Exactly one year after the preprint came out (!), our revised manuscript on predicting epistatic interactions in SARS-CoV-2 is out in Genome Biology! We added experimental validations and a visual explanation of our samples weighting scheme. Here: genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
This was me being silly by the way; in reality @mulkern.bsky.social used imageJ like a civilized scientist
Update: I saw him in the flesh in the DB lounge the other week with a group of what I think are other "German train digital nomads". Still crazy to me that someone would choose to do this
Me, writing a proposal: in our research we do a clever combination of dry- and wet-lab work The clever combination of dry- and wet-lab work:
Today I shut down a small website I made >10 years ago, which was generating a small passive income through google adsense (and required half a day of work every other year to avoid bitrot). My indie hacker days are over 😂
Josie Bryant and I have a 3yr joint postdoc project at Sanger & EBI (ESPOD) Topic: Developing new bioinformatic and modelling approaches for exciting new longitudinal microbiome datasets Project details: www.embl.org/editorhub/wp...www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...
it's almost as like biology was full of exceptions to the "rule"! must be so shocking for these people to realize it for the first time
even more so in sports, in which we delude ourselves we can objectively rank athletes just because we can measure them on a scale. go read "W" by the late George Perec, he had a thing or two to say about what that reminded him of
Watching the whole world discovering that biology is a giant pot of exceptions to whatever rules or classifications we want to impose on it is so *chef's kiss*