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Sina Majidian @sinamajidian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

JOB ALERT! I'm hiring two postdocs in Computational Genomics to join our lab in beautiful Gothenburg, Sweden. Please share and repost! CGRLab.github.io/research/

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

A delayed post, but I successfully defended my dissertation! I just began work as a bioinformatician working for Tanaq Management Services on the Microbetrace team at CDC.

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

My defense is this Friday at 2 pm ET! Feel free to join via zoom or in person if you're curious about what I've done over the past 5 years.

412 aderhold hall, Guppy L. Stott dissertation defense announcement
"Graph database pipelines and subsampling strategies for investigating reassortment in highly pathogenic avian influenza"

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I have a scihub tattoo. Science should be accessible for all, and there should never be any compromise.

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

To everyone whom I secretly thought was exaggerating how miserable dissertation writing is at the end... My bad.

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Howdy y'all! I'm planning to graduate in May. If you are in need of a postdoc with knowledge of phylogenetics, graph databases, and Nextflow pipelines (or know of someone who is), please send them my way!

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AAUP @aaup.org · 27/01/2026

This is how to protect your campus from ICE. Pass it on.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”

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Alex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His Union

Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change.

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

So much work still to do to break the glass ceiling! Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN

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Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

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ceej @ceej.online · 23/01/2026

hold on, these are the REGULAR expressions??

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

nature.com

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains

A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

having lefty inner feelings or even voting “correctly” don’t really mean shit if what you do in life is actively harmful to society or helping the right wing and its causes

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Karolina Heyduk @kheyduk.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Dunno who needs to hear this, but before your start writing your reviewer comments, eat a cookie. Only you can prevent rude reviews.

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

If you are in the US, you should be helping your local immigrant rights group. Attacks on our neighbors are not isolated to Charlotte or Chicago! Every little effort to resist fascism is meaningful, and we have a duty to do what we can while we can.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

yes, it’s really that bad.

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The absurdity of not being able to use a .gov site as a reliable source anymore.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists" linktr.ee/apply_heat

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@apply_heat | Linktree

Show up for our neighbors

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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

“Data available upon reasonable request” is academic language for you can get my data OVER MY DEAD BODY

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Both Texas A&M and Indiana University should lose accreditation.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 07/11/2025

Cornell has folded to the fascists.

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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org · 07/11/2025

The support the Python community has shown to PSF for its decision has given us hope in the sustainability of open science communities. Please consider extending your generosity to our organisation’s fundraising efforts, and help us to reach others aligned to our mission: carpentries.org/support/

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Support The Carpentries

We are grateful to the individuals and organisations who provide financial support to The Carpentries. If you are interested in supporting our work, you can learn more about becoming a Member Organisa...

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

GISAID has been a terrible repository from day one. Any database with owners that act capriciously against researchers for sharing their opinions is a bad database. As things continue to get worse, we probably need to consider when it becomes irresponsible to promote GISAID by using their data.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

thinkglobalhealth.org

To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health

Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 30/10/2025

Covering this as a national ban is absolutely correct, and is the only framing that it needs to be. Its horrifying. There's no reason to think they'd stop at kids too.

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This Saturday and Sunday, the International Society of Nonbinary Scientists will be hosting its first symposium. Check out these three public flash talk events where nonbinary researchers from across scientific disciplines will present their work. Join us to learn about enbies doing cool science!

Flyer for program. Math modeling and biology on November 1, earth sciences on Nov 2

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Final committee meeting... DONE. Defending in the first week of April, so if you're looking for postdocs or know someone who is, let me know!

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Summer Blanco, Ph.D. @mellamosummer.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Does anyone have a textbook recommendation for teaching genomics (including recent technologies for genome assembly and annotation) to undergraduate/graduate students?

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

dispatch.com

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/10/2025

“The university is under attack because gender studies is under attack, and if universities don’t stand up to this infringement on academic freedom now, it is not just gender studies that will be lost, but all free and open inquiry.” — Laurie Essig, in a new post for AAUP’s Academe Blog

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

i keep saying this but what i hate most about the ezra kleins of the world is their insistence is that politics is about messaging and triangulating. its never about offering a compelling vision of the world, its about trying desperately to capitulate to whatever moment we are in

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

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Justice Dept. Official Pushes Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros’s Foundation

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John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization. Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Honestly, the fact a 1/2 semester ethics course was considered sufficient for my PhD is appalling. Having talked to many a scientist, I'm pretty confident that all of us need at least a couple years of *just* humanities.

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Ologies with Alie Ward @ologies.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Re: sci-comm you ingest: how much open condemnation of administration & anti-science American culture is helpful? I debate this constantly, *trying* to inform & not alienate the people who need to hear it MOST but I have also fucking HAD it. Frog pot is at a roiling boil & some ppl won't listen

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Never ask postdocs what they'll be doing next year, that's considered terribly offensive in their culture.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 04/08/2025

The sort of energy I bring to the workplace:

Screenshots from The Man from Uncle, which ran from 1964-1968. Napoleon Solo talks into a speaker and asks his partner, Ilya Kuryakin: Ilya? We're in need of your special talents. Are you free?

Through the speaker, Ilya responds: No man is free who has to work for a living, but I'm available.

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Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Some great new features and updates from the awesome Pathoplexus project. This is a new open pathogen genome database that can provide access to your sequences under a use-restricted license but also feed directly in to INSDC (EBI, Genbank etc) when you are ready. pathoplexus.org/news/2025-07...

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Pathoplexus | Pathoplexus July Update

Pathoplexus is a new, open-source database dedicated to the efficient sharing of human viral pathogen genomic data, fostering global collaboration and public health response.

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

And in more immediate danger, I'm in the throes of despair trying to get an inset or zoom on my silly ternary plot that doesn't look like a crime against science.

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

"But it’s not clear that industry will be able to absorb all the Ph.D.s currently on the job market... For young researchers, 'there is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,'..." (I'm in danger meme here) www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 09/07/2025

BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/beast-dev/be...

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

🔥🔥 those from low income backgrounds are also our parent's primary source of financial relief, and that there are usually no $$ retirement plans

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

My least favorite thing is how the more stressed you get, the less you're able to do basic things like keeping things organized or paperwork.

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Guppy Stott @guppy-stott.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is how all organizations should be responding to federally mandated exclusionary practices. Carpentries is a great, values-driven organization.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 19/06/2025

For the most part, trans folks who are disabled / chronically ill face insurmountable barriers to emigrating out of this fucking hellscape

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