Luke Pembleton

Genomic Breeding Scientist 👨‍💻🧬 | Global Science Manager – #FFDB00 Seed Company 🌱| Nextflow Ambassador Alumni | Timezone variable 🕒🌎 | Dad | 🇦🇺 #RStats / #Nextflow / #AWS / #Linux / #Genomics / #Bioinformatics / #GenomicBreeding / #GenomicSelection

Website: https://lpembleton.rbind.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/lpembleton

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lwpembleton_at_genomic.social@momostr.pink

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2026-08-07 01:28:48 UTC

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even better 😂
https://chaser.com.au/business/jetstar-introduces-sitting-inside-the-plane-fee/

2026-08-05 05:16:44 UTC

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https://theshovel.com.au/2026/08/05/jetstar-announces-new-39-95-same-day-arrival-fee/

2026-07-20 00:01:22 UTC

Anyone know of any open source journals with no publishing fees, in the #genomics #bioinformatics #rstats fields? My team and I are interested in publishing more side projects, but its hard to justify the publishing fees when you aren't in the #academic space. I guess the other alternative to is find a collaborator at a uni.
#AcademicPublishing

2026-03-30 15:28:23 UTC

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Hopefully this helps 👍 I'm sure you can go more fancy, but its a good example starting point.
#rstats
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/116/318/830/598/782/421/original/2c70320e41f3952e.png
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/116/318/830/587/266/220/original/938f85ebd0e76a5d.png

2026-03-29 23:29:38 UTC

Really enjoying the concept of using yaml config files with my #rstats scripts (an idea I took from my r targets pipelines), instead of hardcoding inputs in the script itself, or having inputs and params as command line variables. Makes it easy to move between projects, keeps a record of what was used etc. happy days! 😀

2026-02-10 04:27:30 UTC

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what did you end up going with? It’s behind a paywall for me.

2025-12-06 14:39:42 UTC

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haha that's because Dan thinks the answer to all life's problems is {targets}. Whilst I admit, I do use it regularly, and it has solved a lot, it's not very suited in this situation when hacking away at some early development code that isn't suited yet to wrapping into a function and our source file.
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/115/673/135/737/460/191/original/4721c76e3e0178fc.jpg

2025-12-05 23:32:43 UTC

Anyone know why pasting multi-line R code into the terminal suddenly breaks? A long loop won’t paste/execute cleanly, I just end up stuck with a trailing +. If I paste it in smaller chunks it works fine. Any fix for this?
#RStats

2025-08-11 02:02:19 UTC

What do you do when your coffee goes cold?

2025-08-07 00:23:58 UTC

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the strokes!!!

2025-08-01 10:30:21 UTC

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whats the Macquarie app like? Can you ‘cover’ transactions like you can in the UP app?

2025-08-01 10:26:38 UTC

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so I take it you were one of many that replied to the ‘what’s new’ post with the turd 💩 emoji 😉

2025-05-21 01:23:39 UTC

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brilliant I wondered if that was it. It looks great. Thank you. How much is the lifetime subscription? I assume you went that pathway?

2025-05-20 16:42:16 UTC

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what are you using to get these cool effects?

2025-03-02 11:43:26 UTC

Does anyone use #duckdb as a database for #genomic sequence data, i.e. sample metadata, fastq & vcf file paths etc. and have it sit in a s3 bucket or ftp server to then query from, both within cloud compute and from local compute?

2025-01-05 00:40:07 UTC

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you mean cool cool right 😉
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/113/772/959/665/493/321/original/3f23ae50e7f61da4.mp4

2025-01-02 06:37:49 UTC

#internet #Enshitiffication
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/113/757/343/914/880/728/original/9ff46a1bff5f2b83.jpeg

2024-12-30 00:25:59 UTC

This is what I have added to my .bashrc file
alias untar="tar xvf"
alias untgz="tar xvzf"
alias untargz="tar xvzf"
alias unbz2="tar xvjf"
#Linux #Bash #bioinformatics
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2024-12-26 03:05:56 UTC

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ohhh I think that might have done it 👍 thanks heaps! brightness & contrast adjustments + dither + purple colour + colour scheme adjustment (using https://farbenfroh.io) + resize. I'm sure there is a more direct way, but it worked 😀 this tiled as a wallpaper is brilliant.
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/113/716/910/643/920/492/original/fe3d1619dc0a11d1.png

2024-12-26 00:02:09 UTC

So I’ve resettled on my final wallpaper - this small #rstats hex sticker collage as your desktop #wallpaper (with tile to fit) the effect is amazing 🤩 Bit of colour filtering to match your style and it’s even better.
But… I can’t remember how I created the final purple version with the pixelated blended colour effect, from the original (external source) faded blue version.
Does anyone know what filters in #GIMP I could apply to achieve this again with another image.
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/113/716/187/999/297/224/original/c51edd2efe0bafb7.png
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/113/716/188/020/280/868/original/a3b71fb96920473b.png

2024-11-28 23:22:16 UTC

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I guess @npub1fpp…gtzp will be in the same pickle with the rstate.me instance. Hopefully there is a pathway forwards, as they are both really critical instances for our community.

2024-10-18 23:06:31 UTC

Anyone in Australia 🦘 have recommendations for a reputable seller of the GBS-Control for upscaling retro gaming consoles like the #PS2?
#retrogaming

2024-09-13 00:18:12 UTC

Probably should have known this earlier, but in #rstats you can pipe |> into View(), allowing you to interactively view the output of a function or series of dplyr manipulations in the VSCode or RStudio GUI viewer without having to save to an object first.
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/113/127/370/824/699/096/original/10278327ab494ac1.mp4

2024-09-04 08:48:54 UTC

Hang on what happened to August??
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/113/078/417/157/375/754/original/372fd1c7bde9b9f2.jpeg

2024-09-04 05:33:09 UTC

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you can get a laptop for that and it folds too 🤣

2024-08-25 01:41:24 UTC

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was going to say if you got desperate you could always grab cooking string from the green or red shops.

2024-08-19 01:18:55 UTC

What’s your #rstats #ROrigin story? I started my PhD in 2011 and initially was using Excel macros 😱 to perform optimal genetic combination selection, taking over all the office PCs at night for pseudo parallel processing. Within a few months I attended an internal 1day quantitative breeding course which used R. I was immediately hooked 🤩 everything felt so natural and I rewrote all my analyses the next day in R. 2years later I successfully submitted my first pkg to CRAN, & the rest is history 🥳

2024-08-19 00:37:09 UTC

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I remember waiting for my nexus 5 to arrive many years ago and monitoring the tracking too, only for it to be stolen from my front door soon after delivery...

2024-08-13 03:10:04 UTC

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where have you been ordering your HGST drives from? I’ve always found them more difficult to source down under than other brands.

2024-08-08 00:17:40 UTC

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Jealous! all this talk of native Linux setups. I am still unfortunately too reliant on the MS Office suite daily, particularly around work collaboration, that I have never been able to to successful last on a native Linux system for work. WSL is my compromise.

2024-08-05 01:01:15 UTC

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Here are the current designs if you would prefer to continuing engaging here rather than GitHub.
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/112/906/709/793/355/197/original/1eb3a2d55525ffd6.png

2024-08-05 01:00:48 UTC

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Ok, so I have reworked the wording and made a few more designs. I have also set it up as a GitHub repo so that others can collaborate. If you have alt design suggestions please open an issue, or submit a pull request, would love for this to be a community effort.
#rstats
https://github.com/lpembleton/aqw

2024-08-04 14:50:03 UTC

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on it! new design coming soon 👍

2024-08-04 07:45:30 UTC

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that’s the plan, I want it to be a community shared badge/icon for #rstats and broader GitHub repos. Hence the desire for peoples feedback on what design and text works best. I like the idea of simplifying/shortening the text 👍

2024-08-04 01:58:58 UTC

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yeh settling on the text is the bit I’m struggling with the most… do we just keep it really simple and to the point. ‘All questions welcomed here’

2024-08-04 01:29:41 UTC

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An initial 5min mock up… Suggestions on text, colours, circle or hexagon, alt designs? 🤔
#rstats
https://cdn.masto.host/genomicsocial/media_attachments/files/112/901/158/549/609/334/original/a88f385d0cc36097.jpeg

2024-08-03 00:12:25 UTC

I’ve always like helping others with my #rstats packages 📦 It’s satisfying and a nice change to the usual work. Unfortunately I suspect some people are hesitant to reach out. Has anyone made a cool logo 🤩 to put on your GitHub repos that clearly communicates you are open to helping others use the repo/package regardless of skill level?

2023-07-20 17:02:21 UTC

#Introduction Hi there 👋 I'm Luke Pembleton, a Genomic Breeding Scientist & Strategic Science Manager for a global seed company. Currently based in Melbourne 🇦🇺 but my timezone 🕒🌎 is variable & you will often find me working in EU or US hrs. I enjoy all things 🧬 genomics, with a special focus on 🌱🐄 genomic selection & breeding. R is my go-to language 💻 with a healthy side of Bash hacking. I also create cloud ☁️computing environments for research & production pipelines with my wingman Nextflow 🔃