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Now here’s a blast from my past: the 1996 Warwick University undergraduate prospectus - in those days UK universities printed and gave out masses of these to entice student applicants! #WarwickUni
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Do you use DNA approaches to monitor plant pests or pathogens in the UK?
Fill in Beth Moore’s survey on using DNA technologies for pest and pathogen monitoring & option to sign up to be a part of focus group https://hutton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41Omm1Snngk5XCK?Q_CHL=qr
The survey is being run as part of the plant health centre project PHG2028_01 at #JamesHuttonInstitute
#eDNA #EnvironmentalDNA
📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
0.4%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: From ‘yenraelmao’ on Reddit #bioinformatics that hints at how so · 7 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
5.7 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.7×
Follows 428 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
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Now here’s a blast from my past: the 1996 Warwick University undergraduate prospectus - in those days UK universities printed and gave out masses of these to entice student applicants! #WarwickUni
I hope #DundeeUni has explored transferring ownership and/or running of the Dundee Botanic Garden to the National Trust for Scotland, or the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh #RBGE which already runs four sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
On this topic for viewing and manipulating tables in the terminal I do like https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv (now archived), which lives on as forks https://github.com/medialab/xan (not tried yet but explicitly handles some bioinformatics…
Today Microsoft #Excel differences on Windows to macOS (missing menus just ribbon) got me thinking: can I not just run a #SpreadSheet in the #Linux #terminal for basic data work and visualisation?
I want something akin to the original text…
The petition to save the Dundee Botanic Garden & Cafe in relation to the #DundeeUni cuts has shared a FOI request reply. The uni claims the garden's finances are commercially sensitive as they explore options (maybe so), and claim not to k…
Interesting read - and AI tools are getting everywhere, even #haskell https://blog.haskell.org/enterprise-haskell-at-h-e-b/
“There's also a new argument forming in Haskell's favor. Coding agents now write a growing share of our code, which…
Do you use DNA approaches to monitor plant pests or pathogens in the UK?
Fill in Beth Moore’s survey on using DNA technologies for pest and pathogen monitoring & option to sign up to be a part of focus group https://hutton.qualtrics.com/jf…
TIL: UK research/policy has often uses the term “stakeholders” for people/groups involved in a topic or place (eg residents), but this is a rather loaded word in post-colonial countries - where invading colonists would stake a claim (steal…
I wonder that there seem to be so few #ISMB2026 posts on here, usually a massive #ComputationalBiology conference, despite a good #bioinformatics pool of posters here.
Is it a Mastodon European skew? And/or privacy/visa/travel fears attend…
Looking for some existing transcriptome datasets (EST), found a recent paper (2025) where they generated some potentially useful data, scanned down to find:
Availability of data and materials
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I hope the author's paper isn't being reviewed by anyone at UniProt as the typo "UniProt-SwillProt" might have touched a nerve - never mind high quality annotations, swill protein is fine 🐷 🤣
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
fediscience.org
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 5.7× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.4% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
#Bioinformatician / #ResearchSoftwareEngineer working in Scotland, initially in plant pathology (including nematodes and Phytophthora). #Python programmer, with a focus on #OpenSource like #Biopython. He/him/his.
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