Dr Katy K @DrK@qoto.org
Bioinformatician and medical imaging researcher at the University of Exeter / general science nerd 🤓 Dog owner, mother, academic. #STEM #Bioinformatics #genetics #Linux #RStats #Radiography #medicalimaging #medicalAI #Devon #AntiBrexit 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪
Joined Nov 2022
@Cyrene yes! That’s exactly it! I guess it’s a bit like with meditation, only focusing on the now and clearing your mind of everything else! It’s usually so hard to do that in everyday life! 🤔🤩
@Drosmel haha I’m the same, allows me to imagine that I look just like the instructor 🤔 I just do the whole “dance like no one is watching” thing, even though there is a class full of people around me 😆
@Drosmel ha! That looks so much fun!!
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Artificial intelligence and MRI: the source of a new epilepsy taxonomy https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.10.22282047
@SparrowRad ha! Yes it’s most definitely possible! I also had a baby half way through doing my PhD! You got this 💪 #womeninstem #AcademicMums
@joshfwd This is my favourite tool to find people I follow on Twitter who are also on here! :-) https://pruvisto.org/debirdify
@lefey@mastodonapp.uk hi! Ooh thanks, I’ll check that out! 😃
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Good discussion with a colleague on how we write about #biology to lay audiences, and how we may need to do more to generalise knowledge of molecular biology. E.g. a better general understanding of RNA, what it is, and how it works might’ve done wonders against vaccine hesitancy. We have some fantastic physics communicators in the mainstream, in TV and in popular science publications, maybe we should try to get more cell and molecular biologists there too? #SciComm #MolBio #CellBio
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#introduction hello all - I’m Aisling - first year student diagnostic radiographer at the University of Exeter. A Social Prescribing student champion for 22/23 and SoR student forum member. I’m a mum of 4, wife and #neurodivergent. I love the outdoors, medieval history and have a dachshund puppy called Sky that keeps me sane.
@SparrowRad hello! Great to meet another radiographer on here! I also did my radiography undergrad at Exeter and I’m starting a postdoc research position back there in January. I hope you’re enjoying student life, like you I also juggled my studies with being a mum, so I know how hectic it can be!
As well as all things #science and #politics I also absolutely love #corvids. I’m fascinated by their amazing intelligence and how they’ve been represented in #art and #literature throughout history.
Took this photo back in the Summer whilst walking my dog through the lovely Littleham churchyard in Exmouth, #Devon. #crows #birds #wildlife #CorvidsofMastadon
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Hello everyone! This is the new official account of the Debirdify app. It helps you finds out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.
Try it: https://pruvisto.org/debirdify
We recommend to keep checking it every few days to see if there are new people.
Dr Katy K
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I never actually posted an #introduction toot, so here it is:
Doing #bioinformatics at Masaryk University #Brno, tooting about #science and life in general. PhD in #PlantBiology from UIUC. Interested in #G-quadruplexes, repetitive sequences (aka #transposons or #repeats) and #genome evolution.
#plants #repeat #dna #protein #PlantBiology #transposon #TransposableElement #Gquadruplex #rstats #linux
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It appears I am going to be made a Senior Member of the IEEE (the highest level one can achieve)... Cool!
@freemo Wow! Massive congratulations 🤩
Dr Katy K
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Last week I helped edit this Insight https://elifesciences.org/articles/84025 about a paper describing the use of gene interaction-perturbation networks to obtain a more useful taxonomy for colorectal cancer (CRC). This is important because better taxonomies can lead to more personalised and targeted treatments. According to this new taxonomy, CRC can be divided into 6 subtypes. You can read the related article here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/81114
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I thought the time limit for presentations at my conference panel was 20 minutes, not 15 minutes. Have you ever had to read a 20 minute text in 15 minutes? I’m sure they all thought I was on bennies or something.
I’m exhausted. #professorlife #AcademicMastadon #LitStudies @litstudies
This is a great idea and the ability to import these lists to Mastadon to follow everyone on them is so useful! #AcademicMastadon
See link for nice curated lists of academics on Mastodon, with subjects ranging from Astrophysics to History to Law to Medieval History to Neurosci...
Dr Katy K
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This is the Pink Fairy Armadillo.
They live in Argentina, have a furry bum to help them thermoregulate, and are around 3-4 inches long. It is said they can burrow through sand as fast as a fish can swim.
You're welcome.
Bioinformatician and medical imaging researcher at the University of Exeter / general science nerd 🤓 Dog owner, mother, academic. #STEM #Bioinformatics #genetics #Linux #RStats #Radiography #medicalimaging #medicalAI #Devon #AntiBrexit 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪
Joined Nov 2022
