Robin Rohwer

Mom asked, "I wonder when cherries bloom in Japan?" So I found 1200 years of data online and made her a plot.

@environmicrobio @archaeal Since the samples are from the epilimnion, there aren't a ton of archaea. We didn't leave them out of the reported MAGs though, so what's in the table is what we got.

On a personal note, writing this paper has spanned both medical leave and a pregnancy. I want to thank @quendi , @archaeal , and an amazing @NSF program officer for believing in me and supporting me through all of it.

A lot of this could be ecology OR evolution, depending on how species are delineated. Instead of considering feedbacks between eco & evo, we need to consider eco & evo as a continuum of the same processes unfolding. After all, they’re also both happening on the same time scales!

I’ve been dreaming of this paper for a decade. One PhD and one postdoc later, here it is! What do ecology and evolution look like in a 20-year freshwater time series? Turns out they blur together. @sarilog @quendi @archaeal @USLTER @NSF @jgi biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@BioMickWatson Curious how the new greengenes2 would compare. This looks more like a database issue than a classifier issue, though I haven't read the paper yet. @mcdonadt

Terrifying plot for those working in microbiome profiling

I am migrating to Bluesky! Find me at robinrohwer.bsky.social 🌦️🌥️⛅️🌤️☀️

Come hear me talk at #ESA23 today in Portland: 4:45 in the Eco Evo section, room D139. Learn about shifts in bacterial genomes in my 20-year 471-metagenome time series! @archaeal @quendi

One last bragging post on this dying platform? Awesome study by ⁦@BigMicrobeBen⁩ from ⁦@mcmahonlab⁩. “Metabolically diverse microorganisms mediate methylmercury formation under nitrate-reducing conditions in a dynamic hydroelectric reservoir nature.com/articles/s4139…

Fun time talking about my work and how it ties into data science and open science today! #DSOS23 and if you missed the talk, I think you can still watch asynchronously on the YouTube link 😉

Baker lab bats excursion! I'm lucky to work with such a fun group, where grad students, REUs, and volunteers all want to hang out with me on a night off 🥰 @archaeal