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Lev Tsypin, PhD

@ltsyp.in
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・Postdoc working on weirdo microalgae ・Bigger than any known bacterium ・Views represent trillions of little cells ・🌐 ltsyp.in ・🌈🦠🔬🌱🌏

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 10/06/2025
“You can get a other job, but you cannot get another soul”.
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 07/06/2025
I 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:
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Inferring gene-pathway associations from consolidated transcriptome datasets: an interactive gene network explorer for Tetrahymena thermophila
Abstract. Although an established model organism, Tetrahymena thermophila remains comparatively inaccessible to high throughput screens, and alternative bi
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 12/03/2025
Accepted with minor revisions! 🎉
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 22/01/2025
All of my old grievances and resentment toward faculty and administrators who asserted that science isn't political is bubbling to the surface.
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 18/01/2025
Timely for grad school admissions season...
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Should research experience be used for selection into graduate school: A discussion and meta‐analytic synthesis of the available evidence
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Had 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.
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 11/01/2025
What is the world coming to?
A bag of JACK LINKS beef jerky "doritos" with "taco flavor". "Limited time offer" and $1 off!
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Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Tears 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/27AtqcYNHa8
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Tears In Rain Ep5: Danielle Beckman
YouTube video by Sebastian Cocioba
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/01/2025
Grad 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!
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/01/2025
Just watched Moonstruck starring Cher and Nic Cage: 12/10 no notes, perfect film
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 06/01/2025
Thank you for inviting me on, Sebastian! This podcast is a wonderful project 🙂
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 01/01/2025
Happy new year, everyone
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 20/12/2024
It's now formatted more-or-less correctly!
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Inferring gene-pathway associations from consolidated transcriptome datasets: an interactive gene network explorer for Tetrahymena thermophila
Although an established model organism , Tetrahymena thermophila remains comparatively inaccessible to high throughput screens, and alternative bioinformatic approaches still rely on unconnected datas...
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 20/12/2024
When 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?
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Infamous 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...
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Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 17/12/2024
Question for the bird people out there: how do hummingbirds avoid going into torpor while incubating their eggs?
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 17/12/2024
My 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...
Graphical abstract for my paper, showing a flowchart of how we consolidated microarray and RNA-seq gene expression data to generate informative co-expression clusters. The steps are: alignment to the newest genome model, gene filtering and quality control, expression normalization and averaging, clustering the high-dimensional dataset, performing parameter scans and computational negative controls, and building an interactive tool for data exploration.
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 15/12/2024
"My other car is a..."
Photo of a car with the license plate "HOENEST"
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 13/12/2024
Eugenicists, eat your heart out
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In 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:
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Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
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Nick Desnoyer @nickdesnoyer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In 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)
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 10/12/2024
You've heard of classical eugenics. Now presenting: corporate emotional eugenics!! 🎉
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/12/2024
This 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 🧪 🔭
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 05/12/2024
This 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 ass
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the sham legacy of Richard Feynman
YouTube video by Angela Collier
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 04/12/2024
Stunning!
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The Fiber Farm (Jen) @jjco.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Brat girl summer Bart woman winter
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 02/12/2024
My latest pots :)
Two ceramic bowls in profile. Each has a matte speckled tan base glaze and colorful drips of glossy glaze around the walls. The left bowl has a more vertical wall with blue overglaze, and the right bowl has a flared wall with red overglaze.The same two bowls from the top view. The left bowl's bottom has blue overglaze, and the right bowl's bottom has red overglaze.
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 30/11/2024
Yet another thing for grad student unions to fight against 🙄
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 28/11/2024
Artificial Intelligence? More like Artificial Skill Set (ASS). send skeet
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 27/11/2024
In 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:
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
E coli are red S aureus are blue Hans Christian Gram Stained them for you
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Pro-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. ☺️
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 26/11/2024
The perfect title in the perfect journal: "Uncovering the mechanical secrets of the squirting cucumber" in PNAS 🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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PNAS
Proceedings 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...
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 25/11/2024
While you were munching grass, I studied the blade youtu.be/vIjTxxD3M4U
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What happens when you leave a boxing bag in the Forest??
YouTube video by Angry Ram
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 22/11/2024
Wake up babe, new pasta just dropped: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Nanopasta: electrospinning nanofibers of white flour
White 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...
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 22/11/2024
Wake up babe, new pasta just dropped: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Nanopasta: electrospinning nanofibers of white flour
White 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...
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Kyle Neubeck @kyleneubeck.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It’s the LinkedIn of Twitters
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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 17/11/2024
For 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.
Two scribes depicted in an ancient Assyrian low relief, using styluses to write on clay tablets.A cuneiform tablet with writing on it.
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 16/11/2024
Perhaps 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.
A grid showing the "microbe" emoji from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, and WhatsApp. Each is discussed individually in the thread below.
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 03/05/2023
Solving the structure of DNA in a public bathroom
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Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Picture 10, everyone. You can thank me later. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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Check out this 4 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
4 bedroom detached house for sale in Mansion Gardens, Potterspury, NN12 for £825,000. Marketed by Howkins and Harrison LLP, Towcester
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 11/11/2024
When 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...
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It's hard to fathom the selfishness of Stanford graduate students
Stanford owes its graduate students a world class education, not a "living wage," professor Jonathan Berk writes.
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 09/11/2024
I 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
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/11/2024
1. 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...
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Open Science

Open Science is an event series organized by us at Philip Morris International, to provide a platform to discuss our research results and other science-focused topics related to smoke-free products. This conference series discusses a wide range of topics, from sharing our scientific research results, data, tools, and knowledge, to driving scientific progress in a collaborative and transparent manner. Open Science provides a platform for experts to have insightful discussions and presentations and is a must-attend for anyone interested in our work toward a smoke-free future and the scientific research behind our products.
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/11/2024
I'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...
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/11/2024
Timothy Snyder's video series about On Tyranny is excellent and very accessible. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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On Tyranny - YouTube
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 08/11/2024
Microbiologists in the 1960s would have found a home on Bluesky
A photo of text from a microbiology paper with the words, "Isolation of λ857dg+XV by the 'orgy' technique."
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Lev Tsypin, PhD @ltsyp.in · 13/01/2020
I have a dream of naming a species P. value so that it has some biological relevance.
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