Science and politics can not and should not be separated

When a personal hero likes what you wrote 👀

Congratulations to my former lab at @pasteuredu.bsky.social @nrascovan.bsky.social lead authors @ramiro-arqueo.bsky.social and #pierreLuisi and last but not least thanks @bitesizedna.bsky.social for hosting me at Copenhagen Uni for hours of drilling, extractions, and preps! 👩‍🔬

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Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

Hey Siri, what is selection bias?

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

We’re the cops of the world and have been acting in that capacity for some time. But writing up a warrant for another head of state and swarming Caracas with missiles and helicopters so you can kidnap him all without even attempting to invent other pretext is next level, even for the U.S.

I don’t even know what to say about this shit. Fuck us imperialism. Fuck every politician of both parties who paved the way for this or chose the coward’s path when bravery was required. And fuck all of the people who will pretend this is something new and not an extension of decades of US policy

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Everything about this is as exactly as bad as you think it's going to be www.ft.com/content/b127...

Alice Wong was a champion for the disability community who devoted her life to building a more inclusive world for all of us. America is better for her advocacy. Rest in power.

Looking forward to attending!

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Still looking for our perfect doctoral candidate as part of @evomg-dn.bsky.social - come and join us to work on the evolutionary pressures that shape gene expression and disease in the uterus! Please RT (or is it RB? not sure how our lingo has changed!)

Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors," #MozFest

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

sorry it's still so funny we woke up to Dick Cheney dying today too

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... What’s behind Metapuccino? ☕️, by PhD student Fiona Hak, @camillemrcht.bsky.social and Melina Gallopin. A thread 👇

What is the most exciting bioinformatic research you’ve recently come across? I am interested in people who try to democratize knowledge, helping others and who aren't obsessed with publishing papers and satisfying their own curiosity. I want to find research that matters 👏

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians. It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical. While here, he developed a new way of aligning to millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Curious about how antibodies can target Plasmodium sporozoites? Very happy to see this review out, it means a lot to me to finish my PhD research topic with a nice overview of what is known about how anti-CSP Abs neutralize the parasite in the mammalian host.

Que orgullo haber dedicado más de treinta años a construir la educación pública en Colombia. Aun en el capitalismo se puede ser coherente, se puede tener principios, se puede trabajar por lo colectivo. Se puede hacer y se debe hacer. Un honor ser hija tuya @freddyduitama.bsky.social

A UN report names companies complicit in Israel’s war and genocide on Gaza, including US giants and firms from China to Mexico. Who are they? aje.io/6sq25k

Naomi Klein on Zionism:

Quién iba a decir que al tecnofeudalismo se le combate apostando por el código abierto.

Fantastic talk today by @ardemp.bskyverified.social at @pasteur.fr. It can’t be any clearer: science *is* political.

Microsoft has sacked Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal after they disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event in protest against its ties with the Israeli military, reports the Associated Press news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4wgn3k

Is perhaps this the only way Western scientists will begin to worry about the humiliating way in which migration laws have been imposed on people from the global south for years and years? This type of treatment is everyday life for many migrants around the world.

science has never been devoid of politics

Hi! I need help covering the costs of the surgery and PT to repair my shoulder labrum, an injury caused by cops two summers ago. I am very disabled and need help again to get out of my medical debt. Help me out if you can and please share if you can’t? (link below)

Curious about the Late killing of Plasmodium berghei sporozoites in the liver by an anti-circumsporozoite protein antibody? doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

Gulf of Distraction

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Stop appeasing liberal institutions and their so-called universal values.

Finally; the preprint on Cuttlefish 3 is available! This is the most recent in a long line of work led by Jamshed Khan, a recent PhD graduate from my lab. Cuttlefish 3 further improves the efficiency of Cuttlefish 2, while adding support for *colored* compacted de Bruijn graphs. 1/x

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

Feminist tech starter pack

GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases. A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness. 🔗 www.404media.co/forbidden-wo...

Tribal Leaders, Tribal Orgs, Indigenous peoples around the world. NativeBio is a safe port in the storm. Reach out. We will listen. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🧬 Excited to share our latest work, MUSET 🌭, a new tool for creating abundance unitig matrices from sequencing data. It was published yesterday in Oxford Bioinformatics if you want to have a look👀 : academic.oup.com/bioinformati... Let's break it down:

We have updated all Logan contigs (now at version 1.1)! Contiguity has been much improved (2x) and a duplicated k-mers bug has been fixed. More information and changelog here: github.com/IndexThePlan...