Elliot Jackson

The ever amazing @art_egorov in our group has made a new visualisation tool for comparative genomics. Makes particularly beautiful images of phages, plasmids, other MGEs or regions of prokaryotic genomes 😍 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

The events in Springfield, i.e., weaponizing against a community using false allegations & 'othering' them, threatening their safety & that of others in the community (schools, hospitals), is from the Project 2025 playbook for all of the US; great senator you have there, Ohio!

Introducing PaperQA2, the first AI agent that conducts entire scientific literature reviews on its own. PaperQA2 is also the first agent to beat PhD and Postdoc-level biology researchers on multiple literature research tasks, as measured both by accuracy on objective benchmarks and assessments by human experts. We are publishing a paper and open-sourcing the code. This is the first example of AI agents exceeding human performance on a major portion of scientific research, and will be a game-changer for the way humans interact with the scientific literature. Paper and code are below, and congratulations in particular to @m_skarlinski, @SamCox822, @jonmlaurent, James Braza, @MichaelaThinks, @mjhammerling, @493Raghava, @andrewwhite01, and others who pulled this off. 1/

Excited and honored to lead this team of amazing scientists to understand the neurobiology of marine animals in changing environments. Thank you Paul G. allen Frontiers Group and @AllenInstitute for trusting us with this urgent task today.ucsd.edu/story/uc-san-d…

Hate being stuck in the lab sorting your transgenic #zebrafish? You’re gonna love the Fishpicker, from the clever folks at #CZBiohubSF! Check out this video and learn more here: bit.ly/3ZbIiyN

The resurrection of strings of extinct molecules raises intriguing questions of patentability and bioethical considerations in an emerging area of patent law go.nature.com/4cz9f2k rdcu.be/dR3Sb

We tracked a pandemic decimating beetle colonies and used cryoEM for sequencing-free discovery of the new virus that caused it. This virus is crazy; parvoviruses aren't supposed to have such structured protein-DNA interactions. We fulfilled all 4 of Koch's postulates for etiology

@DrSchrankel @SDSUsciences Can’t wait to share this work with y’all!

Stable germline transgenesis using the Minos Tc1/mariner element in the sea urchin Lytechinus pictus Read this #DevSIDiversity Techniques & Resources Article by Elliot Jackson @ewaltjackson, Amro Hamdoun @Hamdounlab and colleagues @Scripps_Ocean: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/15…

🌊 Last weekend, some lucky kayakers and snorkelers came across a rare deep-sea dwelling fish in La Jolla Cove. The seagoers spotted a 12-foot #oarfish and to give you an idea of how rare this encounter is, only 20 oarfish have washed up in California since 1901!

Out today at @ScienceMagazine - giant PKZILLA proteins spew huge polyketide marine toxins, just like #Godzilla! Witnessed by @photocyte & @VikShende at @Scripps_Ocean science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Congratulations to @svenja_kling for winning UCSD's art of Science Competition with a photo of a transgenic sea urchin larva! library.ucsd.edu/news-events/20…

Im surprised by how much these two variables correlate here and also unsurprised they do.

If you're affected by today's airline tech issues, bookmark FlightRights.gov. We created an easy-to-use dashboard in 2022 to show which airlines cover meals and hotels, and provide free rebooking when an airline causes a major delay or cancellation.

@HeidiMTate @lab_lowe @Dev_Bio_Journal @Vane_Barone @Hamdounlab @DrSchrankel @LyonsLab_SIO Congrats! Beautiful image

We are on the cover of @Dev_Bio_Journal this month! So honored that my image was chosen for this 🥰

@IanH77 No worries. Easy mistake. Both of the 2020 studies seem appropriate though.

@ewaltjackson I had the wrong 2020 ref in there, sorry

Sorry behind paywall until it’s published published annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Nailed it. Transport me there