Heh.

#SeenOnReddit What are the most useful cutting edge tools I should learn for bioinformatics?

Current most upvoted answer: awk

Turns out, cutting-edge bioinformatics is mostly about crunching huge amounts of data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics/comments/12yg9ok/what_are_the_most_useful_cutting_edge_tools_i/

* sigh *

#SeenOnReddit I apparently have an #UnpopularOpinion suggesting that computers shouldn't be completely relied on for determining significance:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics/comments/12uslzm/comment/jh8i4yz/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

... or possibly because I have this weird idea that "false positive" should be grounded in reality, rather than be a purely statistical phenomenon based on random fluctuations in simulated data. You can blame that on my experience working in a medical testing lab.

#TeWhanganuiATara #Aotearoa #SeenOnReddit In regards to the light fixture saga, some redditors have suggested that Wellington storm warnings include mention of potential light falls:

"We said light rain, don't say you weren't warned"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellington/comments/12q2qxv/do_the_street_lights_only_fall_down_during_storms/

#GenomeWideAssociationScams #SeenOnReddit I discussed on Reddit briefly how someone could misuse genetic data for racist purposes.

Unfortunately, a similar process is all too common in most GWAS research: first selecting for variants that are more common in white Europeans (i.e. PCA exclusion + minor allele frequency filter), then digging through random noise to find associations with a trait of interest.

Result: a set of SNPs that links white Europeans to that trait.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bioinformatics/comments/12jbe6a/comment/jg0bzk9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

#SeenOnReddit RT @postapocalyscious@reddit.com / @msteenhagen / Jacob Scheier

"Are you opposed to fascist, supremacist thinking? I hope you are. But then just check if, over the past few months, perhaps under pressure from online media or acquaintances or family, you may have made comments or shown behaviour that has health supremacist leanings.... And that’s the problem. Not that we don’t see it, but that we do — and look away."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/12alr9f/comment/jeudqb7/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

#SeenOnReddit #Covid19 sometimes I wonder how much reading people do before responding. This person doesn't seem interested in reading the things they're responding to, let alone the entire thread.

I don't know how many times I'm going to need to repeat myself before the point gets across, but I'm guessing it's going to be a lot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/11sbveo/comment/jceozg6/?context=3

#SeenOnReddit COVID-19 / Long Covid can damage eyes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/covidlonghaulers/comments/11pvsmg/i_have_yet_to_meet_a_single_person_who/

#SeenOnReddit Ever had Long Covid, as a percentage of *all* adults: 14.8%.

Ever had Long Covid, as a percentage of adults who ever had Covid: 33.2%.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/11p5afb/cdc_data_about_long_covid_15/

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/long-covid.htm

#SeenOnReddit "Zombie", "Virus", and "Revive" are three words I'd rather not see in the same sentence, thank you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/11ma7zh/scientists_have_revived_a_zombie_virus_that_spent/

#SeenOnReddit #ChatGPT is great for designing multiple choice questions because it's very good at generating plausible, but incorrect, answers

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11aqfve/comment/j9tkkth/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

#humor #seenonreddit

#SeenOnReddit "Covid taught me that all my friends and loved ones would hide a zombie bite"

My take: Covid taught me that most people would distance themselves from me because I didn't want to get a zombie bite as well.

They are very much not avoiding it like the plague.... Or maybe they are, and they'd welcome the plague with open arms as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/za0kir/comment/iyjusug/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3