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@nomad421

I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! I dislike slop in all forms, including slop thinking. Views are my own, but are obviously right.

Joined August 2008

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@nomad421
Jan 15, 2022
Thanks, @Google, but I already have this feature. It's called "tabs" and they make me feel plenty guilty already.
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@nomad421
Jul 30, 2024
Rewrite it in Rust is now an official DARPA program :).
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@nomad421
Feb 23, 2018
Hey, @CNN — I think I found the problem ...
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@nomad421
Aug 3, 2023
Data available upon request to the authors is soooo 2022. This is how we roll in 2023 - the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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@nomad421
Jun 8, 2019
It is hard to overstate how impressive this is once you recognize this is a single-author paper from a high school student!
bioRxiv Bioinfo
@biorxiv_bioinfo
May 24, 2019
Algorithms for efficiently collapsing reads with Unique Molecular Identifiers biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_bioinfo
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@nomad421
May 6, 2022
I'm 38 and I still have dreams about being unprepared for a test that tanks my grade in a class I took like 15-20 years ago. Two questions. 1) WTF brain?! 2) Does it ever stop?
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@nomad421
May 4, 2020
In 2005 I was a rising senior and was just considering the possibility of applying to grad school. As a first-gen academic, I had no idea how late I was starting this path. Now, 15 years later, I've learned that my promotion and tenure has been approved (in the same dept.)! 1/5
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@nomad421
Mar 4, 2023
This is pretty slick — query with an accession and directly download actual read files (with preference for SRA or ENA) directly in @rpetit3's fastq-dl github.com/rpetit3/fastq-…; all wrapped up in a nice "rich" interface :).
GitHub - rpetit3/fastq-dl: Download FASTQ files from SRA or ENA repositories.
From github.com
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@nomad421
May 6, 2022
As a group working on #scRNA-seq and #snRNA-seq analysis, we’ve noticed that certain popular and publicly-available datasets, e.g. the PBMC datasets from 10x Genomics, are used repeatedly for tutorials, method development, etc. and often reprocessed. 1/🧵
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@nomad421
Nov 10, 2023
Did @10xGenomics just make newer versions of Cell Ranger open source? github.com/10XGenomics/ce… (cc @sjackman, @luizirber). This is a huge win for open, transparent, and reproducible science if it’s the case!
GitHub - 10XGenomics/cellranger: 10x Genomics Single Cell Analysis
From github.com
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@nomad421
May 21, 2022
Replying to @jmschreiber91 and @dkjhaunc
A CS postdoc making under $70k is literally probably at a third (or less in some cases) of their industry value. There are limits to how much of a financial hit people may be willing or able to take to stay in academia...
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@nomad421
Mar 22, 2022
When I sign my emails “Best”, it’s short for “Best of luck navigating this apocalyptic Hellscape that has beset us over the past several years, and I hope, in earnest, to celebrate with you in revelry on the other side”. But that doesn’t fit on one line, so I just go with “Best”.
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@nomad421
Jan 7, 2021
Replying to @RepKarenBass and @theladybeck
Also, arrest this man:
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@nomad421
Jan 29, 2018
Thrilled, grateful and honored that our lab has recently received an NSF CAREER award. This will help fund our research (& my amazing students) for the next 5 years. It will also fund outreach projects that, I hope, will be informative and *fun*; stay tuned. Thank you, NSF!