Joe Larkin

For @BioDesignCenter at @BU_Tweets fall symposium, we'll do lab Family Feud. We've created a survey. Please circulate as widely as possible among bio researchers. Can have non-bio folks, but it will throw off responses to things like "Name a temperature" forms.gle/rYNVhjhJs1ievp…

@AutobotCoOp whoa

@aalarkin Clearly a first author to trust.

Sometimes a paper takes 6 years, 75 days at sea, 900 metagenomes (700 in this paper), two new coding languages, and many fantastic collaborators. I am very proud of this one. ❤️ nature.com/articles/s4139…

@kaitochondria It's yet weirder because Noel Fielding has done a lot of funny stuff in other venues.

@evornithology @eLife I actually read the reviews in eLife pretty often, especially if it's a paper from a field I don't know. Sometimes they tell you more about the significance of the paper than the paper itself, but that largely reflects problems with how papers are written.

One potential flaw in the new @eLife model: who the hell wants to read reviews? I just want to read the paper and make up my own mind. Reviews are boring as hell.

@kaitochondria It almost seems on purpose?

Are there ads for the Vatican elsewhere or is the Holy See targeting the lingering Roman Catholic populace in Boston?

@WelcomeToDot Is the greenway actually happening or still just proposed?

@JoanPagliarulo @EllenFlem @MBTA Ashmont branch Fields Corner > Savin Hill > JFK has also been ~walking speed

@EllenFlem @MBTA The train CRAWLED inbound from Quincy to JFK. No announcements or anything. From weekend service hours to sub-par. If trains are already spread out, WHY are they getting bottlenecked? Late again for work.

I will die on this hill. What is going on?! @MBTA

Please submit abstracts for the Bacterial Communities Focus Session 04.01.21 at APS March Meeting 2023 in Vegas by 5pm EST Oct 20! We welcome abstracts addressing experimental and theoretical insights into the collective behaviors of bacterial biofilms across all scales #apsmarch

@weinberz 4 years in SD owned car but commuted via bus. Doable, but severely restricts where you can live. Have to spring for rideshare often when buses are infrequent. For USCD, I think it's much better now that they extended the trolley to UTC. No car at all would be miserable I think.

@dannorton Were they at least Daily-made pop tarts?

i’m a 36 year old adult who just ate pop tarts for breakfast, AMA

@magdajtaylor @WelcomeToDot plus the app doesn't let you add a tip. Terrible!

there is drama in the Dunkin world right now… daily Dunkin drinkers are boycotting because they revamped their app rewards program and devalued points. the Dunkin subreddit is fuming! I fear the brand is no longer the people’s coffee.

@chicaScientific I was told Stirling are really good so I shelled out some extra money for one. In 2.5 years, we've had two problems, one of which required shipping it out of state for repair. People tell me PHC is the only remaining good brand.

Hey y'all, I know there's probably a thread somewhere on -80C freezers to avoid - can someone point me to it or chime on on best/worst of 'em?

@toettch I find that part to be very tough early on--that there's often little to no data. Much of what I wrote for the first couple years felt kind of made up?

It's hard not to take some of these early-career rejections personally. The proposals are short & don't involve lots of prelim data, so it feels like they're evaluating *you*. For me, things got better after papers + data + time helped us refine our thinking about big questions.

@CterminiPhD "So we did the experiment, and we did observe that" / click to graph with 6 different conditions, vague axis labels, no further explanation. So frustrating.

Giving an inclusive research presentation means presenting enough background to get audience members on the same page. Walk people through the data - don’t assume anyone knows what they’re looking at on your graphs. Summary: Less data, more background.

@evornithology It's a very southern rock solo also: fast, long, pentatonic, and exuberant.

The most under appreciated guitar solo of all time.

I don't care for the look of this building, but it's useful for knowing where Union Sq, Somerville is from a distance and, I must admit, I am often shocked at where it is when I see it!

@ruud_rijkers @TLowePower I don't think this is exactly what you're looking for, but it's a very interesting paper sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@pratt_ed @johntngo does pavement take POs?

@yogeshgoyallab Undergrads nationally are welcome, but we are only hosting the Northeast site. There is a different location for each region of the country. Here is the national website: aps.org/programs/women…

undergrad physics majors northeast US: BU is hosting the 2023 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics Jan 20-22. Deadline to apply is Oct 10! The link is aps.org/programs/women…. Travel supported to/from. Please send this around widely to any interested undergrads! #CUWiP