I swear snakemake is just randomly throwing jobs into the SLURM queue with no rhyme or reason.

Me: Omg, this snakemake pipeline is going to be so much faster. Snakemake: All your files are wrong and nothing is going to work.

I've been fighting with this code all day and I don't think I have any energy left.

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Do I need a little laptop that can be constantly hooked up to the HPC and running jobs or do I just want a yellow macbook neo?

Still looking for any of these!!!! Thank you!!!!

In-person talk submission deadline extended to May 3 for #Evol2026!

Wow. To all those throwing up their hands and saying “what can we do?,” read this thread. Colette is a freaking grad student (complimentary). What is your excuse?

The amazing @jeremyfaust.bsky.social got the CDC paper that Jay Bhattacharya censored, which shows that the COVID19 vaccine was at least 53% effective in reducing hospitalizations. Why doesn’t Bhattacharya want the public to see it? IMO it’s because it proves him wrong, and he is a weak man.

Why is bioinformatics so hard?? I just wanted to be a molecular ecologist.

Dear FedEx.... W...T...F????

That moment you realize you and the IT guy are searching the same Github pages to try to solve your issue.

Seeing my colleagues take admin jobs and I'm just like.....

Fun times.....

Annual review came back today. Of course the one thing I'm most sensitive about was mentioned and now I'm spiraling. Thanks, anxiety brain.

Starting to understand how people become conspiracy theorists

Last Friday, Trump fired the National Science Board. The NSB is made up of distinguished scientists whose job is to oversee the National Science Foundation, setting research priorities by thinking beyond election cycles. It was designed to be independent. We don't know what this means, but it's bad.

I literally cannot think of anything that better encapsulates the state of journalism in this country than the fact that this happened at a dinner with hundreds of reporters present and no one knows what happened.

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Regular reminder (unfortunately)

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

OMG. We may actually make it through these population genomics analyses in time for my MS student to graduate this summer.

Me: Saying yes to things that are helpful to my community knowing I have 0 time for more things.

Grad school: to be successful in a future career you're going to need to focus on THIS ONE THING for the next 5 years. The actual career in question: you can't focus on one thing for more than 30 minutes at a time and you have to keep switching between 1000 things endlessly

GPS satellites move at 1/100000 the speed of light, causing their clocks to tick slower by 7 microseconds per day, and orbit at a height that makes their clocks tick faster by 45 microseconds per day. Two relativistic effects, both at the 1 part in 10 billion level, both essential for GPS accuracy 🧪

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Poster abstract for Evolution 2026 submitted. 😍

did Bill Kristol have the opposite of whatever kind of stroke Fetterman had

Every time I talk to our partners I'm once again amazed at how well eDNA works for tracking invasive species.

Blood work and dry needling. The number of needles I've been poked with over the past year has to be in the millions (granted that includes 2 tattoos).

People with preexisting conditions also don’t deserve to die

Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic

My package has been delayed at customs for over a week. 😭😭😭😭😭

Fun times. It looks like my toner only lasts for about 2 washings before I go from gray to orange. (Yes, I'm using purple shampoo & conditioner.)

Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes

It’s going to be very close, Virginia. Please be sure to go to the polls today and vote YES! Every vote counts!!! 💙🗳️ #VoteYesVirginiaToday

'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...

This paper is so cool and so important. Rex took a verbal model seriously and showed that it just doesn't so what people say it should do, and it opened up a ton of questions

My university's push to adopt AI is really demoralizing. Like, why am I even here? Just tell my students to ask ChatGPT for all the answers.

"The New York Times seems to constantly forget, or just doesn’t care, that only about 1% of U.S. college kids attend the dozen so-called Ivy-plus top-tier universities, and that less than 30% attend any type of private university." - @willbunch.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/JuBLs2

Eugenics

Indifference to process is a pretty good indicator that you don’t truly care about the quality of your output - especially if that output is “facts”.

No.

Question about Github etiquette: I just have a simple question about a pipeline on github that isn't really an issue. And it is probably a dumb question. Should I submit an issue or would it be better just to email the person?

Maybe it will come when I'm closer to retirement, but I really which I could channel the "I don't give a shit" attitude of some of my colleagues.

Has anyone come across a cheap or DIY qPCR instrument that can easily be used in the field?

I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!

Tim Curry IS VERY MUCH ALIVE. It is his birthday so he is trending because people are gushing about how great he is, which is deserved.

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This is incredible. Also. Fuck RFK Jr.