Jeff Dean (the Biochemist) @jeffdean@qoto.org

Whole genome sequencing is now being performed in 83 children's hospitals in the US and Canada for sick newborns. While so much attention has been on the lowering of cost, [sample -> sequence-> output] can take as little as 3 hours. What about adults?https://erictopol.substack.com/p/clinical-whole-genome-sequencing

Efficiency: Funding for two 5-week rotations in fall quarter available. Direct admission to labs also an option on mutual agreement by mentor and trainee. @GGIPstudents gets you into labs quickly so you can begin work on your #science. Average time to degree is 4.5 years. #phd #phdlife #academia

A Gary Larson #cartoon especially for #Caturday

More #CaliforniaZephyr photos, along the #ColoradoRiver as it winds through the #RockyMountains.

This set is in #GlenwoodCanyon, one at the #glenwoodsprings #amtrak station. #trains #railroad #passengerrail #photography #scenery #colorado​ #rockymountains #CZSeries​ 3/?

I built this tool a year ago but I feel like Mastodon folks would like it

The "Weird Old Book Finder"

Type in a search query, and it'll find one randomly-chosen public-domain book that matches the query -- and present it for immediate reading: https://weird-old-book-finder.glitch.me

Why only one book? To prevent the paradox of choice! Just *start readin'*

Can't promise every book will be weird, but most are

A longer essay on how/why I developed it: https://debugger.medium.com/a-search-engine-that-finds-you-weird-old-books-3a74fbb5f3d4

This was a search for "mastodon"

Two things I'm learning about #mastodon after using it pretty constantly

1. Use hashtags... all of them
There's no algorithm, people discover through hashtags

2. Follow people
This is the only way you get content, without it, you're always looking at the hashtags

3. Boost people's toots
This helps people discover other people organically

4. The default/official mastodon app doesn't have local timeline
If you're on a smaller instance, load up the website and checkout the local timeline

This is such a succinct piece that explains exactly why some people really like mastodon and some really don't.

https://uxdesign.cc/mastodon-is-antiviral-design-42f090ab8d51

Calling #genetics people. Faculty post a York University in Toronto. Great department. Send me a message if you want information. https://www.academicwork.ca/jobs/assistant-professor-genetics-york-university. molecular, cellular, and/or #EvolutionaryGenetics #genetics or #Genomics feel free to retoot to spread it further.

Multiple openings for both tenure-track and teaching faculty at Northeastern in Computer Science (Boston as well as London, Bay Area, other locations). I am finding it is a great place to be new faculty (ask me). #jobs #teaching

https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/information-for-overview/prospective-faculty/open-positions/tenure-track/

https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/information-for-overview/prospective-faculty/open-positions/teaching-faculty/

Young people that want to train in the medical or veterinary professions but don’t get the crazily high grades or jump through the hoops to get into medicine in the UK -look at studying in Europe -life is too short to be put off by bad policy..#NeedMoreMedicalPeople

This one is for everyone nostalgic for old school metabolic maps

"We studied the genetic architecture of the human plasma metabolome using 913 metabolites assayed in 19,994 individuals and identified 2,599 variant–metabolite associations (P < 1.25 × 10−11) within 330 genomic regions, with rare variants (minor allele frequency ≤ 1%) explaining 9.4% of associations."

#Metabolism #NatureMedicine

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02046-0

it’s impossible to photograph enormous #trees casually, but we try

Now the way the Internet Archive is doing mastodon is how more organisations and celebs should be joining the fediverse!

They have a dedicated in house instance, which lets you identify official staff, and gives them control and security over their content, whilst also allowing people and instances to opt in or out of interacting with them

Kudos for doing it right @internetarchive!

OrthoDB v11 is out! The hierarchical catalogue of orthologues now with 294 #arthropods https://www.orthodb.org/

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