David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 21/11/2025Catalan human towers ("Castells") in the 25th anniversary ad from Wikipedia 🔝 ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castells 020
Reposted by David Mas-PonteKevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Sure. Just one question: How?media.tenor.coma man in a purple suit and top hat is making a funny faceALT: a man in a purple suit and top hat is making a funny face 183
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 11/11/2025The google-scholar pdf reader just added syntax highlighting 😱 I really needed this haha 130
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 05/11/2025the infographic is really bad... but there are some gems in the actual pdf plan, with different and more detailed routes. Wildest to me Scandinavia <-> Mediterranean route. Stocholm, Berlin 8h and Berlin to Naples in 11-ish hours. transport.ec.europa.eu/document/dow... 020
Reposted by David Mas-PonteFabian Zimmermann @fabianzimmermann.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Been a fan since v1 so I’ll give v3 a try, too. I liked how easy it was to switch from adobe products. And so far I’ve never missed any feature. Any estimates how much academia funnels into adobe per year? 111
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 31/10/2025This is big news for academics, a fully* featured, modern vector editor software for free (hopefully) forever. We should be sad when research money is unnecessarily directed to the adobe whirlpool of subscriptions. 131
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 24/10/2025Wow! great feature in the newest @typst.app update 🎉🎉 130
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 25/09/2025when the test is significant but you forgot to check its effect size 040
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 24/09/2025Science aside, the typesetting of this preprint is beautiful. Apple-worthy 010
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 27/08/2025media.tenor.coma woman in a blue dress is talking to a man in a blue shirt .ALT: a woman in a blue dress is talking to a man in a blue shirt . 061
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 05/08/2025TIL you can create a multiqc compatible json/yml file and will just work out the box. docs.seqera.io/multiqc/cust...docs.seqera.ioCustom content | Seqera DocsReport on your data, even without a MultiQC module 130
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 25/07/2025Big fan of this hand drawn wholesome graphical abstract in today's @cp-cell.bsky.social 🐜 120
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 10/07/2025TIL that the Gendarmerie (military police) in France uses GendBuntu, a slight modification of ubuntu. And everything because they didn't want to move from Windows XP to vista 😅 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntuen.wikipedia.orgGendBuntu - Wikipedia 010
Reposted by David Mas-PonteHadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 03/06/2025At Posit, we love @typst.app: ⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes ✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies ✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!) 🧠 Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a... #rstatsposit.coPositWe’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers. 524052
Reposted by David Mas-PonteZeqian Li @zeqianli.bsky.social · 28/05/2025I started tgv to learn Rust and building it has been unbelievably fun! If you wanna pick up a super fast and fun programming language, tgv is open for contribution! There aren't many bioinformatics tools built entirely by the community. If tgv can become one, I'll be so psyched 16720
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 11/04/2025Never thought i would say this but R becoming more pythonic is a good thing 🙃 "R 4.5.0 introduces a new way to load objects from a package: use()" 020
Reposted by David Mas-PonteDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/04/2025American scientists aren't special. It's the institutions, and willingness to spend on research, that set them apart. Similarly invest here, and you will naturally attract the best talent from *everywhere*. www.politico.eu/article/euro...politico.euEurope to burned American scientists: We’ll take you inThe EU’s body for scientific research, as well as local, regional and national governments, are mobilizing to poach top U.S. scholars. 515044
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 24/03/202523andMe to be sold off now, agree with @philippbayer.bsky.social it's likely there ll be a opt out mechanism for people that don't want their data distributed to pharma companies, but just glad I managed to delete my data on the site under GDPR, thanks EU 👌 110
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 16/03/2025this is really cool! 😎 obsidian is now free for all, simplicity over subscriptions 051
Reposted by David Mas-Pontekepano @stephango.com · 15/03/2025opening files in Obsidian, not sped up 1118711
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 24/02/2025Excited about the HTML experimental feature in @typst.app 0.13! 👏 typst.app/blog/2025/ty...typst.appTypst 0.13 is out now – Typst BlogWith Typst 0.13, we wanted to improve the day-to-day experience of using Typst. We fixed some of the most long-standing bugs and made Typst even more flexible to... 020
Reposted by David Mas-PonteKeith Robison @omicsomics.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Roche Ripple Predictions My take on how Roche SBX will roil the sequencing landscape omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/roch... 🧬🖥️omicsomics.blogspot.comRoche Ripple PredictionsIn the prior piece , I covered the technical details unveiled by Roche for their SBX technology, but generally tried to avoid predicting its... 02611
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 21/02/2025What a world we live in that the highest cost of a DNA sequencer is the computer+GPU instead of the "sequencing" itself, big benefits for SBX if AI bubble pops eventually "the biggest expense [...] is assuredly the compute onboard" by @omicsomics.bsky.social omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/roch...omicsomics.blogspot.comRoche Xpounds on New Sequencing TechnologyBar bets can be a powerful force in human society. One of the best known books on the planet, The Guinness Book of World Records, originate... 010
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 10/02/2025by @mnot.net on UK's demands to Apple 1. Comply 🔪 (seriously harm their core values and reputation) 2. Apple-xit 💸 (leave UK and lose 1.5Bn) 3. Decentralize 👥, would be cool to self-host your own iCloud data and would probably set the example to other companies www.mnot.net/blog/2025/02...mnot.netApple’s Best Option: Decentralize iCloudWhat can Apple do in the face of a UK order to weaken encryption worldwide? Decentralize iCloud, to start. 000
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 09/02/2025Placing European cities in a map is more complicated than it seems because regional definitions of metropolitan areas are not consistent. For instance, metro area in Barcelona is weird, includes heavily unpopulated areas in mountainous terrain where people cannot live, also airport and harbor 100
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 09/02/2025Great thread from @tommytang.bsky.social on why we need workflow managers in biology! Hard disagree on "[snakemake] feels natural for anyone familiar with Python scripting" though 😜 120
Reposted by David Mas-Pontezeu @zeu.dev · 23/01/2025i’m so tired but i’ve got obligations 😩 136142351947
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 23/01/2025Europe PMC is a PubMed-like site, underrated IMO (the API is top notch), but as far as I know, it relies on PubMed for sourcing their data (some sort of mirror?) Wondering if there is a switch to make it independent somehow? Probably just depends on publishers sending their data there instead? 031
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 15/01/2025pro tip, every youtube channel has an associated RSS feed, add them to a rss reader and you can get a complete algorithm (and advertisement) free experience. 140
Reposted by David Mas-PonteCaleb Lareau @caleblareau.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Out today in @naturegenet.bsky.social -- PERFF-seq! With @tsionabay.bsky.social , @ronanchaligne.bsky.social, Bob Stickels, Meril Takizawa, + Ansu Satpathy, we describe this new assay to study rare populations with programmable nucleic acid cytometry. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comTranscript-specific enrichment enables profiling of rare cell states via single-cell RNA sequencing - Nature GeneticsProgrammable Enrichment via RNA FlowFISH by sequencing (PERFF-seq) isolates rare cells based on RNA marker transcripts for single-cell RNA sequencing profiling of complex tissues, with applicability t... 416545
Reposted by David Mas-PonteCarlos Caldas 🇵🇹🇮🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧 @carloscaldas1960.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Register with @helloeacr.bsky.social Lisbon will be amazing! @eacrnews 075
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 05/01/2025it's nice that now new biotech are already publishing a processing bioinformatics pipeline for their new tool/service, integrating the molecular biology and standardizing outputs 110
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 05/01/2025Single Amino Acid Variant (SAAV) was not in my bingo card for this year (late 2024 actually). A new test for the adaptability of the VCF standard 😅 From Quantum-SI who are pushing their NGPS (Next Generation Protein Sequencing). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgDetecting Amino Acid Variants Using Next-Generation Protein Sequencing (NGPS)Next-Generation Protein Sequencing™ (NGPS) is a single-molecule approach for characterizing protein variants, offering detailed insight into proteoforms and amino acid substitutions not easily discern... 010
Reposted by David Mas-PonteStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 02/01/2025One of my favorite talks at the @nextflow.io summit was @kenibrewer.bsky.social's talk on how to NOT contribute to nf-core (using nf-core in your organization). He wrote a nice post on the @nf-co.re blog on building an nf-core style modules library for your organization seqera.io/blog/buildin...seqera.ioBuilding an nf-core style modules library for your organization | SeqeraIf you would like to bring nf-core’s approach to enabling code within your own organization, you can! 0184
Reposted by David Mas-PonteInstitut d'Estudis Catalans @iec.cat · 02/01/2025#IEC 🔴 | Mor el científic Joan Guinovart, fundador de l’Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona i membre de la Secció de Ciències Biològiques de l’IEC. Des de l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans volem donar el nostre més sentit condol a familiars i amics. ➡️ www.iec.cat/noticia/?id_... 0133
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 11/12/2024Reminds me of what Jeff Bezos said in a podcast "The advantage of compromise as a resolution mechanism is that it's low energy, but it doesn't lead to truth" You cannot really expect to "break the system" and maintain your position within such system at the same time. 010
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 04/12/2024Reading @natureportfolio.bsky.social these days.... 020
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 03/12/2024while my experience with the Seqera AI hasn't been great (possible I asked impossible tasks) the vs-code integration is a MAJOR improvement. Really thankful for the upgrade! eg. hovering over process/workflow names you see its output channels directly, no switching to other files anymore 🚀 100
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 03/12/2024Can't wait for Bryan Johnson to add these into the "Blueprint" 😂buff.lyWhat’s the secret to living to 100? Centenarian stem cells could offer cluesA bank of cells from people more than 100 years old gives scientists a new resource for studying longevity. 000
David Mas-Ponte @david.masponte.com · 01/12/2024really cool story on the central "dogma" by @matthewcobb.bsky.social got me thinking why there isn't any case for the direct translation of DNA 🤔 open.substack.com/pub/cell/p/c...open.substack.comFrancis Crick Was MisunderstoodThe Central Dogma is not a 'dogma,' and it has never been broken. 010