For when you need travel assistance on the quantum level ⚛️
(note: traveling salesman joke would be funnier but isn't BQP)
Posts by Nick Doiron
Researching Google Flu Trends as a prequel to a wastewater sampling story... And was surprised! There is a 2019 study claiming that they could have corrected the errors.
Someone just reached out to me about purchasing Jira tickets from a joke project, now it's a trend?
The Cesar Chavez Post Office is getting a new name after the famed farmworkers’ rights activist was accused of sexually abusing women. blockclubchi.co/4dBBpOu
I'm both excited and a little terrified. It feels like a wave of AI-assisted tool rewrites is coming to bioinformatics whether we like it or not.
We figured that the best we can do is to try to get ahead of it, so we wrote down some principles for doing it responsibly: rewrites.bio
How diverse is bacterial immunity ?
We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems.
👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...
Black and white portrait of a woman with grey hair and glasses, wearing a scarf and a botanical print jacket.
RIP Prof. Galdikas, an outspoken advocate for orangutans and the preservation of their rainforest habitat 🌿 www.vdu.lt/en/vmu-commu...
A couple months ago the @nytimes.com asked me to review a book for them. It turned out to be one of the worst books I've ever read in my life. Today, they published my review: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...
This is not at all equivalent to the JCPOA. The previous nuclear deal did allow enrichment (with many provisions, but sunsetting over time), did not close or decommission the Bushehr power plant. That deal also did not cover missiles, regional arms control, or proxy financing
What made you think that an LLM could answer this
thin sheets of marinate pork (Korean bulgogi), a dab of sour cream, and crispy fried pierogi on one plate
bulgogi and pierogi (both from Whole Foods)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9UB...
#notGDC 2026, March 9-13. A game development non-conference, for everyone!
#notGDC 2026 is a free, online game dev non-conference for everyone!
This year it runs from March 9–13, the same time as that other conf.
Have some gamedev knowledge you want to share with the world? Slides, articles, videos are welcome, and submissions are now open!
For more info: notgdc.io
I think this just feeds into a system where every time the state changes parties they have to repeal a hundred laws and put back their laws.
Preview of landing page for Chenopodium genome browser (yes I'm giving my 2024 projects a second look)
A building with a beautiful neoclassical facade and the side is brick with many bricked and boarded up hallways from when there were neighboring buildings
The US and Bosnian flags over Holbrooke Plaza, commemorating the Dayton Agreement
Pedestrian walkway over a highway, with floor painted with floral designs
A little from Dayton 🇺🇸🇧🇦
Oh hey!! A Billy Penn article all about the Native Plant project is OUT! Featuring interviews from me, @zajic.com @megstampede.bsky.social and @the666cat.bsky.social!
Check it out! billypenn.com/2026/02/24/s...
Snapshots from Dayton:
Wright Flyer statue, high wheeler themed bike rack, and exhibit on Bosnia
Colour photo. A fibreglass raptor concreted on top of a triangular prism-esque monument depicting dinosaur fossils
A small thread about this Mexican monument that commemorates the most significant single event in the history of the planet
(plus, the surrounding area - and criticism of Werner Herzog (sorry))
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Anthropic have been positioning themselves as the ethical AI company, what with their constitution and all.
So it will be interesting to see how they respond to this story.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Be on the lookout for AI infographics:
- recent advances by Google and Qwen (pictured)
- will look like it came out of a textbook or a travel brochure
- answers a question exactly (a little too convenient)
- any individual component would be strange in isolation
It is very hard to get accurate numbers of the number of “non-coding genes” – the amount of DNA that encodes truly functional ncRNAs. But it seems very likely that these genes outnumber our protein-coding genes. /8
You're looking at what's likely the first record in Nigeria of Dintelmann's Reed Frog (Hyperolius dintelmanni)!
📷 abubakaringim on iNaturalist
📍 Nigeria
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
It's a pattern in the window of Glam Doll Donuts where this was recorded. StreetView: maps.app.goo.gl/gh42bzm3KxQpYRdFA
the star shape is a pattern in the window of Glam Doll Donuts across the street maps.app.goo.gl/gh42bzm3KxQp...
Can this finally get rid of the whole "show him a map of Greenland without Mercator projection" thing
💥🧬 Why sequence ALL insect genomes?
Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍
Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity.
#InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers
Re: 1M new species, so is this mostly trained on unicellular life? From the paper it sounds like multicellular eukaryote genomes were not excluded from pre-training (except for human). But if everything's in there, they wouldn't be as much of a share of the data.
Title: Wore an imitation diamond Text: Mrs Melissa Russell, who is being sued by the estate of Cassius Ward for the recovery of valuable property - claims that the diamond ring she took from the finger of the dead man was an imitation diamond, and that he gave her the original and valuable stone the night before he died.
Melissa Russell, who is well-known to many of our readers, is in contempt of court for failure to pay costs of bringing her into court in the hearings of the case brought against her by Walter R Davis, who is seeking to discover on what grounds she claims him as her husband
Melissa Russell is still causing trouble to Milwaukee lawyers and courts
In 1900s Milwaukee, Melissa Russell committed multiple bizarre crimes to the point the newspaper says she's "well-known to many of our readers"
Nuuk, Greenland, 2017 🇬🇱