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Ryan T Scott
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Spaceflight, Biology, Health, Clinical, Data, Informatics/AI/ML. As humans return🚀 to 🌘 1000s+ can engage via #OpenScience. I❤️Rugby. Personal acct/not work’s. GS: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Xy9lW6wAAAAJ&hl=en
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Ryan T Scott @ryantscott.bsky.social · Nov 19
Mine life science/biomed data? NASA Open Science Data Repository
🔗 www.nasa.gov/osdr/
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

AI for deep space
🔗Bio rdcu.be/c8jSS
🔗Health rdcu.be/c8jSO

2020 article package Cell Press www.cell.com/c/the-biolog...

2023 arti package Nature Portfolio www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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vectorgen.bsky.social
Just me, formatting manuscript references by hand. As God intended
a man is sitting at a table with a stick in his hand
ALT: a man is sitting at a table with a stick in his hand
media.tenor.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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carlzimmer.com
120 light years from Earth, there's a planet that may be covered in a living ocean. Here's my story on a tantalizing hint of life beyond the Solar System. Gift link: nyti.ms/3GbrEaZ 🧪
Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
nyti.ms
April 16, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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baym.lol
C. elegans. They wiggle to space. They wiggle back down. And sometimes
barrlab.bsky.social Maureen Barr @barrlab.bsky.social · Jan 27
NASA mission patch for #celegans in space. Artist/scientist is Dr. Rebecca Androwski (Driscoll lab, Rutgers)
Round NASA Mission patch with red boundary and white lettering "C. elegans microbiome experiment CBIOMES." Inner circle is a cartoon white C. elegans body with black pharynx and different microbes in the gut. Inner circle also has a red planet with orbit and three yellow stars. The background is blue. The patch is displayed on the stage of a dissecting microscopy
January 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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aspuru.bsky.social
Glad to appear in @cnn.com talking about #drugdiscovery specifically our collaboration with @elonverse.bsky.social on accelerated drug discovery. We also show some (unrelated) @accelerationc.bsky.social @thematterlab.bsky.social robots that we used to do materials on the same video.
accelerationc.bsky.social Acceleration Consortium @accelerationc.bsky.social · Jan 23
Thanks to @cnn.com's Clare Duffy for telling our story about how the Acceleration Consortium is using #AI + automation in our self-driving labs to speed up the discovery of molecules + materials we need the most, incl. life-saving drugs. 📺 Watch the interview w/AC director @aspuru.bsky.social now!
It took these scientists just a month to discover a substance that could treat liver cancer – thanks to this technology | CNN Business
A team of scientists at the University of Toronto have successfully implemented AI tools to speed up the process of discovering new possible cancer treatments, from years to just a month.
www.cnn.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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aixbiobot.bsky.social
Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth [new]
Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3
January 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
ryantscott.bsky.social
So grateful to have this pre-print out 🎉

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
January 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social
Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.14.633017v1
January 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
ryantscott.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our pre-print on 1st Federated Learning model deployed between Earth & @Space_Station 🚀 Huge thanks to HPE (SpaceBorne Computer), Intel (OpenFL), & NASA via the NASA Open Science Data Repository. Let’s build & move the ball forward! 🌅
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
January 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
ryantscott.bsky.social
Launch window opens tonight (1/12) 1am ET, 10pm PT (1/11). So thrilled for this!!! 🎉🚀🌌 First ever launch of New Glenn 🌅
January 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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manorlaboratory.bsky.social
Our postdoc Julien Cicero just sent me this beautiful image of IPSC derived motor neurons and I had to share 😍😍😍
January 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
🧬📝🚨 Out today: A genomics learning framework for undergraduates

We hope this will be one more tool to help integrate genomics into undergraduate education by supporting evidence-based curriculum design with a set of standardized concepts.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
A genomics learning framework for undergraduates
Genomics is an increasingly important part of biology research. However, educating undergraduates in genomics is not yet a standard part of life sciences curricula. We believe this is, in part, due to...
journals.plos.org
January 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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axelvisel.bsky.social
Now available as preprint:

The ENCODE 4 expanded registry of regulatory elements
- 2.35M 🧍 human cCREs
- 927k 🐭 mouse cCREs

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Led by @moorejille.bsky.social, this preprint summarizes data and analyses generated by hundreds of contributors across ENCODE 4
Schematic overview of the ENCODE 4 project's framework for identifying and classifying candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs). The process begins by defining regulatory anchors, such as DNase hypersensitive sites (rDHSs) and transcription factor (TF) clusters, which are filtered and classified using histone marks and other features. Elements are classified into functional categories, including promoters, proximal and distal enhancers, and CTCF-bound sites. The resulting registry includes millions of cCREs for human (GRCh38) and mouse (mm10), depicted alongside their classifications. Additional annotations, such as transcription activity, chromatin structure, genetic variation, and sequence motifs, are integrated for functional characterization. Image modified from https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.26.629296v1.full
January 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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maxfagin.bsky.social
Congrats are overdue to Suni Willaims, who 3 days ago, became the 2nd most experienced US astronaut!
January 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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afshinbeheshti.bsky.social
🧠🚀Could space exploration increase the risk of Parkinson's Disease (PD)? Dr. Nilufar Ali led our perspective in npj Microgravity exploring parallels between spaceflight stressors and PD-like changes, from mitochondrial dysfunction to altered dopamine pathways.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Space exploration and risk of Parkinson’s disease: a perspective review - npj Microgravity
npj Microgravity - Space exploration and risk of Parkinson’s disease: a perspective review
www.nature.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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scientificdiscovery.dev
Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly.

Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?

So, I visualized it myself!
A timeline titled "The Golden Age of Antibiotics" shows when each antibiotic drug class was first available for medical use, with example antibiotics labeled. Classes are color-coded by their source: actinomycetes, other bacteria, fungi, or synthetic. Milestones include the first antibiotics (arsphenamines in 1910), as well as the discovery of many actinomycetes-derived antibiotics, such as streptomycin, and sulfonamides, penicillins, and tetracyclines. Data: Hutchings, Truman, Wilkinson (2019). Created by Saloni Dattani for Our World in Data.
December 23, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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coreyspowell.bsky.social
In honor of all the new arrivals, I'm sharing one of my favorite videos.

It shows 24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.

Brilliant work by Bartosz Wojczyński. 🧪

artuniverse.eu/gallery/1907...
November 15, 2024 at 4:21 AM
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spaceart.bsky.social
I’ve been working with rangers at @officialnps.bsky.social for almost 20 years now promoting #darksky and science outreach in the parks. www.spacearttravelbureau.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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hbhammel.bsky.social
Hubble 🔭views of Saturn 🪐: each filter combination emphasizes differences in the planet's cloud altitude or composition. Hubble checks in on Saturn and the other giant planets as part of the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, which celebrated 10 years this month! go.nasa.gov/3VXposZ
These colorful views of Saturn show data from multiple filters, mapped on colors perceptible to the human eye. Each filter combination emphasizes differences in the planet's cloud altitude or composition. Top left: green planet with lavender rings; top center: yellow planet with pale blue rings; top right: blue planet with orange rings; bottom left: purple planet with bright green rings; bottom center: blue planet with pumpkin rings; bottom right: lavender planet with pale olive rings. Saturn takes more than 29 years to orbit the Sun, and its seasons last about seven Earth-years. So far, Hubble has tracked slight changes in Saturn's year-to-year color, possibly caused by cloud height and winds. These observed changes are subtle because OPAL has covered only a fraction of a Saturnian year to date. Image credit: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
December 29, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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mikeinouye.bsky.social
Brushing up on my cardiology (am a computational biologist) and it’s oddly uncommon to see the electrics overlaid with the plumbing so to speak… here’s one of the clearest I’ve seen. From Braunwald’s Heart Disease.
December 28, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
Spatial omics of human arteries to understand what drives atherosclerosis: highlights role of the microvasculature (vasa vasorum), adventitial inflammation, migration of vascular smooth muscle cells (and more)
nature.com/articles/s44...
December 23, 2024 at 4:20 PM
ryantscott.bsky.social
Funding to develop a “Data Sharing Index” (S-Index) via the NIH. Initial funding for six phase 1 winners, then Phase 2 finalists prizes are $500k (first), $300k (second), 100k (third) 🎉

🔗https://www.freelancer.com/contest/NIH-Data-Sharing-Index-Sindex-Challenge-2470942/prize-details
December 20, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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julianharris.bsky.social
Large language models meet physics -- that's the promise of the open source "Genesis" project… the gs.generate() not released yet but the demos OMG I can't wait to use this for visualisation of concepts

genesis-world.readthedocs.io/en/latest/in...
December 19, 2024 at 7:21 AM
ryantscott.bsky.social
Random thoughts inspired tonight: Robin Williams & Rodin’s Thinker; Jimi Hendrix; George Clinton & Lincoln Monument; Tribute to rodent research
December 19, 2024 at 6:12 AM
ryantscott.bsky.social
Software engineer or bioinformatician?

3 positions via Bastion Technologies, Rothe Enterprises, @bluemarblespace.bsky.social working for NASA Open Science Data Repository/GeneLab

🔗 bastiontechnologies.applicantpro.com/jobs/3589766
🔗 rothe-enterprises.com/careers/
🔗 easyapply.co/m/apply/0347...
December 17, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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medcrisis.bsky.social
Remember with increasing sample size, your averages become more reliable

The Ns justify the means
December 7, 2024 at 9:56 PM