Recently I convinced the institute to let me buy pizza for the campus once a month, not as a moral boosting strategy, but as bait. Today with the postdoc committee, I hosted the first Pizza Solves Everything event

I made a joke about cats not letting their humans leave the house at London Calling, but the kittens seriously protested my absence by unplugging the wifi so I'd not see it when they threw a plant down the stairs.

Couldn't Nanopore today, too busy Legoing

This thing is pretty cute. Reminds me of the smidgION. #nanoporeconf

RT @nanopore: Another year of updates for direct RNA sequencing: .-20% increase in output, and longer reads .-Comprehensive RNA mod detecti….

Ice cream! #nanoporeconf

RT @malcolmacaulay: @Amandatron89 GeorgeForemION.

@the_schmidti retreating a memory at #nanoporeconf

Timelines #nanoporeconf

Just kidding #nanoporeconf

Er. #nanoporeconf

MkII- somewhere between flongle and minion. Also grongle for multiple flow cells #nanoporeconf

Seeking: more words ending with ion #nanoporeconf

MinION and toastie maker in one. #NanoporeConf

Direct RNA improvements #nanoporeconf

Direct RNA 🥳. #NanoporeConf.

Incoming yield improvements. #NanoporeConf

Nanopore only T2T, $4k per genome. #NanoporeConf

Looking at the Twitter screens, remembering 2019 #NanoporeConf

I'll be speaking this afternoon in the plant & animal breakout session in The Clash about an outbreak of a novel feline coronavirus. There will be cute cat photos (and some less cute cat photos. ). Join me there!. #NanoporeConf

RT @kara_dicks: Super excited to hear how well sequencing in the Amazon is going! Amazing work by all of the local scientists to generate g….