I wonder what % of meeting times are taken up by waiting for academics to unmute themselves.

I've just had 2 days, back to back, of actually being productive and omg how in my soul's cup is filled.

Is there any memory-efficient k-mer counter (a la KMC) currently available in Rust?

Every day, I'm so incredibly grateful to be able to live here. 📷: www.instagram.com/p/DVCTeKhkr1...

I think I fixed Bruce!!! Just needed reboot on an older kernel.

Happy Birthday! I first read about the LTEE in high school in a science magazine my Bio teacher had in the classroom. I don't think I thought "I want to be a microbiologist," but the article planted the seed. Amazing that it's nearly at "mid life" (by human standards)., excited for what's next!

Never thought I would miss Blackboard 🤣🤣

what even is the fucking point

if i find a student using this, i'm reporting them to academic integrity so fast my keyboard will be smoking and i'm usually a "please don't make me report you, let's talk this through" person to my core

I'm at a brewery reviewing manuscripts and my headphones have died plz send help.

Something I loathe about US culture (let's not get into all the things) is the rush to clear dishes from restaurant tables. Polar opposite from southern EU culture I grew up in. I get it's well intentioned, but please don't rush me, I'm not done, please collect them all together.

January was 2 months long and February was 2 weeks long.

Curious question on ancestral sequence reconstruction: Since we can't go back in time to sequence the ancestor, how do we know if the reconstructed sequence is actually the ancestral sequence?

Alita Burmeister (@aburmeister.bsky.social) is looking to hire a postdoc (or potentially a PhD student) for projects on phage resistance and evolution. The position description is posted to the Eco-Evo Jobs wiki and also available on her lab's website (arburmeister.weebly.com).

i co-teach a research methods in ecology & evolution class and my colleague was lecturing and said "chlorophyll" and immediately my brain went "chlorophyll??? more like borophyll!!!"

Someone needs to tell me the intended purpose of this architecture. Signed, A very wet professor

And this is why I am on this site 🤣

I'm scared something is dying in one of my lab supercomputers (not a cluster but a standalone machine, named Bruce) so I need to back up everything and take it to the silicon doctor. It's laggy and file transfer gets throttled please don't die on me Bruuuuuuce.

Yesterday I was spoken to in an incredibly disrespectful way, but to protect some students and a larger relationship I bit my tongue and let me tell you I've been SEETHING for 24 hours. You cannot muzzle a Croatian. It bleeds through somewhere.

I've had the kind of day where I dread opening my email and am heading straight to happy hour.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

Increased mutation rates and diversity are dominant features of Geobacter multiheme cytochromes journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

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And more reporting on a historic program that is increasingly unsettled, with late-breaking changes to criteria, fewer awards, applications returned without review, and more: via @jonathanwosen.bsky.social for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Watching the America's Next Top Model documentary and it's 🤯 how I vividly remember watching (and re-watching) these scenes as a teenager as if they were normal and I'm sobbing watching them now.

Annotating genomes at increased scale and resolution www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Just pulled out html coding skills from my MySpace page customization era brain archives to make multiple paragraphs in my NIH SciENcv Personal Statement section 🤣

It's raining for 3 days in San Diego. We knew this was coming. Not a single umbrella in sight. We are the culture of hooded-rainjackets-are-enough.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Advice for a friend: When one gets a tenure track offer, at what stage would be best to bring up a possible spousal hire in negotiations? At first conversation? After first offer? In this case it'll be first a conversation with the chair who is a go-between w/ the dean. Advice would be welcome.

Sometimes I pull up teaching materials I made years ago and am like "damn I had so much creativity and brain power, what happened..."

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Finally got our little doofus's DNA checked and she's 56% Am Bully Classic, 38% Am Pitbull Terrier, and 5% Am Bulldog (she's also a little inbred 🤭). So she's ALLL bully. Where did the coat come from???

I have 20 years of fine lab motor skills experience and can comfortably and precisely pipet 0.2uL... but I can't for the life of me crack an egg properly.

Mix of meetings with academic and industry folks today.... all industry meetings started on time and ended early; all academic meetings started late and ran late.

Anyone else feel like "eDNA" is the new "epigenetics" in the sense of it being the most misused term?

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Someone just called my slow AF arthritic 13yo dog "puppy". Damn right she is.

Well this will go down in the books as top 10 best advice I've gotten on SciTwitter/Sky.

For someone who LOOOOOVVVVVEESSSSS shopping it's strange how much anxiety setting up orders for lab materials causes me.

ONT seq help: Has anyone had success using less than the 10ng of input DNA for the 16S barcoding kit? Trying to use it for low biomass samples.

Rapid gene exchange explains differences in bacterial pangenome structure www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

I am once again for the zillionth time BEGGING journal manuscript review systems to put the figure captions with the figures. Not 10 pages of references away.

I am looking for examples of a 2-3 hour lab activity for a course that would allow college students to get some experience connected to environmental DNA studies (e.g., e-DNA, rRNA/ITS PCR, metagenomics, etc). Ideally this would have some DNA extraction and some follow up processing / analysis.

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him

what a shot

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit