Taking a break after 500 words of terrible writing

"When I said I'd published 5 articles during my PhD, I meant stickers" Check out my new stickers! 📄⬇️ pinkpetri.etsy.com

got my sticker!!!!

the only thing america hates more than a rapist is a woman

libbed out so hard i thought american people had empathy and common sense

Bring your data visualizations to life with animation! The gganimate package extends ggplot2 by adding animation capabilities, making it easy to create dynamic and engaging plots that reveal patterns over time or across categories. ✔️ Dynamic Storytelling: Transform static

biorxiv.org/content/10.110… BORGS - the large extrachromosomal elements of anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea are likely viruses and have evolved genomic features similar to Giant Viruses!

There has been quite some controversy around aspects of early-life #microbiome acquisition and assembly. Do humans already become colonized in the womb? Do C-sections disrupt microbiome development? And should we use probiotics, vaginal seeding (VS), or even FMTs in infants?

Spatial structure shapes the host-microbiome interactome. Our new method to map the host-microbiome interface at high-res, now on bioRxiv! Co-led with lena & David McKellar collab between the Iwijn De Vlaminck & Ilana Brito labs doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… A thread⬇️

ICYMI, a News & Views covering a recent paper on how metabolites from phage-infected Synechococcus chemotactically attract marine bacteria nature.com/articles/s4156…

My Tidyverse local synteny visualizer is up on GitHub: github.com/cxli233/TidyLo… GitHub page contains 2 example datasets, as well as step-by-step instruction & explanations on how it works. Details on required input data are discussed in the GitHub page.

Visualize genomic data with ease using gggenomes, an R package that extends ggplot2 to handle and display genomic information intuitively. Whether you’re comparing genomes, analyzing features, or showcasing synteny, gggenomes provides the tools you need to turn complex genomic

“maybe I’ll do some writing between christmas and new year” Between christmas and new year:

and if i say that this was my brat when i was 10

Some thoughts on the LA fires, given the curious situation that I find myself in... being in the midst of a macro calamity. To be clear, I don't believe in "reports from the ground." they are often actually the least sober. Least useful. So... a cautious and modest 🧵.

Presented the #Nicholaslab lab strategic vision for 2025 today at our first lab meeting of the year! Looking back on 2024 has shown me how far we've come. Its a reminder that the negative voice in my head that says im failing or not doing enough is a lie. Here's to #2025newyear

I’m very excited to finally share the results of a passion project that has been on my mind for nearly a decade. You can find the pre-print below, but what follows is the saga of how this project came to be:

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Hydrodynamic Circulation, Ecological Drift, and Homogeneous Selection Shape Microbial Communities and Biogeochemical Cycling in Lake Ontario biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

All NIH summer internship programs across all institutes cancelled 😡 Cutting into our future workforce- Our future Nobel prize winners! Elon Musk How does this help American competitiveness?