Laura Hug

@phylogenomics @environmicrobio I do know what they (me) were thinking and a plant is a different version of multicellular than a biofilm, c’mon Roland, you weren’t there.

@environmicrobio Well I don’t know what they were thinking or how they define things but I personally do not consider biofilms to be “multicellular” in the sense of a “multicellular organism”

Overheard at #LAMG2024 "Once you get multicellular, I don’t care"

@NagissaM Literally nothing in the years leading up to a tenure dossier made me cry, but my COVID disruptions paragraph did.

@erin_cameron We have been using them for a few years now and they are great! Email me and I can send you the protocol we developed for sampling in the field with RNALater and then the protocol for getting the biomass back out once at the lab

@LAHug_ Just wondering - did you ever test these? They seem good for cases where the sampling protocol needs to be very simple, but I can't find much in the literature on them

Groundwater/micro twitter - have you used these cartridge filters for large-scale filtration, and if yes, can you easily crack them open to get the filters out for nucleic acid extraction? Pros/cons, alternatives? waterra.com/product/waterr…

@phylogenomics I have a set of 3, 20 min videos and an accompanying workshop module - one could run it on their own if they were up for installing the programs.

Looking for recommendations for relatively short online or in person metagenomic informatics workshops

@environmicrobio @NagissaM @CinTyLeeEarth Me too please? :)

I was letting students in my classes use Chat GPT or other AI software to help with grammar, but I now realize that was a mistake. AI-aided writing turns out to be awful, generating nonsensical sentences or plagiarism. One can identify AI-aided writing because it writes with adverbs and adjectives rather than with verbs, subjects and objects. Every AI-aided essay reads like a cheap romance novel. This is how the world will end!

🤖 looking for a post-doc in bioinformatics🤖 If you are interested and want to work with a great group that includes trainees, MDs, PhDs, and all sorts of other kind and smart people please reach out!!! @kieranrcampbell cube-ontario.github.io

We promise to only use drones and the sleep paralysis demon that lives in your walls to spy on you.

@jensomics how do they have 86% rubella when it's an MMR vax? Does Rubella only need the first shot, and MM need the next one for a complete course?

If this is accurate we're in trouble. Vaccinate your kids as quickly as you possibly can!

We’re nearing the finishing line for our survey!! If you work on #metagenomics or other #omics please fill our 5min survey and then pass it on to colleagues & colaborators!! Here is our survey: shorturl.at/NOUW2 Please fill it until the 31st January!

🧫New pre-print from CUBE🧫led by Aaron Hinz (lab wizard!). We show that floor swabs can be used to identify COVID-19 cases on a university campus. Floor swabs had stronger correlation than wastewater, req less setup costs, and are less gross 💩 1/3 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please contribute to our survey on metagenomics data reuse! Survey at: shorturl.at/NOUW2 We’re (@AlexJProbst, @FolkerMeyer, @LAHug_, @CristinaMorar20, @environmicrobio) looking forward to know what the scientific community thinks of this topic! Please RT widely!! 🔥🔥

Four different people on Twitter in the past week: I saved a kid from drowning at a BBQ, here’s what to look for. Me today: oh that kid is drowning. Got him out, all fine.

Thanks @jgi for the excellent NELLi symposium this week and for collaborations from 2009 to 2023!

Today the team is out at the landfill, and finding methane!

OH: Stylist: enjoy your birthday Client: thanks you too! Client: [embarrassed] Stylist: actually it’s coming up! Client: [relieved, left] other stylist: I thought your birthday was in October? So smooth, doing the real work

@elvisha9 I look at the week I am currently in on my calendar and ask myself if I would be willing to make time for this new thing in this level of busy week. And if I would, I say yes. And if it would be untenable or frustrating to give that time, I say no. It has helped a lot.

How do other ECRs decide what (academic commitments) to say yes/no to? Asking for myself because I'm starting to get extremely overwhelmed by all the things I've said yes to...

@JacquelynGill Nice perspective on this announcement, thanks! But I also live very near Crawford Lake, so am enjoying the local nerdery for now.

The University of Toronto, Department of Biochemistry is searching for an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream. FYI, these positions are analogous to research "tenure-stream" in that following a successful 6 yr review promotion is to Associate Prof (continuing status).

@environmicrobio @DinaGrohmann @journal_mlife People are still willing to be very rude about phylogeny, trust me

It's a very nice idea to remember this groundbreaking discovery @journal_mlife! Woese had to fight hard for his ideas that are found in every textbook by now. And the story continues with the Asgard Archaea in new dimensions :).