Any #archaea lab out there interested in having their Natrialba species sequenced on ONT r10 up to about 3Kx read depth for free? I'll send back annotated assembly, methylation data and raw signal files. I need at least one more species for a current paper. Feel free to DM!

DNA extraction free whole genome sequencing of bacteriophage genomes from a single plaque | bioRxiv

- Immigrates to US at 15 dirt-poor - Undergrad at Hudson Valley Community College & SUNY Albany - PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - NSF postdoc at Harvard ... Nobel Prize! A testament to the US education and research system and the US would be poorer without it!

I knew it. ACIP will deschedule the MMR in favor of monovalents that don't exist and won't get approved because the FDA will require placebo-controlled trials that can't ethically be carried out. The end result is bye bye MMR vaccine, hello measles, mumps, and rubella.

This will be absolutely devastating in the medical field. ~30% residents are international medical graduates & ~10k of 43k residency spots are filled by docs with H1-B visas. Previously the h-1B fee was <$5,000. No hospital will pay a $100k fee for a $55k resident salary.

Thrilled to share our discovery of a new horizontal gene transfer mechanism: tail-less cf-PICIs hijack free phage tails extracellularly, forming infectious chimeric virions that drive both intra- and inter-species transfer among bacteria. @jonaszpatkowski @jrpenades @CostaT_Lab

Staggering numbers by the Lancet. Vaccinations have: - Averted 154 million deaths - For every death averted, 66 years of full health were gained on average = 10.2 billion years total - Accounted for 40% of the observed decline in global infant mortality

Vaccines are scientific miracles

Missing the late great Elio Schaechter who was an integral part of my microbiological journey. He always treated me with kindness and consideration, and as if my thoughts and opinions had merit. I will never live up to his example, but I will always remember and try to honor him.

Exciting new vaccine news from my country of birth Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! RSV is a HORRIBLE virus especially for babies A new RSV vaccine given to pregnant women resulted in HUGE reduction in hospitalisations for their newborns Vaccines work! https://t.co/hWlcUYp5bY

Trump is planning to close the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center and the George Washington Carver Center, the headquarters and primary facilities of the Agricultural Research Service. A massive blow to agricultural research in the U.S. and farmers who depend on their work

A common virus once thought harmless to humans might be linked to Parkinson's disease, a new study says. The germ, Human Pegivirus (HPgV), was found in half the autopsied brains of patients with Parkinson's, but not in any brains from healthy people. 1/

🚨 NASA BLOODBATH: Over 2,000 senior officials at NASA just threw in the towel, not because they wanted to, but because Trump’s federal “downsizing” came swinging like a sledgehammer through America’s scientific backbone. From Artemis moon missions to Mars exploration, we’re now

This is a travesty and a nightmare. The US was a founder of @Gavi. It lowers vaccine costs for the world, has vaccinated 1B children, and averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year -- and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.

The NSF’s proposed FY26 budget request includes a staggering 50% reduction in funding. It’s alarming that leaders can’t- or won’t -grasp the long-term damage this will do to our research, innovation, and the future of America’s scientific workforce.

Alright fellas. Come one come all, #amateurbiology poster presentation at #asmicrobe on our first set of methylation screening results on Halococcus. Come ask about an exciting new finding I couldn't put on the poster! #archaea EEB 1147 @kmaclea @Archaeon_Alex

I’m seeing that this is irreversible. That the only way the country will get lands like this back is if the corps/countries/individuals who buy it, donate it back. Which will not happen. This is the largest public lands sell off in modern US history.

The chances of land this close to Grand Teton and Yellowstone NP being used for “affordable housing” are absolutely 0. This land will become the playground of fat cats who will exclude the average person like me and you from using these wild lands.

Absolutely infuriating. 3 million acres of public land. Teddy is rolling over in his grave…

Yesterday I spilled the tea on the new ACIP members to @TreedinDC @axios (link in reply). I'm willing to give non-overt anti-vaxxers a chance. But I know what Robert Malone, Martin Kulldorff, Retsef Levi, & Vicki Pebsworth are going to do & it will be catastrophic.