Sina
@seven-in-absentia.bsky.social
Curious soul, bioinformatician, not a big poster though
It might be time for me to take a full social media break. I don’t know how to deal with *gestures vaguely at the world* and it impacts my ability to deal with my own life. I don’t want to be ignorant, but I need to be safe. I will be back (intermittently and maybe fully at some point)
February 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It might be time for me to take a full social media break. I don’t know how to deal with *gestures vaguely at the world* and it impacts my ability to deal with my own life. I don’t want to be ignorant, but I need to be safe. I will be back (intermittently and maybe fully at some point)
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A “groundbreaking” therapy offering a potential cure for people living with Sickle Cell disease has been approved for use on the NHS.
Clinical trials find 1-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients.
🧪 #medsky
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Clinical trials find 1-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients.
🧪 #medsky
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use
Clinical trials find one-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A “groundbreaking” therapy offering a potential cure for people living with Sickle Cell disease has been approved for use on the NHS.
Clinical trials find 1-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients.
🧪 #medsky
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Clinical trials find 1-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients.
🧪 #medsky
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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At this point, I'm half-expecting to wake up tomorrow to find that attempting to open PubMed results in a "404 Not Found" message.
January 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
At this point, I'm half-expecting to wake up tomorrow to find that attempting to open PubMed results in a "404 Not Found" message.
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I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
January 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
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#CitizenScience embedded into Borderlands 3, a popular video game. Here, it was used to crowdsource the alignment of 1M 16S rRNA sequences from human microbiome studies. The resulting multiple sequence alignments are better than state-of-the-art computational methods.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
#CitizenScience embedded into Borderlands 3, a popular video game. Here, it was used to crowdsource the alignment of 1M 16S rRNA sequences from human microbiome studies. The resulting multiple sequence alignments are better than state-of-the-art computational methods.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A little comic about desire paths.
January 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A little comic about desire paths.
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A woman talks to her boyfriend on the Tube. Her hands move like fireworks as she talks. He stays very still, barely even blinking.
January 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A woman talks to her boyfriend on the Tube. Her hands move like fireworks as she talks. He stays very still, barely even blinking.
Explain your username:
It’s a gene whose abbreviation forms my first name. I like genes.
It’s a gene whose abbreviation forms my first name. I like genes.
I use seismic data.
Plus, most importantly, I have the sense-of-humour of a small child.
Plus, most importantly, I have the sense-of-humour of a small child.
Explain your username:
You might think that I picked Nova because I'm an Astronomer and SPACE stuff, but it's actually a shortening of an old username I used across web forums for over a decade.
You might think that I picked Nova because I'm an Astronomer and SPACE stuff, but it's actually a shortening of an old username I used across web forums for over a decade.
January 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Explain your username:
It’s a gene whose abbreviation forms my first name. I like genes.
It’s a gene whose abbreviation forms my first name. I like genes.
Something I miss on Bluesky is locations of people on their bio. Occasionally there’s a take that does only make sense in the context of where someone lives. In the old place it often helped me to check their bio to understand.
December 13, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Something I miss on Bluesky is locations of people on their bio. Occasionally there’s a take that does only make sense in the context of where someone lives. In the old place it often helped me to check their bio to understand.
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Frustrating - I reviewed a paper that was highly problematic, mainly in scientific rigour undermining most of the conclusions, so I recommend Reject. However the editor decides to Revise presumably due to the more positive comments from reviewer 2... /1
December 11, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Frustrating - I reviewed a paper that was highly problematic, mainly in scientific rigour undermining most of the conclusions, so I recommend Reject. However the editor decides to Revise presumably due to the more positive comments from reviewer 2... /1
Bluesky, can we come up with a way to tag articles behind a paywall? Most of the times I follow a link to a source here I can’t read it and if I knew that before waiting for the page to load and reaching the paywall I would have so much extra time to read other things
December 11, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Bluesky, can we come up with a way to tag articles behind a paywall? Most of the times I follow a link to a source here I can’t read it and if I knew that before waiting for the page to load and reaching the paywall I would have so much extra time to read other things
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I think it's unrealistic (and unfair) to expect one journal to change the whole system, and possibly self-destruct in the process.
1/n
1/n
December 11, 2024 at 10:17 AM
I think it's unrealistic (and unfair) to expect one journal to change the whole system, and possibly self-destruct in the process.
1/n
1/n
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I used a neural network approach (my brain) to develop a predictive model (squinting at the data) that yielded robust conclusions (vibes)
December 10, 2024 at 6:10 PM
I used a neural network approach (my brain) to develop a predictive model (squinting at the data) that yielded robust conclusions (vibes)
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Out now in Dev Cell! scRNAseq trajectories describe the cascade of gene expression as cells differentiate, but turning them into a clear understanding of the underlying biology of a cell type's development remains challenging. authors.elsevier.com/c/1k9qj5Sx5g... (1/)
November 26, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Out now in Dev Cell! scRNAseq trajectories describe the cascade of gene expression as cells differentiate, but turning them into a clear understanding of the underlying biology of a cell type's development remains challenging. authors.elsevier.com/c/1k9qj5Sx5g... (1/)
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E coli are red
S aureus are blue
Hans Christian Gram
Stained them for you
S aureus are blue
Hans Christian Gram
Stained them for you
November 27, 2024 at 2:16 AM
E coli are red
S aureus are blue
Hans Christian Gram
Stained them for you
S aureus are blue
Hans Christian Gram
Stained them for you
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(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM
(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why
In the last years
Life feels like
There has been a #delay
Of dreams
Of breath
Of joy
But it’s never too late
I hope
I will make it up
Next year
Life feels like
There has been a #delay
Of dreams
Of breath
Of joy
But it’s never too late
I hope
I will make it up
Next year
November 26, 2024 at 5:54 PM
In the last years
Life feels like
There has been a #delay
Of dreams
Of breath
Of joy
But it’s never too late
I hope
I will make it up
Next year
Life feels like
There has been a #delay
Of dreams
Of breath
Of joy
But it’s never too late
I hope
I will make it up
Next year
I’m sorry, but a lot of the “my followers here grow much faster than when I started on Twitter” is because your followers from over there look you up here to get their favourites back. It’s because Twitter existed before Bluesky. It’s great here, but it’s not magic.
November 23, 2024 at 8:07 AM
I’m sorry, but a lot of the “my followers here grow much faster than when I started on Twitter” is because your followers from over there look you up here to get their favourites back. It’s because Twitter existed before Bluesky. It’s great here, but it’s not magic.
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To be clear, we do have plans for scaling, we just kinda expected more than a couple days notice before getting blasted with a million new users a day.
The team is rapidly deploying fixes and new software to adapt. More servers in the mail.
The team is rapidly deploying fixes and new software to adapt. More servers in the mail.
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 PM
To be clear, we do have plans for scaling, we just kinda expected more than a couple days notice before getting blasted with a million new users a day.
The team is rapidly deploying fixes and new software to adapt. More servers in the mail.
The team is rapidly deploying fixes and new software to adapt. More servers in the mail.
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The bad news: Many people don’t get enough iron in their diet.
The good news: One ounce of dark chocolate has 3.37 mg of iron
Ladies, that’s 5.5 ounces a day that you clearly need.
Sorry guys, you’ll get your daily allotment with 2.5.
The good news: One ounce of dark chocolate has 3.37 mg of iron
Ladies, that’s 5.5 ounces a day that you clearly need.
Sorry guys, you’ll get your daily allotment with 2.5.
November 19, 2024 at 12:08 AM
The bad news: Many people don’t get enough iron in their diet.
The good news: One ounce of dark chocolate has 3.37 mg of iron
Ladies, that’s 5.5 ounces a day that you clearly need.
Sorry guys, you’ll get your daily allotment with 2.5.
The good news: One ounce of dark chocolate has 3.37 mg of iron
Ladies, that’s 5.5 ounces a day that you clearly need.
Sorry guys, you’ll get your daily allotment with 2.5.
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"does bluesky have drafts" no but we have kindness. we have friendship. we know love. we know how to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower. we know how to hold infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in an hour.
November 19, 2024 at 12:38 AM
"does bluesky have drafts" no but we have kindness. we have friendship. we know love. we know how to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower. we know how to hold infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in an hour.
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One of the tricky things in science is that what we call “abnormal” is always framed in relation to what is “normal” and this is inextricably linked to how and when “normal” was defined
November 19, 2024 at 7:55 AM
One of the tricky things in science is that what we call “abnormal” is always framed in relation to what is “normal” and this is inextricably linked to how and when “normal” was defined