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.'
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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
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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...
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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
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🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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November 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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Co-organised a dads ride last Sunday with my son's school and the Fathering Project-associated dads group. We had 60 people come!!!!
If you organise events, people will come!
And we had a good day riding for about half an hour as a group, with icy poles at the end
If you organise events, people will come!
And we had a good day riding for about half an hour as a group, with icy poles at the end
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Co-organised a dads ride last Sunday with my son's school and the Fathering Project-associated dads group. We had 60 people come!!!!
If you organise events, people will come!
And we had a good day riding for about half an hour as a group, with icy poles at the end
If you organise events, people will come!
And we had a good day riding for about half an hour as a group, with icy poles at the end
My new strawberry is having its first fruit and it's an absolute Yog-Sothoth of a fruiting body. Just unwell in non-euclidian space
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
My new strawberry is having its first fruit and it's an absolute Yog-Sothoth of a fruiting body. Just unwell in non-euclidian space
After big life changes (more on that soon) you're supposed to feel free or elated or something. I'm just exhausted
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
After big life changes (more on that soon) you're supposed to feel free or elated or something. I'm just exhausted
absolutely LOVE this preprint on tricking LLMs using poetry:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
absolutely LOVE this preprint on tricking LLMs using poetry:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
New year, new me??? I can't even afford the old me
November 19, 2025 at 5:13 AM
New year, new me??? I can't even afford the old me
Thoroughly depressed at the news of another round of firings at CSIRO. What else are researchers supposed to do these days? Enormously smart, driven, skilled people having impacts in their communities every day, and still, it's not enough. For what reason
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Thoroughly depressed at the news of another round of firings at CSIRO. What else are researchers supposed to do these days? Enormously smart, driven, skilled people having impacts in their communities every day, and still, it's not enough. For what reason
Reposted by Philipp Bayer
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."
This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.
www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
When I ran Hacky Hour, a computational community at UWA, a good chunk was what I called "alternative supervision".
Giving poor overstressed PhD students ways to tell their PIs "no" by giving them estimates of how long that analysis idea they sent around last night would *really* take.
Giving poor overstressed PhD students ways to tell their PIs "no" by giving them estimates of how long that analysis idea they sent around last night would *really* take.
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
When I ran Hacky Hour, a computational community at UWA, a good chunk was what I called "alternative supervision".
Giving poor overstressed PhD students ways to tell their PIs "no" by giving them estimates of how long that analysis idea they sent around last night would *really* take.
Giving poor overstressed PhD students ways to tell their PIs "no" by giving them estimates of how long that analysis idea they sent around last night would *really* take.
a huge chunk of answers on biostars.org are now the same guy obviously running OP's question through ChatGPT and then copy-pasting the output. what's the point
Bioinformatics Answers
biostars.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
a huge chunk of answers on biostars.org are now the same guy obviously running OP's question through ChatGPT and then copy-pasting the output. what's the point
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Folks, it is finally out! Our paper on T2T assemblies of the zebrafish genome is on BioRxiv:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Folks, it is finally out! Our paper on T2T assemblies of the zebrafish genome is on BioRxiv:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I just replaced the remote via git set-url in one go, no error, and I didn't even have to google the exact command!!!! i'm almost 40 years old!!
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I just replaced the remote via git set-url in one go, no error, and I didn't even have to google the exact command!!!! i'm almost 40 years old!!
The local library had the good stuff!!!! Smack bang in the middle of the 'new arrivals'
@chucktingle.bsky.social thank you for writing
@chucktingle.bsky.social thank you for writing
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The local library had the good stuff!!!! Smack bang in the middle of the 'new arrivals'
@chucktingle.bsky.social thank you for writing
@chucktingle.bsky.social thank you for writing
Just helping to submit a paper and they are doing double-blind peer review, but ALSO want the DOIs etc for the data on submission. But DOIs include the author names? I'm assuming reviewers don't see the data. then what's the point
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Just helping to submit a paper and they are doing double-blind peer review, but ALSO want the DOIs etc for the data on submission. But DOIs include the author names? I'm assuming reviewers don't see the data. then what's the point
I feel like "grift" is the one term that summarises most of what has happened the last 10, 15 years in the 'Western' world. It's all just suits running around contributing nothing, just assuming the underpaid nurses and supermarket staffers and teachers prop up the system by burning themselves out
"The Grift Bubble: A Political Theory of American Collapse"
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
"Those who work against the grifters... may be acting from love, or from law, because they know that these things are real. And so they should also know, in acting thus, that they are the patriots."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-grift-...
The Grift Bubble
A Political Theory of American Collapse
snyder.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I feel like "grift" is the one term that summarises most of what has happened the last 10, 15 years in the 'Western' world. It's all just suits running around contributing nothing, just assuming the underpaid nurses and supermarket staffers and teachers prop up the system by burning themselves out
Just filling out a government form and it took an absurd amount of time to scroll to my year of birth. when did this happen
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just filling out a government form and it took an absurd amount of time to scroll to my year of birth. when did this happen
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*Man creeps woman out of STEM*
“Huh, I guess women just aren’t that into… science”
“Huh, I guess women just aren’t that into… science”
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
*Man creeps woman out of STEM*
“Huh, I guess women just aren’t that into… science”
“Huh, I guess women just aren’t that into… science”
If this were a good and just reality, the release of the Epstein emails would be the death knell of bro jocularity - this 'yeah mate' overinflated ego tone that hides the complete absence of skills, or knowledge, or intelligence.
Won't happen, of course.
But I can dream
Won't happen, of course.
But I can dream
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
If this were a good and just reality, the release of the Epstein emails would be the death knell of bro jocularity - this 'yeah mate' overinflated ego tone that hides the complete absence of skills, or knowledge, or intelligence.
Won't happen, of course.
But I can dream
Won't happen, of course.
But I can dream
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You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
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🌿 Postdoc Alert!
Aarhus University is hiring a 2-yr postdoc in eDNA analysis & ecosystem monitoring. Work on cutting-edge projects that analyse biodiversity and ecological function across various ecosystems.
🗓️ Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/2dp55uut
Aarhus University is hiring a 2-yr postdoc in eDNA analysis & ecosystem monitoring. Work on cutting-edge projects that analyse biodiversity and ecological function across various ecosystems.
🗓️ Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/2dp55uut
Job opportunity: Postdoc biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring
The Department of Biology at Aarhus University is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher for a 2-year position focused on environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis and ecosystem monitoring. Thi…
tinyurl.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
🌿 Postdoc Alert!
Aarhus University is hiring a 2-yr postdoc in eDNA analysis & ecosystem monitoring. Work on cutting-edge projects that analyse biodiversity and ecological function across various ecosystems.
🗓️ Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/2dp55uut
Aarhus University is hiring a 2-yr postdoc in eDNA analysis & ecosystem monitoring. Work on cutting-edge projects that analyse biodiversity and ecological function across various ecosystems.
🗓️ Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/2dp55uut