I hypothesize that hockey players have above average fly swatting ability. #Olympics

New bioRxiv preprint 🚀 Introducing SIPdb: a 16S rRNA gene database of stable isotope probing studies + incorporator annotations + pipeline + interactive dashboard. Built for SIPsters, but designed to add info to any microbiome dataset via sequence-based inference. Take a look! bit.ly/4rMn45y

Happy to announce that after nearly 4 years, I’ve built a lab website with the help of LLMs and my team. It’s built in React, hosted on GitHub, and 95% of the content updates from a single spreadsheet. Check it out: www.meme-laboratory.com

In this #GenomeInsider🎧: We delve into stable isotope probing, a powerful, complex process for studying microbial communities — and efforts by the JGI to make the technique more accessible, reproducible & insightful. SIPs with Standards: jgi.doe.gov/user-science... @metarolism.bsky.social 🖥️🧬 🦠

This conference on EcoFABs looks awesome! Registration ends soon! eco-fab.org/ecofab-2025-... Some awesome speakers, including: @maggiesogin.bsky.social @elizabethshank.bsky.social @jackgilbertt.bsky.social

Come learn about the molecular handshake between plants and microbes! We are so grateful that Dr. Kateryna Zhalnina is here to share her research with us. Come to Lilly Hall, room: 2-425 at 2:30 pm @boilermicrobes.bsky.social

We need a better vision. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

PSA the @GreenGenes2 database still does not have Chloroplast or Mitochondrial taxonomic classifications entered. This may impact your analyses, especially with plant- or host-derived microbiome data. The maintainers know (bit.ly/40mBuyN), but haven't updated as of 4:40 pm 27/10/2024

Steady as we go. The world is beautiful. Less shouting, more problem solving. Together we can make things better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K6V...

A quirk in the US visa system has my LP living with my parents on her own. She gets to recreate my teenage years by going to a concert and having to tiptoe back into the house after just experiencing a force of nature, specifically Serena Ryder: youtu.be/iRmv8wcp8RI?...

I, too, feel a deep sadness for AI... www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm...

Let's all give the Atkinson font a try. I find it elegant, and it is the kind of rising tide that lifts all boats. www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

My colleague Ben Mueller and I have new 🧪 stories out about the brain. Ben writes about an implant that allows someone with ALS to talk. I write about how a quarter of unresponsive people with brain injuries might actually capable of sustained cognition. Ben: nyti.ms/4cnatO5 Me: nyti.ms/4dntRfd

Go Phil Wizard! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiR5...

Congratulations to the class of 2024! You've endured a lot and deserve praise for your grit. Your degree will provide you the basis for a lifetime of learning, and hopefully you picked up some dance moves along the way. Time to celebrate with friends and family! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAyW...

Opportunities at the USGS for a Land Change Science Program Manager (Interdisciplinary Biologist/Physical Scientist). Details here: www.usajobs.gov/job/789095100

Growth rate is a dominant factor predicting the rhizosphere assembly of bacterial communities. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...

Wow, hacking SSH would have been a disaster. Thank you Andres Freund! You are a friend indeed! www.nytimes.com/2024/04/03/t...

An RNA-dependent RNA polymerase catalyzing the evolution of a new RNA enzyme in vitro. A lynchpin in the RNA world hypothesis. Absolutely AMAZING! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Can it be said that Microsoft Teams has more issues than the entire Marvel comics catalogue? Are we, the paying customers, also the beta-testers or what? @microsoft.bsky.social

Walking the woods on a moonless night is a spectacle: Biofluorescence: Unseen world of the Celtic rainforest revealed by UV www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wale...

My first formal debate! My partner, Dr. Leo Green, and I gave the audience whiplash. What fun! Leo convinced me of the role of professors in facilitating the AI-human interface. But, I remain concerned that the disruptive potential of AI is not being taken seriously enough at universities.

BlueSky! Here's a lovely song to vibe to: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ttx...

Perfect timing! I'm teaching a lecture on trait-based modeling in my Soil and Rhizosphere Microbiology class. Thanks @jeffinerca.bsky.social et al.! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More insights into strain-level diversity of natural populations of bacteria from the ANI folks:https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44622-z

Useful tip on saving yourself or someone else after falling through ice. Always nice to watch other people calmly fuss about in ice-cold water. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Definition of a catalyst? Stevie Wonder's Superstition has been getting people on the dance floor since 1972 without fail without change. Happy NYE y'all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CFu...

Job Opportunity: Microbiologist within the Columbia Environmental Research Center ($82K) details: www.usajobs.gov/job/764982000

Hello World in which I can port my data wherever I please! Thanks #bluesky