Valentine Svensson (@nxn.se)

Valentine Svensson

@nxn.se

Molecular cell biology and stats / ML, mostly scRNA-seq. Principal Scientist at Tahoe Tx. https://www.nxn.se/archive

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Valentine Svensson

@nxn.se

2 Good 2 Be 4Gotten: An Oral History of Freaks and Geeks - www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...

vanityfair.comThe Oral History of Freaks and GeeksThe story of a short-lived, much-beloved series as told by its cast and crew, including Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jason Schwartzman and Jason Segel.

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Antidotes to cynicism creep in academia - eiko-fried.com/blog/antidot...

eiko-fried.comAntidotes to cynicism creep in academia | Eiko FriedThis is one of these blog posts that doesn't read well if you stop halfway. First, I provide evidence that academia can look pretty broken: there is low-quality work everywhere...

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Virtual Cell literature dump - ekernf01.github.io/virtual_cell...

ekernf01.github.ioVirtual Cell literature dumpThere is a lot of new work coming out relevant to predicting transcriptomic responses to perturbation. I’m way behind on reading. Since things are heating up, and I got a job doing something totally d...

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Bioinformaticians have been writing the same abstract for decades - luispedro.substack.com/p/bioinforma...

luispedro.substack.comBioinformaticians have been writing the same abstract for decadesWe have always been overwhelmed by the current data explosion

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Every disease is a policy failure - worksinprogress.co/issue/future...

worksinprogress.coEvery disease is a policy failureFew people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.

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The Films Proving That Animation Is Alive - animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-films-...

animationobsessive.substack.comThe Films Proving That Animation Is AlivePlus: news.

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Leaving Facebookistan - www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

newyorker.comLeaving Facebookistan

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Unbundling the University - www.unbundle-the-university.com

unbundle-the-university.comUnbundling the UniversityWhy universities need to be unbundled and how to do it

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21 Sept

A single-cell RNA-seq catalog of ground truth gene coregulation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.18.752692v1

Valentine Svensson

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3 Sept

Against Time Series Foundation Models - shakoist.substack.com/p/against-ti...

shakoist.substack.comAgainst Time-Series Foundation ModelsOr: My Experience In Modern Forecasting

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3 Sept

Why ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’ Looks Like That - animationobsessive.substack.com/p/why-whats-...

animationobsessive.substack.comWhy ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’ Looks Like ThatPlus: news.

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2 Sept

The Mayor's Geek Squad - www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/n...

nytimes.comThe Mayor’s Geek Squad (Published 2013)New York City’s Office of Policy and Strategic Planning is a group of tech-savvy and civic-minded number crunchers analyzing city statistics for solutions to some pressing and convoluted problems.

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29 Aug

Mac native TSNE - www.nxn.se/p/mac-native...

nxn.seMac native TSNETSNE is a method for visualizing high-dimensional data that preserves local neighborhoods on a two-dimensional plane.

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26 Aug

Group 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells: Team Players in Regulating Asthma - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

annualreviews.orgGroup 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells: Team Players in Regulating AsthmaType 2 immunity helps protect the host from infection, but it also plays key roles in tissue homeostasis, metabolism, and repair. Unfortunately, inappropriate type 2 immune reactions may lead to aller...

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6 Aug

In Defense of Academia - blog.spec.tech/p/in-defense...

blog.spec.techIn Defense of AcademiaIdentifying the baby in the bathwater

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6 Aug

The Later Years of Douglas Adams - www.filfre.net/2024/07/the-...

filfre.net » The Later Years of Douglas Adams The Digital Antiquarian

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4 Aug

Tissue homing and gene expression - www.nxn.se/p/tissue-hom...

nxn.seTissue homing and gene expressionI was thinking about my reading habits.

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4 Aug

Steering through the clinical trial landscape - hrovatin.github.io/posts/clinic...

hrovatin.github.ioSteering through the clinical trial landscapeGood model performance is only one of many steps towards clinical trial adoption.

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23 July

Ghost in the Shell (1995) - www.themoviedb.org/movie/9323-g...

themoviedb.orgGhost in the ShellIn the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker k...

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Who Funds Misfit Research? - blog.spec.tech/p/who-funds-...

blog.spec.techWho Funds Misfit Research?A practical guide

Valentine Svensson

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20 July

Stem-like T cells are associated with the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis in humans - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.comStem-like T cells are associated with the pathogenesis of ulcerative colitis in humans - Nature ImmunologyLi et al. identify a human TCF1-expressing stem-like T cell population that is associated with immune-mediated pathogenesis in ulcerative colitis.

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16 July

Health Technology is Weird - blog.spec.tech/p/health-tec...

blog.spec.techHealth Technology is WeirdWhy it's hard to generalize lessons from the world of therapeutics

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16 July

Hacking the President’s DNA - www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

theatlantic.comHacking the President’s DNAThe U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information....

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15 July

Research Has Customers - blog.spec.tech/p/research-h...

blog.spec.techResearch Has CustomersFor better or worse, it's time to sell.

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15 July

Televising the Revolution - www.filfre.net/2024/01/tele...

filfre.net » Televising the Revolution The Digital Antiquarian

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15 July

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals a compartmentalized antiviral interferon response in the nasal epithelium of mice - journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

journals.asm.orgSingle-cell transcriptomics reveals a compartmentalized antiviral interferon response in the nasal epithelium of mice | Journal of VirologySARS-CoV-2 infects SUS and BGC in the olfactory epithelium, causing an impairment of structural support and integrity of olfactory sensory neurons that can result in severe olfactory dysfunctions. We ...

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14 July

Who writes papers? - www.nxn.se/p/who-writes...

nxn.seWho writes papers?There are no actual rules about the order of authorships of papers in academic journals.

Valentine Svensson

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10 July

Lemon Demon - Ben Bernanke -- www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_0E...

youtube.comLemon Demon - Ben Bernanke (HD Remastered Music Video)YouTube video by user400293

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8 July

Restless Genes - www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/art...

nationalgeographic.comRestless GenesThe compulsion to see what lies beyond that far ridge or that ocean—or this planet—is a defining part of human identity and success.

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7 July

A Conversation with Jack Scannell: The Intractable ‘Sociotechnical’ Problems of Drug Discovery and Development, Genetic Triumphalism and Predictive Validity - decodingbio.substack.com/p/a-conversa...