Hello, all. I’ve been around for a few days but haven’t yet made an #introduction post. So here we go.
I’m a #bioinformatics consultant with The Bioinformatics CRO working on a variety of small and large projects ranging from fundamental genomics to clinical decision support. Before that, for several years I was a postdoc and ORISE fellow specializing in high-altitude medicine and physiology at the University of Colorado Altitude Research Center. My academic background is a nearly even mix of #biostatistics, machine learning, and biology.
The ARC* has been sadly moribund for a few years, but thanks to collaborations with other groups, we’re starting to get more active again. Hopefully I will have more to say about that in the future. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me anything about #altitude medicine—I think I still remember most of it.
Years before that, I was an Air Force #medic (after a brief stint as an Army infantryman) followed by a couple of years as a civilian EMT. My time in patient care informs my approach to science: the numbers I crunch represent human lives.
Otherwise, I’m an armchair #paleontologist hoping to be able to call myself an amateur paleontologist again one of these days—by which I mean actually spending some time in the field and/or the prep lab—a too-occasional science fiction writer, and chronically sleep deprived. Also, my life is the internet: it’s cats all the way down.
*Fellow #Primeval fans may recognize the jacket in the picture. My wonderful fiancée found it for me when I was hired at the ARC, for exactly the reason you think.
@medigoth I just joined this server a day or two ago. I thought it was supposed to be about STEM but your is one of the few posts I’ve seen on such topics last day or two. I’m a #bioinformatics person too.
@clementkent, it seems to be practically a law of nature that any special-purpose internet forum will inevitably get more general. You can have a site for talking about bioinformatics, literary criticism, local traffic reports, Ukrainian arms shipments … whatever, and pretty soon everyone will be talking about their hobbies and posting pictures of their cats.
To be clear, I’m not really bothered by this. But I will try to talk about my work as well as nattering about whatever floats into my head. 🙂
@clementkent @medigoth Maybe try this new one https://genomic.social/about
@Marquestor Okay, you’ve found an altitude medicine question I can’t definitively answer! But I’ll answer anyway, because of course I will. 
My strong feeling is that yes, you can, based on the fact that you definitely get drunk faster on less alcohol when you’re up a mountain. Hypoxia is a mind-altering drug in itself, and other such drugs amplify the effect. So while there’s no way to know for sure, that’s the way I’d bet.
@medigoth yeah show off that 60k post length limit