Finally verkko 2.0 is out! github.com/marbl/verkko Waiting for your bug reports;)

My dream for 46 t2t scaffolds on the de novo human genome assemblies out of the box is still a dream, but for some samples we are really close.

Alright, algae grow lights now working and user settable. System is undergoing an overnight blank run (with caps on) and then a real world test in a shaker with ecoli. So excited to be at the finish line!

Go MiniSpecs gooooooo 💚

Thanks Carl. Is there some way this is any different/better than just an information theoretic approach?

In contrast to the School’s proposal of disestablishment three years ago, which they’ve held over our heads since then, this time we all got official letters notifying us of our “disestablishment.”

Let me know if you anticipate hiring in the area of microbiology, evolutionary biology, behaviour. Thanks!

After that, all of Massey biology will get pulled back to the other campus in Manawatū (Palmerston North) with decreased staff numbers. Onwards and upwards I suppose.

If you work at a thing for 25 years, it inexorably becomes part of your identity. For me that thing was the freedom to ask new and interesting questions in biology. When you lose that thing, you lose part of your identity. Today Massey Uni told the Auckland biology staff they have ~3 months left.

bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

Grill cheese simultaneously delivers butter and cheese.

That happy feeling when you read a 2023 paper with the Methods noting: "A custom Perl script was used..." and think to yourself "aha, old people like me *can* still make useful contributions."

Screenshot of Microsoft 365 video highlighting the use of Python in Excel.

Bad data scientists use excel. Good data scientists use python. great data scientists use python *in* excel. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blo...

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