Sharing the protocol we're using in the lab to rapidly & easily assemble combinatorial sets of microbial communities + script to adapt the protocol to different situations. Hope it's useful to others. Pablo Catalan Juan Díaz-Colunga magdalena san roman andrea_arrabal_
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Major Career and Life Update: After 18 blissful years Michigan Public Health, I am moving to Yale School of Public Health as an endowed professor and Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity. This is a bittersweet moment and I want to thank everyone Michigan Public Health for shaping my ideas. 🙏🏽

New bovine #H5N1 analysis report posted in Virological Posts (2 parts).
virological.org/t/preliminary-…

What kind of grow situation are people using for the glowing petunias? I'm worried about the winter, and the unnaturally low humidity in my office with the good S. facing window... Looking at Will Ratcliff Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 for the nerdy answers.

When global news sources are talking about how the International Criminal Court is threatening Netanyahu with ware crime charges right before showing the UCLA/Columbia protests trampled by police.

We don't look great y'all.

Hours. Counter protestors violently attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment, and UCLA+city authorities stood back and let them for hours. The contrast in response to the different sides could not be clearer.

Columbia's web page discussing its regret for calling in police to arrest students in 1968 is displaying a warning about limited access due to NYPD on campus arresting students.

May Columbia never live this down.

these kids about about the get beat up for Palestine, BLM, lgtbqia, reproductive justice, every fucking march that has happened for good causes and they get to use zionism as cover to attack these kids and it is so disgusting

Please, everyone, remember this: the presence of police on Columbia's campus comes because of the request of the administration, in defiance of faculty governance. This is the authoritarian university in action.

It wasn't enough for Nate Silver to be the biggest idiot in the room about epidemiology, I guess. Guy just tweets the first shit that pops in his head like he's the world expert on everything. Why are there never community notes on his posts?

'The most pressing problems facing humanity are cross-disciplinary in nature (...) Research along this path can be challenging for standard peer review practices as it involves dialogues across fields and expertise, or new language and perspectives.'

nature.com/articles/s4426…

do not be surprised that the generation who flooded the streets after George Floyd was killed & then Marched for Their Lives when their classmates were killed are incredibly organized, educated about how police function, & not intimidated by the complexity of disinvestment. ⛺️🍉

Did you know bugs and crypts could be so cute?

Really looking forward to hanging out with the University of Toronto EEB crew next week!

I'm truly honored you all are having me!!

Excited to be part of this team (it's a really great group y'all)!

Our introduction to the journal is now published, check it out!

Woohoo, our paper on the discovery of 65 new phages dependent on conjugative plasmids is published in it's final form today in Nature Communications ! Here follows a thread (1/ ) link.springer.com/article/10.103…