Justin Meyer
@justinrmeyer
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UC San Diego prof, phage, experimental evolution, LGTBQ, wastes too much time on politics, yinzer
San Diego
Joined December 2009
The darkest day of my 1990s teenage years was when it occurred to me that I was not going to be a father. A thread about #adoption, #gayadoption, and #academicparenting. 1/N (ongoing).
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RT @ucsdbiosciences: SAn Diego Science Storytelling, Ya’ll (SASSY) is a live, first-person storytelling event with local scientists and ent….
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RT @manorlaboratory: My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to shar….
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RT @lesommer: Los Angeles has wildfire policies that are far tougher than many other states. But the recent fires show there’s still big ga….
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Los Angeles has wildfire policies that are far tougher than many of those in Western states. The destruction from the recent fires shows there are still major gaps to address.
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RT @Jeremy_Dufloo: To get 2025 off to a good start, I'm delighted to share with you our study published today in @NatureMicrobiol 🎉 We stu….
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Nature Microbiology - Functional systematic pseudotype virus-based analysis of the ability of diverse animal viruses to enter into a panel of well-characterized human cell lines shows a broad...
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RT @PetrovADmitri: Excited to report that Joy Bergelson ( and I will be running a brand new GRC conference on the F….
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Plant Pathogen Interaction Lab
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I think this is so amazing. The way Roy explained this aspect of his work to me is that he’s making the slow parts of science fast - I agree and think it’s a major contribution, in the future we may all have more time for the fun parts of science including mentoring!.
Our data-to-paper AI is officially out! . Autonomously analyzes data and writes human-verifiable papers!.Fun AI-human copiloting! . Papers are "data-chained": click-traced to the raw code. Try it out:. @TalIfargan @LostInTranscrip
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RT @skryazhi: It looks like I never posted anything (*but see below) on what are probably the most surprising results my lab obtained so fa….
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Predicting how new mutations alter phenotypes is difficult because mutational effects vary across genotypes and environments. Recently discovered global epistasis, in which the fitness effects of...
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Pandemic sour dough still going strong! Yeast diversity/evolution folks, let me know if you want a sample. Yeast isolated from a endemic San Diego cactus, but who knows what strain has taken over in the last 4 years.
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RT @RoyKishony: AI-Science: New features! .- Human-AI copilot app: Much more powerful (and fun) than the AI agents doing it all. - Fully an….
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RT @joshuasweitz: It's real. Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics. Pre-order in advance of 10/22 releas….
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Thank you everyone for the interest in this position. I have identified a candidate for this round.
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Need a postdoc, want AI training, want to learn more about predicting microbial interactions from genome sequences? I'd be happy to help you apply for this:
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RT @TheVillaLab: In press now and with a beautiful graphical abstract by @MargotRiggi! Great work everyone including the 🧺🗑️ for posing for….
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Have y’all looked at Elon’s X page lately? Its insane. Along with how the ads and other features are a dumpster fire, I’m out for a little (likely until the election is over).
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