Camila Duitama

What is the most exciting bioinformatic research you’ve recently come across? I am interested in people who try to democratize knowledge, helping others and who aren't obsessed with publishing papers and satisfying their own curiosity. I want to find research that matters 👏

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Curious about how antibodies can target Plasmodium sporozoites?

Very happy to see this review out, it means a lot to me to finish my PhD research topic with a nice overview of what is known about how anti-CSP Abs neutralize the parasite in the mammalian host.

Que orgullo haber dedicado más de treinta años a construir la educación pública en Colombia. Aun en el capitalismo se puede ser coherente, se puede tener principios, se puede trabajar por lo colectivo. Se puede hacer y se debe hacer. Un honor ser hija tuya @freddyduitama.bsky.social

A UN report names companies complicit in Israel’s war and genocide on Gaza, including US giants and firms from China to Mexico.

Who are they? aje.io/6sq25k

Naomi Klein on Zionism:

And by this I mean protesting against the genocide in Gaza.

Quién iba a decir que al tecnofeudalismo se le combate apostando por el código abierto.

Fantastic talk today by @ardemp.bskyverified.social at @pasteur.fr. It can’t be any clearer: science *is* political.

Microsoft has sacked Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal after they disrupted the company’s 50th-anniversary event in protest against its ties with the Israeli military, reports the Associated Press news agency.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4wgn3k

Beautiful ☺️

Is perhaps this the only way Western scientists will begin to worry about the humiliating way in which migration laws have been imposed on people from the global south for years and years? This type of treatment is everyday life for many migrants around the world.

science has never been devoid of politics

What on earth is scientific neutrality?

Shoulder Repair Surgery: 8% towards the $8,300 goal. text underneath reads: In the late summer of 2023 I got thrown around by a pair of cops and they injured my left shoulder. That shoulder never got proper medical care and dislocated when I was exercising late in 2024, and in January of this year I got surgery to fix the bad tear in my shoulder labrum. This, of course, put me back in thousands of dollars of medical debt. The amount here is what I need to come up with to pay for the surgery as well as 6 weeks of physical therapy.

Hi! I need help covering the costs of the surgery and PT to repair my shoulder labrum, an injury caused by cops two summers ago. I am very disabled and need help again to get out of my medical debt. Help me out if you can and please share if you can’t? (link below)

Late killing of Plasmodium berghei sporozoites in the liver by an anti-circumsporozoite protein antibody A late-neutralizing monoclonal antibody targeting the major surface antigen of plasmodial sporozoites impairs the fitness of intracellular parasites, offering mechanistic insights to guide the develop...

Curious about the Late killing of Plasmodium berghei sporozoites in the liver by an anti-circumsporozoite protein antibody? doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

NYT full page ad signed by 350 rabbis and several other Jewish people. Text: Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing. (Photo stolen from James Schamus’s Twitter! Thank you, James!)

I am probably on some government lists now but at least I am in good company.

Gulf of Distraction

Flyer for hte Data Labelers Assocation. Event presenters: Eric Mwaura, Dorcas Maundu. Panelists: Joan Kinyua, Ephantus Kanyugi, Michael Asia, Krystal Kauffman

⏰ 18h CET/12pm EST/ 20h EAT

📺 Watch the event live: www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

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Stop appeasing liberal institutions and their so-called universal values.

Finally; the preprint on Cuttlefish 3 is available! This is the most recent in a long line of work led by Jamshed Khan, a recent PhD graduate from my lab. Cuttlefish 3 further improves the efficiency of Cuttlefish 2, while adding support for *colored* compacted de Bruijn graphs. 1/x

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

Feminist tech starter pack

Code on how these words are being removed

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GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases.

A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.

🔗 www.404media.co/forbidden-wo...

Exclusive: how NSF is scouring research grants for violations of Trump’s orders The US National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil.

Tribal Leaders, Tribal Orgs, Indigenous peoples around the world. NativeBio is a safe port in the storm. Reach out. We will listen. www.nature.com/articles/d41...