when you haven't slowed down. (Keep up!)

Three word horror story: End Road Work

1988: Last Days on Grand Parade | Forty Minutes | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

The BBC archive is full of gems youtu.be/zgpK5YxqmDo

Thanks! I put some more Dave-heavy charts here; it's an unstoppable force. www.annasyme.com/board-gender...

Chart of ASX board members names

@bestqualitycrab.bsky.social you inspired me with that talk about Daversity years ago, now I'm playing around with Australian board members names and other things. Dave still going strong.

A meme for #phylogenetics people.

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND

Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.

This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻

A little background 🧵 1/

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Building pangenomes for domesticated and wild tree species: genomic complexity and strategies. #Pangenomes #TreesGenomes @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This course is so good, thanks @missphilbin.bsky.social! thecrashcourse.com/courses/cras...

1. SHELL cast of characters meet the shell PATH PATH tips history job control filename tips stdin/stderr/stdout redirects 2. TERMINAL EMULATOR meet the terminal emulator escape cdoes colours the mouse copy & paste TERM 3. PROGRAMS types of programs less editing text in REPLs keyboard shortcuts 4. TTY DRIVER meet the TTY driver stty canonical mode

it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow!

here's the table of contents:

#auspol
Petition opposing Scott Morrison's Order of Australia
www.change.org/p/stop-scott...

New blog post!
In it, I benchmark the new version of Dorado from @nanoporetech.com, which comes with new DNA basecalling models. Short version: big accuracy gains for hac, small improvements for sup.
Check it out for the full results:
rrwick.github.io/2025/05/27/d...

cos it makes you cry, I get it!

ok but is it The Neverending Story

chatgpt being offended

Just told ChatGPT it sounded like a boomer

Excited to share our latest work on comparing and visualizing multiple genome assemblies to identify conservation and structural variation in pangenomes with Mumemto! Check out poster 250 at #bog25 if you are here. New preprint coming very soon 👀

whan antony green says you've lost before 8:30 without working computers

Our Health ROI Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.

www.ourhealthroi.com

Comment thread on bluesky - Karen James - free idea: a website where you enter the name of your disease/injury/condition/procedure and get shirts, stickers, signs, etc with “NIH grant # saved my life.” MB Brown - excellent Idea! A few more examples: my kid’s life was saved by NIH grant [number]

I saw @kejames.bsky.social make a comment. I realized that unlike the normal pithy “just code it!” comments, this one had a ton of weight behind it. A website that addresses a need at a pivotal moment in history? And the API is easy to call? Yeah, she was right.

Honest Peter Dutton Ad YouTube video by thejuicemedia

Peter Dutton made a new election ad, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol

On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.

Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'

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Submit your abstract for GBCC2025 by April 1st. Don't miss the chance to share your research and expertise at Cold Spring Harbor!

Learn more, submit your abstract, and register: gbcc2025.bioconductor.org

I want the life all the hot young people in my French workbooks were living. Go to the cafe, ask how Arnaud is doing.

GitHub - matttavares9/quantum-wordle: A quantum computing twist on the classic word-guessing game Wordle! A quantum computing twist on the classic word-guessing game Wordle! - matttavares9/quantum-wordle

Quantum Wordle! I'm just posting this to look smart. github.com/matttavares9...

March BRC Analytics infographic

Reminder: tomorrow (March 26, 1:00 EDT) is a BRC-Analytics/Galaxy webinar where we will update you on what's new in Galaxy and BRC-Analytics, including demonstrations of running transcriptomics and surveillance analysis workflows. Zoom link: https://psu.zoom.us/j/93960440173

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Washing machine detergent compartments are usually labelled "I" for prewash and "II" for main wash. But sometimes it's the reverse. Either could be the larger one. How would one know? Somebody should do something @linny123.bsky.social

GitHub - lucahammer/tweetXer: Delete all your Tweets for free Delete all your Tweets for free. Contribute to lucahammer/tweetXer development by creating an account on GitHub.

easily delete all your old tweets and unfollow everyone: github.com/lucahammer/t...

Indus Valley Script's Ancestor found using AI YouTube video by Peter Revesz

Indus Valley script may have evolved from Sumerian? youtu.be/dClYybZLF4o?... #specialinterest