Páll Melsted

Today I found out that the Pacbio tools for working with barcodes and adapters in Kinnex are called lima and skera. To whomever came up with that joke, I salute you, you’ve reached 50% of the audience

Retracting a paper is going to hurt

All right, I posed this question to my PhD student this morning and he looked at me funny and asked if it was a trick question

What is the running time of this code

a, b = 0, 1
for _ in range(2, n+1):
a, b = b, a + b
return b

Happy Q4 for those who celebrate

Today I fixed a humming converter and an intercom receiver set from the 70’s. I’m surprised at how good ChatGPT is at diagnosing problems and coming up with fixes for hardware that is older than me. Since I didn’t have to replace the units I can justify the cost and environmental impact of AI

The Genome Informatics conference (@ Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Nov 5 - 8) abstract deadline is **today**. We welcome your submissions! Topics include:
- PanGenomes
- Genome Assembly & Seq. Algos.
- Algorithmic Evo. Bio
- Single Cell & Spatial Omics
- Microbial Genomics
- AI/ML & Integrative Omics
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Glengarry Glen Ross

It is by the juice of coffee that thoughts acquire speed …

Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Genetics The research group of Oliver Stegle looks for a postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative project with GSK with the goal to apply computational methods to investigate the effects of rare variant...

Job alert: Join us for a postdoc in AI in genetics at @EMBL Heidelberg! Great collaboration with @Adrian Cortes @GSK, aiming to develop new tools to elucidate genetic effects using population-scale cohorts and single-cell readouts. Please share!

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I misread that as “message” which would have been more impressive 🚩

Epistemic failure of epistemic failure Earlier this year I came across this interesting post by mathematician Daniel Litt, where he pondered how many intrinsically true results in mathematics have been published with erroneous proofs: D…

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I have an opportunity to hire a staff scientist for my lab. Looking for someone with outstanding skillset in ML/statistics, genomics applications; interest in mentoring, strong publication record, PD experience required.

Email CV to me+cc my assistant (see 'contact' on my website). Ad to follow.

I had Ágætis byrjun on repeat for a long time. Just happened upon this on Spotify the other day and I’d forgotten how good it was

In Iceland spring is not something you define as season based on weather but more from the arrival of migratory birds

For me it’s kind of in the same category as woodworking videos that create beautiful custom tables from slabs of oak. Looks great and maybe someday I can use this.

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I actually learned something new here

My favorite brainrot is an account on TikTok that solves complicated integrals on a blackboard with colored chalk.

When you refresh to see new posts you lose where you were. This is the only thing I miss about twitter

There is something refreshingly honest about moving the goalpost this blatantly. Adjusting for multiple testing? Not in my house ☝️

Join our lab to study transcriptional regulation in mouse germ cells and embryonic stem cells at @haskoliislands.bsky.social in beautiful Reykjavík!
Apply here: tinyurl.com/34y6jcrd
#epigenetics #TranscriptionFactors #transcriptomics #stemCells #pluripotency

Hold my mead. 1200 from Iceland

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Today I gave a lecture in a brand new lecture hall where the projector was acting weird. Turned out that the control panel showed green for when the projector was off, you had to press the button wait 10 seconds and then it turned red.

I think this should be a case study in UI design

Periodic cooking of eggs - Communications Engineering Emilia Di Lorenzo and colleagues propose an approach to address the energy transport problem of cooking the albumen and yolk of a boiled egg at their optimal temperatures without separation. By altern...

I might need to replicate this paper www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Somehow I would be more confident that the Tesla could drive autonomously if the auto mode on the windshield wipers worked.

Ironically this is the best content on that other place

Beautiful polar stratospheric clouds today

Acceptable substitutes are The Hours, The Four Seasons, and Succession (season 2).