Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I guess, ultimately, we’re witnessing the revenge of the applied mathematicians 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The coffee shop needs to either fix the toilets or stop playing One More Cup of Coffee 030
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026There’s basically no moral case for having any import duties for solar 010
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026And on the plinth, the value proposition was still visible: “My name is Ozymandias, category leader among leaders. Benchmark your achievements against mine, high performers, and reconsider your strategy.” 000
Reposted by Aleksejs SazonovsYang Luo @y-luo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026A wonderful #HumanProteomeAndHealth symposium at Oxford in the past two days. It was a great pleasure to see our trainees showcase their hard work and research. #proudPI👏🎉 012
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I think the fundamental limitation of the art form is that, financial cancellations aside, basically *every series* 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Never quite appreciated the final stat (1 in 5 are top 1% PRS for some disease) 101
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Australia should consider bringing back the safer fauna to its lands 010
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Has anyone considered the causal role of the unfortunate name of these? 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 07/06/2026The hatred for Gladwell feels a bit snobbish. Give him a chance – spend some time getting to know him. Maybe 10,000 hours? 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This is like Oasis ticket sales, except for people who like Blur 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Europe should really have the same debate we’ve had for three decades about ditching Microsoft – especially now that the number of European tech products is somehow going into negative digits 210
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I really want the supermagnetic pigeon macrophages 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Can’t believe this isn’t a bigger story. Most biomedical research runs on Thermo and trusts the company’s own validation claims. They need to go thermonuclear and explain how this happened 052
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026In case of emergency blow up the rebel scum on Alderaan 010
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I think “critique” of any big society-changing phenomenon is incredibly important, but we’re in a situation where the cutting edge stuff regurgitates the stochastic parrot and plagiarism machine memes while Tim Gowers is writing that it’s about to change maths as a profession. Dem parrots smart 010
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Today is World IBD Day. To everyone living with Crohn’s and colitis, and to those by their side: we see the strength it takes, every day 031
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026You’re absolutely right to call that out — most people wouldn’t even catch it, but you 010
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026static.klipy.comIvan Mladek: Jozin Bazin PerformanceALT: Ivan Mladek: Jozin Bazin Performance 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026If British political drama has taught us anything it’s that Starmer will eventually be deposed by a classmate. Fatboy Slim for Prime Minister 100
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I do not want to single out the particular study but sci journalists need a refresher course on causality 100
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Baiting online academics to write about collider bias all weekend by posting one reasonably bad paper 010
Reposted by Aleksejs SazonovsMike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 02/05/2026UK Biobank has my data, but I’m not worried. I know the benefits are too great to consider pulling out www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comUK Biobank has my data, but I’m not worried. I know the benefits are too great to consider pulling out | Polly ToynbeeLongitudinal studies are a research jewel, shedding light on motor neurone disease, cot deaths, Alzheimer’s and more. Don’t let the security breach in China put you off joining one, says Guardian colu... 0175
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 28/04/2026“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query.” github.com/openai/codex... 010
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026It's murder on the “murder board” But you better not kill the groove, hey-hey, hey-hey 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026It’s always fascinating to read the beefs coming from fields completely foreign to you 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I understand everyone is interested in returning reviews in a timely manner, if you are sending me a tangentially relevant paper, give me 10 days to review and have no email to discuss – which responsr is actually likely? 000
Reposted by Aleksejs SazonovsMichel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 20/04/2026“What do you mean “just do linear regression with cluster robust standard errors” why did I just spend a semester studying mixed models, logistic and Poisson regression?” 2433
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Few remember the early twitter but the service being down for days is the authentic microblogging ux 020
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026FYI outlook now comes with an image editor good enough to remove the elephants and turtles 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I believe we can drive biomedicine forward by giving the right tools to the right people. That idea is what led me to build CRAM2Excel, a new HTSlib/SAMtools plugin that exports CRAM alignments directly into native Excel workbooks. github.com/asazonov/cra... 121
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Largely agree with the sentiment but the fact that you _can_ plausibly do this is remarkable 010
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 29/03/2026In a way, between this and the School of Rock, Jack Black ended up goofing his way to become a multi-generationally significant actor 020
Reposted by Aleksejs Sazonovsallydunham.bsky.social @allydunham.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Great to present our work on MAVEs as part of www.ebi.ac.uk/perturbation... at #VariantEffect26 - always a very enjoyable meeting!ebi.ac.ukPerturbation Catalogue 052
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 19/03/2026We need a moratorium on the broad claim that "socioeconomic effects were controlled for via the Townsend deprivation index" in biobank studies. Your postcode says a lot about you, but not all. Excuse me while I have my muesli with a pour-over while reading the FT 000
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Congrats to the co-first authors on a well-deserved ICLR paper. We think it works well with most real-world fragmented longitudinal data, beyond bloodwork biomarkers, or even not biomarkers altogether. Would love to discuss applications 011
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Morning minister, the first document to sign is a minor one. Just some contracts to purchase paper clips. Unfortunate, really, that we couldn’t quite procure enough www.politico.eu/article/alba...politico.euAlbania appoints world’s first AI-made ministerDiella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement. 010
Aleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025If you are one of the nerds on bluesky still reading this you should apply for a Data Engineering job with us (ML and omics). Copenhagen, nice data, even better colleagues 110
Reposted by Aleksejs SazonovsAleksejs Sazonovs @sazonovs.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Glad to contribute to the UPF discourse with a gen X/millennial-friendly version of the plot. There's a t-shirt in this one 011
