Dennis Hazelett
@vigocarpathian.bsky.social
Prof of Computational Biomedicine. Cancer Research. Author of "Open letter to graduate students: it's time to write." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02584-1 200k+ downloads
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An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write
Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write
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I wrote something... about writing. #ScientificWriting to be exact, but I think it applies to all kinds of #writing.
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Indeed, I fear the tech industry and our government are pushing this further apart
Life situations are bleak right now for a lot of people. In tech, the "Venn Diagram" of (1) positive work and (2) making enough money to support your family is increasingly non-overlapping. We all do what we can.
This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.
This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.
October 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Indeed, I fear the tech industry and our government are pushing this further apart
It's been a day
October 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It's been a day
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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
October 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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The Nobel Peace Committee sent a clear message to someone else in awarding the Prize to Ms. Machado:
”But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, …is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.” 👏
”But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, …is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.” 👏
October 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Nobel Peace Committee sent a clear message to someone else in awarding the Prize to Ms. Machado:
”But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, …is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.” 👏
”But democracy is also in retreat internationally. Democracy – understood as the right to freely express one’s opinion, …is the foundation of peace both within countries and between countries.” 👏
Today in our @cedarssinai.bsky.social PhD program, I am lecturing about the history of #epigenomics. We cover seminal experiments by the labs of Allfrey, Kornberg, Allis & Grunstein, ending with ENCODE, Kellis and the histone code. Such an amazing field and a beautiful, revolutionary story!
September 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Today in our @cedarssinai.bsky.social PhD program, I am lecturing about the history of #epigenomics. We cover seminal experiments by the labs of Allfrey, Kornberg, Allis & Grunstein, ending with ENCODE, Kellis and the histone code. Such an amazing field and a beautiful, revolutionary story!
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ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”
@wsj.com
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September 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/opinion/they...
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Come do neuroscience in Oregon! 🌲🧠 @uoregon.bsky.social University of Oregon has 3 TTF neuro positions open across departments, with applications due around mid-October.
#UOResearch #Neuroskyence #academicsky
#UOResearch #Neuroskyence #academicsky
September 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Come do neuroscience in Oregon! 🌲🧠 @uoregon.bsky.social University of Oregon has 3 TTF neuro positions open across departments, with applications due around mid-October.
#UOResearch #Neuroskyence #academicsky
#UOResearch #Neuroskyence #academicsky
I really enjoyed this perspective on Cancer journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
The end of the genetic paradigm of cancer
Genome sequencing results and single-cell transcriptomics continue to produce findings that challenge the idea that cancer is purely a ‘genetic disease’. This Essay delves into cancer omics data that ...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I really enjoyed this perspective on Cancer journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
MS Word let no one accuse you of lacking a sense of humor... #spellcheck
September 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
MS Word let no one accuse you of lacking a sense of humor... #spellcheck
A fun #scifi piece looking at timely issues at the intersection between #AI and Biology by my colleague Patrick Martin www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A rude awakening
Just breathe.
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September 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A fun #scifi piece looking at timely issues at the intersection between #AI and Biology by my colleague Patrick Martin www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Well, I'm just gonna change topics and note that my expensive new ASUS router is bathing my house in so much WiFi that I just got a tan and the cat is losing her fur
September 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Well, I'm just gonna change topics and note that my expensive new ASUS router is bathing my house in so much WiFi that I just got a tan and the cat is losing her fur
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Visit the Strengthen UO dot org site to find out more and for links to petition, pre-filled letter to UO administrators (all very highly paid), and links to contact state legislators about this undermining of University goals and state well-being.
August 31, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Visit the Strengthen UO dot org site to find out more and for links to petition, pre-filled letter to UO administrators (all very highly paid), and links to contact state legislators about this undermining of University goals and state well-being.
No Boundary Thinking (NBT) emphasizes the need for training in #MachineLearning and #ArtificialIntelligence across disciplines, not just in Computer Science and Math. We must build a Human Infrastructure to address this need #NationalAICampus biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
No-boundary thinking in bioinformatics research - BioData Mining
Currently there are definitions from many agencies and research societies defining “bioinformatics” as deriving knowledge from computational analysis of large volumes of biological and biomedical data...
biodatamining.biomedcentral.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
No Boundary Thinking (NBT) emphasizes the need for training in #MachineLearning and #ArtificialIntelligence across disciplines, not just in Computer Science and Math. We must build a Human Infrastructure to address this need #NationalAICampus biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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I will be sleeping like a baby 😴
August 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I will be sleeping like a baby 😴
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Did you know the Cedars-Sinai’s New PhD in Health AI Program earned accreditation earlier this year? www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced... #artificialintelligence #healthAI #healthIT #bioinformatics #phd #gradschool #compsci
Cedars-Sinai’s PhD in Health AI Program Earns Accreditation
The newly established PhD in Health Artificial Intelligence (AI) program in Cedars-Sinai’s Health Sciences University has earned accreditation from the Senior College and University Commission of the ...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Did you know the Cedars-Sinai’s New PhD in Health AI Program earned accreditation earlier this year? www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/ced... #artificialintelligence #healthAI #healthIT #bioinformatics #phd #gradschool #compsci
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The war on knowledge doth continue
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
August 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
The war on knowledge doth continue
As a researcher it is important to record your thoughts in real time. You don't have to be right, you can change your mind. You just need to be actively thinking, and in #science and #STEM and pretty much everything else, #writingisthinking.
August 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
As a researcher it is important to record your thoughts in real time. You don't have to be right, you can change your mind. You just need to be actively thinking, and in #science and #STEM and pretty much everything else, #writingisthinking.
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POV: your kids loaded their own dishes.
August 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
POV: your kids loaded their own dishes.
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This was 2003. Since 2013 there’s been no excuse… www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...
TIL the original paper describing CRISPR, by Francisco Mojica, was rejected by 4 journals and took 2 years to be published
![CRISPR as a microbial immune system
In 2003, Mojica wrote the first paper suggesting that CRISPR was an innate microbial immune system. The paper was rejected by a series of high-profile journals, including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Microbiology and Nucleic Acids Research, before finally being accepted by Journal of Molecular Evolution in February, 2005.[3][4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73aicoale2mqwrap63rdzwep/bafkreibu3dburfn527r3sbu2ov6y7gebv6zopaznagnfytjtsn6y4k7cs4@jpeg)
August 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This was 2003. Since 2013 there’s been no excuse… www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...
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I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
August 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
August 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
The Far Side. We shall never see its like again
August 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The Far Side. We shall never see its like again
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Living with a dog is 90%
following each other around, watching each other go potty, and wondering what the other has in their mouth.
following each other around, watching each other go potty, and wondering what the other has in their mouth.
August 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Living with a dog is 90%
following each other around, watching each other go potty, and wondering what the other has in their mouth.
following each other around, watching each other go potty, and wondering what the other has in their mouth.