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

⏰ 18h CET/12pm EST/ 20h EAT 📺 Watch the event live: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute 💪 Learn more about DLA: datalabelers.org 💕 Donate and support the workers: donate.dair-institute.org/page/data-wo... 🌎 Explore the reports created by data workers worldwide: data-workers.org

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...

Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.

Want to do a PhD on the interactions and evolution between viruses and their hosts? I am one of many signed up supervisors to the ILESLA programme:

El fascismo es la organización política del odio. Ni más ni menos. En la Alemania del 30 se llamó nazismo y fueron los judíos los perseguidos. Pero el antisemitismo no es lo que define al fascismo, que puede ir variando en la historia. Hoy los perseguidos son otros, pero ellos son los mismos.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

– Nazis: Ya basta de disimular, somos nazis – Liberales: "No todo el que está en contra de lo woke es nazi" – Nazis: Saludos nazis, lemas nazis, consignas nazis, programas nazis – Liberales: Parecen asperger, gestos confusos, ambigüedad ideológica – Nazis: Que somos nazis – Liberales: Pactemos.

it’s so insane to me that people work for ICE like did you watch star wars and think man i want to be like the guys in the plastic white suits who can’t aim for shit

🚨 Keynotes at RECOMB-seq 2025! 🚨 🌟 Alicia Oshlack – computational transcriptomics @aliciao.bsky.social 🌟 Rayan Chikhi – sequencing data structures @rayanchikhi.bsky.social 🗓️ Dates: April 24–25, 2025 📍 Seoul, South Korea recomb-seq.github.io/speakers/

exactly, and the tech industry and the far right are simply different sides of the same coin

First day watching the world news meant first day of the year with insomnia😖

Ningún rehen israelí sale de Gaza en las terribles condiciones que salen todos los prisioneros que libera Israel. Las cárceles israelíes son centros de tortura y exterminio.

📢 Quantgen friends: We will continue to accept applications for the GRC on Quantgen in Feb 2025 till 26 Jan or when we are full, so there is still time to put in an application and join us! 😁 Check out our latest program and apply now! www.grc.org/quantitative...

Yo sé que tuiter es un estiercolero pero es que acá no está badboni :(((

Hey All, please share and learn about this great summer program, conceived, led and taught by Indigenous scholars to Indigenous students! It's a groundbreaking concept, Indigenous Data Sovereignty #IDSov and protecting resources for Indigenous people's own and exclusive benefit. What an idea?!

Techbros be like 'AI will free humanity from work' while their model trains on the unpaid digital labor of millions, the poorly paid data labeling of thousands more, and is focused on automating away the most interesting jobs first. The Fragment on Machines was a warning not a pitch deck 💀

there is a certain wealth level beyond which you basically never hear the word no ever again. That's the cutoff point. Not hearing no breaks the human brain. We are not built to afford everything and value nothing

I really thought Altman would take this one.