A slightly abstract painting of a pair of women wearing blue lab coats working in the laboratory with the the shape of a DNA helix between them.
A painting I made as appreciation for all the work our public health labs do! With a subtle nod to genomics as a part of that ☺️
#publichealth #art #watercolor
It is certainly reasonable to question exactly how helpful covid boosters are for younger people, but the new FDA policy goes beyond that...
hsph.harvard.edu/news/new-cov...
I am very excited to share that we have a publication describing the State Public Health Bioinformatics (StaPH-B) Docker container project!! 🧬🖥️ Amazing work by the community and a special thanks to the co-authors who keep this project going!!
#Bioinformatics #StaPH-B
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Just finished a proof-of-concept using an LLM (Anthropic Claude) to connect genomic metadata fields from an internal LIMS system to NCBI's BioSample and SRA submission templates.
A fantastic collaboration between Cal Poly, AWS, DCLS, and WSLH!
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#bioinformatics
Watercolor painting of an owl with a variety of red and brown tones in a loose style
Saturday Morning Owl Painting
#art #watercolor #owl
A watercolor portrait of an older man with grey hair and beard feeding a seagull
It's been a bit since I've had the emotional bandwidth to be creative but it felt good to paint this
#art #watercolor
Did all the disks fail at the same time? I've heard of that happening...
"Build a Bioinformatician"
The Rocinante
"A legitimate salvage"
This has been a fantastic workshop. Great takes and participation from everyone!
NBC News Trump targets Education Department and Steve Kornacki's NCAA picks: Morning Rundown President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to close the Education Department, which he has long pledged to dismantle.
It's rubbish how the dismantling of our education system is treated like an everyday bullet point 🤬🤬🤬
Dr. Torsten Seemann and Dr. Kelsey Florek standing in front of a seated audience next to a presentation slide displaying the title "Building Resilient Public Health Genomic Systems with Data Lakes and Automation".
Big thanks to @torstenseemann.bsky.social for hosting me at the Centre for Pathogen Genomics. It was lovely to meet everyone and see the awesome binfo work happening in Asia-Pacific!
#Austrakka #Bioinformatics #PublicHealth
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In honor of reaching 100K (❣️) followers, we are holding an AMA right now!
This is an #AltGov tradition and since we stand on the shoulders of our AltGov fam, we have gathered our team and are happy to take questions in the responses.
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Make no mistake. This is an all-out attack on health in America.
Not only is the EIS vital to controlling infectious disease; it was where a remarkably high fraction of our public health leaders received formative training and experience.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...
Book burning is book burning whether it's digital or physical
ASM is an embarrassment - plain and simple. Just disgraceful.
@vscooper.micropopbio.org, will we see more courageous leadership this summer? If there's anything left by then, it's going to be necessary, I'm sad to say.
A crow standing on a stump with cat kibble looking at the camera.
Crow friends are the best!
"Shock and awe" was the strategy from the start. Its goal, create confusion and paralysis. Pick issues and fight them, coordinate and resist. Write senators and representatives and donate to organizations taking action if you can.
Withdrawing US funding from the World Health Organization is a potential disaster for public health worldwide, due to the impact it will have on the important work the WHO does. Preventing the CDC from even *talking* with WHO personnel is a step much farther toward undermining global health & safety
Thanks 😊
I'm hanging in there, I hope you are doing ok!
A watercolor painting of a blue swallow perched on a sunflower with another in the background.
Amongst sailors, the swallow represents a hope of returning home. Perched on a sunflower of warmth and joy it is a symbol of hope. That we can return from the insanity that has begun.
#watercolor #swallow #art #painting
It's Friday afternoon, it's 18 F outside, I'm in the basement with a space heater, it's dark, and I don't have any more meetings today...
It's time to code!
As one of the faculty helping with this program I am really excited for the content that is being put together for this program!
I wish something like this existed when I was starting in public health
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My first Bluesky painting post and also my first duck! Here is a Barrow's goldeneyes watercolor from a reference photo taken by @carlbergstrom.com
Strategic investment in innovative laboratory and informatic technologies is critical for both public health and national security. Read more about our work to build resilient, adaptable, and pathogen agnostic infectious disease surveillance across the US public health system www.cdc.gov/amd
I saw this and thought the same thing! Your photos are gorgeous and with your permission I'd love to use them for a watercolor paintings! I will of course credit you for the original photo.
I figured that might be the case but thought I'd mention it anyways
We had some luck with the illumina respiratory pathogen id/amr panel (RPIP).
