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Just a random jaded scientist. Formerly trained in computational phylogenomics and metagenomics and currently working on cancer genomics and drug development. Ph.D.
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Ray Vaughn just released his debut album. Great story telling and great production, highly recommend! Look @ God is a banger. You can check out his freestyle he did on the radio here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBEt... Album here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIyz... #hiphop

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Court DISSmals are not was I was expecting in 2025. Whole document is gold. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

My 6yo randomly said "I hate racists" and I told him, yeah that's right we shouldn't like racists and should support equality. He paused and followed up with, "I mean that thing when we run a lot"

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cup

submitted 300 days ago • 88 comments

Collected river water to make jarquarium with my son and was amazed to see hydras in the water. Never actually seen one myself and didn't realize how easy they are to find and that they are bug enough to see with the naked eye #invert

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Shareable link to @carlzimmer.bsky.social article in NYTimes on serious concerns over mirror bacteria, published in Science today. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/s...

submitted 154 days ago • 9 comments

In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.

submitted 188 days ago • 435 comments

part of the growing pains of every community, social media, etc is "what do we do with people who are pretending to be kind, saying the right things, and technically not doing anything wrong right now but are still ontologically evil" and the answer is "stop playing their game and ban them"

submitted 159 days ago • 53 comments

My 6yo son made a sculpture and my wife painted it. When they showed me their creation, I was screaming inside while saying "Good job!"

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

Reupping this since the explosion in members here. I’m looking to recruit PhD candidates to work with me in #Bioinformatics and thr human #microbiome Details 👇 Please share 😁 www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments

"I'm not gonna lie, this shit was um, some good exercise, like it's good to get out and get the pen working." - Drake

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

“Drake has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group and Spotify over allegations that the two companies conspired to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us.’” www.billboard.com/pro/drake-um...

submitted 171 days ago • 832 comments

Will you help @bolts.bsky.social reach 50K mark on here before week is out? We’re so close! Here’s why you should: We’re a small but mighty team of journalists, determined to report and guide you thru the local officials & institutions that shape nation’s approach to democracy & criminal justice.

submitted 172 days ago • 20 comments

Kendrick with this album:

submitted 174 days ago • 31 comments

Please share: A tenure-track position for a virologist studying zoonotic infections is open in my department in Virginia Tech's College of Veterinary Medicine. We are a collegial and outstanding group of basic and clinical scientists with outstanding resources. DM with questions t.co/Bq3c2NooaV

submitted 180 days ago • 2 comments

Sharing small bit of joy in this cursed world. Was amazed yesterday morning when I played uke chords to my 6yo and he was able to name them by sound only.

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Pedestrian Observations: Why Texas High-Speed Rail is Stuck pedestrianobservations.com/2024/10/20/w... @randomperson.bsky.social

submitted 207 days ago • 1 comment

Launched this fundraiser yesterday to help Asian American grassroots groups get out the vote among Asian American voters in key swing states - and y'all have already pushed it to $724! Can we get to $2K today? Pls do share and support if you can! ❤️ secure.actblue.com/donate/gp-aa...

submitted 218 days ago • 3 comments

PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

submitted 228 days ago • 404 comments

Trying to analyze .CEL files for CNV segmentation and need to find genomewidesnp6_libraryfile.zip for the CDF file. Every link is to affymetrix site no longer exists and cannot find this file on Thermofisher. Closest is GenomeWideSNP_6-na35-annot-csv.zip. Love some help! 🖥️🧬

submitted 238 days ago • 1 comment

To celebrate 10M users in Bluesky I made mascot for it It's sleep depraved butterfly with sharp teeth and bloodthirst and the name is Bluey

submitted 240 days ago • 86 comments

So glad to move over to BlueSky as soon as I could and find a great community of scientists, reporters, and other random people bringing joy and knowledge instead of hatred, racism, and sexism.

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