Ira Zibbu
@coolscootre.bsky.social
Evolution enthusiast/ Computer Nerd/ Molecular wizard-in-training. PhD student watching 80,000 generations of bacterial evolution @ Barrick Lab, Michigan State University. Enjoyer of all things post-modern and in the zeitgeist.
1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵
Please consider donating to help fund additional Graduate Research Excellence Grants. Every contribution can help support more student-led research! www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...
Donate to Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey!, organized by SSE Communications
The Graduate Research Excellence Grants are awarded by the So… SSE Communications needs your support for Support Students on their Scientific Research Journey!
gofundme.com
Society for the Study of Evolution@sse-evolution.bsky.social · 4w agoWe received almost 300 applications to our Graduate Research Excellence Grants this year. We expect to fund around 50 proposals. Help us fund an additional 10 by making a tax-deductible donation to our GREG GoFundMe campaign! www.gofundme.com/f/support-st...
So glad you liked it! It was the most fun I've had in a while giving a talk.
Sonia Cebrián-Camisón@soniacebc.bsky.social · last mo.@coolscootre.bsky.social just gave one of my favorite talks so far, on the evolution of chromosome rearrangements in E. coli. 37 years of ongoing evolution experiment!!! Well deserved Excellence Award 👏 #SMBE2026
If you're going to be at #SMBE2026, please come by for my talk! I will presenting some very cool results from the long-term evolution experiment concerning unexpected reorganization of their genomes
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · 2mo ago#SMBE2026 Graduate Student Excellence Award Symposium 🗓️ Mon Jun 29, 1:20pm 🔗 smbe2026.org/programme Talks by: @weihanlin.bsky.social @nadiahaghani.bsky.social @coolscootre.bsky.social @anjaligupta.bsky.social @jialinwei.bsky.social Oya Inanli François Frejacques @arthurmatte.bsky.social
If you are under 45 in the US, you should get this. Your gender is irrelevant here. Shout out to my one ex who listened to me after we broke up and was like, "I got the shots" It's a series. I got the series, like, eons ago. If you already have HPV, get the shots. It covers many strains.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2mo agoCould the HPV vaccine eliminate cervical cancer deaths? https://aje.news/1cvzgy
I used to live by East Woods Park in Austin and I would often think about how I was standing on the same land as one of the first Juneteenth celebrations.
Traces of Texas@tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 2mo agoY'all, today is, of course, Juneteenth. I have written a ton over the years about this celebration and its historical roots in Texas. The best thing I ever wrote was this. texashighways.com/travel-news/... I hope y'all take the time to read it, to study the photos, and to ponder the meaning.
I got my first shot this year! It is never too late
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo agoVaccines are humanity's greatest scientific achievement.
Drinking game: Everytime you read a paper about a bioinformatics tool that only exists as a web app and never released binaries for download or source code but now the web app is permanently dead
What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I was on my break at work, eating the same meal for a 4th day in a row because it is the cheapest way to cook at home, because it would be irresponsible to get the $10.99 lunch deal at the Chinese place down the road. I was listening to Here & Now, and I heard about the IPO and the man it made rich.
Suppose you wanted to reinvent the idea of Shannon Entropy for yourself. This puzzle is a good place to start (Full video on YouTube).
Getting the vaccine meant I could safely continue volunteering at vaccine camps in Bangalore.. It was such a ray of hope, like angels had come down to earth.
Andy Masley@andymasley.bsky.social · 2mo agoGetting the first covid vax felt like the waters parting. Can't imagine feeling any other way about it. Wild that so many people now feel otherwise
In celebration of good friends and collaborators Erin Gloag @sirmicrobe.bsky.social, Dan Wozniak and @nanamikubota.bsky.social, here's a cool new study about rapid P. aeruginosa adaptation in wounds, with some hidden phage phun as bonus. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm-deficient mutants undergo parallel evolution during chronic infection | Journal of Bacteriology
We demonstrate that in a porcine full-thickness thermal injury wound model, a Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant deficient in biofilm formation undergoes adaptive evolution by acquiring mutations that alter the outer membrane, either type IV pili (T4P) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS) mutations, that restores the deficient biofilm phenotype. We also observe a striking degree of mutational parallelism, at both the biosynthetic pathway and gene level, indicating the strong selective pressures experienced by these pathways during chronic wound infection.
journals.asm.org
"Sure, not every person and not every trip. Maybe not even as a complete replacement for cars. But as a standard household tool? Absolutely!" Bikes (electric or non) can replace (dare I say it) transit trips. Especially in dense cities depending on where you're going. electrek.co/2026/05/18/w...
Why every American family should have an e-bike at home
There’s a sentence that still sounds slightly radical in much of America, even though millions of people elsewhere in the...
electrek.co
day 4567 of waking up grateful for burrows-wheeler transform
Me when I see a new paper on multicellular yeast
Will Ratcliff@wcratcliff.bsky.social · 3mo ago1/35 New preprint! We show that obligate multicellularity removes fundamental population genetic barriers to multicellular adaptation. Even a brief unicellular phase can dramatically constrain the evolution of beneficial multicellular traits. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
No for real. The fact that I had written so many tests made it very easy for me to fool around while trying to implement a new feature. My CI caught lots of things I missed.
Ira Zibbu@coolscootre.bsky.social · 3mo agohow it feels when you can tinker with your code because you set up github actions to run all your tests for you
"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."
How minimum wage hikes and food stamps fit in to suicide prevention
Studies show income, debt and access to basic needs shape mental health outcomes, but U.S. strategies have largely focused on clinical care.
washingtonpost.com
how it feels when you can tinker with your code because you set up github actions to run all your tests for you
See my earlier point about how most critique of AI is actually a critique of capitalism.
Fuzz_TM@fuzztm.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe truly sad part about this is just how many companies and governments are requiring the use of AI on a daily basis as part of our jobs. And even basing a portion of annual evaluations on AI usage.
I think a lot of people's objections to AI are actually objections to capitalism. I will elaborate more on this later.
Actual image of EHS arresting me because they caught me making iced coffee with ice from the ice lab machine.
MEEHubs2026 registration and abstract submission is now online! 🚨🦠✨ Join us Aug 3 - 5, 2026 at one of the 7 hubs or online. We are incredibly excited about our lineup of speakers, and hope that you submit an abstract to contribute too! More information and registration links at: meehubs.org
Home
meehubs.org
The day men realize that their liberation also lies in the feminist dismantling of the patriarchy is the day society will move forward. Every single problem facing men is a product of the patriarchy. Loneliness. Mental health. Lack of romantic relationships. Education. Jobs. ALL OF IT
NPR@npr.org · 4mo agoOver the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men." n.pr/3OwioTq