'HPC Carpentry will launch as a full lesson program on 1 September 2026.' carpentries.org/blog/2026/02...
Interesting focus on Snakemake/Maestro! I assume eventually they'll have a Nextflow too
So, two cans of Dr. Pepper?
As unpaid TSA officers brace to miss their first full paycheck, absenteeism is leading to longer wait times at airport security checkpoints.
“Uniquely repulsive and bizarre.”
The Five Worst Beethoven Conductors
youtu.be/dcD3cQ3GK5o?...
Flight Attendant Quietly Informs First Class Passengers Where Real Emergency Exits Are
Flight Attendant Quietly Informs First Class Passengers Where Real Emergency Exits Are https://theonion.com/flight-attendant-quietly-informs-first-class-passengers-1819576296/
The 21st century may yet have hope.
Delicious!
The 21st century is not all bad…
One of the most overrated structures of the brain.
Civil-service retirement plans and universal pre-K have had a good run.
We set up our large (3') Winogradsky column in Sept 25 and have been sampling it each month, extracting DNA and using ONT 16S metabarcoding to track ecologic change. The graph below shows the first two months and the top 8 abundance families.
Thank you for this insightful analysis.
Crispy, juicy, triple-fried karaage.
1% grant scores, not getting funded.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
The result is a brief pocket of suspended time: the texture barely moves while the harmony quietly tightens beneath it.
One of my favorite moments.
Curiously, the violin’s closing chord does not entirely disappear. Its pitches linger and are gradually reinterpreted as the bass shifts beneath them, so that what first sounded like a firm arrival quietly dissolves into passing harmony…
320–321: One of the most Brahmsian aspects of this passage is that almost nothing moves on the surface, yet the harmony changes constantly. Beneath this apparent stillness, the cello introduces a chromatic descent that quietly reshapes the harmony under the sustained upper voices…
Life is so complicated right now. I really need to loose some distractions so I can think more clearly about how I design my oubliette.
I bet learning Polish as a second language does not have many pleasant surprises.
Next week, capstone students in the ENVS class I'm teaching will present "Environmental Impacts of Large Data Centers"
Most data centers don't get an EIA, so we have to DIY it - come hear their research on 3 proposed centers!
@carlbergstrom.com @wolvendamien.bsky.social @meadekrosby.bsky.social
Monica Munoz Torres holds the BOSC 2025 poster
BOSC Chair Nomi Harris by the BOSC 2024 poster
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“Deranged activist” sounds like a great addition to a CV/Biography.
"little evidence retraction or editorial notice had any effect on the rate of citation"
Perpetuating signals that a paper is flawed is critical. We need to do this better systemically. In other news, people don't read papers they cite...
ht @deevybee.bsky.social
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Good observations from @drugmonkey.bsky.social about early stage investigators (or at least Director Bhattacharya's comments on a podcast about them).
drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/02/26/n...
Thanks, @maxkozlov.bsky.social .
I will go further. This deranged activist was also known for criticizing NIH Director Francis Collins during the Obama administration when he felt that Collins was making decisions not aligned with the best interests of the NIH.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Very special to wake up today to a profile of @viralemergence.org from Yale. We’re in month eight of turmoil right now, and it’s hard to focus on the science, but the truth is: we have a lot more work to do.
ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
