| Bioinformatician, Insect lover, Plant mom 🇫🇷🇬🇧 | Enjoying my bioinformatician job 👩💻✨ |
So apparently the term "patch" in software development comes from punched paper tape.
"Small corrections to the programmed sequence could be done by patching over portions of the paper tape and re-punching the holes in that section."
Please boost for reach!
I'm trying to find out about people & institutions working in the emerging Plant Humanities (esp if they're working outside the US). I'd like to be able to do an informational interview with someone in this field to see if it's where I'd like to head.
Thanks! @plantscience @academicchatter #PlantHumanities #Botany #AcademicChatter
This looks great!
This five-workshop series will teach the fundamentals of #DATA #ANALYSIS and sonification using nonvisual tools and technologies. The workshops are designed for those who are #BLIND, low vision, or who otherwise have difficulty accessing visual tools for data science.
Here's the link: https://iota-school.github.io/nonvisual_data_science_workshops/
If it's available to you, donate money within the next 4 days to #BattenDiseaseFamilyAssociation, the charity supporting my family & my niece who has a neurodegenerative disease called #Batten.
Their support is necessary and invaluable.
What are your day-to-day activities?
How do you a keep work-life balance in this role?
What interests you most / find satisfying about this role?
What are the key challenges you faced in this profession?
These are some questions I will answer in an upcoming #interview with an undergraduate. They are keen to understand what do #bioinformaticians do.
I'd love to hear your thoughts and share them with the student so they have a broader view of this #career choice.
Boost welcome 
For those who didn’t attend the #NextflowSummit, 🚀
Seqera Labs has set up a #Nextflow community forum🌐to provide more organised discussions. Google will also be able to scrape the forum so you should start seeing better answers show up in your searches🔍
Don't worry though the Slack channel 💬 isn’t going anywhere 👍
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<p>Il y a 18 ans, Maëlyn est née et je suis devenue tante 🫶 Je l'ai vu jouer à la poupée, faire du skate-board 🛹, créer des histoires en podcast avec son papa. Elle aime toujours les histoires, surtout celles avec des détectives et des princesses 👸. Son sourire est tellement joli et elle aime bien les p'tites blagues.</p><p><br></p><p>À ses 6 ans, elle a commencé à porter des lunettes.</p><p>À ses 12 ans, elle est non-voyante.</p><p>À ses 18 ans, elle est en situation de poly-handicap. Son corps ne peut plus se déplacer, ne peut plus parler, ne peut plus manger. Dans son cerveau, les cellules "centre de recyclage" (lysosome) ne fonctionnent plus; les crises d'épilepsie sont fréquentes.</p><p>Sa maladie est rare, génétique, neuro-dégénérative et, pour l'instant, sans cure. Ça s'appelle <a href="https://www.vml-asso.org/-cln-3-maladie-de-batten-ou-spielmeyer-vogt-sjogren-" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">la maladie de Batten, ou CLN3</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>Son papa et sa maman sont des parents "proches aidants": ils font tout pour lui donner la meilleure qualité de vie (veille nocturne de crises de terreur, préparation de dossiers pour aide du gouvernement, bibliothécaire d'histoires de princesses, ...).</p><p>J'ai recalibré ma vie professionnelle pour travailler sur des maladies rares.</p><p>Et toi, pourrais-tu envoyer quelques sous à l'association <strong>Vaincre les Maladies Lysosomales</strong> qui nous aide tant?</p><p><br></p>
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