Aizan
@aixnr.bsky.social
Daytime molecular fiend, nighttime panicking system calls. Scientist at a CRO specializing in precision oncology (URMC 2017-2022, NIH/NIAID 2022-2024). Smalltime F/OSS developer.
My brain and my eyes during vacation, while actively questioning my day job in lab.
Side project number 4 out of 11.
Side project number 4 out of 11.
December 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
My brain and my eyes during vacation, while actively questioning my day job in lab.
Side project number 4 out of 11.
Side project number 4 out of 11.
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Reposted by Aizan
Set your alarms and clear your inboxes: JavaScript for Everyone launches in 7 days, on October 14th.
The drafts are done, the editing is *nearly* complete and let us tell you, Mat has written a masterpiece.
Get alerted on launch day by signing up for updates: piccalil.li/javascript-f...
The drafts are done, the editing is *nearly* complete and let us tell you, Mat has written a masterpiece.
Get alerted on launch day by signing up for updates: piccalil.li/javascript-f...
October 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Set your alarms and clear your inboxes: JavaScript for Everyone launches in 7 days, on October 14th.
The drafts are done, the editing is *nearly* complete and let us tell you, Mat has written a masterpiece.
Get alerted on launch day by signing up for updates: piccalil.li/javascript-f...
The drafts are done, the editing is *nearly* complete and let us tell you, Mat has written a masterpiece.
Get alerted on launch day by signing up for updates: piccalil.li/javascript-f...
Reposted by Aizan
This captures much of the frustration of today.
September 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This captures much of the frustration of today.
Days spent collecting markers, clones, and fluorochromes from OMIPs. Human CD4 alone has 9 monoclonals raised against it.
The tables need more cleaning and processing. That said, this is a happy place where I can start cooking API endpoints.
The tables need more cleaning and processing. That said, this is a happy place where I can start cooking API endpoints.
September 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Days spent collecting markers, clones, and fluorochromes from OMIPs. Human CD4 alone has 9 monoclonals raised against it.
The tables need more cleaning and processing. That said, this is a happy place where I can start cooking API endpoints.
The tables need more cleaning and processing. That said, this is a happy place where I can start cooking API endpoints.
@davidrach.bsky.social thanks for uploading the lists!
August 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@davidrach.bsky.social thanks for uploading the lists!
Qwen3-Coder helped me write a browser extension that allows LLM to access the paper currently displayed on the screen, so I can ask question directly without scrolling up and down repeatedly like a madman.
August 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Qwen3-Coder helped me write a browser extension that allows LLM to access the paper currently displayed on the screen, so I can ask question directly without scrolling up and down repeatedly like a madman.
I did 15+ Boltz-2 runs during a single session before. Monitoring was tedious (nvidia-smi or nvitop), that then led me to baking a Prometheus exporter that scraped nvidia-smi. Still tedious because I needed to set up Grafana and Prometheus.
With o4 Mini's help, I wrote Goof.
With o4 Mini's help, I wrote Goof.
August 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I did 15+ Boltz-2 runs during a single session before. Monitoring was tedious (nvidia-smi or nvitop), that then led me to baking a Prometheus exporter that scraped nvidia-smi. Still tedious because I needed to set up Grafana and Prometheus.
With o4 Mini's help, I wrote Goof.
With o4 Mini's help, I wrote Goof.
Zig is fun. I statically linked CGO for my Golang project (that SQLite3 driver) and it just works.
just compile-static-linux
just compile-static-linux
August 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Zig is fun. I statically linked CGO for my Golang project (that SQLite3 driver) and it just works.
just compile-static-linux
just compile-static-linux
Going through some notes on flow cytometry fluorescence spillover and compensation, decided to make an interactive note for it in JavaScript.
Matrix multiplication and matrix inversion in JavaScript, hand-rolled. What could go wrong?
Matrix multiplication and matrix inversion in JavaScript, hand-rolled. What could go wrong?
July 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Going through some notes on flow cytometry fluorescence spillover and compensation, decided to make an interactive note for it in JavaScript.
Matrix multiplication and matrix inversion in JavaScript, hand-rolled. What could go wrong?
Matrix multiplication and matrix inversion in JavaScript, hand-rolled. What could go wrong?
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When dealing with pseudoscience, the devil is in the detail - in this case, narrowing down a specific "Lab Leak" hypothesis.
In Dr. Chan's @nytimes.com OpEd there is, however, a very specific hypothesis for COVID-19 origin.
It's a prime example of conspiracism vs empiricism, so let's dive in.
🧵
In Dr. Chan's @nytimes.com OpEd there is, however, a very specific hypothesis for COVID-19 origin.
It's a prime example of conspiracism vs empiricism, so let's dive in.
🧵
On the day of Dr. Fauci's testimony, @nytimes.com decides to run a deeply unethical OpEd with snazzy graphics and snappy headlines about the Lab Leak.
The article itself contains multiple falsehoods and deep mischaracterizations.
Let's take every point in turn 👇🧵
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The article itself contains multiple falsehoods and deep mischaracterizations.
Let's take every point in turn 👇🧵
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points
The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2024 at 7:35 PM
When dealing with pseudoscience, the devil is in the detail - in this case, narrowing down a specific "Lab Leak" hypothesis.
In Dr. Chan's @nytimes.com OpEd there is, however, a very specific hypothesis for COVID-19 origin.
It's a prime example of conspiracism vs empiricism, so let's dive in.
🧵
In Dr. Chan's @nytimes.com OpEd there is, however, a very specific hypothesis for COVID-19 origin.
It's a prime example of conspiracism vs empiricism, so let's dive in.
🧵
Reposted by Aizan
Washington Post under Trump: "151,000 jobs is solid"
Washington Post under Biden: "194,000 jobs is another weak month"
Washington Post under Biden: "194,000 jobs is another weak month"
March 8, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Washington Post under Trump: "151,000 jobs is solid"
Washington Post under Biden: "194,000 jobs is another weak month"
Washington Post under Biden: "194,000 jobs is another weak month"
Came back to Blender because BioRender/Inkscape frustrated me.
Here's a small attempt at visualizing ELISA. This is a very early stage.
Here's a small attempt at visualizing ELISA. This is a very early stage.
March 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Came back to Blender because BioRender/Inkscape frustrated me.
Here's a small attempt at visualizing ELISA. This is a very early stage.
Here's a small attempt at visualizing ELISA. This is a very early stage.
Reposted by Aizan
I have a confession
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I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
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I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
February 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I have a confession
.
.
.
I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
.
.
.
I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
It is very impressive that Anthropic Claude (3.5 Sonnet) knows that spillover characteristics for PE, PE-Cy5, and R718 into their corresponding detectors.
(weekend grokking into the algorithms as I was nerd-sniped earlier during the day)
(weekend grokking into the algorithms as I was nerd-sniped earlier during the day)
January 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It is very impressive that Anthropic Claude (3.5 Sonnet) knows that spillover characteristics for PE, PE-Cy5, and R718 into their corresponding detectors.
(weekend grokking into the algorithms as I was nerd-sniped earlier during the day)
(weekend grokking into the algorithms as I was nerd-sniped earlier during the day)
Friends, I have jumped to the other side.
January 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Friends, I have jumped to the other side.
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That time when antivaxxers thought so hard that they accidentally re-invented vaccines.
January 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
That time when antivaxxers thought so hard that they accidentally re-invented vaccines.
Reposted by Aizan
NIH folks - Excited to host Iwijn De Vlaminck at the #systemsbiology scientific interest group this morning! Spatial sequencing and host-pathogen and host-microbiome interactions.
Hope to see you there! NIH main campus - building 4, rm. 433 at 10AM.
Hope to see you there! NIH main campus - building 4, rm. 433 at 10AM.
December 3, 2024 at 11:54 AM
NIH folks - Excited to host Iwijn De Vlaminck at the #systemsbiology scientific interest group this morning! Spatial sequencing and host-pathogen and host-microbiome interactions.
Hope to see you there! NIH main campus - building 4, rm. 433 at 10AM.
Hope to see you there! NIH main campus - building 4, rm. 433 at 10AM.
@angelettilab.bsky.social oh hey happy to see you here!
November 18, 2024 at 1:07 PM
@angelettilab.bsky.social oh hey happy to see you here!
An experiment in progress to change the way I am consuming news beginning next year: bots, and tons of them.
November 17, 2024 at 5:21 PM
An experiment in progress to change the way I am consuming news beginning next year: bots, and tons of them.
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My blog’s footer had this cute lil’ Twitter bird that chomped on hover. Just replaced it with a flapping butterfly.
🐦 → 🦋
Gotta be honest, it’s not as good. But at least the Twitter migration is almost completed.
🔊 Sound on for this one! 🔊
🐦 → 🦋
Gotta be honest, it’s not as good. But at least the Twitter migration is almost completed.
🔊 Sound on for this one! 🔊
November 17, 2024 at 5:09 PM
My blog’s footer had this cute lil’ Twitter bird that chomped on hover. Just replaced it with a flapping butterfly.
🐦 → 🦋
Gotta be honest, it’s not as good. But at least the Twitter migration is almost completed.
🔊 Sound on for this one! 🔊
🐦 → 🦋
Gotta be honest, it’s not as good. But at least the Twitter migration is almost completed.
🔊 Sound on for this one! 🔊
Reposted by Aizan
I made a thing!
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something
Nightsky | hctr.dev
See live conversations from all over Bluesky as a dynamic night sky
nightsky.hctr.dev
November 16, 2024 at 11:05 PM
I made a thing!
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something
I was playing around with the AT protocol and as a little experiment I made a website that visualises activity around Bluesky: nightsky.hctr.dev
It listens to all new posts and shows them as little stars across a night sky 🌃
Every star is someone, somewhere, posting something