I’ve always wanted to fashion a cow catcher out of 8020

In collaboration with Nicola Muller, and led by @lambod50.bsky.social, we have a new preprint out that's all about reassortment! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Using TargetedBeast, we built massive (9000 tips!) Bayesian phylogenies of North American H5Nx viruses, and inferred the host...

It’s flatter here, and there’s more often water on the road than falling from the sky so single speed with a rack and fenders is ideal

Nice ride! Between a plug in hybrid and bike commuting I think we out gas in our car maybe once every six months

Man plans, DB laughs

For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

American science is shrinking.

A Post analysis found that, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. https://wapo.st/3OgoHKV

Oh. No.

Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions

Just out in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance @natureportfolio.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We looked at what actually happens to AMR on pig farms when you reduce antimicrobial use through real-world, coaching-based interventions.

Key finding:
Lower AMU → clear drop in resistome abundance (especially tetracyclines & aminoglycosides), but phenotypic E. coli resistance responds slower and is more variable.

Yeah this is super wild

Not even a little

If your toaster starts working like this website today, report it to us on SaferProducts.gov.

‪(And yes, the story of Rosalind Franklin is more complicated than the simple narrative, but still guys come on)‬

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

this is just to say

I have had an issue
fetching the posts
that were
on the timeline

and which you
were probably
hoping
to doomscroll

forgive me
the takes were so hot
and so
rate limited

Some day I’ll figure out how to work this into a talk

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

We have lost the wisdom of the old ways

My main postdoc paper is now out in @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Antimicrobials and Resistance! www.nature.com/articles/s44.... Using flow cytometry, we show that the nucleoside analogues azidothymidine, didanosine, stavudine, and trifluridine reduced transfer of AMR plasmids pCT and pKpQIL (1/3)

Join us in Montreal for the Canada/US Northeast hub!

I will give a talk and @gmdouglas.bsky.social @nagissa.bsky.social & Tim Blower will surely give *great talks*

Opportunities for student talks and posters and a good time guaranteed!

Wow!! Congratulations!!!!

I'm heartbroken to report a devastating loss of a great friend and young scientist.

telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/a...

A shed snakeskin in tissue paper on the title page of Hemingway's A Farewall to Arms.

I have found many things in books, snakeskin is a first though...

Life Science Research Professional 1 in School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States Stanford University is seeking a Life Science Research Professional 1 to study the mechanisms of aging and rejuvenation, particularly in a variety of....

Interested in aging and rejuvenation?

We have a new Research Assistant position to understand aging at the cellular level!!

Come join our team!!! 😎

careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/life-sc...

The author and Dr. Kaul at his post-defense celebration

Huge congratulations to Dr. Arya Kaul on his successful thesis defense today! The fourth from my lab

Few people are aware of how much progress has been made against cancers.

Leukemia is probably the most striking example.

Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would soon die from it.

Now, most children in rich countries survive.
ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

10 years ago @vivekmutalik.bsky.social introduced me to the wild world of phages. Today, @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social presents a truly foundational scale bridging genomes, viruses, editing and function.

Truly an amazing scale and vision for the future! Congrats to phage foundry 🌶️🌶️🌶️

*five minutes after getting out of my time machine and meeting Jesus* it's a bit of a misnomer, but yeah it's called Good Friday

Myloasm, our long-read metagenome assembler, is now published! w/ @mgmarin.bsky.social and @lh3lh3.bsky.social

Very rewarding after > a year of development and countless hours thinking about assembly. Thanks to beta testers, Li lab, and reviewers who gave very helpful feedback.

rdcu.be/famFj

That’s exactly why we use LAB buffer my friend