Jason Merkin
@jasonmerkin.bsky.social
dad and scientist. wrestler and cyclist. probably too sarcastic for my own good.
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US exports to Canada and the EU have cratered. But US exports to El Salvador are booming.
April 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
US exports to Canada and the EU have cratered. But US exports to El Salvador are booming.
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"Be patient" is what no president has ever said when things are going well.
April 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Be patient" is what no president has ever said when things are going well.
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Extracting @NCBI SRA files with fasterq-dump can require 17x the size of the accession while decompressing. Our new tool xsra extracts sequences at 5x throughput with significantly less disk usage, built-in compression, and optional BINSEQ outputs
github.com/arcInstitute...
github.com/arcInstitute...
GitHub - ArcInstitute/xsra: An efficient CLI to extract sequences from the SRA
An efficient CLI to extract sequences from the SRA - ArcInstitute/xsra
github.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Extracting @NCBI SRA files with fasterq-dump can require 17x the size of the accession while decompressing. Our new tool xsra extracts sequences at 5x throughput with significantly less disk usage, built-in compression, and optional BINSEQ outputs
github.com/arcInstitute...
github.com/arcInstitute...
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
April 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency, for example
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Fact check: Liberals say that Trump is like Hitler but Trump is only planning a reich that lasts 100 years.
March 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Fact check: Liberals say that Trump is like Hitler but Trump is only planning a reich that lasts 100 years.
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The Democratic Party right now is pretty close to f—ing useless.
the year is 2025. Bill Kristol is more left-wing than the leadership of the Democratic Party
🤓🤓🤓
February 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The Democratic Party right now is pretty close to f—ing useless.
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[record scratch] Yup. That's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. See, I wanted revenge on Joe Biden. And this guy said he was the richest man in the world and he'd help me. He'd even let me sit in the chair and play president. He said I wouldn't even look like a cuck...
February 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
[record scratch] Yup. That's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation. See, I wanted revenge on Joe Biden. And this guy said he was the richest man in the world and he'd help me. He'd even let me sit in the chair and play president. He said I wouldn't even look like a cuck...
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The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The ordinarily cautious and conservative ABA is blowing the whistle: The break-the-glass moment has arrived.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
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“I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire.”
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
"The decline of America’s creditworthiness has been a stop-start process every time the debt limit approaches. But now, DOGE will get it done for good because the teenagers tracking the US government’s credit card balance have killed countless Neuralink monkeys."
Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse
"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system la...
buff.ly
February 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire.”
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
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I suppose, in retrospect, that the time he sent an armed mob to kill people he didn't like, including his vice president, might have offered some hints to his character, but that's really just hindsight talking.
February 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I suppose, in retrospect, that the time he sent an armed mob to kill people he didn't like, including his vice president, might have offered some hints to his character, but that's really just hindsight talking.
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The Leaning Tower of Treason.
January 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The Leaning Tower of Treason.
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I wonder what Afghan vets think about this.
January 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I wonder what Afghan vets think about this.
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my crabbiest millennial view is: I see you sent some kind of 'voice note' in this chat window, too bad I'm not listening to it because this is a chat window
January 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
my crabbiest millennial view is: I see you sent some kind of 'voice note' in this chat window, too bad I'm not listening to it because this is a chat window
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🚨BREAKING: North Carolina trial court DENIES Republican Party motion to throw out 60,000 votes cast in the November 2024. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
🚨 Kivett v. North Carolina State Board of Elections II
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🚨BREAKING: North Carolina trial court DENIES Republican Party motion to throw out 60,000 votes cast in the November 2024. www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...
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When you pretend that you know how to use Linux
January 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
When you pretend that you know how to use Linux
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When the Secretary of Defense transitions from a black 4-star general to a white cable news host, we’ll have ended DEI and brought back the meritocracy.
by Charlie Kirk
by Charlie Kirk
January 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
When the Secretary of Defense transitions from a black 4-star general to a white cable news host, we’ll have ended DEI and brought back the meritocracy.
by Charlie Kirk
by Charlie Kirk
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Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Elon Musk: Why isn’t there enough water in California?
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
Grok (burning through an entire lake to generate an answer): Wokeness
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For single cell foundation model fans, Raul Rabadan & colleagues just published GET in @nature.com, which trained on chromatin accessibility data to predict transcription factor interactions/motifs, cis-regulatory elements, & gene expression from 213 human cell types
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A foundation model of transcription across human cell types - Nature
A foundation model learns transcriptional regulatory syntax from chromatin accessibility and sequence data across a range of cell types to predict gene expression and transcription factor interactions...
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
For single cell foundation model fans, Raul Rabadan & colleagues just published GET in @nature.com, which trained on chromatin accessibility data to predict transcription factor interactions/motifs, cis-regulatory elements, & gene expression from 213 human cell types
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It sounds like the PA have a list kf demands and no concessions. I kept reading to see what would Israel gain and it's.... Nothing
May 5, 2024 at 2:06 AM
It sounds like the PA have a list kf demands and no concessions. I kept reading to see what would Israel gain and it's.... Nothing
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Review: Single-cell genomics meets human genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️
Single-cell genomics meets human genetics - Nature Reviews Genetics
In this Review, the authors describe the emerging field of single-cell genetics, which lies at the intersection of single-cell genomics and human genetics. They review the first single-cell expression...
www.nature.com
March 1, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Review: Single-cell genomics meets human genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️
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Bioframe: operations on genomic intervals in Pandas dataframes academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️ github.com/open2c/biofr...
Bioframe: operations on genomic intervals in Pandas dataframes
AbstractMotivation. Genomic intervals are one of the most prevalent data structures in computational genome biology, and used to represent features ranging from
academic.oup.com
March 1, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Bioframe: operations on genomic intervals in Pandas dataframes academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️ github.com/open2c/biofr...
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Jews only have as many free speech rights as Berkeley students deign to allow them
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Pro-Palestinian protesters shut down event organized by Jewish student groups at UC Berkeley
Protesters shut down an event at UC Berkeley that featured an Israeli attorney and former member of the Israel Defense Forces.
www.latimes.com
February 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Jews only have as many free speech rights as Berkeley students deign to allow them
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...