Alaina Weinheimer @[email protected]

What if we could put all tailed phages in a single, evolutionarily meaningful phylogeny? Check out the latest from the Aylward Lab (twitterless) and myself - we present a phylogenomic framework toward unifying phage diversity! 🧬🤝 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Congrats to @chang_tianyi @julesinboots @stepanausk8197 on helping the environmental microbiology community better understand the strengths and weaknesses of SAGs versus MAGs! Using either/both data types? Read this to more accurately interpret your data link.springer.com/article/10.118…

@JanBruewer @AlexJProbst @jcamthrash @pepgppepgp @NBartlau @MichiWagner4 @SteindlerLaura @EvaBrodte @dlkirchman @Virosphere2012 @virome_girl @LuckingDominik @vardilab @simroux_virus @kevinzhong2006 @EvelienAdri @JedFuhrman @deng_lab This is super super cool! Congrats! Excited to read!!

Tagging people who might be interested 🤗 @AlexJProbst @jcamthrash @pepgppepgp @NBartlau @MichiWagner4 @SteindlerLaura @EvaBrodte @dlkirchman @Virosphere2012 @virome_girl @LuckingDominik @vardilab @simroux_virus @kevinzhong2006 @EvelienAdri @SCUBAlaina @JedFuhrman @deng_lab

How many SAR11 cells are phage-infected in the environment? And what are zombies🧟‍♂️? We studied phage infection in SAR11 using the🔬. Up to 19% of SAR11 cells were phage infected and many host cells were devoid of ribosomes🧟‍♂️! What else did we find? A 🧵 researchsquare.com/article/rs-407…

Super cool paper from Ernie Osburn, @Gaowen_Yang @mrillig and @strickm27 showing that alpha-diversity relationships with soil ecosystem function are non-causal.

How tf didn’t the UK or Ukraine or Slovenia or Austria get more points????

@Micro_Yunha @AnsahCarlos @sokrypton @ancornman1 @pgirguis You’re on fire! 💥 Congrats! Excited to read!

Can large language models understand genomic sequences and uncover new biology? 🧬🧬🧬 Excited to share a new #preprint with @sokrypton, @ancornman1, and @pgirguis. TLDR: A Large Language Model for genomic sequences! #genomics #AI #machinelearning #NLP biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

@_casuali Without a doubt!!

Instead of asking “did you feed the cat her wet food?”, we ask “were you the hero today?” And I’m only now realizing how sad it is that we have to exaggerate our importance to her to convince ourselves she needs us bc cats

@KarthikGeomicro @AnantharamanLab @UWBact Congratulations! 🎉 🎉

Tenured. A very big thank you all past and present members of @AnantharamanLab, collaborators and mentors over the years, and wonderful colleagues at @UWBact. Now looking ahead to the next phase as an upgraded Ass prof.

@Micro_Yunha 🤩 Amazing amazing paper!! Very exciting findings!! 🤯 Congrats!! 🎉 💥💯

New paper alert!🌋🌊🧬🦠 I'm so excited to share our paper "Viruses interact with hosts that span distantly related microbial domains in dense hydrothermal mats" 1/ nature.com/articles/s4156…

@LajeunesseTodd Hahaha cabin fever must be getting to me! Thankfully it’s starting to warm up! Hope spring is showing itself in state college!!

@SCUBAlaina Has the long Maine winter gotten to you? I’ve been told that goofy humor is a symptom. Hang in there for another month or two, spring up there is right around the corner.

I’m sure I’m not the first to ask this, but if Pseudomonas exists, who is the real monas?

@cpavloud @carolina_micro Thank you!! ευχαριστώ ! :)

@TweetingDrE @admiraladkins 😂 honestly! I’ve been waiting so long!

@SCUBAlaina @admiraladkins And will she please stand up?

@scicrow 😂 for real!

@aatendu Ahhh cool! Just saw from a reply that a “monas” is a type of protist. Is that the real ones you’re referring to? Or is there another “Monas” (my mind keeps wanting to connect this all to Mona Lisa, but I know there’s nothing to connect😆🫠)

@SCUBAlaina Short answer YES. But they aren’t all bacteria

@giant_virus Ah I see! Thank you, Monir!

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