

Nikolay Markov @[email protected]
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@nsmarkov
Doing analysis of (sc)RNA-seq and more in pulmonary diseases at @NM_lung. Infrastructure, visualisation, photography, beginner jazz piano














@lpachter I'm confused: why did you use `sc .tl.pca(adata, n_comps=2)` in your notebook? Who keeps 2 PCs before doing UMAP? If the point of your exercise is to follow the most standard Scanpy workflow, then keep 50 PCs (n_comps=50), which gives this structureless blob:






The just-announced U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization represents a stunning reversal of precedent that inserts government into the personal lives and health care of Americans. nej.md/3Aa5cKe

I've heard a lot of people in events and things over the past few weeks calling for a 'western information warfare'. Whilst I understand the sentiment (and the frustration) there are two big, linked reasons why it wouldn't ever work. 1. You don't fight the kind of illicit...






These Russian soldiers conjecture that the Americans have invented a language in which Ukrainian words are written in the Latin alphabet. The soldiers are clearly clueless that they are holding a Polish RPG-76 Komar (Mosquito). Absolutely unbelievable.

When we say Kyiv is winning the information war, far too often we only mean information spaces we inhabit. Pulling apart the most obvious RU info op to date (as we did using semantic modelling), very clear it is targeting BRICS, Africa, Asia. Not the West really at all.


If information really is a theatre of war (as a writer I find that idea entirely distressing) then attention is probably the closest thing there is to 'territory' that can be won, lost, swapped, contested and basically occupied.

