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Happy 37th birthday to the LTEE! the-ltee.org/history/

#RNAsky #RNAbiology #TEsky

Can a microbial community become an evolutionary individual? #CurrOpinMicrobiol by @salazarafra.bsky.social and @saramitri.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... sorry that it took solong @tcsengl.bsky.social #MicroSky #SymbioSky

Two open positions for a lab manger and a laboratory technician. Applications from displaced federal employees are welcome. Lab manager position: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/410... Lab tech position: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/391... Please email [email protected] if you have questions

Interesting - never heard of phylosymbiotic microbiome before, there's always more to study. 🧫🦠

Going through some of my old film photography scans. This is probably one of the better photos I've taken - kodak 2238 (originally meant for making archival document copies) film shot at 12 iso and pushed in caffenol. #filmphotography #nyc

i often think about how eons before cookie monster was conceived, or indeed before there were minds capable of conceiving, cookie monster was already there, waiting

"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Long evening of streaking out Haloarchaea plates at the lab, another R10 sequencing round coming up soon, PacBio right after! I think I perfected the proper way of sandwich wrapping these plates for long-term growth.

This describes way too many people of our generation for comfort.

Made my way through the Oculus all the way to winter garden, catching the 🗽 by west dock. It's nice to walk through the arcade without going outside, but gosh how many Guccis and Pradas can one need in a 15 minute span of walk? I think I counted 2~3 each - this can't be sustainable #nyc

SMBE job posting - Social Media Editor to represent SMBE and its journals Part Time (0.5 FTE) Salary: $40,000 yearly We're seeking a dynamic and creative Social Media Editor to represent SMBE and its journals. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi... Details on our website soon as well.

I missed this one. So small direct-from-julia compiled binaries is really coming soon! Version to version improvements in #julialang have been impressive. Looking forward to 1.12 release. arxiv.org/abs/2502.01128

#Rlang question for #bioinformatics & #datascience folks. I'm used to python/julia way of running everything in separate environments. What's the best way to do it for R these days? Renv or just stick with conda?

Sharing this article about @edyong209.bsky.social in the NY Times "Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World" Ed Yong in my opinion is the best science journalist of our times - and there are many great ones www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

Registration and booking done for #ASMicrobe2025 woot! I'll be presenting a poster on methylation patterns of an Archaeal genus members with focus on their MGE & rrn operons. It's something I've been tinkering with at the warehouse lab in Queens, hopefully building up to something interesting 🧫🦠🧪

Idea for this #julialang course looks promising, but it hasn't been updated in a while I think. Hope the author finds the time to continue at some point! Practical guide for Julia beginning at tidier level application would be extremely helpful for newcomers. tidierorg.github.io/TidierCourse/

#MicroSky

Oh man those trizol fumes are giving me a killer headache

Beautiful result!

I'm so happy that I can finally share the results of my first postdoc paper with @baym.lol!!! Turns out plasmids are an amazing system to study multi-scale evolution and we can track within-cell and between-cell dynamics! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/earl...

A mathematical theory of evolution: phylogenetic models dating back 100 years—a new #PhilTransB theme issue describes recent developments in models of #evolutionary trees and networks, and in #phylogenetic modeling for applications in biology: https://buff.ly/41r1wkR @tanjastadler.bsky.social

Lab folks 🦠🧫🧪, any idea what's in those 'protein precipitation solutions' in commercial HMW extraction kits? I'm looking at stuff like MPC precipitation solution and they're outrageously expensive. Thinking these are just ammonium acetate/sulfate though.

DNC Aiming To Reconnect With Working-Class Americans With New ‘Hamilton’-Inspired Lena Dunham Web Series

This is cool 🦠🧫 www.cell.com/current-biol...

@soreklab.bsky.social is there anything similar/comparable known from bacteria or archaea? #RNASky

I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago

Enter the Pirates by Christoph — Well-known examples of rapacious bacteria are Myxococcus xanthus and the vampires from the Bdellovibrio tribe. Enter the pirates with Captain Aureispira… thx @pilhoferlab.bsky.social for this story. Read more > schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

ASM stands firm in its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, as such efforts are critical to advancing the microbial sciences for everyone. Read our statement: asm.org/Press-Releas...

I'm thinking taking the coach on Amtrak Southwest Chief from Chicago to LA for ASM 2025. I could pack a ton of film and take shots of the mountains and national parks in the path. 48 hour coach trip right up until the morning of the conference though - hmm... Should be ok?