I'm just gonna leave this here.

After a sad departure from @ucsandiego.bsky.social, I was able to find a role in industry! 🥹✨ The job market was really tough (some places had ~5-7 rounds of interviews), especially while managing post-surgery healing … but made it through! 🙌🏽 #AcademicChatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social

NYC Postdocs: join us for this month's Postdoc Night Science event! Having a science buddy is crucial for the creative process. So this time we're meeting at a bar near Union Square for some science buddy "speed dating". RSVP: tinyurl.com/3t5us6hp!

I finally visited the Mr. Charlie’s TMS that opened up close to me after my run this morning! 🍔🍟🥤 The interior is a VIBE 💛❤️

PMOS, short for Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, is the new name for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, just announced this week in a paper in the medical journal The Lancet. Read the Lancet paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #MenstrualHealthAwarenessMonth #PeriodFriendlyWorld 2/16

I haven't posted here in a while, but I got the notice at the end of last month that due to a lack of funding, I've been laid off from my postdoctoral position 🥲 My last day with @ucsandiego.bsky.social is on May 29th and it's very bittersweet as a double alumni to be on the chopping block 🧜‍♂️

I’m now a month post endometriosis surgery and it’s absolutely crazy how much better my pain has gotten since they were able to cut out lesions and suspicious regions! 💛✨ I did also recently use my FSA dollars to upgrade to the byACRE rollator for when I need to manage chronic nerve pain episodes 🤩

It's amazing what institutes in the @pasteur.fr network are able to accomplish when they're not being bombed by the US and Israeli militaries 👀

Critical for anyone who uses GitHub - if you've used GitHub Copilot at all, Microsoft is about to start putting basically all of your code and the entire trajectory of all actions you took into training. You need to opt out by April 24th. github.blog/news-insight...

Please take extra precautions to keep your animals safe during this heatwave in San Diego County! Important tips, graphics and FAQ's are available at sdhumane.org/heatsafety.

I’ve had the month off for FMLA leave to recuperate physically and mentally after my surgery … and playing lots of #Pokopia 🥹✨ I’ll be returning to lab and whatnot in early April, and I’m excited to slowly get back to bioinformatics and research! 💪🏽💪🏽

A more complete set of voices in a companion piece. www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/h...

Check out this preprint I can’t wait to read 📄🧬💻👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Well done to @ee-reh-neh.bsky.social and all members of the team! Truly inspiring to see this sort of work being done!

First, a couple of weeks ago: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Single cell RNAseq on blood from 200 donors across 4 sites in Indonesia spanning regional axes of genetic and environmental diversity. This is one of very few scRNA data sets from the Global South, including urban and rural settings.

I just tried to register. The March date is already listed as Full! I did register for the April date. You have a chance to enter questions. I don't know if there will be another opportunity to do this.

Also, happy endometriosis awareness month 🌻💛 People in my life have asked why I’m open about my health 🏥 and a BIG reason is to bring enough awareness to conditions to encourage ACTION ✊🏽 📣 There’ll also be events in New York City this week hosted by www.endofound.org if people are interested 💪🏽

I don't let my social media platforms define what kind of loser I am

me needing romantacy audiobooks to survive the horrors puts my grandma's soap operas in a whole new light lol

After navigating delayed flights and cancellations due to snowy weather, my husband and I finally made it to Sapporo for our honeymoon! ❄️🗻 We haven’t travelled with just the two of us for a while, so it’s nice to be able to spend time relaxing with your person 😭✨❤️

I lectured today for a Practical Bioinformatics course and the JupyterHub for the class wasn’t working for people 😭 So instead of just my “Intro to pandas, matplotlib, and seaborn” interactive session, I also did an ad-hoc lesson on how to install packages and create environments with conda 🥲

Lolll.... "Denmark changes Greenland's name to 'Epstein's Island' so Trump stops talking about it"

Why the new food guidelines look like Cards Against Humanity

You don't get to turn your chatbot into a tool of mass sexualized harassment and then two weeks later say the problem is fixed because the abusers have to pay for the privilege.

Oh goodness—you know you’re a regular at your local coffee shop if they have your drink ready by the time you get to the cashier 😭 🫣 Shoutout to The Forum in San Diego, California for fueling my early morning remote work sessions and dog training sessions with Yuuki (She looks like a seal in this)

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Attended this course led by @drtoriespy.bsky.social and it was cool to learn about how to talk about science with journalists 🎙️ 📰 🧪 🎉 Thanks to @sciline.org for getting this session together and to @sheckmo.bsky.social for your insight during the Q&A session! 🙌🏽 ✨ I'm excited for future workshops! 🤩

Team fish - we need your help! We are trying to build a database of all the fish chromosome-scale genomes where sex chromosomes have been identified. Have you build one or some? Do you know someone who has? Can you post the link in the comments? Please spread the word and repost! Thank you!

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me

ProPublica reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social found that more than 170 U.S. citizens had been detained by immigration agents. “The number became an important, irrefutable fact in the conversation about the immigration crackdown,” our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.

I had a small non-science-related win 👀 🧪 My doctor FINALLY sent in a referral for me to get an exploratory laparoscopy for endometriosis 😭 💖 It only took ~10 years 🥲 I've been pushing through a lot of pain with this #InvisibleIllness 🌻 lately--hopefully they're able to find what's wrong with me! 🫠

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Overall trust in scientists and medical professionals is still rather high (Pew 2024). And only about 7% of American/Canadian respondents in a study (Gravelle 2022) are stridently anti-vax. MAHA is platforming views of a very small minority, to erode the majority.

The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.

This is the first time Pantone has chosen a shade of white. The company says it's "a lofty white that serves as a symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection." n.pr/4rDF0jv

🤔 MyChart unwrapped ... ⚕️ 💭 💸 Medical appointments this year to date cost a grand total of $170,431.64 💸 Luckily, you have insurance! 🏥 ✨ 🚑 You went to the Emergency Room TWICE this year, with one visit amounting to $16,920.81! 🤯 📹 You had 9 video visits, with most in Women's Health and Neurology 🧠

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

I've spent so much time cleaning and harmonizing various genetics datasets that I'm working with for my postdoctoral project and this whole ordeal feels like a lot of invisible work that isn't really appreciated (and sometimes feels looked down upon by my peers) 🫠 🧬 💻 🧪

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

Sometimes, #endometriosis pain is really rough despite the heated blankets, hot water bottles, and pain meds that I have to try and alleviate things 🫠 I was on 200 mg of Orilissa twice daily and it was LIFE CHANGING to be pain free! ✨ But after a year, my insurance will no longer cover things 🥲 😭

One of the themes of our new police state is the sheer lack of professionalism. They can't do the basics, and when challenged, double down. A dysfunctional organizational culture deeply suspicious of the society they are tasked with controlling. bsky.app/profile/radl...

The three-year anniversary of my PhD defense is steadily approaching ✨ Even though I'm far removed now, I still continue to hear concerning accounts about the lab environment where I did my graduate work... I'm so relieved newer students are openly discussing lab culture fit and mental health! 💖

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Hey Bluesky 🦋✨ It’s been a while! 👋🏽 As a small update, a preprint I’m on was posted to bioRxiv! 📑 It was great to work with Ke on analyzing the Butterfly scRNA-seq data, and teach him bioinformatics over multiple boba runs! 🧬 💻 🧪 Seurat has also changed SO, SO MUCH since I last used it ~2020 🫣

"the benefits of NIH research in general are wide and diffuse. A very large number of advances—roughly one in two during the 21st century—are linked to NIH grants that are cut in our counterfactual scenario."

I got a liver biopsy yesterday and, wow, I didn’t expect that to hurt as much as it did … Thank goodness I have sick days so I can rest! 🥲 They also weren’t able to give me as much sedative because my blood pressure runs pretty low to begin with so I felt everything 😭