Andrew Kern
@pastramimachine
Evolution, population genetics, machine learning. rhythm section.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, South Pacific Ocean Maraenui, 1990
I'm thrilled that my lab at NYU is now supported by an NIH MIRA grant! I'm looking to hire 1-2 senior lab members (outstanding postdoc candidates or experienced staff scientists) with expertise in computational and statistical methods in human genetics or genomics. Please share!
thinking about going all in and building the god machine in my garage
Would take real courage to bite the head off a live bat these days
The opening of data science depts everywhere basically guarantees this
Prediction: a year from now, US computer science departments will find their enrollment at 50% of what they have been the past few years. I'm willing to bet a peppercorn on it for someone who really wants to hold me to it. (-:
They say Twitter has a character limit but have you even scrolled this app?
Ate every meal for a month at Murder Burger (RIP) cause I was a grad student and had won free food
What’s the worst diet experiment you’ve ever done?
New preprint! We unveil the profound connection between the Ancestral Recombination Graph and Linear Mixed Models. Guess what? Random effects are merely a consequence of mutations running on a fixed genealogy. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Postdoc position opening in my group! Research projects: pangenomes for diverse organisms, genome evolution, biocomputing, language models. Please reach out if interested!
I recommend this exhibit to anyone in Baltimore or anywhere else.
You people aren't listening to nearly enough Dinosaur Jr. and frankly it shows.
Our latest paper is out rdcu.be/ev6Ym @NatureEcoEvo . It began about 8 years ago when Nobel laureate Torsten Wiesel asked me: what transcription factors regulate new genes? I had no idea then. Now we have some answers.
Our work on "Evaluating the representational power of pre-trained DNA language models for regulatory genomics" led by @AmberZqt with help from @NiraliSomia & @stevenyuyy is finally published in Genome Biology! Check it out! genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
Do current genomic language models (pre-trained on whole genomes) learn a foundational understanding of biology in the non-coding region of human genomes? A new evaluation led by @AmberZqt suggests not yet! 1/N paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
this guy spent 21 years building a miniature version of nyc consisting of almost a million buildings, the full model is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he first announced it on tiktok like this: