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@jpsenescence @priyanka1009 @zoya_ooq @LivuniILCaMS @livuninews Right we figured it out, you just have UPenn on some sort of blacklist. We can access it off campus.

@ITMATbioinf @priyanka1009 @zoya_ooq @LivuniILCaMS @livuninews Yes, the link is working for me.

New version of GeneFriends co-expression tool with >40,000 human RNAseq samples and >30,000 mouse samples. The resulting whole-genome co-expression maps inc. protein-coding and non-coding genes as well as different transcripts. #genomics #bioinformatics genefriends.org

Triangles have four edges - a fact which evaded humanity until 1993. One day this will have practical implications. youtube.com/shorts/cFd2c5t…

Just stumbled across this memo sent around the math department of Johns Hopkins when I was there in 1997. Only in the math department!

Ridiculously good intro to cellular biology. Phenomenal visuals, clear explanations. I have all new bioinformatics postdocs read it. amazon.com/Cell-Visual-To…

@Kyle_Ireton Oh brother, not another phony p-value iconoclast. I'm a staunch believer in p-values. The real mistake people make is interpreting a non-significant p-value as evidence that the Null is true. Every day every day every day.

@ScienceYael Good story. I quit high school after the 9th grade. My classmates expected to see me pumping their gas. But when they showed up to University they found me a year ahead of them and getting straight A's.

9 years ago I failed to graduate highschool, had yet to get my GED, 3 therapists had given up on me, & the general consensus was that joining the military MIGHT give me a chance. I feel so lucky to be where I am today - a “rising star” in neuroscience. See you soon, Utah!

@ajordannafa "Scientific" journals come in two flavors. Legitimate ones and predatory ones. The latter being the overwhelming majority at this point.

I personally do not like when teachers bring their personal lives to the classroom. I had an Anthropology professor who would spend 20 minutes telling us about her parking ticket or whatever, and then would give a superficial treatment of the material since she'd run out of time. Every day. She seemed to forget she was teaching and acted like she was some sort of celebrity on a talk show. Laughing and entertained by herself. But the students generally liked her because she made the class ridiculously easy. She'd give us a short list of things to memorize and regurgitate for the exam. The full semester class didn't have the intellectual content of a one hour episode of NOVA. The emperor wears no clothes.

Been reading and getting more fascinated by introns by the day, I think they're a huge uncharted territory. Some claim introns came early as part of the evolution from RNA-life to RNA/Protein to RNA/Protein/DNA and then bacteria and archaea lost them.

After an intron is excised from a preRNA, how long does it stick around? Is it degraded instantly? Is it possible that excised introns are actually functional in some cases? How could we design an experiment to find out?

@awesomelyteach @teachbk Sheesh, yeah, they don't realize we have to teach in our spare time.

@ITMATbioinf @teachbk I recently had to create a timeline of contacts w a specific student and his mother. In one semester, we’ve had over 51 written/meeting/extra help interactions. The contact is constant.

When I first started teaching, I was left alone most of the time. I had good classroom management and the kids made progress. But no one was invested in me enough to sit down & talk to me about my teaching. I mostly learned from observing other teachers + going to workshops.

@Erdenschimmer @ajordannafa Thanks for the reference I will read it.

@ITMATbioinf @ajordannafa If that were your answer then you would've already made a mistake royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

@jjanetzko @CUAnschutz @CU_BMG @CUCardiology @CUCancerCenter Congratulations on solving the two-body problem, one of the hardest problems in all of science.

Well, it's official. My wife I are both joining the faculty at the University of Colorado @CUAnschutz this summer! I will join the Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics @CU_BMG & she will be joining the Div of Cardiology @CUCardiology and the Cancer Center @CUCancerCenter

@rawsalerts That painting is behind bullet proof glass. All they did was make a big mess.

🚨#BREAKING: Climate activist has attack and thrown soup at the famous Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre Museum, Paris

@ajordannafa I've taught undergrad statistics and this is news to me. The right answer is "it depends".

The wrong way to test that something is not differentially expressed is to do a T-Test (or any kind of two sample test) and get a p-value that's greater than 0.05. If you look out for it you'll see people making this mistake every day.

@teachbk A wise professor of mine once sent me a message that started "I apologize for the length of this message, I didn't have time to write a shorter one."

Economy of language: I became a much better teacher when I learned to say less. Keeping my explanations succinct + chunking information helped me center student voice & give time to practice instead of listening to me talk about it Bonus: I also talk less in meetings now too

@ItaiYanai Well, we sequence genomes left and right, and the only hypothesis that drives that activity is that we're sure we'll discover something, and we always do.

I want to tell you a story about a recent discovery that we made in the lab, because we often argue here whether it’s the data or the hypothesis that comes first. In the case of this discovery, it was definitely the data that showed us something that we completely didn't expect.