Artem Ilin
@adc34.bsky.social
Postdoc at Stockholm University. TEs, epigenetics, bioinformatics, small RNA and Drosophila 🪰!
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Behold, my new favorite type of plot: roadkill
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Behold, my new favorite type of plot: roadkill
This gorgeous fella landed on my knee last week when I was in Vienna, chilled for a bit, didn't mind me touching him at all and then disappeared. Can anyone help identify? I would say that his length wasn't exceeding 6-7 mm. #entomology
September 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This gorgeous fella landed on my knee last week when I was in Vienna, chilled for a bit, didn't mind me touching him at all and then disappeared. Can anyone help identify? I would say that his length wasn't exceeding 6-7 mm. #entomology
Hoher Dachstein, 2997 m, no sherpas, no oxygen. (Don't mind the cable car)
September 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Hoher Dachstein, 2997 m, no sherpas, no oxygen. (Don't mind the cable car)
I'm starting to think that conda isn't the best option for isolated environments. I have just 7 envs, some of which run a couple of dedicated tools and the number of files required to run them is gigantic. Mind you, today, the large file number exerts much harder strain on storage than the file size
August 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I'm starting to think that conda isn't the best option for isolated environments. I have just 7 envs, some of which run a couple of dedicated tools and the number of files required to run them is gigantic. Mind you, today, the large file number exerts much harder strain on storage than the file size
The irony was not lost on me
July 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The irony was not lost on me
Grundtvigs kirke left me speechless
July 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Grundtvigs kirke left me speechless
I love this figure. The outer circle of dots represents TE insertions shared with the drosophila reference genome and all the three circles below show the non-reference insertions. No hot spots (on average for all TE families, though), no preference for heterochromatin. Amazing.
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I love this figure. The outer circle of dots represents TE insertions shared with the drosophila reference genome and all the three circles below show the non-reference insertions. No hot spots (on average for all TE families, though), no preference for heterochromatin. Amazing.
This is the most beautiful fluorescent microscopy image I've ever seen. Not only because of its vividness, but also cause it shows the ooplasmic streaming in action - the process that I find mind-blowingly fascinating. Find the authors here: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
June 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is the most beautiful fluorescent microscopy image I've ever seen. Not only because of its vividness, but also cause it shows the ooplasmic streaming in action - the process that I find mind-blowingly fascinating. Find the authors here: rupress.org/jcb/article/...
Just to put into perspective, vaults are (now, hopefully, were) a complete mystery in the field for the last 40 years: highly conserved and highly symmetric cytoplasmic structures in eukaryotes with a lot of implications but no proven function. That's why this preprint is super exciting!
June 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Just to put into perspective, vaults are (now, hopefully, were) a complete mystery in the field for the last 40 years: highly conserved and highly symmetric cytoplasmic structures in eukaryotes with a lot of implications but no proven function. That's why this preprint is super exciting!
Trying to calculate the correlation for the transposed (!) matrix made from genomic enrichment tracks was a huge mistake. By doing so I would compare not the tracks, but all the genome bins. Imagine what would a dendrogram for all the 50 bp windows in fly genome look like😅 Prob much worse than this
May 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Trying to calculate the correlation for the transposed (!) matrix made from genomic enrichment tracks was a huge mistake. By doing so I would compare not the tracks, but all the genome bins. Imagine what would a dendrogram for all the 50 bp windows in fly genome look like😅 Prob much worse than this
Once again I'm dazzled by the ingenuity of people who create memes
April 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Once again I'm dazzled by the ingenuity of people who create memes
Lucky find. Fly wings are hollow, as seen here. This poor girl was caught mid wing deployment and, probably, didn't have the time to stabilize the pressure in the wings before she fell asleep. #drosophila
March 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Lucky find. Fly wings are hollow, as seen here. This poor girl was caught mid wing deployment and, probably, didn't have the time to stabilize the pressure in the wings before she fell asleep. #drosophila
Hehe, found an outdated section in the relatively recent textbook on molecular biology: if you google "industrial revolution and moths" you'll find a treasure trove of articles about 'most recent natural selection event', but as brilliant study from Tian and co showed (1/2)
February 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Hehe, found an outdated section in the relatively recent textbook on molecular biology: if you google "industrial revolution and moths" you'll find a treasure trove of articles about 'most recent natural selection event', but as brilliant study from Tian and co showed (1/2)
Today at MBW we were visited by a recent Nobel laureate (Chemistry for AlphaFold2) John Jumper and he gave a very nice and informative talk about AF development from the 1st to the 3rd version with a nice informal session just for young researchers afterwards.
December 11, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Today at MBW we were visited by a recent Nobel laureate (Chemistry for AlphaFold2) John Jumper and he gave a very nice and informative talk about AF development from the 1st to the 3rd version with a nice informal session just for young researchers afterwards.
I knew it was the case for VisualStudio, but I couldn't imagine that RStudio also supports multi-line editing. Maybe it's a good thing that I don't know my way around Mac yet and often try different combos of keys😅 To enable it, hold Ctrl+Option and use arrow down or up to select the lines
November 20, 2024 at 2:06 PM
I knew it was the case for VisualStudio, but I couldn't imagine that RStudio also supports multi-line editing. Maybe it's a good thing that I don't know my way around Mac yet and often try different combos of keys😅 To enable it, hold Ctrl+Option and use arrow down or up to select the lines
Found out you can set up an email notification for when your queued SLURM jobs begin. Super useful when asking for a lot of resources or a particularly popular node (read: that one that has a GPU)
November 19, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Found out you can set up an email notification for when your queued SLURM jobs begin. Super useful when asking for a lot of resources or a particularly popular node (read: that one that has a GPU)
A crate of this beer should be called GRangesList
November 13, 2024 at 11:01 AM
A crate of this beer should be called GRangesList
Welp, finding an enrichment of a non-conventional histone mark writer on a specific non-LTR retrotransposon family wasn't what I was expecting today, but here we are. Let’s see if I end up following this thread a year from now🔍👀.
November 8, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Welp, finding an enrichment of a non-conventional histone mark writer on a specific non-LTR retrotransposon family wasn't what I was expecting today, but here we are. Let’s see if I end up following this thread a year from now🔍👀.
A surprise, I'm sure, but a welcome one.🌯
November 8, 2024 at 1:27 PM
A surprise, I'm sure, but a welcome one.🌯
Ordered flies from Bloomington for the first time. A lot of them were sucked into the melted food, but luckily I see larvae. Hope those babies will come in handy🤞🏻
October 22, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Ordered flies from Bloomington for the first time. A lot of them were sucked into the melted food, but luckily I see larvae. Hope those babies will come in handy🤞🏻
Nice bar, great advice
October 16, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Nice bar, great advice
This cube croissant with pistachio cream inside is a solid reason to visit Copenhagen just by itself.
October 13, 2024 at 1:50 PM
This cube croissant with pistachio cream inside is a solid reason to visit Copenhagen just by itself.
Clearly, Finland is on some other tech level compared with all the other countries
October 1, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Clearly, Finland is on some other tech level compared with all the other countries
God bless John D. Moulton of Gene Tools LLC for making these illustrations for Wikipedia page on morpholino. They radiate Khan Academy vibes
September 26, 2024 at 3:47 PM
God bless John D. Moulton of Gene Tools LLC for making these illustrations for Wikipedia page on morpholino. They radiate Khan Academy vibes
Picked some lingon, cranberry and even late blueberry in the majestic fall Uppsala forest
September 21, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Picked some lingon, cranberry and even late blueberry in the majestic fall Uppsala forest