Bioinformatician at @HuttonICS, one of developers on @Biopython; @OBF_news president. Tweets are my own. He/him/his fediscience.org/@pjacock
Joined July 2009
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Will you @joinmastodon? I have and am now a Patreon supporter of this federated social network #TwitterMigration patreon.com/mastodon?utm_med…
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We're super-excited for our 24th annual BOSC, #BOSC2023, starting on July 24! Don't miss the opening keynote by Sara El-Gebali (@yalahowy), after a brief "Welcome to BOSC" session including @obf_news and #cofest overviews. open-bio.org/events/bosc-202… 🍐
ALT BOSC keynote speaker Sara El-Gebali
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I've only logged into my dormant Twitter account to check for any messages etc (I no longer have a working Twitter client). Nowadays I am on Mastodon, see fediscience.org/@pjacock - Thanks.
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24 Apr 2023
Do people have favorite genome similarity matrix viz examples that they would suggest we implement in sourmash? Think "have N genomes / samples, want to cluster & display comparison of them all." Pointers to papers and tutorials v. welcome! cc @pjacock ref github.com/sourmash-bio/sour…
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6 Apr 2023
I have banged on at length about this problem, in the context of this project, before.
figshare.com/articles/poster…
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6 Apr 2023
Great work by @pjacock @Llewelyn68 and Pete Thorpe, finally getting this one into the public eye!
My personal takeaway from working on this is that accurate metabarcoding is much harder than most people, or publications, let on.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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19 Dec 2022
(eccentric) GSV
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18 Dec 2022
Universal masking linked to fewer covid cases in schools, study finds - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/education…
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If you want to automatically follow on 🐘 the people that you follow on 🐤, Debirdify is a good way to do it. Do it now while you still can. debirdify.pruvisto.org/
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12 Dec 2022
The @UniOslo now imposing a two-factor authentication without asking for any feedback from the scientific community. We now need to have our phone to validate the login with ssh for instance! Every freaking time... It is very annoying IMO. Also imposed on email, calendars, etc.
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Peter Cock retweeted
1 Dec 2022
If you are a college student who likes to nod intently at your professors while they're talking in class, just know that all of them adore you and think you are the absolute greatest
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Peter Cock retweeted
28 Nov 2022
I see questions like, "Can I just post stuff on preprint servers instead of submitting to journals?" on Quora pretty regularly.
Sure - if you don't care about having a full-time paid career in research.
27 Nov 2022
Student recently told me she doesn't need to publish anything, because Biorxiv exists. Of course grant agency wanted real publications and we didn't get the grant renewal. i don't blame biorxiv but its existence gives a great excuse for lazy students not to write polished papers
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Peter Cock retweeted
28 Nov 2022
Grr. I woke up yesterday with a crick in my neck and it is still bugging me. I am thankful though that I did not get a Watson.
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28 Nov 2022
We are so sad to share the news that our key architect and lead engineer has passed away. @SimonGladman1 was as smart and generous as they come - a role model for us all. Deepest condolences to his many friends and much loved family biocommons.org.au/news/simon…
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BOSC now has a Mastodon account at genomic.social/@BOSC along side our OBF account at genomic.social/@OpenBio #TwitterMigration
#BOSC2023 will be in Lyon, France as part of ISMB/ECCB 2023 iscb.org/ismbeccb2023
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The Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) now has a Mastodon account genomic.social/@OpenBio #TwitterMigration
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