Postdoc at @humantechnopole working on genomes prior @GenomeDataLab + @UW

Milan
Joined May 2010
wow static-typing!
Nextflow 26.10 is here! 🚀 Static typing is now stable, and a year of language work comes together to make your pipelines composable, reusable building blocks that you (or your AI agent) can verify before a single task runs.🧵hubs.la/Q04zzFlL0
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ok, this was definitely not on my bingo card wtf... seqera.io/blog/agentic-nextf…
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IMHO, one of the biggest disadvantages American postdocs face (compared to international postdocs) is student loan debt. Sure, the minimum salary is the same for everyone, but not having to make hefty loan repayments every month makes a huge difference.
What a fkin joker. There are minimum pay requirements for all postdocs irrespective of whether they are citizens, PRs or any other visa. They are all underpaid EQUALLY! There is no financial advantage to hiring a foreign postdoc. This is so stupid.
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PrintCraft - 114 MB Adobe Acrobat - 1.8GB Crazy to think that we normalized downloading a 1.8 GB monster just to certificate-sign a pdf?
Someone used Opus 5.5 to rebuild 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗯𝗲'𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 from scratch in Rust, and open-sourced all of them. There's one for Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Illustrator and Acrobat. PhotoCraft alone has layers, masks, adjustment layers and layer styles, and it opens and saves real PSD files. It has 500+ commands, and the UI, the CLI and the MCP server all share them, so 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸, 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗼𝗼. Hook it into Claude Code or Codex with photocraft-cli mcp, and hand your agent a whole folder of images to color-grade, sharpen and export in one batch. A week after going open source, PhotoCraft already has 𝟰,𝟱𝟬𝟬+ 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘀, and Claude Opus 5.5 shows up as a co-author in its commits. github.com/storytold/photocr…
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wow! really cool vizz update for nextflow runs in seqera-tower (@SeqeraLabs 👏🏻)
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How much of the Slovakia (Bratislava) +35% comes from the Austria (Vienna) -5%. From Bratislava airport to Vienna, 1h of train.
In August 2026, there were 708 980 commercial flights in the EU, a 2.3% increase compared with the previous year. Largest annual increases in : 🇸🇰 Slovakia (37.0%) 🇲🇹 Malta (12.4%) Largest decreases in: 🇦🇹 Austria (-4.7%) 🇨🇾 Cyprus (-3.0%) Read more 👉 link.europa.eu/3gRKvg
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who is asking for a protein PCR? like why?
When I read that an internal OpenAI model solved the Navier-Stokes problem, I realized it would be very hard for us to know if that model possesses similar "millennium intelligence" in biology (even if it does!). "Curing disease" is a noble goal, but we cannot validate proposed treatments rapidly enough to use it as a frontline eval for new models. Here, @SGRodriques and I propose Millennium Problems for Biology - meaningful, difficult challenges in biology whose solutions should be straightforward and quick to validate in a wetlab. If a model were to solve any of these, I would know that machine intelligence was capable of fundamentally reshaping humanity's ability to make, measure, and model biology. Please see details of the problems in the thread below, and see our website for the permanent home of the list. I encourage the community to red-team these challenges to make sure they are adequately specified and difficult to cheat, and propose additional challenges to add. We will subsequently update the list in response to feedback.
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So excited about Anthropic’s release of MHS. Read how Zihao Song got multiple devices in our lab talking to one another, including coordinating a plate dispense and handoff using a robotic arm. A cathartic experience for anyone who has dealt with lab automation!
Today, we're kicking off the first phase of the research preview for Model Hardware Standard (MHS): a new standard for AI agents to safely operate physical equipment in scientific research and advanced manufacturing. Read more: anthropic.com/news/model-har…
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Des que en @jordimash em va preguntar "per què no?", fa mesos que programo en català amb Claude. Cap diferència respecte a fer-ho en anglès, i a vegades m'atreveixo amb transcripció de veu i tot
🤖 Claude és una de les intel·ligències artificials que millor es defensa en català. L’Arnau Font (@senyorfont) explica com pot crear eines, analitzar documents i ajudar-te a treballar sense necessitat de programar. #Català #IA @llenguacatalana @mantincelcatala
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the scale of this plot...
What was the number of tourism nights per inhabitant in your region in 2024❓ The highest EU numbers were in: 🇬🇷 Notio Aigaio (127.2 nights spent per inhabitant) 🇬🇷 Ionia Nisia (102.6) Lowest in: 🇫🇷 Mayotte (0.5) 🇵🇱 Mazowiecki regionalny (0.7) More 👉 link.europa.eu/YWmHPK
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Honestly, a great victory for European unification. Unthinkable some years ago, a sizeable majority of European (right-wing) leaders claiming the border of a tiny Spanish exclave in Africa as their own border.
Together with the leaders of 🇱🇻 🇪🇪 🇮🇹 🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇬🇷 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 🇸🇪 🇩🇰 🇧🇬 🇫🇮 🇭🇺 🇷🇴 🇸🇮 🇭🇷 🇲🇹 🇨🇾 🇳🇱 🇩🇪, I have addressed @eucopresident @vonderleyen and @MichealMartinTD on the situation at the EU's external border in Ceuta. We are determined to prevent smugglers from challenging the integrity of our external borders. We cannot allow illegal entry, the instrumentalisation of migration or other hybrid threats to create the perception that illegal entry into the EU can turn into legal stay. Europe must respond swiftly, effectively and in a coordinated manner. Protecting our external borders, preventing illegal migration and supporting Member States under pressure are our shared European responsibility.
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(I) is just perfect 👌
What will the new euro banknotes look like?💶 The @ecb is redesigning euro banknotes and citizens all across the EU are invited to take part in the survey to help decide on the final look. You have time until 21 September 2026 to share your opinion: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/ne…
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“Boston isn’t a real city” okay but can you name a more iconic urban design failure than Boston’s famous North-South station disconnect? Name me another major city with two primary transport/rail hubs that are not themselves connected by rail in any way, I’m waiting!
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wow! bertical notes with birds! 🔝
Ten selected design proposals for the next series of euro banknotes have been unveiled. Explore the proposals and tell us which ones you prefer. Have your say surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/ec…
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Dani Olmo amb la bandera de Terrassa, ambiguetat politica de manual
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god bless @mikker honestly
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The tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology. The discovery of a new nitrogen-fixing organelle could change the way we eventually grow food. grist.org/science/nitrogen-c…
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maybe they spent 6bn$ in sales and marketing, but it was worth it
Introducing GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction. Rolling out in ChatGPT starting today. You’ll want to turn the sound on for this one.
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I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review: open.substack.com/pub/blekhm…
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The reason why the shape of a lot of pianos looks like an exponential is because for waves on a string, doubling length means reducing a music pitch by an octave (2x the frequency).
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