That’s not where it went.
12.03.2026 19:04
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That’s not where it went.
This also changes everyone’s priors on the Great Filter hypothesis.
Rejecting the weekly diatribe I submit is one thing, but this?
Why would @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social reject?
Brent Pedersen, Mitchell Vollger and I have "posted" our preprint of the manuscript describing bedder, a complement to the functionality of bedtools. The "preprint server" we have chosen is google docs because it was rejected by biorxiv.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
arXiv to spin out as an independent non-profit. They are seeking a CEO jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
Coming from a bear that regularly dines on medical waste, this must be really bad!
It’s like a song mom used to rock me to sleep with…
“And from heaven earthward-bound sink with somber pinions, unperceived, great hoards of monsters descend upon the hearts and souls of mankind.”
'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.
