every time I play pickleball or something
June 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Is there an exchange policy on bodies? The whole hypermobility thing sounded cool on paper but I've decided I'd like one that doesn't throw its shoulder out every time I play pickleball or something
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A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .
Reposted by Oliver Levine 🏳️⚧️
Transposable element enthusiasts at #Evol2025, please come by posters I12 on 6/22 and E17 on 6/23 to chat about horizontal transfer of Ty elements in yeast and oliverlevine.bsky.social's new method to predict TE insertions in pangenomes.
June 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Transposable element enthusiasts at #Evol2025, please come by posters I12 on 6/22 and E17 on 6/23 to chat about horizontal transfer of Ty elements in yeast and oliverlevine.bsky.social's new method to predict TE insertions in pangenomes.
Just got my copy of the Magus and the Oracle by @momatoes.com and very excited for it!
June 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Just got my copy of the Magus and the Oracle by @momatoes.com and very excited for it!
The fan being *on* has not deterred these birds from trying to nest on it. Their solution? More nests.
Suggestions? 😂
Suggestions? 😂
May 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The fan being *on* has not deterred these birds from trying to nest on it. Their solution? More nests.
Suggestions? 😂
Suggestions? 😂
I recently had a scientist I respect very much tell me that knowledge is outdated now that we have chatgpt. And while I disagree lol, I will give him one thing. Chatgpt is way more helpful for R code than any human person who has ever known R. 😂
May 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I recently had a scientist I respect very much tell me that knowledge is outdated now that we have chatgpt. And while I disagree lol, I will give him one thing. Chatgpt is way more helpful for R code than any human person who has ever known R. 😂
This agrees with my personal notion that the reason I'm trans is because I never had a woman's self-preservation instinct 😂
The correct answer to someone asking the fatuous ontological question "What is a woman?" is always "Someone who keeps her drink covered when a genital obsessed creep like you is in the room."
Yes, that includes the Supreme Court.
Yes, that includes the Supreme Court.
April 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This agrees with my personal notion that the reason I'm trans is because I never had a woman's self-preservation instinct 😂
Do you think they made high school kids representing the US in model UN this year skip out on participating in the model world health organization?
April 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Do you think they made high school kids representing the US in model UN this year skip out on participating in the model world health organization?
Man why do people from Facebook marketplace never show up? I just want to give you free stuff
April 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Man why do people from Facebook marketplace never show up? I just want to give you free stuff
My cat is sooo happy when I wake up early 😂
April 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
My cat is sooo happy when I wake up early 😂
Man it sure is a shame I don't work on every scientific problem I ever hear someone talk about
April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Man it sure is a shame I don't work on every scientific problem I ever hear someone talk about
What's the statute of limitations on labratory dress code violations? Asking for a friend
March 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What's the statute of limitations on labratory dress code violations? Asking for a friend
I had better OPSEC at 14 years old about the fact that I liked girls than the white house has about classified military secrets lmao
March 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I had better OPSEC at 14 years old about the fact that I liked girls than the white house has about classified military secrets lmao
Who needs title IX protections anyway amiright?
(This is a joke)
(This is a joke)
1. In a devastating ruling, the traditionally progressive 9th Circuit Court has allowed Idaho's bathroom ban for trans students.
They rule that "common experience" is enough to assume trans students are a harm to cis ones.
The panel was majority Dem appointed.
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They rule that "common experience" is enough to assume trans students are a harm to cis ones.
The panel was majority Dem appointed.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
9th Circuit Upholds Bathroom Ban, Says Trans Students Violate Cis People's Privacy
The ruling, the first of its kind, asserts that the rights of cisgender people to not have a transgender person in the same bathroom are more important than the equal protection of trans students.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Who needs title IX protections anyway amiright?
(This is a joke)
(This is a joke)
Waiting for @erininthemorning.com to post about the substack article she posted three seconds ago so I can reskeet it
March 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Waiting for @erininthemorning.com to post about the substack article she posted three seconds ago so I can reskeet it
When your dream postdoc comes out much too early. Congratulations and I hate you to whoever manages to snag this one!
Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project.
Read more and apply here:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#phage #bioinformatics
Read more and apply here:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#phage #bioinformatics
Postdoctoral research fellow with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of bacteriophage-host interactions
Description of the Workplace In the Atkinson lab we are interested in making discoveries about protein function and structure, with a focus on bacterial immune system components that protect against b
lu.varbi.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
When your dream postdoc comes out much too early. Congratulations and I hate you to whoever manages to snag this one!
So, what do flat earthers think a lunar eclipse is?
March 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
So, what do flat earthers think a lunar eclipse is?
@wtyppod.bsky.social Bought a sticker at one of your live shows a couple years ago and wasn't able to rescue it from my old laptop... Any chance y'all will be doing another printing?
March 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
@wtyppod.bsky.social Bought a sticker at one of your live shows a couple years ago and wasn't able to rescue it from my old laptop... Any chance y'all will be doing another printing?
If you need a little pick me up at the beginning of your commute, I highly recommend setting your phone's language to Dutch. Their word for "work" is "werk" and I think that's wonderful.
March 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If you need a little pick me up at the beginning of your commute, I highly recommend setting your phone's language to Dutch. Their word for "work" is "werk" and I think that's wonderful.
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Me when my ecologist buddy catches me stealing a roll of his flagging tape
March 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Me when my ecologist buddy catches me stealing a roll of his flagging tape
This article is really very good, and in my opinion, optimistic and encouraging... despite the dire tone & situation we find ourselves in.
"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change."
New for @undark.org
undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
New for @undark.org
undark.org/2025/03/06/o...
How Science Can Adapt to a New Normal
Opinion | In the wake of attacks on the research enterprise, scientists need to focus on protecting its fragile infrastructure.
undark.org
March 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This article is really very good, and in my opinion, optimistic and encouraging... despite the dire tone & situation we find ourselves in.
Look at this sweet kitty 🥺
March 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Look at this sweet kitty 🥺
Woke scientists and our transgenic mice amiright
March 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Woke scientists and our transgenic mice amiright
I think I will be adding Sjogren's to my Ankylosing spondylitis-related disease symptomatology and let me tell you it is a trip to wake up and your eyes, mouth, throat, and other less savory parts of your body all feel like sandpaper lmao.
March 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I think I will be adding Sjogren's to my Ankylosing spondylitis-related disease symptomatology and let me tell you it is a trip to wake up and your eyes, mouth, throat, and other less savory parts of your body all feel like sandpaper lmao.