Ted Laderas
@tladeras.bsky.social
Director of Training/Community at the Data Science Lab at Fred Hutch. Former OHSU, DNAnexus. Posit Data Science Mentor (when I have the time) #bioinformatics, #datascience, #teaching, and #ambientmusic. https://laderast.github.io
I'm sad to say it, but I'm not going to be at #PositConf2026 this year, either in-person or virtually. It has been a long difficult summer, and this time is the only time I was able to find to actually take vacation, given difficult family issues and work transitions. Hope everyone has fun!
My largest app gripe: when app notification badges are wrong. It's like an itch you can't scratch when there's a "1" on the icon and there's no new actual notifications in the app. #makeitstop
I haven't posted in a while because it seems pretty pointless. The algorithm basically shapes our behavior, and I don't want to play. I am pissed that my music on Free Music Archive was used to train BS AI, though. That is a major level of crap. Damn pirates.
Really enjoying this keynote talk by Peter Gruber called "Trust but Verify" about how truth seeking methods can help in assessing AI. Reactivating my philosophical curiosity. #rmedicine2026
My god. Seeing Bob Mould rock it with his band Sugar like 30 years haven't passed. Such energy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQyk...
Sugar Full Set - First Show Since 1995 LIVE | Webster Hall New York, NY | May 2, 2026
YouTube video by Concerts Hub
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Re: Working with AI. The more I work with it, the more that I feel like Sigourney Weaver's character in "Galaxy Quest", whose main job is to talk to the ship's computer:
Has anyone here gotten any paper reviews from reviewer 2.5 (that is, clearly LLM generated)? How bad was it?
I feel we all have to be Blade Runners nowadays. We need to be good at detecting AI content. What I wonder whether this means that we will now reject perfect looking people as AI generated and untrustworthy. Maybe "real" looking people will be considered more trustworthy.
A couple of workshops we've recently given: - Making Code Ready for Publication - Package Management for R and Python Links in the thread. #datascience #rstats #python
This video is resonating with me. I've become more irritable to smaller things as I get older, and it's good to know that my nervous system is recalibrating. youtu.be/195Fb-YnLXo?...
Why Everything Is Starting to Irritate You
YouTube video by Canaries in the Coal Mine
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Always down to the wire. Got my #positconf2026 submission in, hope everyone gets theirs in as well!
@hrbrmstr.dev caught my eye with an issue of his newsletter dedicated to Markdown. Of special interest to is md-browser, which translates webpages to Markdown and is a nice way to get to the actual content. Also really interested in electrobun. dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2026/02/12/d...
Drop #771 (2026-02-12): System Of a [Mark]Down
Today’s Drop introduces md-browse, a markdown-first web browser that converts web pages to clean markdown for better readability. It utilizes electrobun (also covered today) for lightweight c…
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I'll be teaching a short intro to Shiny workshop for @rladiesremote.bsky.social on February 17! Registration details are below, or you can register by going here: meetu.ps/e/PQt4g/ypHs... #shiny #rstats #databs
Building a gallery of nebulas for #tidytuesday astronomy picture of the day with #databot: I parse the dataset, filter the data to nebulas, download the images, and publsih to a gallery. #databs #rstats #datascience youtu.be/m5hUFNuhejw
Databot on Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Another #tidytuesday spent with #databot - this time understanding African languages. This time I work in #python! #databs #datascience youtu.be/Ac3tXWQgaa4
Databot on African Languages
YouTube video by Data Snacks
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Back with the #ready4r newsletter for the new year. I continue working with #databot on #tidytuesday data, talk about being curious about data, and being wrong with analyses. #datascience #rstats #databs buttondown.com/ready4r/arch...
Ready4R (2026-01-08): Being Curious and Being Wrong
We are now in 2026. Happy new year, all. The Courage to be Curious When learners ask me what I look for when hiring a bioinformatician or data scientist,...
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New blog post by @mpadge.bsky.social & Steffi LaZerte: Code Hosting Options Beyond GitHub ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...
Code Hosting Options Beyond GitHub
How to manage and mirror code repositories across different platforms.
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rOpenSci@handle.invalid · 10mo ago[blog] Code Hosting Options Beyond GitHub rOpenSci activities generally rely on a GitHub-based workflow which can exclude users of other repositories. Here, @mpadge explores alternatives to GitHub for hosting code and describes ways in which to do so which also allow you to stay connected with […]
Trying out #databot for exploring endangered languages of the world for #TidyTuesday I know some about spatial analysis using {sf}, so I work with #databot to visualize the data spatially. #rstats #databs www.youtube.com/watch?v=bahM...
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Happy new year to all the #databs #rstats #python #datascience folks. I wish I felt more optimistic but I can at least see some positive things on the horizon.
It's been a long while since I've done a #tidytuesday - did a quick bar plot of the top 10 cities with roundabouts. I used #databot and went pretty fast. I spent about 10 minutes getting the data to this point. Mind is blown. #rstats #databs #datascience
My brain sees all of these "you should give more before the end of the year" emails and it makes me feel like I haven't given enough. This strategy really doesn't seem to work on me.
Trying out #Posit Databot on a dataset I know pretty well (NHANES). I do like how it helps me in my wondering about the data. It's been a while since I've recorded a video, so be gentle. #datascience #R youtu.be/qs2GozYUUOk (Part 1)
Databot on NHANES
YouTube video by Data Snacks
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As a recording artist, I'm asking y'all to #BoycottSpotify. Not because they screw me and other fellow musicians of income. They are running recruiting ads from DHS and ICE. Don't support this BS.
Save the date! Bioconductor 2026 will be held at Fred Hutch in Seattle, WA. #rstats August 10-12, includes a developer day! bioc2026.bioconductor.org Stay tuned for more details, including how to submit abstracts!
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Idly thinking about training-driven development: showing the engineering team how you had to come up with workarounds in training to make their product learnable or even understandable.
TIL: Outlook makes all day appointments look as "Free" on your calendar, so if you schedule vacation, it looks like you're free until you change it to out of office. WTF is up with that default
New post: Controlling IP traffic on your webserver A cool part about having your own webserver is that you get to choose who can visit. When IP addresses try to access sensitive files or aggressively scrape, you can just block them. Here's how. brandonrohrer.com/hosting5.html
If you like dogs and you like horror films, I highly recommend "Good Boy". A great horror film from a dog's perspective. Really refreshing and different, and amazing to see how they shot it with the director's dog, Indy. Note: nothing bad happens to the dog.
Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html
![library(dplyr)
library(gm)
golden <- tribble(
~pitches, ~duration, ~lyric,
"E4", "q", "I’m",
"G4", "q", "done",
"C5", "q", "hid-",
"B4", "q", "-ing",
"D4", "q", "now",
"G4", "q", "I’m",
"E5", "q", "shin-",
"D5", "q", "-ing",
"G4", "q", "like",
"B4", "q", "I’m",
"A5", "q", "born",
"F#5", "q/3*(q/8)", "to",
"G5", "q/3", "be._",
"G5", "h", ""
)
music <-
Music() +
Key(1) +
Tempo(125) +
Meter(2, 4) +
Line(pitches = golden$pitches, durations = golden$duration) +
Tie(13) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[1], 1) + Lyric(golden$lyric[2], 2) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[3], 3) + Lyric(golden$lyric[4], 4) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[5], 5) + Lyric(golden$lyric[6], 6) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[7], 7) + Lyric(golden$lyric[8], 8) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[9], 9) + Lyric(golden$lyric[10], 10) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[11], 11) + Lyric(golden$lyric[12], 12) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[13], 13)
show(music)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2zcfjzyocp6kapg6jc4eacok/bafkreibtyn3pj42roxnclhguomtm5o4n2rdvgf4m3o4bikcrs3snaez3py)
It's Bandcamp Friday (which means that 100% of your purchases go to me), and I'm releasing a new live album called *I play better when no one's watching*. Soothing ambient music written for an art fellow's reception: Check it out here: ooray.bandcamp.com/album/i-play...
I play better when no one's watching, by The OO-Ray
10 track album
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