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crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable

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Realfreq, a framework for real-time base modification analysis for nanopore sequencing, is now published in Bioinformatics. Written efficiently using C, a laptop can keep up with a @nanoporetech.com MinION sequencer, and a desktop a PromethION 2 solo flowcell. academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

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The U.S. Army is planning a massive parade in Washington for its 250th anniversary conveniently on Trump’s 79th birthday. It will feature 150 vehicles, 50 aircraft, 6,600 troops, fireworks, and a full day of festivities. All on the taxpayers’ dime, of course.

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I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Non-model Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please repost for reach 💚

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If you're wondering why there's been so much insistence lately that COVID-19 was a lab leak, here's why: it is going to be an example for why all biomedical research & public health work should be defunded. No evidence supports a lab leak, but it's used to justify cutting NIH's budget by 40%.

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Donald Trump spent $23M on golf (up to mid march). Over 56 days, he spent $410k of our tax dollars each day at his own clubs. That is one 3-year NSF grant per day. Waste and abuse, my ass. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"That telomere phages are so prevalent means that they are a selective force, one that we know little about. We now want to understand how the telomere-toxin is secreted and also understand how this ‘telocin’ wheedles its way into unsuspecting bacterial neighbors” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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🚨🧵 Out now in ISMEJ (@ismepublications.bsky.social)! We find abundant corallicolid sequences within bearded fireworms (𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢) across reefs and years in Curaçao 🇨🇼! 🪱🪸 This is the first report of corallicolids inside a non-anthozoan host! #ProtistsOnSky #MicroSky #SymbioSky #Corals

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Telomere bacteriophages are widespread and equip their bacterial hosts with potent interbacterial weapons | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Well…F***

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Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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One Ocean, One Health: Multi-Omics Hackathon: Registration deadline May 15. www.marinetraining.eu/node/6150 AtlantECO's Final Scientific Conference: Registration deadline: May 31. atlanteco-legacy.eu

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit voted to block the U.S. DOGE Service’s access to sensitive Social Security records!

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So what are people using to visualize genome gfa these days? I've been using ctlab fork of BandageNG (github.com/ctlab/Bandag...) but it looks like older BandageNG is finally getting updated too (github.com/asl/BandageNG) Or are there better gfa graph visualization solutions out there now? 🖥️🧬

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How can zombie microbes interact with the Earth system? 🦠🧟🌎 Microbes, even when dormant, play a massive role in shaping Earth's ecosystems & biogeochemistry 🌎 In @natcomms.nature.com I explore dormancy in the context of Earth’s geosphere-biosphere co-evolution 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Pandoravirus -> Pandoravirus HGT event:

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Harmful algal blooms are preceded by a predictable and quantifiable shift in the oceanic microbiome www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

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We're happy to announce that the #antiSMASH v8 paper is out in @narjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... Many thanks to @kblin.bsky.social, @marnixmedema.bsky.social and many international collaborators!

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I am very happy (and anxious) to share with you our most recent work in which we evaluated four of the most popular long-read assemblers, www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and tell you just a little bit about it in the following 🧵

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Nearly missed my bus stop reading this fascinating review :)

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Fresh in @NatureBiotech! We developed a synthetic biology tool for tracking gene transfer in microbial communities and applied it to study plasmid hosts in a wastewater microbiome. Awesome collab with James Chappell & @joffsilberg.bsky.social and incredible students. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Attention long read metagenomists! This feels like an important read. Misassemblies stitching together bacteria, archaea, and euks all into the same contigs, yikes! Reports of circularisation isn’t robust. There’s a lot in here to ponder.

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I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by @crampell.bsky.social

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The Trump administration is "willing to not just slash and burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy," Katherine J. Wu writes.

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As a Jew, I cannot think of anything I hate more than the Trump administration using “antisemitism” to justify stepping up their assault on universities and free speech. I sincerely hope that no one in the Jewish community take part in this. None of this is being done for us.

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"In terms of high-throughput sequencing, the price of #PacBio is lower than NGS." "Moreover, given its relatively lower cost, PacBio sequencing holds great promise as a valuable tool for large-scale population sequencing." #longread #viral #revio #vega www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are making backdoor cuts to Social Security. It’s illegal, and Americans deserve answers.

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ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

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