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Hi! I'm Russell.
I'm a microbiologist who uses graph theory and machine learning to study the relationships that bacteria and archaea form with their host organisms, and lately giant viruses and their hosts. Or, I'm a computer scientist who builds software that uses concepts from evolution to extract knowledge about ecology from large datasets. Or, I'm a data scientist who uses Python to explore biological systems. Or, I'm a physicist that went rouge and defected to the squishy side of science. Take your pick.
I am an assistant professor at Kyoto University Institue of Chemical Research working with Motomu Matsui's group.
Recent Posts
Back to the Future 27 May 2026
A little rededication of this dorky little blog after 23 years. Launched a new tool, mkprof, for running research blog using Obsidian and Jupyter to write articles.
Building Thread border router with an Espressif development kit 15 May 2026
My notes on building a Thread border router using Espressif's dev board, covering topics the official documentation doesn't (e.g., getting it to work with Home Assistant running in a container on a Linux host, including things like CasaOS or Portainer).
The NCLDV core genes, revisited 12 June 2025
Reanalysis of the NCLDV core genes using SuchTree.
A Passover message 10 April 2025
A few words to my Jewish brothers and sisters on the greatest crime of our generation.
Viral Ecology Modeling 6 March 2024
A workshop with David Demory on mathematical modeling of the community dynamics of viruses in Python
Other places you can find me¶
🪴 Blog : Vort.org 🐙 Github : Github 🦣 Mastodon : @ryneches@ecoevo.social 📜 Scholar : ryneches ✒️ ORCID : 0000-0002-2055-8381 🦋 Bluesky : @ryneches.bsky.social 📸 Flickr : https://www.flickr.com/photos/rneches/ ⚗️ Laboratory : 京都府宇治市五ヶ庄 京都大学 化学研究所 バイオインフォマティクスセンター