Kai Blin
Microbiology PhD, co-author of antiSMASH, Open Source geek, views are my own. @kblin@scholar.social
- Reposted by Kai Blinvery sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
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- Made the rookie mistake of opening linkedin. Saw a professor from Princeton claim that the step from manual coding to vibe coding is the same control vs. productivity tradeoff as C to Python, assembler to C, or machine code to assembler. 1/n
- Dear journal editor: Inviting me to review a paper on Christmas Eve and then sending a nag email about that on the 26th is the best way to get me to decline that invitation. If your system is being stupid automatically, get a better automated system. Tell the publisher to use those APCs for it.
- Welcome to another member of the antiSMASH ecosystem of tools. When @marnixmedema.bsky.social and I were putting together antiSMASH version 1.0 15 years ago, I don't think our wildest dreams would have predicted where our little tool would go.
- Reposted by Kai BlinOnce in a while, you publish an article that fundamentally redefines your research area. I believe this is one of those moments. I huge thanks to all contributors. 🎉
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