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Olin Silander
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Finally verkko 2.0 is out! github.com/marbl/verkko Waiting for your bug reports;)

My dream for 46 t2t scaffolds on the de novo human genome assemblies out of the box is still a dream, but for some samples we are really close.
February 8, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Alright, algae grow lights now working and user settable. System is undergoing an overnight blank run (with caps on) and then a real world test in a shaker with ecoli. So excited to be at the finish line!

Go MiniSpecs gooooooo 💚
November 30, 2023 at 1:11 AM
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Let me know if you anticipate hiring in the area of microbiology, evolutionary biology, behaviour. Thanks!
🇳🇿 News about the cuts is starting to trickle out of Massey. Based on what my sources are saying: Not sure if there will be anything left of the plant sciences. The Genome Service will go away - with flow on effects to those remaining researchers that rely on it.
Horrible for those with roles cut. 😭
October 2, 2023 at 3:07 AM
If you work at a thing for 25 years, it inexorably becomes part of your identity. For me that thing was the freedom to ask new and interesting questions in biology. When you lose that thing, you lose part of your identity. Today Massey Uni told the Auckland biology staff they have ~3 months left.
October 2, 2023 at 8:59 AM
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bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...
September 28, 2023 at 2:27 PM
That happy feeling when you read a 2023 paper with the Methods noting: "A custom Perl script was used..." and think to yourself "aha, old people like me *can* still make useful contributions."
August 29, 2023 at 4:10 AM
Bad data scientists use excel. Good data scientists use python. great data scientists use python *in* excel. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blo...
August 24, 2023 at 10:34 PM
initial commit
August 20, 2023 at 4:02 AM