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Two muffins were sitting in an oven, and the first looks over to the second, and says, “man, it’s really hot in here”. The second looks over at the first with a surprised look, and answers, “WHOA, a talking muffin!”

Dr. Robert M Flight 22h ago

Dr. Amy, Psy.D.1d ago

It's that time again where I am asked to write an author bio. What do we think of:

Dr. Amy is the single greatest mind of her generation. She came here to chew gum and fuck things up, and she is fresh out of gum.

Dr. Robert M Flight 23h ago

Alex KR1ST/PA1ST 1d ago

Meet the lead singer of Oliver Stardust and the Spiders from Mars!

Happy #Caturday# !!

#CatsOfMastodon

Dr. Robert M Flight 1d ago

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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦1d ago

Thanks everyone who suggested ddrescue! Even with the USB interface to the drive it is estimating only 12 hours to copy 160GB. And I finally installed Linux natively on a physical computer in my house for the first time in over a decade 😂

Dr. Robert M Flight 1d ago

Homemade version of Donato's chicken spinach and mozzarella pizza for BDay lunch as I celebrate 47 rotations around the sun.

Looks delicious, here is hoping it turned out!

Final verdict: crust sat too long and was too puffy for this flavor, not enough chicken. Delicious!

Dr. Robert M Flight 1d ago

David Ho 1d ago

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't received any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since grants are typically for 3 years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

In my 25-year career, I’ve never NOT had funding. I typically have 4 to 8 grants, which you need if you’re running an observation science program and have a technician, students, and postdocs.

Dr. Robert M Flight 1d ago

Plague Poems 1d ago

As we discussed  the dark times  the historian told me  that people wonder
if they had been there  would they  have had the courage  to act;
and as she talked  I could only think  that in these dark times
most people do not
even have the courage  to wear a mask.

Dr. Robert M Flight 1d ago

Emily Velasco 2d ago

I want to teach a class on repurposing electronics. We could start out just taking some broken things apart and seeing if we can fix them, but every student would have to pick something to repurpose or revive as a semester-long project. Maybe they want to turn an old propane lantern into an LED lantern, convert a cordless drill with dead nicad batteries to lithium, or jailbreak an e-bike. Everyone should leave the class with a device or appliance with a new lease on life. A community college should hire me for this

Dr. Robert M Flight 1d ago

Well that was a pain. Trying to get recount3 unify pieces set up for zebrafish.

1 - Current primary assembly has 993 pieces, then add 99 from ERCC & SIRV. Docker image of `perbase` crashes on chromosome 1032.
2 - OK, filter to the primary 25 using `seqtk`.
- Default is to put each chromosome on one line.
- Now `perbase` crashes when it reads in the first chromosome.
- Learn how to have `seqtk` wrap lines at 60 characters.

It finally works! Well, I haven't gotten it read into R, but ...

Dr. Robert M Flight 1d ago

Dana Fried 1d ago

A theory: if you are the only woman on a podcast your job is to make each episode either funnier or shorter.

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