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Claire

@nlitb.bsky.social

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French bioinformatician, Mexican PhD, salsa dancer, LEGO enthusiast, chronic oversharer. 📍Marseille ☀️

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 3

And we’re in! 🙌🏻

Join us in Berlin in November to work on “Improving package annotation in metabolomics and proteomics via robust, ontology-driven LLM integration” 🤩

ELIXIR Europe @elixir-europe.org · Apr 11

🏃 Last push for #BioHackEU25 project proposals!
Don’t miss the great chance to work with 🙌 other #bioinformaticians.
We welcomed project proposals 💡 focus on areas that support the work of ELIXIR, such as #FAIRdata, #metadata standards, #ontologies and more.
🔗 Submit by next Monday:

Projects

BioHackathon Europe projects

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · 3d

I promised myself I would slow down with my Lego mania, but I guess a small treat cannot hurt… 😃

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Robert Castelo @robertclab.bsky.social · 19d

#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

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · 19d

... all sorts of bridges 😃

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · 19d

Building bridges 🙌🏻
@elixir-europe.org @bioconductor.bsky.social

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · 20d

Great to be here!
@ifb-elixir-fr.bsky.social

Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 20d

EuroBioC2025 is in full swing here in Barcelona!

Day 1 was full of great talks, conversations, and that amazing Bioconductor community energy. Excited for what’s ahead today and tomorrow!

#EuroBioC2025 #Bioconductor #OpenScience #Community

EuroBioC2025 group photo on PRBB terrace with sea in background.

EuroBioC2025 welcome in PRBB auditorium by host Robert Castelo, showing slides with conference sticker and sponsor logos.

EuroBioC2025 hexwall banner with the hexwall creator Kevin Rue-Albrecht standing beside it.

EuroBioC2025 carved wooden keyring, a gift for all participants, created by Annekathrin Nedwed.

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · 21d

Here’s my own little contribution 😃

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · 21d

First day of the 2025 European Bioconductor conference! 🙌🏻🇪🇸

📍PRBB, Barcelona, Spain
@bioconductor.bsky.social @ifb-elixir-fr.bsky.social

Conference opening slide presented in an auditorium

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · 22d

I think not too far from where I am 😃

Moritz zero beer bottle and glass on a table

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Sep 8

Share your own data horror story with the community and help raise awareness about data mishaps in an engaging way 😁
(submit anonymously or with credit to yourself)
@elixir-europe.org @elixirestonia.bsky.social

elixir.ut.ee/news/2025/09...

Learning Data Management the Scary Way - ELIXIR Estonia

Official information about ELIXIR Estonia.

elixir.ut.ee

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jul 11

A collaborator of mine mentioned just yesterday that my boss had told her I strived on being "fed" things, ideas, etc. I found this very insightful of him, and am really happy he would notice and encourage that 😊

Mind wandering can be a curse sometimes, but is also a superpower!

Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · Jun 27

We need a *framework* (what we’ve studied, all the core material that comes from reading, experimenting, etc), and we need *freedom* to digest, evaluate, consider, and connect ideas. We need both. Emphatically. Walking around/staring into nothing/doing handstands is not wasted time. It’s integral.

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jul 11

"New research at USC demonstrates how to train a popular language model to remove homophobic, anti-queer bias"
- August 11, 2022 -

viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2022/08...

Busting Anti-Queer Bias in Text Prediction - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering

New research at USC demonstrates how to train a popular language model to remove homophobic, anti-queer bias

viterbischool.usc.edu

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jul 10

A common thing I've seen among reviewers for conference poster proposals is that they request lots of results, numbers and graphs... Basically they expect a poster to contain the same stuff you'd find in an article, which makes no sense really - and defeats the whole purpose of a poster imho

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jul 10

Scientists are not necessarily the best communicaters, and sadly they're not always conscious about it 🥲

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jul 9

Visible sur HAL :)

hal.inrae.fr/hal-05142802v1

@ifb-elixir-fr.bsky.social @bioconductor.bsky.social

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jul 8

Shot! @svobodalab.bsky.social

Slide presenting bird penis evolution among distinct species

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jul 8

#jobim2025 X #TCTeAC ✌🏻
📍Bordeaux, France

Name tag for the Jobim bioinformatics conference in France, with lanyard form the Woodstock.2 + night science conference

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jul 4

Also, practising sports and eating healthy is not always compatible with mental health issues such as depression and many others. And surprisingly (nope), mental health in the general population is not exactly improving...
Well, we're circling back to politics and life environment here

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 30

Side note, I wonder whether my psychiatrist knows that we’ve had wayyy more sessions in my head than we’ve had for real 🤔

But we’re pretty consistent overall so I guess that’s fine 🤷🏻‍♀️

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 30

Not only does speaking with someone in your head can give you some scientific perspective of theirs, but speaking w/ people in different languages or with distinct cultural standpoints adds many more dimensions to it too

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 30

I also love how languages, whether written, spoken or programmed make for an incredible toolbox - whether for science or anything else really - if there is to be ever again some sort of science + linguistics conference I would be so up for it 🙌🏻

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 30

Especially that thing about having deep discussions with people in one’s head, which I identify so much with. I mean, some people have no idea just how many things we’ve talked at length in my head, and should they know it would possibly creep the f out of them 😂

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 30

I’ve been listening to the @nightsciencepod.bsky.social lately - keeps me away from screens at night which is pretty neat actually - and I had a lot of fun listening to this one today, featuring Tzachi Pilpel 😃
open.spotify.com/episode/39yA...

2 | Tzachi Pilpel on channeling other people’s minds for creativity

Night Science · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 30

You should consider visiting us at the Luminy scientific campus in Marseille, just a few steps from the parc national des Calanques! 💙

A global view of the Aix-Marseille University campus, with nature and small mountains in the background

A view of the “Sugiton” calanque, located in the parc national des Calanques and a short walk away from the University campus

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Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 27

I’m not sure just what Duolingo is trying to tell me 🤔

Screen capture of a Duolingo exercise: enounciating a Dutch sentence translating to “I am just a poor boy, nobody loves me”

Screen capture of a Duolingo exercise: translating a Dutch sentence meaning “He is just a poor boy from a poor family”

Claire @nlitb.bsky.social · Jun 27

Brought to you by yours truly ✌🏻

IFB/ELIXIR-Fr @ifb-elixir-fr.bsky.social · Jun 27

@jobim2025.bsky.social
- Épisode 10/13
🚀 Venez découvrir notre poster « Annotating Bioconductor packages using the EDAM ontology », qui sera présenté par Claire Rioualen (@nlitb.bsky.social), Maria Doyle, Alban Gaingnard, Vincent Carey, Hervé Menager