Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDCarolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 10/06/2025“You can get a other job, but you cannot get another soul”. 229790
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 07/06/2025I started this work 10 years ago as an undergrad in a "Computing for Biologists" class, and now it's finally out in the world! I'm very proud for it to be my first contributing author paper. This work focuses on predicting and testing gene functions based on their co-expression, but there's more:doi.orgInferring gene-pathway associations from consolidated transcriptome datasets: an interactive gene network explorer for Tetrahymena thermophilaAbstract. Although an established model organism, Tetrahymena thermophila remains comparatively inaccessible to high throughput screens, and alternative bi 2112
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 22/01/2025All of my old grievances and resentment toward faculty and administrators who asserted that science isn't political is bubbling to the surface. 030
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 18/01/2025Timely for grad school admissions season...onlinelibrary.wiley.comShould research experience be used for selection into graduate school: A discussion and meta‐analytic synthesis of the available evidenceYou have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader. 000
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDChenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Had a great time talking to @atinygreencell.bsky.social abt my PhD work - small RNA transcriptome of rice gametes & zygotes. Please give his channel a follow. This podcast series of Sebastian is a great idea, and I found all previous episodes informative/inspirational. I hope mine is as well. 1286
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDSebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Tears In Rain Episode 5 is live!!! I hung out with @daniellebeckman.bsky.social where she told us about her experiences as a student in Brazil that shaped her current interests in viruses inside the human brain. I hope you enjoy! Please like and subscribe for more! youtu.be/27AtqcYNHa8youtu.beTears In Rain Ep5: Danielle BeckmanYouTube video by Sebastian Cocioba 22510
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/01/2025Grad school interview season is starting, and Sebastian's collecting biology PhD stories that I wish I had heard when I was figuring out where I should go. 🧪 It was a pleasure to share my experience--if I can help anyone think through things, please send me a message! 0104
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/01/2025Just watched Moonstruck starring Cher and Nic Cage: 12/10 no notes, perfect film 010
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 06/01/2025Thank you for inviting me on, Sebastian! This podcast is a wonderful project 🙂 062
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 20/12/2024It's now formatted more-or-less correctly!doi.orgInferring gene-pathway associations from consolidated transcriptome datasets: an interactive gene network explorer for Tetrahymena thermophilaAlthough an established model organism , Tetrahymena thermophila remains comparatively inaccessible to high throughput screens, and alternative bioinformatic approaches still rely on unconnected datas... 020
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 20/12/2024When a journal rejects your manuscript but recommends that you transfer it to a subsidiary, how do you decide whether to do it or send the paper somewhere else? 000
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDElisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds @cathleenogrady.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgInfamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retractedStudy on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds 351170394
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 17/12/2024Question for the bird people out there: how do hummingbirds avoid going into torpor while incubating their eggs? 000
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 17/12/2024My first last-author paper is out as a preprint! 🧪 "Inferring gene-pathway associations from consolidated transcriptome datasets: an interactive gene network explorer for Tetrahymena thermophila" I wanted to wait til bioRxiv finished formatting it, but I couldn't! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2230
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 05/12/2024In a @currentbiology.bsky.social paper earlier this year, led by @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social, we analysed Beethoven’s genome with a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to communicate limits of genetic predictions at the individual level & the complexity of links between DNA & behaviour:cell.comNotes from Beethoven’s genomeWesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement. 1217377
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDNick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹 Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7) 22474181
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 10/12/2024You've heard of classical eugenics. Now presenting: corporate emotional eugenics!! 🎉 010
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024This article, which contains not one critical commentator and reads like a press release, is a shocking dereliction of duty from one of our leading scientific publications 🧪 🔭 28686191
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 05/12/2024This was so cathartic to watch: youtu.be/TwKpj2ISQAc I had a very similar experience being given his "autobiographies" as a kid and again in college, and every time I felt like I was crazy for finding Feynman an intolerable assyoutu.bethe sham legacy of Richard FeynmanYouTube video by Angela Collier 020
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDThe Fiber Farm (Jen) @jjco.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Brat girl summer Bart woman winter 412316
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 30/11/2024Yet another thing for grad student unions to fight against 🙄 020
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 28/11/2024Artificial Intelligence? More like Artificial Skill Set (ASS). send skeet 030
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 27/11/2024In my circle, people are having important conversations about defending institutions, and I think that it's important to discuss more thoroughly how we define what we mean. Specifically, in the case of academia, I think the modern US university is at least three different things: 110
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024E coli are red S aureus are blue Hans Christian Gram Stained them for you 440469
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Pro-Tip you can mute the 📌 emoji. And then you never have to see the 📌 emoji. And you can still use the 📌 emoji feed. You’re welcome. ☺️ 17301108
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 26/11/2024The perfect title in the perfect journal: "Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber" in PNAS 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 030
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 25/11/2024While you were munching grass, I studied the blade youtu.be/vIjTxxD3M4Uyoutu.beWhat happens when you leave a boxing bag in the Forest??YouTube video by Angry Ram 000
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDLev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 22/11/2024Wake up babe, new pasta just dropped: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...pubs.rsc.orgNanopasta: electrospinning nanofibers of white flourWhite flour may be directly electrospun, providing a starch nanofiber alternative which avoids unnecessary industrial extraction and purification. By dissolving 17 wt% flour in warm formic acid and co... 032
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 22/11/2024Wake up babe, new pasta just dropped: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...pubs.rsc.orgNanopasta: electrospinning nanofibers of white flourWhite flour may be directly electrospun, providing a starch nanofiber alternative which avoids unnecessary industrial extraction and purification. By dissolving 17 wt% flour in warm formic acid and co... 032
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDKyle Neubeck @kyleneubeck.bsky.social · 22/11/2024It’s the LinkedIn of Twitters 51751
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDPaul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 17/11/2024For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites. 15540191131
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 16/11/2024Perhaps you've heard of comparative genomics, but have you heard of comparative emojinomics? 🧪 In 2020, I rated the most common microbe emoji on their microbiality and charisma. Two of the designs have been updated since then, so it's time to revisit this important task. 716322
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDLev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 03/05/2023Solving the structure of DNA in a public bathroom 021
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDJon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Picture 10, everyone. You can thank me later. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...rightmove.co.ukCheck out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove4 bedroom detached house for sale in Mansion Gardens, Potterspury, NN12 for £825,000. Marketed by Howkins and Harrison LLP, Towcester 44638441036
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 11/11/2024When a professor of finance is this wrong about how grad school works, I want to yeet the whole university into the sun: stanforddaily.com/2024/11/10/s...stanforddaily.comIt's hard to fathom the selfishness of Stanford graduate studentsStanford owes its graduate students a world class education, not a "living wage," professor Jonathan Berk writes. 000
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 09/11/2024I was talking with a civil rights attorney yesterday, and they told me about defending a group from the charge of "felony conspiracy to commit misdemeanor trespass," which is the most legal brainworms thing I've ever heard 000
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/11/20241. Philip Morris International is openwashing their seminar series by literally naming it "Open Science" — even though the series itself has little or nothing to do with open science or open science practices. Let's talk about it. www.pmiscience.com/en/news-even... 1321177
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/11/2024I'm an early career scientist (a microbiologist), and when I think about the grand projects of science and biology, I feel like I have landed on pretty succinct descriptions: to me, science is a cultural practice that is built around a process for uncovering truth in the world... 162
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/11/2024Timothy Snyder's video series about On Tyranny is excellent and very accessible. youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comOn Tyranny - YouTube 110
Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/11/2024Microbiologists in the 1960s would have found a home on Bluesky 000
Reposted by Lev Tsypin, PhDLev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 13/01/2020I have a dream of naming a species P. value so that it has some biological relevance. 021