When I was a kid I always ordered my steak well done. Because why wouldn't you want it done well?

I'm talking tomorrow at the festival of genomics and biodata in London. https://festivalofgenomics.com/london/ If y'all around, would be great to meet up.

unrelated but related, emoticon reactions to emails. like who thought that was a good idea..

Someone personally invites me to apply for something. I send the application to the person handling it. No acknowledgment of receipt. Yeah, I guess that’s just how everything works these days.

bluesky's "starter packs" are supposed to come in the next mastodon version (4.6). which i think, will solve the empty feed onboarding problem -- which is probably the most off putting thing about mastodon.

RE: https://mstdn.science/@happykhan/115847639896793459 Updated to version 4.5.3 now. When you click the Boost button on any post, you will have the option to Quote it instead. For more changes see : https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/mastodon-4.5/

Good day. I'm doing some new year clean up. The preview cards for links will likely disappear, but will eventually come back.

Happy new year gang. All the best.

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@FediTree 🎄

What are airlines aversion to special characters? how much damage can one hyphen do?

yes, yes. i will do the new update soon. Quoting posts. hooooow exciting!!

Folks been asking for a searchable catalogue for microbinfie podcast. With a 147 episodes, and 78+ guests its getting hard to find episodes of your interest. anyway, i wrote a catalogue https://www.happykhan.com/microbinfie see all our lovely guests at https://www.happykhan.com/microbinfie/guests

If you are chairing a meeting, and it's not going ahead. You need to tell people and/or take it out of the calendar. It shouldn't be ME as the participant, always having to follow up if that recurring meeting that no one likes is happening or not.

Have to say. This is the only place where real people post. (Honourable mention to linkedin :oh_no_bubble: ).; Cheers big ears.

🚀 Should You Start with Nextflow in 2025? If you're working in bioinformatics, computational biology, or data science, you've probably seen Nextflow—so the question is: is it still worth adopting now? We recently recorded a three-part debate on this topic. 🎙️ 👉 […]

Come see my poster at IMMEM Poster 151. 🔬 QualiBact – provides robust, data-driven QC thresholds for 304 bacterial species, built from >2.4M assemblies (AllTheBacteria + RefSeq). ⚙️ SpecCheck – an open-source command-line tool that applies these standards […] [Original post on mstdn.science]

If you're at IMMEM. please come by and see "my" poster on vaccines.watch Otherwise please read the preprint. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.13.659488v1

Just dropped: #microbinfie Pathoplexus Part 1! Join Lee & guest Clint (and me) as we deep-dive with Emma Hodcroft, Theo Sanderson & Arthur Shem Kasambula about Pathoplexus […]

I thought professors were really into moving furniture, but apparently that's not what it means when they are "holding a chair".

nice thing about summer holidays is getting the whole HPC to myself.

New thing to try is pinning posts!

ALRIGHT. PHEW. That took longer than I thought. But mstdn.science is running v4.4.3. If you want to have a look at what that means for you have a look at https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/07/mastodon-4.4/ For me, there is a new option to include a terms of service. Yaaaaay, just what I always […]

Testing a new version.

Still time to register for IMMEM XIV (17–20 Sept)! It covers everything from how genomics shapes resistance profiling to pathogen surveillance in a OneHealth context. Great programme, cool peeps -- Don't be a victim to FOMO. Programme […]

Surprisingly no one had made the triple j hottest 100 Australian songs of all time list on Spotify. Here it is. All the songs in order of the countdown. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5AuCB7d2XqCwCjfVNJfBhg?si=6pykwQy2TqaRu9PcwKF0yA The full list […]

I'm back with this week's quiz. This time it's about R. A pirate's favourite statistics environment. https://forms.gle/GYT2qMiatRCsaNpKA This is a supplement to week 3 of https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/bioinformatics-for-biologists-analysing-and-interpreting-genomics-datasets/1/todo/173879

And a quiz for week 1 material https://forms.gle/4anTdaAb8b77vB1v9 which is a bit more general.

Bored? Try my bioinformatics quiz https://forms.gle/qykZnNFaeJknXk5f6

"Theory of Change" Wow. that's a lot of pretension to "making a plan"

Yeah… Science ain’t nothin’ to mess with Cash rules? Nah— Grants rule everything around me, G.R.E.A.M. Get the funding—dollar dollar scheme, y’all. I grew up on deadlines and tight scopes PI dreams soaked In lab coats and peer review quotes Scholar life—writing late in the night Jargon so dense […]

S. Typhi isn't a thing. Stop it. Salmonella Typhi if you must.

immem hackthon registration closes 31st May. https://www.escmid.org/congress-events/immem-xiv/12th-microbial-bioinformatics-hackathon/

@happykhan boosting this to say that I finally found that opencollective also takes credit cards, and that allowed me to set up a monthly contribution for mstdn.science. Previously I had sent one-off donations via bank transfer, and that costs about as much in bank fees (and €->£ conversion) as […]

Welcome to #abphm25

It all begins for #abphm2025 with keynote from Johanna Hanefeld (RKI).

It's honestly insulting people ask to come visit me and have me teach them bioinformatics in a matter of weeks and months, when my expertise is something that took years.

UK gov announced changes to immigration policy. Not sure what the implications are for scientists/ postdocs moving to the UK. UK science is greatly enriched by having good talent move here. Details are scarce in their white paper but increasing number of years to settlement from 5 to 10 will be […]

Is anyone writing down what is actually happening? I get the feeling that people will look back and believe whatever history the victors will write, and there isn't many other sources to contradict that.

`btop` is beautiful. Why did I suffer with mere `htop` for so long? Not that htop wasn't itself a huge leap/bound above regular-top, but.

Now Running v4.3.8. let me know if there's any snags. We run at a shortfall in terms of funds, so any contributions are welcome (you can review our spending and make a contribution here: https://opencollective.com/mstdnscience)

i have waaaay too many meetings for someone who doesnt like talking.

we are hiring - Senior Operations and Programme Manager […]

i used to find the music video for Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy really creepy, but now I feel it just reflects the feeling of living in England.

Last chance to register for ABPHM. Closes today. https://coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/

Huge disparity in genomic data: We support all efforts to increase the genomic surveillance of pathogens on a global scale as dynamics differ locally: what happens in one place does not translate to another and high-risk clones can emerge anywhere […] [Original post on mstdn.science]