Elizabeth Hutchins

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.

He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

Listen to more classical music. For every like, I shall recommend a good recording.

(I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)

My quote of the day

…But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

Vannevar Bush
Science: The Endless Frontier

Lovely talk from Ursula Sandau. Love to see sex differences explored in #AlzheimersDisease research, and thorough follow-up of miR target analysis. @doctorjewel.bsky.social #ADPD2025 #extracellularvesicles #extracellularRNA

Erez Eitan from Neurodex presenting at AD/PD 2025. Summary slide with Erez Eitan presenting shown.

Nice talk by Erez Eitan at Neurodex on neuron derived EVs from plasma. #ADPD2025 #extracellularRNA #extracellularvesicles

Yep same here... I'm optimistic that as more people have to give it a shot and adapt over here, hopefully it will gain traction. Can't bear to be in the bad place anymore myself

Thank you! Loving it here. 😁 Haven't been to a conference in a bit so excited to engage here

Excited to be at #ADPD2025 in Vienna, which is my first conference over here on Bluesky.

GitHub - nh13/ruamel_yaml_line_info: Line information for ruamel.yaml. Line information for ruamel.yaml. Contribute to nh13/ruamel_yaml_line_info development by creating an account on GitHub.

I just wanted to know where I messed up my YAML file and now I am maintaining a new package.

github.com/nh13/ruamel_...

AGBT plenary? Yes!!! So happy for you, that's awesome!

Lovely! A little bit earlier was Margaret Dayhoff’s Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure. It has all the sequences printed together 😉 and some lovely structures, the definition of mutation data matrices and sequence databases. 1st edition was 1965

40 years ago all of Genbank was published in print form by NAR. The same format today would require over 4 light seconds of shelf space. To a year of progress in 2025.

Huge performance update in today’s dorado v0.9.1 release on Ampere 8.6/8.7 & Ada Lovelace 8.9 nvidia GPUs with up to 2x increase in throughput with hac calling and 3x sup! 🚀

Plus a whole bunch of updates for dorado polish and the odd misc bug fix.

github.com/nanoporetech...

Release v0.9.0 · nanoporetech/dorado [0.9.0] (16 Dec 2024) This major release of Dorado introduces several new features and enhancements. The polish command, currently experimental, is optimised for refining draft assemblies of human ...

🎄 New Dorado release (v0.9.0) – and it's big!

🚀 Dorado polish command (experimental) for improving draft assemblies – faster & more accurate than Medaka
⚡ Faster modified base calling models
🔧 Usability & accuracy improvements: PolyA, Barcoding, 6mA calling

github.com/nanoporetech...

This is figure 1, which shows the dynamics of crocodile head-scale development.

A study in Nature reports that the distinctive pattern of scales on the face and jaws of crocodiles is formed by a precise mechanical process of skin folding. https://go.nature.com/4ffbM3l 🧪

Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train them.

"Publishers selling papers to train AIs" was perhaps not the direction I was hoping to see the already questionable scientific publishing scheme take 🧪 🌍 #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM

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