2 flight cancellations later I am on my way to Evolution 2026! I've never been to this conference before but I am very excited I was invited to speak, the whole program looks great! This is a bit outside my usual network, hit me up if you want a buddy for coffee or meals 😁 #evosky #MEvoSky

Why has nobody connected the fact that Trump roped off the entire national mall to create a stupidly perfect lawn to the bloom in the reflecting pool? (Was there two weeks ago for ASM)

lol I forgot I did that:

My safety coordinator at work shared this with me today. youtu.be/3qiI1P1rP6E?...

Tick Season (Parody of "Stick Season")

YouTube video by Emery Major

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Even Gemini cannot tell me how to turn Gemini off... Sigh With the search broken and the cursor co-opted I think it's time to change... Any suggestions for a Gmail alternative?

keep getting tripped up that the updated @posit.co rstudio shortcut to run-the-current-function-definition has changed to find-in-console. support page isn't updated (support.posit.co/hc/en-us/art...), has anyone else figured out the new keyboard shortcut? #rstats

Wow this journal thinks their authors are so bad at writing that AI would do a better job

Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

A fun vanity app to see a word cloud of your 2025 posts: anisota.net/harvest @bsky.app should make this a button to help you decide whether to follow back 😜

Didn't know this ASLO program included undergrads as well, what a cool opportunity for research abroad!

Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography@aslo.org · 8mo ago

ASLO is accepting applications from undergraduate students for the NSF funded 2026 Limnology and Oceanography Research Exchange and Mentoring Experience (#LOREX) program! 📅 Deadline: Jan 15, 2026 📍Orientation: May 12, 2026 in Montreal 🔗 Apply here: www.aslo.org/lorex/lorex-...

Now there's TWO recent preprints on 16S primer choice! V4-EXT (V4 with broader diversity?) JEDI (V4-V5 validated for 18S as well?) Haven't wrapped my head around which is which and they're both brand new so no in-paper discussion (ppr links below)

My friend knew this was a stressful week for me and dropped off this friendship bracelet 🤗😂 it is making me smile!

Just noticed the Q&A comment boxes on peerJ articles now- wow! neat idea, curious if they'll be used

What's up with isme having uncorrected manuscripts up for months? How are papers "published in April" still not actually published? Since when was this a thing??

This is cool. Have long thought journal reviews/publishing should follow the WI DNR earn-a-buck model

Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · last yr.

How to speed up peer review: make applicants mark one another www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicSky

New swag from the @taccutexas.bsky.social machine learning training 😂 So nice to be back in Texas for a week, see my labbies IRL and learn some new things

Why did I study bacterial evolution when I could have studied pasta evolution? 🍝🤤 Imagine the fieldwork...

Nate Jacobs@nacobs.bsky.social · last yr.

As an introdcution to the phylogeny of filled pasta paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What percent reads mapped to MAGs is "good" for soil or sediment samples? is lower than water samples OK/expected due to more complex communities? 🙏 🖥️🧬 microbiome, metagenomics

@theatlantic.com has made reading a Newick tree as a text file into a fun game 😂

Excited to read this preprint full of my favorite topics! -6 yr time series -microbial phenology -climatic extremes (Marine samples from Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy pi day! This year we made sinusoidal cucumbers in addition to the traditional pizza and pies 😋

I love data.table so so much more than tidyverse. #rstats Here's an example, similar length but count the total functions outside of core syntax: dplyr: 10 group_by(), summarize(), sum(), arrange(), desc(), slice_head(), pull(), mutate(), ifelse(), %in% data.table: 3 sum(), order(), %in%

Appreciating all the executive order news coverage on @science.org , noting its absence in [other leading journal's] news section. 👉👉👉 This is why we support society journals 👈👈👈 www.science.org/news/science...

Today is the one-year anniversary of finishing my recent @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social paper's final draft 📝. It is also my son's 1st birthday 🐣. Seems like a good time for an explainer thread! (1/n) @archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @sarilog.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Two decades of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake - Nature Microbiology

A 471-metagenome time series from Lake Mendota in Wisconsin, USA, reveals seasonal and decadal shifts in bacterial functional and ecological dynamics, especially in response to environmental extremes.

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Googled "is science broken right now" and... depressing. 🧪But seriously is anyone else unable to load @science.org journal articles rn?

It has been amazing to continue this long-term research through a PhD with @quendi.bsky.social and a postdoc with @archaeal.bsky.social . Not everyone gets to see a project through like this as an ECR- thanks to supportive PI's and the NSF-PRFB fellowship that let me design my own postdoc 💙🧪

Brett Baker@archaeal.bsky.social · 2y ago

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…

A great welcome back to work after the holidays! This is my first Nature-family paper and I really liked their publishing model with a supportive, involved, full-time editor. You can see how this paper developed on bioRxiv and in the public review documents 📝 @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 2y ago

OUT NOW Twenty years of bacterial ecology and evolution in a freshwater lake @archaeal.bsky.social @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks to Marc Airhart for the lovely #SciComm about my latest paper. It's awesome to see a professional make your work accessible 🖥️🧬🧪 @texasscience.bsky.social

Texas Science@texasscience.bsky.social · 2y ago

Using the longest metagenome time series ever collected from a natural system, research led by UT postdoc Robin Rohwer finds Wisconsin lake bacteria in a kind of endless evolutionary loop that they can’t seem to shake. @robinrohwer.bsky.social @archaeal.bsky.social cns.utexas.edu/news/researc...

Google AI has gotten pretty advanced now it can read my cat's thoughts (happy #caturday)

Trying out anvi'o for the first time (!!somehow!!), but I can't find any details on the methods underlying these functions. Like anvi-refine clusters your contigs... based on.. what vectors? what distance? is everyone just using these methods blindly or am I missing something? 🖥️🧬 #microbiome

Tell me you've organized field campaigns without telling me you've organized field campaigns 🌎