"...racism and militaristic nationalism -- run counter to biblical mandates for compassion and neighborly love." As someone who has experienced God's mercy and love, and has firsthand seen how much the bible talks about equality, this image made me SICK. #BlackLivesMatter

WATCH LIVE: Former President Obama holds virtual town hall on policing and civil unrest to.pbs.org/3cq7zcw

Check out our new manuscript, submitted to Scientific Reports last week! Thanks to all authors for their hard work! Morgan Volker Evans Michael Bailey The Gur Lab @TamarGurMDPhD (and everyone else, whom I can't find on Twitter!)

My first first author paper is out! VIBRANT, software to identify and characterize microbial viruses from genomic data. The Anantharaman Lab Karthik Anantharaman Zhichao Zhou microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

I put together a six-week seminar series on microbial 'omics. The purpose here is to clarify key concepts in simple, digestible terms with no practical discussions. Details, schedule, and a registration link is here: merenlab.org/2020/06/27/sem…

Serving up genome inferred metabolism with DRAM -Distilled and Refined Annotation of Metabolism- take a sip! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… HUGE thanks to our collaborators Simon Roux @Sullivan_Lab Phil b. Pope and more- this is a community resource and contributions are encouraged!

Me: every one of my 40 Chrome tabs is precious I couldn't possibly narrow these down Also me when my computer crashes and the tabs don't recover: I can't remember a single tab I had open

MicrobeAnnotator: a user-friendly, comprehensive microbial genome annotation pipeline biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Today was Ohio State graduation. After watching the virtual ceremony, we went onto campus for some photos. He’s a trooper! #OSUGrad

Congratulations to Kamala Harris, who will make history as our next Vice President. She understands what it takes to stand up for working people, fight for health care for all, and take down the most corrupt administration in history. Let’s get to work and win.

Last time, Kasich could not bring himself to vote for a Democrat, so he wrote in McCain. This time he’s all in for Biden and speaking at tonight’s convention. “Somebody has to start being willing to break down this tribalism,” he says. nytimes.com/2020/08/17/us/…

We've been sampling wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 state-wide, but the start of on-campus wastewater sampling for to help keep our students safe. Awesome to work with fellow The Ohio State University College of Public Health faculty Jiyoung Lee at OSU and fellow Sustainability at Ohio State core faculty member Natalie Hull

"Oh I'm sorry, were you trying to work?" A series 😼🐾 @ Old North Columbus instagram.com/p/CER8-Y_B6HQ0…

This #Unix introduction by Mike Lee is just phenomenally good. For real- if you need to introduce someone to the command line in a way that is approachable, but eminently practical, here it is: astrobiomike.github.io/unix/getting-s…

Attention PhD and Masters students: We are HIRING an intern for summer 2021 to help us dig deeper into our huge metagenome database. DM with questions! career.bayer.us/en/job/microbi…

please help me promote: we are looking for a computationally minded postdoc and staff scientist to join our team. For the postdoc this would be on mammalian gut microbiome project. We have a vibrant microbiome community here at CSU, come join us! wrightonlab.com/opportunities/

yay!!!

📡📡The Antonson Developmental Neuroimmunology Lab University of Illinois Microbial Systems Initiative is hiring a lab tech 🧑‍🔬! Searching for qualified applicants interested in immune and neurodevelopment during pregnancy! See announcement below & please RT! 🤰🧠🔬