Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 16hAs a coffee drinker, every cup of tea I attempt to make somehow comes out wildly different. 000
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Cat scratching distribution (% of minutes): Chair: 45 Couch: 45 Walls????: 6 Rug: 2 Scratching post: 2 000
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wouldn't ya know it VS Code is sometimes a better editor than Notepad++ 000
Reposted by Jeff CytosineDon’t Let the Scene Go Down on Me! Collective @dltsgdom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Here’s a bunch of shows happening in Pittsburgh in October! I make these every month. They are in no way comprehensive so I encourage you to keep a look out for more or make your own. Save this to your phone, print it out and hang it somewhere in public, share with your friends! 066
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Navigating GWAS-catalog has taught me that searching for "Alzheimer's" gives you a whole lot more than disease-related variants. 🧪 010
Reposted by Jeff CytosineDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Free t-tests at the Starbucks in Dublin. First come first serve. 7322
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Call me the guy from the One by Metallica music video the way I'm locked in 000
Reposted by Jeff CytosineJordan @jordanfreiman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026the phillies have tied it up. phillies fans are madder than theyve ever been about this development 836278
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If I can give any bioinformatics advice is this: sometimes files end with a super secret \r character and its purpose is to waste your time. 010
Reposted by Jeff CytosineReuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2026Pennsylvania reports 943 measles cases as outbreak grows reut.rs/4iXZG3Yreut.rsPennsylvania reports 943 measles cases as outbreak growsPennsylvania's health department reported 943 measles cases as of Wednesday, according to its website, as the state grapples with a growing outbreak of the highly contagious disease. 32425
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Embarrassing story: when I was a research fellow at the NIH, someone put together a presentation practice group, where us young scientists could get experience giving presentations on casual/science-adjacent topics. I did mine on AI-risk, based on Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom 110
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Speed workouts are so fun. I hit my second best mile time this morning and it wasn't even with that much effort! 110
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you use duckduckgo to search the Red Sox score the duck icon gets a red sox hat. 001
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I didn't have time to take a picture but on Sunday morning I saw snow on the North Shore sidewalk along the Allegheny??? It was near where the ferry docks so I assume it was ejected by some machine, but still weird 010
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"I get disappointed whenever I look at your screen and it's not just full of A's, C's, G's, and T's"- my wife watching me work 000
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Every time I'm about to complain about how marathon training is going I have to remember it's all self-imposed. 100
Reposted by Jeff CytosineAmanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🧪Today, the PsychAD Consortium published EIGHT papers across Nature journals detailing their efforts to create the largest map of the human prefrontal cortex. It's hard to overstate the amount of work here, nor the absolute treasure trove this team has created for researchers.nature.comLandmark map of human brain’s gene activity holds clues to Alzheimer’s disease and moreThe atlas of gene expression in the prefrontal cortex was created using samples from almost 1,500 donors of all ages — from infants to centenarians. 0119
Reposted by Jeff CytosinePhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I am rather delighted by this paper. So here’s a thread to tell you why, and why it matters. /1 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgNoncoding transcription controls the developmental dynamics of long-range gene regulationThe genomic regions regulating gene expression are often themselves transcribed into a variety of noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). However, the regulatory roles of this noncoding transcription remain largely unknown. By using live imaging, we reveal that the ... 29035
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 31/08/2026These contaminations are starting to feel like they are targeting me, specifically 010
Reposted by Jeff CytosineJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 26/08/2026Some people on here really need to go touch graph. 1666792
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I like that Coda rebranded to superhuman docs because it's both longer to type and typing the "docs" prefix makes it collide with all my recently visited google docs. Oh wait, those are both bad things! 000
Reposted by Jeff CytosineSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Hello, human geneticist here. There is no scientific basis for attempts to define people in terms of “good” or “bad” genes - these are discredited views in service of racist ideologies. For consensus & concerns of experts in our field, see e.g. this 2020 statement from @geneticssociety.bsky.social: 2208102
Reposted by Jeff CytosineThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly 1 in 100 taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer’s, compared with 1 in 60 people overall. This pattern did not extend to other driving jobs."theconversation.comTaxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brainWorking with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed. 1214522
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Near the peak of my marathon training, I will be in Yellowstone national park. Hopefully I can minimize 1. my fitness loss and 2. how gored I get by a bison 000
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I'm trying to figure out a good metalcore song to arrange for my street band. Balancing how interesting a riff is with how hard it would be on wind instruments is hard 010
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Every week I 100% forget how to prep for dnd and every week it goes fine. So hopefully it will go fine. Well, even. 000
Reposted by Jeff CytosineJosABats @thejoshbanks.bsky.social · 01/08/2026“Do you still hear them Clarice?” 073
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I finally turned off grouping of my Downloads folder so it's not Today, Last Week, Earlier because I have learned it's possible to do so. Freedom! 000
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Google Maps telling me that reviewing more places can bring me to level 4 has tapped into the grindset RPG part of my brain and I think they know this 010
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Good vibes only 😄😄😄 [ENFORCED BY AIRCRAFT CAMERA] 000
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Going to eviscerate the vibes at the next karaoke night 010
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Ah, reading my own code to write a methods section. This is what wet lab scientists use lab notebooks for, huh. 100
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I have a tedious programming function that I just want to be done and ChatGPT has introduced bugs the likes of which I've never seen 000
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I was so I annoyed I couldn't search dbSNP locally, since the 50GB file won't fit on my laptop, but it turns out the compressed version (16GB) works just fine 🙃 000
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 18/07/2026We see here a flock of excavators feasting on the carcass of an exploded bridge. A rare but welcome meal that will have to fill their bellies for now. 020
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I will never not need to look up how the ln -s command works. Target or link name goes first? I think they're changing it so I can never remember 000
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Maybe when it gets above 500 it's actually good for you 010
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Uh oh my database calls DNA methylation QTLs "mQTLs" and we're starting to look at metabolite QTLs. It looks like other papers call metabolite QTLs "mQTLs" so I can't just call them mbQTLs or something. Hmmm 000
Reposted by Jeff CytosineRon smiley @rsmiley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Air quality will continue to be hazardous through at least sunrise Saturday. It’s Friday July 17th. wildfire #smoke #Pittsburgh #3Things2Know #weather 2133
Reposted by Jeff CytosineCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 16/07/2026“no talking about climate change and wildfires tonight" why? "you talk about it everytime, it's embarrassing" ok [after one beer] uh oh y'all it's gettin kinda hazy 526554
Jeff Cytosine @jeffeatsleaves.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I live in a high-rise downtown and my visibility is quite hampered by the wildfire smoke/haze. It's akin to a morning fog. I can barely make out the 31st bridge which I can normally see fine. 010
Reposted by Jeff Cytosineceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026gonna start talking like this to my boss 6180811214
Reposted by Jeff CytosineBen Saunders @bensaunders.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Basically an ad for a Google product, written by Google employees, presented as a scientific paper in Nature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comAccelerating scientific discovery with Co-Scientist - NatureCo-Scientist is an AI system for structured scientific thinking and generates research hypotheses for experimental verification. 75714
Reposted by Jeff CytosineGrumpy Old Health Stats Dude @healthstatsdude.bsky.social · 27/05/2025what is that ONE thing EVERY data scientist MUST have?!? a pulse. 151