Grateful to work with the wonderful @vilcekfoundation.bsky.social and the super talented Hiroki Otsuka on a short manga highlighting our research and my journey as an immigrant scientist! 🧪🦠🧬 vilcek.org/news/microbe...

Yikes… NIH dropping IC to 15% grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Happy to share our new paper in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social on mapping spatial relationships of the human gut microbiome. We identified distinct spatial hubs between gut bacteria that reflect sub-community assemblies at the micron-scale. Led by Miles Richardson & co. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💡💥Here’s a modest proposal I’ve been pondering for a while on how to change the PEER REVIEW process and start more community-driven SCIENCE FUNDING. Lots of feedback/discussion welcomed! Other variants of the idea might exist already—not claiming originality. (a long 🧵) (1/9)

One under-appreciated challenge of mid-career PI’s is that after a decade or more, the big equipments you originally bought all break down and need replacement. People don’t necessarily have discretionary funds at this point and it’s hard to bootstrap through grants.

New paper from the lab out in Cell Systems. “Spatiotemporal dynamics during niche remodeling by super-colonizing microbiota in the mammalian gut” www.cell.com/cell-systems...