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Posts by Jennifer Baker

Marketing email: “Give us feedback: how do you want us to approach AI for our application?”

Me: “Back away slowly, making no sudden movements. You should be more afraid of it than it is of you. If you must approach it, sit nearby and observe how it interacts with humans before inviting it inside.”

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GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....

genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

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The Illusion of Readiness: Stress Testing Large Frontier Models on Multimodal Medical Benchmarks Large frontier models like GPT-5 now achieve top scores on medical benchmarks. But our stress tests tell a different story. Leading systems often guess correctly even when key inputs like images are r...

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www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.18234

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The environment also matters to people - I had a great one for completing this project.

Supportive mentors, incredible collaborators, and key financial support from NIH's NHLBI through their F31 fellowship. Thank you all - peer reviewed version coming soon!🤞

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🚨 NEW PREPRINT ALERT 🚨

In this study, we examine pneumonia through the lens of microbial ecology and find:

leaky lungs grow bugs better!

i.e., the metabolic microenvironment is a key determinant of pathogen growth - intuitive but not explicitly studied in this context before

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Alveolar metabolite availability facilitates secondary infection by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in acutely injured lungs Secondary bacterial pneumonia is a frequent complication of acute lung injury (ALI) and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Prior efforts to explain increased pneumonia risk in ALI/ARDS ha...

My favorite group of collaborators has a new preprint out! This was such a cool project to be asked to be a part of, and I'm super excited it's finally out in the world! This has got it all: critical care, NMR, clinical and animal data, bacterial culture, etc.!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mark your calendars the Biology of Acute Respiratory Infections GRS/GRC will be Feb21-27 in Pomona California!

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I think we could get the field on board if we start a grassroots rebrand movement - microbiologists change the names of taxa all the time!

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wake up babe new antibiotic just dropped https://t.co/u4BOdGME6c

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Come see me tomorrow afternoon at #ATS2024 to learn about what Pseudomonas snacks on when infecting acutely injured 🫁 (spoiler: 🦠 prefers savory, not sweet!)

Session details below 👇 https://t.co/33XN3TbMVa https://t.co/B4RsVqzT7E

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Join our team!!! https://t.co/TDDOUPfzSM

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It was so fun to tackle this #scicomm project with @cdel_science - truly the best group project partner I've ever had 😘 😆 https://t.co/JwPwDmHNrV

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It's not @ComSciConMI without the colorful tshirts - today I've got my ✨🧪test tube earrings 🧪✨on to match 😄it's already been a great conference & we're only 3 hours in!! https://t.co/SU4EJg366w

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Covering climate change in the media is no small task - and neither is encompassing the topic during a 1 h discussion - but @CarolynGramling from @ScienceNews is up to it. The amazing audience questions & insight today @ComSciConMI got me feeling hope >> doom 🌎 https://t.co/gIMJYkNbTa

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BlueSky Invites Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, clinicians, academics, other researchers or scholars or (2) you’re a member of one of these communities and would ...

If you have bsky invites and want to give them to scientists/academics, this form by @pkpd-babe.bsky.social has worked well for me. 🧪
I always request that my codes go to folks with marginalized identities and it seems like they try to honor that.

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beep boop, is this thing working? The Michigan chapter of ComSciCon now has a Bluesky account!

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So excited to meet all our participants and hear from our wonderful invited experts this weekend!! https://t.co/1AcQwm021M

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If you are a mouse lung microbiome-ologist and have 16S sequenced lung tissue samples after instilling intratracheal LPS, I have some questions for you! We're running into technical issues and any leads would be helpful

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At this rate, canal bikes will be endangered by 2025 and completely gone from the ecosystem by 2030. So sad and completely preventable if catch and release laws or daily catch limits were put into place 😢😢😢 https://t.co/L60pb3QPlD

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Cheers to 30 years! https://t.co/qFOIsnfTEv

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So excited for September - can’t wait to show you what our fantastic organizing committee has been working on! Year 5 here we go! https://t.co/XYkJToGT4m

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And last but certainly giving the most, Eli Neiburger! I really have no words for the sousaloopaphone - you really must experience this Ann Arbor invention for yourself… in the best way possible 😆 https://t.co/Z3HiGPvxKG

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Next, Amir Baghdadchi tells the full house about why Goldilocks and the Three Bears shouldn’t work from a literary structure standpoint, but somehow, absolutely does. https://t.co/DRUbmw5zNP

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First up, @MiSciWriters member Chloe Rybicki-Kler talks about how a specialized region in our brain helps us navigate through space! https://t.co/hhcDfvsS6B

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An empty stage waiting for nerds at June’s rendition of Nerd Nite A2 at Top of the Park! https://t.co/1zq4lSGupj

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Board 1052! https://t.co/5C0hiii5qB

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Today’s the day! Come see me in the HMB poster area to hear about the metabolites available to bacteria that cause secondary pneumonia in the lungs when the air-blood barrier is acutely injured (P138 HMB16 Mammalian Host-Microbe Interactions II, 10:30-11:30 & 4-5pm)

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P.S. @AshleyLHagen here’s the recap since you couldn’t make it!

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Rich on the overlap between communicating with scientists & the public: We're all humans and want to be let in on the inside joke. If you make content for an expert audience, add an explanation for the outgroup so there's something for everyone (this can help experts too!)

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Carlos on scientists shooting from the hip during media interviews: Don't do it!! You can say "let me find out and get back to you", but don't speculate - if you do, there's a karmic certainty that THAT'S what will be quoted.

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