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Sina

@seven-in-absentia.bsky.social
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Curious soul, bioinformatician, not a big poster though

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Sina @seven-in-absentia.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It might be time for me to take a full social media break. I don’t know how to deal with *gestures vaguely at the world* and it impacts my ability to deal with my own life. I don’t want to be ignorant, but I need to be safe. I will be back (intermittently and maybe fully at some point)
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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A “groundbreaking” therapy offering a potential cure for people living with Sickle Cell disease has been approved for use on the NHS. Clinical trials find 1-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients. 🧪 #medsky www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use
Clinical trials find one-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients
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Eric Strong @ericstrong.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
At this point, I'm half-expecting to wake up tomorrow to find that attempting to open PubMed results in a "404 Not Found" message.
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Ryan Reads and Writes 📚✨ @ryanreadsandwrites.me · 21/01/2025
I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
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PlantEvolution 🌱🌾 @plantevolution.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#CitizenScience embedded into Borderlands 3, a popular video game. Here, it was used to crowdsource the alignment of 1M 16S rRNA sequences from human microbiome studies. The resulting multiple sequence alignments are better than state-of-the-art computational methods. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · 15/01/2025
A little comic about desire paths.
Ok so…
There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway.  After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…
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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 10/01/2025
A woman talks to her boyfriend on the Tube. Her hands move like fireworks as she talks. He stays very still, barely even blinking.
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Sina @seven-in-absentia.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Explain your username: It’s a gene whose abbreviation forms my first name. I like genes.
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Sina @seven-in-absentia.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Something I miss on Bluesky is locations of people on their bio. Occasionally there’s a take that does only make sense in the context of where someone lives. In the old place it often helped me to check their bio to understand.
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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Frustrating - I reviewed a paper that was highly problematic, mainly in scientific rigour undermining most of the conclusions, so I recommend Reject. However the editor decides to Revise presumably due to the more positive comments from reviewer 2... /1
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Sina @seven-in-absentia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Bluesky, can we come up with a way to tag articles behind a paywall? Most of the times I follow a link to a source here I can’t read it and if I knew that before waiting for the page to load and reaching the paywall I would have so much extra time to read other things
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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I think it's unrealistic (and unfair) to expect one journal to change the whole system, and possibly self-destruct in the process. 1/n
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I used a neural network approach (my brain) to develop a predictive model (squinting at the data) that yielded robust conclusions (vibes)
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Jeff Farrell @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Out now in Dev Cell! scRNAseq trajectories describe the cascade of gene expression as cells differentiate, but turning them into a clear understanding of the underlying biology of a cell type's development remains challenging. authors.elsevier.com/c/1k9qj5Sx5g... (1/)
Graphical abstract of the study
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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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Dichromat Chloe (4% of scientists) @dichromat-chloe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why
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Sina @seven-in-absentia.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
In the last years Life feels like There has been a #delay Of dreams Of breath Of joy But it’s never too late I hope I will make it up Next year
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
telophase is the fifth and final phase of mitosis #genetics
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Sina @seven-in-absentia.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
When I was little I dreamed Of having my own #skerry Queen of a little land Friend of the seagulls At peace Where I would sit on a rock Like a Loreley But not attracting anyone Problems would break at the Shores Unable to reach me A midsommar nights dream #vss365
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Sina @seven-in-absentia.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Dreams at the #horizon seem too far away now I grab some colourful leaves instead to placate my inner child One day - I promise - one day we will go there #vss365
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Sina @seven-in-absentia.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m sorry, but a lot of the “my followers here grow much faster than when I started on Twitter” is because your followers from over there look you up here to get their favourites back. It’s because Twitter existed before Bluesky. It’s great here, but it’s not magic.
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Why @why.bsky.world · 20/11/2024
To be clear, we do have plans for scaling, we just kinda expected more than a couple days notice before getting blasted with a million new users a day. The team is rapidly deploying fixes and new software to adapt. More servers in the mail.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 19/11/2024
The bad news: Many people don’t get enough iron in their diet. The good news: One ounce of dark chocolate has 3.37 mg of iron Ladies, that’s 5.5 ounces a day that you clearly need. Sorry guys, you’ll get your daily allotment with 2.5.
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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 19/11/2024
"does bluesky have drafts" no but we have kindness. we have friendship. we know love. we know how to see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower. we know how to hold infinity in the palm of my hand, and eternity in an hour.
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Jeff Mold @jeffmold.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
One of the tricky things in science is that what we call “abnormal” is always framed in relation to what is “normal” and this is inextricably linked to how and when “normal” was defined
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