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Joshua Shapiro

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not ‘Eureka’ but ‘That’s funny…’ Current projects: Biological data and Childhood cancer at ccdatalab.org, part of alexslemonade.org Not governor.

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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 21h
Only tangentially sports, but I’ll allow it.
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Kyle MacQuarrie MD PhD @kylemacquarrie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s the last days of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and our fundraising with Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation will soon be coming to an end. Anything from donations, to reposts, to supporting another peds cancer effort is much appreciated! www.alexslemonade.org/2026/macquar...
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MacQuarrie Lab
Every day, there are almost 800 new cases of childhood cancer around the world. This adds up to an estimated 300,000 new cases of cancer that affect children under the age of 20 each year worldwide. A...
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 27/09/2026
My son just declared the bolognese I made (with Impossible beef, as he’s vegetarian) “the best thing I’ve eaten since camp.” Which felt pretty good except that I thought I’d made a number of other pretty great meals over the last month.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 27/09/2026
Thank you @mrgan.com for the fold-mixing technique.
A tray of biscuits straight out of the oven, with notable height.
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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Moffitt Cancer Center is looking a new faculty member in Integrated Mathematical Oncology with "a track record in developing mathematical models for cancer research, strong publications in mathematical biology or computational oncology, and success securing grant funding".
moffitt.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com
Open-Rank Tenure-earning Integrated Mathematical Oncology (IMO) Faculty
Working at Moffitt is both a career and a mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. As the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, Mo...
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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At least where I got my PhD, if I wasn't sure what I found, how it worked, if it was useful or significant, nobody pretended I accomplished anything.
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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 24/09/2026
I see this all-time classic come around, I repost it.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 24/09/2026
“It’s fall, fuckfaces. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.” buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 23/09/2026
You know, we have ways to publish biological findings that aren’t just blog posts and quotes of excited ai model musings. That said, I was thinking just this morning that looking for novel CRISPR-like systems would be a great use of AI.
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) @theaacr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Toward a Cure of Acute Leukemia through the Lens of Genomics: Charles Mullighan addressed this topic in a keynote lecture to open the AACR Special Conference on Bridging Discovery and Clinical Impact in Pediatric Cancer. #AACRpediatric26 @cmullighan.bsky.social
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 22/09/2026
Trump announces the US is adopting SI? Oh. Never mind.
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Everytime you think the writers have well and truly jumped the shark, they find another twist. The new Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has published a case report on…. wait for it…. Leopards eating faces #ISYN www.joms.org/article/S027...
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Head and neck injury from a leopard attack: case report and review of the literature
Animal bites are frequently encountered in a trauma center and result in injuries ranging from innocuous to life threatening. In the United States, more than 10,000 patients are hospitalized each year...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 18/09/2026
Join us here in the University of Virginia School of Data Science @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We're hiring a tenure track / tenured prof in LLMs (/NLP) apply.interfolio.com/191213 and data & society (social sciences, policy, humanities, law, business, etc) apply.interfolio.com/191214
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 18/09/2026
static.klipy.com
That's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works!
ALT: That's Not How It Works! That's Not How Any Of This Works!
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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 17/09/2026
Oy
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Kevin A. Scott, PhD @sculpturatus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
found at ucsf
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: We're suing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the National Institutes of Health Director for their ideologically-driven termination and censorship of biomedical research grants. Targeting views the government disagrees with for not aligning with a political agenda is unconstitutional.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 16/09/2026
I was assigned a section of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek before my freshman year in college. I found it absolutely transfixing and immediately got myself the full book to read. It’s been a while, so I look forward to pulling it off the shelf. RIP Annie Dillard. Thank you.
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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pls share: Princeton has an open rank faculty search in the areas of cancer biology, cancer prevention, and cancer-relevant computational science, including connections between cancer and immunology or metabolism. apply.interfolio.com/191852
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 29/08/2026
A man draws a circle (for kids).
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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If you are thinking of applying to the @uwgenome.bsky.social PhD program this fall, we have a couple of zoom info sessions set up for Oct 6 and Oct 22. Please register at the link. Our website also has a ton of useful information about crafting your application. www.gs.washington.edu/news/graduat...
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Graduate Program Information Sessions – UW Genome Sciences
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 24/08/2026
This looks very cool, but until it is a single function available for scverse and/or Bioconductor, it isn’t going to be adopted.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 11/08/2026
We're hiring! The @cancerdatalab.bsky.social at @alexslemonade.bsky.social is looking for a Data Scientist to add to our team. We do a lot of things on our small Data Lab team, and we're looking for someone great to help up further our mission. www.ccdatalab.org/open-positio...
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Open Position - Data Scientist
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 06/08/2026
Just got off hold to hear new hold music while the person I was previously on hold with listens to hold music from the person they are trying to connect me to.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 02/08/2026
May we look back on this like Messi bathing Yamal.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 30/06/2026
Hey look, our paper about the Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas that we at @cancerdatalab.bsky.social have been working on for a while is out! www.cell.com/cell-genomic... It's a pretty good resource, if I do say so myself, and we are expanding: if you have data you want to share, get in touch!
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The Single-Cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas: Data portal and open-source tools for single-cell transcriptomics of pediatric tumors
Hawkins et al. introduce the Single-Cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas: a uniformly processed collection of sc/snRNA-seq data from pediatric cancer samples and models. 700 samples from 55 pediatric cancer ty...
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Motion to collectively call this the Slop Factor 🧪
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
At Williams College yesterday for reunion, my former prof David Dethier showed me his copy of the short book that six of us wrote on the natural history of the Hopkins Research Forest; his copy has our signatures on it! Four of us were at reunion.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 14/06/2026
Not a Knicks fan, but I love seeing the joy in NYC.
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
One of the good things about the AI co-scientist brouhaha is that it makes us discuss what science *is*, and how to measure its value, impact, quality. — Questions that have been there all along, but many preferred to gloss over.
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Toby Hodges @tobyhodges.carpentries.org · 09/06/2026
I was honoured and slightly intimidated to appear as a panelist at the #LifeScienceTrainers community call about GenAI and Professional Development last week, expertly facilitated by @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social youtu.be/KJWJbkfqgSY?...
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Panel discussion: AI and Short-Format Professional Development — What We Know and Don’t Know
YouTube video by LifeSciTrainers
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 05/06/2026
I reported a broken storm drain on my street today. The town came out within hours to start repair. Either my town is pretty great or having the same name as the governor is finally paying off in the most mundane way possible.
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American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) @theaacr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The FDA's accelerated approval made targeted therapy a treatment option for diffuse midline glioma. In the spring issue of Cancer Today, learn what this means for people with this aggressive brain cancer. www.cancertodaymag.org/spring-2026/...
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A New Treatment Option for Pediatric Brain Cancer | Cancer Today
The FDA approves the first targeted therapy for diffuse midline glioma, a type of cancer that mostly affects children and adolescents.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 04/06/2026
We’re so back.
A bag of Utz brand Lemonade flavor potato chips, supporting Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 17/05/2026
Went to Clover Market today and came home with antique map of my neighborhood from right after my house was built, and this guy:
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Opossum Hex Sign, PA Dutch Design, Waterproof Vinyl Sticker, Trash Cat, Please Don't Hex
This sticker features a modern take on a traditional PA Dutch hex sign. - 3” Circular Sticker- Durable Waterproof Vinyl- Matte Finish!NOTE! - You can combine any 3 designs in a multi-pack! Just be sur...
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Never forget:
A google search for 'are there snakes at thesis defenses', with an AI overview that starts 'Yes, some universities have a tradition of including a "snake fight" portion in thesis defenses." and then goes on to give details just lifted from the McSweeney's article.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13/05/2026
Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 14/05/2026
Technical difficulties suck. That is all.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 13/05/2026
Okay, but isn’t destroying 3 of 33 just about exactly decimation?
Headline and summary from the NYTimes: 
Secret Assessments
Contradict U.S. Claims of Decimation


Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting a far stronger military than President Trump has portrayed.
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RLadies+ @rladies.org · 12/05/2026
R-Ladies is now RLadies+ ✨ The “+” doesn’t change our mission — it makes it visible. 🔗 Learn more about RLadies+: rladies.org/news/2026/re...
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 12/05/2026
Absolutely tickled to have had my comment on @theverge.com mentioned on America’s Favorite Podcast Within a Podcast. Thanks @reckless.bsky.social
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 12/05/2026
What did they think was going to happen with such a dumb metric? arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/a...
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Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools
Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.
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