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Aaron J. Mackey

@ajmackey

computational and statistical genomicist - hard to say, but fun to do!

 Charlottesville, VA
cphg.virginia.edu/mackey
Joined January 2009
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anyone notice the tungsten atom (W) being added to a chemical structure in Pfizer's "before it became a medicine" ad? #truthinadvertising
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David Hillis@David_Hillis20 Jul 2015
Bill Pearson discussing sequence similarity, sequence homology, and how to distinguish the two at #MolEvol2015
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Replying to @BioMickWatson
@BioMickWatson The number of replicates needed for your RNA-seq experiment equals the impact factor of the journal you want to publish in.
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Woot EDGE no longer commercial licensed! nitter.cf/seandavis12/status/588…
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Michael Schatz@mike_schatz1 Apr 2015
Still one of my favorite 4/1 concepts
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“@TimHVines: Never tell me the prior! Han Solo and Bayesian stats. Completely awesome: countbayesie.com/blog/2015/2…” ... love these things!
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Aaron Quinlan@aaronquinlan27 Feb 2015
The Thrill of Defeat. nautil.us/issue/21/informati…
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Markov chain analysis of Chutes and Ladders ow.ly/IOSMC
Mathematical Analysis of Chutes and Ladders

Mathematical Analysis of Chutes and Ladders

Markov-Chains, Monte-Carlo and Chute and Ladders

datagenetics.com
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Vala Afshar
@ValaAfshar18 Oct 2014
Talented employees stay because they are: 1 paid well 2 mentored 3 challenged 4 promoted 5 involved in decisions 6 appreciated 7 heard
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David K Smith@professor_dave14 Oct 2014
Very cool poster of top women in science from history (via @meganleestudio) #STEM #AthenaSwan
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Aaron Quinlan@aaronquinlan6 Oct 2014
Virginia is now for all lovers.
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[email protected]@cpsievert12 Dec 2013
Finding structure in @xkcd comics with Latent Dirichlet Allocation bit.ly/19Dmedr #rstats #ggplot2 #LDAviz
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Tim O'Reilly
@timoreilly1 Oct 2013
Perspective: Breaking Bad final episode watched by 10.3 million people. 105.9 million watched last episode of M*A*S*H bit.ly/1aILAbA
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Ben Simo 🐋@QualityFrog12 Aug 2013
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. - Red Adair – at Gilbert, AZ
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Neil Saunders@neilfws24 Jul 2013
Indeed: "gene expression changes...often reflect processes that are secondary...rather than causative events" nature.com/nature/journal/va…
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Michał Budzyński@michalbe10 Jul 2013
"Daddy, how is software made?" "Well, when a programmer loves an idea very much they stay up all night and then push to github the next day"
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ML Hipster@ML_Hipster11 Apr 2013
After a hard day's work doing Data Science I like to come home and wind down with some Food Cooking and Word Reading before bed.
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Walter Hickey@WaltHickey14 Jun 2013
Pie charts are the Nickelback of data visualization. There, I said it.
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Steve Shea@sheacshl11 May 2013
Don’t understand presenting work to the 600 people most likely to scoop you and then saying “shh lets keep this btw us” #BoG13 @DrLabRatOry
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Hosted Sean Eddy yesterday, @ewanbirney tomorrow, @ianholmes last year; still missing a few rookie cards from team Durbin
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