Phillip Compeau
@phillipcompeau.bsky.social
I came over here to shitpost.
Computational biology (teaching) professor
"Oh you're the guy who co-founded Rosalind" -- a few people, not many
Computational biology (teaching) professor
"Oh you're the guy who co-founded Rosalind" -- a few people, not many
Pinned
If I'm really going to show up here and post you better all like my jokes
I found the most fucked imaginable use case of AI for PhD holders #ImpostorSyndrome
May 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I found the most fucked imaginable use case of AI for PhD holders #ImpostorSyndrome
Died *with* hantavirus, not *of* hantavirus
BREAKING: Gene Hackman died of heart disease and his wife died of hantavirus about one week earlier in Santa Fe, authorities say.
Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus about 1 week prior, authorities say
The partially mummified bodies of Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were discovered in February at their home in New Mexico.
bit.ly
March 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Died *with* hantavirus, not *of* hantavirus
More like Sam Bankman Freed amirite
March 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
More like Sam Bankman Freed amirite
Hopping into my way back machine for this gem from shared grad student housing, once upon a time
March 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Hopping into my way back machine for this gem from shared grad student housing, once upon a time
Reposted by Phillip Compeau
Dijkstra‘s remains the correct take on AI
March 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Dijkstra‘s remains the correct take on AI
Google just randomly showing this to me in search results. What a beautiful, necessary feature.
And congrats to Gene and Jeff! 👑
And congrats to Gene and Jeff! 👑
February 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Google just randomly showing this to me in search results. What a beautiful, necessary feature.
And congrats to Gene and Jeff! 👑
And congrats to Gene and Jeff! 👑
Reposted by Phillip Compeau
I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me
mashable.com/article/how-...
mashable.com/article/how-...
How to download your Kindle books while Amazon still allows it
After Feb. 26, Amazon is doing away with its Kindle "download and transfer via USB" option.
mashable.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me
mashable.com/article/how-...
mashable.com/article/how-...
Today was my favorite lecture of the semester because I got to show this video of the clock game on The Price is Right
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc9H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc9H...
The Price is Right - Bad Game of 'Clock Game'
YouTube video by boogyman10o1
www.youtube.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Today was my favorite lecture of the semester because I got to show this video of the clock game on The Price is Right
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc9H...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc9H...
Nothing says "I am not working right now and this is a waste of my and your time" quite like sending a weekly summary email
February 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Nothing says "I am not working right now and this is a waste of my and your time" quite like sending a weekly summary email
Universities are too expensive for students, they've lost a focus on the communities they inhabit, they employ too many executivess who don't add any value, etc. But it's easier for universities to slow PhD admissions than incorporate real systemic change.
Fewer PhDs means America loses innovation
Fewer PhDs means America loses innovation
New: the University of Pittsburgh paused PhD admissions this week amid federal research funding turmoil.
A Pitt spokesperson said the school is analyzing how the proposed NIH cuts could play out, but "expects to be in a position to resume offers soon."
www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
A Pitt spokesperson said the school is analyzing how the proposed NIH cuts could play out, but "expects to be in a position to resume offers soon."
www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
www.wesa.fm
February 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Universities are too expensive for students, they've lost a focus on the communities they inhabit, they employ too many executivess who don't add any value, etc. But it's easier for universities to slow PhD admissions than incorporate real systemic change.
Fewer PhDs means America loses innovation
Fewer PhDs means America loses innovation
In this teaching life you get to choose: post old memes no one gets, or steal from the greats?
February 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
In this teaching life you get to choose: post old memes no one gets, or steal from the greats?
How the hell am I gonna feed my kids when my great great grandfather's $3.63 per month social security check (which he earned from 40 hard years of clubbing baby seals) gets stopped?
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
How the hell am I gonna feed my kids when my great great grandfather's $3.63 per month social security check (which he earned from 40 hard years of clubbing baby seals) gets stopped?
We are discovering very quickly which private organizations are led by cowards. That's the thing about cowards, they panic and show you who they are very quickly
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education
“Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions
scim.ag
February 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We are discovering very quickly which private organizations are led by cowards. That's the thing about cowards, they panic and show you who they are very quickly
Reposted by Phillip Compeau
Government agencies’ moves to comply with Donald Trump’s executive orders have sparked feverish efforts to archive US government data in online repositories like the Internet Archive.
Data Hoarders Are Rushing to Save Vanishing US Health Records
Computer science professor Niema Moshiri was watching TV last Thursday evening when his phone lit up with frantic messages from a virologist in Canada. The warning was urgent: back up the US Centers f...
www.bloomberg.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Government agencies’ moves to comply with Donald Trump’s executive orders have sparked feverish efforts to archive US government data in online repositories like the Internet Archive.
A revelation about working in academia is that the angriest, most irritated people are also the kindest, truest of heart people you will encounter. What does that tell you?
February 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
A revelation about working in academia is that the angriest, most irritated people are also the kindest, truest of heart people you will encounter. What does that tell you?
Reposted by Phillip Compeau
Inspired by @charlesgaba.com's Herculean effort to post all Wayback URLs from the CDC website (including pages that have recently been deleted), I built this GitHub repo to share Wayback links to all CDC website pages, and will add more websites when I get a chance github.com/Niema-Lab/Go...
February 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Inspired by @charlesgaba.com's Herculean effort to post all Wayback URLs from the CDC website (including pages that have recently been deleted), I built this GitHub repo to share Wayback links to all CDC website pages, and will add more websites when I get a chance github.com/Niema-Lab/Go...
The era where significant parts of America tried to uplift people who hadn't been born into opportunity was brief, but it was hopeful.
Frankly I can't believe it happened at all
Frankly I can't believe it happened at all
January 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The era where significant parts of America tried to uplift people who hadn't been born into opportunity was brief, but it was hopeful.
Frankly I can't believe it happened at all
Frankly I can't believe it happened at all
1. Reckoner
2. Paranoid android
3. Pyramid song
4. Fake plastic trees
5. True love waits
Subject to revision
2. Paranoid android
3. Pyramid song
4. Fake plastic trees
5. True love waits
Subject to revision
Radiohead top 5 (this is hard):
5. Faust Arp
4. There, there
3. Everything In Its Right Place
2. Let Down
1. Bodysnatchers
5. Faust Arp
4. There, there
3. Everything In Its Right Place
2. Let Down
1. Bodysnatchers
January 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
1. Reckoner
2. Paranoid android
3. Pyramid song
4. Fake plastic trees
5. True love waits
Subject to revision
2. Paranoid android
3. Pyramid song
4. Fake plastic trees
5. True love waits
Subject to revision
I, for one, dream of a country in which people reach (underpaid) roles in (critical) governmental services by merit alone (and then take a severance offer and resign leaving that role understaffed)
January 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I, for one, dream of a country in which people reach (underpaid) roles in (critical) governmental services by merit alone (and then take a severance offer and resign leaving that role understaffed)
We built Rosalind, the Bioinformatics Algorithms project, and the Biological Modeling online course
Post the amazing science things you have done with federal funding.
January 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
We built Rosalind, the Bioinformatics Algorithms project, and the Biological Modeling online course
Say what you will about AI, but we just had an era in which our smartest quantitative minds spent their time training bots to sell ads to other bots.
That era was extremely annoying and boring. Like if smart kids all wanted to do accounting for some reason
That era was extremely annoying and boring. Like if smart kids all wanted to do accounting for some reason
January 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Say what you will about AI, but we just had an era in which our smartest quantitative minds spent their time training bots to sell ads to other bots.
That era was extremely annoying and boring. Like if smart kids all wanted to do accounting for some reason
That era was extremely annoying and boring. Like if smart kids all wanted to do accounting for some reason
Using ChatGPT makes me smarter every day
January 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Using ChatGPT makes me smarter every day
I can't tell whether the mathematician side of me or the biology side of me is more offended by these definitions
January 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I can't tell whether the mathematician side of me or the biology side of me is more offended by these definitions