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Jasper Spitzer
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PostDoc at Universität Bonn; interested in Computational Biology, single cell transcriptomics and aortic disease.
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⏰Reminder: EuroBioC2026 Call for Abstracts

Submissions are open for short talks, posters, and workshops. We encourage you to share your work at EuroBioC2026.

🗓 Deadline: 30 January 2026

👉 Submit your abstract: openreview.net/group?id=bio...

#EuroBioC2026 #Bioconductor #Bioinformatics
December 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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mads100tist.bsky.social
"Postdoc in the job market"
A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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robertclab.bsky.social
#EuroBioC2025 is over and it has been a blast! Thanks to all participants that came to @prbb.org for contributing to make such an enjoyable event and special thanks to the support from our sponsors, the organizing institutions @upf.edu @isglobal.org and the European @bioconductor.bsky.social Society
Group picture with all participants at EuroBioC2025 Vince Carey, Bioconductor project lead, giving the opening keynote lecture. Audience carefully listening to Vince Carey in the Auditorium. Christophe Vanderaa giving a workshop on msqrob2, a robust modelling workflow for mass spectrometry-based proteomics
September 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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jasondtx.bsky.social
One of the best memes ever.
The American Chopper argument meme except it's Tom Bombadil poems vs the other guy saying how out of place those are
November 17, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
What about the cases where they seem useful? These seem to fall into a few categories:

1) I need to take a set of notes and turn it into a polished document, and I'm in a position to check that it says what I mean.

Ok fine but writing is thinking and you're letting that muscle atrophy.

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April 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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henrymcsorley.bsky.social
what
synbio1.bsky.social Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social · Mar 3
I know that the mRNA is larger than the protein it codes for but I don't believe it
March 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Using my Tidyverse local synteny visualization tools first time in 3 months. This a biosynthetic gene cluster with 2 P450s and a O-methyltransferase. Visualized across assemblies for 4 cultivars.

GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Tidy...
A local synteny visualization with 3 genes across 4 genotypes.
March 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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🔥 Unveiling the Future of Genomics with Genome Language Models (gLMs)! 🔥

Our comprehensive review, "Transformers and genome language models," is finally published in Nature Machine Intelligence! ​

Link: nature.com/articles/s42...
Transformers and genome language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Micaela Consens et al. discuss and review the recent rise of transformer-based and large language models in genomics. They also highlight promising directions for genome language models beyond the tra...
nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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wkhuber.bsky.social
Expect more funding programmes and recruitment drives taking this into focus
March 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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wkhuber.bsky.social
It's time for individuals and organizations in Europe and other democratic countries to move mission- or life-critical IT services and infrastructure outside the reach of the US government; noting that US tech companies have already largely subordinated themselves.

www.huber.embl.de/group/posts/...
Digital sovereignty – Huber Group @ EMBL
The US is now a mafia-style extortionist you want to stay away from
www.huber.embl.de
March 8, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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odedrechavi.bsky.social
C. elegans has just 302 neurons
March 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail.

I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:34 AM
jspitzer.bsky.social
I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2
solution of advent of code day 2: is.safe <- function(VEC){ vec_inc <- sort(VEC) vec_dec <- sort(VEC, decreasing = T) ordered = identical(VEC, vec_inc) | identical(VEC, vec_dec) offset <- lag(VEC)[-1] diffs <- VEC[-1] - offset fine <- all(diffs != 0 & abs(diffs) < 4) safe <- ordered & fine return(safe) } is.safe.damp <- function(VEC){ pure <- is.safe(VEC) if(pure){ return(pure) } dampened <- logical(length = length(VEC)) for (index in 1:length(VEC)) { dampened[index] = is.safe(VEC[-index]) if(dampened[index]){ return(dampened[index]) } } return(F) } map(input_clean, is.safe) %>% unlist() %>% sum() map(input_clean, is.safe.damp) %>% unlist() %>% sum()
December 2, 2024 at 2:58 PM