Josh Evans

Grad student at in @petr_sulc's lab at @ASU. DNA Nanotech, Mol Bio, Biochem. CompSci vet. ΑΧΣ. Nerd. he/him/she/her/they/them.
Views my own.

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

Biology is the study of poorly-designed, poorly-documented systems that work in weird and unpredictable ways and that can only be understood by messing with stuff and seeing what happens.
...so it's kind of weird that I don't feel more of an affinity for MATLAB.

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

In the unlikely (or very likely?) event you're reading this and still on this website, come to Bluesky! My handle is the same there (@synbiojosh.bsky.social)

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

oh no! not a problem that's entirely my own fault!

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

The problem with conferences is after every talk I'm like "this gives me so many ideas, I want to go mess around with them"
but then there's Another Talk

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

Arrived in Baltimore with my labmates for #dna30

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

I had a "my thesis defense is tomorrow and I'm totally unprepared" nightmare, which seems unfair given that I'm still well short of actually defending

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

I try not to get political in my capacity as a researcher but I would submit that I have not done so. I'm not that old, but I'm old enough to remember when maibstream society had a 0 tolerance policy for holocaust denial. As a Jew it's terrifying that this is no longer the case.

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

The owner of this website just uncritically signal-boosted a holocaust denier.
Twitter has long been a good platform for sharing ideas, incl. in science, but I can't in good conscience stick around with this.

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

I will be deleting my account on Sept 21st, after DNA30 in Baltimore (see you there!)
New social media deets will be forthcoming (probably same handle but on bluesky).

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

Because apparently I can't read my own handwriting, except it wasn't handwriting it was typing, and I had typed it two days ago

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

Today's I'm A Grad Student moment: spent about 15 minutes trying to work out what I had meant by calling a folder "TEST_TS"
Before realizing it was "TEST_T5"

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

Today in Uses Of AI: ChatGPT gave me a wrong answer to a programming question that nevertheless was very helpful, because I learned a lot in the process of working out why the answer was wrong

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

leading indicator that my day is going great thanks

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

It's alarming that about 25% of my tweets are now about premature optimization.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

How to research:

1) Start reading paper
2) Open up new tab for each interesting reference
3) Save all new papers in "to be read" folder
4) Never close tabs
5) Never read papers

[Anti-Jungian Aktion @Carboniferoys]

It's so fucked up that an entirely different planet just looks like Arizona.

[Josh Evans @SynBioJosh]

Two months of weird research problems suddenly all make sense and I'm more annoyed than anything else

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

Ok before any academics caption this some sht like "🛥️my summer research plans / 🐳the fall semester" I want to remind you that it is EXTREMELY dangerous to allegorize a whale.