Pavel Dimens

Not-so-gentle reminder that GCRL at the U. of Southern Mississippi has some truly reprehensible PI's who you should be wary of and they keep being elevated into positions of power.

macOS users, have you seen this? www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...

I wish LinkedIn had a prompt after someone tries to post something. It would be a likert scale asking you to self assess how much value do you really think the post has. And yes I recognize the hypocrisy of whining about that here 😅

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students to join the Akopyan Lab at Rice University! If you're passionate about evolutionary genomics, I'd love to hear from you. Details: akopyanlab.org/opportunities Please share widely! 🙏

Yes, Gemini, I developed Harpy under the pseudonym Peter Dimens � #AI #bioinformatics

I host a bad movie night on the last weekend of every month. I think I nailed this month's poster.

UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke to combine herbaria, creating the third-largest university plant collection in the United States ncbg.unc.edu/2026/08/31/u...

Tired of being stuffed into the #IvoryCloset by university bad actors and coverups? Come find a way out: buff.ly/wuDf8vr #RecoveringAcademic 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #WomenInStem

BLink-seq is out! Linked-read sequencing that brings phased whole-genome data to non-model species at population scale. We show it phases haplotypes and detects SVs, revealing previously undocumented structural complexity in an adaptive Atlantic silverside inversion. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

So happy to announce our preprint for BLink-seq linked-read sequencing is live! Tremendous work by Azwad, Jen, and Nina! We also launched a website that is slowly becoming the repository of general linked-read knowledge 🙂https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.03.742036 https://blinkseq.github.io

Interested in genetics, diversification, and speciation? We're hiring a Research Associate to help with our projects, including the convergent evolution of fruit color. Come and work with us! Feel free to contact me with questions. (Reposts appreciated!) Link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/33973

actual text message I sent today: "Borscht with 3 Cs" I assume this is why anyone follows this account?

Today begins the 30day clock until my funding runs out. I've been frantically applying to all sorts of jobs (all rejections 🫩). So if anyone here knows of someone hiring a molecular ecologist real good at field work and bioinformatics, please do let me know 🙏

97% of human history ran on legal slavery. We’ve had 3% without it, and even that’s generous: ~28 million people are in forced labor globally right now. It never actually ended. It just kept changing its name. My latest essay on Substack. #econsky #polisky #history #academicsky

We are excited to announce that the 2026 Great Lakes Annual Meeting of Evolutionary Genomics (GLAM-EvoGen) will take place on Saturday, August 15, 2026 at the University at Buffalo. More information is available on our website: gokcumenlab.org/glam2026/ @gokcumenlab.bsky.social

10 on-and-off months of learning #Golang later, I seem to have gotten my fork of the Lariat linked-read aligner, Arachne, working. If you got modern linked read data, I'd love for you to try it out and report back! #bioinformatics https://pdimens.github.io/arachne/

A be-floor and after of what I've been doing when I come home from work

Fifteen 2-year postdoc fellowships available at U. Toulouse 😍 through a MSCA-COFUND (AToUT tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...) Interested to apply for a postdoctoral research project focusing on the genomics of farm animals or pollinators? Let me know! Eligibility: <1 yr in 🇫🇷 in the last 3 yrs

Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains? My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙 Apply by Nov 1! Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A 12-foot statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein frolicking and holding hands appeared on the National Mall in Washington, DC on Tuesday, September 23. A plaque under the statue states that it has been erected “In Honor of Friendship Month."

I didn't love how monolithic Harpy was becoming with novel features. So, the file-modification things were split out into Djinn. So, use Djinn if you need to convert linked-read fastq/bams #bioinformatics github.com/pdimens/djin...

Band Name Idea; Blood Bath & Beyond Debut Album: Bath Salts

Hi, I’m Julie Cruse. I created AcademicAbuse.com – a dashboard of data, resources & tools to help survivors of academic abuse survive and safely speak out. (1/9 🧵) 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

Since finishing my PhD in 2022 I have: 1. Rediscovered my belly laugh 2. Cried at my first wedding Hard to describe how powerful it is to acknowledge healing.

I'm looking to recruit a PhD student to study patterns of local adaptation and introgression across the spruce hybrid zone in the Rockies near Calgary. Projects can include field work, bioinformatics, pop gen theory, or comparison to plant/ conifer species yeamanlab.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/...

I'm trying to revive an abandoned #bioinformatics software written Go. I have no experience with Go (or similar langs), but doing my best. Does anyone here have even middling experience with Go that can lend some wisdom or time towards this effort?

There's a coffee tasting podcast and ya boi has a guest spot on it this week cupping Don't Be Alarmed by Coffeemania. Y'all should give their stuff a listen ☕ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

This morning, my sister told me that they're making The Mask 3 and I've been stressed ever since.

In the year of our lord 2025, I don't see why `scale_color_brewer()` is still case sensitive for the color palette

Out of necessity, I've recently got into reviving abandoned/dead linked-read bioinformatics software. Can be seen as software necromancy or adoption, depending on what you consider abandonware. I prefer calling it necromancy, tbh.

"How hard can it be?" he thought to himself before taking on another time-sucking project he is grossly unqualified to have even considered. Anyway, if this works, expect another linked read software with another monster/creature name 🐉

The Mimick logo has been updated to reflect its new #julialang codebase 👀🙌

If you've ever wondered how the sausage gets made over here in Harpy land, behold

Been writing in #Julialang again and BOY does it feel good. 😌

Mimick now works with circular DNA, far all you microbial linked-read enthusiasts 🦠🧬 Go out and simulate you some data 💪 github.com/pdimens/mimick

According to Facebook, 8yrs ago today was the greatest day of my life

Oh hey, the Harpy paper is out. The software's been available, but it's nice to have something in writing! It also works with other linked read data and non-linked data (wgs, rad) 😁

Today was a really frustrating analytical/bioinformatics day and the entire time I had JLos catalog blasting in my headphones and it's 2am and I'm still reconciling the conflicting emotions about all of that.

Never in a million years did I think I’d be having regular conversations with my peers (most of them are other PRFB postdocs) about what we plan to do with our lives if we can’t be scientists anymore, i.e., if all the jobs continue disappearing. It’s all very bleak as an ECR right now.

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control