Jason McDermott (@biodataganache) — Bluesky Profile

3 days ago

It's funny when I'm quadruple booked and see Teams chats from all the meetings I'm missing at the same time... and by *funny* I mean annoying. Not that I'm so important in any of this.

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3 days ago

LOLOLOLOLOL

DAS BOOT II: ELECTRIC BOOTALOO is pure genius

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1 week ago

Do eeeeet! Just take it slow. There will be a steep learning curve for the first time up (maybe the second as well) - take a lesson (really, it's a good thing to do at just about any level). I'm a 50+ yo skier and really enjoy it (not learning, but still). Don't do anything too hard too fast

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1 week ago

A six panel comic of a man and a woman where their word balloons are actually other panels (there are no words) indicating future actions and explaining why they did what they did.

a three panel comic about Søren Kierkegaard in which the text of the man reads backwards and the dog forwards "Life can only be understood backwards" and the dog "but it must be lived forwards"

It's that time in my Making comics intro course when I talk image-text relations, which gives me an excuse to share 2 favorite comics that do bewildering things that can only be done in comics! Ibn Al-Rabin's seminal Le Verbe Prophétique alongside the always brilliant @tomgauld.bsky.social. So good!

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1 week ago

FUCK WAR

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2 weeks ago

If you don't know Squirrel Nixon then your tree could use some fixin...

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2 weeks ago

someone else's keyboard. Ugh.

That's the skeet.

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2 weeks ago

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a figure points at a screen and says "It's a shared document. I can *see* when my grad student is actually working and not goofing off." - someone out of frame says "Brilliant!". Panel 2: another figure points at a screen and says "It's a shared document. I keep it open and just type random stuff every now and then so my advisor thinks I'm working." - a voice out of frame says "Brilliant!"

I won't tell you which side of this comic I was on when I thought of it...

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2 weeks ago

And while you're at it subscribe to my substack where I always post content about the comics I draw - sometimes quite long - almost never boring.
open.substack.com/pub/redpenbl...

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3 weeks ago

ICYMI

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3 weeks ago

WIP based on the photo here that my wife took on her (current) trip through Gujarat in India.

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3 weeks ago

I'd like to report that I'm in this post and I don't like it.

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1 month ago

A cartoon with a series of nested boxes (ToDo lists) looking like overlapping pages: outer box is labeled 'My BIG ToDo List' with the start of a list under the next box, 'Monthly ToDo List', and another start of a list covered by, 'Weekly ToDo List', where the list is covered by 'Daily ToDo List' then 'ToDo- hourly', then 'ToDo by minute', then 'This Second', then the top tiny box/paper in the middle is in red 'NOW! 1) DO, 2) IT, 3) !!!'

My executive function be like...

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1 month ago

Check out my substack on weird zombie AI cartoons and the deeper meaning of creating art.

open.substack.com/pub/redpenbl...

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1 month ago

I'm just gonna say without having seen said papers: 1000% better than AI-drawn 'figures' (uuuugggggghhhhhhhhh!)

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1 month ago

Here's a new addition to my still lifes (lives?) - and a photo of the subject after 3 weeks of posing for me. Pooor eggy

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1 month ago

Compbio Asia

Please spread the word:

We invite applications to a two-week Computational Biology workshop in Singapore, June 14-27.

This NSF-funded workshop brings together 16-20 US grad students with international peers.
Apply by March 21: compbioasia.net
🧵 Details below:

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1 month ago

I started offering career advice to two junior colleagues today in separate meetings, and both times I caught myself thinking that, if I'm honest, I don't have very good advice on navigating the current funding and job climate. I think it's important to say that no one does.

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1 month ago

(actually I don't. at all. I can't even joke. ugh)

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1 month ago

I, for one, welcome our new AI meme overlords

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1 month ago

a man with a beard is being asked what is your favorite colour Alt: a man with a beard is being asked what is your favorite colour

Blue! No goooooollllllld.......

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1 month ago

Blue or gold, Jason? BLUE OR GOLD?????

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🫠

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1 month ago

Grandpa, tell us about the Old Memes.

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1 month ago

Getting old makes me as mad as 30 to 50 feral hogs

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1 month ago

A cartoon with a woman in a labcoat looking in a microscope saying "The best part of science is knowing, for a moment, something that nobody else in the world knows."

Still true

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1 month ago

Comic showing three panels at the top with a large underlay 'panel' at the bottom (it doesn't have any borders and underlays the other panels to a small extent). The first panel is a figure pushing a large boulder up a hill saying 'unhhh!', second panel, still pushing but getting slightly dark. Another figure stands above the boulder on the hill 'What are you doing?' firrst figure 'Pushing this rock up this hill... but it'll just roll back down anyway'. Third panel, now more dark first figure leans against the boulder holding it in place, second figure says 'Well, if it's going to roll back anyway why don't you come watch the sunset with me?' - bottom, two figures sitting side-by-side on a hill looking at a beautiful sunset. One figure says 'that's nice' - the other 'it really is'. @redpenblackpen- artist

Take a break whydontcha?

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1 month ago

Reminder that I have a substack and occasionally post semi-coherent screeds on academia and science. Please read me.
open.substack.com/pub/redpenbl...

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1 month ago

I didn't have the heart to post a point-flying-by meme

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1 month ago

right? Apparently that's the ancient times when no one has any memory

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1 month ago

I made a large boulder the size of a small boulder comment on a video of WSDOT blowing up a large rock and got only serious replies. My heart aches for the younger generation who don't have the kwality memes

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