aidanmaartens.bsky.social
Scientific writer at the Sanger Institute. Formerly at Development journal, lapsed flypusher (Gurdon Institute, University of Sussex). Creative writing MA at UEA. Likes novels and gardens, lives in Cambridge. Immigrant.
👤 Joined on 18 November 2024
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@aidanmaartens.bsky.socialAI Slop Design School… (Did I spend hours meticulously recreating a horrible poster just to take the piss out of it? Hell yeah I did)
Show Post'Gardens, Morning Sun,' (1996) demonstrates Christopher Bramham's richly detailed urban landscapes. The intricately developed surfaces of these London garden scenes are reminiscent of Lucian Freud's paintings of a similar subject.
Show Postplaying with a figure for a pangenome paper. left, a random 500kb of the maize genome, with insertions above and deletions below the reference. insertions square-root scaled. right, a random 50kb segment with insertions shown at scale. the maize genome is a mess, folks!
Show PostExcavations between 2019-21 at Round Church Street, Cambridge discovered a large Romano-British pit that contained 9.6kg of pottery. Some vessels were almost complete when thrown into the pit where they smashed.
Show PostWe are living in the stupidest of times.
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