Request for help after uBiome bankruptcy and discontinuation of their (great) academic grant program: PI in Argentina with cohort of 400 control/obese/diabetes patients needs microbiome sequencing partner. Could be great collaboration/paper on understudied South America cohort.

Looks like a really fun project, plus you get a great colleague in @colepbio - win, win!

Sorghum is amazing. It produces food and biomass in HOT regions with VERY little water. Also amazing: @colepbio and John Vogel, sampling sorghum transcriptomes in HOT regions with VERY little water. New insights from EPICON: pnas.org/content/early/…

Calling all Bay Area virologists! Interested in giving a guest lecture in my General Virology class in Spring 2020 at SFSU? I want to introduce my students to different virology researchers, especially from our local community. Please DM me for more info! #virology #microbiology

- finished 7 phds in 4 languages - published 366 papers - completed 8 books - supervised 110 phds - made professor at 22 - married - 7 perfect children - won the World Cup - farted and it came out as diamonds Feel bad about yourself yet? #boast Academic Chatter™

Is anyone else disconcerted by the coexistence of “Academic job market scarcity crisis Twitter” and “I’ve just been accepted into my first choice PhD program!! Twitter.” Because, how?

This aged poorly.

Take a moment to write Governor Newsom. Tell him we can no longer afford the failed Calbright College experiment. Time to reinvest in California’s traditional, fully accredited community colleges. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-g…

SUPER IMPORTANT!!! Mining doesnt just hurt the inhabitants of the bottom of the ocean, it has potential to devastate creatures that inhabit ALL depths. Opinion: Midwater ecosystems must be considered when evaluating environmental risks of deep-sea mining pnas.org/content/early/…

I am teaching 2.5 units upcoming fall with two kids (7yr and 5yr) at home, so I am looking for guest lecturers on plant hormones to help me break my 17 lectures part a bit. DM me if you are an expert in BR, JA, Strigo, ET, CK, GA and willing to help #AcademicChatter

New Research: Diversity of Pelagic and Benthic Bacterial Assemblages in the Western Pacific Ocean frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #microbiology

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PhD student request! I’m looking to interview Asian Americans in tech (UX, PM, software engineers) working in Austin TX or SF Bay Area about their professional experiences for my dissertation. Connect on twitter or email [email protected]. Please share widely and thank you!

Excited there's finally enough data to see some patterns! Lead: EK Wear Bacterial and Archaeal Communities in Polymetallic Nodules, Sediments, and Bottom Waters of the Abyssal Clarion-Clipperton Zone: Emerging Patterns and Future Monitoring Considerations frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

I just signed up for the Summer Series with (Everytown/Moms Demand Action/Students Demand Action) where I'll spend just 20 mins/week learning about & taking action on gun safety in this critical moment for our movement. Join me! forms.everytown.org/a/join-summer-…!

Check out Laonice shulseae sp. nov. and this awesome new paper from Natural History Museum! Thanks @helena_wiklund et al. for the incredible honor to have an animal down in the CCZ named after me! He’s a good-looking little guy too 😂