Elijah Mehlferber 🦠 🍅 🌱

👋❗️ ATTN #PRFB fellows AND sponsors! We've written a letter to send to NSF petitioning for a cost-of-living adjustment that matches the next cycle of fellows. Please share widely! READ and SIGN if you are a fellow or sponsor by Friday, Jan 20! forms.gle/9HQRSdh6SYWVES…

@kirvers I have a short for loop script somewhere that renames folders from BLAST output, can share if helpful

@kirvers I don’t know of a program that does this automatically, but you could run them through whatever classification pipeline you want then use `awk` to pull out only the top hit (by location in the output file), and append that to the name they currently have with `cp` or `mv`.

Hello friends, a question! Let's say I have 400 fasta sequences - I want to be able to extract best-hit taxonomy information from all of them and append them to the name. Where do I start?! I'm messing with Kraken2, EDirect, but none seems to be quite what I'm looking for...

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Oh my goodness watch this

@tris_caro @bkoskella Thanks!!

The cancellation of Music Midtown will cost Georgia’s economy $50 million. It's shameful, but not surprising, that the governor cares more about protecting dangerous people carrying guns in public than saving jobs and keeping business in Georgia.

Let’s be real: there’s a WHOLE lot of men whose lives, careers, and families have benefited from an abortion (including several “pro-life” GOP Congressmen). Men, we need you right now. You can get through in rooms others can’t. Your power matters. Speak up. This is about us all.

Justice Thomas calls on SCOUS to overrule Griswold (right to contraception); Lawrence (invalidating anti-sodomy laws); Obergefell (marriage equality)

How we came to use agar for bacterial plates 😱

Super excited to have this out there! Half the fun of science is being able to collaborate with awesome people, and this project has been chock full of great collaborators.

Thank you @cdwoolston and @Nature for covering Biology grad students struggle to afford to live: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Not exactly sure how to say this, so I'll just dive in: I, along with many women/gender minorities I know, am incandescently angry about the impending end of Roe. And I'm wondering where the support of my male colleagues is. 1/n

This week @TheLancet's cover

The internet is breaking today from viral claims that the new Pfizer data dump of 80k pages revealed real vaccine efficacy of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in the phase 3 trial was in fact 12%, not 95%. In this 🧵I investigate these claims.

As a woman, I am enraged by the continued assault on our right to control our bodies + our futures. As an American, I am appalled by the SCOTUS breach & its implications. As the next Governor of Georgia, I will defend the right to an abortion and fight for reproductive justice.

@tris_caro Thanks! Let me know what you think

Super excited to see my first paper from my Phd program getting published, and extra pumped to have my artwork featured on the cover of the issue! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ae…

Huge thanks to @bkoskella and @RajnishArt for all the help and support throughout this project!

A cool story about how, even when you don’t see large changes in microbial community composition, there can still be shifts in the bacteria that are potentially most important to their hosts (their “core” communities).