Last Friday I had the honour of seeing @GJ_Both succesfully defend his PhD. I am very grateful for all the wonderful work he did during the last three years. It was a pleasure working together.

Thanks Tim Dobbs for brightening up a gloomy December day in Paris with some BioArt. Looking forward to seeing the end result!

I love bioartbot.org because it lets *anybody* make art with biology Our recent collaboration with the Monarch Butterfly Friends club in Hawaii won 1st and 2nd place prizes in the ASM Agar Art Contest! Let's make art and do science together😀 asm.org/Press-Releases…

We just had our last Aut Spaces meet up of the year. It has been 12 months of SO much hard work and progress!! Thank you to our amazing #OpenSource volunteers and #GSOC & CRI research interns! A beautiful community that will go from strength to strength in 2022 💕💕💕

I am mentoring a couple of search committees through #academia hiring practices today, and how to hire diverse faculty (which I have been fairly successful doing). It's not hard, but there are some guidelines search committees will want to follow. a thread

Some good advice. We can all do better!

My latest study is out! How did Wikipedia fend off COVID-19 disinformation? Our biblometric study reveals a key aspect that helps explain why Wikipedia did so much better than Facebook and Twitter Jonathan Sobel rona aviram GigaScience WikiResearch CRI research Wikimedia Foundation