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elizostrow.bsky.social
Evolutionary genomics and microbiology in Aotearoa. 🇺🇸in 🇳🇿. Personal account https://ecoevo.social/@elizostrow
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Local traditional media still works! We shot this interview on the grounds of the former J&L steel mill, where buildings including my lab are today. The threat to biomedical research in Pittsburgh is on par with the threat to the mills 50 years ago. www.wtae.com/article/pitt...

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With national events moving fast and in a threatening direction, we’re beyond the range of experience of any living person. A primer for scientists (and everyone) on why it’s not just politics - and seven ways to act, locally: samwang.substack.com/p/an-action-...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

"This feels like the early days of the pandemic, except there's less I can do about it", a colleague told me yesterday. Yep. One thing you *can* do is outreach. My sense is that the majority of the country doesn't yet understand the scale or the stakes of what is happening. We have to tell them:

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

First coffee I’ve had in the US that tastes good to me. And strangely not in Seattle — ESP coffee, Alexandria VA

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Think of a polygenic score you care about. Are direct genetic effects driving variation among people in this predictor? Or perhaps other, confounding factors? We at the @arbelharpak.bsky.social & @docedge.bsky.social Labs developed a method to tackle this question. [1/n]

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Is it just me or did Justin Trudeau just make a case to the American people that our own opposition can’t seem to? 👊

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Wow, just logged into Google Photos for the first time in years and happened on this photo from Maungawhau / Mt Eden, one of my old haunts. What a beauty 🥲

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submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Well, this simplifies the task of exploring Seattle 😯

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Good editors are a godsend. Whenever I get edits that clarify and sharpen the things I'm writing, I always have this feeling: www.youtube.com/watch?v=218i...

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Why we fund basic research

submitted 70 days ago • 8 comments

Billie Eilish on NPR's Tiny Desk, holy moly she's good, even totally acoustic and exposed youtu.be/fOAIrUZbOwo?...

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

Accurate.

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

My Tidyverse local synteny visualizer is up on GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Tidy... GitHub page contains 2 example datasets, as well as step-by-step instruction & explanations on how it works. Details on required input data are discussed in the GitHub page. Let me know if you run into issues.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Only a microbiologist rummages through her purse and …. pulls out an electroporation cuvette

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

We are pleased to announce the launch of a series of precarity awareness posters based on the findings from the survey. Free to download and print - please circulate online and put them up in your departments. Thanks to @zjayres for the design! www.statesofprecarity.co.uk/resources

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

m.youtube.com/watch?v=GmhD...

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