RT @KevinHenrikson: Your technical interview process is wrong. After building multiple engineering teams at Microsoft, VMware & Instacart,….

RT @bioinformer: "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." -….

"(iii) the Department of Defense shall incentivize the expansion of domestic, flexible industrial biomanufacturing capacity for a wide range of materials that can be used to make a diversity of products for the defense supply chain.".

"(c) Within 100 days of receiving the reports required under subsection (a) . shall develop a plan (implementation plan) to implement the recommendations in the reports." And the fun begins.

(iv) The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of HHS, . shall submit a report assessing how to use biotechnology and biomanufacturing to strengthen the resilience of United States supply chains.

RT @WhiteHouse: Today, @POTUS signed an Executive Order to launch a National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative. Learn how this….

Posit: Transformer AI models can already create video from text. Train on movies and create personalized adaptations from the original text; at a chosen length/scale. We might get not just one version. .

One of the most important COVID-19/Sars-CoV-2 preprints to come out recently. It speaks to our ability to use deep sequencing for contact tracing or epidemiology, but also for estimating the original time of exposure/infection.

When bacteria speed, they crash. When they crash, they literally pile up and the traffic jams slow them all down.

Case where you may get SARS-CoV-2 from frozen cocktail shrimp. (close contact to the face and dramatic singing indoors).

Take a look at the controls - for contaminants and cross-contamination. Does your sequencing study measure up?

As the father of a 7 year old, periodic tables with the actinides and lanthanides at the bottom are not all-ages appropriate. I'm not ready for that discussion before we've worked through p-orbitals.

RT @BrookeSchuster: Feeling a bit targeted 😂 #chicago #phdlife #halloween2019 @AcademicChatter

Basically, we need eco-evo. We keep studying the wrong phenomena in the lab.

RT @DARPA: Today @BiodefenseStudy, DARPA’s Dr. Blake Bextine highlighted 3 programs that support enhanced preparedness to confront pandemic….

Low density 'pathogen' colonization seems to be the most resilient healthy state in the face of attenuated additional pathogen challenge.

Is it a reasonable hypothesis that host-associated microbes interpret excess nutrients as the indication that host control is absent and thus the host is breaking down?.

Maternal infections and behavior. inflammation, microbiome. will it be overselling?

If only Woodrow Wilson had Ben Kerr as a science adviser. .

#Inauguration Love the artillery salute!.