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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I saw "grant-maxxing" on LinkedIn this morning and I just want to proactively announce my boycott of adding "-maxxing" to a bunch of pre-existing words that were perfectly fine on their own. No thank you, internet!

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ah yes, the time of year when I switch from my Mets baseball cap to my Mets beanie

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A $2.75 "convenience fee" to pay my utility bill online? Absolutely not. You can have my ACH transfer information or I will mail you a check like the elder millennial that I am.

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Some of the best scientific software is safe: predictable outputs, clear failures, useful tests, readable code. Working on the latest pixy update reinforced why that matters when working on scientific software. I wrote about what we learned: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/how-to-wri...

blog.fulcrumgenomics.com

How to write safe software for science

By Erin McAuley

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What do you mean Closing Time by Semisonic is 28 years old?!

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

> You didn’t read the thing when you generated it, I won’t read it when I’m reading it.

vickiboykis.com

Write for people

Make it shorter.

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"that un-fucks this PR" uhhh Claude, where did you learn that vocabulary

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There's Upper Wacker, Lower Wacker, and Lowest Wacker. This is a true fact about Chicago.

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

According to Cardi B et al., 2026, "you can't flex on me with something I had". And what I had is a rudimentary understanding of Rust data structures. Now I have a _moderate_ understanding of Rust data structures.

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I am on my Rust learning journey. First things first, Ferris the crab is a pierogi in disguise.

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Kieran Samuk @ksamuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Just posted: a group paper describing major updates to my software pixy, for population genetic summary statistics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... New since 2021: arbitrary ploidy, multiallelic sites, missingness-aware Watterson's θ and Tajima's D, Hudson's FST, multicore execution!

Alt text: Schematic of the pixy workflow. Left, inputs: a bgzipped, tabix- or CSI-indexed VCF with callable sites supplied as an all-sites VCF or gVCF blocks, a populations file, and optional BED and sites files. Centre, core: windowing by fixed width, BED or region; statistic selection; options for Hudson's FST, multiallelic SNPs, automatic ploidy detection and multicore execution. Right, outputs: one TSV per statistic for pi, dxy, FST, Watterson's theta and Tajima's D, with raw count columns for exact aggregation. Bottom, development: GitHub fork and pull request, local checks with ruff, mypy and pytest, continuous integration across Python 3.10 to 3.14, and distribution through conda-forge. Features new since the 2021 release are badged "new".

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

things my berner dislikes: -heat -when he's not getting enough attention things my staffy dislikes: -large umbrellas and hats -sharing a blanket -small engine motors -bicycles -inclement weather -fast moving vehicles -potential murderers -cucumbers

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Minibwa is a hybrid of bwa-mem and minimap2 and the successor of bwa-mem for short-read mapping. ~4X/2.5X as fast as bwa-mem/bwa-mem2 for WGS reads at comparable accuracy. Native support of directional bisulfite-seq. Applicable to long reads. Preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2606.15357

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Here's how you say cell nucleus in Polish: jądro komórkowe ("YOHN-dro koh-moor-KOH-veh")

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What a beautiful take from @hankgreen.bsky.social in his latest video. You are a junk drawer, and your brain cannot tell you which egg becomes the fish.

youtube.com

No Effort is Wasted

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Erin McAuley @science-goblin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"Got the morbs" is Victorian slang for temporary melancholy. It's also the name of a band from Lincoln, Nebraska. So if you've got Monday morbs, maybe listen to their single, "Plague".

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