Morgan Taschuk

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Director for Genome Sequence Informatics at Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. Bioinformatics (binf!), cancer research. Mostly toot ridiculousness.
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Ontario Institute for Cancer Researchhttps://www.oicr.on.ca
OICR Genomicshttps://genomics.oicr.on.ca
Morgan TaschukNov 24, 2022
DM ME UR BESTIGORS Nov 23, 2022
Awareness post: there is an instance on fedi called 'dolphin.town' where you can only post 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'

my experience on this dying world has been made richer through this knowledge, and may yours be also
Morgan TaschukNov 23, 2022
MoanosMay 8, 2022
Optimist: The glass is ½ full.
Pessimist: The glass is ½ empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.
Morgan TaschukNov 21, 2022
LilliNov 19, 2022

Them: Faving posts on Mastodon is useless, only the OP sees it.

Me, when a post gets faved: awwww, little internet hug ✨

Morgan TaschukNov 21, 2022
Daniel AppelquistNov 20, 2022
Oh yeah Twitter… that place I go to find people’s mastodon addresses.
Morgan TaschukNov 21, 2022

Quote from the Guardian article:

"More than 300,000 Americans have died from Covid-19... more than six times the number of Americans who died by gun violence in 2020."

Gun violence is so prevalent in the US that it's used as a measuring stick for the pandemic. Wow.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/21/twitter-anti-vax-health-misinformation

#covid19 #antivax #gunviolence #usa #birdsite #birdsitemeltdown

‘Verified’ anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content

Platform’s paid verification system is being used to give sense of validity to accounts pushing health misinformation

The Guardian
Morgan TaschukNov 18, 2022
Welp, that’s my signal to go an actually download the birdsite archive I requested earlier this week https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6655881
Morgan TaschukNov 15, 2022
Sean RuddNov 15, 2022

re-#Introduction 👋
(as I moved to http://genomic.social 🙂)

I'm an Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet and a Group Leader at #SciLifeLab. 🇬🇧 in 🇸🇪

We do #CancerResearch - interested in how drugs kill cancer cells - the molecular basis of why sometimes they work and sometimes they don't #DrugResistance #ChemicalBiology

More here 👇
https://www.seanruddlab.com/

#ScienceTwitter has been a source of good for me during the last 4 (!) years of setting up a lab, #NewPI, so now I'm here

genomic.social

A Mastodon server for the Genomic Science Community.

Mastodon hosted on genomic.social
Morgan TaschukNov 15, 2022

So since the pandemic began, the subway has been generally 1 person per seat, and people will stand rather than joining you in a seat. Super polite. Now that pan-fatigue is in, and subways are getting busier, that's breaking down, which. Fine. I'm still masking anyway.

But I forgot how delightful it is to read over people's shoulders on the subway. I was between someone reading an Avengers comic and someone reading a really thick novel today. It was amazing!

#toronto #ttc

Morgan TaschukNov 15, 2022
ThesiswhispererNov 15, 2022
Just as I was getting used to it! https://gizmodo.com/mastodon-toot-retired-twitter-tweet-equivalent-1849786221
Mastodon Has Officially Retired the 'Toot,' Its Version of the Tweet

Not everyone is pleased with the decision to change "toot" to "publish," but many third-party apps are continuing to use the original term for posts anyway.

Gizmodo
Morgan TaschukNov 14, 2022
Awesome talk by @grimalkina that really solidifies a lot of ideas I've had about team dynamics in the last year. I never had the words for it! We started down the 'learning culture' road this year: postmortems, retrospectives, celebrating wins. Still more left to go, and now I have some resources to know where to go/try/fail next! https://neverworkintheory.org/2022/11/01/hicks-learning.html
Cat Hicks on Learning in the Dark · It Will Never Work in Theory