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Devon Ryan

@dpryan79.bsky.social

An American in Germany, an ion channel guy in bioinformatics, a proponent of scientific skepticism in an irrational world. @devon@genomic.social, @dpryan79 on twitter and github

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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

01.02.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 67378    πŸ” 16129    πŸ’¬ 2575    πŸ“Œ 1832

You’ve opened Pandora’s box. We’ve been spending our weekends taking our kid to cubing competitions.

27.01.2026 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Badenoch tells Starmer to β€˜just get on’ with under-16s social media ban Tory leader says delay will harm children’s mental health after No 10 said it would consult on policy by summer

I really think the net benefit for society is greater if we banned social media for those over 16.

21.01.2026 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 252    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
21.01.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Release Heading into the sunset Β· tseemann/prokka The future This is probably the last release of Prokka. I won't be making any code changes except bug fixes. I will update the databases occasionally. I strongly recommend you use Bakta by @oschwen...

πŸ’Ύ Prokka 1.15.6 is released!

This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to.
#bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics

github.com/tseemann/pro...

15.12.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Big news!

03.12.2025 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🧬 Come check out my poster on agtools, an open-source Python framework for analysing and manipulating assembly graphs at #ABACBS2025 Poster #106
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πŸ’» Github: github.com/Vini2/agtools
πŸ“„ Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

25.11.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

End qualified immunity.

29.10.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PubMed is running on autopilot during shutdown, but key independent committee has been abolished www.bmj.com/content/391/... πŸ§ͺ

22.10.2025 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, β€œin America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

22.10.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5680    πŸ” 1658    πŸ’¬ 99    πŸ“Œ 121

You know you work for a software company when the description of meeting room names in your new office comes with regex that they will all follow.

21.10.2025 06:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our new preprint is up! This is the main postdoc work of @wiesner-t.bsky.social focusing on exocytosis along the axon shaft and its regulation by the sub membrane actin-spectrin scaffold: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Read the thread below for a summary of our findings 🧡1/11

17.09.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5
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New blog post – A quick look at Roche's SBX
lh3.github.io/2025/09/11/a...

12.09.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Now published in GigaScience with minor improvements: academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

* Download: zenodo.org/records/1490...
* More info: github.com/lh3/panmask

04.09.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
"Did you know the mighty redwood is actually the same species as brocoli and kale ? it's just a different cultivar"

"Every year or two, botanists add another plant to Brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them on it"

"Did you know the mighty redwood is actually the same species as brocoli and kale ? it's just a different cultivar" "Every year or two, botanists add another plant to Brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them on it"

Plants phylogeny is a mess anyway

Credit : @xkcd.com

27.08.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 703    πŸ” 148    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 16
A picture of William Adams, from the TV show Battlestar Galactica, with the quote:
"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

A picture of William Adams, from the TV show Battlestar Galactica, with the quote: "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

Always relevant.

10.06.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My 6th grader is doing a survey for ethics class on the concepts of happiness and luck (or GlΓΌck for the German speakers). If you have a few minutes to submit your thoughts she’d appreciate it. docs.google.com/forms/d/1y2b...

27.05.2025 06:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Plot of life expectancy after Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, 1850-2025. 

After the discovery of insulin in 1921, life expectancies go gradually from zero to seventy years.

Plot of life expectancy after Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, 1850-2025. After the discovery of insulin in 1921, life expectancies go gradually from zero to seventy years.

These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years.

It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 β€” not some fucking cooking class β€” that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.

26.05.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3891    πŸ” 720    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 29

I’m overwhelmed by the expressions of sympathy and support.

And still this pales in comparison to what they are doing to immigrants and to undermine the Bill of Rights.

If you could do one thing for me, call your representatives and demand accountability for their white supremacist terrorism.

30.04.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 521    πŸ” 83    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2

This seems like a good thing. Are we aloud to have good things? I feel like this is going to turn into a Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football sort of situation.

25.04.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Were you able to screenshot that? All I see is β€žblockedβ€œ.

16.04.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone want to go in on an industry collab to fund this?

16.04.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've seen enough. Donald Trump is not abiding by a lawful Supreme Court ruling. As a member of Congress, I fully support impeaching him. NOW.

16.04.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1587    πŸ” 309    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 24
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How is this Python package real pypi.org/project/tari...

15.04.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Cruel Fate, 1525: Our cow died during the night. We will surely perish.

Cruel Fate, 2025: Our Keurig stopped working during the night. We will surely perish.

13.04.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2044    πŸ” 132    πŸ’¬ 86    πŸ“Œ 9

That’s a wild backdoor…

13.04.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Burn

10.04.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have yet to see a boring thread from you…

03.04.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone needs to do a dramatic reenactment of this

03.04.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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