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A Nanopore ultralong run we just did for Hop! Nearly 110Gb off a single flow cell with the true N50 probably >70Kb. Very excited for this one 🚀🧬 #ONT

somebody said in this age of agentic AI its become easier to write papers.. I don't think it's true (for me). It's become harder... maybe I am doing it wrong. I am seriously worried about AI slop and halucinations.

@silvirouskin I could host the data for you if needed on the bpRNA website!

Guys, this maybe my villain origin story. In the middle of writing 3 grants and a manuscript, our in press Science Advances paper data is about to vanish because the domain auto‑renewed on a canceled corporate card. I could put it on my personal card, but I’m genuinely scared to log in and see my bank account on a negative due to how much lab stuff I’m already bankrolling - an allegedly grown‑up assistant professor at Harvard Med, 2026.

What does Paul McCartney say when making the first cut of a pecan pie? 🎵 "Simply halving a wonderful Christmas pie" 🎵

@wachitas @ABC From what I can tell, it was "traditional Mexican cuisine" that was recognized in 2010, but for Italy it was "entire national cuisine". So Italy was the first for entire national cuisine. supplysidesj.com/supply-chain/u…

@ABC First? Mexican cuisine was recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2010.

Italy is raising a glass and saying "salute" after becoming the first country in history to have an entire cuisine added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list. abcnews.link/tE3X5n3

@mbeisen @HistoryBoomer Not sure what this is about, but gotta go with the mint ice cream with no chocolate chips.

We need a proper scientific poll @HistoryBoomer. Which is a greater threat to America?

Every year @OregonState at the start of Fall quarter, we are greeted by a beautiful Fall Equinox sunset #BeaverHenge

@pastramimachine Yes! Give me big physical buttons and knobs. There is nothing cool about cranking the volume on the radio on a Friday afternoon with a touchscreen

Received two reviews on a paper I am a co-author on that was submitted the @NaturePortfolio Scientific Reports. Both reviews were written by ChatGPT & clearly not edited with hallucinations. Shame on the editors for letting this unethical AI slop out the door.

We are excited to share a new publication w/ @JosephYesselman in @NAR_Open. RNA secondary structure prediction and design typically minimize the global free energy. We show that *local* stability compensation is a powerful RNA design approach 1/4 academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…

Local Stability Compensation presents a bottom-up approach to RNA design, focusing on local interactions, compared to the top-down approach of global free energy minimization. Check out the paper for more! 4/4

Our large design libraries demonstrate that local stability compensation (net free energy of local substructure) correlates with folding accuracy through a Hill equation relationship. 3/4

We hope to apply these methods to identify novel structures and to improve our RNA secondary structure meta-database, stay tuned for bpRNA-hub.

Although it isn't as accurate as our other alignment-based method bpRNA-align, (Published in RNA) it allows us to perform an initial clustering of 100s of thousands of structures, which we can refine, reducing the overall number of calculations rnajournal.cshlp.org/content/29/5/5…

We are excited to share our latest publication, bpRNA-CosMoS, a k-mer based measure of #RNA structural similarity. This method allows us to perform millions of structural comparisons for clustering in a short amount of time. #OpenAccess in #Bioinformatics academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…

.@ProfHendrix photographed this literal ray of spring equinox light shining through the skybridge connecting Cordley Hall and the Agriculture & Life Sciences Building. It’s a phenomenon he’s dubbed “BeaverHenge” because it only happens during the equinox. 🦫✨ Happy spring!

I caught a ray of light through the sky bridge between Ag & Life Sciences and Cordley Hall tonight around 7pm. Although the equinox was two days ago, it still works. It was the first day this week that wasn't too cloudy to see anything @oregonstate.edu #beaverhenge #gobeavs!