The Symeonides lab had four remarkably talented undergraduate researchers finish their degrees this year. This thread will highlight them (in no particular order) and their work:

How HIV research drives health innovation in multiple diseases The future of HIV research — and of the USA’s scientific leadership — depends on bold, sustained action in defense of discovery, investment, and innovation. www.nature.com/artic... 1/2

Three abstracts submitted for CSH Retroviruses this year! Particularly excited about one of them as it came together in the nick of time, but all three are going to be bangers.

What if the indirect cost model is truly broken and wasteful... AND the idea that it would be cut to 15% across the board with 3 days' notice is just about the worst way possible to address this problem?

Quoting this paper: Viral rebound has also been described in untreated individuals (24, 25), but often at a lower frequency compared with N-R treated individuals regardless of rebound definition (6, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27).

I can't decide what's worse when coding with ChatGPT: ChatGPT-4 being maliciously lazy, or ChatGPT-3.5 being just straight dumb? Either way, what a waste of time (and money).

Dear Outlook, no I do not want to send a read receipt for an email I just marked as Junk.

I have my issues with FlowJo, but the new version that just came out with spectral plots is pretty damn cool!!!

My "Friends don't let friends make bad graphs" repository has reached 1000+ stars on GitHub! I can't believe it! Thanks everyone for the interest and support. Gonna add this to my CV. 😂😂😂 github.com/cxli233/Frie...

Note to self: Clone the damn thing in the right way round next time. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

This place is so much better than X (cesspool of misinfo and rage) and Mastodon (deader than the actual animal it's named after). Let's get all the good people over here!