Phillip Dexheimer

PhD Candidate (Biomedical Informatics) in the labs of Matt Weirauch and @krishnaroskin at @CincyInformatix

[Phillip Dexheimer @P_Dexheimer]

Super excited to get my first real first-author paper (with @krishnaroskin) online. Next step, submit to a peer-reviewed journal!

Oh right, it's about a cool web resource we've been building that collects public datasets of viral infection in humans. (1/🧵)

[bioRxiv @biorxivpreprint]

VExD: A curated resource for human gene expression following viral infection https://t.co/IvdLBQHDl3 #bioRxiv

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Me trying to write a lit review

[Phillip Dexheimer @P_Dexheimer]

That’s the million dollar question, isn’t it?

Seems like P&T/hiring/whatever committees don’t accept preprints because they’d have to decide the value of the contribution (ie, read/understand the paper). Will review preprints make it easy enough for them to judge?

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

@vectorgen Would they recognize a review preprint?

[Hadley Wickham @hadleywickham]

I'm a little surprised that people expect deprecated functions to live on for so many years. If a function has told you not to use it every time for 3 years, is another two years of warnings going to make any difference? What am I missing?

[Vanderbilt Graduate Workers United (VGWU) @VandyGradUnion]

Pricing for @VanderbiltU's new grad housing is out. The CHEAPEST option, at a whopping 267 sq ft, comes in at $1377, or ~50% of a Vandy grad stipend.

Affordable housing is defined as costing <30% of your income.

You pay us! You know how much money we (don't) have!

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

data science consulting fees if you include pain and suffering:

[Phillip Dexheimer @P_Dexheimer]

No arguments here. I’ve been personally doing this for years, would be nice to be ahead of the curve for once

[Phillip Dexheimer @P_Dexheimer]

It’s heartbreaking to realize how prophetic @xkcd was 5.5 years ago (esp the 2nd panel). Not many complex things have a single cause, but it’s absolutely terrifying to realize how much worse the US (and the world) is today than it was in 2015.
https://t.co/ZBYKK0swnh

[Phillip Dexheimer @P_Dexheimer]

This is a very thoughtful thread (by a former Reddit CEO) about the nature of the internet and social networks (and Elon Musk) ca 2022.

[Yishan @yishan]

I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter.

So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out)

(long 🧵)

[Adam Phillippy @aphillippy]

Today is the big day! The #T2T consortium is claiming victory and announcing that we have finally uncovered every last bit of the human genome! The papers are out today 🥳🧬 https://t.co/m8wgy09JBs

[Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje]

Request to biologists collaborating with computational groups: please don't encourage our trainees to sacrifice computational rigor because you want to "get your paper out". We don't encourage your trainees not to do rigorous control expts. so we can get faster data access. 1/

[Phillip Dexheimer @P_Dexheimer]

This is a really interesting way to think about government spending. I wonder what else this is true for? Cruise missiles, most likely. Nano engineering seems like it’s cheating. Nuclear fusion, certainly

[Nïck Brown🌻 @sTeamTraen]

When you ask the authors of articles in Science® to share their data, which the journal told you was mandatory when you submitted your article, the response very often boils down to GFY. https://t.co/E9XUzljNCT

[ℳatt (matttomic.bsky.social) @matttomic]

Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked

[Peter van Galen @vangalenlab]

Rarely have I been as excited about a new technology: https://t.co/oAJCCGSM4u. We combined T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing with single-cell RNA-seq from the @10xGenomics 3' Gene Expression platform. Including retrospective use, if you have 3' barcoded cDNA in the freezer! 🧬 1/6

[Dr. Angry Grad @GradSkoolStrugs]

The types of advisors as depicted through Disney characters: a thread.

[AJHG @AJHGNews]

New! Ware et al. utilize expert curation & statistical testing to generate new insights into the genetic architecture of pediatric #cardiomyopathy
https://t.co/5cb0s4zZ36

[Rebecca Varney @RebeccaMVarney]

Thinking about biological collections lately I'm reminded of the time that somehow at age 4, I got a personal tour of the @UCBerkeley entomology collection (Essig?) from a kind scientist (anybody know who?!). Asked my parents how on earth THAT happened, and it turns out...🤯

[Alma Andersson @aalmaander]

I feel as if the last few weeks have delivered some crazy interesting papers that just have to be shared, so I thought I'd make a list for the interested, links to papers and twitter threads are included when possible: 🧵👇

[Patrick Hsu @pdhsu]

The real reason papers in Nature are called “letters” - they were originally meant for rapid scientific communication.