MultiQC v1.20 just went live and it's a massive release, a huge effort by Vlad. I've been talking about it for years and it's a great feeling to see it go live at last! 🚀

Check out the accompanying blog post for an overview of why I'm excited: https://seqera.io/blog/multiqc-plotly/ 🎻✨

https://genomic.social/@multiqc@mstdn.science/111918686751729468

To me, the most frustrating thing about capitalism is not that it exploits everything and commodifies everything and then, ultimately, turns all those things into trash.

The most frustrating thing about capitalism is that it has created such intellectual decay among most humans, that it is deemed as normal to accept that if something cannot be solved by the market, then it cannot be solved at all.

When I thought I've seen it all, there's 23andME.

Instead of admitting their security negligence they blame the victims of the data breach for reusing passwords.

This is just scandalous, i have no other words for it. If you provide a service that processes such sensitive data it's your duty to protect them in every way you can. And yes in an ideal world people don't reuse passwords, but the world is not ideal, so accommodate for that in the design and implementation if your service.

It's quite simple, yet so hard for many companies: If you get breached, own it, apologize and do better in the future.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/23andme-tells-victims-its-their-fault-that-their-data-was-breached

#infosec

I really loved being part of this Population Genetic project about Quebec (and France), led by Simon Gravel and released in Science Magazine last friday.
Some hints about France contribution and a lot about genetics and rivers, founder effects ans even cosmic event and its influence on genetic structure)
There are some very nice/complete threads by Luke Anderson-Trocme first author. (https://twitter.com/LukeAnderTroc/status/1661806668571893760)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.add5300

Here is a must-read post from children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall on how Scholastic offered to distribute her book — all she had to do was remove all mention of racism.

Sure, they're banning books in Tennessee and Texas. But it's not just the books that get published and then banned from the library. It's all the books that don't get published in the first place.

Those banning books know publishers like Scholastic pull this cowardly bullshit. It's their game plan.

https://www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4/11/scholastic-and-a-faustian-bargain

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

and

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

Do you know a #bioinformatics student looking to do an internship this summer?

The application period for our summer internships is now open at @[email protected]

We are looking for motivated students pursuing undergraduate and/or graduate degrees, preferably in the fields of computer science, data science, and bioinformatics. Interns might be required to be on-site, so preference will be given to students based at or near #Montreal

More info here: https://computationalgenomics.ca/internships2023/