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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Claude has updated our sequence deduplication script, and you can download binaries here: github.com/beroe/seqded... This script removes identical sequences from DNA or protein files. For DNA it also checks reverse complements. For protein, it can remove identical sub-strings. Runs multithreaded. 🧪

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GitHub - beroe/seqdedupe: Remove duplicate sequences and substrings from a fasta file

Remove duplicate sequences and substrings from a fasta file - beroe/seqdedupe

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Nico Mongiardino Koch @nmkphylo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am looking for graduate students to join my lab in Fall 2027. If your interests lie within the realms of phylogenetics, macroevolution, and/or invertebrate biodiversity please reach out to me!!

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My friend and I used to send each other messages when we caught ourselves at 1200% zoom.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As Mark Twain said “There’s a sucker born every minute.”

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Do you have any hexagons left? I couldn’t make it up this year. :^\

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Obsoleting my previous post..! Custom sequence logo generation for proteins is now avaiable through a browser interface, with a dark theme option for your conference presentations. 🧪 beroe.github.io/sequence-log...

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have never liked the style of these protein sequence logos, so I subdued the colors and had Claude make a custom version that can use any typeface. Small details: it does not fatten sans serif 'I' characters and puts a tiny gap between letters. All user configurable. 🧪 github.com/beroe/sequen...

Colored images of letters on a white background. The letters are derived from an amino acid sequence alignment, and their height represents their frequency in the sequence. Generated by the seqlogo.py script linked from the repo in the main text.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you’re known by the company you keep, I’m in good shape with this article about ctenophores. Great to be paired up with these luminaries, including @ibudin.bsky.social 🦑🌊🧪

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One year ago, The Radiant Sea appeared in print! Still super happy with how it turned out. Our mission to share a different view of ocean life seems to have succeeded.💙 Named a top ten photography book of 2025 by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, and many anecdotes from people who appreciated it. 🙏 🌊🧪🦑

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Let’s hope not the scorched variety…?

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Corey Garza @profcgarza.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Attending the 2026 Western Society of Naturalists Meeeting in Sacramento? Consider submitting an abstract to our session on the use of autonomous systems & machine learning in marine science. Research & education talks welcomed. Abstracts due September 9th. www.wsn-online.org/annual-meeti...

Collage of drones and other autonomous systems being used in the marine environment.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

5800+ chromosome-scale genomes? ✅ Eye-popping visualizations? ✅ Spanning the entirety of animal evolution? ✅ The latest from Prof. Darrin Schultz and company 🧪

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Haha. I was secretly hoping it would leave somewhat of a scar, but so far just a residual rash on my hand where I peeled it off.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

You know that feeling when you’re chasing a dream you’ve had for 20 years, and …. you get stung in the face by a Portuguese man o’war? Same. 🦑🌊🧪

Moon and emus shining above a dark cloud.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Thanks @dannastaaf.bsky.social How fun! I like the chromatography demo. I recently gave a presentation for 6-10 year olds and it was fun to see how they got into the demos.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Now you’re speaking my language..!

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alex jaffe @alexjaf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

my first 'data descriptor'! hoping this one will be useful for folks interested in tracing the distribution of genomes/genes/proteins over physicochemical gradients in the (deep) marine water column.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Congrats! Really creative ways to visualize the data and long overdue. 🧪🌊🦑🦠

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Roger Zelazny: Doors of his Mouth JD Salinger: 9 stories Ted Chiang: Exhalation Aimee Bender: Girl in the flammable Skirt Sam Shepard: Cruising Paradise Twain!

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Cool idea. What would go in each box? Average? Or support for a particular selected node?

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Attention fans of #ctenophores 🌊🦑🧪 Please consider joining us at the Ctenopalooza Ctwo conference/celebration in California this August. Support is potentially available for artists and communicators. www.mbari.org/event/ctenop... Register soon or miss out on the fun! Meals included!

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Ctenopalooza Ctwo • MBARI

Ctenopalooza Ctwo – a meeting of those interested in ctenophores About the meeting The past decade has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of these fascinating animals—spanning genomics, cel...

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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thanks for the #ctenophore shout-out..! Just about all ctenophores are bioluminescent, but for reasons we don’t understand, Pleurobrachia is not. It might have a broken copy of a gene needed to make luciferin. (I will refrain from posting links to the corresponding research papers :^)

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Michael Bok @mikebok.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I am hiring a postdoc for scRNA-seq research in Lund, Sweden on the visual systems of non-model inverts as part of an ERC project on the evolution and ecology of advanced color and polarization vision. Apply here or share the link with someone who may be interested! 🧪 lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Basic fish is real (though badly pickled) but the baby is an AI addition… 🙄

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I guess that is not meant to be an Artemis shot but just a bathymetry map from a certain perspective. I was confused by the header…

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

That is a great perspective but… how is there not a single cloud in sight? 🤔 I can’t find the original pic from NASA.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

🙀I can’t believe that is real…but it is! 🧪

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Don't jump on me for this, but ... from the "waist" up, it is a good match for a polycystine radiolarian (e.g.,Collozoum). They can have capsules at the bulbous end, and sometimes the other end collapses to form "tentacles". I'm sure you see rads all the time though..?

Three examples of radiolaria found in shallow tropical waters. The one on the left has a central capsule and multicolored "tentacles"; the one in the middle is a long tube, and the one on the right is a cloud around a central capsule.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Just when you thought one couldn't revolutionize typography, Riley and the Lettermatic team blow your mind! Nearly 750,000 glyphs! But my favorite is Texture Healing. Check it out!

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

There are mysteries just below the surface there. :^) I would have been so excited as a kid to come across your team doing surveys! I

Picture of a spooky looking underwater channel, and a diagram from a manuscript about limpets that live in air pockets far below the surface.

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Riley Cran @rileycran.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

New work for GitHub: Monaspace. 🔤 A superfamily of 5 open-source typefaces for code. Full case study here: lettermatic.com/custom/monas...

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Is that the channel at Shaw’s Cove? Site of my first publication as an undergrad..!

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WoRMS @marinespecies.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

(3/10) The Golden Glow Zoantharian is the first documented deep-sea cave species to bioluminesce. www.marinespecies.org/worms-top-te... #toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Mine is straight also. I don’t think the periscope was out back when we got ours either. I should redo some tidepool fluorescence shots with it, and give it another chance. Thanks for the encouragement.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Congrats..! 🎥🧪 I got one of those Laowa probes thinking I could use it to look inside jellyfish, but I haven’t found a good situation to use it.

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Julie Packard @juliepackard.montereybayaquarium.org · 14/03/2026

The ocean and all who love it lost an inspiring advocate with the passing this week of Tierney Thys. She brought such joy to the work of protecting and restoring our blue planet. This wonderful tribute from Danielle Thys captures her spirit so beautifully: bit.ly/4s4hVq6

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The Ocean Legacy of National Geographic Explorer Dr. Tierney Thys

In Memoriam

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Super interesting Nice experimental setup too! 👀 @ibudin.bsky.social

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

👀 Just got to that part! :^) The scene of painting the storefront windows made me gasp.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I’ve been listening to the Hey Jude episode and his depth of knowledge and insight is stunning.

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Darrin T. Schultz @dts.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

When you zoom out from individual genes to consider the context of whole chromosomes across animal diversity, animal evolution takes on a different look. Oleg Simakov and I published a review in @annualreviews.bsky.social on topological approaches in comparative genomics. 🧬 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I am always amazed by time-lapse animations showing the progression of a drawing.

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Steve Haddock @stevehaddock.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

San Francisco-area fans of ocean animals and flashy colors. 🦑🌊🧪 I'll be giving a presentation about our book The Radiant Sea at 1 pm on Saturday Feb 28 at the Book Passage shop in Corte Madera. (Preposition overload!) Swing by and say Hi. www.bookpassage.com/event/steven...

Brittle star with green fluorescent armtip on black background.

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