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Got my first NoA from @nih_nhlbi today. F31 in the bag, hopefully more grants to come with the Bushman Lab

The real takeaway here is that none of these are anywhere close to the ground truth...

Fun to hear em keeler's Redondovirus paper discussed on TWIV. Bushman Lab microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1039/

Manic energy from these RNAseq artifacts

One man's niche is another man's treasure 😀

Nothing gets me more than renderings of what a park will look like once they cap 95. Gotta cover Vine Street next! billypenn.com/2023/08/29/phi…

Commute inequality is just another reason we need the Roosevelt Blvd Subway inquirer.com/jobs/labor/bla…

"The I-95 proposal flies in the face of the modern transportation planning consensus," writes The Inquirer Editorial Board. "Instead of looking to widen Philadelphia’s highways, adequately funding SEPTA would provide a much better return on investment." trib.al/D4vEK7r

Interested in being a lab technician? The Bushman Lab is hiring and we're a pretty cool bunch. (Link to job posting in the comments.)

The idea that you could charter a SEPTA train is pretty baller

Absolutely thrilled to finally get our union election! Voting YES will be one of the proudest moments of my time in grad school.

Really excited to share: our research on the hidden world inside living trees now available as a preprint! 🌳🔬🦠🧬Did you know trees, like humans, have their own microbiomes? We explore the unique bacteria, fungi, and archaea living inside trees. 🧵👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Rude of NIH progress report instructions to call me out like this...

Cool preprint on a cell-free protein biosensor; could allow for faster point-of-care protein detection, the same way that RNA biosensors really sped up testing during the COVID pandemic. Lots of synthetic biology tricks I'd never heard of. Styczynski Research Group biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Love to see people culturing archaea. Cool preprint from Schleper Lab Vienna on ammonia oxidizers on the skin makes me wonder what other niches these guys occupy in our microbiome. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Something about bacteria that form motile biofilms freaks me out a bit, especially when they're called "zorbs." biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pennsylvania man is officially the world’s pumpkin king inquirer.com/news/pennsylva…

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