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Camila Duitama

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Bioinformatics🧬👩🏽‍💻 and politics👈. Decolonial, anticapitalist, anti imperialist and migrant from 🇨🇴currently living in 🇫🇷. Un corazón de mango 🥭 del Sinú.

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Camila Duitama @camiladuitama.bsky.social · Feb 4

🧬 Excited to share our latest work, MUSET 🌭, a new tool for creating abundance unitig matrices from sequencing data. It was published yesterday in Oxford Bioinformatics if you want to have a look👀 :

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Let's break it down:

MUSET: Set of utilities for constructing abundance unitig matrices from sequencing data

AbstractSummary. MUSET is a novel set of utilities designed to efficiently construct abundance unitig matrices from sequencing data. Unitig matrices extend

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Camila Duitama @camiladuitama.bsky.social · 7d

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 29d

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology

LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

www.nature.com

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Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social · Sep 3

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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Manuela Aguirre-Botero @maguirreb.bsky.social · Sep 2

Curious about how antibodies can target Plasmodium sporozoites?

Very happy to see this review out, it means a lot to me to finish my PhD research topic with a nice overview of what is known about how anti-CSP Abs neutralize the parasite in the mammalian host.

Trends in Parasitology @cp-trendsparasitol.bsky.social · Aug 31

New Review alert! Tissue-dependent protection mechanisms of #antibodies targeting #Plasmodium #sporozoites, authored by @maguirreb.bsky.social & Rogerio Amino. #malaria #circumsporozoiteprotein #CSP @pasteur.fr‬ @upcite.bsky.social

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Camila Duitama @camiladuitama.bsky.social · Jul 18

Que orgullo haber dedicado más de treinta años a construir la educación pública en Colombia. Aun en el capitalismo se puede ser coherente, se puede tener principios, se puede trabajar por lo colectivo. Se puede hacer y se debe hacer. Un honor ser hija tuya @freddyduitama.bsky.social

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Jul 1

A UN report names companies complicit in Israel’s war and genocide on Gaza, including US giants and firms from China to Mexico.

Who are they? aje.io/6sq25k

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Camila Duitama @camiladuitama.bsky.social · Jun 8

Naomi Klein on Zionism:

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Camila Duitama @camiladuitama.bsky.social · Jun 1

And by this I mean protesting against the genocide in Gaza.

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mortadela.bsky.social @mortadela.bsky.social · Jan 27

Quién iba a decir que al tecnofeudalismo se le combate apostando por el código abierto.

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Camila Duitama @camiladuitama.bsky.social · May 28

Fantastic talk today by @ardemp.bskyverified.social at @pasteur.fr. It can’t be any clearer: science *is* political.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Apr 8

Microsoft has sacked Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal after they disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event in protest against its ties with the Israeli military, reports the Associated Press news agency.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4wgn3k

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Camila Duitama @camiladuitama.bsky.social · Apr 1

Beautiful ☺️

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Camila Duitama @camiladuitama.bsky.social · Mar 20

Is perhaps this the only way Western scientists will begin to worry about the humiliating way in which migration laws have been imposed on people from the global south for years and years? This type of treatment is everyday life for many migrants around the world.

Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Mar 19

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Mar 12

science has never been devoid of politics

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Mar 12

Elon Musk should be thrown out of the Royal Society, writes @rossandersen.bsky.social. Science has to be able to defend itself.

Politics Has Come for Science

Will science return the favor?

www.theatlantic.com

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Camila Duitama @camiladuitama.bsky.social · Mar 8

What on earth is scientific neutrality?

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · Mar 7

Hi! I need help covering the costs of the surgery and PT to repair my shoulder labrum, an injury caused by cops two summers ago. I am very disabled and need help again to get out of my medical debt. Help me out if you can and please share if you can’t? (link below)

Shoulder Repair Surgery: 8% towards the $8,300 goal. text underneath reads: In the late summer of 2023 I got thrown around by a pair of cops and they injured my left shoulder. That shoulder never got proper medical care and dislocated when I was exercising late in 2024, and in January of this year I got surgery to fix the bad tear in my shoulder labrum. This, of course, put me back in thousands of dollars of medical debt. The amount here is what I need to come up with to pay for the surgery as well as 6 weeks of physical therapy.

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Manuela Aguirre-Botero @maguirreb.bsky.social · Feb 15

Curious about the Late killing of Plasmodium berghei sporozoites in the liver by an anti-circumsporozoite protein antibody? doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Late killing of Plasmodium berghei sporozoites in the liver by an anti-circumsporozoite protein antibody

A late-neutralizing monoclonal antibody targeting the major surface antigen of plasmodial sporozoites impairs the fitness of intracellular parasites, offering mechanistic insights to guide the develop...

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Feb 13

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

NYT full page ad signed by 350 rabbis and several other Jewish people. Text: Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing. (Photo stolen from James Schamus’s Twitter! Thank you, James!)

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Feb 12

Gulf of Distraction

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · Feb 12

⏰ 18h CET/12pm EST/ 20h EAT

📺 Watch the event live: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

💪 Learn more about DLA: datalabelers.org

💕 Donate and support the workers: donate.dair-institute.org/page/data-wo...

🌎 Explore the reports created by data workers worldwide: data-workers.org

Flyer for hte Data Labelers Assocation. Event presenters: Eric Mwaura, Dorcas Maundu.

Panelists: Joan Kinyua, Ephantus Kanyugi, Michael Asia, Krystal Kauffman

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Insurgent Thought @insurgentthought.bsky.social · Feb 10

Stop appeasing liberal institutions and their so-called universal values.

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · Feb 6

Finally; the preprint on Cuttlefish 3 is available! This is the most recent in a long line of work led by Jamshed Khan, a recent PhD graduate from my lab. Cuttlefish 3 further improves the efficiency of Cuttlefish 2, while adding support for *colored* compacted de Bruijn graphs. 1/x

bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · Feb 6

Fast and Scalable Parallel External-Memory Construction of Colored Compacted de Bruijn Graphs with Cuttlefish 3 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.02.636161v1

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · Feb 7

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · Feb 7

Feminist tech starter pack

APC @apc.org · Feb 4

Are you looking for people and organisations prioritising feminist perspectives, women’s rights and movement building in the use of information and communications technology?

See our #StarterPack on #FeministTech 👇

go.bsky.app/7kwnBCQ

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