Silas Maniatis

@manimota.bsky.social

Father and scientist. Doing dad stuff in Brooklyn and science at New York Genome Center. 𝘈𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳, 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 @𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧.𝘣𝘴𝘬𝘺.𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 @𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘢 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴

🇪🇺 Meet EuroOffice, Europe’s bold alternative to Microsoft 365, promising sovereignty and control It is based on OnlyOffice and offers a near-like-for-like experience as Microsoft for free. Something for everyone to check out, not only Europeans.

EuroOffice emerges as Europe’s sovereignty‑focused alternative to Microsoft 365

Europe’s biggest tech players debut EuroOffice, a sovereign suite designed to challenge Microsoft 365’s dominance.

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Despite the obvious superiority of fresh-frozen material for genomics, many samples are still stored in FFPE and remain challenging to characterize with Whole-genome sequencing. But here comes our solution:

bioRxiv Bioinfo@biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 5mo ago

An explainable boosting machine model for identifying artifacts caused by formalin-fixed paraffin embedding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.10.710815v1

Khed… this fahkin guy bettah neva show his face neah Hahvahd again. Theyah’s gonna be like 20 doahds named Kennedy come outah Paddy’s Lunch ready foah him. Gonna be fahkin mint seein him have to drink a box o’ Joe to him self when they done with him. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/04/n...

RFK Jr. wants Dunkin’ to prove drinking its iced coffee is safe - The Boston Globe

The warning comes as Kennedy is leaning heavily into his agenda to improve American diets.

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$300 Million in jet planes lost to a fuckup. That’s 83 five year NIH R01 grants burned in minutes due to error, aka poor execution of this unnecessary war which serves only to make the world more dangerous.

As a federally funded researcher, every time I see the now customary start of war videos showing a BGM-109 TLAM launching from the bow magazine of a U.S. DDG at $2.5M a pop (FY 2023), I see a fully funded 5 year flagship NIH R01 biomedical research grant zooming off into oblivion.

OSINTdefender (MIRROR)@sentdefenderx.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) fires a number of BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) from her forward and aft vertical launching systems, against targets in Iran, in support of Operation Epic Fury. Original post

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed E.O. 9066, authorizing the forced relocation & incarceration of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans, solely because of their heritage.

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"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/

A young Fred KorematsuA photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years