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eleanorahowe.bsky.social
Founder and CEO, Diamond Age Data Science. PhD bioinformatics. Drug discovery, science fiction, knitting, cats, aquariums. She/her.
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Is this it? www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

I am currently using all of my mental cycles to consider how this applies outside of the arts. Because it clearly does.

Hope to see you all in Seaport on March 20!

Beyond thrilled that @maddow.msnbc.com used my pictures this evening. I hope it helps.

The protest downtown today was well attended. Big thanks to everybody who showed up on a chilly day. 1/?

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Just did this to my Senator in as Southern an accent as I could dredge up.

I’m putting together a post on what’s going on in the trenches in various parts of the NIH. Anyone who would like to share experiences (anonymously!) can reach me at Dblowe.18 on Signal

Yes! Folks, spread the word. You can buy ebooks from indie bookstores now at bookshop.org!

Writing the last bit of a new novel and I came up with what I think is an excellent putdown: "he was two birds short of a turducken" #amwriting

Anybody trying to market to me should understand that I am extremely aggressive with the "report spam and block" buttons. The best way to make me never hear from you again is to send me unsolicited email.

It is cold season here in the States, and also the Holiday season. For both reasons, you need to know that there is such a thing as a portable sauna. It's a little one-person pop-up tent with a steamer attachment.

If I can tell that your AI assistant is reading and (incorrectly) responding to my emails, I will supplement future messages with long, derailing passages from The Lord of the Rings or The Stand.

Naomi Kritzer has elevated the snarky gift guide to an art form.

Definitely not just a problem for academics!

It was lovely to catch up with all of my friends and colleagues at the @westorg.bsky.social Women on Wednesdays social. Their Bsky account is new, but you should follow them if you want notification of their excellent programming! Job hunters: there are some great events coming up!

I'm getting lots of inquiries these days about finding a compbio job. This is the worst job market I've seen or heard of, and possibly the worst market since Bioinformatics became a field of its own.

Stolen from another poster on here, but: Pretty telling that it's the techbros convinced we're on the precipice of achieving immortality, and not the biologists.