The Introduction to #Python course (6th edition) with @passdan.bsky.social is now underway 🚀 We will explore core Python concepts & their practical applications through hands-on coding exercises and real-world projects, strengthening both understanding and confidence in using Python
Daniel Pass
@passdan.bsky.social
Came for the bioinformatics, stayed for the doctor who memes. Bioinformatician @CompassBioinformatics 🦠 & 🖥️🧬 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 (He/Him)
Working with NGS data? Want to start using #Python for analysis? Only 3 seats left in our *Introduction to Python for Biologists* course with @passdan.bsky.social 👉 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Bioinformatics #Genomics
Introduction to Python Programming for Biologists
9-12 February 2026 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
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Learn Python by doing with hands-on projects, live lectures, and interactive exercises —all from 9:00 to 13:00 (Berlin time) with @passdan.bsky.social Ready to start coding in Python for biology? www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Python #Bioinformatics #DataScience #Biology #Programming
Introduction to Python Programming for Biologists
9-12 February 2026 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
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🚀 Intro to Python for Biologists with @passdan.bsky.social 🗓️ 9–12 Feb 2026 | Online Learn #Python tailored for biologists with no prior coding experience. Hands-on projects cover data analysis, #bioinformatics libraries, and #dataviz. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Introduction to Python Programming for Biologists
9-12 February 2026 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Just reviewing my presentation notes before tomorrow and still stand by this
Always love doing this course! Great really interactive environment and lots of engaging questions that keep me on my toes!
Are you a biologist eager to boost your #programming skills? 🧬 Learn how to handle your NGS data using #Python in our upcoming course with @passdan.bsky.social — including an intro to coding in the age of ChatGPT and AI tools! 🚀 www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
We’ve just kicked off the @nextflow.io course with @passdan.bsky.social 🚀 Over the next 3 days, participants will learn how to build, run, and scale reproducible workflows for big data and #bioinformatics — from basics to advanced concepts — using Nextflow across any computing environment. 💻⚡
Learn how to do bioinformatics at scale! Nextflow is incredibly powerful for processing vast datasets in a reproducible way. @nextflow.io
🚀 Only a few seats left! Join our “Introduction to @nextflow.io” course (🗓️ 10–12 Nov) and learn how to build, run, and share scalable bioinformatics workflows with @passdan.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
🚀 The Autumn School in #Bioinformatics has started! This week we’ll cover Genome Assembly & Annotation, RNA-seq, Phylogenomics, Docker, Singularity, Nextflow, Snakemake and much more.. Excited for a week of hands-on learning and bioinformatics fun with @passdan.bsky.social & Christoph Hahn! 🧬💻
The Physalia Autumn School in #Bioinformatics is wrapping up! A big thanks to @passdan.bsky.social & Christoph Hahn for leading a productive week, making complex bioinformatics concepts accessible to all. Thanks to all participants, and best of luck with your future projects! shorturl.at/vCjjR
Great group joining today, looking forward to the week!
💻🐍 Always a thrill to introduce researchers to Python for biological data analysis with @passdan.bsky.social ! From genomes to cells, Python is the backbone of modern bioinformatics—flexible, powerful, and essential. #Bioinformatics #Python
The Introduction to Python course, taught by @passdan.bsky.social , is now fully booked. See you next week! #Python #Programming #NGS #Biology www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Introduction to Python Programming for Biologists
29 September-2 October 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
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Join our Introduction to Python Programming for Biologists online course with @passdan.bsky.social , 29 Sept–2 Oct! With hands-on exercises and projects every day, you’ll leave confident in coding and ready to apply Python to your work. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Introduction to Python Programming for Biologists
29 September-2 October 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
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Come and super charge your bioinformatics with nextflow! I'm literally working with it right now, it's how all the cool bioinforticians work!
Registration is now open for the next edition of the Introduction to @nextflow.io course with @passdan.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Come and super charge your bioinformatics with nextflow! I'm literally working with it right now, it's how all the cool bioinforticians work!
Registration is now open for the next edition of the Introduction to @nextflow.io course with @passdan.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
🧬 Autumn School in Bioinformatics 📅 online, 27–31 October From genome assembly & annotation to RNAseq, phylogenomics, and reproducible workflows with Snakemake, Nextflow, Docker, & Singularity—this course covers it all. @passdan.bsky.social & Christoph Hahn www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Autumn School in Bioinformatics
Dates ONLINE, 27-31 October 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online General Topic: Understanding and Working with Next Generation Sequencing Data
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What an amazing week! Great questions and enthusiasm throughout. Always a pleasure. Follow to know when the next course is happening!
Another amazing edition of the Physalia #Bioinformatics School is wrapping up! Huge thanks to @passdan.bsky.social, Christoph Hahn, and this incredible group of participants. It’s been a great week of learning, sharing, and connecting — hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 💻🧬
Registrations are now open for the next edition of the Introduction to Python for biologists with @passdan.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...
Introduction to Python Programming for Biologists
29 September-2 October 2025 To foster international participation, this course will be held online
physalia-courses.org
A full week of bioinformatics with Christoph Hahn & @passdan.bsky.social , joined by an excellent group of participants from diverse backgrounds—united by a shared curiosity and drive to master data analysis with us! 🔬💻 #Bioinformatics #DataScience
We're missing a few faces in the group photo, but plenty of smiles to wrap up the last day of the Python for Biologists course! 😃 Huge thanks to @passdan.bsky.social and all our attendees for a great week of programming! 👏🐍
🚀 Ready to embark on a week of Python programming with @passdan.bsky.social l! 🔥🐍 Let’s code, learn, and level up!
"I feel ashamed because people agreed to work with me and they’ve been screwed,” says Sharon Hillier... “They signed an agreement that we would provide ultrasounds, syphilis testing, and other things, and we would follow their infants for 6 months. And … we have reneged on this contract."
The cruelty and callousness of what the US government is doing here, the pain it is inflicting, the waste of time and energy and taxpayer money, the risks it is creating are just staggering… #IDsky 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
Coding a software virus into DNA for when it's sequenced is diabolical blade runner level stuff
This is pretty massive, doesn't bode well. Cardiff University to cut 400 staff and drop subjects including nursing and music | Cardiff University | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Absolutely exhausted this morning trying to work, and have just realised that I spent all night dreaming that I was working on incorporating uranium into DNA and the lab work was being "difficult". Real projects are hard enough, I don't need new ones for my dreams 😅