iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looking forward to using it to fill in a large, tedious list of co-authors

020

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We, internationally, have failed so many people.

111

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

Common Tern Project @commonternproject.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Question: do I know anyone near Nantes who would be willing to pick up a dead gull-billed tern and its logger? L49 has sadly been killed near a road. I’d be very grateful for a picture and the logger and would of course reimburse postage.

553100

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I guess you could still send it to the authors and leave it up to them to improve their manuscript?

100

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

Fritz Sedlazeck @sedlazeck.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Four days, one whiteboard, forty open browser tabs, and against all odds, something that actually makes an impact in the field :). Hackathon @bcmhgsc.bsky.social Aug 25-28 Register:https://fritzsedlazeck.github.io/blog/2026/hackathon-2026/ @dnanexus.bsky.social @dcgenomics.bsky.social

021

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Do you employ Bowerick Wowbagger perhaps?

000

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ported the aSTRonaut tool for visualizing tandem repeat sequence composition to Rust using the amazing kuva library from @psy-fer.bsky.social. Blog post at wdecoster.github.io/gigabaseorgi..., documentation at github.com/wdecoster/aS.... Feedback appreciated!

250

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

James Ferguson @psy-fer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

kuva v0.3.0 release! - New raster backend: faster than the old one, dropped dep. - New QuiverPlot type - Pre-compiled release binaries (thanks @wdecoster.bsky.social ) - .parquet input for all CLI subcommands Also lots of fixes and other features crates.io/crates/kuva github.com/Psy-Fer/kuva

171

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Congrats! The field is better because of you!

110

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

inquiSTR: a toolkit for accurate and efficient population-scale tandem repeat genotyping and analysis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

043

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

Element Biosciences @elembio.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🧬 Repeat expansions cause 50+ monogenic disorders and many workflows miss them. 🔬 See how we developed a PCR-free hybrid capture with Trinity™ to retain representation of repetitive loci, enabling accurate genotyping at these expansions on short-read platforms. Poster here: bit.ly/4oFuPZo

011

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

slate.com

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

253133959735

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

They are just getting absolutely hammered by vibe-code adoption

100

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

It is an average. Not everyone has co-workers, some jobs are done alone?

010

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

James Ferguson @psy-fer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

kuva v0.2.0 Now over 60 plots! New plot types: Gantt, Network, Waffle, Horizon, PopulationPyramid, Joint, Clustermap, ROC, PR, Lollipop, Survival, Raincloud, Slope, Venn, Parallel, Mosaic, Streamgraph, Radar, Treemap, Sunburst, Bump, Funnel, Rose, Calendar, Legend, Text github.com/Psy-Fer/kuva

0248

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The year is 2026. It is now easier to vibe-rewrite a Python tool in Rust than to figure out how to get the dependencies installed.

010

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

The Obama Foundation @obamafoundation.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.

604265516264

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Sure, but one is "horizontal-vertical" (LeftTop), and the other is "vertical-horizontal" (TopLeft). So if I change the legend from inside to outside, it is not just changing Inside to Outside.

100

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Hrm it is OutsideLeftTop and InsideTopLeft for the legend, it seems, is that intentional or just inconsistent?

100

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Now, a sophisticated company like that is an offer you cannot refuse!

010

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

281112601452

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

James Ferguson @psy-fer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I got a little carried away making interactive plots using native SVG features. Then @jpelbers.bsky.social asked if it could run DOOM. It was probably a joke...but I took it as more of a challenge. Anyway. kuva doom -o doom.svg Fully playable and fully contained DOOM inside an SVG

0104

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Whoa, very cool indeed. Time to switch it seems!

110

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I'm sorry, we can't really support that

000

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

The registration deadline for the Flanders Nanopore Day with @nanoporetech.com is quickly approaching, and the program suggests it will be an amazing event! All information is available at nanoporeflanders.be

nanoporeflanders.be

Flanders Nanopore Day 2026 - Flanders Nanopore Day

The Flanders Nanopore Day - April 17th, 2026

111

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

Mariko Bennett @nachoriko.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

491706568

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I got absolutely ridiculed by our director when I brought up the concept at a departmental meeting nine years ago, as a PhD student.

000

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Thrilled to see our work from the past years finally published! We found a novel repeat expansion in the GOLGA8A gene in 60% of the aFTLD-U patients, a rare subtype of frontotemporal dementia. Huge thanks to all collaborators and patients for making this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

A repeat expansion in GOLGA8A is a major risk factor for atypical frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions - Nature Genetics

Genome-wide analysis coupled with long-read sequencing identifies a repeat expansion in GOLGA8A associated with high risk for atypical frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusi...

032

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

Harriet Dashnow @hdashnow.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Wonder which tandem repeat genotyper to use on your Oxford Nanopore genomes? We benchmarked 7 tools on >100 ONT genomes. We assessed usability, assembly concordance, Mendelian consistency, and sensitivity to pathogenic expansions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🖥️ 🧬 @cubiomedinfo.bsky.social

biorxiv.org

172

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

Keith @minguseyes.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

5248161699

Reposted by Wouter De Coster

James Ferguson @psy-fer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Building a new plotting library in pure Rust. Making themes and colourblind mode available on every plot type from day 1. What other accessibility options can I add?

162

Wouter De Coster @wdecoster.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Noooo not another tool to benchmark against :)

100