Damon May

Computational biologist studying the adaptive immune system. Author. Backpacker. Dungeon Master. (he/him)

[Damon May @damon_may]

I made a software! jamstats: tools for working with #rollerderby scoreboard data and making #stats plots about teams and players. https://t.co/aY6MQUgmNM

[Damon May @damon_may]

@travisjohnson @designerscott Money amplifies everything bad about a person.

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@travisjohnson A complete disregard for the greenhouse gas emissions.

[Damon May @damon_may]

@travisjohnson Oblivion Song

[Damon May @damon_may]

I'm proud that my company will ensure that all its employees continue to have access to abortion, regardless of where they live.

[Adaptive Biotech @AdaptiveBiotech]

“Our commitment – MY commitment – is to support the health and well-being of all Adapters and create a safe, equitable, and inclusive workplace for all employees.” - Chad Robins, CEO and Co-founder

[Damon May @damon_may]

@bittremieux @naturemethods GLEAMS is a Learned Embedding for Annotating Mass Spectra. I kicked off the project, in grad school, and @bittremieux finished it off beautifully.

As you might’ve guessed already, I named it.

[Wout Bittremieux (@[email protected]) @bittremieux]

Our GLEAMS work has now been published in @naturemethods! 🎉 https://t.co/mlP4mAGWrR

GLEAMS is a deep Siamese neural network that embeds spectra into a low-dimensional space which brings together spectra generated by the same peptide and captures their latent properties.

[Damon May @damon_may]

No one should be forced to risk going through what we went through. Every pregnancy carries some of that risk. 5/5

[Damon May @damon_may]

If abortion becomes inaccessible in much of the country, millions of people will risk going through what we went through.

One baby dead within a month. The other in the neonatal intensive care unit for ten weeks, eating through a feeding tube for most of a year, 1/5

[Damon May @damon_may]

We chose to keep that high-risk pregnancy, for good and ill. No -- my wife chose, with my full support, and if she'd decided to abort it I'd have supported that, too. I love my daughter; I would also love a child we'd had a little bit later. 4/5

[Damon May @damon_may]

@denialwistreech Can’t spell “live, laugh, love” without “huge veal”

[Damon May @damon_may]

@blacksciblog The joke is that it shows three distributions, the characteristics of which a frequentist statistician might use to estimate a p value, but it also shows Bayes’ Theorem, whose only known use is to annoy frequentist statisticians.

[Damon May @damon_may]

When you're biking, a headwind is always brutal but a tailwind doesn't feel like a boost. It *feels* like you're working hard and doing great.

This concludes my seminar on white privilege, the gender pay gap, universal health care, public school funding and abortion rights.

[Damon May @damon_may]

@tomflood1 By mentioning that the child is in a crosswalk, I’m not saying they should be killed if they weren’t. To be clear, I am anti drivers killing people in all circumstances.

*Additionally*, that child has right of way.

[Damon May @damon_may]

@tomflood1 If that child is in Washington State, they are legally in a crosswalk, whether there are lines painted there or not.
Roughly zero of ten Washington drivers realize that fact.

[Damon May @damon_may]

@thabangh Solid software naming, too!

[Damon May @damon_may]

@smooney27 @WhitneyEpi @ShinyEpiPeople Like Nigerian scam bad grammar: make sure only the segment of your audience that fits your *very specific* requirements responds.

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@denialwistreech I dunno. She’s a reporter. Seems like reasonable behavior for a reporter, to me.