Jason Hilton

a man in a suit is standing in front of a bakery display and says just whatever makes sense ALT: a man in a suit is standing in front of a bakery display and says just whatever makes sense

Second, check out Andy Beshear. You may hear a lot more from him in the coming years.
For comparison...

First, a quick guide to visiting Lexington, KY:
1. Wear blue, not red
2. Visit my sister-in-law's coffee shop The Greenery (Erin's the one feeding the Governor Alanis lyrics)

Congrats @tiagolubiana.bsky.social !

Fund scholars who tackle urgent issues — from misinformation to error spotting Scientists who are not tied down by fixed research agendas can pivot nimbly to work where they are most needed. It’s time to build career paths with these researchers in mind.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@cmungall.bsky.social had me at "structured data nerd". Great perspectives from Chris & @anshulkundaje.bsky.social

Right? Can't we enjoy the game in absence of a black box model developed by a TV station that has nothing to gain by practicing statistical rigor but benefits from sensationalism & drama?

Highly recommend Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari. Refreshing take on the potential of AI by relating it to innovations, movements & information systems throughout history.
...so read that, watch The Mitchells vs the Machines, and you should be all set for the Age of AI

Another fun CELLxGENE update from this week: We now support ATAC-seq fragments files. You can download the fragments file for all unpaired scATAC-seq datasets and many multiome datasets. More ATAC-seq features (and data) are coming. Happy #DNADay!

Cellxgene Data Portal Find, download, and visually explore curated and standardized single cell datasets.

Big CELLxGENE news! No longer just human & mouse data.
Now supported: #celegans #zebrafish #drosophila #rat #pig #rabbit and several non-human primates
Please see info on how to contribute data: cellxgene.cziscience.com/docs/032__Co...

"Fortunately, cellxgene classes follow an ontology, a robust structure that defines relationships among the labels." 😍
Very cool to see how they leveraged the ontological relationships to refine many labels!

Asian diversity in human immune cells The Asian Immune Diversity Atlas (AIDA) is a 5-nation single-cell reference atlas of circulating immune cells from healthy donors in diverse populations. AIDA highlights the impact of sub-continental ...

So thrilled to see this incredible study published today. Led by some brilliant & amazing people and without these types of studies, any "human <fill in the blank> cell atlas" is destined to just be a "European/white human <fill in the blank> cell atlas".

The #GENETICS issue is now live! You'll find updates from 6 model organism databases & other knowledgebases including AgBioData Consortium, Candida Genome Database, @yeastgenome.bsky.social, SpudDB, Unified Phenotype Ontology, & @zfinmod.bsky.social.

What's on the cover? ⬇️🧵

Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence The popular repositories, where scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.

A new chapter has begun for two of the world’s most popular preprint platforms, bioRxiv and medRxiv, with the launch of a non-profit organization that will manage them

https://go.nature.com/4iCVnHL

Rare Disease Day

At #ASHG, we recognize the power of #humangenetics & genomics research in advancing rare disease diagnosis, treatment, and advocacy. In celebrating #RareDiseaseDay, let's push the boundaries of discovery and support the millions of people living with rare genetic conditions.

💜🌍 It’s Rare Disease Day! 🌍💜

Tonight, let’s shine a light for the 300 million people living with a rare disease, including Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT).

Join the #LightUpForRare movement @ 7 PM
📸 Share a photo of your lights and tag #LightUpForRare to raise awareness! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvq...

White Paper - Global Biodata Coalition

The Global Biodata Coalition is running community webinars on 26 & 27 Feb to discuss their recent White Paper on biodata resource sustainability and seek feedback. View the White Paper and register for the webinar here bit.ly/40PyQ4p.
#biocuration #database #knowledgebase

Biocuration Community Survey 2025 This survey aims to gather and analyze information about the field of biocuration. This survey is being conducted by the International Society for Biocuration (ISB) to identify potential gaps or ineq...

Prior to the #Biocuration Careers workshop at the #Biocurtation2025 conference, we are conducting a survey of biocurators and data stewards about their jobs. Please respond here: forms.gle/DJ7irabs27em...

Chan Zuckerberg CELLxGENE Discover Find, download and visually explore curated and standardized single-cell datasets

Embarrassed & ashamed to only just now learn it's #LoveDataWeek. Promise to do better next year. Until then, a corpus of 100M+ cells (and growing) of single-cell expression data, all with raw counts & standardized metadata, and all openly available? That's a lot to love. cellxgene.cziscience.com

Wonderful to see @kendraturkkubo.bsky.social & other friends and colleagues from my grad lab get recognized for their incredible work.

Thrilled to share PERFF-seq in its final form, where we expand on its sensitivity, applicability, and more! I’m so grateful for the all-star crew (brought together by @caleblareau.bsky.social) that made this happen!! Read thread below for more! 🎉

Demiltons have discussed some possibilities (mutated bird, splashing whale) but requires further investigation. Please send cut & cooked cookies.

Open science, data sharing, standards, etc. posts will come. But for now, I just gotta say that the fam has been loving Overcooked 2 on the Switch. Highly recommend, especially if you're looking for a safe space to throw tortillas at your spouse & yell at your kid for burning the rice.

Correct, CELLxGENE does not reprocess data. A big reason why contributors are motivated to submit is because the visualization will represent their analysis, their figures, etc.
CELLxGENE does not store any raw sequence data, so that would be kinda a different resource entirely.

I don't feel like I've been on @bsky.app long enough to get name-checked 😅