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Michael Nelson

@nels42

Bioinformatics PostDoc in the @profshubbard lab. Curator of @TE_papers.

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Joined April 2011
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Matthew Gill@RadiationGuy19 Aug 2022
Our Astra Spacecraft Engine™ ignited on its 1st attempt on Aug 20, 2021 aboard @SpaceflightInc’s Sherpa-LTE all-electric OTV. It recently surpassed its 300th on-orbit burn. In honor of the 1 year anniversary, here's a thread of what we've learnt:
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McClintock: An Integrated Pipeline for Detecting Transposable Element Insertions in Whole Genome Shotgun Sequencing… dlvr.it/PPkCG8
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PeerJ Publishing@thePeerJ26 Jan 2017
RelocaTE2: a high resolution transposable element insertion site mapping tool for population resequencing peerj.com/articles/2942/
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Thousands of studies used the wrong cells, and journals are doing nothing statnews.com/2016/07/21/stud… Our latest for @statnews – at Fort Collins, CO
Thousands of studies used the wrong cells, and journals are doing nothing

Thousands of studies used the wrong cells, and journals are doing nothing

As many as a third of cell lines scientists use are contaminated or misidentified — calling into doubt the results of thousands of studies.

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Hey, you sass that hoopy Mike Nelson? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is. #TowelDay
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I just backed A New Album of Otway Songs on @Kickstarter kck.st/1QJ8vWV @john_otway
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Replying to @newscientist
.@newscientist Sounds more like why science needs more funding for collaborations...
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raquel@raqueldsl9518 Nov 2015
More 379 votes to go ideas.lego.com/projects/9390…
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The stegosaurus has arrived @raqueldsl95
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Science has failed to craft career paths for the bioinformaticians it increasingly requires ow.ly/LnGw5
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Thanks to a flurry of activity this weekend, my twitterbot @TE_papers is now more popular than I am!
Apparently Charles Darwin now follows my twitterbot, @TE_papers. This is a big day for my science...
Adventures with R, the free statistics & visualization software ow.ly/GN8iU @raqueldsl95
So @jdwtweet have run out of poached eggs but not scrambled eggs. How?
Punishing people who don't say thank you by saying "you're welcome" as quietly as possible
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A homeopathy company has had to withdraw their products because they might contain real medicine... popsci.com/article/science/h…

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