And this is a Behind the paper fun story: A Bacterial Tale of Two Cities microbiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/a-bacter… #behindthepaper

Reminder: next ISCB News EvolCompGen webinar is Wed April 12, 2022, 10:30 am EST. Excited to hear Claire McWhite on how evolution+proteomics = discovering protein complexes conserved across plants!🌱🌿🧬 Register: bit.ly/36YrUsP Please RT ISMB/ECCB Conference Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

This ‘snowflake virus’ door decoration in the Duke University Center for Virology DukeMGM may be one of the most impressive holiday decorations I’ve ever seen! And yet it came in second in voting per Luftig Lab Would love to see pics of the first place entry Raphael Valdivia !

Please help us spread the word, we are looking for TWO grad students to represent the diverse community of early-career evolutionary biologists to SSE council We strongly encourage students from outside USA and from underrepresented communities to apply

Selection Bias xkcd.com/2618/ m.xkcd.com/2618/

Join us for the first day of the EvolCompGen COSI! Starting now in Room G. #ismb2022

Thrilled to kick off EvolCompGen #ISMB2022 — welcome aboard!🎉 Stay tuned on ISMB/ECCB Conference Juno for talks/posters/panel disc. 🗓️Schedule: bit.ly/ecg2022 Engage w/ COSI folks - Join us on Slack: bit.ly/join_evolcompg… - Twitter: EvolCompGen - Website: evolcompgen.org

If you're in person, come join us in Room GJ. We'll be here today and tomorrow!

👋 Adiós #barbarplots, Hola raincloud plots😎 👉 ggdist Cédric Scherer buff.ly/3yjlVXB 🤟 ggstatsplot Indrajeet Patil (इंद्रजीत पाटील) buff.ly/303zAQY 🖖 pirateplot Nathaniel D Phillips buff.ly/3N5h8jL #dataviz #RStats #datavisualization #analytics #datascience #stats #data #BigData

The Li + Durbin 2011 paper showing that you can infer an entire population history from just a single genome is still one of the most mind-blowing results in genetics I have ever seen. nature.com/articles/natur…

Every Scientific Field xkcd.com/2986

These laureates are VERY deserving. But an important addendum—no model could be trained without 40 years of Helen Berman and others’ work at the PDB, and we would not be certain of AF’s success without 30 years of John Moult and others’ work on CASP. Hats off to them as well 🥂

Yesterday a Nobel prize was given for alpha fold. Alpha fold could not exist without the Protein Data Bank (PDB), a public database funded by US taxpayers. Every structural biologist in the world that deposited their structure to the PDB indirectly helped train alpha fold.

Avery is a postdoc in my dept at GT, someone I know personally. She nearly died because doctors could not treat her miscarriage until she was actively dying- a direct result of anti-abortion laws in GA. VOTE, canvas, donate- do whatever you can, or this is coming nationally.

We’re all thinking it

To everyone thinking that cutting the research budget makes sense because of public debt, I want to remind them of Mary Lasker's words: "If you think research is expensive, try disease" Doing science is not a luxury we can't afford. It is investing in our future.

Even #tardigrades like a good back scratch. Captured by Rebecca Stern Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative (MSI) Microscopy Workshop. I wonder what this little water bear is actually doing. Any guesses? Countdown to #MicrobialLife Harvard Museum tinyurl.com/y9pp2kxm