Excited to announce the beta release of our new MicrobiomeDB R package! This package is intended to be companion to our @microbiomeDB website and provides convenient, programmatic access to all of our curated 16S and shotgun metagenomic datasets. #microbiome #rstats #dataviz

RT @burgessev: A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve cause….

Due to the #trumptarrifs, @Illumina announces surcharges on all consumables (5%), instruments (2-9%) and services (3.5%). A big hit to labs that are already struggling to do genomics work in an environment with severely reduced federal funding.

RT @MichaelEMann: Thanks so much for involving me in this event Daniel!.

RT @keltonminor: There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated….

Very excited to team up with @MichaelEMann to host @PeterHotez at @pennvet this evening for a public lecture on vaccination in a time of rising anti-science rhetoric and policies.

RT @LisaVerzier: @womeninmalaria @Girl_into_bugs Fun personal note: shoutout to @hostmicrobe for sparking my interest in single-cell analys….

Loving the vibe over at Bsky🦋!. More science. Less cesspool. Starter packs make it easy to connect with colleagues. If ur new to🦋, I thought this article was a nice breakdown of why it might be a platform that is better/different than this place.

We started the GEMINI series to help students learn to use a wide variety of software tools for analysis of common datatypes in biomedical research. You can learn more about this effort here:.

Packed house today at the final workshop of the year for our GEMINI series. Andrea Stout and AJ Lucy from the @PennCDB microscopy core are teaching students to use @FijiSc software for quantitative analysis of imaging data. #DataScience #dataviz

A fitting card for my birthday

RT @Unpop_Science: Farming a single Atlantic salmon can require killing and processing over 1,000 wild school fish like anchovies — critica….

RT @TheBaleLab: @hostmicrobe @EJohnWherry @PennMedicine @pennvet @CUAnschutz Thx @hostmicrobe ☺️ Your incredible contribution and collabora….

Huge congrats to @EJohnWherry (@pennmedicine) and @TheBaleLab (formerly @pennvet and now at @CUAnschutz) on their recent election to the National Academy of Medicine! Grateful for their mentoring, collaboration, and friendship over the years.

RT @satijalab: We are hiring for a wetlab research association position! Check it out to learn more about our lab's focus in single-cell ge….

RT @stealthygeek: This would allow seniors to keep billions of dollars of their retirement, remain independent longer, not burden their chi….

RT @Ar_Douillard: The Nobel prize website has a pretty well made 1-pager on how Alphafold works

RT @TheSeaMouse: ngl, going from game dev to Nobel prize in Chemistry is a goated career trajectory

RT @nbcsnl: Washington hasn’t stopped dreaming

RT @lh3lh3: Published in 2009, bwa-aln is one of the oldest short-read aligners. It remains a popular choice for aligning ancient DNA reads….

RT @wweisawesome123: The Māori word for #autism .is takiwatanga, ‘in their own time .and space’ I for one think it’s lovely .to describe th….