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Microbial physiologist working on phototrophic and soil microbes at UDelaware. Come for the microbiology, stay for other random commentary. https://sites.udel.edu/hansonlab
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Macron: “But we must not forget one point—if anyone is playing the Third World War, it is Vladimir Putin. He was the one who started the war three years ago, and he brought 10,000 North Korean soldiers to European soil.”

I just followed @indivisible.org and hope many others do. It's given me new ways to focus anxious energy into something. Read the guide at indivisible.org/resource/guide

He nails it.

This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.

In our latest review, we explore 12 deep-learning tools for metagenomic analysis, covering their strengths, limitations, and key applications. We hope it serves as both a resource and inspiration for new ways to analyze metagenomic data. Great work by Eli Levy Karin! 📄 doi.org/10.1093/nsr/...

@bluntrochester.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov The Constitution is a piece of paper. In and of itself, it carries no weight except of the ink on parchment. The weight it carries is based on people's belief in it. It will not, on its own, stand up and kneecap an emerging fascist regime. A thread...

@bluntrochester.senate.gov @mcbride.house.gov This is an intriguing idea.

You dumbfucks said Biden wasn’t “really in charge” and then you handed Trump’s presidency to Elon fucking Musk?

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U.S. Senators: If Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. takes over the Department of Health and Human Services, people will die who could have lived. If you vote today to confirm him, their deaths will be on your hands. slate.com/technology/2...

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The US stands out in Nobel Prizes awarded by country because of spending on research, which includes overhead to support kickass institutions. What Trump and his goons are trying to do to NIH, NSF, NOAA, USDA, EPA, and other federal institutions will destroy research in the US.

If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!) royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

Have you been asked, as a federal worker, to do something you don't want to do? But they won't put it in writing? DON'T DO IT. If they're going to punish you? MAKE THEM PUT IT IN WRITING. ALL OF IT. Document, document, document. Act confused. Be confused! Go slow. Require clarity. Lots. Document

If you're an early career researcher based in the U.S. and working on 🦠Microbiome Data🧬💻: The @microbiomedata.org Ambassador Program is a great opportunity to learn, network, and contribute

#PhD alert, here @unistrathclyde.bsky.social in the very friendly, diverse, artsy & welcoming city of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Disentangling the functional modules of #mosquito #microbiomes - what puzzle pieces build our #holobionts? #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬🧪 More here 😊 www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

@mcbride.house.gov Please tell Rep. Jeffries to lead and to fight the disastrous budgets to come. Demand votes on every possible step and action.

@bluntrochester.senate.gov @senatorchriscoons.bsky.social @mcbride.house.gov Please investigate these actions

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Wait. Have @doge and Elon just been pulling numbers from usaspending.gov ? Then releasing it as if they discovered it ? Brilliant if true. Absolutely brilliant. Fooled me. Very Trump like too. Any usaspending.gov experts out there that can tell us ?

@mcbride.house.gov @senatorchriscoons.bsky.social @bluntrochester.senate.gov Please investigate why funds are still inaccessible even though the funding freeze has been blocked by at least two court orders.

Accessing classified info on Musk's non-existent authority also makes "but her emails" even more ludicrous than ever before.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

Senior scientists who will be reviewing tenure & promotion files in the future - please remember that the effects of many of these executive orders will disproportionately affect researchers from marginalized groups - often the same folks penalized by COVID-related delays, childcare issues, etc. 🧪

Mushroom Barley Pie from Smitten Kitchen is amazing with a bit of bacon in it.

This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak. Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds

Hannibal “Mike” Ware is an incredible name.

Anyone who says this was NOT a Nazi salute can — with all due respect — fuck off.

Everybody knows what a nazi salute looks like. You can’t pretend you don’t know. It’s evil iconography. It’s a racism classic. You can’t have any remaining self respect any pussyfoot around what we saw today. We know what we saw.

"A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users." Our physical space and resources matter *greatly!* bookriot.com/innovative-s...

Hi all! Please check out @markoterzin.bsky.social's new paper in Microbiome investigating the relative reliability of taxonomy vs metagenomic gene predictions as bioindicators of 17 physicochemical variables (temp, nitrogen, etc) on the Great Barrier Reef. Spoiler: genes > taxonomy. Link below.

False neutrality is propaganda.

📢 Interested in chromosomes and microbes thriving at the edge of life?PhD project in York-UK on chromosome segregation in #Archaea. Supervised by me, @Steve Quinn & @georgerheath.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Open to Applicants Worldwide! 📅 January 6, 2025 #microsky #archaeasky

Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted to them. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #biosky #biotech #synbio #science #MolecularBiology #MolBiol #microsky 🧪 🦠 🧫

🧪 thread with #NewPI advice on writing a specific aims page

So, he’s not gonna lower the price of groceries like he said, and he’s not gonna stop immigrants from taking American jobs like he said, and he’s not gonna protect social security like he said, but at least he might go to war with Greenland, Canada and Panama, so there is that.

ICYMI: Everyone has a role to play in promoting and protecting human health. The latest issue of Microcosm, ASM's flagship member magazine, explores efforts to advance global public health and the power of partnership and cooperation. Read now: asm.social/2dE