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Benjamin S-B

@bensb@genomic.social

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Group leader at the Ludwig Institute for #Cancer Research in Oxford. We do computational #genomics and #bioinformatics with a particular focus on #epigenetics and #mutation accumulation in the lead up to cancer. Also working on #cfDNA and early cancer detection in general. Views my own.

473 Followers

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Joined November 03, 2022

Web:

https://www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/team/benjamin-schuster-bockler

Twitter:

@dagams@twitter.com

Orcid:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8892-5133

Github:

https://github.com/DaGaMs

Benjamin S-B

@bensb@genomic.social

· 4mo ago

@Thayer@mastodon.social Wow, these numbers are OFF THE CHART for UK academia. They're outside any union-agreed salary scale. For comparison, an associate professor here is in the £70k range. I'm genuinely shocked. I'm not sure how this is even possible?

Benjamin S-B

@bensb@genomic.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @killercup@mastodon.social

Extremely cool stuff coming from the team here: a performance-focused, compile-time type checked alternative to htslib. #nerdcore #bioinformatics #ngs

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Benjamin S-B

@bensb@genomic.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@command_tab@hachyderm.io 💯 it took me a while, but nowadays I consider objectiveC the most "elegant" language I've ever coded in. Its readability was just unrivalled, and the code tended to have a structure that facilitated understanding the flow.

Benjamin S-B

@bensb@genomic.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@mitchellh@hachyderm.io @isaiah@mastodon.social super Interesting - how could that ever work, though? I don't think the Agents are fully deterministic, and you don't have control over the underlying models either, so the prompt history would only be an approximation of but not a guaranteed record of history, no?

Benjamin S-B

@bensb@genomic.social

· 46mo ago

Replying to

@metabolist@mastodon.social Metatext is amazing, but I know how exhausting it can be to maintain an app like this. Take care of yourself first. Let's hope someone can step up and take over 💪