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Titus Brown

@titus.idyll.org

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I am not a deep man, but I have many shallows. ctbrown@ucdavis.edu, ivory.idyll.org/blog.

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 26/09/2026

Yes. (From www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...)

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 06/05/2026

YES and you can disable it! The little checkmark thing on the far right.

view of JavaScript toolbar on text entry boxes from NIH critique entry form

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 04/05/2026

Filling out an online form at the county level. They have this ordering of countries/states on the form. Monsters. But also, as a data scientist/computer geek ... I'm really curious how they arrived at this ordering!?

Samoa
West Virginia
Wyoming
Yemen
South Africa
Zambia
Zimbabwe
United Kingdom
Scotland

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 20/03/2026

So @cgberger.bsky.social and I went for a @phylogenomics.bsky.social -style Arboretum walk. We think this is a bird - pls advice!!

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 24/09/2025

Preview of an important slide:

Snakemake is the best workflow system for biology; it's got a big community and a lot of users. Just use snakemake.

Don't @ me.

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 10/07/2025

I broke down. Krona diagrams are too awesome to ignore. github.com/taxburst/tax...

A krona diagram generated with the taxburst software.

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 16/06/2025

a simple metagenome content plot! cc @acritschristoph.bsky.social @bluegenes.bsky.social

a simple circles/bubble plot with four entries, representing content proportionally

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 12/06/2025

At Davis Science Cafe, where @rebeccacalisi.bsky.social is talking today!

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 22/05/2025

12 years of the lab represented!! From Michigan to Davis!!

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 13/05/2025

Kids these days.

"Food Delivery Services (DoorDash, GrubHub, Instacart, etc): Food delivery services are not allowed at Holmes."

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 17/04/2025

Brilliant course logo option for MBL Gene Regulatory Networks course, by one of the student groups presenting at the end:

Picture of the Always Sunny in Philadelphila conspiracy theory meme, but in front of a gene regulatory network

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 18/01/2025

Breaking eukaryote reference genome collections down into useful subchunks, via the NCBI Datasets API. github.com/ctb/2025-ncb...

An Upset plot showing the hierarchy of relationships b/t all eukaryotes, metazoa, bilateria, etc. Automatically produced by script.

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 10/12/2024

From today's internal instructor training workshop at UC Davis DataLab: Ostrom's hierarchy of commonses applied to The Carpentries, Python, and R.

A diagram showing the Carpentries as a community of practice (CoP) in teaching computation, on top of Software Carpentry/Data Carpentry as CoP in _doing_ computation with Python and R - and also borrowing from the Python and R CoP.

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 17/08/2024

Sequioa coffee mug by base camp

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 22/06/2024

Applications to the MBL course on Gene Regulatory Networks are closing on Wednesday, June 26th (although we may be able to extend the deadline for a few days upon request). Please consider applying! It is a fun course with many amazing lecturers!

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 16/02/2024

Yeah, I knew that.

23andMe: Did you know your DNA also impacts your health?

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 05/02/2024

I mean... 🤷

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 01/11/2023

Just gave a talk to a bunch of physicists ;) "Workflow languages in bioinformatics" (and mostly about snakemake) - osf.io/j8e6p

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