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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 3h

I have fond memories of participating in a "compute models for an X ray pulsar" seti@home like challenge on behalf of a school where the computer guy teacher was a LUG member. The fun we had figuring out which Java JRE was the fastest on which hardware.

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Tue Sparholt Jørgensen @tuesparholt.bsky.social · 7h

Bacterial telomeres are common, just not so much in RefSeq 'complete' genomes. But they can be added by the new tool David Faurdal wrote. I am thrilled to see this out as a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @tilmweber.bsky.social @thombooth.bsky.social

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 5d

Hi bioinformatics, genomics and CS friends! Please help me spread the word. I'm hiring a postdoc! Come work on cutting edge method development in algorithmic genomics with me and my group at @umdscience.bsky.social! 🖥️🧬

Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 7d

And it's posted! If you're interested and eligible, please consider applying through the UMD portal: umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j....

If you're a PI working in algorithmic genomics (& you can recommend my lab to your top graduating students ;P), please let them know!

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 2d

As a researcher, interesting cases are great. A a patient, you really don’t want to be that interesting case.

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 3d

The joy of being a bioinformatics person I'd that you'll get both of these

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3d

Threw away the pellet

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 5d

It's because biology is a gigantic piece of improv theatre. Every time you go "this is how things work", biology goes "yes, and..." and runs off on a completely new tangent.

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 8d

AI rights? April’s fools is coming early (or late), apparently

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 9d

Which funnily enough is also the origin of the "ninja" look. They basically started as kind of a neat fourth wall break by having stage hands come in and suddenly interact with their victims on stage.

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 10d

I’m not even sure if that generates a notification either way. I just unfollowed and re-followed you to test. It sure does happen to me a lot as well.

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 12d

A cup with the text "CSS is awesome" in a box. And because CSS is so awesome, there is a text overflow issue, and the word "awesome" is flowing out of said box.

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 12d

Ew, that does sound unpleasant. The one I ended up in mainly was too narrow, squishing my shoulders together for an hour or two. But of course 19 year old me could shrug that off afterwards like today me wouldn't in a week.

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 12d

They seem to have that effect. I participated in an MRI study during military service and can only imagine being stuck in that tube for a medical reason.

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Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 16d

I beg to differ. Southern Germany makes a proper potato salad as well. It's only north of the Weißwurstequator that mayonnaise is added.

Kai Blin @kblin.bsky.social · 18d

On top of that, "Lageweilewut" doesn't work as a word. I mean, sure, you can just paste some words together to create a compound word. But this one feels off, like using multiple adjectives in the wrong order in English. Knapp daneben ist auch vorbei, as usual for these AI things.

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