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I really fucking hate this trend in tech/fin circles that disparage the massive effort it takes to earn a PhD. It's a decree of YEARS of training, to the point where one literally writes a book on their expertise. These bozos think knowledge generation is trivial and trivia...

Do a nice thing for your lab mates today. Everyone deserves some positivity in their day, and it's probably not going to come from their experiments.

A good positive control has the power to say "it's not you, it's the experiment." It's no fun when an experiment fails, but it helps to know it's not because you did the experiment wrong but because science just doesn't work that way. And it frees you up to try other approaches.

6 main figs and 5 supplementary figs .

Preprint alert 🚨! I present you the second and final manuscript on the BASEL phages! 36 new deeply characterized phages from viral groups that were so far mostly terra incognita - and all infect the E. coli K12 lab strain with easy tricks. 1/12 tinyurl.com/3xdt65f5

Exciting news! More diversity added to the BASEL phage collection 🧬. Check out the preprint 👇

when you made a small mess in the lab and then see the "hey everyone, just a friendly reminder ..." email

Fantastic to see the recognition of Nora who has worked with Enea Enea Maffei in our team for her high school graduation! We had many great students, but Nora's ambition to push it further to succeed in national and international science fairs has been unique. 🧬🏆🚀

You are looking for a PostDoc position or know someone who is? We are looking for someone to join our team at ETH Zurich Zürich for a project on phage-host interactions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🦠🧬👇🏼

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

Research is a job where we have to make mental health a huge priority if we want to keep doing this long term. This is one of the reasons why in PhageCast …

A little bit overdue, but here are my thoughts on Oxford Nanopore's recent release of Medaka: rrwick.github.io/2024/10/17/med…

Microplate readers from Tecan (Infinite Nano) or Agilent (Synergy H1) for microbial growth / killing assays - would you have a preference, and why?

Did you know that bacteria remember their past for many generations? In this new preprint from us (Alexis Villani and Senen Mendoza) and Banin lab (Esther Shmidov ), we reveal the "how?" and "why?" underlying a long-standing mystery in bacterial memory. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

For some fun experiments with colorful bacteria we look for chromoproteins that are not (strongly) oxygen-dependent - do you know if this exists? 🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵 We have the palette of Sebastian S. Cocioba🪄🌷 which is a fantastic tool but requires (lots of) oxygen for really bright colors...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

The master bank of our CRISPR libraries consists of >22,000 bacterial glycerol cultures. My coworker Ilan Margalith studied the impact of temperature (-80°C vs -20°C), glycerol (15% vs 50%), and freeze-thaw cycles (1x vs 30x) onto viability. Results: chatgpt.com/share/6733819e…