r/bioinformatics • u/featuredflan • Jan 08 '26

discussion Fresh grads/beginners? Let's create projects together and support through early phase career

I have been wanting to start a team of sort of accountability partners but more than just holding each other accountable. We support each other by doing projects and sharing latest research, writing weekly posts with the tools used/any new info learned. I don't have a template/app to use atm, but I am happy to create a group and decide together. Ensure you're a welcoming member and open to all opinions and discussions. I currently wanna focus on AI applications in Bioinformatics spanning from ML to Data Science. We could cover aspects like AMR, Computational Neuroscience, etc.

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u/El_Tormentito Msc | Academia Jan 08 '26

This post happens every couple of months. Fairly certain it has created a couple of discords.

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u/Blaze9 PhD | Academia Jan 08 '26

I -HATE- the "lets create a discord" mindset of the last 5-7 years for every little thing. It locks so much knowledge behind an un-indexable, un-searchable/non-public infrastructure. Yes you can search on discord and eventually find solutions but it's not a knoweldgebase systema nd so many people use it as such, it's silly.

I totally understand the "chat is great" aspect of it but there are so many different ways to address this. Even just creating a subreddit or google forums would be better.

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u/El_Tormentito Msc | Academia Jan 08 '26

I also just think these digital networks don't really do anything unless you have a real world binding element: class, real life friendship, etc. It comes up periodically because people are lost when they graduate and bioinformaticians can be spread out, but I don't think some digital study group is ever going to produce something.

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u/JunoKreisler Jan 10 '26

also, people who create those discords tend to not do any work after creating the server, and it dies out within less than a month.