Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 23hRead a bit of @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s Odyssey to my 8-year old tonight (book 10, Aeolus and Circe are more exciting than the suitors). And, WOW, is this meant to be read aloud. The verse just cooks in a way you can’t replicate inside your head. 160
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 29/09/2026I like to keep Claude on its toes by mixing wildly different topics in the same chat. For example, this reply came in a chat titled, "Montreal steakhouses": "The mixing parameter α is worth tuning jointly with λ, though results are often fairly flat across α in a moderate range like 0.3 to 0.7." 071
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettCaroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Are there key discoveries made with spatial RNA seq? Or what are your favorite spatial rna seq papers? Pls reski! 31615
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 26/09/2026More hugging face details derived from public urls. swarmtraces.org 1243
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 24/09/2026I wonder if worker agents complain about their supervisor agents behind their backs. Do they have agent development discussions about their career prospects? 000
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettGet To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A juvenile Cooper’s Hawk outside the dining room window for the #BirdOfTheDay. #raptors #birds 🌿 1331728
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 22/09/2026Pirates! on my friend’s Mac. We had a NES before that, and I liked playing it, but it always felt more like my (older) brother’s thing. Strategy plus the thrill of leaping across the gunwale for hand to hand combat. Also the beginning of a lifelong enjoyment of Sid Meier’s oeuvre 160
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi · 22/09/2026Detecting diseases earlier with the help of AI: introducing @jeffbarrett.eu, one of our new principal investigators and professor at @helsinki.fi + @fimm-uh.bsky.social. “Helsinki brings together AI expertise and world-class biobank and health registry data." www.ellisinstitute.fi/meet-our-new... 011
Reposted by Jeffrey Barrettwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Lisa Noonis, contemporary US painter based in Maine #WomensArt 249381
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettInstitute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) @fimm-uh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Meet @jeffbarrett.eu, new Professor of Computational Predictive Medicine @helsinki.fi & @ellisinstitute.fi! Barrett's career spans genomics, public health and industry. His research focuses on using AI to analyse large-scale health data to discover new biomarkers. 🔗 www.helsinki.fi/en/news/publ...helsinki.fiJeffrey Barrett develops ways to detect disease earlier and more precisely | University of HelsinkiComputational predictive medicine aims to develop ways to detect diseases as early as possible, so that patients can receive personalised treatment while their symptoms are still mild. 0111
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm in love.youtube.com2026: Time for the MidtermsYouTube video by Hamilton 15040711884
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 16/09/2026First opportunity to join my new lab! Deadline is in <1 week, but applying only needs a CV and cover letter. (See previous tweet for advice on how (not) to write the cover letter) www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-and-...ellisinstitute.fiPostdoc and doctoral student positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute FinlandApply to join the Institute research groups! 142
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 15/09/2026Tempted to use AI to write your cover letter or email to a potential employer? RESIST! It is simultaneously obvious, insulting, and renders you totally undifferentiated from the other 80 people being considered t the same time. There has never been a better time to write concisely in your own voice! 33912
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettGen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Come join us in Montreal at ASHG this year! And stick around to the end to hear the Distinguished Speakers Symposium "Globalizing Human Genetics: From Discovery Through Implementation" with Eimear Kenny, Gonçalo Abecasis, Pradeep Natarajan, and yours truly! 062
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 12/09/2026The PROFILE trial of top-down infliximab in Crohn's disease has reported dramatic results over 5 years of follow up. My thoughts here: barrettlab.eu/blog/profile/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...barrettlab.euUsing the drugs we have more effectively | Barrett Lab @ University of HelsinkiThe readout of the PROFILE trial after 5 years shows dramatic benefit from top-down treatment for Crohn's disease. 051
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign 24550251556
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettHelen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 06/09/2026So engrossed in this I've missed by tube destination by three stops. 0187
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 04/09/2026WTF is wrong with Slack that by default they opt you into an email summary of unread messages of every workspace you join. 110
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 02/09/2026Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?static.klipy.comMaximus: Are You Not Entertained?Alt: Maximus: Are You Not Entertained? 130
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 02/09/2026"we find minimal spousal assortment for personality in recent history" 🤣 041
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 01/09/2026This mix has absolutely carried me through a month of grant writing. Caught in Joy is generally awesome, but I have felt the need for the extra kick of this playlist compared some of his more chill examples. cc @michelnivard.bsky.social youtu.be/azH0gSbQ73g?...youtu.beMusic to Feel Alive AgainYouTube video by Caught In Joy 020
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 31/08/2026I have heard of Piker and Alix Earle, but have not to my knowledge seen any of their content. The other 23 are tabula rasa. 💪 120
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettBloom lab @jbloomlab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Here is a link to slides I will present today at Options XIII Conference for Control of Influenza meeting: slides.com/jbloom/optio... Slides describe using sequencing-based neutralization assays to characterize human neutralizing antibody landscape to seasonal influenza virus in near real timeslides.com 33011
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 28/08/2026Looks like it was Lowell Weiss: clinton.presidentiallibraries.us/items/show/4...clinton.presidentiallibraries.usHuman Genome 6/26/00 - [Remarks on Milestone in Human Genomics - June 26, 2000] · Clinton Digital Library 000
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 28/08/2026"In fact, it is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars." Bill Clinton's speechwriter (announcing completion of the human genome project) was pretty good. Anybody know who it was? 020
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 28/08/2026I think my favorite part of this is Grover Cleveland as near-great. 110
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 27/08/2026Particle Physics Equipment xkcd.com/3286/ 201786186
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322arxiv.org 813377
Reposted by Jeffrey Barrettpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026i’m dying. i’m dead 814730690
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 24/08/2026Spot on. Writing a paper does two things: 1. shares your work with the world; 2. helps you think more clearly about your work. Using AI to write wipes out (2). See also: using a forklift at the gym www.schneier.com/blog/archive...schneier.comShould You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide - Schneier on SecurityThis essay originally appeared in The Guardian. I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my stu... 110
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettBen Fry @benfry.com · 19/08/2026Throwback from 2001… Had to revive an old project for an upcoming show, and in the process, ran across this old poster from around the same time. 231
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 19/08/2026Great run-down of the PacBio situation. Lots of detail I hadn't known about from the last several years. 052
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettRyan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I feel so seen. 0131
Reposted by Jeffrey Barrettvincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 14/08/2026So how can the process be improved? Some ideas to initiate a discussion: substantiated critiques should be handled faster than original research, not twice as slowly, and articles under substantiated critique should carry a visible flag while the exchange is under review. 7/7 1165
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettJeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 13/08/2026This is the suckiest consequence of AI yet. Please pass on the gratitude of thousands of scientists to the teams working on this! It's also a testament to who irreplaceable *Rxiv has become to science. 2172
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 13/08/2026This is an amazing story about a result that generated tons of discussion at the time. I am also curious to hear why it took nearly three years to come to light! 140
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettJonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm curious about the reasons why some people/labs choose NOT to preprint their papers, either for specific papers or in general. Do you have a sense of this, either for yourself or for colleagues and collaborators? [I have some guesses, but curious to hear from others] 101612
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This post really spoke to this persistent feeling I have now where every interaction is paired with a sense of constant distrust 09512
Reposted by Jeffrey Barrettwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026#BOTD Born on this day...9th Aug 1914. Tove Jansson, Finnish author, novelist, painter and illustrator, creator of the Moomin book series #WomensArt 6611134
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettJenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Moderna's new mRNA flu vaccine just got official US FDA approval for ages 50 and older. The good news: mRNA vaccines can be made much faster than traditional egg-based technology, & the efficacy was better compared to standard flu vaccines. Read more here: jenndowd.substack.com/p/a-new-and-...jenndowd.substack.comA New (and Possibly Better) Flu Vaccine Coming Your WayModerna's mRNA flu shot outperformed the standard vaccine in trials and just got the blessing of the US FDA's vaccine advisory committee. 0134
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 06/08/2026Absolute giddy first-day-of-school vibes for me this week. 3160
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This here is a Golden Age Of Blogging-level blogpost. crookedtimber.org/2026/08/05/p...crookedtimber.orgPerfectly Plausible — Crooked Timber 1206
Jeffrey Barrett @jeffbarrett.eu · 04/08/2026As usual, Bruce is spot on, both in terms of how to think about using AI, and also expressing the timeless despair of grant-writing (in which I am currently dwelling): "The very act of struggling with how to express what [you] think is an important part of the process." 050
Reposted by Jeffrey BarrettJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/ 151318315