David Mas-Ponte
Postdoc at @humantechnopole.bsky.social working with Andrea Sottoriva to study the evolutionary rules of cancer.
Previously at UW Genome Sciences and @irbbarcelona.org
🔗 david.masponte.com
- finally february 😅
- Catalan human towers ("Castells") in the 25th anniversary ad from Wikipedia 🔝 ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castells
- Reposted by David Mas-PonteSure. Just one question: How?
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks AI could help find cures for most cancers, prevent Alzheimer’s, and even double the human lifespan. cbsn.ws/4oRZ8Nm
- The google-scholar pdf reader just added syntax highlighting 😱 I really needed this haha
- There's some black magic stuff happening under the hood. You can read a pdf online, highlight stuff, download the pdf in your computer, highlight stuff in your local copy (using chrome), open the remote version of the file and it shows the updated highlights. Really useful 👌
- big limitation is that the highlights are not exported when you download the file locally... 🥲 (you don't see the highlights in other programs other than chrome)
- the infographic is really bad... but there are some gems in the actual pdf plan, with different and more detailed routes. Wildest to me Scandinavia <-> Mediterranean route. Stocholm, Berlin 8h and Berlin to Naples in 11-ish hours. transport.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
- Reposted by David Mas-PonteBeen a fan since v1 so I’ll give v3 a try, too. I liked how easy it was to switch from adobe products. And so far I’ve never missed any feature. Any estimates how much academia funnels into adobe per year?
- This is big news for academics, a fully* featured, modern vector editor software for free (hopefully) forever. We should be sad when research money is unnecessarily directed to the adobe whirlpool of subscriptions.
- * I have not tested this version of affinity (V3) yet, but based on my V1 expirience, the features it had were already sufficient for most academic needs for slides/figure composing.
- Wow! great feature in the newest @typst.app update 🎉🎉
- also bocconi university
- Bocconi University, one of the best university and most expensive in Italy r/brutalism
- the drone view looks sick but from the inside they just look like a bunch of half-sized silos, victory point for brutalism here
- when the test is significant but you forgot to check its effect size
- Science aside, the typesetting of this preprint is beautiful. Apple-worthy
- Apple now has a protein folding NN?... arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18480
- TIL you can create a multiqc compatible json/yml file and will just work out the box. docs.seqera.io/multiqc/cust...
- 🎉Celebrating 10 Years of @multiqc.info What began as a simple QC reporting tool has evolved into an essential resource used by thousands worldwide, becoming integral to the #bioinformatics ecosystm. 🔍 Discover MultiQC: hubs.la/Q03Bh0wM0
- Big fan of this hand drawn wholesome graphical abstract in today's @cp-cell.bsky.social 🐜
- "hairy-headed leafcutter ant" is also a badass name. well captured in the art 👏
- (link to the publication) www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
- TIL that the Gendarmerie (military police) in France uses GendBuntu, a slight modification of ubuntu. And everything because they didn't want to move from Windows XP to vista 😅 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
- Reposted by David Mas-PonteAt Posit, we love @typst.app: ⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes ✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies ✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!) 🧠 Clear mental model So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a... #rstats
- Reposted by David Mas-PonteI started tgv to learn Rust and building it has been unbelievably fun! If you wanna pick up a super fast and fun programming language, tgv is open for contribution! There aren't many bioinformatics tools built entirely by the community. If tgv can become one, I'll be so psyched
- Terminal Genome Viewer (tgv), written in Rust github.com/zeqianli/tgv
- *advertisement payed by a VC fund 😅
- at least it's not like this one by Xunta, not the most ethical use of tax euros IMO 🥲 www.nature.com/articles/d42...
- or this one from Madrid's publicly funded research center www.nature.com/articles/d42...
- Never thought i would say this but R becoming more pythonic is a good thing 🙃 "R 4.5.0 introduces a new way to load objects from a package: use()"
- New version of R is out! Our Data Scientist, Russ Hyde, has put together a quick review of the key features and changes in R 4.5 — from new language features to graphics updates and more. 📝 Read the full blog post here: www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/whats-n... #rstats #Rprogramming #opensource
- Reposted by David Mas-PonteAmerican scientists aren't special. It's the institutions, and willingness to spend on research, that set them apart. Similarly invest here, and you will naturally attract the best talent from *everywhere*. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
- Reposted by David Mas-PonteStill life
- 23andMe to be sold off now, agree with @philippbayer.bsky.social it's likely there ll be a opt out mechanism for people that don't want their data distributed to pharma companies, but just glad I managed to delete my data on the site under GDPR, thanks EU 👌
- It's official now: 23andMe files for bankruptcy. Interested to see what happens with that genotyping data - my first guess is 'surely they can't just sell per-user data without a new per-user agreement', but what laws does the US still have www.reuters.com/business/hea...
- similar policy in California, it might extend to all the user base. bsky.app/profile/vald...
- this is really cool! 😎 obsidian is now free for all, simplicity over subscriptions
- Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site. obsidian.md/blog/free-fo...
- Reposted by David Mas-Ponteopening files in Obsidian, not sped up
- 🏔️🏔️🏔️ #flashes
- Excited about the HTML experimental feature in @typst.app 0.13! 👏 typst.app/blog/2025/ty...
- Reposted by David Mas-PonteRoche Ripple Predictions My take on how Roche SBX will roil the sequencing landscape omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/roch... 🧬🖥️
- What a world we live in that the highest cost of a DNA sequencer is the computer+GPU instead of the "sequencing" itself, big benefits for SBX if AI bubble pops eventually "the biggest expense [...] is assuredly the compute onboard" by @omicsomics.bsky.social omicsomics.blogspot.com/2025/02/roch...
- by @mnot.net on UK's demands to Apple 1. Comply 🔪 (seriously harm their core values and reputation) 2. Apple-xit 💸 (leave UK and lose 1.5Bn) 3. Decentralize 👥, would be cool to self-host your own iCloud data and would probably set the example to other companies www.mnot.net/blog/2025/02...
- Placing European cities in a map is more complicated than it seems because regional definitions of metropolitan areas are not consistent. For instance, metro area in Barcelona is weird, includes heavily unpopulated areas in mountainous terrain where people cannot live, also airport and harbor
- within the actual city limits where people live, everything is blue. Also, red areas are (probably) american-style suburbs with "rich" families, so not a good inequality measure imo
- Great thread from @tommytang.bsky.social on why we need workflow managers in biology! Hard disagree on "[snakemake] feels natural for anyone familiar with Python scripting" though 😜
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- the actual press release openeurollm.eu/launch-press...
- Reposted by David Mas-Pontei’m so tired but i’ve got obligations 😩
- Europe PMC is a PubMed-like site, underrated IMO (the API is top notch), but as far as I know, it relies on PubMed for sourcing their data (some sort of mirror?) Wondering if there is a switch to make it independent somehow? Probably just depends on publishers sending their data there instead?
