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New paper out! We sat down and compiled all viral work in marine sediments. The water column has been getting a second look for viral interactions, its time for sediment to have the same!
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Listen for yourself
youtu.be/GzX_zLMfF8k
Given that clonal biofilms of single bacterial species rapidly diversify into niche specialists, how do biofilms of multiple species evolve?
A 🧵 featuring new collaborative pubs:
1. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MARCH 28 IS GOING TO BE THE LARGEST PROTEST IN UNITED STATES HISTORY! Super supporters of democracy, where are you at??!!
#NoKings #FuckICE #50501movement #ICEOUT
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
Interesting reflections on academia, its deficit in psychological safety, unrealistic performance expectations, and the need for transformational leadership to protect focus, interpret external chaos, and foster that missing psychological safety.
www-oms--lab-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.oms-...
Another charter member of the "Branch Covidians"...
The damage these idiots are doing both with specific issues under consideration and future operations is breathtaking (literally).
Idk I just feel like releasing this on Women and Girls in Science day with the top people being in the Epstein files and only THREE (3) women being in the top FIFTY...is on the nose.
www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...
SCIENCE IS UNDER CENSORSHIP. “WOMEN” “VACCINE” “EQUITY” “ADDICTION” FROM PEN AMERICA’S LIST OF WORDS BANNED FROM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WORK.
Science cannot thrive when censorship shuts down research. Shutting down research doesn't make people healthy. Help us impeach & #RemoveRFKJr by visiting standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr .
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Many, many, many years ago, I was assigned to read this book in a Nucleic Acids graduate course. It was and continues to be one of my favorite books. I still recommend it regularly.
For anyone interested in the history of molecular biology, I cannot recommend Judson's The Eighth Day of Creation highly enough. One of the great book on the history of science.
I have two copies because a actually wore out the first one (paperback)
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Shameful. and for WHAT? to quote @maddow.bsky.social : who is this good for?
The obsession with “star scientists” and “attracting top talent” fundamentally misunderstands research and higher education.
Create a healthy environment that is attractive to all manner of scientists. Because that run of the mill, non-transformative, maybe slightly boring research matters, too.
The new Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) Program page is posted. Please contact us at BIOEDGE@nsf.gov if you have questions. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
In a manuscript on BioRxiv, we describe experiments exploring the culturome of the gut of adults with CF and in health, revealing an interesting redistribution of the microbes in the lumen vs. mucosa. The study is led by Sarvesh Surve a PhD student in my lab.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Viruses are found in almost every ecosystem across the planet.
Now, researchers have released VIRE – a comprehensive viral genome database covering diverse ecosystems to advance understanding of viral evolution and ecosystem functions.
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/science...
I have the gel electrophoresis scarf and love it!
Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever.
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
‘The latest surveillance data found that the number of antibiotic-resistant infections in 2024 equated to an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases a week.’
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“The Trump administration is burning down our country’s most important public health agencies from the inside and pushing out anyone who dares to pull the fire alarm. Standing up for science is not a fireable offense and it should be seriously troubling to everyone who wants America to remain the world leader in biomedical research that this administration is not only running the NIH into the ground, but punishing anyone who has the courage to speak up about their concerns. When Director Bhattacharya testified before Congress in June, I made clear that not one employee who signed the Bethesda Declaration should face retaliation—yet that’s exactly what appears to be happening this week.
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#StandWithJenna
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My quote of the day
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Whitney Young
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.
Congratulations Drew!! @a-hryckowian.bsky.social
