@GenIgnored

Bioinformatics Scientist. All opinions are mine, and may or may not be shared by others.

 Nashville, TN
Joined May 2008
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whalefact
@awhalefact17 Mar 2023
it would be very difficult to fit two whales in a 2002 toyota camry at the same time
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I don't know to whom credit is due for this piece of genius!
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whalefact
@awhalefact4 Nov 2022
when one door close another one opens but that doesn’t matter because most whales wouldn’t fit through either one
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*For those living in the US* Adderall is currently on a nationwide back order If you take this medication I’d recommend you talk to your doctor ASAP. There is no release date as of right now meaning, we don’t know when it’ll be back in stock
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It may be worth saying something out loud here. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is obviously the greatest international security crisis since 9/11. And, at this point, it’s got to be said that Joe Biden and his team have handled it masterfully. 1/ – at Washington, DC
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Kyle Whitmire
@WarOnDumb8 Sep 2022
Rest assured, the moon landing was real.
Sahil Bloom
@SahilBloom7 Sep 2022
The outtakes of NASA astronauts trying to walk on the moon are amazing.
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The quiet part is out loud again.
Senator Jim Banks
@SenatorBanks25 Aug 2022
Student loan forgiveness undermines one of our military’s greatest recruitment tools at a time of dangerously low enlistments.
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For all the oppressed yt folks out there.
Title: Aggrieved Entitlement looks like this: There are 2 scenes. One has a white man in a white shirt, grey pants and brown shoes with his arms folded and he's sitting on a bench. There is room beside him. A Black woman in a black skirt white shoes a pink long-sleeve shirt with a green vest over it says as she points to the bench "I think I deserve to sit on this bench too!" The second scene has the woman sitting on the empty side of the bench looking nervously as the man is now on the ground flailing. He says "oh my god I've been pushed off! There's no room for me on MY bench anymore!" The word "my" is underlined.

ALT Title: Aggrieved Entitlement looks like this: There are 2 scenes. One has a white man in a white shirt, grey pants and brown shoes with his arms folded and he's sitting on a bench. There is room beside him. A Black woman in a black skirt white shoes a pink long-sleeve shirt with a green vest over it says as she points to the bench "I think I deserve to sit on this bench too!" The second scene has the woman sitting on the empty side of the bench looking nervously as the man is now on the ground flailing. He says "oh my god I've been pushed off! There's no room for me on MY bench anymore!" The word "my" is underlined.

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Okay, #MicroTweeps. I really need some direction/help here. Looking for a lux+ expressing strain of Micrococcus, and some form of Staphylococcus, so I can have students test "killing/inhibiting" activity in a luminometer. No luck finding such things in Micrococcus. Please RT?
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Aaron Fritschner@Fritschner7 Jul 2022
Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews with leading Tories trying explain the situation to the British people
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Heng Li@lh3lh321 Jun 2022
Replying to @marianattestad
My most used CL pattern that few modern programmers know about (because no one learns perl now): samtools view some.bam | perl -ane 'print "$F[0]\t$1\n" if /\tNM:i:(\d+)/' It gives the edit dist of each mapped read. Just learning this bit of perl can be very useful.
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Mike Levin
@MikeLevin21 Jun 2022
ICYMI: Important analysis on inflation by Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi. The top causes for inflation? Putin’s war in Ukraine (3.5%) and COVID (2.0%). Contrary to GOP talking points, Zandi concludes the American Rescue Plan represented only 0.1%. fortune.com/2022/06/13/mark-…

The chief economist at Moody's thinks that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine accounts for over a third...

Mark Zandi said the war contributed 3.5% to year-over-year increase in consumer price inflation in May.

fortune.com
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A reminder Juneteenth is now a federal holiday. So for all of you who keep trying to schedule meetings on Monday - stop, reflect, and be joyful.
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Monica Byrne@monicabyrne1313 Jun 2022
What I had to say about AI in 2018, and pretty much what I say today.
I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of AI—artificial intelligence—in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not AI was going to evolve out of control and “kill us all.” I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don’t think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it’s certain white men’s displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they’re unprepared for. There’s a reason that AI is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There’s a reason they’re almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I’m not worried about how we’re going to treat AI s

ALT I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of AI—artificial intelligence—in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not AI was going to evolve out of control and “kill us all.” I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don’t think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it’s certain white men’s displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they’re unprepared for. There’s a reason that AI is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There’s a reason they’re almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I’m not worried about how we’re going to treat AI s

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I was just remembering Game of Thrones, when Cersei had to take that walk, naked, while everyone cried "shame!" "shame!" That was exceptionally good writing, because it actually made us sympathize with a truly despicable person. 1/2
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Science twitter, I need your help! Does anybody know of a mouse model where heterozygous KO of a gene produces a tumor phenotype, but homozygous KO of the same gene does not (and the homozygous KO is viable and healthy)? I am trying find an example and having no luck! Thanks
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Y'all, this is true, but also this is the best whale to do alt text on images.
whalefact
@awhalefact20 Apr 2022
many people don’t realize just how big a whale can be when the image isn’t to scale
a beautiful, majestic humpback whale overlaid on a map of the united states of america. the whale is as long as the continental states are wide. incredible. also not to scale at all. wow so magical. imagine how big a blue whale could be also not to scale

ALT a beautiful, majestic humpback whale overlaid on a map of the united states of america. the whale is as long as the continental states are wide. incredible. also not to scale at all. wow so magical. imagine how big a blue whale could be also not to scale

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I feel this quote deeply.
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Brianna Wu
@BriannaWu15 Apr 2022
Can I be too honest with you? I’m a Gen Xer, and there’s a lot that I’m proud of us for. But I’m ashamed by how conservative many of us have gotten in adulthood. When we were teenagers, we mocked these people. Our music and TV shows mocked them. How the hell did we become them?
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Drug Monkey@drugmonkeyblog14 Apr 2022
I say this in response to incel complaints and I’ll say it here. The average straight USian woman is demonstrably highly tolerant of fool ass average lookin straight men. Bless them for that. If you are failing repeatedly and for decades maybe take a look at your personality.
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