Denver gave homeless people $1,000 a month, no strings attached. A year later: *45% secured housing *Taxpayers saved $590k because of fewer visits to the hospital, jail and shelters *People used the money on groceries, rent, hygiene, clothes and transportation *Mental health

Grad students and early career scholars struggling with mental illness: What would you like people to understand about the challenges of being/becoming mentally ill in academia?

Mom *loves* seeing the nanodrop in action. She literally runs up the stairs if she hears me blanking the spec just so she can see, and cheers when values are high. One of the greatest perks of working from a home lab is spending more time with her. She so curious! 🥰

Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the

The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control. Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture. I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.

I'm exploring how to benchmark virus gene annotation on genomes from real metagenomes. Complete head-tail virus genomes should ~always have major capsid, portal, and large terminase genes, so I tested some tools' ability to find/annotate these genes. Cenote-Taker 3 looking great!

David Frum New news… Donald Trump all over Epstein logs and the media is not touching it with a ten foot poll. The power of $$$ in late stage capitalist America.

MY hottest take is colleges should remove business degrees

It's true, cleaned up my bench today after a memorable 6.5 years in the Michael Baym lab! Very excited to start my own lab next month at the NYSDOH Wadsworth Center doing public health adjacent basic research exploring "exotic" bacteriophages!! #newpi

My uncle is panicking. He’s running against a strong Black woman—and a former prosecutor—who isn’t afraid to call him out or mock him. His whole campaign strategy was based around attacking Joe Biden—his age, his infirmity, his cognitive decline. It was all projection, of course,

In other news, I'm beyond delighted to share that I'll be joining the Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UTHealth Houston as an Assistant Professor. UTHealth MMG UTHealth Houston McGovern Med School Without the support of the following incredible people, my journey from 1/5

Trump agreed on a September 10th debate. It now appears he's backpedaling. Voters deserve to see the split screen that exists on a debate stage. I'm ready. So let's go.

Excited to share our latest pre-print! We investigated the dosing and delivery requirements for phage therapy in a mouse wound infection model and developed a sustained phage release hydrogel dressing, with our amazing collaborators in @chaudhurilab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

my favorite new york social code is when a lone person needs to get a stroller up the subway stairs. nearly instantly, a stranger picks up the other end of the stroller, helps carry it up, then departs as quickly as they appeared. no words are exchanged. eye contact is minimal.

Hey NCGOP, you can't just abort Mark Robinson's gubernatorial candidacy. You gotta carry this campaign to full term.

C is Latin, the root of all modern languages, the whole universe used to speak it. C++ is French, it’s Latin with fancy rules, used by the elite around the world & in specific circles. JavaScript is English, everybody speaks it, most speakers speak it poorly and others don’t

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I'm opening the doors to my very own microbial genomics research lab at From the Labs at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX. I'm looking for talented biologists to join me on this journey through sequence space. Featuring: - Wastewater and human virome - Phages, all of them - Microbial epigenomes

With only 20 days left until Election Day, we've all got to do our part and vote! Vote early, by mail, or make a plan to vote on November 5. Go to IWillVote.com to get the information you need to get started, and then reach out to your friends, family, neighbors, and