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jbonfield.bsky.social
Walker, archer, and volunteer woodland warden by weekend, and bioinformatics software engineer and general geek by weekday. My favourite prime is 15551, my favourite colour is, obviously, octarine, and I love nothing more than being immersed in nature.
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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

submitted 4 days ago • 190 comments

The person who should be expelled is the toadying lickspittle who did the most cursory of due diligence before proposing that the scientifically illiterate eugenics-adjacent Musk should be elected in the first place.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

my thoughts on the destructive chaos targeting university research right now. Btw I've left @forbes and moved to @SubstackInc, where all my content is free: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/the-pointl...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

If you can see this, quote this sentence with a beach photo from your gallery. (East Anglia. I don't do beach crowds!)

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Oops 😬

submitted 23 days ago • 1038 comments

Last week, after looking for a film to watch on Amazon Prime, I settled on Civil War (www.imdb.com/title/tt1727...). This week I'm thinking it's even more near the knuckle with some of the trends of how an authoritarian leader works. Scary. (A good film btw and not at all what I was expecting.)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It's all gone. They've taken down all the CDC datasets from data.cdc.gov Data that's critical for public health & research. Data paid for by citizens. That the government now censors. "Do not fear those who tell the truth. Fear those who try to hide it. They are willing to sacrifice other things."

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

When your fortune cookie is menacing. Nice life you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it. lol

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

www.science.org/content/arti... This is madness, and also scary control freakery

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

submitted 40 days ago • 289 comments

Hillary Clinton laughing at Donald Trump babbling about wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America is every sane person's response. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 42 days ago • 334 comments

Conference spam: is there a curated email black list of known conference spammers and predatory / fake journals? Most of my spam comes from these sources. You know that *they* know they're spam when they start changing to unicode fonts to obfuscate things like "to unsubscribe..."

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

40 years ago all of Genbank was published in print form by NAR. The same format today would require over 4 light seconds of shelf space. To a year of progress in 2025.

submitted 64 days ago • 16 comments

Today I found the most stunning colour on a fallen tree. Lichen maybe? As a bonus it even had it's own colony of bees (still semi active at 5°C). #natureuk #bees #lichen #wildlife #potton

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

A few potential words of the day: Joblijock: a disturber of domestic peace (small children, cantankerous uncles, etc). Yule-hole: the furthest notch in your belt that you need to resort to at Christmas. Confelicity: joy in other people’s happiness. Merry Christmas.

submitted 68 days ago • 128 comments

I'm not at all religious, but I do find having a strong connection to the environment is good. Maybe it's what some would call spiritual, but I just find joy in being so grounded and emersed in nature. It's worth trying, and a great antidote to technology all day :) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

submitted 165 days ago • 23 comments

About SMEGGING time! www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

If you're attempting to build htslib / samtools / bcftools and are getting C99 errors, please build with the `-std=gnu99` compiler flag. We finally dragged ourselves into the 21st century and started using some more C99 features :-). Or better yet, just upgrade that ancient compiler! lol

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Who knew it was this low? 🤣

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Data showing the top 16% of remote workers outperform the top 5% in-office, while the bottom 12% underperform the bottom 5% in-office, makes sense. Top performers thrive with extra time from no commute, but underperformers struggle without oversight. RTO penalizes top talent for others’ inability.

submitted 95 days ago • 39 comments

The Global Biodata Coalition has an open letter campaign to show support for sustainable funding for biodata resources. Please take a minute to read and decide if you want to sign globalbiodata.org/open-letter-... #biocuration #bioinformatics

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

@tescoofficial.bsky.social: "Every Little Helps". Just not every little bit of maths!🤣 (I checked the packaging and both claim to be 10g each, so they're the same weight at least.) I think it's perhaps some cunning pointless-plastic tax, of which I approve!

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

"Any pleasure I may take in the distinction of [being a Royal Society fellow] is diminished by the fact it is shared with someone who appears to be modelling himself on a Bond villain" www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

submitted 98 days ago • 8 comments

I think I'm *finally* getting somewhere on acceptance of use of C99 features at work. There was some disapproval yesterday, but no mention today. Wearing them down. :) One day we'll be in the new millenium!

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment