Philipp Bayer
@philippbayer.bsky.social
Working on advancing trust in eDNA at OceanOmics. He/Him.
'It is required that one man should goof gloriously for the people.'
'It is required that one man should goof gloriously for the people.'
Spending this garden leave very well (watching countless videos of a guy trimming cows' hooves)
December 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Spending this garden leave very well (watching countless videos of a guy trimming cows' hooves)
I know I'm old because I kinda like the Australian teen social media ban. 20 years ago I wouldve been outraged at this curtailment of freedom.
But the sharereactor IRC was a very different beast; just a bunch of lonely weirdos hanging out.
But the sharereactor IRC was a very different beast; just a bunch of lonely weirdos hanging out.
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I know I'm old because I kinda like the Australian teen social media ban. 20 years ago I wouldve been outraged at this curtailment of freedom.
But the sharereactor IRC was a very different beast; just a bunch of lonely weirdos hanging out.
But the sharereactor IRC was a very different beast; just a bunch of lonely weirdos hanging out.
In 2025 everything is a grift
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 AM
In 2025 everything is a grift
Alright handed in laptop, fob, mobile phone and had my last day. On garden leave now until the new year. What a concept! Academia needs that.
Grief on leaving so many great people. I'll need a few weeks for that
Grief on leaving so many great people. I'll need a few weeks for that
December 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Alright handed in laptop, fob, mobile phone and had my last day. On garden leave now until the new year. What a concept! Academia needs that.
Grief on leaving so many great people. I'll need a few weeks for that
Grief on leaving so many great people. I'll need a few weeks for that
Unlocked a book-nerd achievement: finding a book in the library, then failing to borrow it because the library had marked it as 'lost'.
Well done me for finding a book on a shelf in a library?
Well done me for finding a book on a shelf in a library?
December 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Unlocked a book-nerd achievement: finding a book in the library, then failing to borrow it because the library had marked it as 'lost'.
Well done me for finding a book on a shelf in a library?
Well done me for finding a book on a shelf in a library?
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Denmark just mapped its entire environmental microbiome. More than 10,000 samples revealing hidden, dominant nitrifiers that shape fertilizer use, water quality, and climate impact. A national microbiome atlas could transform sustainable agriculture across Europe.
#AMR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AMR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes - Nature
Microflora Danica—an atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes—reveals that although human-disturbed habitats have high alpha diversity, species reoccur, revealing hidden homogeneity.
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Denmark just mapped its entire environmental microbiome. More than 10,000 samples revealing hidden, dominant nitrifiers that shape fertilizer use, water quality, and climate impact. A national microbiome atlas could transform sustainable agriculture across Europe.
#AMR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AMR
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Vibecoding is so funny/frustrating.
Claude wrote me a perfectly-running script that looks at Fst and Tajima's D via vcf files. Script works fine and does what it does.
I asked it to add LD, Claude has now made up to 18 scripts, and *none* of them contain the LD addition. But it insists it's there!
Claude wrote me a perfectly-running script that looks at Fst and Tajima's D via vcf files. Script works fine and does what it does.
I asked it to add LD, Claude has now made up to 18 scripts, and *none* of them contain the LD addition. But it insists it's there!
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Vibecoding is so funny/frustrating.
Claude wrote me a perfectly-running script that looks at Fst and Tajima's D via vcf files. Script works fine and does what it does.
I asked it to add LD, Claude has now made up to 18 scripts, and *none* of them contain the LD addition. But it insists it's there!
Claude wrote me a perfectly-running script that looks at Fst and Tajima's D via vcf files. Script works fine and does what it does.
I asked it to add LD, Claude has now made up to 18 scripts, and *none* of them contain the LD addition. But it insists it's there!
I need to copy files from AWS s3 to our HPC, but our HPC has a 21-day deletion policy, and AWS s3 cp and sync for some reason have no option where you can ignore the remote's timestamp - files from 2024 will have a 2024 timestamp on our HPC.
December 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I need to copy files from AWS s3 to our HPC, but our HPC has a 21-day deletion policy, and AWS s3 cp and sync for some reason have no option where you can ignore the remote's timestamp - files from 2024 will have a 2024 timestamp on our HPC.
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Auckland Uni has responded to my OIA request re consultancy spending in 2024-2025
$600k to PWC and $500k to Nous Group for "strategic design, organisational change, transformation
services" etc
This is roughly what our whole faculty of science spent on internally funded postdocs in the same years
$600k to PWC and $500k to Nous Group for "strategic design, organisational change, transformation
services" etc
This is roughly what our whole faculty of science spent on internally funded postdocs in the same years
What consulting companies is Auckland Uni working with and how much are the companies being paid? - a Official Information Act request to University of Auckland
Could you please provide a list of contracts the University entered into, in 2024 and 2025, with external consulting firms; the topic of the work undertaken (e.g., strategic planning); and the total c...
fyi.org.nz
December 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Auckland Uni has responded to my OIA request re consultancy spending in 2024-2025
$600k to PWC and $500k to Nous Group for "strategic design, organisational change, transformation
services" etc
This is roughly what our whole faculty of science spent on internally funded postdocs in the same years
$600k to PWC and $500k to Nous Group for "strategic design, organisational change, transformation
services" etc
This is roughly what our whole faculty of science spent on internally funded postdocs in the same years
#eDNA postdoc opportunity in Qatar.
'Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Marine Mammals Monitoring'
Got it via email and can't find a public link, yet?
'Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Marine Mammals Monitoring'
Got it via email and can't find a public link, yet?
December 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
#eDNA postdoc opportunity in Qatar.
'Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Marine Mammals Monitoring'
Got it via email and can't find a public link, yet?
'Environmental DNA (eDNA) & Marine Mammals Monitoring'
Got it via email and can't find a public link, yet?
New Protomen album!!!!!
theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...
theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...
Act III: This City Made Us, by The Protomen
14 track album
theprotomen.bandcamp.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
New Protomen album!!!!!
theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...
theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/act-ii...
2026, current 'feeling' from me and so many people in my area: the year everyone just walks away
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
2026, current 'feeling' from me and so many people in my area: the year everyone just walks away
It's due to the speed of publishing, but I would've loved to see how Helixer and Tiberius worked in this context
(this evaluates BRAKER1/2/3, CGP, MAKER, StringTie, Scallop, TOGA, LiftOff)
(this evaluates BRAKER1/2/3, CGP, MAKER, StringTie, Scallop, TOGA, LiftOff)
Building better genome annotations across the tree of life
genome.cshlp.org/content/35/5...
TOGA, BRAKER3, and the RNA-seq assembler StringTie are top performers when benchmarking 12 different methods for 21 different species spanning vertebrates, plants, and insects.
genome.cshlp.org/content/35/5...
TOGA, BRAKER3, and the RNA-seq assembler StringTie are top performers when benchmarking 12 different methods for 21 different species spanning vertebrates, plants, and insects.
November 30, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It's due to the speed of publishing, but I would've loved to see how Helixer and Tiberius worked in this context
(this evaluates BRAKER1/2/3, CGP, MAKER, StringTie, Scallop, TOGA, LiftOff)
(this evaluates BRAKER1/2/3, CGP, MAKER, StringTie, Scallop, TOGA, LiftOff)
Active parenting also means that every movie you try to stream automatically becomes a 24-part miniseries
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Active parenting also means that every movie you try to stream automatically becomes a 24-part miniseries
Hi! I've put in my four weeks notice at Minderoo.
It's very painful to leave such an amazing team - and there won't be any eDNA related things coming from me, either. I still have 3 weeks on my contract and so much to do....
It's very painful to leave such an amazing team - and there won't be any eDNA related things coming from me, either. I still have 3 weeks on my contract and so much to do....
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Hi! I've put in my four weeks notice at Minderoo.
It's very painful to leave such an amazing team - and there won't be any eDNA related things coming from me, either. I still have 3 weeks on my contract and so much to do....
It's very painful to leave such an amazing team - and there won't be any eDNA related things coming from me, either. I still have 3 weeks on my contract and so much to do....
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Deichkind
BORIS
Björk
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Olafur Arnalds
Deichkind
BORIS
Björk
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Olafur Arnalds
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
Pixies
Breeders & Nirvana
Bikini Kill
Sonic Youth
Shonen Knife
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Ozzy & Metallica
SRV & Joe Cocker
Iron Maiden & Yngwie
Jazzfest
U2
Ozzy & Metallica
SRV & Joe Cocker
Iron Maiden & Yngwie
Jazzfest
U2
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen
Deichkind
BORIS
Björk
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Olafur Arnalds
Deichkind
BORIS
Björk
Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Olafur Arnalds
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I'm increasingly interested in race science as a form of cultivated, weaponized statistical illiteracy. Take this figure, one of the most common propaganda plots, plotting national IQ data against education polygenic scores. "The correlation is so high! Clearly IQ differences are genetic!"
Oops!
Oops!
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I'm increasingly interested in race science as a form of cultivated, weaponized statistical illiteracy. Take this figure, one of the most common propaganda plots, plotting national IQ data against education polygenic scores. "The correlation is so high! Clearly IQ differences are genetic!"
Oops!
Oops!
US thanksgiving is so perfectly placed. That time of the year when everybody runs on fumes. It's like a quick minibreak for the last sprint before the longer Christmas break. I'm jealous
November 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM
US thanksgiving is so perfectly placed. That time of the year when everybody runs on fumes. It's like a quick minibreak for the last sprint before the longer Christmas break. I'm jealous
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New funding model for my lab: for every $1m donation to my lab I will make one legally actionable claim about a man over the age of 50 in my field
November 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
New funding model for my lab: for every $1m donation to my lab I will make one legally actionable claim about a man over the age of 50 in my field
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Enormous milestone. All thanks to vaccinations!!!
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Enormous milestone. All thanks to vaccinations!!!
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If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
If you missed my talk but still want some tips for writing good code for scientists, my slides are here:
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
daxkellie.quarto.pub/a-guide-to-w...
All the links and references are there too in case you want to see more! 😀🧪🌏
#ESA2025 #rstats #quartopub
Reposted by Philipp Bayer
An efficient, accessible solution for #genome annotation in both research and applied settings www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Helixer: ab initio prediction of primary eukaryotic gene models combining deep learning and a hidden Markov model - Nature Methods
By leveraging both deep learning and hidden Markov models, Helixer achieves broad taxonomic coverage for ab initio gene annotation of eukaryotic genomes from fungi, plants, vertebrates and invertebrat...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
An efficient, accessible solution for #genome annotation in both research and applied settings www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Philipp Bayer
ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
ARC are considering a restructure in which jobs there will be lost, a source tells me.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
This seems ridiculous when they're about to completely overhaul the entire grants system – they've never undertaken anything so large before!
I've long said ARC needs MANY MORE staff, & should do more, not less.
I feel like a 13% success rate is the worst I've seen. But perhaps we have a higher rate of applications - looks like general employment rate out there is dire
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I feel like a 13% success rate is the worst I've seen. But perhaps we have a higher rate of applications - looks like general employment rate out there is dire