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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 · 22h
Just saying, be careful he doesn’t grow a goatee.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 22h
acsoM miT?
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 29/09/2026
Only tangentially sports, but I’ll allow it.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 29/09/2026
Congratulations!
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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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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 23/09/2026
Complete with the photo of scientists peering intently at nothing.
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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
On the other hand, apparently this needed access to Mythos (which missed it more often than not found anything) so just having the idea isn’t particularly useful, even if I’d had it much earlier.
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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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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 19/09/2026
As long as the wind chimes are there, seems good to me.
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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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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 18/09/2026
Or you showed her a picture of the tilcayo and she is pining.
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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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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 17/09/2026
In all seriousness, I'm jealous. Mostly because I only discovered her work much later. The great thing is we can both go to our bookshelves and rediscover whenever we want. I can open to any random page and it always hits.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 17/09/2026
Okay, boomer.
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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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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 14/09/2026
I’ve heard “desire paths” applied here, and I generally love that phrase.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 10/09/2026
Please don't make me cry at my desk.
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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 · 07/09/2026
But what did you call the meat?
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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 · 25/08/2026
Precisely this. I do not think that the fact that it is slow is particularly a problem, but tool installation and data manipulation are consistent barriers for new tools.
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 24/08/2026
Did I leave off Seurat? Yes.
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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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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 22/08/2026
Fuck everything, we’re doing five omes.
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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
recruit.ucdavis.edu
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 11/08/2026
That’s a very orange egg bagel?
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 11/08/2026
If building bioinformatic tools and workflows, collaborating with scientists, and teaching bioinformatics training workshops sound like things you enjoy, please have a look. Or share the post. And consider donating to @alexslemonade.bsky.social to help fund pediatric cancer research!
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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 · 11/08/2026
I really don't want to yuk your yum, but do you have any that are normal colors?
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 11/08/2026
The fun part comes after you memorize the 20,000 things and start to be able to understand the organizing principles. I tend to think the learning could be inverted, but there are a lot of reasons it tends to be taught the way you describe. (Not all good reasons)
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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 06/08/2026
Also {forcats}
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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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