Russell Neches
@ryneches.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Kyoto University: Evolution & ecology of viruses & microbes with a side of graph theory & machine learning.
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Interactions between plant pathogens (left) and plants across five quadrats in a restored species-rich grassland. The basic premise of my PhD is to see if these interaction networks differ between restored and ancient grasslands.
#FungiFriends #NetworkEcology
#FungiFriends #NetworkEcology
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Interactions between plant pathogens (left) and plants across five quadrats in a restored species-rich grassland. The basic premise of my PhD is to see if these interaction networks differ between restored and ancient grasslands.
#FungiFriends #NetworkEcology
#FungiFriends #NetworkEcology
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Everything old is new again.
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Everything old is new again.
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Don't know if any of you have ever been tempted to use Evernote, but any company that eliminates their free tier AND makes current users subscribe to extract their own data is little better than a protection racket in my book.
October 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Don't know if any of you have ever been tempted to use Evernote, but any company that eliminates their free tier AND makes current users subscribe to extract their own data is little better than a protection racket in my book.
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Just collecting seagrass seeds with Gina Chaput at @ucdavis.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just collecting seagrass seeds with Gina Chaput at @ucdavis.bsky.social
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Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers
It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously
One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously
One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers
It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously
One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously
One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
SuchTree 1.3 is out! If you want to build metrics that include a phylogenetic component (like UniFrac), SuchTree is a fast, memory efficient, thread-safe way to load massive trees, link them to your data structures, and query them. Now with awesome documentation & working examples! suchtree.vort.org
SuchTree
A Python library for doing fast, thread-safe computations with phylogenetic trees.
suchtree.vort.org
October 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
SuchTree 1.3 is out! If you want to build metrics that include a phylogenetic component (like UniFrac), SuchTree is a fast, memory efficient, thread-safe way to load massive trees, link them to your data structures, and query them. Now with awesome documentation & working examples! suchtree.vort.org
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I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.
October 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.
L’shana tovah u’metukah, everyone. I had some things to say, so I said them. medium.com/@ryneches_31...
A new year’s message
My great grandfather Solomon began his life as a rabbi at Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem under the waning rule of the Ottoman Empire. In…
medium.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
L’shana tovah u’metukah, everyone. I had some things to say, so I said them. medium.com/@ryneches_31...
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Thank you @jeffjarvis.bsky.social for saying this.
Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC
September 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Thank you @jeffjarvis.bsky.social for saying this.
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This is not how preventative interventions work.
No individual knows that their death was prevented by vaccine. Many people get COVID and dp not die. Was this due to vaccine?
Modeling and statistical estimates are the ways to estimate the impacts.
His desire for "real data" is real bullshit.
2/2
No individual knows that their death was prevented by vaccine. Many people get COVID and dp not die. Was this due to vaccine?
Modeling and statistical estimates are the ways to estimate the impacts.
His desire for "real data" is real bullshit.
2/2
September 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is not how preventative interventions work.
No individual knows that their death was prevented by vaccine. Many people get COVID and dp not die. Was this due to vaccine?
Modeling and statistical estimates are the ways to estimate the impacts.
His desire for "real data" is real bullshit.
2/2
No individual knows that their death was prevented by vaccine. Many people get COVID and dp not die. Was this due to vaccine?
Modeling and statistical estimates are the ways to estimate the impacts.
His desire for "real data" is real bullshit.
2/2
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imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
August 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
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The Problem with Huge Cars: A Thorough Investigation
YouTube video by Julian O'Shea
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August 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
@ericswalwell.bsky.social Hey Eric. I've been a huge fan of yours over the years, but I'm so disappointed with your reaction to Mamdani's primary win.
I'm Jewish. My great grandfather was born and raised in Jerusalem. I am absolutely on board with Mamdani's position on Israel. It's common sense.
I'm Jewish. My great grandfather was born and raised in Jerusalem. I am absolutely on board with Mamdani's position on Israel. It's common sense.
June 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
@ericswalwell.bsky.social Hey Eric. I've been a huge fan of yours over the years, but I'm so disappointed with your reaction to Mamdani's primary win.
I'm Jewish. My great grandfather was born and raised in Jerusalem. I am absolutely on board with Mamdani's position on Israel. It's common sense.
I'm Jewish. My great grandfather was born and raised in Jerusalem. I am absolutely on board with Mamdani's position on Israel. It's common sense.
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Core to our approach is that people's personal risk differs considerably -- a senior white male professor with tenure is more secure than a visiting scholar from the majority world, for example. Hence we structure possible actions around a personal risk assessment: 7/12
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Core to our approach is that people's personal risk differs considerably -- a senior white male professor with tenure is more secure than a visiting scholar from the majority world, for example. Hence we structure possible actions around a personal risk assessment: 7/12
@transportevolved.bsky.social Hey folks, I was just wondering if you're planning to do a rundown of V2X hardware anytime soon. There are now a few units out there, but almost every that turns up in search engines is nonsense marketing garbage. Halp?
June 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
@transportevolved.bsky.social Hey folks, I was just wondering if you're planning to do a rundown of V2X hardware anytime soon. There are now a few units out there, but almost every that turns up in search engines is nonsense marketing garbage. Halp?
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Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
June 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
Hey! If you have some real-world experience using using FAMSA for multiple sequence alignment, I'm curious if you found that it lives up to the accuracy claimed in the paper.
www.nature.com/articles/sre...
www.nature.com/articles/sre...
FAMSA: Fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment of huge protein families - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - FAMSA: Fast and accurate multiple sequence alignment of huge protein families
www.nature.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Hey! If you have some real-world experience using using FAMSA for multiple sequence alignment, I'm curious if you found that it lives up to the accuracy claimed in the paper.
www.nature.com/articles/sre...
www.nature.com/articles/sre...
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As a follow-up to the Kaiser interview, here is my exchange with Dr. Bhattacharya starting Sunday evening...
1/n
1/n
May 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
As a follow-up to the Kaiser interview, here is my exchange with Dr. Bhattacharya starting Sunday evening...
1/n
1/n
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So, I am at an nice # of observations on @inaturalist.bsky.social at 66,665 & I want my next to have some extra meaning. But I don't want to rig things too much. So here are 4 pics I am choosing from an outing yesterday - one of which will be my 66,666 observation. Which should it be?
May 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
So, I am at an nice # of observations on @inaturalist.bsky.social at 66,665 & I want my next to have some extra meaning. But I don't want to rig things too much. So here are 4 pics I am choosing from an outing yesterday - one of which will be my 66,666 observation. Which should it be?
If you're wondering where America is at in terms of how it's seen by folks around the world, I just got pulled asside by the owner of my favorite coffee shop in Kyoto. He wanted to know if my family was OK, and if I was applying for residency and if I needed a guarantor.
That's where we're at.
That's where we're at.
April 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
If you're wondering where America is at in terms of how it's seen by folks around the world, I just got pulled asside by the owner of my favorite coffee shop in Kyoto. He wanted to know if my family was OK, and if I was applying for residency and if I needed a guarantor.
That's where we're at.
That's where we're at.
On a scale of 1-10, how reasonable is it to write in a review, "How do you address XKCD 927?"
April 18, 2025 at 5:44 AM
On a scale of 1-10, how reasonable is it to write in a review, "How do you address XKCD 927?"
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.