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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko

@rob-beiko.bsky.social

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Professor (Bioinformatics of Small and/or Fishy Things) in Computer Science at Dalhousie University; environmental 🧬 enthusiast. Trying and failing to not post about politics. he/him

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Profound question for 12:20 AM: Why, when I ask Midjourney to create an image of Bert from Sesame Street as a visual pun for deep learning, do I get a set of characters that range from "Ernie-ish" to "WTF", but no Bert?

Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Not Bert. Also Not Bert.

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I hope you're all having as a good a day as Asymptomatic Guy. (adapted from www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...)

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

How many other "Take normal security precautions" countries are putting Canadians in illegal detention at the border?

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I update the GenBank slide every time I teach my course...

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"Did someone say banana?"

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

And of course Joe Felsenstein's 1968 PhD thesis (felsenst.github.io/papers/thesis/), which basically anticipated all of phylogenetics:

A phylogenetic tree from Felsenstein's 1968 thesis.

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Protein sequence assembly, courtesy of Margaret Dayhoff in 1962.

COMPROTEIN: The first bioinformatics application

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I asked generative AI to generate an UpSet plot from the data in the infamous Vennana figure from the banana genome paper (D'Hont et al., 2012, Nature). I think the results speak for themselves:

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Thanks for the clarification! Clearly I need to re-read my bioinformatics history. I don't know if Dayhoff is accessing her telephone protein database in this photo (don't know the source, unfortunately), but I like to think so.

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

NCBI v0.01!

Dayhoff et al (1965) Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"Y u look at photos of fascist and not us?"

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Trying to generate an image that shows the impact of LGT in the Tree of Life. This is (unsurprisingly) not what I asked for, but the characteristic misspellings (Euckaryea, Archareyetes, etc) actually make a solid point here.

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Bioinformaticianicist:

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Post a perfect album from the 90s (Can Con for those of us who are subject to CRTC rules)

Crash Test Dummies, "God Shuffled His Feet"

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Negative control:

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sweet Evolution Jebus I miss Brisbane.

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Post a pic YOU took (no description) to bring some Zen to the timeline

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I give you: a tunicate eating its tail.

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

@finlaym.bsky.social accepts the Discovery Centre Emerging Professional award!

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🇨🇦 Rob Beiko @rob-beiko.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I know generative AI images are so 2023, but I'd *really* like to be able to generate a proper B-DNA molecule with major and minor grooves. This study in coffee beans is the closest I've managed to get, but has anyone else had more luck?

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