Wow this journal thinks their authors are so bad at writing that AI would do a better job

A fun vanity app to see a word cloud of your 2025 posts: anisota.net/harvest @bsky.app should make this a button to help you decide whether to follow back 😜

Didn't know this ASLO program included undergrads as well, what a cool opportunity for research abroad!

Now there's TWO recent preprints on 16S primer choice! V4-EXT (V4 with broader diversity?) JEDI (V4-V5 validated for 18S as well?) Haven't wrapped my head around which is which and they're both brand new so no in-paper discussion (ppr links below)

My friend knew this was a stressful week for me and dropped off this friendship bracelet 🤗😂 it is making me smile!

Just noticed the Q&A comment boxes on peerJ articles now- wow! neat idea, curious if they'll be used

What's up with isme having uncorrected manuscripts up for months? How are papers "published in April" still not actually published? Since when was this a thing??

This is cool. Have long thought journal reviews/publishing should follow the WI DNR earn-a-buck model

New swag from the @taccutexas.bsky.social machine learning training 😂 So nice to be back in Texas for a week, see my labbies IRL and learn some new things

Why did I study bacterial evolution when I could have studied pasta evolution? 🍝🤤 Imagine the fieldwork...

What percent reads mapped to MAGs is "good" for soil or sediment samples? is lower than water samples OK/expected due to more complex communities? 🙏 🖥️🧬 microbiome, metagenomics

@theatlantic.com has made reading a Newick tree as a text file into a fun game 😂

Excited to read this preprint full of my favorite topics! -6 yr time series -microbial phenology -climatic extremes (Marine samples from Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy pi day! This year we made sinusoidal cucumbers in addition to the traditional pizza and pies 😋

I love data.table so so much more than tidyverse. #rstats Here's an example, similar length but count the total functions outside of core syntax: dplyr: 10 group_by(), summarize(), sum(), arrange(), desc(), slice_head(), pull(), mutate(), ifelse(), %in% data.table: 3 sum(), order(), %in%

Appreciating all the executive order news coverage on @science.org , noting its absence in [other leading journal's] news section. 👉👉👉 This is why we support society journals 👈👈👈 www.science.org/news/science...

Today is the one-year anniversary of finishing my recent @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social paper's final draft 📝. It is also my son's 1st birthday 🐣. Seems like a good time for an explainer thread! (1/n) @archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @sarilog.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Googled "is science broken right now" and... depressing. 🧪But seriously is anyone else unable to load @science.org journal articles rn?

It has been amazing to continue this long-term research through a PhD with @quendi.bsky.social and a postdoc with @archaeal.bsky.social . Not everyone gets to see a project through like this as an ECR- thanks to supportive PI's and the NSF-PRFB fellowship that let me design my own postdoc 💙🧪

A great welcome back to work after the holidays! This is my first Nature-family paper and I really liked their publishing model with a supportive, involved, full-time editor. You can see how this paper developed on bioRxiv and in the public review documents 📝 @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

Thanks to Marc Airhart for the lovely #SciComm about my latest paper. It's awesome to see a professional make your work accessible 🖥️🧬🧪 @texasscience.bsky.social

Google AI has gotten pretty advanced now it can read my cat's thoughts (happy #caturday)

Trying out anvi'o for the first time (!!somehow!!), but I can't find any details on the methods underlying these functions. Like anvi-refine clusters your contigs... based on.. what vectors? what distance? is everyone just using these methods blindly or am I missing something? 🖥️🧬 #microbiome

Tell me you've organized field campaigns without telling me you've organized field campaigns 🌎

I thought, "welp, bots have arrived on Bluesky," but turns out nearly all my new followers appear to be real people! wow! Also exciting that this new network seems to be more diverse than mine was on twitter- both in people's geographic locations and study-ecosystems 🤗

all code tutorials should print hello kitty instead of hello world 🧬🖥️😼

What softwares are people using these days to pull single copy marker genes out of MAGs? (looking for modern alternatives to phylosift) #metagenomics #microbiomes 🧬🖥️

TFW you wake up with an idea for a cool plot, and suddenly have a bunch of motivation to make it happen 📊

Been dreaming of this paper for a decade. 1 PhD and 1 postdoc later, here it is! What do ecology and evolution look like in a 20-year microbiome time series? They blur together @quendi.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social @sarilog.bsky.social 🧪🖥️🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Oooh! Time series are the best!

Just murmured "aaaand X" as I clicked uninstall. Maybe that's what the new name stands for?

Dreaming of a white Christmas? How about some winter limnology! @quendi.bsky.social and thanks JGI for putting together this fun video of how we sample the lake microbiome! 🧪🌎🌊❄️🦠 youtu.be/QGxTJ2qCE-o?...

How are you supposed to work when there's so many Iceland volcano videos to keep up with? 🌋❤️🌋❤️🌋❤️🌋

This giving Tuesday I spent some extra time on my undergrad mentee's project and finished a review. Hope that counts? #AcademicSky

Excited to see this out @katyappler.bsky.social ! As I recall a packed room full of ISME attendees has been (impatiently) waiting for it!! 🧪🖥️🧬🌎 Microbiome #archaeasky

Had a lovely visit to UCSD last week to give the Scripps ecology seminar and talk about Lake Mendota's microbiome! So many nice people and so much exciting research! Plus I got to tick off another pilgrimage to a microbial time series site: the beautiful Scripps pier! 🧪🌎

A pianist at PDX airport is singing "leaving on a jet plane" rn and I don't understand how everyone else is not laughing too. Anyway, excited to visit UCSD and give the Scripps dept ecology seminar tomorrow! 🌎🧳🛫

public service announcement: the help desk at NCBI is excellent. email & you get a real person, who will talk to you about your bioinformatics Qs, and they are genuinely helpful. its nice when we get to have nice things. 🦠🧪 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Beach combing in Kentucky may sound lame... until you realize it's fossil hunting!! 🦖🦕 Still feeling the glow of a weekend off spending time with family (and collecting crinoids)

And the @hydrobert.bsky.social -related good news keeps coming with an accept letter today 😀 🥳

Love reading good news in the morning!! Many well deserved congrats @hydrobert.bsky.social

This stinker saw I was heading for the bathroom and bolted in front of me!

Got a congratulatory letter from the utilities company for using less electricity than average. Guess there was one perk to no AC in the heat wave 😅

Threaded view is now an option!!

This is fun!!

Question microbiome peeps: How do you pronounce SVs (structural variants) so that it does not sound the same as SNVs? 🧬🖥️ (And remind me why we stopped saying SNPs?)

Did Euk immunity originate with Asgards? @pedroleao.bsky.social 's been giving exciting lab meeting updates for a year, and now YOU can see it too! Out today on bioRxiv: 🧪🧬🖥️ #microbiome @archaeal.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Some great reporting on cyanoblooms in Wired. Love it when talented writers put topics I study into stories I can share with my family (and fun they got to see my little cameo at the end!) www.wired.co.uk/article/blue...

Curious what people use when they don't want detailed annotations but want finer categories than COGs. Any favorite software? I've found about a million tools to parse GO terms, but no idea which to try or if that's even the best angle! 🙏🙏 🖥️🧬

Seems appropriate that the first night post-Labor Day is the first night I wake up too cold 🥶 Time to dust off the duvet, and maybe my phenology playlist too 🎶 open.spotify.com/playlist/3ow...