A little thing that brings me joy is conceptualizing the magnitude of genomic datasets in physical distances— if every nucleotide in my current contigs database were a 1mm bead on a string, that string would stretch from NYC to São Paulo, Brazil! 🤓

Wrapping up a great week of science with some light LEGO dehydration synthesis! @microbialplanet.bsky.social @fuuchan20.bsky.social @maksaito.bsky.social

We combed 12,003 published studies to evaluate how soil CH4 and N2O emissions affect net CO2 offsets across unmanaged biomes. The result? Warming from CH4-N2O effects diminishes but does not outweigh the climate opportunity benefits of ecosystem restoration. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! And that’s a wrap 🎬on C-CoMP Cruise 2 🚢! We (C-CoMP + AE) accomplished an impressive feat - 95 CTD casts, 110,778 L of sw filtered with @clio-thebgcauv.bsky.social, eddy sampling, & 9 exp types across 3 locations - to characterize marine chemical currencies & microbes!

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday! It’s a carbon feast 🍽️ and microbes🦠are invited! During the March 2025 C-CoMP cruise, early career researchers incubated surface ocean microbial communities on novel carbon sources produced by phytoplankton to study carbon drawdown rate and post-uptake fate.

This is what sci-fi dreams are made of!!

The war on science in the US is already having an effect on private sector research like AlphaFold. Bears repeating but the private sector builds on top of things created by academic research for the public good. This hurts everyone.

NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.

I had the opportunity to share how I apply machine learning concepts in my genomics research at the @lamont.columbia.edu 75th anniversary symposium last week! Being an ECR can be so cool!

Warming stripes on the road to OCP @lamont.columbia.edu, with a question that is now more relevant than ever given the state of climate science in the US today. What is next?

NASA Is Terminating The GISS Lease In Five Weeks nasawatch.com/personnel-ne... "NASA’s lease of Columbia University’s Armstrong Hall in New York City, home to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, will end effective May 31, 2025."

I imagine assembling a crummy metagenome is akin to being on Chopped… In your basket you will find: -Short reads from a soil sample sequenced at 0.5 Gb depth -An incomplete reference database -And an annotation tool that hasn’t been updated since 2010. You have 2 CPU-core hours. Good luck.🔥

Wonderful thread from @erinmaybach.bsky.social on the experience of a (primarily) computational scientist going on their first oceanographic research cruise. Really transporting!

As a primarily computational researcher, one of the most surprising takeaways from my first oceanographic research cruise was just how different ocean regimes feel from one another. I know this might sound obvious to many oceanographers, but for me, it was a major "aha!" moment. 🧵1/8

Scientists & students from C-CoMP are headed to sea today to study ocean microbial dynamics. The research expedition on the R/V Atlantic Explorer is traveling from Bermuda to Woods Hole, MA @microbialplanet.bsky.social ccomp-stc.org

And that's a wrap! Over the past two weeks, C-CoMP researchers braved stormy weather & rough seas to collect precious samples that will offer insights into the chemical-microbial network of the surface ocean 🌊🦠🚢! More photos and stories to come - stay tuned!

📣#MTTM Graduate student Erin Maybach, a member of the Dyhrman Microbial Oceanography Group at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, investigates how microbial interactions regulate the flux of carbon through the surface ocean using computational and experimental approaches.

We finish the Workshop on Genomics with a great inspirational talk! BIG DATA, by @rayanchikhi.bsky.social! Not every day one has the priviledge to interact with someone that has assembled ALL the sequencing data ever produced!!!! 🤯 #evomics2025 #genomics #bioinformatics

Morning lecture with Sonya Dyhrman on Genomics in the Ocean! 🌊🛥🧪🧬💻 Such an inspiring lecture! 🤩 #evomics2025 #bioinformatics #genomics

Week one in Český Krumlov ✅ #evomics2025