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Rob Syme

@robsyme.bsky.social
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Scientist of sorts. Australian, living in Quebec, working for a Spanish startup. Interested in crop genomics, data, reproducibility, provenance, and data publishing. Big Nextflow fan.

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Seqera @seqera.io · 24/07/2026
⚙️ Kicked off a @nextflow.io pipeline, stepped away for 15 mins, and came back to find it stuck exactly where you left it? AWS Batch is powerful for scaling bioinformatics workflows, but when something breaks, the failure modes aren't always obvious. 🧵 hubs.la/Q04qHkL80
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Debugging Misconfigured Nextflow Jobs on AWS Batch | Seqera
If you've ever kicked off a Nextflow pipeline, stepped away for fifteen minutes, and come back to find your jobs exactly where you’ve left them, this blog post is for you.
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Rob Syme @robsyme.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hear me out - overnight oats thrown together when I forgot to do it the night before: oversight oats
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Rob Syme @robsyme.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
How I imagine the LLM on each invocation of Claude
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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Don't port without support!!
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If you want to understand the world you are living in right now, you should read this. I promise it's worth your time.
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The World Blinks
A crisis dispatch
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Seqera @seqera.io · 13/11/2025
The @nextflow.io training is in full swing in Durham, North Carolina!🌟 Excited to have you all here Missed out? Next week we're hosting our final Nextflow Training Week of 2025!🎓 Free, online, and self-paced. Plus a chance to earn a completion certificate! 📃 hubs.la/Q03T1Qpb0
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Oh big deal, it's not like soybean is *checks notes* the 2nd biggest crop in the US and is *turns page* currently under threat by a major pest
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Christian Landry @christianlandry.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
We are looking for a postdoc in #EvolutionarySystemsBiology. Exciting science, amazing team, wonderful city! landrylab.ibis.ulaval.ca/research-opp... #evolution #synbio #systemsbiology #genomics
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Research opportunities | Landry Lab
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Rob Syme @robsyme.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
An absolute pleasure to chat all things @nextflow.io with the CSHL teams. There are very few places with such a rich history of high quality science and education. We really appreciated the invitation, Jason 🙏
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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 31/05/2024
WE DID IT. My new zine “How Git Works" is out now! You can get it here for $12: wizardzines.com/zines/git/
three people tending to trees in an enchanted sparkly forest. Each of the people has long curly brown hair, light brown skin, pointed ears, and wears a long blue dress. They have various gardening tools, like scythes and trowels with them, and one carries a bag with an image of a slice of watermelon. One is pouring an urn of water onto the roots of a tree. The trees are filled with birds and squirrels, and with pieces of paper with illustrations of fruit with various facial expressions on them. The illustrations of fruit are slightly different from one tree to another.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"
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Rob Syme @robsyme.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Was brainstorming with my partner on an abstract for an upcoming (legal) conference. I provided Claude with our discussion and two abstract drafts and asked it to turn it into an executable python script. It makes more sense than an executable conversation about legal materiality has any right to!
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 04/11/2024
Highlights from the 2024 Nextflow Summit and nf-core hackathon in Barcelona blog.stephenturner.us/p/nextflow-s...
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Nextflow Summit Barcelona 2024
Highlights from the 2024 Nextflow Summit and nf-core hackathon in Barcelona
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 25/10/2024
This week's recap highlights protein design with RoseTTAFold, surveillance with wastewater sequencing, T2T human genomes, Vitessce for visualization of multimodal spatial single-cell data, and Taxometer for taxonomic classification of metagenomics contigs... blog.stephenturner.us/p/weekly-rec... 🧬🖥️
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Weekly Recap (Oct 2024, part 4)
Protein design with RoseTTAFold, wastewater sequencing T2T human genomes, single-cell spatial transcriptomics, taxonomic classification, ...
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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
I'm thrilled to share that our department, UMD CS, is hiring. We are looking for folks broadly across all areas (including bioinformatics / comp bio!) and ranks! Please feel free to reach out if you're interested. Posting below: ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124...
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Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA is recruiting to fill multiple tenure-track faculty positions, with starting dates on or after July 1, 2025. The...
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Rob Syme @robsyme.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
The first community Advanced Nextflow training sessions come out today! Starting in a few hours, registrations here: nf-co.re/events/2023... Huge thanks to the @nf-co.re team. See you there!
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