I have decided to keep an old iPhone around just to avoid using the Sonos app on my android phone. That's how bad the Sonos app is.

My iPod renaissance was short lived

No one understands the law of diminishing returns more than a toddler: 1st bookmark blew her mind 2nd okay cool, it's different then the last one 3rd ... . . .

Love love love this album. A perfect piano album for Sunday

In Canada, Alberta and Quebec are charging for the COVID vaccines. Looks like Canada is running a realtime experiment on vaccine access

I haven't settled on my music setup yet, but currently trying to have android, Sonos, apple music, LastFm, and PlexAmp all play nice is a nightmare.

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In my journey of exiting music streaming services, I noticed how much my music habits changed. I feel in love with making playlists: having all the world's music at my fingertips. Back to albums!

Decided to cancel my Spotify and host my pre-streaming days music library on a mini-pc! Might just bust out the iPod classic!

Today's commit history show a hilarious spiral of trying to implement a simple feature. Thankfully I have the weekend to flush all the cortisol from my brain and try again on Monday.

Sometimes I look at the locations of predatory conference invites and think "well that could be a nice city to visit"

An interesting and important read. Communicating between agencies and governments is essential for improving surveillance. A paper covering pipelines for genomic surveillance www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As a dad, do I make a request for the world war history books or is it granted to me automatically when I turn 40?

Anyone using ARM computers for bioinformatics? Tried the other day, but the support for conda/docker was crippling for pipeline development

When I am not doing science, I make playlists. I've been continuously making one called "the sunday afternoon radio" for that relaxed coffee sipping vibe, take a listen! open.spotify.com/playlist/221...

Good explainer on measles, immunity and the current Texas outbreak. As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really? www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Some albums creep into my heart -- been listening to caroline's "S/T" debut for three years now. But today, it really sunk its teeth. For fans of post-rock, folk, and midwest emo caroline.bandcamp.com/album/caroline

Terrific example of how US health is intertwined w/ the rest of the globe. "Seasonal flu vaccines need to be updated each year bc the virus changes so frequently. But the US hasn't contributed its information on what's spreading there since Jan., a World Health Organization (WHO) official said."🛟🧪

GenX "music snob" recommendation algorithm: "only the albums before they got big and sold out"

Scarlett fever is going around, and I am so grateful for antibiotics. I will never take them for granted

Been on the building and testing of the pipeline side for a minute, but finally returned the joy of running a big analysis. Go lil' machine, crunch that big dataset!

We asked for climate change action but instead we outsourced meme generation to AI

Discovering we have moved from the era of "make sure you have batteries for toys on Christmas" to "make sure you pre-downloaded the app for Christmas"

As a public health employee, I am biased, but I think this article does a great job of highlighting the value of the work we do: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Getting my flu/COVID vaccines, meanwhile I have a toddler at daycare

Any Canadian Microbiology bluesky starter packs out there?

My bluesky feed is finally taking off! Might start using it actively now!

In my new position I don't do any data viz, and I feel like all my ggplot skills are silently slipping away...

Some work from my time with the @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social lab was published today! In the paper we benchmarked SARS-COV-2 wastewater detection methods, and found they performed quite well overall but were challenged by rare or novel lineages. Thanks to the teams involved! doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

Cool crAssphage news! I'd bet it is not the only gut virus behaving this way! Sometimes bacteria and viruses get along!

25 years! I went to workshops in 2016 and 2023, very different stages of my career, and both times came away inspired and having learned a ton! Congratulations!