Sent off files for promotion off for external review. Thanks in advance to reviewers for their time! BTW, when I wanted to go up last year, I was warned not to because "I haven't been here for 10 years and a certain administrator might deny, independent of merit." So, JIC u wonder if its about merit
That's the plan of universities and the hope of AI companies, yes.
Latein! Da geht jemand mit der Zeit. (Pun intended)
I really hope everyone has already cancelled their OpenAI account but if you need another reason…
I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name
OAI: say no more
Come to the movie premiere at 2pm Wednesday next week. Please RSVP. Link to that and the trailer in article www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/wild-th...
Bozeman ranked as nation’s best college town for third consecutive year
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Yet another functional group that is not as restricted as we thought for 25 years. This is an important reminder that microbes are metabolically more diverse than we give them credit and yet another reminder that 16S rRNA surveys are ignorant about metabolism. Just bc you detect some ANME =/= AOM.
I, for one, am happy to don’t contaminate space with DNA they shoot up. But I hear ya.
2,599 applicants offered NSF GRFP awards! Congrats to all the NSF GRFP award winners and recipients of honorable mention. https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList
Massive and important positive news...
#NSF #GRFP awards are out.
2,599 awards!
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1,440 Honorable Mentions.
A significant boost from last year.
Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)!
& many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible.
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
It is really hard to step away from this podcast not thinking that anyone who is seriously defending general AI and the current fever-dream to develop and release onto the public the next gen of genAI without safety next, serious guardrails and (inter)national regulation is not morally bankrupt.
They discuss “the lessons of The Social Dilemma, the arms race dynamics between AI labs, the "intelligence curse"…, the psychology of tech CEOs indifferent to extinction risk…[etc]” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Yes, that was our best run, but we also did it for other runs and it didn’t improve anything
Nicht vergessen, die die sich am meisten aufregen haben immer den meisten Dreck am stecken. Ist ne Kombination aus Ablenkungsversuch und der Glaube alle anderen waeren so kriminell/moral banktrott wie man selbst. Siehe FPOe, die katholische Kirche, etc.
Yes many have metals or salt. All are mixed cultures but our targets are the archaea.
I think in most cases we just shred the DNA too much bc we need to force cells open mechanically or enzymes or both. And then those tiny DNA segments occupy the pores. That said, I am sure people are missing tons of hard to open cells in all environments then if they use “gentle” DNA extractions.
We have tried several combinations for one particular culture. Nothing made a difference other than cutting out a gel band and then sequence that.
An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats (Current Biology)
Beautiful microscopy of an Asgard archaeon, in the same family as Lokiarchaea, in syntrophy with a sulfate-reducing bacteria
Very very nice paper we saw in preprint form:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
To be clear, I am not saying you are hiding something but there's SOMETHING that we don't do that you guys do. Rasmus even generously gave us advice, but it didn't help with our results.
Again, all I am saying that people who get 100 Gb must be doing something they don't think about mentioning in their methods that is different what we are doing. Because folks like you or Rasmus get 10x the yields and quality with wwtp sludge than we get with sediment-free cultures! Makes no sense.
We sometimes ran over silica or other columns.
Yes, minion. Sorry, I hadn't realized you were talked Promethion. We run on nanodrop and use a low and high input qbit. We run gels and sometimes cut out gelbands to purify and select HMW weight bands. Never over 10 Gb.
We have tried several times from enrichment cultures. The highest yield we ever got was 10 Gb. At the end, 50-95% of pores were dead. Idk what y’all are doing.
Again looking for (self)nominations of/by grad students and postdocs to give virtual talks (via zoom) in the fall seminar series of MSU's Thermal Biology Institute. Does >not< need to be on thermophiles. Email me!
Added @jjmarlow.bsky.social new book to my pile of shame/opportunity (close to the top)!
Cool experiment! “Using these “adaptation chips (aChips)” we exposed populations of two different soil-dwelling bacteria (Priestia megaterium and Streptomyces lydicus) to several farm soils in the Northeast US for up to two years, documenting mutations arising in the evolving populations.”
Number of people involved in NSF activities From 305,400 (FY25) -> 94,100 (proposed) https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-2027-NSF-Budget-Request-to-Congress.pdf
The White House FY27 budget proposal is a clear indication that it seeks to diminish American leadership in science. As one telling example, the budget would drastically reduce the # of people involved in National Science Foundation activities by more than 200,000 (!!).
