Noah Reid
@noahreid.bsky.social
Computational Biology Core at the University of Connecticut. Genomics, bioinformatics, evolution. Also nature, natural history. A little too into birding. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IbPpB9sAAAAJ&h
Is there an explainer out there about this? How can you "dismiss charges" against people who have already been convicted? Why is any judge bound to do it? What an insane travesty. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review
White House Faces Stiff Pushback on Subjecting Grants to Political Review (Gift Article)
Academics, city leaders and congressional lawmakers number among the thousands to urge the Trump administration to reconsider a plan to assert more control over grants.
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Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable
Join us July 28–30 for a Virtual ChIP-Seq / ATAC-Seq Workshop! 🧬 📅 10 AM – 2 PM EST 💻 Live on MS Teams + recordings 💰 $600 ($500 UConn affiliates) Register: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/ #ChIPSeq #ATACSeq #Bioinformatics #Workshop
Casual soccer watcher... I have no idea why that just happened. Couldn't follow the announcers. Anyone want to help me out?
Hey team - it’s looking very likely that I’ll be hiring not one but two four year postdocs! We’re a fun lab with tons of theoretical and applied pop gen projects - broadly in polyploid, conservation, and human evo. Competitive salary, sunny San Diego! Do share with your about to defend grads!
I submitted my comment about the OMB rule impacting federal funding today.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last mo.Want to learn about the OMB rule? We gotchu: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... Never written a public comment before? We gotchu: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... Need some moral support? We gotchu (fri @ 2pm et): events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...
How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...
The Best of Both Worlds - Assessing MiniBWA
Recently, Heng Li released MiniBWA (GitHub) alongside a paper by Heng Li and Nils Homer describing the method (paper). MiniBWA builds on the approaches in Minimap2 (also by Heng Li), but falls back on...
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It is so weird that people like the term "upshot", as in "result of an event". It is so close to "upside", as in "the good part of the result of an event". To my ear you sound like a psychopath when you say "the upshot of this policy is that 25,000 people will die preventable deaths".
Bummed to miss #Evol2026. For all those students looking for a position, we're recruiting MS students (polyploid genomics) and a PostDoc (conservation genomics) for next year. Shoot me an email!
Sam Scheiner accepts his @sse-evolution.bsky.social Lifetime Achievement Award by pulling up a slide packed with names of colleagues from his 26 years at NSF, and reminding us to thank federal agency staff and scientists who are still working to support research while going "through hell" #Evol2026
I'm very happy to say that we now have new tools for viewing @nextflow.io log files for both the #CLI and the #VSCode extension! Try it out with the latest Nextflow edge release (26.05.0-edge) after a run: $ nextflow logfile Or open any log file in VSCode with the Nextflow extension installed ✨🌈
Nextflow@nextflow.io · last mo.Nextflow log files are great for debugging, but digging through 1000s of debug lines to find an error can be difficult Introducing new log viewers in the CLI and VS Code extension, with syntax highlighting and log-level filtering to drill down to a few lines of warnings and errors hubs.la/Q04m8s110
I installed the posit assistant in RStudio out of curiosity and in the last 20 minutes it has been just awful. I haven't tried to use it for anything substantive, but it's making all these code/text predictions that are not helpful AT ALL.
Are you worried that the AI tutoring you is feeding you nonsense? Do you suspect its praise of your brilliant questions is... insincere? Allay your fears by learning how to analyze single-cell data from an actual human at our live-taught virtual workshop coming up next week!
Join our Single Cell RNA-seq Workshop on June 23-25! Gain practical skills to analyze and interpret single-cell data. No experience needed! 📅 10 AM – 2 PM ET 💻 MS Teams + recording 💰 $600 ($500 UConn) Register: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/ #RNASeq #Bioinformatics
Kind of staggering to watch another major forest tree species get erased in Connecticut (ashes first and now beeches).
🐪 Animal #1048 🐀 I figured it out in 4 guesses! 🟧🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 4 metazooa.com #metazooa
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Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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Vincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍@devoevomed.bsky.social · 2mo ago🐗 Animal #1048 🐹 I figured it out in 6 guesses! 🟧🟧🟩🟩🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 6 metazooa.com #metazooa
Bob Ricklefs RIP. One of the giants of ecology. His textbooks were the gateway to the field for many students. His papers were invariably thoughtful, well-argued and provocative, even those I disagreed with. 🌏🧪🌐
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Which scientific field would be least comprehensible to a time-traveling scientist from, say, the 1950s? I feel like it's gotta be statistics.
Unexpected expansion and regrowth in Earth’s mangrove forests over the past four decades www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Unexpected expansion and regrowth in Earth’s mangrove forests over the past four decades
Global mangrove forests have disappeared rapidly because of deforestation but have also regrown through natural regeneration and restoration. Yet their long-term trends in extent and canopy cover rema...
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Are you a life scientist? Do you deliver or enroll in short-course professional development. Join our community especially for tomorrow's community call (11AM U.S. Eastern/16:00 UTC) for a panel discussion exploring AI for professional learners: lifescitrainers.org/2026/05/25/a...
AI and Short-Format Professional Development — What We Know and Don’t Know About Learners Outside the Classroom
This community call will explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping short-format training and professional development in the life sciences.
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1. Big data analysis. 2. Oops. Major sample mix up. 3. Figure out what happened. 4. Fix it. 5. Re-do big data analysis. 6. Somehow not fixed. 7. ☠️
Trump administration shuts down deep-sea instruments that monitored climate change for a decade. “By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership,” said a former official. Story by @eniiler.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4voqmxP
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Boston Hollow is a very underrated CT hiking area. I just did 5 miles on the Nipmuck trail/Boston Hollow Rd through incredibly beautiful forest. It's packed with mountain laurel covered in flower buds (maybe a week or two from full bloom?) and heard/saw 14 warbler species. Only saw one other hiker.
I love inaturalist because you can upload a picture of something like a fisher and within three minutes a user named FISHER_FANATIC will confirm the ID.
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
