BREAKING NEWS Telephone Lines Cut in Iran! Internet is down across Iran. Rights group states at least 45 Iranians killed by regime forces during protests Protesters arrested; family members unable to locate loved ones after arrest! #AureFreePress #News […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Based on what the USA is doing (and what Ukraine has gone through), it is a clear signal that every country needs nukes to protect itself, and anti proliferation is dead

Invading other countries and stealing their stuff is bad. Free countries should be severing any ties with the US regime right now

Aggressor states must be isolated, punished.

Yes, you can use a single stick of DDR5 for bioinformatics and data analysis, incurring only a small drop in performance. https://genomespot.blogspot.com/2026/01/yes-you-can-use-single-stick-of-ddr5.html #bioinformatics #ram #ddr5 #ddr5memory

Family enjoyed a visit to Point Cook and had the beach all to ourselves

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Ukraine military continues to take out russian shadow fleet tankers. With increasing insurance costs, this could cut russian access to the Mediteranean. Excellent analysis from "What's Going on With Shipping?" channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQ6cngw0Ns

Holy shit RAM prices have gone nuts. In August I built a workstation with 192GB DDR5 costing $758 AUD for the memory. Same memory now would cost $2498 #ram

I directly helped a single human today (someone I really don’t “know”) and it is one of the most rewarding feelings ever. Help (freely) others, folks. You know things others don’t. You have experience they do not. You are amazing. So are they. This is how we get out of this mess and thrive.

Bunch of awesome #postrock shows coming up across Melbourne Brisbane and Sydney over the next 2 weeks! https://mailchi.mp/c8fcd5d8f06b/birdsrobenewsletter-6795395?e=12b3ca6a39

Pretty interesting new article looking at the gene expression differences caused by continuous exercise and what sprint interval training does. #genomics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66625-8

Looks like biorxiv.org is down - can we blame this on AI scrapers?

russia's Rosneft reports 70% fall in 9-month net income rosneft is russia's second biggest firm and biggest oil producer if this continues, russia will be broke by the end of 2026 https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-rosneft-reports-70-fall-9-month-net-income-2025-11-28/

Can we please discuss accessibility at conferences? When organizers and schedules assume that everyone can walk fast and climb stairs, people with mobility issues (visible or invisible) might feel excluded. /

Natalie Anderson reports on the issues around animal ethics, especially with banned experimental setups like forced smoke inhalation. Raises questions about lack of data collection and need for central registry of animal ethics committees and animal experiments. #aimos2025

Metaresearcher Alexander Gibson reports on the publication of stroke and diabetes diagnostic models in the biomedical literature based on dubious datasets obtained from Kaggle. I say dubious, but data have hallmarks of synthetic or bogus measurements, for learning machine learning, not for […]

Good morning from Sydney, where we are getting ready for the #AIMOS2025 conference. Jen Beaudry @drjbeaudry.bsky.social (@aimosinc.bsky.social President and Chair) and Joanna Diong (Co-Chair) are welcoming us into the room. aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

I managed to find an easy solution to have reproducible environment using #guix time-machine while still coding at the comfort of my own IDE. I wrote a very short blog post about how to set it up in about 5 minutes along with example codes for R and etc […]

New diamond open access journal Replication Research welcomes reports of replication of previous works. #academicchatter https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/index.php/replicationresearch/index

Some really nice Northern Lights out there tonight. #minnesota #northernlights #biketooter

Ten essential tips for robust statistics in cell biology www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/eOl8q) 🧬🖥️🧪 1/3...

Enjoying this fun, quirky electronic music from artist called Ninajirachi https://ninajirachi.bandcamp.com/album/i-love-my-computer

My tip to academics - never publish in Elsevier journals. They are charging exorbident APCs like a mafia. If you get a lot of review invitations, always reply with a demand for 10% of the APC for the peer review. I'm not doing free work for those parasites.

Have been learning to fly a drone using the lift-off game on linux on and off for the past 2 months. Still a lot of room for improvement but its nice to know I can still learn new skills in my mid 40's 😎 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LmmmVt8FiY

@bayraktar_1love 🔥Batch of @wildhornets.bsky.social FPV drones handed over to the Azov Brigade

Today I learned about the snowball effect in science research. Kinda like the spread of fake news but for scholars. Once a high profile study publishes with a questionable method, folks jump to use it as well, not understanding some of the serious footguns involved […]

Very eye opening video on the #ai tech-bubble's imminent collapse https://youtu.be/55Z4cg5Fyu4

📣 The Digital Expression Explorer 2 database/webserver of RNA-seq data has been upgraded! It has a better search tool, HDF5 bulk files, new plant species and a new data-on-demand request tool which I think you'll find useful. If there is a transcriptomic study you would like processed, simply […]

There's an early + mid-career #epigenetics symposium taking place across Australia and online, supported by AEpiA. This will be a great opportunity to present your work, learn about other research happening in the region and network with other epigenetics peeps!

📣 The Digital Expression Explorer 2 database/webserver of RNA-seq data has been upgraded! It has a better search tool, HDF5 bulk files, new plant species and a new data-on-demand request tool which I think you'll find useful. If there is a transcriptomic study you would like processed, simply […]

Not cool MAGA, not cool #bioinformatics #genomics

Ukraine drone and missile strikes are disabling russian fossil fuel supply and bringing the country to a standstill. https://youtu.be/MZSOzyDhYzA #ukraine

14 active campaigns wait for your contribution to defeat #Russia. Please have a look at these more than ever important campaigns to support the Ukrainian army with both humanitarian and military aid, like trucks, drones, drone jammers or night vision. Any […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The thing about annihilating boats in international waters is that any evidence that they were carrying contraband is also destroyed. Hence, it is a deliberate crime.

🌈 Spotted at Deakin Uni today in Geelong

Techno on the command line.... with Strudel. Nice https://youtu.be/HkgV_-nJOuE

Can anyone give me an example of AI doing real work, that actually save you time or does some boring task? It seems much like a novelty, just pretending to do a human task, just quicker and worse

How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02735-z #epigenetics #genomics

New merch from Wild Hornets. Proceeds go to produce FPV drones to defend #ukraine The range includes T-shirts, hoodies and long sleeve shirts (my fav) in male and female variants https://www.bonfire.com/wild-hornets-official-apparel-2/

Gotta say it sucks to hear over the last 30-40 years how progressive policies that directly help citizens could never be enabled by the stroke of a pen, but in just a few short months a moody dictator can enact any cruel authoritarian idea no one wants or needs and it gets implemented nationwide […]

Put together this workstation PC for CPU and I/O intensive work to support the dee2.io project. This is only my 2nd computer build but it's performance is just astonishing and with undervolting it is also super efficient for 24/7 use. 1/2

@mdziemann I was part of a paper back in 2016 that tried to address this problem in the earth sciences. It's well-cited, so you probably already know about it, but: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015EA000136

Today I gave a talk entitled "Computational reproducibility and the struggle for reliable science" I've uploaded the slides here: https://ziemann-lab.net/2025/08/14/plenery-presentation-deakin-graduate-research-conference/ 1/2 #bioinformatics #genomics #reproducibility #academicchatter

I would love to see a scientific journal that focusses on computational reproducibility, where authors submit data and Jupyter/Rmarkdown notebook scripts. Only after those reports are compiled, does the work actually go for peer review. #bioinformatics #academicchatter

In the news today: "New mRNA vaccine stops malaria transmission in its tracks" vs. "RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine contracts" https://newatlas.com/infectious-diseases/wehi-mrna-vaccine-malaria-transmission/ […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

OpenAI released their long-promised open weight models today under clean Apache 2 licenses and with benchmarks that put them shockingly close to o3-mini and o4-mini I've run the smaller (20B) model on my Mac and it's very impressive, despite only using ~15GB of RAM […]

A few weeks ago, Sydney #postrock legends We Lost The Sea released an new album "A Single Flower" https://welostthesea.bandcamp.com/album/a-single-flower This is a captivating journey full of emotions high and low in the band's iconic and epic style.

https://rogue-scholar.org/ is getting more cool every day :)

Last night, First Class pilot Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustymenko was killed while flying an F-16 aircraft and defending Ukraine’s skies from Russian attack Maksym used the full range of onboard weapons and shot down seven Russian targets While destroying the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]