Olga Botvinnik
@olgabot.bsky.social
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Peppy computational biologist. Founder/CEO
@seanome.bsky.social
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3 months ago
At 3, she fled Hitler's invasion by train. By 8, she'd lost her baby sister and mother. Our founder
@olgabot.bsky.social
shares her grandmother's haunting story of survival in the Soviet Union during WWII.
blog.seanome.org/p/soviet-sto...
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Soviet Stories: Babushka Nina's Wartime Childhood
Three hundred Rubles separated life from death in Soviet Russia
https://blog.seanome.org/p/soviet-stories-babushka-ninas-wartime
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Seanome
3 months ago
Wondering how to win the next
#Longevity
x
#AI
#hackathon
? Check out our winner breakdown here!
open.substack.com/pub/seanome/...
Hosted by
#FrontierTower
, sponsored by
#ForesightInstitute
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Seanome
4 months ago
What invisible magic πͺ keeps Biotech running?
@nextflow.io
! Without , a global community of pipeline builders, 99% of
#genomics
research would be stalled by reinventing the wheel. Write-up of the super fun
#Nextflow
Summit hosted by
@seqera.io
in Boston!
open.substack.com/pub/seanome/...
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Building Better Genomics Tools Together
Returning home to a community of genomics tool builders at the 2025 Nextflow Summit in Boston
https://open.substack.com/pub/seanome/p/building-better-genomics-tools-together?r=4huzgz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Grateful for the opportunity to host a
#hackathon
for
#Longevity
x
#AI
at Frontier Tower in SF! Thanks to Foresight Institute for the $10k sponsorship, the judges for their expertise, and the participants for their hard work!
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Nextflow
5 months ago
@olgabot.bsky.social
, CEO & Founder at
@seanome.bsky.social
, just gave an insightful talk on her vision to create the best protein annotator for any organism using
@nf-co.re
, supporting efforts to better understand global biodiversity through large-scale sequencing. ππ§¬
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Grateful to share progress on
@seanome.bsky.social
's open-source software for unlocking the breakthrough potential of 43 billion ocean animal genes with the talented researchers at
@stanford.edu
University's Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG)!
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6 months ago
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πΆοΈ Spicy take:
#AI
in
#biology
is overhyped.
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Had so much fun on the Nextflow podcast! Great reminiscing about the early days of
#nfcore
and talking about how we're building the best
#protein
annotator for
#biodiversity
at
@seanome.bsky.social
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Phil Ewels
7 months ago
Really happy to get stuck in to the
#Nextflow
#Podcast
again for 2025! ποΈπ First episode is with
@olgabot.bsky.social
, we chat about just how little we really know about proteins out in the natural environment. See below for links + writeup + transcript, listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts π§
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Spicy take:
#AI
in
#biology
is overhyped.
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6 months ago
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#Academic
friends, what's the current best practices for writing openly available papers? Is Manubot (
manubot.org
) still the best thing? Living Papers (
idl.uw.edu/living-paper...
) looks cool but seems fairly new and untested
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Manubot - Manuscripts, open and automated
A tool set and workflow for scholarly publishing that is open, collaborative, continuous, automated, reproducible, and free.
https://manubot.org/
7 months ago
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πͺ Career milestone achieved: First podcast appearance! So grateful to Rob Kalwarowsky for the opportunity to share my vision of
@seanome.bsky.social
as building open genomics tools to unlock access to 43 billion molecular solutions from
#ocean
#biodiversity
when we've only catalogued 8,000 π€―
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9 months ago
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I love
@notion.com
and I love sharing Notion tips even more! Check out this post for a note taking evolution from
#pag32
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Seanome
9 months ago
Seanome's first conference
#PAG32
is in the books! We dove into
#genome
annotation,
#biodiversity
#sequencing
, and feeding the world. Our founder + CEO
@olgabot.bsky.social
presented a talk and poster on annotating proteins of unknown function. Catch the recap here!
https://buff.ly/3CfKxYY
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Plant and Animal Genomes (PAG) 32 Conference Recap
Genomes rule! Especially when they're not from humans ;)
https://buff.ly/3CfKxYY
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Loved running into
@jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
at
#PAG32
! So grateful for
@carpentries.carpentries.org
friends
9 months ago
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Chris Hunter
9 months ago
@gigascience.bsky.social
ed-board member
@mikeschatz.bsky.social
about to speak in the comparative genomics session here at
#pag32
come learn about solanum pan genomics
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Delfi Dorussen
9 months ago
It was great fun to present some of my research into functional redundancy in wheat at the IWGSC workshop at
#PAG32
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Had so much fun learning about bird genomics, what the "RIO" movie got right, and how mammals have model organism
#privilege
(haha) from Taylor Haines (UChicago/Field Museum) at
@nanoporetech.com
's
ORG.one
session
#PAG32
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Loved this awesome talk by Daniel Chaves about biodiversity and conservation genomics in Ecuador (performed *in-country* -- providing opportunities for local scientists) with
@nanoporetech.com
's
ORG.one
program at
#PAG32
! Here are some photos
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Excited for day 1 of
#pag32
!
9 months ago
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9 months ago
π’ Behind the Scenes: Preparing a talk for
#PAG32
https://buff.ly/3Pq6ZBl
Check out our latest blog post for an inside look at preparing for a conference presentation. Featuring a
@Notion.com
template you can use for your next talk!
#SciComm
#PublicSpeaking
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Itai Yanai
10 months ago
The 3 hardest things to learn as a scientist: 1. Trust the data, even when itβs not what you expected, 2. Trust the data, allowing it to change your direction, 3. Trust the data, but not too much: test with new data at every turn.
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Itai Yanai
10 months ago
Knowing how to give a good talk is a crucial skill to have, but it's mostly not formally taught very well. Here's my strategy for how to prepare for the presentation, actually present it, and then answer the questions.
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Ed Zitron
9 months ago
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This is super cool!
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10 months ago
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New post for
@seanome.bsky.social
! This is the most vulnerable one yet. Lots of emotion in writing this one, because I felt so exposed sharing why I love
#biology
so much.
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10 months ago
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Emily Moin
10 months ago
I'm crabby today but I wish we could have a little less pearl-clutching over "the children are citing AI hallucinations" and a little more over "tenured academics are citing documents that cite documents that cite documents that cite documents that don't support their claims."
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Has so much fun at the Foresight Institute's Vision Weekend representing
@seanome.bsky.social
!
#femalefounder
#genomics
#biodiversity
#ocean
10 months ago
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Love this story of how biodiversity genomics can directly impact human health by curing disease!
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10 months ago
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Polly Fordyce
10 months ago
Iβm not sure why or how they picked me but it does feel like a life achievement unlocked to have been a clue on Jeopardy!
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Excited to share what I've been working on at Seanome!
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10 months ago
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π§¬Jacob L Steenwyk
11 months ago
Genomics, evolution, and more starter pack! Help build community with this starter pack. This list is currently incomplete. Want to be included? Reply and I will remedy that!
go.bsky.app/JjvzkWU
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What
#AI
tools are people using for taking notes during a meeting? Looking for something compatible with Google Workspace because Zoom is getting too bloated (no, I'm not going to use your docs)
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