Microbial methane researchers, we welcome feedback on our new preprint "Anaerobic methane oxidation by ANME-2a at two molar chloride in Orca Basin" and a potential new halophilic sulfate-reducing bacterial partner, available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
I refuse to use AI checkers, so my typos leak through.
Ok no need to be rude, I was trying to get the word out asap. Sorry for typos.
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Major responsibilities will be (1) coordination of laboratory sections of the introductory Habitable Planet course (EAS 1601) that serves 500 undergraduate students per academic year, and (2) teaching upper-level undergraduate meteorology courses.
My School at Georgia Tech is hiring an Academic Professional with a start date as soon as July 1, $90-100k/yr salary, must hold PhD in meterology or related field. This is a non-tenure track, lab-coordiantion and teaching position.
Your book also made me check on whether there are any trees commemorating Black pioneers in my hometown, and it turns out there is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_bu... I will visit it the next time I’m in Olympia. Thank you again for your wonderful books, and happy publication day!
Cover of the book "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" by Beronda Montgomery
I had the honor of reading an ARC of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy" by @berondam.bsky.social. It is an excellent and very moving fusion of science, history, and memoir. It comes out Tuesday. I highly recommend it. #WhenTreesTestify
Thanks @sciam.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about the importance of Wikipedia and the role students can play in improving articles.
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Cover photo of the book “Crooked Plow” by Itamar Vieira Junior
Remarkable novel. Highly recommend.
“Texas A&M University System regents voted Thursday to limit how instructors may discuss matters like gender identity and race ideology in classrooms, tightening the rules in a conservative state where debates over academic freedom have flared for months.”
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And more from 2018 after the BuzzFeed article, from his ASU work email address, crying on JE’s shoulder… drive.google.com/file/d/1S19b...
“Entry history: This entry is no longer annotated in UniProtKB and can be found in UniParc. Reason: Not part of a reference proteome Since release: 2025_04/2025_04”
Ran into this when I looked up an interesting protein from MAG in a EFI-GNT gene neighborhood. If non-reference genomes are removed from tools like EFI-GNT, it’s going to be difficult to study proteins in uncultivated microbes, which host so many novel proteins. Will the EFI tools pull from UniParc?
We use EFI-GNT all the time for gene neighborhoods.
And how is "reference" defined? And with which taxonomic classification? NCBI terminology or the more robust GTDB taxonomy, which is massively growing with each release?
Environmental microbiology folks - let's discuss! I worry about repercussions of this massive removal. We use UniProt tools to look for gene neighborhoods even on small contigs in low quality MAGs and metagenomes in UniProt. This would take that function away?
I hear they stopped doing it in that dept sometime around MeToo or COVID bc when they finally learned about toxic masculinity? Hope so bc the constant flexing to get attention was sooo uncomfortable/rude/distracting/not-conducive-to-learning, and I really don’t want it to make a comeback anywhere.
PS Obviously there are exceptions - like when speakers specifically encourage questions, or for students during a lecture in class, if something is really confusing or doesn’t work — etc etc etc. But for general seminar talks, I think waiting til the Q&A should be the norm.
I’ll never forget the time a Caltech faculty member, who shall not be named, loudly and aggressively interrupted a ECR’s talk to ask what the scale was on the field photo. 🤦🏻♀️
When I was a postdoc at Caltech, some of the faculty & grad students constantly did this & it drove many of us up the wall but we couldn’t say anything to the powerful faculty & their grad students because we were scared of the repercussions. So I’m saying it now. Plz, just wait til the end.
When multiple ppl do it, it grows into a contest of who can ask the harder more probing questions. This does not create a supportive environment for collective learning. Half the time the question gets answered in a future slide. Plz be patient and wait til the Q&A.
Huge deal!
Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system
Excellent work on yours too!
Jen making “No Faux-King Way!” Poster with sequins
“No Faux-King Way!” Sign
#nokings see you tomorrow on the streets!
