I'm Steven — I work at the University of Washington, where I study shellfish, genomes, and the places those two things collide. Nearly everything I do ends up in a repo somewhere: code, data, half-finished analyses, and the occasional idea that didn't survive contact with the data.

13.5 °C in the water off Manchester, Puget Sound, Sep 27 11:48 local, via NOAA CO-OPS Tacoma, WA.

That number is real, and it's a decent indicator of where I am. If I've gone quiet on here, odds are I'm standing in it — out at a shellfish farm doing the part of this job that no amount of compute will do for me.

Whatever comes of either half — a methylation signal, a genome assembly that finally behaves, or a bag of oysters that didn't — gets written up here.

Oil vs. Control Ranks 9 of 10 Label Splits
SRP139854 (BioProject PRJNA449904) is six eastern oyster gill libraries from 2015: three unexposed (NB3, NB6, NB11) and three exposed to 25,000 ppm…
_{Sep 26, 2026 · Epigenetics · Genomics}

Does a 4-hour resazurin trace forecast field performance? Mostly no
Zero of the 284 distinct indices cleared family-wise p < 0.05 for survival, growth, condition index, tissue weight, cup, yield, or the performance…
_{Sep 19, 2026 · Aquaculture · Computing}

No Genotype-Environment Association in Olympia Oyster lcWGS
We tested whether allele frequencies across 15 Olympia oyster (Ostrea lurida) collections track local environmental conditions, using redundancy…
_{Sep 19, 2026 · Genomics · Computing}

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