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Anna Revenko

@annarevenko.bsky.social
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Math-minded data lead. Curious about bioinformatics, genomics and neuroscience. Appreciate aesthetics and the fine art of meta-irony. Cologne expat 🇩🇪.

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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
DE/Medical procedures. At home, this would typically be done under anesthesia off/on. Here I stayed fully awake with only a painkiller. With my background in CS, my #defensemechanism is to reduce stress to numbers and signals. But the human side of the system caught me completely off guard.
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#ExtremeHeat warning in DE.Work iPhone passed out 30mins into a call,while my personal Samsung is going strong,and still hot🥵 Android-Apple: 1:0 ​Clearly,iOS wouldn't survive a single day of my #post-Soviet childhood,where we tackled 40C summers by hanging wet linens on windows instead of curtains
A vertical collage of two images highlighting a heatwave tech fail. The top part is a phone notification screenshot from "Deutscher Wetterdienst" at 09:26 on Tuesday, June 23, displaying a red alert icon and the text: "Warnung vor extremer Hitze · Nordrhein-Westfalen" (Extreme heat warning in North Rhine-Westphalia). The bottom part is a photograph of a black iPhone screen showing a system lockdown due to overheating. A red thermometer icon is displayed in the center with the warning text: "Temperature. iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it." The glossy screen is covered in fingerprints, reflecting the harsh sunlight and intense summer heat.
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Theory is only as good as its execution. I approached #TOGAF after years of working in Data Architecture leadership roles. What surprised me: practical experience was.... distracting! It made the exam harder, because real-world judgement and architectural thinking aren't always the same thing.
Upward view of a modern glass-and-steel office building with a large skybridge connecting two sections. Geometric lines frame a partly cloudy blue sky.
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Day 736. The last time I spoke #German was with my cat's veterinarian. About six months ago. I forced myself to learn a few medical terms I don't even know in English. There was always an easier option: they could speak Polish, I could answer in Russian, and somehow we'd understand each other.
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This Is Done By Humans @thisisdonebyhumans.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Already certified: Anna Revenko bsky.app/profile/anna... @annarevenko.bsky.social #DoneByHumans #noai #ai #ailabel
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Having spent years in large financial ecosystems, I keep expecting f(x). Input. Rules. Output. Call it a professional bias. ​ Relationship-driven systems still feel like an odd duck to me. Family-owned companies, however, often run on something else entirely: tradition, trust, personal networks.
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
6yrs in amateur #swimming. Good enough lung capacity, 1+ min breath holds. Yet, breathing every 5-7 strokes pushed me to panic 😲. It wasn’t an O₂ issue. The brain is more sensitive to rising CO₂ than falling O₂. The alarm goes off early 🚨. The fix was counterintuitive: continuous (!) active exhale.
A vibrant glass mosaic artwork by Alexey Lazar depicting two swimmers underwater in a blue tiled pool. They glide horizontally, leaving behind a massive, exploding trail of white mosaic tiles that simulates a rush of air bubbles. At the top, a small text reads: "Artwork by Alexey Lazar, shared with permission".
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Michael Lewis’s The Undoing Project is less about economics and more about the structure of human judgment. Tversky and Kahneman showed how people systematically misread probability and uncertainty, often relying on what memory retrieves most easily rather than on statistical reality. #booksky
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Morning walk-and-talk with women in #AI turned into a discussion on #graphs. Realized that exchange is almost never linear - every connection reshapes the network. Real progress starts with identifying key nodes and building bridges that transform information into new knowledge. #Köln #SciSky
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Fascinating to compare. 2 different survival mechanisms: ​Insects here rely on genetic memory - long-term evo changes in DNA. ​Immigration acts like molecular adaptation (alt. splicing) - a rapid reconfiguration to survive now, as noted here: bsky.app/profile/anng... ​2 scales, same goal: resilience
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Fashion is cyclical, and a little ironic: the forms change, but the same forces keep returning - survival on one side, attraction on the other. #FashionTech #EvolutionaryBiology
A photograph of a presentation screen at a lecture. The screen displays a modernist or caricature artwork from the early 20th century in the style of cabaret art. It features a woman with a short 1920s bob haircut and a cloche hat, sitting at a cafe table with a glass. The large word "BOCK" is visible in the background. The silhouette of the lecturer is visible in the lower-left corner against the bright screen.
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Looking at this not just through the lens of genetics, but as someone who has faced this devastating disease in my inner circle. May these dreams finally come true.🤞💫
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Friday lunch break: a crash course in medical bureaucracy. No bad luck without a silver lining. Learned more than planned about blood work and indicators. Brain: treating this as an engineering puzzle 🤓. Waiting for the referee. Critical thinking stays. #bioinformatics #germany #expat #nerdlife
A close-up shot of a letter envelope from "Ärztekammer Nordrhein" (GOÄ-Abteilung), with a blue pen and blurred medical documents in the background. Taken in Cologne, Germany.
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Late-season update from an indoor ski hall: snowboarders seem to operate in a different coordinate system, so a small coordinate transformation - effectively just crouching down - is enough to keep things synced. 🎿 #appliedmath #devlife #skilife #linearalgebra #datascience
A skier in a jacket, helmet, and goggles is crouched down low on the snow inside an indoor ski hall. The photo is taken from a low angle, right behind the colorful nose of a snowboard, capturing the skier from the snowboarder's perspective.
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Immigration as molecular adaptation. When “cities do not care,” we activate alternative splicing. 🧬🏙️ Plants can’t move, so they edit their RNA to survive the city stress. Moving countries twice taught me: we do the exact same to build a resilient version of identity. #pint26DE #biotech #genetics
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Lecture by @frezzalab.bsky.social on mitochondria and cancer left a mark: Bio systems parallel data architectures. "Metabolic permissiveness" acts like IT system-level permissions: nutrition or inflammation grant the "rights" for cellular growth. Plasticity is a strategic re-configuration. #cecad
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Anna Revenko @annarevenko.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hello! 10 years in FinTech. Currently leading Data Strategy @ Birkenstock. My academic background is in Applied Math & CS, with a thesis focused on SNP-based genetic identification systems. Exploring the intersection of data governance, AI, and Life Sciences. #BioTech #BioNRW #DataManagement
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