@tfenne.bsky.social
Bioinformatician, Leader, Founder @fulcrumgenomics.bsky.social https://www.fulcrumgenomics.com
Today we feature a teammate whose way of thinking connects games and science. It’s that mix of strategy and lightness that makes working with him such a pleasure. By the end we hope you’ll feel like you’ve met us — or want to.
Meet Zach Norgaard: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/meet-zach-...
10th Anniversary Core Values blog series: Valuing People
Valuing People is one of our deepest commitments: to ourselves, to our team, and to our clients. Life is messy—just like biology. When life gets complicated, we don’t look away. We step in.
Read More: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/core-value...
@nilshomer.com, Yossi Farjoun and I will be attending ASHG in Boston this year on behalf of Fulcrum Genomics. Let us know if you'll be there too!
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We're attending ASHG in Boston this October - if you're going too, let us know!
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Just released Sassy 0.1.4, which now supports macos/arm NEON instructions :)
Also some smaller fixes by @tfenne.bsky.social.
github.com/RagnarGrootK...
We love working with people who notice how things fit together, who make unwieldy problems work better. The 'Meet the Team' series spotlights humans behind our bioinformatics work. We hope you'll feel like you've met us — or want to. Meet Erin McAuley: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/meet-erin-...
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We’re lucky to work with people who are not just skilled, but thoughtful, curious, and quietly surprising. This series of short interviews offers a window into who we are. By the end, we hope you’ll feel like you’ve met us — or want to. Meet Ted Brookings: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/meet-ted-b...
03.06.2025 20:24 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A Penzeys Spices promo for chicken taco seasoning that says "Chicken T.A.C.O! No reason. Just saying." With a bunch of percentage discounts corresponding to previously proposed tariffs crossed off
Never change, Penzeys
31.05.2025 13:09 — 👍 2099 🔁 433 💬 37 📌 25I have the power?
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Fulcrum Genomics logos forming a gold star
We believe in leaving things in a better state than we find them. Founding Partner @tfenne.bsky.social shares how our team contributes back to the open source ecosystem, strengthening the foundations on which many scientific and technical projects are built.
blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/recent-ope...
Our people are our greatest asset — sharp, thoughtful, and pretty fun to get to know. We have short interviews on our blog to offer a view of each of our colleagues. By the end, we hope you’ll feel like you’ve met us — or want to.
Please meet Jason Fan: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/meet-jason...
Nice blog post by @charlottetolonen.bsky.social from a couple of weeks ago about how to use conda for #bioinformatics without running afoul of anaconda licensing:
blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/anaconda-l...
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
25.04.2025 15:32 — 👍 60393 🔁 20697 💬 600 📌 832
Welcome to all our new followers! 💚
23.03.2025 13:24 — 👍 33985 🔁 5304 💬 399 📌 211We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
20.03.2025 01:14 — 👍 60951 🔁 14029 💬 1413 📌 669fqgrep release 1.1.0 now speeds up searching FASTQ files!
Thank-you to both Markus Schlegel from @activegroupgmbh.bsky.social for updating seq_io and Nicholas D. Crosbie of grepq for some competition and inspiration.
See more: github.com/fulcrumgenom...
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
SOTU seats are not assigned. There are general seating areas for each body (House, Senate, SCOTUS,etc) but there are honored seats for each party’s leadership and they’re even trying to squat those.
If it doesn’t sort out, be aware you may see applause on both sides of the aisle but they may be GOP
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.
This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
RNA xkcd.com/3056
26.02.2025 14:58 — 👍 17911 🔁 2570 💬 155 📌 171Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.
23.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 10791 🔁 2622 💬 172 📌 167If you have bioinformatics challenges, or would like to learn more about what Fulcrum does, please reach out to me or Nils.
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Fulcrum Genomics will be at AGBT, February 23-26 2025. Let's talk!
Excited to be headed to AGBT later this month, and looking forward to reconnecting with all the people I haven't seen in person in years!
13.02.2025 16:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
31.01.2025 04:54 — 👍 37803 🔁 9959 💬 862 📌 356Why @americanexpress.bsky.social, do I have to pick up a phone, get bounced around hold menus and CSRs, and then listen to someone recite the benefits of my card ... just to close the account?!
28.01.2025 22:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If Trump doesn't reverse course, millions could lose healthcare, food assistance, childcare, and even emergency services.
We've heard reports of Medicaid portals being shut down and childcare funds being frozen. Trump is steering the US into a disaster of his own making.
Donald Trump gave us a bunch of broken promises—oh, sorry, I mean lies—and now we’re all stuck paying for it. Rule of law is being TRAMPLED, families are being TORN APART, and it's only been a WEEK.
Is there a grade lower than an F?
Is the "temporary pause" of disbursement of all federal grants/loans an unlawful impoundment? It almost certainly is. A brief 🧵
28.01.2025 02:06 — 👍 1124 🔁 455 💬 27 📌 43Pete Hegseth’s confirmation will make our nation less safe.
It is a sad and dangerous day when Republican Senators put loyalty to President Trump ahead of our national security.
