Reposted by Mike HallettRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/06/2026Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/ 363497455
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Marner wins it in the shootout, despite missed call by referees! 000
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Perhaps the most amazing thing is that 10,000 fans, 2 sets of the most experienced teams and players, and up-teen million viewers at home miss the fact that Czechia has 6 players on the ice that leads directly to a go-ahead goal. Amazing. 040
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 19/01/2026What is the word for the feeling that arises when you give your AI agent permission to execute bash commands on your machine without bothering to read them? 000
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Yesavage. Say what you want but definitely *overpaid* 010
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 29/10/2025So is it @Rogers or is it @sportsnetpr.bsky.social or is it just me?!?! Every game night it is the same thing. Even when it works, it barely works. go #jays (until the 7th inning when it all just shuts down) 010
Reposted by Mike HallettPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025This life on planet earth isn’t the end. The consciousness survives. We are part of Mother Nature. You get to choose the difference that you make. #Pinks 411949
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 09/10/2025ICE really missed an opportunity to make a difference last night in the Bronx. #gobluejays 000
Reposted by Mike HallettMatthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 30/08/2025youtube.comWhen Will You Die? - They Might Be Giants (Official Video)YouTube video by ParticleMen 113853
Reposted by Mike HallettSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 17/08/2025An article I wrote about this topic a few years ago: worksinprogress.co/issue/real-p...worksinprogress.coReal peer review has never been tried - Works in Progress MagazineOutdated forms of peer review create bottlenecks that slow science. But in a world where research can now circulate rapidly on the Internet, we need to develop new ways to do science in public. 1458
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 08/07/2025The DNA of pure DCIS. We look at prognosis (invasive & in situ local recurrence) & benefit to radiotherapy in a unique cohort of Ontarians. A manuscript with my long term collaborators Eileen Rakovitch (Sunnybrook) & @vdumeaux.bsky.social breast-cancer-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....breast-cancer-research.biomedcentral.comMutational landscape of pure ductal carcinoma in situ and associations with disease prognosis and response to radiotherapy - Breast Cancer ResearchBackground Managing Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) remains challenging due to the lack of reliable biomarkers to predict radiotherapy (RT) response, leading to both overtreatment of indolent disease ... 053
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 18/06/2025The Oilers did extremely well to keep it as close as they did against a far better team. 000
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 07/06/2025I have to say, I might have had difficult stopping McDavid even in my prime goaltending days. 010
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Is it my imagination or is @wired.com the only news source from the USA now willing to report on the regime? I hope they keep it up. 000
Reposted by Mike HallettMing Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · 18/05/202510 courses to get you started with bioinformatics 🧵 Bookmark! 1/ rafalab.dfci.harvard.edu/pages/harva... by the almighty Rafarafalab.github.ioharvardx 2155
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Does the ICD-11 offer a diagnosis for a type of severe recurrent - but entirely foreseeable - post-traumatic stress disorder with onset at this time of every year? Asking for a friend here in southern Ontario. 010
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 09/05/2025When I become rich, I will create my own hockey channel where commentators are forced to provide inferential statistics (CI, p-value, ACC, *anything*) for each proposed prognostic indicator. There will be clinical trials: random forced shavings, etc ... HNIC et al. have given stats a bad name. 010
Reposted by Mike HallettCanuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 09/05/2025mastodon.cloud/@AccordionGu...mastodon.cloudJoey de Villa 🪗 (@AccordionGuy@mastodon.cloud)Attached: 1 image Damn, I wish I’d come up with this one. 071
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 16/04/2025🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🤖📈🧬💻 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦 Tomorrow - Thursday April 17th 1pm - Open house for students with backgrounds in math, stats and computation to explore graduate work in the life & biomedical sciences @ Western University (Canada). Zoom or in person. western-bioinfo.github.io/events/open-... @westernu.bsky.socialwestern-bioinfo.github.ioOpen House | Medical Bioinformatics @Western 022
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 28/03/2025🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🤖📈🧬💻 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦 Do you have a background in math, stats or computation & considering grad studies in the life science & biomedicine? Western University will hold an Open House with talks from researchers who use/develop quantitative methods in their research. western-bioinfo.github.io/events/open-...western-bioinfo.github.ioOpen House | Medical Bioinformatics @Western 163
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Another nice collaboration with Sunnybrook and @vdumeaux.bsky.social 031
Reposted by Mike HallettEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u... 6131231380
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Our new manuscript covering a new FFPE-based RNA-seq methodology. Led by John Mucaki and with our collaborators Vanessa Dumeaux at Western and Eileen Rakovitch at Sunnybrook. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgGenerative and integrative modeling for transcriptomics with formalin fixed paraffin embedded materialFormalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples are challenging to profile using existing high-throughput sequencing technologies, including RNA-seq. This difficulty primarily arises from the degradat... 053
Reposted by Mike HallettThe Maple Force 🇨🇦 @themapleforce.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Vote Ford Out 01715
Reposted by Mike HallettEric Paquet @ericrpaquet.bsky.social · 14/02/2025It never ceases to amaze me how researchers are still making breakthroughs with AIMS, a method we published 10 years ago with @hallettmiket.bsky.social . Now, AIMS is proving instrumental in revealing BC subtype switching before and after neoadjuvant treatment. tinyurl.com/bdday25ttinyurl.comDynamics of molecular heterogeneity in high-risk luminal breast cancer—From intrinsic to adaptive subtypingDenkert et al. evaluate adaptation of luminal high-risk breast cancer to neoadjuvant therapy in longitudinal biopsies from Penelope-B trial and identify five adaptive subtypes (AC1-5) by comparing pre... 012
Reposted by Mike HallettVanessa Dumeaux @vdumeaux.bsky.social · 06/02/2025The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, is seeking applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Cancer Immunology and Therapeutics. PLEASE REPOST ! www.nature.com/naturecareer...nature.comFull-time, Probationary (Tenure-Track) Faculty Position in Cancer Immunology and Therapeutics - London, Ontario (CA) job with Dr. David Driman, Chair/Department Head | 12834957Full-time, Probationary (Tenure-Track) Faculty Position in Cancer Immunology and Therapeutics. 159
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 03/02/2025So the meth head that lives in the apartment below me just told me that he wouldn't break into my apartment if I could show that I was more serious about controlling the flow of meth into the building. It's best in these kinds of interactions to just nod your head yes and quietly walk away. 150
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Ok so Canada needs an endogenous car company. My vote is to resurrect the Manic GT, retrofit it as an EV, throw some snow tires on and we're good to go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRUN...youtube.comManic GTYouTube video by Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada 021
Reposted by Mike HallettVanessa Dumeaux @vdumeaux.bsky.social · 31/01/2025📢 Excited to share our latest work, now on bioRxiv! We've used deep learning to uncover functional archetypes in the adult human gut #microbiome, shedding light on interindividual variability microbiome stability, and disease associations: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #AI #microbiology 🧵 1/nbiorxiv.org 1145
Reposted by Mike HallettMark O. Martin @markowenmartin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024I so believe this. 1235
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 13/11/2024If the coming Zombie Apocalypse has a fungal origin, I am pretty certain ground zero is some teenager's hockey bag. 020
Reposted by Mike HallettJared Hutchins @pablohutch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024I teach a class on data science here at Illinois and during the seminar I host a competition for the class called "The Hunt for the Worst Data Visualization." This was my most popular post on Xitter, so reproducing some of the best submissions from previous years here: 641636355
Reposted by Mike HallettAndrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 07/08/2024I have created wwater.ca to provide graphs of #COVID19, RSV, and flu levels in regions across #Canada using the Government of Canada's #wastewater initiative data. Inspired by the Ontario government shutting down the crucial Wastewater Surveillance Initiative on July 31, 2024. 159646
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 08/12/2023Fun collaboration with Nikki Case and colleagues; my contribution was to extend our Candescence software for host-pathogen interactions.🧬🖥️ journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... 021
Reposted by Mike HallettVanessa Dumeaux @vdumeaux.bsky.social · 06/12/2023Excited to share our latest publication in @elife.bsky.social! Introducing a refined single-cell transcriptomics technique applied to thousands of C. albicans cells, shedding light on drug tolerance mechanisms for more effective antifungal treatments @hallettmiket.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif... 021
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 23/11/2023🧬 🖥️ What are your best resources for the history of machine learning? Books? papers? interpretative dance? that describes the main mathematical/algorithmic trends since the 50s? 344
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 14/10/2023🧬 🖥️ 🧪 That fresh server smell 🤍. The promise of vast empty fields of storage ⛰️ 🌼. The pristine structure of a freshly installed, yet-to-be-mutilated operating system 🧽 🛁. 070
Mike Hallett @hallettmiket.bsky.social · 21/09/2023Lior Pachter's Caltech Computational Biology course. github.com/pachterlab/B... 030
![Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreia7nj3d2xiski77uifyleeowddz6c24e5tgcxrk4jy5j6o3i2wryu)
