This soup is extremely easy to make and uses up vegetable stems you would otherwise discard, such as the celery and broccoli stems living in the bottom of my fridge. This will transform them into a savory soup full of protein, fiber, and micronutrients. No snot is involved – but this did receive an official blessing from the Troll Kingdom of Low Waste Living.

Time: 10 mins prep, 30-40 mins cooking

Hi all, since I posted an answer on Biostars about how to access the raw RNA-Seq GTEx data (The Genotype-Tissue Expression Consortium), I have fielded questions from researchers at many institutions asking for more information. Disclaimer, I am not part of the Sequence Read Archive staff or the National Library of Medicine. But I seem to be one of the first people who was granted access through…

TIME-COURSE SINGLE-CELL TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS OF CONTROLLED NEURAL CONVERSION OF HUMAN IPS CELLS

P.H. Chu1, C. Malley1, J. Braisted1, C. Tristan1, R. Bargaje1, and I. Singeç1

1National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Stem Cell Translation Laboratory (SCTL), Rockville, MD

Presented at the National Institutes of Health Molecular Biology in Single Cells Symposium, March 23-24…

A messy photomanipulation for fun, with two base images as usual: a student walking between ruined buildings, and a macro of forget-me-not flowers. Spilled color / burnt film texture and a moiré underpainting (last image in series). Embracing both inherent blur and rough bucket-fill edges. At the same time feeling small, almost fragile, and alone, yet persevering and moving ahead. Stupidly or…

Another piece with nature + technology elements, this time with a Motorola MC68012 processor from the 80s and a sweeping view of the Annapurna mountains. I have made many pieces like this before, almost identically, but haven’t tired of it yet. It is an easy escape: The moiré waves overflow off the edges of a landscape flecked with gold conductive contacts. In the near-black red and indigo there…

Statement: An old ASUS motherboard photo plus a chicory inflorescence. First full image is flush with vitality and movement, while the next is a deconstruction to evoke torn up flowers and fabric. Maybe this is a botanical pressing saved to file, then excavated and found to be corrupt later. A realistic cyberpunk future would be constrained by familiar organic limitations.

Just a quick update for those who have not heard yet, I am now working at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), employed through Kelly Services as a contractor. I am in Dr. Ilyas Singeç’s stem cell technology lab as a bioinformatics support and data science point-person to develop an iPSC Portal website and build new single…

close up at 100% zoom –  New art made in an afternoon. I found a CC0 photo site (public domain Creative Commons) so naturally I found a good landscape + clouds photo for making good old fashioned digital art. https://pxhere.com Aesthetic: fruit salad – watermelon, blood oranges, blackberries highly pigmented watercolors with color bleeds partially destroyed photos strong winds sudden drop in…

One of the common complaints I hear about R as a data analysis language is its relatively slow speed, compared to the C at its foundation or other, lower-level programming languages (C family, java, fortran). For-loops can be incredibly slow! They do get the job done eventually, serially (one task at a time), instead of in parallel (multiple tasks at a time). When a coworker presented in May with…

Featured image: “Midnight,” digital art I made in 2014. Moiré exclusion patterns are created from layering multiple photographs of a LCD screen. Bands of solid color are from certain non-proportionally stretched layers in the vertical direction. Hi all! It’s been a hot minute since I updated here. A lot of big events have happened, ranging from good to terrible, since the last post: I got…

Hi guys! I tried out a subscription box since the 1st and 5th snack boxes are free, and it was pretty tasty. Here is my honest experience & the coupon code so you can try it too. Before I babble on any further, here is the code for the free boxes: >> 33MYK4YPP << This is the link in plain text if you have trouble: https://www.graze.com/us/p/33MYK4YPU (more…)

I have a conference coming up in two weeks, the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), where I will be presenting a technical poster in the bioinformatics section. The code behind the graphs will be on my github here. For this post I’d like to focus on my ggplot code rather than the science, so it can help a broader audience of data scientists and biologists. You can download the whole poster…

America is losing up to 40 percent of its food from farm to fork to landfill. – Natural Resources Defense Council report, pdf This 40% statistic comes up again and again, mostly in the zero-waste and food-waste concerned communities. It’s an absurdly high amount of waste. Think about how many hungry people that food could feed, or how much extra landfill it takes up, burping the potent greenhouse…

Hi y’all! After 2 years of trying hundreds of vegan recipes, and buying all sorts of expensive ingredients to make complex dishes, I’ve simplified my diet to save time and money for regular weeknight meals. Here are my top tips for how to grocery shop on a frugal budget, with emphasis on healthy vegan foods. The cool thing about a plant based diet is that the staples are already cheaper than a…