Stevie Ped
smped.bsky.social
Stevie Ped
@smped.bsky.social
🇦🇺 They/Them. Biological data nerd & Bioconductor contributor. Black Ochre Data Labs. Intermittent musician.

Interested in Bioinformatics, Aboriginal Health, Covid Research, Transgender Rights & Politics. You'll get all of those from me at random
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Wonderful week at ABACBS and BioCAsia conferences in Adelaide, Australia.

Thanks everyone who joined the workshop on Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor, you made it awesome!

@abacbs.bsky.social
@bioconductor.bsky.social

#ABACBS2025
#BioCAsia2025
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Client-side bioinformatics workshop done ✅ massive thanks to legends @lonsbio.bsky.social @lfeatherstone.bsky.social @torstenseemann.bsky.social #ABACBS2025
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Last workshop for ABACBS and BiocAsia. Really great turnout and material, led by Ning, Nora and Monika. Great way to finish a top notch week
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Melody giving us all the goods on how to use jazzPanda for spatial transcriptomics.

#abacbs2025 #biocasia
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The Euro Bioc 2026 in Turku is official!
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's Super Euro Bioc man...
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Really great turnout for the ABACBS + BiocAsia workshops today & tomorrow. Huge thanks to all the presenters, especially @tuomasborman.bsky.social who travelled all the way from Finland, to teach us everything about Microbiome analysis in BIoconductor
Workshops underway this morning! #ABACBS2025
November 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Thanks to the amazing Adelaide Bioinformatics community for making #ABACBS2025 an amazing event. We couldn’t have done it without you. A few more days of workshops to go before the festival finishes for another year 😀
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Representing EuroBioC2026 at the @abacbs.bsky.social Conference this week.

The next European @bioconductor.bsky.social Conference will be in Turku, Finland!

#ABACBS2025
#EuroBioC2026
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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A great discussion today at #ABACBS2025 on the evolving landscape of research funding in Australia. Insightful perspectives, thoughtful questions, and a much needed conversation for our research community. @abacbs.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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The Albanese Government is about to rush through a bill which, Australia Institute research shows, would fast-track 94 new fossil fuel projects.

This will undermine environmental protections and lock in emissions for decades.
#auspol
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Jianan Wang from Peter Mac introducing us to a new demultiplexing method CMDdemux.
#ABACBS2025 @abacbs.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Ok; mim (github.com/COMBINE-lab/...) preprint submitted! Excited for folks to see it and share thoughts. The key takeaway; mim allows the quick, one-time, building of a small auxiliary index that then allows scaling gzipped FASTQ parsing linearly in # of threads. 1/2
GitHub - COMBINE-lab/mim: A small, auxiliary index to massively improve parallel fastq parsing
A small, auxiliary index to massively improve parallel fastq parsing - COMBINE-lab/mim
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Join us Thu 11 Dec, 5:30pm at The Clyde rooftop (Carlton) for the R-Ladies+ Melbourne end-of-year meetup! 🌟

Celebrate 2025 highlights, connect with the community, and hear from 5 inspiring mentors across public health, genomics, bioinformatics & software. Register on Meetup!

buff.ly/McL9fs1
End of Year Networking Event 2025 - In Person Only! , Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup
🎉 **R-Ladies End-of-Year Celebration!** 🎉 Please join us on Thursday 11th December 2025 on the **rooftop** at The Clyde Hotel in Carlton from 5.30pm. This is a networkin
www.meetup.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Don’t forget to vote on the peoples choice poster away using the QR codes hung around the poster area. Tomorrow is a different set of posters. #ABACBS2025
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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#confbingo was always a great part of ABACBS #abacbs2025, and in honour of the celebrations of the society this year, it's back! Terms have been updated from the last iteration in 2018, but if there are any great suggestions let me know. Get your card and play along

confbingo.shinyapps.io/bingo25/
confbingo.shinyapps.io
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Well done to the outgoing and incoming #COMBINE2025 presidents! Very proud of both Liyang Fei and Caitlin Page, PhD students in my group! #ABACBS2025
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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🌍 We are proud to share highlights from Ethiopia’s first in-person Bioconductor workshop, held in Addis Ababa from 25-29 Aug 2025!

The course united 26 participants for five days of hands-on training in R/Bioconductor and bulk RNASeq analysis.

🔗 Read more: blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-1...
Bioconductor in Africa: Ethiopia’s First In-Person Course – Bioconductor community blog
A blog for the Bioconductor community!
blog.bioconductor.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA.

Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions).

It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!
November 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Lunch with a view #ABACBS2025 #COMBINE2025
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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The Shark Tank has begun! A fantastic initiative by the postdoc community to help build collaboration and support postdocs in pitching their grants. @abacbs.bsky.social #ABACBS2025
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Heading to Radelaide for #ABACBS2025 . Looking forward to catch up with old friends and nerd out on bioinformatics!

Checkout PhD student Peiwen Liu's poster on connectomeDB2025 (Quality matters!) connectomeDB.org
– ConnectomeDB2025
connectomeDB.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Photographer JJ Rao captures Red sprites and the Andromeda Galaxy in a single photo over Kimberley, Western Australia🤩
November 23, 2025 at 3:49 AM